Gundhelm

Gundhelm City of Schlüchtern Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '58 " N , 9 ° 37' 50" E
Height :	385 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.76 km²
Residents :	544 (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	46 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st December 1969
Postal code :	36381
Area code :	06664

Gundhelm is a district of Schlüchtern in the Main-Kinzig district in East Hesse .

Geographical location

Gundhelm is located in the north of the Main-Kinzig district , on the ridge , the connecting ridge between the Rhön and Vogelsberg at an altitude of 285 m above sea level , 8 km northeast of the city center of Schlüchtern. About 3.5 km northeast of the village is the deserted village of Leibolds , which was abandoned by its residents before 1453.

Gundhelm borders in the north on the place Veitsteinbach , in the northeast on the place Heubach , in the east on the place Oberzell , in the south on the places Weichersbach , Sterbfritz and Vollmerz , in the south-west on the place Elm and in the north-west on the place Hutten .

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of the village can be found in a document from 1167. At that time, the village belonged to the Schlüchtern monastery . The Lords of Hanau succeeded in 1311 to incorporate the possession of the monastery Schlüchtern their sovereignty. However, the monastery retained economic rights of use in the village. In 1331 the abbot of the monastery still owned a tithe in the parish of Gundhelm. The village belonged to the Brandenstein office of the rule and later county of Hanau . In 1423 the village was called a desert and it was reported that it should be repopulated. At this point in time, Gundhelm was pledged to the von Eberstein family .

At the southeast exit of the village, at a company ditch fed by the meadow springs, was the Obermühle, on the western edge of the village at the junction of Schwarzbach and Weißbach, the Johannesmühle (also called Waldmühle or Hilbergsmühle) and below the Obermühle at a company ditch derived from the Weißbach, the Gaemühle.

Modern times

The County of Hanau-Münzenberg was finally reformed during the Reformation , as was Gundhelm. In 1556 the parish was looked after by the pastor in Sterbfritz . In 1593 Oberkalbach was then a subsidiary of Gundhelm.

In 1717, the Brandenstein office - and thus also Gundhelm - was pledged by Hanau to the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel for a loan of 100,000 guilders . Since the pledge was never released and after the death of Count Johann Reinhard III. von Hanau In 1736, Landgrave Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel inherited the county of Hanau-Münzenberg and with it the office of Brandenstein and Gundhelm, the place remained with Hessen-Kassel. In 1803 the Landgraviate was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, the Office of Brandenstein and Gundhelm was under French military administration from 1806, from 1807 to 1810 it belonged to the Principality of Hanau and from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . Then it fell back to 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, the Brandenstein office was absorbed into the newly formed Schlüchtern district . Gundhelm has been part of the town of Schlüchtern since December 1, 1969

Historical forms of names

In documents that have been preserved, Gundhelm was mentioned under the following names (the year in which it was mentioned in brackets):

Gundhelmes (1167)
Gundhalms (1303)
Gonthalmes (1364)
Gonthelm (1596)

population

Population development

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1587:	11 fully armed, 40 riflemen, 19 philistines
• 1633:	78 households
• 1747:	57 households
• 1812:	74 fireplaces, 493 souls

Gundhelm: Population from 1812 to 2015
year		Residents
1812	493
1834	771
1840	734
1846	738
1852	720
1858	777
1864	723
1871	699
1875	695
1885	780
1895	771
1905	715
1910	692
1925	656
1939	618
1946	825
1950	740
1956	665
1961	626
1967	625
1970	635
2005	604
2010	595
2015	544
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Further sources:; 2005 :; 2010 :; 2015:

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885:	779 Protestant (= 99.87%), one Catholic (= 0.13%) residents
• 1961:	591 Protestant (= 94.41%), 28 Catholic (= 4.47%) residents

religion

The church of the Evangelical Parish Hutten and Gundhelm is in the village .

politics

The SPD and CDU are represented in the local advisory board. In the local elections in 2006, the SPD obtained a majority of the votes and thus has a majority in the local advisory board . The mayor is Hans Siemon (SPD).

literature

Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter . Vol. 40). Self-published by the Hanau History Association and the Wetterau Society for the Total Natural History in Hanau, Hanau 2003, ISBN 3-935395-02-7 , pp. 171–173.
Matthias Nistahl: Studies on the history of the Schlüchtern monastery in the Middle Ages (= sources and research on Hessian history. Vol. 65). Hessische Historische Kommission et al., Darmstadt et al. 1986, ISBN 3-88443-154-4 , pp. 94, 125, 165, 181, 184, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1984).
Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Vol. 14, ISSN 0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 189 f.
Literature on Gundhelm in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Gundhelm district. In: Internet presence. City of Schlüchtern; accessed in August 2018
Gundhelm, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Gundhelm, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ ^a ^{b Number of} inhabitants 2015 districts. (PDF; 83 kB) In: Internet presence. City of Schlüchtern, archived from the original ; accessed in May 2018 .
↑ Population 2005 districts. (PDF; 83 kB) In: Internet presence. City of Schlüchtern, archived from the original ; accessed in May 2018 .
↑ Number of inhabitants 2010 districts. (PDF; 83 kB) In: Internet presence. City of Schlüchtern, archived from the original ; accessed in May 2018 .

[lagis-1] Gundhelm, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[EW2015-2] {b Number of} inhabitants 2015 districts. (PDF; 83 kB) In: Internet presence. City of Schlüchtern, archived from the original ; accessed in May 2018 .

[EW2005-3] Population 2005 districts. (PDF; 83 kB) In: Internet presence. City of Schlüchtern, archived from the original ; accessed in May 2018 .

[EW2010-4] Number of inhabitants 2010 districts. (PDF; 83 kB) In: Internet presence. City of Schlüchtern, archived from the original ; accessed in May 2018 .