Arnsburg Monastery (Lich)

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Arnsburg Monastery
City of Lich
Arnsburg coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 163 m above sea level NN
Area : 4.9 km²
Residents : 92  (Dec. 2018)
Population density : 19 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35423
Area code : 06404

Arnsburg Monastery is one of nine districts of the city of Lich in the district of Gießen in Hesse .

history

The name Arnsburg originally bore a castle complex southwest of today's monastery complex . It was first mentioned in a document in 1093 in the “Mainzer Urkundenbuch 1, Nr. 386” as Arnesburc . In the years 1174–1197, monastery buildings were then erected within the castle complex. It formed a trapezoidal complex with a church, vestibule and cellar. In 1197 monastery buildings were erected on the site of today's Cistercian monastery in the Wetter Valley . A first settlement near the monastery was abandoned in 1174 and the farmers were relocated.

Today's place developed from the Cistercian Abbey of Arnsburg .

The former monastery district on the right bank of the Wetter was partly used as a castle for the Counts of Solms-Laubach . In the years 1804–1811, parts of the complex housed a communal breeding, work and madhouse. In 1847 it housed a “rescue house” for neglected girls.

Until 1787 the monastery district belonged to the Electorate of Mainz , Lower Archbishopric, Oberamt Höchst and Königstein, Amt and Kellerei Vilbel and Rockenberg, area of ​​the Arnsburg Abbey. From 1806 then to the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

On April 1, 1953, the monastery and parts of the Muschenheim community became an independent community.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Arnsburg was incorporated into the city of Lich on January 1, 1977. For Arnsburg Monastery, as for all parts of the city, a local district with a local advisory council and a local mayor was established.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 112 Protestant, 4 Roman Catholic residents
  • 1961: Labor force: 6 agriculture and forestry, 4 manufacturing, 1 trade, traffic and news, 22 services and other
Arnsburg: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 214
1840
  
 193
1846
  
 66
1852
  
 86
1858
  
 100
1864
  
 138
1871
  
 118
1875
  
 72
1885
  
 73
1895
  
 74
1905
  
 80
1910
  
 83
1925
  
 93
1939
  
 51
1946
  
 157
1950
  
 106
1956
  
 92
1961
  
 124
1967
  
 117
2011
  
 57
2015
  
 61
2018
  
 92
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 2010: City of Lich

In 1961 the following labor force was counted: 6 in agriculture and forestry; 4 in the manufacturing sector; 1 in commerce, transport and communications; 22 in the service sector or other trade.

coat of arms

Arnsburg coat of arms
 Blazon : "In blue with black heart shield , is five silver crosses in different height, a red reinforced golden eagle with a red and silver geschachten is covered oblique beams."

In the coat of arms, awarded in 1960, the eagle indicates the place name and the northernmost cohort fort of the Romans located here . The chess bar is the coat of arms of the Cistercians, to whom Kuno von Arnsburg-Münzenberg gave his ancestral castle to found a monastery in 1174 . The abbey, which was completed in 1197, was the richest and most artistically important monastery in the Wetterau until 1802. The mostly preserved buildings and the village were taken over by the Count's House of Solms , whose coat of arms is reminiscent of blue and gold in the municipal coat of arms. The five crosses are the symbol of the Volksbund Deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge ; A resting place for war victims was created in the courtyard of the former cloister .

Web links

Commons : Arnsburg Monastery  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Arnsburg, district of Gießen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 17, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Lich profile. In: website. City of Lich, archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Biedenkopf and Marburg districts and the city of Marburg (Lahn) (GVBl. II 330-27) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 154 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, p. 303. DNB 770396321
  5. ↑ City committees. In: website. City of Lich, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ↑ Lich profile (2011-2015). In: website. City of Lich, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  7. ↑ Lich profile (from 2015). In: website. City of Lich, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  8. ^ Klemens Stadler : The municipal coat of arms of the state of Hesse . New edition of the collection of German local coats of arms by Prof. Otto Hupp on behalf of HAG Aktiengesellschaft in Bremen, edited by Dr. Klemens Stadler, drawings by Max Reinhart (=  German coat of arms - Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 3 ). Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 16 .