Enzheim (Altenstadt)

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Enzheim
Community Old city
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 129  (125–172)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 174  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation : 1855
Incorporated into: Lindheim
Postal code : 63674
Area code : 06047
The church of Enzheim

Enzheim is a district of the municipality Altenstadt in the Wetteraukreis in Hesse .

geography

Enzheim lies at an altitude of 125 m above sea ​​level , nine kilometers west of Büdingen , northeast of Lindheim , on the left bank of the Nidder .

Enzheim was originally a clustered village , as the flood-threatened valley of the Nidder in the west and the basalt dome of the Enzheimer Kopf in the east left little space, the building structure changed into that of a street village .

history

Name and first mention

The oldest surviving mention of Enzheim as "Hansinesheimer marca" (Enzheimer Mark) took place on May 10, 773 in a deed of donation from the Lorsch Codex on the occasion of a donation to the Lorsch Monastery . The name form "Ansuinesheim" from 792 refers to the personal name "Answin."

In the same year 792, a “Hunold” donated five days of farmland in Düdelsheim and Enzheim to the Lorsch monastery. In 792, a certain Erkenbert established a Seelgerät foundation at Lorsch at both locations in the size of 20 daily works. Steen shows that in Düdelsheim eight out of twelve people give traditions to the Lorsch Monastery, while in Enzheim six out of seven people have passed down.

A castle is suspected in the hallway "at the castle" on an island in the Nidder.

In the Middle Ages and early modern times, Enzheim belonged to the Ortenberg office , a condominium that was formed by three rulers from among the members of the Wetterau Counts' Association . For details see: here . 1601, there was a real division of Kondominats, the village Enzheim to the Hanau-Münzenberg , 1642: County Hanau fell. The Hanau-Münzenberg part of the county of Hanau fell in 1736 when the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III, died. , on the basis of an inheritance contract to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . The Hanau, later Hessian " Amt Ortenberg " then formed part of the Grand Ducal Hessian Amt Ortenberg from 1810 onwards . Ultimately, the village came to the district of Büdingen , which merged with the regional reform in Hesse in 1972 in the Wetterau district. Enzheim was in the course of municipal reform in the city of Old Town incorporated .

  • Medieval epitaphs below the church

  • Entrance to the mill area with a bridge to the Nidderinsel to the Burgstall Enzheim

  • The Nidder on the Nidder Island west of Enzheim (in the direction of flow)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Altenstadt municipal administration - residents by district , accessed in April 2016.
  2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 2912, May 10, 773 - Reg. 873. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 21 , accessed on May 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b List of places for the Lorsch Codex, Enzheim , Archivum Laureshamense - digital, Heidelberg University Library.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Steen, Kings and nobility in the early medieval settlement, social and agricultural history in the Wetterau. Studies on the relationship between land acquisition and continuity using the example of a peripheral landscape of the Merovingian Empire , Ffm 1979 = writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main XIV, p. 154 f.