Ellenbach (Fürth in the Odenwald)

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Ellenbach
community Fuerth
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 56 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 6"  E
Height : 217 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.94 km²
Residents : 574
Population density : 146 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 64658
Area code : 06253

Ellenbach is a district of the municipality of Fürth in the Odenwald in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Ellenbach is located in the Vorderen Odenwald in the valley of the Schlierbach , which flows into the Weschnitz as a right northern tributary in the center of the core municipality of Fürth . The district extends from the edge of the Erlenbach location in the west to the Seehof north of Krumbach in the east.

The closest localities are Eulsbach and Lindenfels in the north, Krumbach in the east, the core municipality of Fürth in the south, Linnenbach in the southwest and Erlenbach in the west.

history

overview

Ellenbach originated in the area of ​​the former Mark Heppenheim , which designated an administrative district of the Franconian Empire . On January 20, 773, Charlemagne donated the city of Heppenheim and its district, the extensive Mark Heppenheim , to the imperial monastery of Lorsch . After long disputes could Palatinate and the Archdiocese of Mainz early 14th century about the legacy of the Lorsch Abbey few and the Palatine parts were the Amtsvogtei managed Lindenfels which also Ellenbach belonged. Until 1737 Lindenfels was subordinate to the Heidelberg Oberamt , after which Lindenfels became an Oberamt .

The earliest surviving document mentioning the place as Ellenbach has in the year 1359, when the Count Palatine Ruprecht said Hartmut von Kronberg the sale of Waldau, Scharbach and Ellenbach to Rudolf of Beckingen allowed. Within the district of Lindenfels, the place belongs to Thalzent whose main court was held first in Glattbach , later in Ellenbach and finally in Schlierbach . Together with Lindenfels, the court had a place of execution in the "Faustenbacher Hecken auf dem Bühel". Thalzent had to bear half the costs for their maintenance . In its seal, the Central Court had a shield with 3 fields. In the first field there was the Palatinate lion , in the second the Bavarian diamonds and in the third, lowest field, a boy on a hill with a ball floating over his head.

In the early days of the Reformation , the Palatinate rulers openly sympathized with the Lutheran faith, but it was not until Ottheinrich (Elector from 1556 to 1559) that the official transition to Lutheran teaching took place. After that, his successors and inevitably the population changed several times between the Lutheran , Reformed and Calvinist religions. With the Reformation and its introduction, the Reformed parish arose in Schlierbach under Friedrich III , to which Ellenbach also belonged as a branch. However, it is no longer mentioned as a branch in the Heidelberger Oberamtscetenzbuch from 1610. In the church registers of the Reformed community Schlierbach, Ellenbach is listed as a branch from 1656 to 1908.

In 1613, seven and a half Huben were counted with "14 houses and 7 serfs and 8 women." There were also four “noble courts” , one of which belonged to the Baron von Gemmingen and three to the Ulner heirs . In addition, the Seehof is mentioned as a dominal property of the House of Lindenfels as belonging to the district, which still exists as a settlement today. At the end of the Thirty Years' War (1648), like many areas of the Electoral Palatinate, the place was almost deserted. After the devastating war, the Electoral Palatinate pursued a policy of resettlement in its area characterized by religious tolerance. But the wars that broke out in the troubled times that followed, such as the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697) and the War of Spanish Succession (1701–1714) destroyed many of the efforts and tens of thousands of Palatine emigrated and the like. a. to North America and Prussia.

From a religious point of view, too, the time after the Thirty Years' War was marked by great unrest. In 1685 the Reformed Palatinate-Simmern line died out and the Catholic cousins ​​of the Palatinate-Neuburg line took over the government in the Electoral Palatinate with Elector Philipp Wilhelm . This ordered the equality of the Catholic faith in the predominantly Protestant Palatinate. Even during the War of the Palatinate Succession, France tried to advance the Counter-Reformation in the conquered areas and founded a number of Catholic parishes. The war ended in 1697 with the Peace of Rijswijk , which strengthened the position of the then reigning Catholic Elector Johann Wilhelm . This led to the decree of the Simultaneum on October 26, 1698 . According to this, the Catholics were entitled to use all reformed institutions such as churches, schools and cemeteries, while the reverse was not allowed. Furthermore, the reformed church administration, which had been independent until then, was subordinated to the sovereign. Only at the instigation of Prussia in 1705 came the so-called Palatinate church division in which the simultanum was reversed and the churches in the country, including rectories and schools, were divided between the Reformed and the Catholics in a ratio of five to two. There were special regulations for the three capitals Heidelberg , Mannheim and Frankenthal as well as the regional authorities Alzey , Kaiserslautern , Oppenheim , Bacharach and Weinheim . In cities with two churches, one should go to Protestants and the other to Catholics; in the others, where there was only one church, the choir was separated from the nave by a wall, and the one to the Catholics and the other to the Protestants. The Lutherans were only allowed those churches that they owned in 1624 or had built afterwards.

In 1784 Ellenbach is described as the most handsome village in the whole of Thalzent . The main courts were held here and the documents were kept. At that time Ellenbach consisted of 35 families with 176 souls. The district contained 257 acres of fields, 108 meters of meadows, 10 meters of gardens and 28 meters of forest. From the "Thalbach", today's Schlierbach, a grinding, a cutting and an oil mill were operated. The traffic conditions are described as: "A common country road runs through the village, which leads from Lindenfels to Fürth." Two thirds of the Grand Tenth was awarded to the Kurmainzer Hofkammer in the name of the Lorsch Monastery and one third to the spiritual administration of the monastery to the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg.

The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) was reorganized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and ceased to exist with the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806. Through this reorganization and dissolution of the Electoral Palatinate, the Oberamt Lindenfels and with it Ellenbach became part of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which in 1806 became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which was also formed under pressure from Napoleon .

In Hesse, Ellenbach belonged to the district of Lindenfels as well as to the districts of Lindenfels and Heppenheim through several administrative reforms, before it came to today's Bergstrasse district in 1938. In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Ellenbach voluntarily joined the community of Fürth on December 31, 1970.

A parish partnership has existed with Buzancy (Ardennes) in France since 1968 . The relationship continued after the regional reform.

Administration and courts

Under Palatine sovereignty, administration and jurisdiction over the place were exercised by the "Thal-Zent" of the "Amtsvogtei Lindenfels". This bailiwick was subordinate to the Oberamt Heidelberg until 1737, after which Lindenfels became an independent Oberamt of the "Palatinate Countess of the Rhine" (in the "Electorate of Palatinate Bavaria" from 1777).

After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 had assigned the "Oberamt Lindenfels" to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , it was initially continued there as the Hessian district bailiff. The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was merged in 1806 in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which came into being under the pressure of Napoléon , where the area of ​​the "Lindenfels Office" was divided up in 1812 and Ellenbach was assigned to the Fürth office . The superordinate administrative authority was the "Administrative Region Darmstadt" which from 1803 was also referred to as the "Principality of Starkenburg". After Napoleon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also regulated the territorial situation for Hesse, and in 1816 provinces were established in the Grand Duchy. The area previously known as the “Principality of Starkenburg”, which consisted of the old Hessian territories south of the Main and the territories on the right bank of the Rhine that were added from 1803, was renamed “Province of Starkenburg” . In 1821, as part of a comprehensive administrative reform, the district bailiffs in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy were dissolved and district districts were introduced, with Ellenbach joining the district of Lindenfels . As part of this reform, regional courts were also created, which were now independent of the administration. The district court districts corresponded in scope to the district council districts and the district court of Fürth was responsible as the court of first instance for the district of Lindenfels . This reform also regulated the administrative administration at the municipal level. The mayor's office in Ellenbach was also responsible for the places Erlenbach , Eulsbach , Lautenweschnitz and Linnenbach . According to the municipal ordinance of June 30, 1821, there were no longer appointments of mayors , but an elected local council, which was composed of a mayor, aldermen and council.

In 1832 the administrative units were further enlarged and circles were created. After the reorganization announced on August 20, 1832, there should only be the districts of Bensheim and Lindenfels in the future in Süd-Starkenburg; the district of Heppenheim was to fall into the Bensheim district. Before the ordinance came into force on October 15, 1832, it was revised to the effect that instead of the Lindenfels district, the Heppenheim district was formed as the second district, to which Ellenbach now belonged, alongside the Bensheim district. In 1842 the tax system in the Grand Duchy was reformed and the tithe and the basic pensions (income from property) were replaced by a tax system of the kind that still exists today.

As a result of the March Revolution of 1848, with the "Law on the Relationships of the Classes and Noble Court Lords" of April 15, 1848, the special rights of the class were finally repealed. In addition, in the provinces, the districts and the district administration districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by "administrative districts", whereby the previous districts of Bensheim and Heppenheim were combined to form the administrative district of Heppenheim . Just four years later, in the course of the reaction era, they returned to the division into districts and Ellenbach became part of the newly created Lindenfels district .

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the subsidiary village of Ellenbach has its own mayor's office, 51 houses, 403 inhabitants, the Lindenfels district, the Fürth district court, the Protestant Reformed parish Schlierbach with the dean's office in Lindenfels and the Catholic parish Lindenfels of the Deanery Heppenheim. The mayor's office also managed the See-Hof (one house, 8 inh.) And the town of Eulsbach (10 houses, 67 in.).

After the Grand Duchy of Hesse had been part of the German Empire from 1871, a series of administrative reforms were decided in 1874. The state-specific rules of procedure as well as the administration of the districts and provinces were regulated by district and provincial assemblies. The new regulation came into force on July 12, 1874 and also decreed the dissolution of the Lindenfels and Wimpfen districts and the reintegration of Ellenbach into the Heppenheim district .

The Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were abolished in 1937 after the provincial and district assemblies were dissolved in 1936. On November 1, 1938, a comprehensive regional reform came into force at the district level. In the former province of Starkenburg, the Bensheim district was particularly affected, as it was dissolved and most of it was added to the Heppenheim district. The district of Heppenheim also took over the legal successor to the district of Bensheim and was given the new name Landkreis Bergstrasse .

The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a member state of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866 and then a federal state of the German Empire . It existed until 1919, after the First World War, the Grand Duchy for was republican written People's State of Hesse . In 1945 after the end of the Second World War , the area of ​​today's Hesse was in the American zone of occupation and by order of the military government, Greater Hesse was created , from which the state of Hesse emerged in its current borders.

In 1961 the size of the district was given as 394  ha , 192 ha of which were forest.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Ellenbach joined the municipality of Fürth together with Weschnitz on December 31, 1970. For Ellenbach, as for all municipalities incorporated into Fürth, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was set up according to the Hessian municipal code.

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

Courts in Hessen

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg. The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords. The Lindenfels Office was responsible for Ellenbach. From 1813 the newly formed Justice Office in Fürth was the first instance. 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 formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Fürth regional court was the court of first instance from 1821 . 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 Fürth Local Court and assigned to the district of the Regional Court Darmstadt .

Historical descriptions

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

»Ellenbach (L. Bez. Lindenfels) reform. And cath. Branch village; is located on the Thalbach 3 ⁄ 4  St. from Lindenfels, and has 37 houses, 261 reform., 17 Catholic. and 9 Lutheran inhabitants, and among these 13 farmers, 18 craftsmen and 9 day laborers. There are 2 grinding, 2 oil and 2 cutting mills and 1 brickworks. - Even in older times, several noble families dealt with goods and inclines from the Palatinate County here, partly as a loan, partly as a deposit. Everything that the Landschaden carried as a fief here was brought back to Prince Ruprecht II in 1392. Ellenbach came to Hessen from Churpfalz in 1802. "

The latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states from 1845 states:

“Ellenbach. - village, to the parish Schlierbach, resp. Catholic parish of Lindenfels. - 37 H. 287 E. - Grand Duchy of Hesse. - Starkenburg Province. - Heppenheim district. - Fürth district court. - Hofger. Darmstadt. - Ellenbach, on Thalbach, 3/8 m from Lindenfels, has 1 brickworks, 2 grinding, 2 oil and 2 cutting mills. "

»Seehof b. Ellenbach - court for evangelism. resp. Catholic parish Lindenfels belonging. 1 H. 8 E. - Grand Duchy of Hesse - Province of Starkenburg - District of Heppenheim - Regional Court of Fürth - Court of Darmstadt. "

Population development

  • 1613: 8 residents , serfs : 4 men, 5 women
  • 1784: 176 souls, 35 families
  • 1806: 218 inhabitants, 27 houses
  • 1829: 287 inhabitants, 37 houses
  • 1867: 411 inhabitants, 52 houses
Ellenbach: Population from 1784 to 2011
year     Residents
1784
  
 176
1806
  
 218
1829
  
 287
1834
  
 320
1840
  
 368
1846
  
 423
1852
  
 406
1858
  
 435
1864
  
 415
1871
  
 407
1875
  
 397
1885
  
 400
1895
  
 418
1905
  
 407
1910
  
 375
1925
  
 407
1939
  
 358
1946
  
 476
1950
  
 488
1956
  
 435
1961
  
 460
1967
  
 510
1970
  
 494
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 519
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

Religious affiliation

  • 1829: 9 Lutheran (= 3.14%), 261 Reformed (= 90.94%) and 17 Catholic (= 5.92%) residents
  • 1961: 358 Protestant (= 77.83%), 86 Catholic (= 18.70%) residents

politics

For Ellenbach, there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Ellenbach) with a local advisory board and mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of seven members. Since the local elections in 2016, he has seven members of the "Ellenbach Local Advisory Board" (ELL). The mayor is Jürgen Hartmann.

societies

  • Volunteer Fire Brigade Ellenbach
  • Freundeskreis Ellenbach-Buzancy
  • Swinging cords
  • Mother-child circle Ellenbach
  • Fruit and horticultural association Ellenbach
  • Gymnastics and sports club Ellenbach

traffic

The state road L 3099 runs through Ellenbach, which branches off in the core community from the federal road 460 known as Siegfriedstrasse and the federal road 38 connected to it and leads through the valley of the Schlierbach to Kolmbach , where it joins the federal road 47 known as Nibelungenstrasse .

literature

  • Johann Goswin Widder: Attempt of a complete geographic-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Palatinate on the Rhine. Volume 1. Leipzig 1786–1788. ( Online at Hathi Trust, digital library )
  • Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg, Volume 1. , October 1829
  • Christoph Friedrich Moritz Ludwig Marchand: Lindenfels. A contribution to the local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Darmstadt 1858 ( online at google books ).
  • Otto Wagner: Heimatbuch Fürth i. Odw: with the districts of Fürth, Brombach, Ellenbach, Erlenbach, Fahrenbach, Kröckelbach, Krumbach, Linnenbach, Lörzenbach, Seidenbach, Steinbach, Weschnitz. Fürth i. Odw. 1994, ISBN 3-7657-1110-1
  • Literature about Ellenbach in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Ellenbach, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of August 6, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Ellenbach. In: website. Fürth community, accessed in January 2019 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place names book: Starkenburg . Ed .: Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse. tape 1 . Self-published, Darmstadt 1937, DNB  366995820 , OCLC 614375103 , p. 187 .
  4. ^ A b Christoph Friedrich Moritz Ludwig Marchand: Lindenfels. A contribution to the local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Darmstadt 1858, p. 75 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Ellenbach in the parish Schlierbach. In: Ortsfamilienbuch. Accessed January 2020 .
  6. ^ A b Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Palatinate on the Rhine . First part. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1786, OCLC 1067855437 , p. 498 ff ., 5) Ellenbach ( online at googe books ).
  7. ↑ Incorporation of the municipalities of Weschnitz and Ellenbach into the municipality of Fürth in the Bergstrasse district on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 110 , point 144 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  8. ^ Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Germany for a hundred years: Abth. Germany fifty years ago . tape 3 . Voigt & Günther, Leipzig 1862, OCLC 311428620 , p. 358 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  9. ^ Johann Konrad Dahl: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch or church history of the Upper Rhinegau . Darmstadt 1812, OCLC 162251605 , p. 248 ( online at google books ).
  10. ^ M. Borchmann, D. Breithaupt, G. Kaiser: Kommunalrecht in Hessen . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-555-01352-1 , p. 20 ( partial view on google books ).
  11. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  12. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Grand Duchy into circles of May 12, 1852 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1852 No. 30 . S. 224–229 ( online at the Bavarian State Library digital [PDF]).
  13. ↑ a b Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 24 ( online at google books ).
  14. ↑ Martin Kukowski: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt: Tradition from the former Grand Duchy and the People's State of Hesse. Volume 3 , KG Saur, 1998, ISBN 3-598-23252-7
  15. ↑ Headlines from Bensheim on the 175th anniversary of the "Bergsträßer Anzeiger". (PDF; 9.0 MB) The creation of the Bergstrasse district. 2007, p. 109 , archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Incorporation of the communities of Ellenbach and Weschnitz into the community of Fürth in the Bergstrasse district on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 110 , point 114 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  17. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 349 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Fürth community, accessed January 2020 .
  18. ^ 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).
  19. ^ 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 ).
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ^ 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 ]).
  22. ^ 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. 58 ( online at google books ).
  23. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : The newest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states . Part 2nd volume 1 . Zimmermann, Naumburg 1845, OCLC 162810696 , p. 344 ( online at google books ).
  24. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : The newest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states . Part 2nd volume 2 . Zimmermann, Naumburg 1845, OCLC 162810705 , p. 557 ( online at google books ).
  25. ↑ 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;
  26. ↑ Local Advisory Board Ellenbach. In: Votemanager. Accessed January 2020 .