Herring (Otzberg)

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herring
community Otzberg
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Hering
Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 10 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 326 m above sea level NN
Area : 2.9 km²
Residents : 924  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 319 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 64853
Area code : 06162
map
Location of Hering in Otzberg
The Otzberg with Hering and the Veste Otzberg
View of herring, cath. Parish church
Formerly the noble house and farm on Münchberg of the Provost Graslog of the Höchst monastery , later the Burgmannenhaus of the goose of Otzberg . At the entrance of the stair tower that's alliance coat of arms of the goose of Otzberg with the Lords of Bettendorff attached

Hering is part of the Otzberg community in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse and has around 950 inhabitants.

geology

Hering was the smallest town in Hesse until it was incorporated . It is located at an altitude of about 300 to 368 meters on the Otzberg , on which the fortress of the same name stands. The mountain is the remaining basalt cone of an extinct volcano, whose eruptions once created the geological conditions for the extremely fertile environment.

The place Hering consists of the old town , which emerged from the Burgmannensiedlung and the newer part of the town that extends to the road to Zipfen / Nauses. The old town was formerly walled and enclosed the serpentine path to the castle gate. There are still a few Burgmannenhöfe there, but also denser buildings. The suburb is characterized by farms and single-family houses used for agriculture. Overall, Hering has a village-like appearance. Some holiday homes were built south of the climatic health resort.

history

The history of Herings is closely linked to the fortress on the mountain, the Veste Otzberg . This is already suggested by the name: Hering can probably be traced back to Höhenring. Whether this name indicates a possible Germanic or even Celtic high fortress can only be guessed because of the lack of evidence. Due to the extensive renovation of the fortress in the 16th century, there are not even traces of the medieval castle, apart from the keep. The fate of the mountain and the city can only be grasped through documents from the Middle Ages.

Like the entire region, the mountain, with its regional capital Groß-Umstadt, probably came to the diocese of Würzburg as early as the 8th century , then to the abbey of Fulda . This probably already used the Otzberg as a base for the administration of their possessions in the region. In the 12th century , the Count Palatine received the Otzberg as a fief . At that time, at the latest, the massive expansion of the castle began. In the area of ​​the outer bailey to the north, a Burgmannensiedlung was built called Hering. In this context it should be mentioned that today a distinction is made between Otzberg as the name of the castle and the mountain and Hering as the name of the settlement. In the vernacular, however, one also comes across the term herring for the mountain and the castle. A document from 1332 mentions the temporary sale of the castle by the Palatinate to the Lords of Frankenstein, and in 1374 the castle and town were pledged to the Counts of Hanau. In the meantime the Burgmannensiedlung had apparently received city rights. The actual granting of city rights is not documented, but Hering, first mentioned in 1322, is mentioned as a city in many documents : 1374 Heringes die stat , 1427 Herynges daz konstantlin , 1524 Herings .

During the Landshut War of Succession (Bavarian Feud) , the castle was taken by Hesse in 1504 and by Bavaria in 1522. In 1526 it was formally handed over to Hesse by the Emperor , but the Palatinate kept the castle until after the Thirty Years War . In 1647 the Veste Otzberg was taken by the French Marshal Turenne . In 1803 the castle and town became formally and definitively Hessian . Administratively, Hering belonged to the Otzberg Office until 1820 , which from 1806 belonged to the Starkenburg Province of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

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

»Hering (L. Bez. Dieburg) city; lies on the northern side of the Otzberg, 3 St. from Dieburg and 1 1 ⁄ 4 St. from Umstadt. Hering has 73 houses and 478 inhabitants, including 308 Reform., 153 Catholic and 17 Lutheran, as well as 23 farmers, 21 artisans and 16 day laborers. The church is communal; however, there are 2 parsonages. - The name is derived from Höhering, because the wall or ring around the height was here. Hering was a fiefdom of Fulda Abbey, and was pledged to Hanau for 9 years in 1374, and in 1390 sold by Abbot Friedrich to Prince Ruprecht's parents. At this time the place already appears as a town. Hering came to Hesse from the Palatinate in 1802. «

In Meyer's Konversationslexikon (1888) it is written about Hering:

“Hering, city in the hess. Starkenburg province, Dieburg district, at the foot of the Otzberg, on which there is a permanent mountain castle (formerly a state prison, now uninhabited), with (1885) 463 mostly Protestant residents. "

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, Hering voluntarily merged with five other previously independent municipalities to form the municipality of Otzberg as part of the regional reform in Hesse . For the six formerly independent municipalities, local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were formed according to the Hessian municipal code. Lengfeld became the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Hering was located or the administrative units to which it was subject:

dishes

The competent jurisdiction of the first instance was:

Population development

• 1633: 082 inhabitants
• 1806: 352 inhabitants, 63 houses
• 1829: 478 inhabitants, 73 houses
• 1867: 472 inhabitants, 91 houses
Hering: Population from 1806 to 2018
year     Residents
1806
  
 352
1829
  
 478
1834
  
 460
1840
  
 537
1846
  
 567
1852
  
 515
1858
  
 505
1864
  
 491
1871
  
 483
1875
  
 470
1885
  
 458
1895
  
 459
1905
  
 460
1910
  
 454
1925
  
 473
1939
  
 461
1946
  
 565
1950
  
 556
1956
  
 536
1961
  
 579
1967
  
 665
1970
  
 750
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 882
2012
  
 888
2015
  
 902
2018
  
 925
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census ; from 2012: Website of the Otzberg municipality

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 017 Lutheran (= 3.55%), 308 Reformed (= 64.44%) and 153 Catholic (= 32.01%) residents
• 1961: 326 Protestant (= 56.30%), 240 Catholic (= 41.45%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

For Hering, there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Hering) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board currently consists of four members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has had four CDU members . Mayor is Raimund Lieb (CDU).

coat of arms

Herring coat of arms

Hering's coat of arms dates from the 19th century. The blue herring is a talking symbol. The acorns refer to the historical affiliation of the city to the Dreieich Wildbann .

An official flag was never approved. There is, however, an unofficial flag that shows the municipality's coat of arms on a green, white and green flag.

Culture and sights

music

  • Hering's best -known musical act is the band H-Borrm (Heuboden), who, in Odenwald dialect, pack life in funny "homemade rock". Well-known songs include the hit fountain construction , in which the story of the origins of the castle fountain of the Veste Otzberg is sung in historical sounds with a wink, the songs Gisela , Buddekrehm , Rache or Wer wor de Held .
  • The castle is also sung about by the Odenwald Shanty Choir .

Buildings

Regular events

Recreational areas

  • Forest playground Hering, which is popularly known as the Indian playground because of the wooden play equipment and shelters set up there
  • Mini golf course at the foot of the Otzberg
  • Garden railway at the foot of the Otzberg

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hering, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures . In: website. Otzberg community, accessed November 2019 .
  3. ↑ Baur, Ludwig (ed.): Hessian documents from the grand ducal Hessian house and state archives, Volume 1: The provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse from 1016 - 1399 , 1860
  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. 108 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Herring . In: Meyers Konversationslexikon (1888)
  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. 238 .
  7. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 334 kB) §; 6. In: Website. Otzberg community, accessed in July 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. ↑ 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. ^ 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 ).
  12. ↑ 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;
  13. ↑ Hering local advisory board. In: Council and Citizen Information System. Otzberg community, accessed November 2019 .
  14. ↑ Wappen Hering In: Wappen der Welt.
  15. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , September 8, 2015, p. 18
  16. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , September 9, 2015, p. 21
  17. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, November 26, 2015, p. 20
  18. ^ Heringer Kleinbahn eV ( Memento from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )