Gonterskirchen

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Gonterskirchen
City of Laubach
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 183  (182-237)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.04 km²
Residents : 696  (May 2011)
Population density : 41 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35321
Area code : 06405
Gonterskirchen - View of the church
Gonterskirchen - View of the church

Gonterskirchen is a district of the municipality of Laubach in the central Hessian district of Gießen .

Geographical location

Gonterskirchen is located on the edge of the Hoher Vogelsberg Nature Park at the confluence of the Schifferbach and the Horloff , 4 km southeast of Laubach. State road 3138 runs through the village .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1239. In documents that have survived, Gonterskirchen was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • de Gunthard Church (1239), Gunters Church
  • de Gunthardeskirchen (1241)
  • Gunthardeskirgen (1288)
  • Gunterskirchen (1340)
  • Guntirskirchin (1379)

For centuries, Gonterskirchen was considered the poorest village in the county of Solms-Laubach. Due to the extensive forests, the place developed into a charcoal burner community in the Middle Ages, at times almost all families practiced this craft. There were also nail smiths .

On June 1, 1324, a mill in Gonterskirchen is mentioned for the first time.

From the 18th century onwards, many men earned their living as so-called melters in the Friedrichshütte near Laubach .

The Counts of Solms-Laubach had a hunting lodge built in Gonterskirchen with its extensive forests and the associated wealth of game around 1750.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the community of Gonterskirchen was incorporated into the city of Laubach on December 31, 1970 on a voluntary basis . For the district of Gonterskirchen, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities of Laubach, a local district with a local advisory board and local head was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

Domination

Already in the Carolingian era , the Hersfeld Abbey was given property in the Wetterau and the adjacent northern areas. Hungen and Laubach became the centers of the "Hersfelder Mark". In the area around Laubach there were donations to the Fulda monastery during the same period . A “ presbyter ” Gunthard, named after 800 , in whom Steen sees the founder of the church and town of Gonterskirchen, belongs to these traders .

In the 12th century, the Vogt of the Hersfeld Monastery, Kuno I von Munzenberg , received half of all rights of use in the area around Ruppertsburg . After the Munzenbergs died out in 1255, the area was inherited by the Lords of Hanau .

On December 5, 1340, Ulrich zu Hanau and his wife Agnese allowed their son Ulrich to sell the castle and village "Laupach" together with the associated courts and villages, including "Guntherskirchen" and " Aeinhartshusen ". The already completed sale to the Archbishop of Mainz Heinrich III. von Virneberg was aborted by Philipp the Elder von Falkenstein , who was married to a von Hanau. In 1341 Gonterskirchen and Einartshausen as well as the later devastation Germanshausen and Horloff belonged to the rule Laubach . After the Falkensteiners died out in 1418, the brothers Bernhard and Johannes von Solms shared the vast property.

In 1432 Gonterskirchen fell to the Johannische Line Solms-Lich as a result of the Solms division .

Monastery property

The knights Gottfried Strebekotz and Klas von Engelnhausen sold Gülten in 1365 to the Haina monastery in Gonterskirchen, Wiemannshausen, Laubach and Nieder-Hindau. It is probably this property that the monastery sold in 1528 to Count Philipp von Solms-Lich for 2,000 florins with his court in Utphe, including interest at Ober-Bessingen , Ettingshausen , Gonterskirchen, Laubach and Trais-Horloff .

The Antoniterkloster Grünberg received a foundation in 1477 from the tithe in Gonterskirchen. Furthermore, in 1489 the Grünberg Antonites were able to acquire the Arnsburg monastery property in Gonterskirchen.

Until 1702 Ruppertsburg and Einartshausen were branch churches of the parish Gonterskirchen; the church patronage was originally with the Counts of Solms-Lich, from 1548 until the beginning of the 20th century with the Counts of Solms-Laubach . In 1809 the parish of Gonterskirchen joined the Uniate Church together with Einartshausen .

Within what is today the district are the desert areas of Germanshausen, Hartmannshausen, Obstau, Horloff, Lauzendorf and Selbach.

Territorial history and administration

The following list shows the territories in which Gonterskirchen was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or registry lords and thus the "Patrimonial Court of the Counts Solms-Laubach" in Laubach was responsible for Gonterskirchen from 1806. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The second instance for the patrimonial courts were the civil law firms. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance 1821–1822 were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. From 1822 the Counts of Solms-Laubach let the Grand Duchy of Hesse exercise their court rights on their behalf. “ Landgericht Laubach ” was therefore the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Gonterskirchen. The count also waived his right to the second instance, which was exercised by the law firm in Hungen. It was only as a result of the March Revolution of 1848 that the special civil rights became final with the “Law on the Relationships of the Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848 canceled.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts at the same location, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to "Laubach Local Court" and assigned to the district of the regional court of Giessen .

On July 1, 1968, the district court was dissolved and the municipality of Gonterskirchen was added to the district of the district court of Gießen . The superordinate instances are now, the regional court Gießen , the higher regional court Frankfurt am Main and the federal court as last instance.

population

Population development

• 1631: 59 subjects, 10 widows
Gonterskirchen: Population from 1791 to 2011
year     Residents
1791
  
 455
1834
  
 462
1840
  
 507
1846
  
 500
1852
  
 495
1858
  
 500
1864
  
 492
1871
  
 515
1875
  
 532
1885
  
 501
1895
  
 552
1905
  
 559
1910
  
 582
1925
  
 540
1939
  
 504
1946
  
 758
1950
  
 739
1956
  
 626
1961
  
 623
1967
  
 633
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 696
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

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1830: 455 Protestant residents
• 1961: 542 Protestant and 77 Roman Catholic residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: Labor force: 164 agriculture and forestry, 138 prod. Trade, 28 trade, transport and communication, 21 services and other.

politics

The mayor is Klaus Rühl (as of January 2020) .

Attractions

societies

  • SV 1958 Gonterskirchen

Personalities

  • Georg Heinrich Melchior, b. 1925 in Gonterskirchen, natural scientist, professor and director, local researcher, died in 2017

literature

  • 750 years of Gonterskirchen. 1239-1988. = Laubacher Hefte 8, 2005.
  • Hans Heinrich Kaminsky , The earliest mentions of Gonterskirchen. In: Laubacher Hefte 8, p. 12 f.
  • Georg Heinrich Melchior: The Gonterskirchen primary school before 1800 as an example for the county of Solms-Laubach. In: Laubacher Hefte 17, 2005, pp. 29–45.
  • Georg Heinrich Melchior: Milling law and milling practice using the example of the Solms-Laubach "Guntherßkircher" Erbmühle under the rectory. In: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischer Geschichtsverein NF 82 (1997), pp. 137–275.
  • Literature about Gonterskirchen in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Search for Gonterskirchen in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gonterskirchen, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 15, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b 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;
  3. ↑ Landau, p. 174.
  4. ↑ Ferdinand Dreher, The Testament of Angelus de Sassin, olim civis in Frideberg. In: Friedberger Geschichtsblätter 1 (1909), pp. 35–57.
  5. ^ Incorporation of communities into the city of Laubach, district of Gießen from January 6, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 141 , point 173 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 301 .
  7. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 155 kB) § 6. In: Website. City of Laubach, accessed August 2020 .
  8. ↑ Jürgen Steen, Kings and nobility in the early medieval settlement, social and agricultural history in the Wetterau. Studies on the relationship between land acquisition and continuity using the example of a peripheral landscape of the Merovingian Empire , Ffm 1979 = writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main XIV, p. 186.
  9. ^ Heinrich Eduard Scriba , regesta of the documents printed up to now on the state and local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Volume 2: Containing the regests of the province of Upper Hesse, Darmstadt 1849.
  10. ^ Heinrich Reimer , document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Part 1. Leipzig 1891, 470.
  11. ↑ Wolf-Arno Kropat , Empire, Aristocracy and Church in the Wetterau from the Carolingian to the Staufer times. = Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 13 (1964), pp. 134-137.
  12. ↑ Albrecht Eckhardt, Monastery Archives: Regesten and Certificate. 6, 1, No. 693 f. Marburg 1977.
  13. ^ Friedrich Battenberg , Solms documents. Regesta on the document holdings and copies of the Counts and Princes of Solms in the State Archives Darmstadt (Departments B 9 and F 24 B), in the Count's Archives in Laubach and in the Princely Archives in Lich. 1131-1913. Vol. 1–5, Darmstadt 1981–1986. Solms documents 3, no.2654, 2680.
  14. ↑ Albrecht Eckhardt, Monastery Archives: Regesten and Certificate. The Upper Hessian monasteries 3, 1, no. 489, and 3, 2, no. 489.
  15. ^ 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).
  16. ^ 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 ).
  17. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 22, 438 f . ( Online at google books ).
  18. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 424 f . ( online at Google Books ).
  19. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 135 ( online at Google Books ).
  20. ↑ Law on the repeal of the provinces of Starkenburg, Upper Hesse and Rheinhessen from April 1, 1937 . In: The Reichsstatthalter in Hessen Sprengler (Hrsg.): Hessisches Regierungsblatt. 1937 no.  8 , p. 121 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 11.2 MB ]).
  21. ↑ Theodor Hartleben (Ed.): General German Justice, Camera and Police Fama, Volume 2, Part 1 . Johann Andreas Kranzbühler, 1832, p. 271 ( online at Google Books ).
  22. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  23. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  24. ↑ Second law amending the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210–16) of February 12, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1968 No. 4 , p. 41–44 , Article 1, Paragraph 2 c) and Article 2, Paragraph 4 d) ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 298 kB ]).
  25. ↑ Gonterskirchen local advisory board. In: website. City of Laubach, accessed August 2020 .