Hellstein
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Hellstein
Brachttal municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 12 ″ N , 9 ° 17 ′ 56 ″ E
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| Height : | 171 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 1000 |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1970 |
| Postal code : | 63636 |
| Area code : | 06054 |
Hellstein is, along with Schlierbach , Udenhain , Neuenschmidten , Spielberg and Streiberg, one of six districts in the Brachttal municipality in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .
Geographical location
Hellstein is located on Reichenbach in the north of the municipality and borders the district of Birstein . The state road 3443, which connects to the districts of Udenhain and Neuenschmidten , runs through the village .
The place name Hellstein
There is an old sand pit in the forest on the outskirts of Hellstein. There, white quartz sand was mined on a larger scale well into the 20th century . This sand was used for glass production and as abrasive sand for the wooden floors in the houses. The place name Hellstein may also be traced back to the light (white) sand .
history
Oldest traces and Middle Ages
Hellstein was first mentioned in a document around 900 AD. Hellstein has been part of the Isenburg county since 1384 .
Modern times
Through an administrative reform, Hellstein came to the Spielberg office. In 1787 the Spielberg office became the Spielberg court in the Wächtersbach office. In 1816 the Spielberg office belonged to the Electorate of Hesse and from 1866 to the Kingdom of Prussia in the province of Hesse-Nassau . Today Hellstein belongs to the Main-Kinzig district in southern Hesse , in the former district of Gelnhausen .
Territorial reform
On July 1, 1970, as part of the regional reform in Hesse , through the voluntary amalgamation of the independent communities of Schlierbach, Hellstein and Neuenschmidten, the new community of Brachttal was created.
Jewish life in Hellstein
There was a synagogue community in Hellstein until the end of 1938. The synagogue with a ritual bath and an attached Jewish school was on Oberweg 2. The Jews from Schlierbach were also affiliated to the Hellstein synagogue community. Deceased Jews from Hellstein and the surrounding communities were buried in the cemetery in Birstein . Community leaders in the 1930s were Ludwig Moritz and Jonas Grünebaum. After the pogrom of November 9, 1938, Jonas Grünebaum sold his house in Hellstein. He was the last Jew to leave the town and move to Frankfurt. The family was later arrested and deported. His daughter Johanna Grünebaum (born December 24, 1925) was born in 1942, he and his wife Else, née Steinberger murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. Her son Erich Grünebaum managed to escape to the USA. As a result, he was the only one of the Grünebaum family to survive. The Jewish family Moritz from Hellstein also fled to the USA. 33 Hellstein's roommates fell victim to Nazi terror. The “White Garden” next to the old school with a plaque commemorates them.
Public facilities
schools
At the end of the 1950s, the then independent community of Hellstein agreed with the neighboring communities of Schlierbach and Neuenschmidten to build a larger "central school". The "one-class schools" in the towns were in a bad state . The new school on the border between Schlierbach and Neuenschmidten was inaugurated on January 12, 1961. The first expansion took place soon (1966) due to the rapid growth in the number of students; others followed in 1990 and 2003.
The school gradually developed from a school with primary and secondary levels to a pure elementary school .
The secondary school for Hellstein, as for the other Brachttaler districts, is the cooperative comprehensive school , the Friedrich-August-Genth-Schule, located in the city center of Wächtersbach . Like the other districts of Brachttal, Hellstein is connected to this school center by bus lines.
Village community center, grill hut, bakery
Hellstein has a village community center in the former school. Its large hall is 107 square meters and can accommodate up to 107 people. An adjoining room has 31 square meters and can accommodate up to 31 people. In addition to communal use, the facilities can also be booked for private events of all kinds, family celebrations, presentations, seminars and the like.
The place also has a grill hut and a bakery .
fire Department
The Hellstein Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded in 1888. The youth fire brigade was added in 1991 and a bambini group in 2008. Today the operations department has 28 people, the youth fire brigade 11 people and the children's group has 10 members. The main areas of application and danger are:
- B 276 and L 3443
- Langlitz sawmill
- Local operations with the thermal imaging camera
- technical assistance VU.
Culture, tourism, sights
There is a Protestant church in Hellstein . Today's church was built in 1844 on the foundations of a previous church.
The Vogelsberger Südbahnradweg leads past Hellstein from Grebenhain-Hartmannshain to Wächtersbach . It runs on the route of the former Vogelsberger Südbahn .
economy
North of Hellstein, below the Sandkopf (313.2 m above sea level ) is the Hellstein sand pit, which has been left open. The pristine white sands that occur there are tertiary sediments , they “reach a thickness of 45 m in the opencast mining area and can be expanded by 22 m by local drilling findings”. The sands played an important economic role for the place and the region for centuries. Waechtersbacher ceramics in particular had been an important buyer of this valuable product since 1832. Industrial dismantling took place until the second half of the 20th century.
Personalities and families associated with Hellstein
- Erich Grünebaum (later Eric Greene) (* July 7, 1928 - March 19, 2020) was one of the few survivors of the Hesseldorfer Jewish community. Fled to the USA in 1941, the former Hellsteiner boy stayed in contact with his old homeland for a lifetime.
Web links
- The districts on the website of the municipality of Brachttal
- Hellstein, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Hellstein in the Hessian Bibliography
literature
- Ernst Gottschalk, “The loneliest boy, obituary for Eric Greene, the last survivor of the Holocaust from Hellstein”, Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung, April 7, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Hellstein, Main-Kinzig-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 5, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Merger of the communities Hellstein, Neuenschmidten and Schlierbach in the Gelnhausen district to form the new community "Brachttal" on June 11, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 26 , p. 1300 , point 1227 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.6 MB ]).
- ↑ Ernst Gottschalk, “The loneliest boy, obituary for Eric Greene, the last survivor of the Holocaust from Hellstein”, Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung, April 7, 2020
- ↑ Brachttal Primary School
- ↑ Brachttal Primary School
- ^ Hellstein village community center
- ^ Brachttal village community houses
- ↑ Hellstein Volunteer Fire Brigade
- ↑ Dissertation JÜRGEN JUNG, ("GIS-supported reconstruction of the neogene relief development of tectonically influenced low mountain ranges using the example of the Spessart (NW-Bavaria, SE-Hesse)" p. 204)
