Frohnhausen (Battenberg)

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Frohnhausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 322 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.08 km²
Residents : 360  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 45 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 35088
Area code : 06452
Church and tombs in Frohnhausen [3]
Church and tombs in Frohnhausen

Frohnhausen is a district of Battenberg (Eder) in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

The village is located in northern Hesse , on the northwestern edge of the Wetschaft Valley , at the foot of the bagpipes-Vorhöhen counted, 583 m above mean sea level high carbon mountain .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1108 as Fronehusen . The name suggests a manorial establishment, which means that the place could probably be considerably older. The former three-aisled basilica dates from the 12th century.

In 1363, Frohnhausen is attested as an independent court, first owned by the Lords of Hohenfels , and from 1416 at the latest by the Lords of Dersch as a Hessian fief. The family died out in 1717.

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

"Frohnhausen (L. Bez. Battenberg) evangel. Parish village; is not far from the Eder, 2 St from Battenberg, has 48 houses and 286 Protestant residents. There is also 1 grinding and oil mill and 1 potash boiler. Cattle breeding is considerable, favored by the strong meadow construction and the significant stretches that serve for woad, and is almost the main source of food for the residents. "

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the previously independent community was Frohnhausen powerful state law on 1 January 1974 in the town of Battenberg incorporated . For Frohnhausen, as well as for all formerly independent municipalities and the core municipality, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was set up.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1577: 040 house seats
• 1712: 035 households
• 1791: 248 inhabitants
• 1800: 248 inhabitants
• 1806: 277 inhabitants, 42 houses
• 1829: 286 inhabitants, 48 ​​houses
Frohnhausen: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
248
1800
  
248
1806
  
277
1829
  
286
1834
  
343
1840
  
354
1846
  
409
1852
  
390
1858
  
402
1864
  
385
1871
  
375
1875
  
385
1885
  
376
1895
  
350
1905
  
336
1910
  
335
1925
  
348
1939
  
357
1946
  
518
1950
  
518
1956
  
477
1961
  
481
1967
  
488
1980
  
?
1990
  
?
2000
  
?
2011
  
405
2015
  
278
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: 286 Protestant (= 100%) residents
• 1885: 373 Protestant (= 99.20%), 3 Catholic (= 0.80%) residents
• 1961: 363 Protestant (= 75.47%), 118 Catholic (= 24.53%) residents

coat of arms

The coat of arms used since the village anniversary in 2008 at festivals and anniversaries shows a slaughtered cross with tendrils. It is based on the coat of arms of the nobles of Frohnhausen, verifiable in the 13th and 14th centuries, who were Burgmannen in Battenberg and owned goods in around Frohnhausen.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h Frohnhausen, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 18, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. a b Population figures . In: website. City of Battenberg, accessed March 2020 .
  3. Ferdinand Luthmer (arr.): The architectural and art monuments of the districts of Biedenkopf, Dill, Oberwesterwald and Westerburg. Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1910, p. 30 ( online ).
  4. ^ A b c 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. 79 ( online at google books ).
  5. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Frankenberg and Waldeck (GVBl. II 330-23) of October 4, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 359 , § 13 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  6. main statute. (DOCX; 26 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Municipality of Battenberg (Eder), accessed in March 2019 .
  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. The affiliation of the Battenberg office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  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 6e) ( 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.  237 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  182 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  195 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. 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;

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