Hunsrück (Steinau)

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Hunsrück is a group of farmsteads in the district of Steinau an der Straße , in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

Geographical location

Hunsrück lies at an altitude of 185 m above sea ​​level , about 1.5 km northwest of the center of Steinau an der Straße.

history

The place is referred to as a villa in 1144 and as a village in 1665. He belonged to the office of Steinau of the rule and later County of Hanau , from 1458: County of Hanau-Münzenberg . Ecclesiastically, Hunsrück belonged to the parish of Steinau.

In 1426 Hanau acquired the goods of the von Hutten family in the village, and in 1577 that of the Hoelin family. The local manor was awarded by the von Hanau as fiefs 1581–1611 to the von Welsberg, 1665–1686 to Joachim de Palis and 1687–1738 to the Spener von Hanau.

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736 the village - together with the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg - fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which in 1803 became the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, Hunsrück was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807–1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, which divided the Electorate of Hesse into four provinces and 22 districts, it belonged to the district of Schlüchtern . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the German-Austrian War and Hunsrück became part of Hesse after the Second World War .

Historical forms of names

Historical forms of name were:

  • Hundisrucgi (1144)
  • Hondisrucke (1358)
  • Hunsruck (1400)

Population development

  • 1587: 13 riflemen, 19 philistines
  • 1632: 30 conscripts
  • 1643: 5 men
  • 1895: 26 inhabitants

literature

  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Vol. 14, ISSN  0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 256.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 24.8 "  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 34.5"  E