Grebenhain

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Grebenhain
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Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '  N , 9 ° 21'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : to water
County : Vogelsbergkreis
Height : 467 m above sea level NHN
Area : 91.62 km 2
Residents: 4640 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 36355
Primaries : 06644, 06643, 06668
License plate : VB
Community key : 06 5 35 007
LOCODE : DE GHX
Community structure: 15 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 51
36355 Grebenhain
Website : www.grebenhain.de
Mayor : Sebastian Stang ( independent )
Location of the community Grebenhain in the Vogelsbergkreis
Antrifttal Alsfeld Grebenau Schlitz (Vogelsbergkreis) Kirtorf Homberg (Ohm) Mücke (Hessen) Gemünden (Felda) Romrod Schwalmtal (Hessen) Lauterbach (Hessen) Wartenberg (Hessen) Feldatal Lautertal (Vogelsberg) Ulrichstein Herbstein Schotten (Stadt) Grebenhain Freiensteinau Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf Schwalm-Eder-Kreis Landkreis Hersfeld-Rotenburg Landkreis Fulda Wetteraukreis Main-Kinzig-Kreismap
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Grebenhain is a municipality in the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse and is named after the Grebenhain district of the same name as the administrative center.

geography

The municipality of Grebenhain is 400 to 733 meters above sea level in the southeastern Vogelsberg , approx. 30 km west of Fulda .

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Grebenhain borders in the north on the city of Herbstein , in the east on the municipality Hosenfeld ( district Fulda ), in the south on the municipality Freiensteinau and the municipality Birstein ( Main-Kinzig-Kreis ), in the southwest on the city Gedern ( Wetteraukreis ), and in the west to the city of Schotten .

Community structure

The community consists of the 15 districts of Bannerod , Bermuthshain , Crainfeld , Grebenhain (with Oberwald ), Hartmannshain , Heisters , Herchenhain , Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen , Metzlos , Metzlos-Gehaag , Nösberts-Weidmoos , Vaitshain , Volkartshain , Wünsch-Moos and Zahmen .

The seat of the municipal administration is the eponymous core district of Grebenhain, which with 986 inhabitants is the second largest district of the municipality.

history

Church building

Like many large communities in the 1970s, the Grebenhain community emerged without any connection to traditional historical structures. For centuries, the individual districts belonged to very different territories and administrative units.

The area of ​​today's Grebenhain community was settled between the 8th and 11th centuries, probably in several waves, by settlers from the Wetterau in the course of the high mediaeval development of the country by the abbots of the Fulda monastery in Fulda . The oldest documented part of the village is Crainfeld, the existence of which is already indicated in a donation note from the 9th century. The first clearly verifiable mention of Crainfeld can be found in a royal document from 1012, in which the districts of Bermuthshain and Ilbeshausen are first mentioned in a document.

Crainfeld was conveniently located at the intersection of two medieval trade routes and a. to Frankfurt and until 1821 was the seat of the Crainfeld court , which is still remembered by the residential and administrative building of the Landgrave-Hessian high schools, the Edelhof . The richly decorated half-timbered house was built in 1685. In the past, like the Teufelsmühle ("Hansenmühle") in Ilbeshausen , built in 1691, it was mostly attributed to a carpenter named Hans Muth. Teufelsmühle and Edelhof are among the most important half-timbered houses in Upper Hesse . Crainfeld has the largest church building in the community and is still the seat of the Protestant parish today. Until the construction of the state road between 1834 and 1857 (today's Bundesstraße 275 ) and the opening of the Lauterbach-Grebenhain-Gedern branch line (Vogelsbergbahn) in 1901 and 1906, it was one of the main towns in the region.

The districts of Bermuthshain, Crainfeld and Grebenhain counted from 1437, the district of Ilbeshausen from 1376 to the Landgraviate of Hesse and from 1576 to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , from which the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt , which existed from 1806 to 1919, emerged . The names of restaurants as "Darmstädter Hof" are still a reminder today. Until 1821 they formed the Crainfeld court, which belonged to the Hessian office of Nidda . Since 1852 they belonged to the Lauterbach district . The districts of Hartmannshain and Herchenhain were also part of the Landgraviate of Hesse from 1434, but were part of the Burkhard court until 1821 . Until 1938 the two villages were part of the district of Schotten . The districts of Bannerod, Heisters, Nösberts, Vaitshain, Weidmoos, Wünschmoos and Zahmen belonged to the Riedesel court of Altenschlirf until 1806 , the districts of Metzlos and Metzlos-Gehaag until 1806 to the Riedesel court of Moos . As a result of the mediatization , both Riedesel courts became Hessian. The Volkartshain district was part of the Stolberg district of Ortenberg until 1806 and was also part of the Schotten district until 1938.

The core district of Grebenhain was first mentioned in two Riedesel documents from 1338 as "Grebenheyn" and "Greffenhayn". Up until the 15th century, iron ore was mined there and smelted with charcoal, which is now reminiscent of the field name "Am Eisenberg" and the inner-town Eisenbergsweg. On the west side of the village there was a large stately pond until 1789 and the historic pond office building in the village until 1974. Today's Grebenhain industrial and settlement part of Oberwald developed after the end of the National Socialist dictatorship from the Hartmannshain air ammunition plant, which was built in 1936 .

Grebenhain community

The current community Grebenhain was in the context of municipal reform in Hesse on 31 December 1971 by the formal voluntary association for the greater community of previously independent municipalities Bannerod, Bermuthshain, Crainfeld, Grebenhain (with Oberwald and Ahlmühle) Hartmannshain, Herchenhain, Ilbeshausen (with Hochwaldhausen ), Metzlos, Nösberts-Weidmoos, Vaitshain and Volkartshain.

On August 1, 1972, the incorporation of the communities of Steigertal (with the districts of Heisters, Wünsch-Moos and Zahmen) and Metzlos-Gehaag, which had remained independent up to this point, took place by law .

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
   
A total of 23 seats
  • SPD : 10
  • CDU : 10
  • UBG : 3
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 43.3 10 44.1 14th 41.4 13 44.6 14th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 42.5 10 38.6 12 43.3 13 41.3 13
UBG Independent citizens' list Grebenhain 14.2 3 12.0 4th - - - -
FDP Free Democratic Party - - 5.3 1 15.3 5 14.1 4th
total 100.0 23 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 57.2 52.4 51.7 54.6

mayor

The new mayor was elected on June 13, 2013. The previous incumbent Manfred Dickert decided not to run again after five terms of office. The choice had the following result:

Applicants Political party % be right
Thomas Niggenaber independent 14.6 389
Kerstin Mayer independent 12.9 344
Sebastian Stang independent 65.4 1,740
Stefan Jäger independent 7.0 186

Sebastian Stang was elected as the new mayor of the Grebenhain community and took office on November 14, 2013. The previous mayors of the municipality were:

  • 1946–1972: Otto Stier
  • 1972–1983: Kurt Süßenberger
  • 1983–2013: Manfred Dickert
  • since 2013: Sebastian Stang

coat of arms

On May 12, 1980, the Grebenhain community in the Vogelsbergkreis received the right to use a coat of arms with the following blazon from the Hessian Minister of the Interior : In a gold shield with a red shield border sprinkled with 15 silver stars, the black half-timbered image of the so-called Wild Man .

The coat of arms is clearly derived from the coat of arms of the former community of Ilbeshausen, which has been used since 1952. The original municipality of Grebenhain (before the regional reform) did not have its own coat of arms. The 15 stars on the signboard stand for the 15 districts of the municipality.

religion

Evangelical Church in Crainfeld
Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary

Until the Second World War, the population in today's municipality was almost exclusively Protestant . Until the disenfranchisement and persecution during the Nazi dictatorship, there was a Jewish community in Crainfeld in Crainfeld . In 1946, numerous Catholic expellees from the Sudetenland also came to the villages in the southeastern Vogelsberg.

The parishes in Crainfeld, Herchenhain and Ilbeshausen belong to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN). The parish boundaries are not congruent with the municipality boundaries. Some districts belong to the Protestant parishes of Altenschlirf , Nieder-Moos and Ober-Seemen , whose seats are in neighboring towns and communities.

The Catholic parish in Grebenhain covers the area of ​​the communities Grebenhain and Freiensteinau and belongs to the diocese of Mainz .

Economy and Infrastructure

Until the mid-1930s, the area of ​​today's Grebenhain community was almost exclusively determined by agriculture and small-scale crafts. In 1936 construction began on the Hartmannshain air ammunition plant in the Oberwald, the site and buildings of which became the starting point for the first industrial companies after 1945, which mainly founded people who had been expelled from the former East German regions and the Sudetenland.

Established businesses

Former companies

  • Robbe Modellsport GmbH & Co. KG in Metzlos-Gehaag
  • Otte Heizkesselbau GmbH & Co. KG in Grebenhain

traffic

The federal highway 275 runs through the community in an east-west direction . It connects the municipality of Grebenhain to Fulda in the east and to Alsfeld in the north and to Friedberg in the west. The federal highway 276 represents the connection to the south to the Kinzig valley and to the federal highway 66 near Wächtersbach.

energy

In 1990, the first German wind farm in the low mountain range was put into operation near Hartmannshain . There are currently three wind parks with a total of 18 wind turbines in the municipality . In the meantime, further wind farms were being planned. The planned locations were the Klöshorst between Grebenhain and Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen (3 systems) and the ridge east of the districts of Metzlos, Metzlos-Gehaag and Zahmen (8 systems).

education

Grebenhain has a cooperative comprehensive school , the Oberwaldschule, with currently (as of 2012) around 700 students.

Leisure and sports facilities

The Vulkanradweg runs through the municipality on the route of the former Vogelsbergbahn . It is now part of the Hesse Railway Cycle Route , which runs on former railway lines for around 250 km through the Vogelsberg, Wetterau and Rhön rivers. The Vogelsberger Südbahnradweg begins in the Hartmannshain district .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Heinrich Schmalbach (born November 5, 1838 in Crainfeld, † October 16, 1909), member of the Hessian state parliament ( HBB ) and mayor of the municipality of Crainfeld.
  • Sebastian Weidner (born September 24, 1850 in Herchenhain, † December 21, 1904), member of the Hessian state parliament ( WV ) and mayor of the Herchenhain community.
  • Friedrich Jost (born November 22, 1862 in Bermuthshain, † May 18, 1931 in Frankfurt am Main), member of the Hessian state parliament (HBB) and mayor of the community of Bermuthshain.
  • Heinrich Löffler (born August 14, 1879 in Ilbeshausen, † December 30, 1949 in Schlüchtern ), German Reichstag member ( SPD ).
  • Ernst Weidner (born May 31, 1885 in Herchenhain, † April 22, 1956 in Ostheim), member of the Hessian state parliament ( DDP ) and member of the Greater Hesse State Advisory Committee ( LDP ).
  • Roger Herbst (real name Hans Walter Herbst ; born June 15, 1945 in Grebenhain, † August 16, 1980 in Frankfurt am Main), actor
  • Marion Schneider (born December 31, 1956 in Grebenhain), entrepreneur, author.
  • Susanne Meinl (born February 15, 1964 in Grebenhain), historian.
  • Falko Löffler (born January 30, 1974 in Lauterbach , from Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen), writer, fantasy author and computer game translator.
  • Jasmin N. Weidner (* 1983, from Herchenhain), author and music journalist.

Personalities related to the community

Web links

Commons : Grebenhain  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Information on the districts. In: Municipality of Grebenhain: districts and mayor Status: December 31, 2016. Accessed on January 21, 2018 .
  3. ^ Grebenhain, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 8, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ Hesse municipal area reform; Amalgamation and integration of municipalities of December 29, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 3 , p. 89 , point 94, para. 30 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Alsfeld and Lauterbach districts (GVBl. II 330-12) of August 1, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 215 , § 6 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  6. ^ 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. 368 .
  7. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  8. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  9. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  10. ↑ Mayoral election in Grebenhain on June 16, 2013. Hessian State Statistical Office;
  11. ↑ State Commissioner after the regional reform up to the local elections in Hesse on October 22, 1972, previously since 1946 mayor of the independent municipality of Grebenhain.
  12. ↑ 1968 until the regional reform, mayor of the independent community of Ilbeshausen.
  13. ↑ First directly elected in 1995.
  14. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the Grebenhain community, Darmstadt district dated May 12, 1980 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1980 No. 22 , p. 982 , item 628 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.5 MB ]).
  15. ^ Oberwaldschule Grebenhain, pupil. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved October 28, 2012 .