Darsberg

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Darsberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 309 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.43 km²
Residents : 513  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 211 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 69239
Area code : 06229
View over Darsberg
View over Darsberg

Darsberg is a village with over 500 inhabitants and a district of Neckarsteinach in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Center with old school house and Sebastian chapel

Darsberg is located in the southernmost tip of Hesse near the Neckar valley about two kilometers northeast of the core town of Neckarsteinach in the southern Odenwald at an altitude of about 350 meters. The district road K 38 from Neckarsteinach to the district Grein leads through Darsberg.

history

Darsberg is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1174 as Tagersperch . At that time, the bishops of Worms gave the place as a fief to the Landschad von Steinach and the knights of Hirschhorn . However, 1329 is the founding year of the village, since this year the village of Darsperg is expressly mentioned for the first time in a fiefdom letter from Gerlach von Worms to knight Hans von Hirschhorn . Darsberg and Neckarsteinach once shared a common area.

The Sebastian Chapel was built in the second half of the 15th century . At that time, Darsberg was important for the Neckarsteinach lords because their only way into the hinterland was through the village. In the Thirty Years' War , the Palatinate War of Succession , the Spanish War of Succession and the Coalition Wars , Darsberg was affected.

After the noble von Steinach family died out in 1653, Darsberg changed hands several times: in the meantime it belonged to the Electoral Palatinate , Baden and Hesse, then again to the monasteries of Worms and Speyer . In the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place then finally came to Hesse in the course of mediatization .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Darsberg in 1829:

»Darsberg (L. Bez. Hirschhorn); evangl. protest. and cath. Branch village; is located on the Ulvenbach, 1 St, from Hirschhorn and has 1 small church, 26 houses and 218 inhabitants; among which there are 177 evangelicals. prot. and 41 cath. are located. In 1628 the Lords of Hirschhorn still owned serfs here. The village, which formerly belonged to the knightly canton of Odenwald, came from Mainz to Hesse in 1802. «

In Hesse, the affiliation to counties and districts changed several times before Darsberg was incorporated into the Bergstrasse district in 1938. In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent community of Darsberg was incorporated into the city of Neckarsteinach on October 1, 1971 on a voluntary basis. For Darsberg and for the other municipalities incorporated into Neckarsteinach, local districts with local advisory councils and local heads were formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1806: 174 inhabitants, 24 houses
• 1829: 218 inhabitants, 26 houses
• 1867: 238 inhabitants, 32 houses
Darsberg: Population from 1806 to 2011
year     Residents
1806
  
 174
1829
  
 218
1834
  
 209
1840
  
 234
1846
  
 250
1852
  
 262
1858
  
 264
1864
  
 247
1871
  
 251
1875
  
 252
1885
  
 255
1895
  
 262
1905
  
 266
1910
  
 260
1925
  
 292
1939
  
 255
1946
  
 361
1950
  
 376
1956
  
 381
1961
  
 439
1967
  
 448
1970
  
 445
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2002
  
 548
2010
  
 549
2011
  
 513
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 :; 2002 , 2010 from web archive; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 177 Protestant prostheticians (= 81.19%) and 41 Catholic (= 18.81%) residents
• 1961: 277 Protestant (= 63.10%), 124 Catholic (= 28.25%) residents

politics

There is a local district for Darsberg (areas of the former municipality of Darsberg) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of seven members. Mayor is Holger Ludwig.

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Sebastian Chapel in Darsberg is a late Gothic building from the 15th century. An old stone cross is set into a wall on the village square near the Sebastian Chapel. At the old school house there is a historical coat of arms stone.

  • Sebastian Chapel

  • Old school house

  • Stone cross on the village square

  • Wappenstein at the old school house

Regular events

The traditional Odenwald customs that are cultivated for Carnival attracts visitors from the wider area every year. In Darsberg there is a procession of carnival witches to Guggenmusik , after which a fire wheel is rolled down into the valley. Depending on the weather, around 1000 visitors come to Darsberg for Mardi Gras.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Darsberg, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  3. ↑ Walther Möller and Karl Krauß: Neckarsteinach - his lords, the city and the castles (Starkenburg in his past, vol. 4), Mainz 1928, p. 69
  4. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 44 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ 175 years of BA - 175 headlines. (PDF; 9.0 MB) The creation of the Bergstrasse district. In: Morgenweb. Bergsträßer Anzeiger, 2007, p. 109 , archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 .
  6. ^ 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. 348 .
  7. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 177 kB) § 5. In: Website. City of Neckarsteinach, accessed October 2019 .
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  10. ↑ a b List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  11. ↑ See: Konrad Dahl: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch, or church history of the Oberrheingau . 1812, p. 276. Digitized .
  12. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 20 ( online at google books ).
  13. ^ Darsberg local advisory board. In: website. City of Neckarsteinach, accessed December 2019 .
  14. ↑ The fire wheel and the witch's procession - Carnival customs in Darsberg. In: www.darsberg.com. Private website, accessed October 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Darsberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files