Goßfelden

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Goßfelden
community Lahntal
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 47"  E
Height : 216 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.96 km²
Residents : 2212  (Jun 30, 2014)
Population density : 318 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Incorporated into: Lahnfels
Postal code : 35094
Area code : 06423

Goßfelden is the largest part of the municipality of Lahntal in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf with around 2400 inhabitants.

history

Church in Goßfelden

Goßfelden was first mentioned in a document in 850 in a deed of donation to the Fulda monastery. In the course of the next few centuries the village, which lies on both sides of the Lahn, was divided into two parts: The district south of the Lahn had belonged to the Goßfelden court since 1273, while the district north of the Lahn belonged to the county (and later to the office) Wetter since 1374 . It was not until 1809 that the two districts were united in the Caldern account after the abolition of the Teutonic Order .

In 1601 a town hall was built in the village . Under the direction of the landgrave master builder Giovanni Ghezzy, the church in Goßfelden was built in 1749 , next to which a school was built in 1809 .

A newly built school was named after Otto Ubbelohde , who lived in Goßfelden from 1900 to 1922 .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Goßfelden and the neighboring town of Sarnau merged on December 31, 1970 on a voluntary basis to form the municipality of Lahnfels . However, on July 1, 1974, this was incorporated into the enlarged municipality of Lahntal by virtue of state law . Both districts together with five other places formed the large community of Lahntal. For Goßfelden, as for the other former municipalities of Lahntal, a local district with a local advisory council and local chief was formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

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View from the Weinstrasse to Goßfelden, the Wetschaft-Senke and the Rothaargebirge ;
The Wollenberg (474 m), the Kohlenberg (583 m), the Ziegenhelle (816 m), the Heidekopf (704 m), the Bollerberg (757 m), the Reetsberg (792 m), the Schloßberg are clearly visible from left to right (790 m) and the castle forest with Mellnau Castle

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1821

With an edict of June 29, 1821, administration and justice were separated in Kurhessen. Now judicial offices were responsible for the first instance jurisdiction, the administration was taken over by the districts. In Marburg, the district of Marburg was set up for administration and the Marburg district court was the court of first instance responsible for Goßfelden. The Supreme Court was the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel . The higher court of Marburg was subordinate to the province of Upper Hesse. It was the second instance for the judicial offices. In 1850 the Marburg Regional Court was renamed the Marburg Justice Office.

After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia, the Marburg Justice Office became the Royal Prussian District Court of Marburg in 1867 . In June 1867, a royal ordinance was issued that reorganized the court system in the areas that belonged to the former Electorate 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 Justice Office was renamed the District Court of Marburg. The courts of the higher authorities were the Marburg District Court and the Kassel Court of Appeal .

With the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act of 1879, the district court continued to exist under his name. In 1948 Goßfelden was assigned to the Kirchhain district court. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are the Marburg Regional Court , the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1577: 38 house seats
  • 1580: 7 farm workers, 15  single men
  • 1681: 44 home-seated teams
  • 1747: 49 households
  • 1788: three Jews, three four-in-hand, two three-in-hand, seven two-horse wagons, 31 carts.
  • 1838: 531 inhabitants (56 local residents who are entitled to use, 24 residents who are not entitled to use, 16  residents ).
Goßfelden: Population from 1788 to 2014
year     Residents
1788
  
 356
1834
  
 567
1840
  
 543
1846
  
 540
1852
  
 581
1858
  
 578
1864
  
 568
1871
  
 513
1875
  
 548
1885
  
 603
1895
  
 619
1905
  
 648
1910
  
 643
1925
  
 702
1939
  
 788
1946
  
 1,081
1950
  
 1,127
1956
  
 1,067
1961
  
 1,090
1967
  
 1,159
1970
  
 1,202
1990
  
 2,260
2003
  
 2,266
2008
  
 2,387
2014
  
 2.212
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1861: 534 Evangelical Lutheran, three Evangelical Reformed, 25 Jewish residents
• 1961: 951 Protestant (= 87.25%), 112 Roman Catholic (= 10.28%) inhabitants

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1788: Employees: 1 landlord, 1 miller, 4 carpenters, 2 bricklayers, 2 blacksmiths, 2 roofers, 2 tailors, 24 unprofessional linen weavers, 3 wage conductors, 7 day laborers, 4 day laborers, 3 Jews, 3 four-in-hand, 2 three-horse, 7 two-horse wagons , 31 carts
• 1838: Families: 37 agriculture, eight trades, 25 day laborers.
• 1961: Labor force: 152 agriculture and forestry, 202 manufacturing, 70 trade and transport, 83 services and other.

Culture and sights

Goßfelden border crossing

Every seven years, as in other municipalities in Central Hesse , a border crossing festival is celebrated in Goßfelden. Usually at the end of June there is a five-day village festival with border crossing, historical pageant as well as club and dance evenings with party bands. The festival goes back to a 600 year old custom. The boundaries of the district of Goßfelden were often disputed at that time. In order to impress them on the residents and their children, the communal borders were traversed together. In the most important places the children were allegedly slapped in the face so that the experience of pain would “stamp” into them the meaning. There were sweets in the breakfast places of this several kilometers long procession. According to a report by the Oberhessische Presse, such details are documented in old court protocols. On the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the community in 1953, the tradition that had been lost due to the world wars was revived. For the first time in 1889, the custom , which had been discontinued because of its lost necessity, was reissued in folklore .

For the border crossing festival from June 25 to 29, 2009, the Goßfelden border crossing association published a 200-page commemorative publication with many pictures. A historical part is about the figure of the whip-wielding border runner, the founder Arnfried, the festival for the 1200th anniversary celebration and the origin of the place name as well as knights of the order. One of these in plate armor in front of the landmark bridge in Goßfeld also decorates the club's coat of arms. The folkloric second part of the book deals with customs and rural handicrafts. Many historical photos from previous pageants and townscapes are included. The seven-member Festschrift Committee had compiled the material from church registers, private sources and documents from the Hessian State Archives in Marburg. A commemorative publication has been published every time since 1953 on the occasion of the border crossing.

Buildings

The sights of Goßfelden include the old bridge over the Lahn , built in 1802 , the church, as well as the former home of the painter and Grimms fairy tale illustrator Otto Ubbelohde, the Ubbelohde House, which was set up as a museum.

  • Old bridge

  • church

  • Place view

  • The Ubbelohde house

  • Painting by Otto Ubbelohde (1921) - View from the churchyard

Sports

  • SG Lahnfels, football club with a focus on youth work

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Goßfelden can be reached via federal road 62 , which leads west to Siegen and connects east to federal road 3 to Marburg in the south. There is also a state road in north-south direction from Wetter (Hessen) in the north, which leads south to Wehrda and a little more directly to Marburg. There are hourly rail connections to Marburg via the Obere Lahntalbahn and to Erndtebrück via Biedenkopf and Bad Laasphe . The platform of the stop was renewed in the mid-2000s and is now easily accessible for people with reduced mobility. It is equipped with a ticket machine, lighting, weather shelters and tactile guide strips for the blind. The platform height has been 55 centimeters since the modernization.

Personalities

  • Wigand Orth (1537–1566), Protestant theologian (died in Goßfelden)
  • Otto Ubbelohde (1867–1922), painter and illustrator (lived in Goßfelden)
  • Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering (1899–1972), archaeologist and museum director (died in Goßfeldern)
  • Felix Römer (* 1979), author and slam poet (grew up in Goßfelden)
  • Franz Frank (1897–1986), painter and graphic artist (lived in Goßfelden)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the location on the Lahntal municipality's website. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Lahntal in figures on the Lahntal municipality's website. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of communities to form the community “Lahnfels”, Marburg district on January 6, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 140 , point 164 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Biedenkopf and Marburg districts and the city of Marburg (Lahn) (GVBl. II 330-27) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 154 , § 5 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 402-404 .
  6. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 111 kB) § 5. In: Website. Lahntal community, accessed in August 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Goßfelden, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ^ The affiliation of the weather 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. ↑ Ordinance of August 30th, 1821, concerning the new division of the area , Annex: Overview of the new division of the Electorate of Hesse according to provinces, districts and judicial districts. Collection of laws etc. for the Electoral Hesse states. Year 1821 - No. XV. - August., ( Kurhess GS 1821) pp. 223-224
  11. ↑ Latest news from Meklenburg / Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities, edited from the best sources. in the publishing house of the GHG privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptouts., Weimar 1823, p.  158 ff . ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  12. ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Electorate of Hesse and the formerly Royal Bavarian territories with the exclusion of the enclave Kaulsdorf from June 19, 1867. ( PrGS 1867, pp. 1085-1094 )
  13. ↑ Order of August 7, 1867, regarding the establishment of the according to the Most High Ordinance of June 19 of this year. J. in the former Electorate of Hesse and the formerly Royal Bavarian territorial parts with the exclusion of the enclave Kaulsdorf, courts to be formed ( Pr. JMBl. Pp. 221–224 )
  14. ↑ After 1967 Lahntal municipality.
  15. ↑ Oberhessische Presse of June 23, 2009, p. 9