Steinau (Petersberg)

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Steinau
Municipality Petersberg
Coat of arms of Steinau
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 27 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 287 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.41 km² [LAGIS]
Residents : 2360  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 436 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36100
Area code : 0661

Steinau is a district of the municipality of Petersberg in the Fulda district in Hesse .

location

The place is in East Hesse on the edge of the Rhön . Landesstrasse 3429 and Kreisstrasse 1 meet in the village .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1105. At that time it was owned by the Fulda monastery .

The ruins of the "Wasserburg" in Steinau

When Markward II von Bickenbach was prince abbot of the Fulda monastery from 1286 to 1288, he destroyed the " Castle of those von Steinau " in Steinau after the abbot murder in which Giso von Steinau was also involved.

In 1381 a chapel with the patronage of St. Bartholomew was donated by the knights Heinrich and Johann von der Tann . 1510 presented Abbot of Fulda senior of Ganerben the castle. In 1594 the castle chapel belonged to the parish of Margretenhaun. 1787 belonged to the Abbey of Fulda , Fulda cents Oberamt. After secularization in 1803, Steinau belonged to the Electorate of Hesse in the Fulda district in 1851 .

Reorganization

Since December 31, 1971, the place belongs to the municipality Petersberg as part of the regional reform .

The hamlet Götzenhof (documented as Goizendorf from 1090 ) is part of the Steinau district and was the station on the Götzenhof – Wüstensachsen railway from 1889 until it was closed in 1986.

The branch church St. Bartholomäus and Jakobus in Steinau

Infrastructure

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traffic

The Steinau stop (Kr Fulda) was on the Bebra – Fulda railway line . It has since been closed. Steinau can be reached by local public transport via an hourly bus line. RhönEnergie Fulda and RMV are responsible for the organization of local public transport . The railway line between Fulda and Kassel runs through the village, but does not stop there.

literature

  • Michael Mott : Derelict and forgotten: Castle of those von Steinau / Not to be found on any list of monuments: Remains of a medieval moated castle at the gates of Fulda / "razed" after abbot murder, in: Fuldaer Zeitung, August 12, 1993, p. 10 (series: DENK -times!).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics of the Fulda district , accessed in September 2015.
  2. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 393 .
  3. ↑ Commissioning on June 1, 1889, shutdown in 1986
  4. ^ Götzenhof, Fulda district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of December 8, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 19, 2016 .
  5. ↑ RMV.DE - With the right connection you will reach your destination. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .

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