Kirchhof (Melsungen)
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Churchyard
City of Melsungen
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 29 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 47" E
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| Height : | 229 m |
| Area : | 4.54 km² |
| Residents : | 571 (2003) |
| Population density : | 126 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st February 1971 |
| Postal code : | 34212 |
| Area code : | 05661 |
Kirchhof is a district of Melsungen in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .
geography
Kirchhof is located in the Melsunger Bergland around 4 km (as the crow flies ) east-northeast of the center of the Melsunger core city. The village, surrounded by forest, is traversed by the Fulda tributary Kehrenbach , into which the Ohebach flows a little east of the village . State road 3147 runs through it , which, like the Kehrenbach , is bridged southwest of the village by the 306 m long Kehrenbach viaduct on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1303 as "Kirchhob" under Landgrave Heinrich I. In 1420 the village belonged to the Melsungen office, for the first time under the name "Kirchhof". From 1826 to 1828 the current church was built.
The previously independent municipality was incorporated into Melsungen as part of the regional reform in Hesse on February 1, 1971.
The place name changed twice, from villa Kirchob (1374) via Kirchob (1420) to Kirchhof .
Population development
Source: Historical local dictionary
- 1585: 19 households
- 1747: 38 households
| Kirchhof: Population from 1834 to 1970 | ||||
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| year | Residents | |||
| 1834 | 373 | |||
| 1840 | 387 | |||
| 1846 | 381 | |||
| 1852 | 397 | |||
| 1858 | 371 | |||
| 1864 | 388 | |||
| 1871 | 395 | |||
| 1875 | 406 | |||
| 1885 | 378 | |||
| 1895 | 391 | |||
| 1905 | 398 | |||
| 1910 | 416 | |||
| 1925 | 412 | |||
| 1939 | 403 | |||
| 1946 | 544 | |||
| 1950 | 548 | |||
| 1956 | 445 | |||
| 1961 | 464 | |||
| 1967 | 502 | |||
| 1970 | 513 | |||
| Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Further sources:; 1970: | ||||
Religious affiliation
Source: Historical local dictionary
| • 1885: | 377 Protestant (= 99.74%), one Catholic (= 0.26%) residents |
| • 1961: | 433 Protestant (= 93.32%), 25 Catholic (= 5.39%) residents |
Sports
The village gained national fame through the women's handball team of SG 09 Kirchhof .
Web links
- Kirchhof district on the website of the city of Melsungen.
- Churchyard. Local history, information. In: melsungen-kirchhof.de. Melsunden-Kirchhof local advisory board
- Kirchhof, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Kirchhof in the Hessian Bibliography
- Aerial view of the place
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Kirchhof, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Kirchhof Chronicle. In: www.melsungen-kirchhof.de. Accessed March 2019 .
- ↑ Parish Kirchhof: Parish Kirchhof - Chronicle. (No longer available online.) In: www.melsungen-kirchhof.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 .
- ^ 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 , item 328, para. 41 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
- ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 404 .
