Grein (Neckarsteinach)

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Grein
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 47 ″  E
Height : 354 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.05 km²
Residents : 129  (May 9, 2011)
Population density : 16 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 69239
Area code : 06229

Grein is a district of Neckarsteinach in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Grein is located about 3.5 km north of Neckarsteinach in an approximately 0.7 km² clearing island in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park in the southern Odenwald, between 350 and 400  m above sea level. NN .

To the quite secluded village leads from Neckarsteinach via Darsberg in the south up the county road K 36, which after a distance of over 6 kilometers and a total gradient of about 280 meters shortly before the place in 398  m above sea level. NHN reached the top of the pass from Lanzenbachtal into Greiner Tal . Right on the outskirts of the village, the road turns back south and descends with the Greiner Bach that forms here further to the valley. It soon turns west and offers, beyond the state border of Hesse as K 4116, the only transport connection to Schönau in Baden outside the Steinach Valley .

To the east of Grein lies the northern tip of the densely forested, unregulated Michelbuch area . The forester's house Michelbuch can be reached via a forest road that branches off the K 36 to the east on the mountain saddle just before Grein.

history

Grein around 1668/1670

Grein was a fiefdom of the Landschad von Steinach gentlemen in Worms . Half of the large and small tithe went to the Wormsische Hofkammer and half to the Lutheran pastor in Neckarsteinach, where Grein was parish too. The size of the place was always small. Half the place burned down on March 23, 1779. In 1790 six families with a total of 64 people lived in Grein.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Grein in 1829:

»Grein (L. Bez. Hirschhorn) evangel. prot. Branch village; is 1 St. from Hirschhorn, and has 9 houses and 72 evangelists. cheers. and 7 cath. Inhabitants. In 1628 the Lords of Hirschhorn still had serfs here. Grein, which previously belonged to the knightly canton of Odenwald, came to Hesse from Mainz in 1802. "

In 1908 the Grein volunteer fire brigade was founded.

On October 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipality of Grein was incorporated into Neckarsteinach on a voluntary basis. Up to this point in time, Wilibald Schöps was the last mayor of Grein. For Grein and for the other municipalities incorporated into Neckarsteinach, local districts with local advisory councils and local heads were formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1806: 56 inhabitants, 6 houses
• 1829: 79 inhabitants, 9 houses
• 1867: 120 inhabitants, 14 houses
Grein: Population from 1806 to 2011
year     Residents
1806
  
 56
1829
  
 79
1834
  
 90
1840
  
 99
1846
  
 116
1852
  
 113
1858
  
 111
1864
  
 109
1871
  
 116
1875
  
 105
1885
  
 118
1895
  
 114
1905
  
 110
1910
  
 112
1925
  
 102
1939
  
 101
1946
  
 158
1950
  
 157
1956
  
 139
1961
  
 143
1967
  
 155
1970
  
 141
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2002
  
 138
2010
  
 145
2011
  
 129
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources: up to 1970 :; 2002 , 2010 Neckarsteinach from webarchiv; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 72 Protestant prostheticians (= 91.14%) and 7 Catholic (= 8.86%) residents
• 1961: 113 Protestant (= 79.20%), 28 Catholic (= 19.58%) residents

politics

For Grein, there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Grein) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of five members. The mayor is Matthias Borst.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Grein, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 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; 1.8 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  3. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 88 ( online at google books ).
  4. ↑ Grein Volunteer Fire Brigade. Website. Accessed December 2019 .
  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. 348 .
  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. 215 .
  7. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 177 kB) § 5. In: Website. City of Neckarsteinach, accessed October 2019 .
  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. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  10. ↑ List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  11. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 32 ( online at google books ).
  12. ^ Grein local council. In: website. City of Neckarsteinach, accessed December 2019 .