Heuchelheim (Elbe Valley)

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municipality Elbe Valley
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 179 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 254  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Postal code : 65627
Area code : 06436

Heuchelheim is the smallest district of the Elbe Valley municipality in the Limburg-Weilburg district in central Hesse .

Geographical location

Basalt bridge from 1888 over the Elbbach

The place is on the eastern edge of the Westerwald , in the natural area of ​​the Oberwesterwald. A few hundred meters to the west the Elbbach flows , a few hundred meters to the east the federal highway 54 runs , both in a north-south direction. The Mühlbach, coming from the northeast, flows north of the town on the edge of the Heuchelheim district and flows into the Elbbach.

The Heuchelheim district only extends over a small area around the place. In the north it borders on the Elbe valley capital Dorchheim , in the east on the neighboring district of Hangenmeilingen , in the south on the Hadamar district of Oberzeuzheim , in the south-west on Thalheim and in the north-west on Frickhofen , both districts of Dornburg .

Heuchelheim lies in a relatively flat widening of the Elbbachtal, which only rises significantly up to 270 meters on its eastern edge. Most of the municipal area is taken up by agricultural land. Then there are the meadows of the streams and a small strip of scrubland southwest of the village.

history

Heuchelheim is the Elbe valley district with the oldest documented first mention, which was made in a deed of donation in the Lorsch Codex in 772 . In the early Middle Ages the place belonged to the extensive parish of Niederzeuzheim . Teutonic Order possessions are documented for 1287 .

For the end of the 13th century, a low-nobility family "von Heuchelheim" is proven. The family was related to the lords of Runkel and Westerburg , as well as to the equestrian general Hans Michael Elias von Obentraut from the Thirty Years' War . In Heuchelheim, however, the family died out in 1494.

On February 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse , the town was merged with the communities of Dorchheim and Hangenmeilingen to form the newly formed community of Elbe Valley.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1679: 005 families
• 1885: 184 inhabitants, 31 residential buildings
Heuchelheim: Population from 1834 to 1991
year     Residents
1834
  
 130
1840
  
 133
1846
  
 155
1852
  
 162
1858
  
 191
1864
  
 188
1871
  
 177
1875
  
 181
1885
  
 184
1895
  
 185
1905
  
 185
1910
  
 194
1925
  
 219
1939
  
 166
1946
  
 223
1950
  
 222
1956
  
 217
1961
  
 202
1967
  
 208
1970
  
 208
1987
  
 235
1991
  
 274
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: one Protestant (= 0.54%), 183 Catholic (= 99.46%) inhabitant
• 1961: 3 Protestant (= 1.49%), 194 Catholic (= 96.04%) residents

Culture and sights

societies

In Heuchelheim there is a women's community, the Heuchelheim volunteer fire brigade founded in 1934 , the choral society “Frohsinn” and the beautification club.

Buildings

St. Valentine's Chapel

Valentine's Chapel
Interior of the chapel

The small church was built in 1948 in the neo-Romanesque style, which was already unusual at the time . Accordingly, it is a small hall church . The masonry was made of the basalt tuff typical of the region, which has a rustic effect thanks to its many colors. The building has a large, semicircular apse with a conical roof and a tower-like roof turret as a bell tower.

The altar relief is a work by the sculptor Georgschichtel from Flörsheim. The statue of the Virgin comes from the previous chapel in the same place.

The chapel is located on the site of the previous building. At the instigation of Pastor Josef Göb, the old chapel was partially demolished in 1945. The remains became part of the new structure, which was built according to a design by the local master mason Johann Bäcker and was largely financed by donations from community members. The consecration was carried out on May 26, 1946 by Josef Lamay, Cathedral Capitular at Limburg Cathedral . In the following years, the still incomplete interior and the equipment with liturgical equipment were completed. The relic of St. Valentin of Terni in the chapel was at times the destination of pilgrimages from the area. Address: Kapellenstrasse 8

To the school forest 1

The house of a Winkelhof has been preserved in its original condition, which has hardly changed. Most of the framework, however, is clad. On the exposed wall of the upper floor, man forms, grooved tail struts and carvings on the filler wood can be seen.

Elbbach Bridge

The bridge in the extension of the street “Zum Schulwald” was built in 1888 as a French reparation for the Franco-German War with three segment arches. The structure is stretched out to cross the very wide stream bed at this point and to connect the mill and parts of the field markings with the village. The cladding consists of regionally typical basalt in small stone size. The bridge piers are provided with breakers on the upstream side, which carry flat capitals and a cladding of larger basalt blocks.

Also part of the structure was a listed pipe railing, installed between clinker pillars. However, this was torn down around the year 2000 and replaced by a tubular steel construction.

Mill

Heuchelheimer Mill

The main house of the Heuchelheimer Mühle was probably built around 1700 at a knee of the Elbe stream southwest of the locality. The position facilitated the construction of a weir (today also part of the monument ensemble) and the construction of the mill ditch.

Several expansion steps followed. The right wing of the house bears the year 1786. The wheel chamber was built on even later.

The half-timbered structure of the main house is adorned with grooved tail struts (diagonally running beams in a compartment), fire braces and carvings on the corner posts. A bay window that once existed can only be partially recognized.

Infrastructure

The village has a home for people with multiple disabilities and a pension for the elderly.

Web links

Commons : Heuchelheim  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in the Elbe Valley . In: Internet presence. Elbtal municipality, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3170, August 12, 772 - Reg. 792. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 107 , accessed on February 17, 2016 .
  3. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 14 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 369 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Heuchelheim, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ 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).