Friedrichsbrück

Friedrichsbrück City of Hessisch Lichtenau Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 38 ″  E
Height :	482 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.1 km²
Residents :	172  (Nov. 15, 2011)
Population density :	55 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	37235
Area code :	05602

Hiking sign at Friedrichsbrück

Friedrichsbrück is a district of Hessisch Lichtenau in the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse .

geography

Friedrichsbrück is about three kilometers northeast of Hessisch Lichtenau. In the hit state roads 3225 and the 3400th

history

A postal administrator Finck from Hessisch-Lichtenau in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel handed over a petition in Kassel in February 1777 with the request for state support in founding a "colony" on the edge of the Lichtenau town hall. This initiative followed the wishes of the then Landgrave Friedrich II , who hoped for new economic impulses for his country with the settlement of Huguenots between 1755 and 1777 . Characteristic for this period was the selection of settlement sites that were inconvenient for the local population and therefore remained undeveloped as desertification from the Thirty Years' War or due to their stony, swampy or poor soils and the mostly inhospitable climatic conditions.

The Huguenot settlement of Friedrichsbrück consisted of ten gabled houses and forms a street (Alte Leipziger Poststrasse), a separate school and church were not planned. The approved field comprised 242 acres of usable area - about 85 hectares and was divided between the ten families, these came from Nassau-Weilburg and Upper Hesse .

Each of the ten houses built with government aid was built according to the same principles and, as the building files show, served as experimental houses for testing new construction methods. House 8 was later demolished and replaced by a modern building. The historical building studies at the site designated as a monument ensemble provided numerous indications of the construction techniques used and the lack of knowledge of the craftsmen commissioned at the time. The houses at that time differed significantly from the appearance of the traditional half-timbered courtyards in Northern Hesse and thus created a certain architectural demarcation from the rural population.

The village was first mentioned in a document dated May 16, 1777. It belonged to the Hessian office of Lichtenau until 1821 and then to the district of Witzenhausen . During the French occupation, the place belonged to the canton of Lichtenau in the Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813).

The Protestant church was built in 1955. In 1966 a village community center was added.

Territorial reform

in the course of administrative reform in Hesse until then to was on 1 January 1974 the district Witzenhausen belonging municipality powerful state law in the city of Hessisch Lichtenau in the new Werra-Meissner incorporated .

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1779: 10 households

Friedrichsbrück: Population figures from 1834 to 2011
year				Residents
1834			96
1840			114
1846			143
1852			154
1858			141
1864			139
1871			131
1875			122
1885			127
1895			157
1905			163
1910			166
1925			179
1939			207
1946			245
1950			346
1956			270
1961			235
1967			239
1970			259
2011			172
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Further sources:; 2011:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1830:	594 Protestant (= 99.83%), 1 Catholic (= 0.17%) inhabitant
• 1961:	207 Protestant (= 88.09%), 28 Catholic (= 11.91%) residents

literature

• Gottfried Ganßauge: Friedrichsbrück . In: Hessischer Heimatbund (Hrsg.): Witzenhausen district. Handbook of the Hessian Homeland Federation . tape IV . JA Koch Buchdruckerei, Marburg ad Lahn 1971, p. 110-111 .
• Peter Zietz: Huguenot settlement Friedrichsbrück . In: Hess. State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Hessen . Issue 1, 1992, ISSN  0935-8307 , p. 8-11 .

Web links

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

• The place on the website of the city of Hessisch Lichtenau
• Friedrichsbrück, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 26, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature on Friedrichsbrück in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Friedrichsbrück, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 26, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Facts & Figures. In: Internet presence. City of Hessisch Lichtenau, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed in October 2018 . 
3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Eschwege and Witzenhausen (GVBl. II 330-21) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 353 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 410 .