Municipal forest Erbstadt

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The municipal forest Erbstadt was an exclave and was even located abroad at times .

location

The approximately 100 hectares large communal forest of Erbstadt is located northeast of the community in the Wetterau . In terms of territorial history, it represents a special feature: From Erbstadt, the community forest can only be reached by crossing the Bönstädter district. Today Bönstadt is a district of Niddatal in the neighboring Wetterau district .

history

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times , it was common for a parish or territory to be composed of different, unrelated parts. In the case of Erbstadt, foreign territorial property was between the village and its forest. Both the village and the forest initially belonged to Windecken Castle , which was owned by the Lords and later Counts of Hanau . Erbstadt thus belonged to the Windecken office . In 1561 Count Philip III bought from Hanau-Münzenberg the neighboring Naumburg winery , the secularized Naumburg Monastery . In the same year he assigned the village of Erbstadt to this winery. The Naumburg winery - and with it Erbstadt - were pledged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel by the County of Hanau in 1643 . The reason for this were financial claims from Hessen-Kassel to the County of Hanau from the liberation of the city of Hanau by troops of the Landgraviate in 1636. The pledge was no longer released. 1736, after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg fell to Hessen-Kassel. In 1803 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hesse . After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, during which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, Erbstadt was assigned to the newly formed Hanau district .

The community forest was now located as an exclave in the area of the Friedberg district , which initially belonged to the Grand Duchy and after 1918 to the People's State of Hesse . Hereditary town and the exclave of its community forest, on the other hand, belonged to the Hanau district and thus initially to the Electorate of Hesse . After the war of 1866 , the Kingdom of Prussia annexed Electorate Hesse and thus also the hereditary city and its communal forest. This was now a Prussian "island" in Hessian territory. With the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse, a number of smaller areas, exclaves and enclaves were exchanged. With regard to the municipal forest of Erbstadt, however, there was only a “half” solution. Its northern half was ceded to the Grand Duchy and formed its own independent district as the "Erbstädter Domanialwald " . The southern part, closer to the hereditary town and now reduced in size, remained with Prussia. Until the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, the communal forest could only be reached from Erbstadt by crossing foreign national territory .

With the regional reform in Hesse , the Wetteraukreis and the Main-Kinzig-Kreis were created: And again a border separated the municipality of Erbstadt from its municipal forest , which came to lie in the district of Bönstadt in the Wetteraukreis, while Erbstadt was part of Nidderau on December 31, 1971 and is now in the Main-Kinzig district. The difference to the historical situation, however, is that the former exclave of the Hanau district now belongs to the Wetterau district, as does the surrounding districts: The exclave status was thus ended. Under civil law , the community forest is still owned by the city of Nidderau as the legal successor to the former community of Erbstadt.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 367 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 28.3 "  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 26.5"  E