Ernsthofen (Modautal)

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Ernsthofen
Modautal municipality
Ernsthofen coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 241  (240-256)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.6 km²
Residents : 1064  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 296 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 64397
Area code : 06167
Aerial view of Ernsthofen (bottom left) (2010)
Aerial view of Ernsthofen (bottom left) (2010)
The parish church

Ernsthofen is a district of the Modautal community in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

geography

Ernsthofen is located in the lower Odenwald on the Modau . The district youth home is located in the village. State road 3099 runs through the village .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1362. After that the place was the territory of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen .

In 1545, Landgrave Philipp von Hessen gave the castle and the associated villages to the Lords of Wallbrunn as a fiefdom .

In 1722 the brothers Johann Moritz Friedrich von Wallbrunn sold to Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen the castle and estate of Ernsthofen with the associated villages, namely Ernsthofen, Asbach , Hoxhohl , Klein-Bieberau and Neutsch , along with slopes in twelve other places, including Ober-Modau , Rodau , Waldhausen , Billings and Meßbach .

Ernsthofen was in the judicial district of the district of Oberramstadt . The centering was divided into so-called "rice car," each of which a top magistrate board that the Zentgrafen were subordinated. This district had to provide a freight wagon ( rice wagon ) including draft animals and servants for campaigns. Ernsthofen belonged to the "Brandauer Reiswagen", to which the towns of Brandau Neunkirchen , Allertshofen , Hoxhohl , Herchenrod , Lützelbach , Neutsch , Klein-Bieberau and Webern also belonged. The entire district of Oberramstadt was assigned to the Lichtenberg office . This classification existed until the beginning of the 19th century.

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

»Ernsthofen (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran Filialdorf; is located on the Modaubach, 2 St. from Reinheim. and has 46 houses and 386 inhabitants, who are Lutheran except for 3 Catholics. There is a chapel here, which still contains several gravestones of the Lords of Wallbrunn from the 16th and 17th centuries, and in which the hereditary burial of the Wallbrunn family was, a former Wallbrunn castle, in which the forest inspector and district forester have their seat and one Grinding, oil and cutting mill. - In 1363 a noble family named themselves after this place, Johann Rabenold von Ernsthofen. The village belonged to the Lord von Wallbrunn, and in the Bavarian feud, 1504, was taken away by Landgrave Wilhelm II as a Palatine fief. In 1521, Churrfalz admitted that the von Wallbrunn family should in future take this place as a fiefdom from Hessen. However, it was not until 1545 that the castle was restored to the Lord von Wallbrunn, and from that time on they carried it as a fiefdom from Hesse to the castle and village of Ernsthofen with the villages of Aßbach, Kleinbieberau, Hoxhohl, Neutsch, along with many scattered slopes in other places , came to Hesse for 71,750 florins . In 1542 Ernsthofen burned down to 4 apartments. "

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Herchenrode was incorporated into Ernsthofen on a voluntary basis. On 1 January 1977. Ernsthofen was then powerful state law with the formed on 1 April 1971. community Modautal and other municipalities merged to Modautal together . For Ernsthofen, a local district with a local advisory board and mayor was formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Historical forms of names

In historical documents, the place is documented under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets): Ernsthofen (1403); Ernsthofen (1415); Ernsthoffen (1449); Ernsthoven (1516); Ernsthoiffen (1529); Ernshoven (1545).

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

Ernsthofen belonged to the Oberramstadt district court . 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 Lichtenberg Office was responsible for Ernsthofen. 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 . The main courts had lost their function.

With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the regional court of Lichtenberg was the court of first instance from 1821 . It followed:

Population development

• 1629: 011 house seats
• 1791: 203 inhabitants
• 1800: 251 inhabitants
• 1806: 283 inhabitants, 34 houses
• 1829: 386 inhabitants, 46 houses
• 1867: 474 inhabitants, 57 houses
Ernsthofen: Population from 1791 to 2018
year     Residents
1791
  
203
1800
  
251
1806
  
283
1829
  
386
1834
  
396
1840
  
422
1846
  
453
1852
  
359
1858
  
403
1864
  
464
1871
  
457
1875
  
462
1885
  
440
1895
  
414
1905
  
430
1910
  
414
1925
  
423
1939
  
403
1946
  
726
1950
  
667
1956
  
587
1961
  
534
1967
  
652
1970
  
659
1980
  
?
1990
  
?
2000
  
?
2007
  
850
2010
  
966
2011
  
957
2015
  
1,099
2018
  
1,053
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Modautal municipality :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 383 Lutheran (= 99.22%) and 3 Catholic (= 0.78%) residents
• 1961: 423 Protestant (= 79.21%), 83 Catholic (= 15.54%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

There is a local district for Ernsthofen (areas of the former municipality of Ernsthofen) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of seven members. Manuel Daniel has been the mayor since the local elections in 2016.

badges and flags

Banner Ernsthofen (Modautal) .svg

coat of arms

Ernsthofen coat of arms

Blazon : In the heraldic shield, which is divided obliquely to the left, a stylized red growing lion on the front, three silver diamonds (2: 1) in blue on the back.

The coat of arms was approved for the community of Ernsthofen in the Darmstadt district on May 20, 1963 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The lion's head comes from the coat of arms of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen , the diamonds from the coat of arms of the Lords of Wallbrunn . Both used to have property in the village.

flag

Together with the coat of arms, a flag was also approved for the community, which is described as follows: "The community coat of arms is placed on a red and white striped flag cloth."

Culture and sights

Buildings

The entrance to the castle

The moated castle Ernsthofen , which was formerly owned by the Lords of Wallbrunn , has been in private hands since 1923 , is worth seeing, but cannot be visited directly. Worth mentioning is the memorial plaque at the gate entrance of the castle in honor of the German-American Edmund A. Stirn , on which his work in and around Ernsthofen Castle and his services to the place are recorded.

In the Protestant church is the damaged epitaph of Maria von Wallbrunn, née Leyser von Lambsheim († 1628).

There are some lovingly renovated old half-timbered houses along the beautifully renovated Schloßstraße .

Regular events

  • August: curb
  • September: Oktoberfest

Web links

Commons : Ernsthofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i Ernsthofen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hessen (as of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 12, 2018 .
  2. Numbers and facts. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  3. Katzenelnbogensche document from May 19, 1362 in which Count Wilhelm II von Katzenelnbogen names a Hermann Werberg (Hermann vom Stein) who was granted feudal rights (the tithe) over Klein-Bieberau and in which the neighboring village of Ernsthofen was also mentioned. The document is in the possession of the Hessian State Archives in Marburg . The date is also mentioned in the old village chronicle , but there without any references to literature . See also Echo-Online: 650th anniversary thanks to a new certificate ( Memento from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present . Literary Institution, Darmstadt 1877, p. 254 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ^ 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. 68 ( online at google books ).
  6. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  7. Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 234 .
  8. a b main statute. (PDF; 36 kB) §; 6. In: Website. Modautal municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ^ 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 ).
  11. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  122 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  124 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. 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.
  14. ^ 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 ).
  15. Budgets for 2017 to 2019 (preliminary report: Population statistics). (PDF) In: Website. Municipality of Modautal, p. 30 ff , accessed in July 2019 .
  16. 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;
  17. Mayor. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  18. Approval of a coat of arms and a flag for the community of Ernsthofen in the Darmstadt district of May 20, 1963 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1963 No. 23 , p. 640 , point 568 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.9 MB ]).
  19. ^ Ernsthofen, Evangelical Church. In: German inscriptions online. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz;
  20. Darmstädter Echo , Monday, September 12, 2016, p. 22