Hitzkirchen

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Hitzkirchen
Kefenrod municipality
Coat of arms of Hitzkirchen
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 34 ″  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 311 m
Area : 4.6 km²
Residents : 474  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 103 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 63699
Area code : 06054

Hitzkirchen is a district of the municipality of Kefenrod in the Hessian Wetteraukreis and was an independent municipality until 1971.

history

Hitzinkirchin is first mentioned in a church document on March 25, 1377. So here is spoken of a church which is consecrated to St. Gangulf . That the castle Bracht belonging village was divided in 1380: The greater part of the village at the orographic right, western bank of the court Bracht was Büdingen-Wolferborn slammed and the Büdinger Forest , originally a Reichswald , eingeforstet; the smaller part on the other side of the brook came to Cent Reichenbach.

The Büdinger Forest was given to the Lords of Ysenburg as a fief . In 1438 the village was reunited under Diether I von Isenburg. When the Ysenburg lines separated in 1685 (third main division), Hitzkirchen came under the rule of the Isenburg-Birstein family .

Church with church wall in Hitzkirchen

Hitzkirchen has (church) historical significance because only eleven years after the beginning of the Reformation a dispute was peacefully settled, which almost led to a war between Protestant and Catholic forces. The Packschen Handel, instigated by Otto von Pack , led to a deployment of Protestant Hessian troops on the border with the Catholic dioceses of Bamberg and Würzburg. Through peace talks in the field camp in the district of Hitzkirchen on 11./12. June 1528, this first military denominational confrontation came to a bloodless end. The Treaty of Hitzkirchen was concluded in which the Archbishop of Mainz , Albrecht von Brandenburg , finally renounced the spiritual jurisdiction over Hesse vis-à-vis Landgrave Philipp von Hessen .

After the sovereignty of the Principality of Isenburg by the establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806 occurred after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the Congress of Vienna for a year to Austria, this occurred there in 1816 in Hesse-Darmstadt from. Thereafter, the community belonged to the administrative district of Büdingen (from 1852 district of Büdingen ) in the Hesse-Darmstadt province of Upper Hesse , 1945 to Greater Hesse and 1946 to Hesse. On the occasion of the regional reform in Hesse , the community of Hitzkirchen joined the community of Kefenrod on December 31, 1971 . On August 1, 1972, the district of Büdingen was dissolved, the place has been part of the Wetterau district ever since .

coat of arms

On March 24, 1965, the municipality of Hitzkirchen in what was then the administrative district of Büdingen was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In blue a golden stag horn and a silver H.

Culture and sights

societies

Hitzkirchen has a pronounced club life. In addition to the choral society Hitzkirchen / Helfersdorf, there is the volunteer fire brigade, the Skatfreunde Hitzkirchen skat club , the carnival friends with annual outside meetings, the youth club Helfersdorf / Hitzkirchen, the KSG Hettersroth / Hitzkirchen, a country women’s club and the men's dance group.

Village community center

In 2000 the village community center Holzwichzentrum was completed. A number of public events of the associations take place there, such as the annual outside meeting of carnival friends. In addition, the Holzwichzentrum offers trial spaces for the clubs. The Kindergarten Zwergenland is directly adjacent to the village community center.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [LAGIS]
  2. ↑ "Facts and Figures" on the website of the municipality of Kefenrod , accessed in July 2016.
  3. ^ Heinrich Reimer , document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Part 4. No. 823, p. 218.
  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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 353 .
  5. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Hitzkirchen, district of Büdingen from March 24, 1965 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1965 no. 15 , p. 411 , point 352 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.7 MB ]).