Eifa (Alsfeld)

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Eifa
City of Alsfeld
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 20 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 229 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.66 km²
Residents : 686  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 79 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36304
Area code : 06631
Eifa in winter
Eifa in winter

Eifa is a district of Alsfeld in the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse . It has about 840 inhabitants (as of 2010).

Geographical location

The village of Eifa is located seven kilometers east of Alsfeld in the Ottrauer Bergland . The Eifa flows through it and lies at around 283  m above sea level. NN . The size of the district is 866 hectares; 375 hectares of this area are forest.

history

Magdalenenkapelle in the center of Eifa

The first secure mention of Eifa was in 1339 under the name Yfe . The village name comes from an old Middle High German name ("Iwe") for the yew tree . Loosely translated, the early name of the place Ypha means something like "the settlement on the Eibenwasser". The yew wood was used for the manufacture of weapons because it was very elastic despite its hardness. The early settlement can be explained by the location on an old trade route, which was called " the short Hesse ".

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports about Eifa in 1830:

"Eifa (L. Bez. Alsfeld) evangel. Branch village; Located 1 hour from Alsfeld on the Chaussee leading from here to Cassel, has 75 houses and 473 inhabitants, who are Protestant except for 2 Catholics. The place has 2 cutting mills and is the seat of a border customs office II. Class and a registration post. - Eifa belonged to the church area of ​​Alsfeld in the 15th century, and occurs under the name Yfte. "

Territorial reform

Eifa was incorporated into Alsfeld as part of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971 .

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Eifa was located or 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 for Eifa by the Alsfeld office. 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 duties of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. "Alsfeld Regional Court" was therefore the name of the court of first instance in Alsfeld from 1821 to 1879, today's district court, which was responsible for Eifa.

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 in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to the Alsfeld district court and the district was assigned to the district of the regional court Pouring . 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

Population development

• 1791: 385 inhabitants
• 1800: 379 inhabitants
• 1806: 382 inhabitants, 65 houses
• 1829: 473 inhabitants, 75 houses
• 1867: 499 inhabitants, 81 houses
Eifa: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 385
1800
  
 379
1806
  
 382
1829
  
 499
1834
  
 484
1840
  
 483
1846
  
 523
1852
  
 499
1858
  
 480
1864
  
 489
1871
  
 525
1875
  
 509
1885
  
 549
1895
  
 542
1905
  
 585
1910
  
 597
1925
  
 594
1939
  
 608
1946
  
 901
1950
  
 862
1956
  
 717
1961
  
 684
1967
  
 709
1970
  
 723
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 705
2015
  
 708
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 ; 2015:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1829: 472 Protestant and two Catholic residents
• 1961: 621 Protestant (= 90.79%) and 54 Catholic (= 7.89%) residents

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Eifa, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Budget 2018, preliminary report. City of Alsfeld, accessed March 2020 .
  3. ^ 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. 58 f . ( Online at google books ).
  4. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 347 .
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ 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 ).
  7. ^ The affiliation of the Alsfeld office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  8. ↑ 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. 6 ( online at google books ).
  9. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  227 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  10. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 414 ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ^ 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. 6th ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  12. ^ 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 ]).
  13. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  177 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  186 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 24 ( online at google books ).
  16. ↑ 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;
  17. ↑ 2017 budget , preliminary report.