Dalherda

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Dalherda
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 673 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.55 km²
Residents : 374  (Sep 30, 2019)
Population density : 44 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 36129
Area code : 06656
View of Dalherda

Dalherda is a district of Gersfeld (Rhön) in the Hessian Rhön . Formerly independent, it describes itself as the highest village in Hesse and has around 370 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Dalherda is located southwest of the core town of Gersfeld on the state border with Bavaria on the northern slope of the Dalherda dome and is enclosed on three sides by the Wildflecken military training area .

The traffic connection results to the northwest through the district road K 68 in the direction of Ebersburg and a local connecting road in the direction of Gersfeld via the northern neighboring town of Gichenbach .

The Protestant Church
The Hans Asmussen House

history

In 1011, the district “Tugilhubed” was noted in the Fulda monastery . The first written mention of Dalherda dates from 1363 as "Tilherda". The village was a Fulda fiefdom of the von Ebersberg family. As for the origin of the name, the view is twofold. On the one hand, it is believed that the name comes from Herd (Vogelherd) on the Döllbach . On the other hand, the name could also come from the possibly first farmstead, called Dählerhof or Thalhof.

Dalherda is said to have always been a place for newcomers. It is believed that in 1574, Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , the Würzburg prince-bishop , settled twelve Tyrolean families there. The village had become desolate. Even Sweden would have after the Thirty Years' War settled. The same applies to residents of the then destroyed villages of Moor and Popperode . Reformation and Counter-Reformation met. Today the village is predominantly Protestant.

In the Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605 the place is mentioned under the names Dalherd , Dahlherdt and Thalherd with 35 families.

Because of the plague, which also raged in the Rhön, the residents were buried in Dalherda from 1613. A chapel was mentioned in 1703 , the construction of the current church took place between 1822 and 1825. Since then the place has been an independent parish. In 1708 a school was built which in 1907 it was rebuilt because of the large number of children (in 1930 ~ 210 students) has been.

In 1715 the place became fuldisch . Fires raged in 1843 and 1881. The village became impoverished. Around 1900 900 inhabitants were counted.

Woodworking at home once flourished there in the winter months. With their products, wooden shoes, wooden spoons and brush goods, the men from Dalherda went on foot with a fully loaded wheelbarrow for sale to the Rhine , the Moselle and Alsace . A specialty was the training and hand-rearing of bullfinches , a species of bird that is popularly called blood finch and has the ability to independently whistle the melody of short pieces of song with a flute-like pure tone. Dalherda merchants and their bird cages were particularly popular at the Austrian imperial court or the tsar's court in St. Petersburg. Sometimes over 100 gold marks were paid for a good bird .

Since 1935, preparations were made under the Hitler government for the construction of the Wildflecken military training area . On April 1, 1938, the village of Dalherda was dissolved and some of the residents at Trätzhof near Maberzell were resettled. After the end of the Second World War , some of the former residents returned to Dalherda. After displaced persons and refugees had settled in Dalherda, the federal government allowed the houses to be purchased. Until then, they had not been sold after the purchase between 1936 and 1938.

On August 1, 1972, until then independent municipality Dalherda was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse powerful state law in the city Gersfeld incorporated . For the district of Dalherda, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local chief was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

There was a significant increase in the number of inhabitants after the opening of the border in 1989. Today the place, which also has an outdoor swimming pool, lives from tourism.

Population development

  • 1812: 77 fire places, 504 souls
Dalherda: Population from 1812 to 2018
year     Residents
1812
  
 504
1834
  
 751
1840
  
 825
1846
  
 835
1852
  
 844
1858
  
 877
1864
  
 800
1871
  
 722
1875
  
 722
1885
  
 691
1895
  
 753
1905
  
 692
1910
  
 713
1925
  
 879
1939
  
 70
1946
  
 337
1950
  
 546
1956
  
 430
1961
  
 363
1967
  
 325
1970
  
 321
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 473
2005
  
 452
2010
  
 400
2011
  
 372
2015
  
 365
2018
  
 367
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources: up to 1970 :; After 1970 City of Gersfeld :; 2011 census

literature

  • Unforgotten home around Dammersfeld - the settled areas of the Wildflecken military training area , Geiger-Verlag Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-184-6 .
  • Michael Mott : Not every bullfinch became a Caruso / Feathered singing stars from Dalherda were once in demand all over Europe and also overseas after their training , in: Yearbook of the District of Fulda, 33rd year, 2005/2006, pp. 53-61.
  • Norman Zellmer: A young village with old roots is celebrating , in: Fuldaer Zeitung from April 23, 2013 ( online )
  • Literature about Dalherda in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dalherda, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population of the city of Gersfeld (Rhön). (PDF; 76 kB) Retrieved August 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d The place in www.rhoenline.de
  4. ↑ a b The place in the Rhönlexikon
  5. ↑ Thomas Heiler: The Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605, (Publication of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter; No. 64), Fulda, Parzeller-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7900-0362-X , place register on pages 37– 47, from there reference to the page with the number of taxpayers
  6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Fulda and Hünfeld and the city of Fulda (GVBl. II 330-14) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 220 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  7. ^ 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. 395 .
  8. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 791 kB) § 6. In: Website. City of Gersfeld, accessed August 2020 .
  9. ↑ Population figures from 2000 to 2018. City of Gersfeld, accessed in August 2020 .
  10. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;