Hergershausen (Babenhausen)

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Hergershausen
City of Babenhausen
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 25 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 130 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.61 km²
Residents : 2257  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Population density : 235 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 64832
Area code : 06073
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Location of the Babenhausen districts
Half-timbered house on Schmalen Strasse
Today's Evangelical Church
Half-timbered street Breite Strasse in the village

Hergershausen is the largest of the five districts of Babenhausen in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

The place is in the Starkenburg region at the first foothills of the northern Odenwald , 7 km northeast of Dieburg, on the Gersprenz , at an altitude of 130  m above sea level. NHN . The structure of the clustered village with mostly gabled half-timbered houses from the 17th and 18th centuries is well preserved.

history

Territorial history

The village probably came into Hanau ownership through the marriage of Adelheid von Munzenberg , daughter of Ulrich I von Munzenberg , with Reinhard I von Hanau , which took place before 1245 (the exact year is not known). It belonged to the office of Babenhausen of the rule and later county of Hanau , then from 1456 to the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg . It also belonged to the Babenhausen Mark .

The oldest mention of the village comes from the year 1340, when Culmann and Hille Hartrad received a penny of one pound of Heller zu Hergershausen from Oswald, Johann and Hermann Groschlag . Even then, the place was given from Hanau to the von Groschlag zu Dieburg as a fief . In 1438 the von Groschlag pledged this fiefdom to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen . The Landgraviate of Hessen was the heir to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen . In 1546, Landgrave Philip I of Hesse renounced these liens in Hergershausen and Sickenhofen for 2500 guilders, so that von Groschlag were again the owners of the fief. Thereby three large camps are of great influence on the place: Balthasar von Groschlag zu Dieburg (1479–1535), Philipp Karl Anton von Groschlag (1629–1757) and the last of the Groschlags Friedrich Carl Willibald von Groschlag zu Dieburg (1729–1799).

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736, landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel inherited the county of Hanau-Münzenberg on the basis of an inheritance contract from 1643 . Due to the intestinal succession , the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell to the son of Johann Reinhard III's only daughter, Landgrave Ludwig IX. from Hessen-Darmstadt . Disputed between the two heirs was the affiliation of the Babenhausen office and its villages to Hanau-Münzenberg or Hanau-Lichtenberg. The dispute could only be ended with a settlement in 1771 after a long-standing legal dispute before the highest imperial courts , the so-called participation recess . In it the feudal rights over Hergershausen Hessen-Kassel were awarded. In 1807, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Babenhausen office came under French administration. By a state treaty with France in 1810, however, to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt .

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

»Hergershausen (L. District Seligenstadt) Lutheran Filialdorf; is 2 3 ⁄ 4  St. from Seligenstadt and 4 1 ⁄ 2 St. from Steinheim, and has 114 houses and 645 inhabitants, including 510 Luth. 13 Cath. And 122 Jews are located. - The name probably originated from Hergo. - The place belonged to the Lord von Munzenberg, and probably came to Hanau between 1258 and 1278, and became a part of Babenhausen Castle in view of the territorial centerability . The von Groschlage and the Counts of Hanau had a regional settlement court here in a divided community, just as the former owned the place as a Hanau feudal fief until 1802. At that time Hergershausen and Sickenhofen were between the two Hess. Houses together until France took away the Hesse-Cassel share in 1807 and added it to the newly established Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in 1810. From here this part was assigned to Hessen-Darmstadt in the same year. The place was only a Fillal from Dieburg, later from Münster, and was parish off to Sickenhofen after the Reformation. "

On July 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Hergershausen came to the city of Babenhausen on a voluntary basis as part of the regional reform in Hesse. For Hergershausen, as for the core town of Babenhausen and the other parts of the city, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was set up according to the Hessian municipal code.

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

Historical forms of names

Over the centuries the place is mentioned in historical documents with changing place names (in brackets the year it was mentioned): Hergershusin (1340); Hergirshusen (1355); Hergetshausen (1369); Hergershusen (1371); Hergirshusen (1388); Hirginshusen (1405); Herngeßhusen (1435); Hirgerßhußen (1467); Hergerßhausen (1545).

Population development

• 1829: 645 inhabitants, 114 houses
• 1867: 617 inhabitants, 122 houses
Hergershausen: Population from 1829 to 2018
year     Residents
1829
  
 645
1834
  
 630
1840
  
 653
1846
  
 691
1852
  
 698
1858
  
 650
1864
  
 648
1871
  
 622
1875
  
 629
1885
  
 650
1895
  
 626
1905
  
 678
1910
  
 725
1925
  
 735
1939
  
 712
1946
  
 1,029
1950
  
 1,127
1956
  
 1,074
1961
  
 1,119
1967
  
 1,413
1970
  
 1,566
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 1,968
2014
  
 2,065
2018
  
 2,257
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Website Babenhausen: 2014 -2018; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 510 Lutheran (= 79.07%), 122 Jewish (= 18.91%) and 13 Catholic (= 2.02%) residents
• 1961: 827 Protestant (= 73.91%), 279 Catholic (= 24.93%) residents

religion

In Hergershausen there was a branch church of the church of Dieburg . The church patronage lay with the Mariengredenstift in Mainz . The central church authority was the Archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg, Landkapitel Montat . With the Reformation the village became Lutheran . The Protestant church was built from 1711 and consecrated in 1712.

From the Middle Ages to 1938 there was a Jewish community with its own synagogue .

politics

For Hergershausen there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Hergershausen) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of seven members. Since the local elections in 2016, he has had one member of the SPD , three members of the CDU , two members of no party and one member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . The mayor is Horst Grimm (CDU).

Culture and sights

Regular events

Nature and protected areas

In the NSG Auf dem Sand along the Gersprenz

As a result of the renaturation of the Gersprenz since 1980, a high level of biodiversity was brought back to the meadow landscape of the Hergershäuser meadows.

The nature reserve " Die kleine Qualle von Hergershausen " , which has been in existence since 1984, and the NSG " On the sand between Hergershausen and Altheim ", which was designated in 1998, are located here . North of Hergershausen is the NSG " Brackenbruch bei Hergershausen " with wet meadows, bodies of water and near-natural forests. These three protected areas are embedded in the larger Natura2000 areas “Untere Gersprenz” (FFH area 6019-303) and “Untere Gersprenzaue” (EU bird protection area 6119-401), Hergershausen sub-area.

The Hergershausen meadows offer around 160 species of plants, some of which are highly specialized, around 30 species of dragonflies and 40 species of butterflies, a varied habitat. Flocks of cranes , geese and lapwing with up to 1000 animals rest here . Rare birds such as the little egret from the south, curlews or Odin's chickens from the north use the wet meadows as a resting place. Black and red kites as well as the tree falcon can be found in the surrounding forests . For rare animals such as snipe , Little Grebe , Corn Bunting and stonechat the meadows are breeding area. Since 2000 the white stork has been breeding again after 30 years of abstinence . The European tree frog and natterjack toad cannot be ignored, especially in spring . Swallowtail and various bluebells can be observed as rare moths . In the meadows grow back Bistort , primroses and garlic germander . And for a few years now, the beaver has returned to the Gersprenzaue in the area of ​​the NSG . The area itself can be explored through well-developed hiking and biking trails as well as created viewing steps.

Townscape

In 2005, the village won a medal in the competition Our village has a future . More than 20 farms in the former village stand as monuments to the Hessian Denkmalschutzgesetz under monument protection .

Economy and Infrastructure

Hergershausen has a stop on the Rhein-Main-Bahn in the section between Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof and Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof . Formerly a train station , it was retrofitted on the line on May 1, 1899, and in 1900 it was retrofitted with two turnout and signaling boxes.

The federal road 26 runs about 500 m from the village and is connected via a district road.

The Dieburg group waterworks association is based in the Hergershausen waterworks.

literature

  • Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main = Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 29 (1966), p. 119.
  • Max Herchenröder : The art monuments of the district of Dieburg . 1940, p. 158.
  • Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book . Volume 1: Starkenburg. 1937, p. 315ff.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 until the changes in the course of the municipal regional reform = Darmstädter Archivschriften 2. 1976, p. 113
  • Dagmar Söder: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Offenbach district = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. 1987, p. 777ff.
  • Literature about Hergershausen in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Search for Hergershausen in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Commons : Hergershausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hergershausen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Facts and Figures. In: website. City of Babenhausen, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  3. ↑ For more information see: Inge and Harald Heckwolf (author and ed.): Hergershausen ( Memento of May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 83 kB), Dieburg 2005, Akzidenz Druck Dieburg, pp. 14-25
  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. 107 ( online at google books ).
  5. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , item 851; 2. Para. 3. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  6. ^ 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. 355 .
  7. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 338 kB) §; 7. In: Website. City of Babenhausen, 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. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 40 ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. In: 2011 census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  12. ↑ Hergershausen Jewish Community. In: www.alemannia-judaica.de. Accessed October 2019 .
  13. ↑ Hergershausen local advisory board. In: website. City of Babenhausen, accessed October 2019 .
  14. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Tuesday, October 20, 2015, p. 21
  15. ↑ Management plan for the FFH and VS area "Untere Gersprenz-FFH / Untere Gersprenzaue-VSG-TR Hergershausen" (6019-303 / 6119-401). dated December 16, 2010. PDF. Regional council Darmstadt, accessed on July 14, 2020 .
  16. ↑ 6019-303 Lower Gersprenz (FFH area). Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, accessed on July 14, 2020 .
  17. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes of April 29, 1899. Volume 3, No. 19. Announcement No. 204, p. 148.
  18. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes from September 1, 1900. Volume 4, No. 40. Announcement No. 377, p. 365.