Fellingshausen

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Fellingshausen
community Biebertal
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 29 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 242  (224–246)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.59 km²
Residents : 1700  (2015)  approx.
Population density : 304 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 35444
Area code : 06409

Fellingshausen is the second largest district of the municipality of Biebertal in the central Hessian district of Gießen . The place is in the valley of the Bieber tributary river Kehlbach at the southeast foot of the 498 m high Dünsberg , which is also the highest point of the district.

Geographical location

The village of Fellingshausen seen from Rodheim.

Fellingshausen is 10 km from Gießen and 14 km from Wetzlar , to the southwest bordering one of the largest contiguous forest areas in Hesse, the Krofdorfer Forest ( also known as the Prussian Forest ). In the immediate vicinity are the places Krumbach (Biebertal), Krofdorf-Gleiberg ( Wettenberg ), Vetzberg (Biebertal) and Rodheim-Bieber (Biebertal).

history

Memorial plaque for the anniversary 2013 at the former bakery

Fellingshausen was first mentioned in a document in 1263, but what is certain is that there must have been a considerable settlement on the Dünsberg as early as the Celtic times.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Fellingshausen in 1830:

"Fellingshausen (L. Bez. Giessen) evangel. Branch village; is 2 hours from Giessen on the Dünsberg, as well as on the Chaussee leading from Giessen to Biedenkopf, has, with 2 ⁄ 3 of Bieber 101 house and 552 Protestant inhabitants, as well as 3 mills. - The place belonged to the court Lollar, which was common between Hessen and Nassau. When this court was divided in 1585, Fellingshausen came exclusively to Hesse. "

Fellingshausen changes its sovereign several times in the course of history, until 1866 it belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse or the Grand Duchy of Hesse (-Darmstadt). After the Austro-Prussian War lost in 1866 , the Hessian hinterland ( Biedenkopf district ) had to be ceded to Prussia . Fellingshausen came to the province of Hessen-Nassau . In 1946 with the reorganization after the Second World War , it became Hessian again with the establishment of the state of Hesse.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the independent municipality of Fellingshausen voluntarily merged on December 1, 1970 with the municipalities of Königsberg , Krumbach , Rodheim-Bieber and Vetzberg to form the new large municipality of Biebertal. For Fellingshausen, as for all formerly independent municipalities, local districts with a local advisory board and local councilor were set up. The seat of the municipal administration was Rodheim-Bieber.

mayor

The last and first full-time mayor of the Fellingshausen community was Helmut Wehn ​​(SPD) 1966–1970. The expansion of the sand chute, as well as the design of the site exit fall within his term of office. Fellingshausen was awarded the title of State Recognized Resort at his instigation .

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Fellingshausen was mentioned under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Velinghishusin , de (1263) [Wyss, document book of the Deutschordens-Ballei 1, reprint, no. 194, p. 150]
  • Fellenkusen (1344)
  • Fellinxhusen (1470)

Mining, Agriculture and Cigars

Like most of the villages, Fellingshausen was an agricultural community until the 19th century. From the end of the 13th century mining activity can be identified in the area around the Dünsberg . In the middle of the 19th century, the Stumm and Buderus companies acquired some mines in Fellingshausen. It was iron ore , or more precisely, red iron ore, which made Fellingshausen desirable for mining companies. The iron ore was brought to Wetzlar to be processed there. The Friedberg, Meilhardt and Eleonore mines, to name just a few, were active into the 20th century. The last mine closed in the 1960s, the Friedberg mine . The cigar industry was a large branch of the economy in Fellingshausen from the end of the 19th century. At the height of this industry, three cigar factories were located in the village. The company Rinn & Cloos , Heuchelheim , with its founder Ludwig Rinn , built up an empire of the tobacco industry in Central Hesse, whose quality and fame reached as far as America and Asia. But this industry too came to an end after the Second World War . Today two of the three cigar factories still exist. One serves as a multi-purpose hall for the population, the other serves as a location for a doctor, massage and veterinary practice.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Fellingshausen was located and 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 registry lords and thus the "Landamt Gießen" was responsible for Fellingshausen. 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 tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. " Stadtgericht Gießen " was therefore the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Fellingshausen from 1821 to 1866.

After the cession of the northwestern part of the district of Gießen and with it Fellingshausen to Prussia, as a result of the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 between the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Kingdom of Prussia , Fellingshausen was separated from the City Court of Gießen. In June 1867 a royal decree was issued that reorganized the court system in the former Duchy of Nassau and the parts of the area that had previously belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The previous judicial authorities were to be repealed and replaced by local courts in the first, district courts in the second and an appeal court in the third instance. In the course of this, on September 1, 1867, the previous regional court was renamed the District Court of Gladenbach and Fellingshausen was added to this court. The courts of the higher instances were the District Court of Dillenburg and the Court of Appeal in Wiesbaden . Due to the Courts Constitution Act of 1877, the district court changed to the district of the newly established Marburg Regional Court with effect from October 1, 1879 . When Fellingshausen moved to the Wetzlar district in 1932, it also moved to the Wetzlar district court . On August 1, 1979, Fellingshausen moved with the municipality of Biebertal to the area of ​​the district court of Gießen . The superordinate instances are now the Regional Court of Giessen , the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

Population development

• 1577: 26 households
• 1648: 21 households and 7 privates
• 1742: 43 households and 6 privates
• 1791: 334 inhabitants
• 1800: 353 inhabitants
• 1806: 436 inhabitants, 82 houses
• 1829: 552 inhabitants, 101 houses
Fellingshausen: Population from 1791 to 2011
year     Residents
1791
  
 334
1800
  
 353
1806
  
 436
1829
  
 552
1834
  
 505
1840
  
 533
1846
  
 642
1852
  
 657
1858
  
 699
1864
  
 726
1871
  
 721
1875
  
 751
1885
  
 849
1895
  
 881
1905
  
 989
1910
  
 1,015
1925
  
 1,137
1939
  
 864
1946
  
 1,193
1950
  
 1,154
1956
  
 1,195
1961
  
 1,266
1967
  
 1,347
1970
  
 1,342
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 1,782
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

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 835 Protestant, no Catholic, 6 other Christians, 8 Jews
• 1961: 964 Protestant (= 76.15%), 181 Catholic (= 14.30%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

Since the local elections in 1985, the SPD again the largest party in Fellingshausen, both in the municipal council and the town council. Three parties are represented in the local advisory board: SPD , FWG and CDU . The SPD, FWG, CDU and B90 / Greens are represented in the Biebertal municipal council. Mayor is Helmut Mattig (FW).

Hans-Albert Bender (FW) is represented on the community board as 1st alderman.

List of mayors

As far as name and dates are known.

  • 1711 Hans Ludwig Hörr
  • 1721 Johannes Andreas Weber
  • 1792 Johannes Gerlach II.
  • 1802 Schleenbecker
  • 1816 Georg Philipp Muth
  • 1822–1827 Philipp Crombach
  • 1859 Johannes Christoph Gerlach
  • 1859–1870 Christoph Gerlach
  • 1870–1880 Johannes Ludwig Gerlach
  • 1880–1898 Wilhelm Wagner II.
  • 1898–1916 Johann Georg Wagner
  • 1916–1923 Wilhelm Muth
  • 1923–1929 Wilhelm Weber (SPD)
  • 1929–1937 Georg Wagner
  • 1937–1945 Ludwig Dönges
  • 1945–1948 Ludwig Bender (SPD)
  • 1948–1956 Wilhelm Mattern (SPD)
  • 1956–1960 Ludwig Bender (SPD)
  • 1960–1966 Fritz Gerlach (SPD)
  • 1966–1970 Helmut Wehn ​​(SPD)
Ev. church
The fountain in the center of the village in Fellingshausen, right in front of the church

coat of arms

On March 19, 1968, on the initiative of Mayor Helmut Wehn, the municipality board decided to introduce a coat of arms for the municipality of Fellingshausen. After approval by the municipal council, the main state archive in Wiesbaden was commissioned to have a draft made. On the recommendation of the heraldist Heinz Ritt from Bad Nauheim , the Hessian Ministry of the Interior awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon to the municipality of Fellingshausen in the former district of Wetzlar on March 13, 1970 : In a diagonally divided shield above a red fox , below in red three diagonally lined up golden diamonds .

The coat of arms was well received by residents and associations. Mayor Wehn ​​attached great importance to the fact that the coat of arms was taken into account in the dispute agreement of the municipality of Biebertal and integrated into the new Biebertal municipal coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Sports and leisure opportunities

  • sports ground
  • numerous well-developed bike and hiking trails
  • Elisabethen-Weg from Marburg to Altenberg Monastery

societies

There is a lively club life in Fellingshausen. Every two years all associations organize the "Brunnenfest", usually in August or September. Every year, the volunteer fire brigade organizes the forest festival on Ascension Day. Since 2011, the Füchse Fellingshausen boys 'and girls' association has been holding an annual midsummer festival at the fairground.

  • Four seasons old boys
  • Boys and girls foxes Fellingshausen
  • Fellingshausen volunteer fire department
  • Choral Society Concordia
  • Fishing club
  • Biebertaler chess friends
  • Popular sports club Biebertal
  • Funding and Friends of the Elementary School at the Keltentor
  • Nature and bird protection association
  • Taekwon Do sports school Biebertal
  • TSV Fellingshausen
  • ROCK Night Fellingshausen

Dolles village

On February 1, 2008 Fellingshausen was drawn as Dolles Dorf in the Hessenschau of the hr television . Since 1974, all Hessian villages with less than 2000 inhabitants have been presented. The report was broadcast on February 3rd on hr. In 2008 Fellingshausen had the chance to become Hessens Dolles Dorf 2008 at the Hessentag in Homberg (Efze) . Friedigerode was the winner .

Public facilities

Former Bakery next to the church
  • primary school
  • Multipurpose hall
  • Bakehouse
  • "Sandkaute" refuge
Sand chew panorama

literature

Web links

Commons : Fellingshausen (Biebertal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fellingshausen district. In: Internet presence. Biebertal community, archived from the original on September 19, 2015 ; accessed in September 2018 .
  2. ^ A b 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. 66 ( online at google books ).
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of the communities Fellingshausen, Königsberg, Krumbach, Rodheim-Bieber and Vetzberg in the district of Wetzlar to form the new community "Biebertal" on November 13, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2254 , point 2253 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).
  4. ↑ 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. 282 .
  5. ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Biebertal. (PDF; 22 kB) p. §5 , accessed in February 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Fellingshausen, district of Gießen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ^ 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 ).
  9. ↑ 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 ).
  10. ↑ a b 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. 27 ff ., § 40 point 6a) ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  220 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 413 ( online at Google Books ).
  13. ↑ Art. 14 of the peace treaty between the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Kingdom of Prussia of September 3, 1866 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. pp. 406-407 )
  14. ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories excluding the Meisenheim district of June 26, 1867. ( PrGS 1867, pp. 1094–1103 )
  15. ↑ Order of August 7, 1867, regarding the establishment of the according to the Most High Ordinance of June 26th J. in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories, with the exclusion of the Oberamtsbezirks Meisenheim, courts to be formed ( Pr. JMBl. Pp. 218-220 )
  16. ↑ Ordinance regarding the establishment of local courts of July 26, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 275–283 )
  17. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  172 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  18. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  181 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  19. ↑ 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;
  20. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Fellingshausen, district Wetzlar, administrative district Darmstadt from March 13, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 14 , p. 707 , point 556 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.2 MB ]).