Hörstein

Hörstein City of Alzenau
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 17 ″  E
Height :	150 m
Area :	13.4 km²
Residents :	3199  (Aug 1, 2017)
Population density :	239 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1975
Postal code :	63755
Area code :	06023
Partial view of the Parish Church of the Assumption

Hörstein is a district of the Lower Franconian city ​​of Alzenau in Bavaria .

geography

The wine village of Hörstein, with around 3,500 inhabitants, is located about three kilometers south of Alzenau between Wasserlos and Dettingen at the foot of the Hahnenkamm ridge . Hörstein has an area of ​​1,340 hectares, which extends to the main summit of the ridge. The topographically highest point of the village mark is on the summit of the Hahnenkamm at 436  m above sea level. NN (location) , the lowest is east of Dettingen am Forchbach at 108  m above sea level. NN (location) .

A part of Hörstein is outside the closed village. Some houses on the north-eastern outskirts of Dettingen are in the district of Hörstein.

Surname

etymology

The original name hurstin is based on the Old High German word hurst , which means bushes . The place is popularly called "Höschde".

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

1000 Hurstin 1139 Hursten 1189 Hurste 1191 Horsten 1247 clumps 1427 Hoerste

1463 Hörstein 1592 listeners 1594 Hirstain 1605 Hörstain 1625 Hörstein

history

The history of Hörstein can be reliably proven by several documents. It is mentioned in 830 as Hurstin in a Gospel manuscript of the Seligenstadt Abbey . For a long time Hörstein was associated with the Seligenstadt monastery , which not only brought viticulture, but also provided court and tax owners for centuries. There is evidence of its own pastor in Hörstein since 1417.

Hörstein belonged to the Association of the High Marks from 1000 to 1184 , most recently under the Berbach counts. From 1184 to 1500 it was an independent free court. From 1500 to 1748 it was under the joint government of the Electors of Mainz and the Counts of Hanau , from 1748 to 1802 under Mainz sole government. From 1803 to 1816 Hörstein belonged to Hessen-Darmstadt, from 1816 to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

From 1601 to 1605 a large witch hunt took place in the Wilmundsheim (Alzenau) open court . As a result, 141 people (including 126 women and 13 men) were executed in Hörstein and Somborn . Most of them were burned alive.

On July 1, 1862, the Alzenau District Office was formed, on whose administrative area Hörstein was located. In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Hörstein was now one of the 42 communities in the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia . When the Alzenau district was dissolved in 1972, Hörstein moved to the newly formed Aschaffenburg district . On July 1, 1975, the Hörstein market was incorporated into Alzenau as part of the municipal reform.

mayor

• Michael Noll was the mayor of Hörstein from 1869 to 1881 .
• It was followed by Johann Kern, who served as the first mayor from 1882 to 1890.
• Gottfried Karl was in office from 1890 to 1899.
• From 1900 to 1928 Eduard Kern was mayor of Hörstein.
• He was followed by Franz Streit from 1929 to 1933
• From 1933 to 1939 Christian Bott was the first mayor.
• Franz Stein was in office from 1939 to 1945.
• Alois Bott followed this from 1945 to 1956. In 1954 a new school was built.
• Emil Walter was first mayor from 1956 to 1970. In 1960 the school building received a new school wing. In 1963 a school and sports hall was built. In 1969 the newly built town hall was inaugurated.
• The last head of the Hörstein market was First Mayor Hermann Kern from 1970 until its incorporation in 1975. In 1970 the school building was extended by a further extension. In 1975 a festival and sports hall (Rärmberghalle) was built.

Population development

1601–1605 141 people were executed in Hörstein in the course of the witch hunt. In the years 1605 and 1625, around 20 people died every day from a plague epidemic .

year population 1592 197 families 1737 158 families 1786 625 1811 838 1840 1,226 1861 1,054 1871 1,134 1880 1,151

year population 1900 1,191 1910 1,467 1919 1,494 1925 1,597 1939 1,655 1940 1.995 1960 2.133 1961 2.159

year population 1970 2,671 1971 2,742 1987 2,805 2001 3,225 2009 3,335 2012 3,500 2017 3,199

Sights and buildings

Hörstein from Königsberg

Architectural monument Jewish cemetery

• The parish church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the center of the village, the fortified tower dates from 1449.
• The Wilgefortis Chapel was built in 1548 and expanded and raised in 1804.
• The Jewish cemetery , where burials took place from 1812 to 1938 from Hörstein, Wasserlos and Alzenau .
• The waterless gate is the last gate that has been partially preserved from what was once a medieval fortification.
• The synagogue of the Jewish community at Hauptstraße 29 , which existed until 1940 , was desecrated during the November pogrom in 1938 , used as a fire station after the war and demolished in 1982.
• European cultural route Alzenau I

Economy and Infrastructure

wine growing

In the Hörsteiner Abtsberg and Hörsteiner Rauscherberg vineyards, Franconian wine thrives on an area of ​​around 50 hectares . The actor Günter Strack also owned a vineyard in Hörstein.

Facilities

• kindergarten
• primary school
• Day care center AWO Wilde Kerle

Personalities

• Franz Adolf Gräbner , (born October 8, 1944 in Hörstein; † April 2, 2004 in Frankfurt) was a well-known painter. Gräbner was buried in Kleinostheim . In his books Mills and Landscapes of Homeland and Paintings and Drawings , some of his works are shown.
• The doctor and economist Professor Michael Schlander , (* 1959 in Offenbach am Main ) , who lives in Hörstein , is an internationally recognized health economist.

Honorary citizen

• Josef August Eichelsbacher , (born July 2, 1884 in Handthal im Steigerwald, † August 6, 1968 ), school councilor i. R., was granted honorary citizenship of the Hörstein market in 1954. Eichelsbacher wrote many books about the local history of the Kahlgrund and Lower Franconia.

Partner municipality

Since May 1971 there was a community partnership between the market town of Hörstein and Pfaffstätten in Lower Austria, which continues to exist even after the regional reform.

Permanent events

• Easter egg hunt, Kückenguggen and bobby car races for kids at KTZV Hörstein 1922 eV (always on Easter Monday)
• Giggelskerb with open Hörsteiner Bobby-Car Team Triathlon Championship for over 18-year-olds of the KTZV Hörstein 1922 eV (on the second weekend in July)
• Chicken competition at the KTZV Hörstein 1922 eV (always on Whit Monday)
• Cap evening at the gigglers of the KTZV Hörstein 1922 eV
• Hörsteiner curb of the Hörstein volunteer fire brigade (always in August)
• Hörstein autumn (always in October)

literature

• Working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator (ed.): Unser Kahlgrund 1956–2006. Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. ISSN  0933-1328 .
• Working group for local research (ed.): Wayside shrines and field monuments of the Alzenau district. 1971.
• Josef August Eichelsbacher (Ed.): Home book of the Kahlgrund. Part I: History and Legends. 1928.
• Josef August Eichelsbacher (Ed.): Home book of the Kahlgrund. Part II: Country and People. 1930.
• Manfred Frühwacht, Joachim Schulmerich: Paths to wine-based Franconia . Cocon-Verlag, Hanau 2011, ISBN 978-3-86314-208-7 .
• Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Alzenau (ed.): Memorial book for war victims from Hörstein. Alzenau, print: Ropa Copy, Roland Hirsch, 2004.
• Markt Hörstein (Ed.): Markt Hörstein 1975, Heimatbuch. Printing: J.Götz OHG, 1975.
• City of Alzenau (ed.): Alzenauer Stadtbuch, contributions to the history of the city of Alzenau and its districts. Alzenau, print: J.Götz KG, 2001, ISBN 3-00-008608-0 .
• City of Alzenau (ed.): Alzenauer contributions to local history. Volume 2, Honor Your Parents, The Hörstein Jewish Cemetery. Alzenau, print: Steiner, 2004, ISSN  1610-4897 .
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Hörstein . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 795 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 106 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ This information comes from excerpts from the home book of Markt Hörstein 1975.
4. ↑ Traudl Kleefeld: Against forgetting. Witch persecution in Franconia - places of remembrance. J. H. Röll, Dettelbach 2016. P. 34 ff.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 736 .
6. ^ City of Alzenau - facts and figures. City of Alzenau, accessed on February 13, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 112f.

Web links

Commons : Hörstein  - Collection of Images

• Homepage of Hörstein
• Jewish history of Hörstein / synagogue
• Immigrants from Hörstein and Kahlgrund to America (in English)