Castle Gemünden

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Castle Gemünden
Gemünden (Felda) municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 230 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.93 km²
Residents : 845  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 107 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35329
Area code : 06634
Burg-Gemünden: castle and church
Burg-Gemünden: castle and church

Burg-Gemünden , the historic "Gemünden an der Straße", is the largest district of Gemünden (Felda) in the Vogelsberg district in Central Hesse .

geography

The place is in Upper Hesse in the valley of the Ohm on both sides of the river that flows north here. The federal motorway 5 runs on the western edge of the town, the state road 3146 runs through the village . The place has a common train station with Nieder-Gemünden on the Vogelsbergbahn . The district area is 793 hectares , 150 hectares of which is forest, mainly in the southeast with the 335 meter high Old Rod as the highest elevation in the district.

history

The existence of the place can be traced back to the year 1274 as gemunden super stratam .

In 1372, Emperor Karl IV granted the village of Gemünden the privilege of holding a weekly market. Count Gottfried VII von Ziegenhain was supposed to fortify the place with walls and gates and set up a criminal court as well as a stick and gallows according to the custom of the empire.

In 1450 the last Count of Ziegenhain and Nidda died childless. According to an agreement with the Landgraves of Hesse , in this case the inheritance fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse . But it was not until 1495 that an inheritance dispute with the Counts of Hohenlohe could be settled, when the Hessian landgraves settled the Hohenlohe with 9,000 guilders for the two counties.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Elpenrod in 1830:

“Burggemünden (L. Bez. Kirtorf) market town; is located on the Ohm, 2 1 ⁄ 2  St. from Kirtorf, has 87 houses and 511 inhabitants, who are Protestant apart from 17 Mennonites, 1 church, 1 castle, which is located on a high rock, 2 courtyards and 1 mill. Burggemünden is the seat of the forest inspector. - The first known news from this place, which was formerly called Obergemünden, also called Gemünden an der Straße, is from the year 1280: since Gemünden an der Wohra was also owned by the Counts of Ziegenhain, so it remains doubtful which Gemünden some older ones were News are available. At the time just noted, Landgrave Heinrich got on with Gottfried von Ziegenhain, his daughter husband, because the house in Gemünden on the street had broken down. In 1311 this castle is already restored. In 1372 Emperor Carl IV allowed Count Gottfried von Ziegenhain to fortify this village with walls and towers, to set up an ordinary weekly market there, and to hold a street court with stick and gallows, according to the custom of the Empire. This court and the castle came to the landgraves with the counties Ziegenhain and Nidda. Until recently the place was the seat of a judicial office. "

In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Burg-Gemünden merged with other municipalities to form the municipality of Gemünden on December 31, 1971.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Burg-Gemünden was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or landlords and thus the "Office Homberg an der Ohm" was responsible for Burg-Gemünden. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. " Regional Court Homberg an der Ohm " was therefore from 1821 to 1879 the name of the court of first instance in Homberg an der Ohm, which was responsible for Burg-Gemünden.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts at the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to "Local Court Homberg an der Ohm" and Allocation to the district of the regional court in Giessen . On June 15, 1943, the court became a branch of the Alsfeld District Court, but was converted into a full court again with effect from June 1, 1948. On July 1, 1968, the Homberg District Court was dissolved and Burg-Gemünden was assigned to the Alsfeld District Court . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are the Regional Court of Giessen , the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

Population development

• 1791: 372 inhabitants
• 1800: 368 inhabitants
• 1806: 398 inhabitants, 72 houses
• 1829: 511 inhabitants, 81 houses
• 1867: 522 inhabitants, 91 inhabited buildings
• 1875: 542 inhabitants, 101 inhabited buildings
Burg-Gemünden: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 372
1800
  
 368
1806
  
 398
1829
  
 511
1834
  
 511
1840
  
 577
1846
  
 620
1852
  
 574
1858
  
 559
1864
  
 542
1871
  
 566
1875
  
 542
1885
  
 538
1895
  
 541
1905
  
 558
1910
  
 596
1925
  
 663
1939
  
 670
1946
  
 901
1950
  
 954
1956
  
 852
1961
  
 860
1967
  
 872
1970
  
 880
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 970
2015
  
 910
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census ; Felda municipality (web archive): 2015

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 494 Protestant (= 96.67%), 17 Mennonite (= 3.33%) inhabitants
• 1961: 738 Protestant (= 85.81%), 109 Roman Catholic (= 12.67%) residents

coat of arms

On June 27, 1966, the municipality of Burg-Gemünden in the Alsfeld district was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In gold, five (3: 2) eight-spoke black wheels around a lower right free space with the state coat of arms.

Castle

Palas of Burg-Gemünden Castle

The eponymous castle Burg-Gemünden is located in the old town center on the west bank of the Ohm. It was built at the beginning of the 13th century by the Counts of Ziegenhain . When the Ziegenhain counts died out in the male line in 1450, they came into the possession of the Landgraves of Hesse along with the entire county of Ziegenhain . After being destroyed several times, the last reconstruction took place in 1648. It was then expanded several times. Between 1985 and 1995, the square complex with a rounding in the southwest was extensively restored. Today the castle is privately owned.

literature

Web links

Commons : Burg-Gemünden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Burg-Gemünden in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Burg-Gemünden, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts. In: website. Gemünden municipality (Felda), accessed April 2020 .
  3. ↑ Martin Röhling: Niddaer Geschichtsblätter. Issue 9 . The story of the Counts of Nidda and Ziegenhain. Ed .: Niddaer Heimatmuseum e. V. Im Selbstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 , p. 115 .
  4. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 45 ( online at google books ).
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 346 .
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  8. ↑ The affiliation of the Burggemünden office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hesse : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  9. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 7 ( online at google books ).
  10. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 13 ff ., § 26 point b V. ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  248 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 419 ( online at Google Books ).
  13. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 143 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  14. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  15. ↑ circular order by Reich Minister of Justice of 20 May 1943 - 3200/7 - Ia 9 995 - Subject: simplify judicial organization.
  16. ↑ Decree of the Hessian Minister of Justice of May 24, 1948 - 3210/1 - Ia 1961 - Subject: Conversion of the branch district court Homberg (Upper Hesse). ( Law on measures in the field of court organization and court constitution of November 17, 1953. In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (Ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1953 No. 30 , p. 189–191 , Annexes 1. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 1,3 MB ]). )
  17. ↑ Second law amending the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210–16) of February 12, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1968 No. 4 , p. 41–44 , Article 1, Paragraph 2 b) and Article 2, Paragraph 4 a) ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 298 kB ]).
  18. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  191 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  19. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  204 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  20. ↑ Housing spaces 1867 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 116 ( online at google books ).
  21. ↑ Residential places 1875 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 15 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 12 ( online at google books ).
  22. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  23. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the municipality of Burg-Gemünden, Alsfeld district, Darmstadt administrative district from June 27, 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1966 No. 28 , p. 906 , point ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4,3 MB ]).