Hirzenhain

This article explains the municipality and the place Hirzenhain in the Wetterau, for the place of the same name in the municipality Eschenburg in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis see Hirzenhain (Eschenburg) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '  N , 9 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
County :	Wetteraukreis
Height :	246 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.11 km 2
Residents:	2882 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	179 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63697
Area code :	06045
License plate :	FB, BÜD
Community key :	06 4 40 011
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Karl-Birx-Strasse 6 63697 Hirzenhain
Website :	www.hirzenhain.de
Mayor :	Timo Tichai (independent)
Location of the community of Hirzenhain in the Wetterau district

Hirzenhain in July 2010: View from the monastery wall, to the right of the center of the picture the Buderus main building

Hirzenhain is a municipality in the Wetteraukreis , Hesse .

Geographical location

Hirzenhain lies east of the Wetterau in the western Vogelsberg and is traversed by the Nidder .

Neighboring communities

Hirzenhain borders the city of Schotten ( Vogelsbergkreis ) in the north, the city of Gedern in the east, the city of Ortenberg in the south and the city of Nidda in the west .

structure

Hirzenhain consists of the districts Glashütten , Hirzenhain and Merkenfritz . The glassworks still has the affiliated districts Streithain and Igelhausen.

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of the place dates back to January 13, 1330.

In 1375 the Augustinian canons and a forest smithy were established.

Early modern age

Hirzenhain belonged to the Ortenberg office , a condominium whose three lords all joined the Reformation , so that the place was converted into Lutheran and the monastery in 1554 into a Latin school, which existed until 1595.

Hirzenhain was one of the areas in which the Solms land law of 1571 was accepted under customary law , but only partially . This applied in particular to the areas of guardianship law , inheritance and matrimonial property law . Moreover, the applied Common Law . It was not until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was suspended .

The forest smithy developed into an ironworks that the Buderus family leased in 1678 .

Modern times

In 1869 the Buderus family bought the ironworks.

During the Second World War , the Hirzenhain labor education camp existed , a branch of the Heddernheim labor education camp in the north of Frankfurt am Main . There, German and foreign prisoners had to work under concentration camp conditions in the production of the Breuer works and manufacture armored parts. On March 23, 1945 , shortly before the end of the war, 49 women were transported from the labor education camp in Frankfurt-Heddernheim to the branch in Hirzenhain. 5 women fled during the transport. The remaining 44 were shot by the SS on March 26, 1945 along with 37 other women and 6 prisoners from the camp . They were later buried in the Arnsburg monastery in the local war victims cemetery.

• In July 1944, twenty-three forced laborers, including twelve Latvians, were in the community itself, independent of the Breuer works. In March 1945 there were 25 forced laborers.

Incorporations

On October 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Merkenfritz was incorporated. Glashütten was added on April 1, 1972.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016     A total of 15 seats SPD : 6 CDU : 5th UWG : 4	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	41.5	6th	45.4	7th	52.2	8th	61.1	14th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	33.3	5	31.4	5	42.0	6th	31.0	7th
	UWG	Independent voter community	25.2	4th	23.2	3	-	-	-	-
	NPD	National Democratic Party of Germany	-	-	-	-	5.8	1	-	-
	UTI	Hirzenhainer voter initiative	-	-	-	-	-	-	7.9	2
	total		100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th
	Voter turnout in%		54.9		45.5		49.6		56.4

Ev. late Gothic hall church
1439–1534 Augustinian monastery “St. Maria"

mayor

The past mayoral elections produced the following results:

year Candidates Political party % Result Referendum voting for Freddy Arthur Chamber YES 60.8 NO 39.2 Voter turnout in% 64.5 Runoff election 2014 (1) Klaus Heusohn SPD 44.5 Freddy Arthur Chamber independent 2 55.5 Voter turnout in% 70.5 2014 (1) Klaus Heusohn SPD 48.0 Nicole Seitz Pirates 9.5 Freddy Arthur Chamber independent 2 42.6 Voter turnout in% 61.8 2008 runoff election Elfriede Pfannkuche SPD 47.7 Freddy Arthur Chamber independent 2 52.3 Voter turnout in% 62.3 2008 Elfriede Pfannkuche SPD 36.7 Mario Muller CDU 28.3 Freddy Arthur Chamber independent 2 34.9 Voter turnout in% 63.2 2002 Elfriede Pfannkuche SPD 71.1 Voter turnout in% 75.6 1996 Elfriede Pfannkuche SPD 67.8 Jörg Scherbarth UTI 21.8 Andreas Müth CDU 10.3 Voter turnout in% 75.0

⁽¹⁾ Due to allegations of fraudulent elections, the Hirzenhains municipal council declared the election of Kammer invalid on July 21, 2014. The responsible public prosecutor's office charged the chamber with electoral offenses ( falsification of documents and election falsification ) in connection with the election; the indictment was admitted by the Büdingen District Court .
⁽²⁾ Chamber is a member of the SPD, but entered as an independent applicant. On May 7, 2017, the chamber was voted out by the voters in Hirzenhain through a referendum. His official business ended on May 8, 2017, at midnight, with the official final result being determined by the municipal election committee. The originally planned election of the mayor on September 24, 2017 (at the same time as the federal election) was prohibited by the Gießen Administrative Court by interim order. There were considerable doubts about the legality of the voting procedure; carrying out the new election would create a fait accompli. On October 8, 2017, Timo Tichai (independent) was elected as the new mayor of the Hirzenhain community.

badges and flags

In November 1951 the municipality of Hirzenhain was granted the right to use a coat of arms by the Hessian State Ministry.

On September 5, 1969, the Hessian Minister of the Interior approved the following flag: "The municipal coat of arms on the flag cloth, which is divided by black and yellow."

Culture and sights

Museums

• Eisenkunstgussmuseum (Sun. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.)

Buildings

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Hirzenhain

• Augustinian Church with a three-bay nave. The rood screen is a masterpiece of late Gothic stone carving.

Natural monuments

See the list of natural monuments in Hirzenhain

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Hirzenhain's economy was dominated by the Buderus company for a very long time (it is not an exaggeration to speak of around 300 years) . That is why Hirzenhain was also given the designation “industrial community”.

During the wedding in the 50s and 60s, Buderus AG's Hirzenhain site had around 2000 employees. The high trade tax income enabled the Hirzenhain community to have an infrastructure, e.g. B. a spacious open-air swimming pool, which was unparalleled among communities of similar size.

In 2003 the Robert Bosch Group bought the Buderus company (Bosch was only interested in the heating technology division). The foundry activities at the Hirzenhain location (investment casting and artificial casting) were sold to the venture capital fund SSVP in 2005.

In 2006 the smallest division of artificial casting was transferred back to Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH and incorporated into heating technology. Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH (heating technology and artificial casting) therefore still employs around 55 people and Buderus Feinguss Hessen GmbH (today part of the PERUSA fund) still employs around 100 people.

Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH - Buderus Kunstguss still maintains the art casting museum in Hirzenhain, which is run under an independent association in the building of the art foundry.

In the Merkenfritz district there is a workshop for disabled people of the Disabled Aid Wetteraukreis gGmbH.

The final resting places of many figures from the Buderus family are located in a demarcated area of ​​the community cemetery.

traffic

The Oberwaldbahn , where Hirzenhain (Oberhess) was a train station , has been shut down.

Leisure and sports facilities

• Wonderland Merkenfritz
• The Vulkanradweg runs on the route of the former Oberwaldbahn through the village. Today the Vulkanradweg is part of the BahnRadweg Hessen , which runs on former railway lines for approx. 250 km through the Vogelsberg and the Rhön.
• Hirzenhain natural adventure pool

Personalities

• Carl Kellner (1826–1855), pioneer of the Wetzlar optics industry, from which the Leica company emerged.

literature

• Hirzenhain, Glashütten, Merkenfritz: Pictures from days gone by. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1996, ISBN 978-3-89570-231-0 .
• Michael Keller: "The Russian women are over": armaments production, forced labor, Gestapo concentration camps, mass murder by an SS combat group and dealing with the past at the Hirzenhain crime scene and the war grave cemetery in Arnsburg monastery 1943–1996 . Bindernagel, Friedberg (Hessen) 2000, ISBN 3-87076-087-7 (2nd greatly expanded edition).
• Literature on Hirzenhain in the Hessian Bibliography
• Literature by and about Hirzenhain in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Commons : Hirzenhain  - Collection of Images

Wikisource: Hirzenhain in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts

• Official website of the Hirzenhain community
• Hirzenhain, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 9, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Link catalog on the subject of Hirzenhain at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Regest: Battenberg, Isenb. Document 1, p. 105 No. 383.
3. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 108, note 36 and p. 25, note 82, as well as the enclosed map.
4. ↑ Klaus D. Rack, Monica Kingreen, Dirk Richhardt: Far from home under compulsion: the "use of foreign workers" during the Second World War in the Wetterau. History Association for Butzbach and the Surrounding Area, Butzbach 2004, pp. 112–114, ISBN 3-9802328-8-3
5. ^ 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. 352 f .
6. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
7. ↑ Christian Berg: Mayor deselection in Hirzenhain: Committee determines official final result. In: Kreis-Anzeiger . May 9, 2017.
8. ↑ Mayor election in Hirzenhain, May 25, 2014 , Statistics Hesse , Hessian State Statistical Office , retrieved July 7, 2015.
9. ↑ Mayoral election in Hirzenhain (runoff), June 15, 2014 , Statistics Hesse , Hessian State Statistical Office , retrieved July 7, 2015.
10. ^ District court cancels the start of the trial against Freddy Kammer. Gießener Anzeiger of April 27, 2015; VGH Kassel, decision of February 5, 2015 - 8 B 2099/14 = KommJur 2015, 210.
11. ↑ Freddy Kammer is the new mayor of Hirzenhain . In: Kreis-Anzeiger . Verlag Wetterau and Vogelsberg GmbH. September 29, 2008. Accessed on November 11, 2008.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Citizens' decision - controversial mayor in Hirzenhain voted out. In: hessenschau.de. May 7, 2017.
13. ↑ Ex-Town Hall chief sued successfully: Mayoral election in Hirzenhain prohibited ( Memento from September 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: hessenschau.de. September 14, 2017.
14. ↑ Results of the mayoral ballot: Hirzenhain - ballot for the mayoral election on October 8, 2017 in Hirzenhain (Wetterau). In: hessenschau.de. October 8, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Granting of the right to use a coat of arms to the community of Hirzenhain in the district of Büdingen, Reg.-District Darmstadt from November 15, 1951 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1951 no. 49 , p. 739 , item 1163 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
16. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag for the municipality of Bickenbach, Darmstadt district from September 5, 1960 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1969 No. 38 , p. 1618 , point 1329 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.4 MB ]).
17. ↑ Hirzenhain Evangelical Church. In: Website of the Hirzenhain community. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .