Herchenrode

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Herchenrode
Modautal municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 273  (267-281)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 1.94 km²
Residents : 63  (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 32 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Ernsthofen
Postal code : 64397
Area code : 06167

Herchenrode is the smallest district of the Modautal community in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse . Herchenrode is located in the front Odenwald . State road 3099 runs northwest of the village .

history

The village is first mentioned in a document in 1383. In the 14th century, the village belonged to the domain of the County of Katzenelnbogen and, after the aristocratic family died out in the 15th century, to the Landgraviate of Hesse . At the end of the 16th century the village belonged to the Junkers of Maysenbug, Kalb, Mospach and Walbronn, the Landgrave of Hesse held the high authority with both prohibitions and orders. Herchenrode was in the judicial district of the district of Oberramstadt . The centering was divided into so-called "rice car," each of which a top magistrate board that the Zentgrafen were subordinated. This district had to provide a freight wagon ( rice wagon ) including draft animals and servants for campaigns. Herchenrode belonged to the "Brandauer Reiswagen", which also included the villages of Brandau , Neunkirchen , Allertshofen , Hoxhohl , Lützelbach , Ernsthofen , Neutsch , Klein-Bieberau and Webern . The entire district of Oberramstadt was assigned to the Lichtenberg office . This classification existed until the beginning of the 19th century.

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

»Herchenrode (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran Filialdorf; is at the foot of the Neunkircher Höhe, 2 1 ⁄ 2   St. from Reinheim, and has 9 houses and 67 Lutheran inhabitants, including 8 farmers. The Counts of Katzenellenbogen, those of Aulnbach, Werner Kalb of Reinheim and Hennebach were at this village. The lords of Conberg von Katzenellenbogen were enfeoffed with the first part in particular. But after Johann von Cronberg resigned his feudal obligation to Count Eberhard V. von Katzenellenbogen in a feud, this life was withdrawn at the beginning of the 15th century, and in 1422 those of Cronberg renounced it. The remaining parts were also gradually acquired. "

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality of Herchenrode was incorporated on a voluntary basis in Ernsthofen on December 31, 1971 and came to the municipality of Modautal on January 1, 1977 through the amalgamation of the Ernsthofen municipality by state law with several other municipalities. For Herchenrode, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Historical forms of names

In historical documents, the place is documented under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets): Hergeroden (1383); Hergeroden (1392); Hirchenrode (1403); Herchenrode (1405): Hirtzenrode (1424); Hirchinrode (1430); Herchenroden (1457); Herchenrade (1514); Hurchenröder district (1711).

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

Herchenrode belonged to the Oberramstadt district court . In the 16th century, the lower jurisdiction lay with the noble von Meisenbug family . In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . The Lichtenberg Office was responsible for Herchenrode. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate . The main courts had lost their function.

With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the regional court of Lichtenberg was the court of first instance from 1821 . It followed:

Population development

• 1629: 08 house seats
• 1791: 61 inhabitants
• 1800: 63 inhabitants
• 1806: 64 inhabitants, 9 houses
• 1829: 67 inhabitants, 9 houses
• 1867: 76 inhabitants, 10 houses
Herchenrode: Population from 1791 to 2018
year     Residents
1791
  
 61
1800
  
 63
1806
  
 64
1829
  
 67
1834
  
 63
1840
  
 68
1846
  
 74
1852
  
 57
1858
  
 75
1864
  
 82
1871
  
 63
1875
  
 66
1885
  
 81
1895
  
 84
1905
  
 78
1910
  
 77
1925
  
 83
1939
  
 64
1946
  
 144
1950
  
 131
1956
  
 88
1961
  
 80
1967
  
 73
1970
  
 58
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2007
  
 62
2010
  
 65
2011
  
 63
2015
  
 65
2018
  
 63
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Modautal municipality :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 67 Lutheran (= 100.00%) residents
• 1961: 61 Protestant (= 76.25%), 17 Catholic (= 21.25%) residents

politics

For Herchenrode, there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Herchenrode) with a local advisory board and local mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of three members. Klaus Roth has been the mayor since the local elections in 2016.

monument

Listed half-timbered house in Herchenrode

In 2010 the half-timbered structure on the upper floors of the Herchenrode 15 house was exposed again. In the gable triangle of the residential building from around 1700 there were figurations made of male figures and wooden head angles. The renovation of the Hofreite was awarded the district's monument protection prize.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Herchenrode, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hessen (as of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  3. ^ Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present . Literary Institution, Darmstadt 1877, p. 254 ( online at Google Books ).
  4. ^ 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. 407 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II No. 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 ff ., §9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  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. 234 .
  7. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 36 kB) §; 6. Modautal municipality, accessed in February 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. ↑ a b 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. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  122 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  124 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 38 ( online at google books ).
  14. ↑ Budgets for 2017 to 2019 (preliminary report: Population statistics). (PDF) In: Website. Municipality of Modautal, p. 30 ff. , Accessed in July 2019 .
  15. ↑ 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; }
  16. ↑ Mayor. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  17. ↑ FAZ of December 13, 2010, page 37: Award for a place-defining court rider in Herchenrode