Langenstein (Kirchhain)

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Langenstein
City of Kirchhain
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 248  (221–275)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.14 km²
Residents : 1015  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 125 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35274
Area code : 06422
The long stone
The village church

With around 1000 inhabitants, Langenstein is the second largest district in the town of Kirchhain in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Central Hesse . It is located about two kilometers east of downtown Kirchhain and directly borders on Kirchhain.

history

The village takes its name from the Long Stone , a 4.75 meter high menhir . The Long Stone of Langenstein was probably erected in the Neolithic Age . It is located on the churchyard wall of the Protestant church in the center of the village. The menhir was originally about 6.30 meters high and 2.30 meters wide, but it was shortened to 4.75 meters high by a lightning strike . This made it one of the largest menhirs in Germany. The place was first mentioned in writing in 1135. The theologian and church politician Heinrich von Langenstein was born in Langenstein on the Hainbuch farm in 1325. At Langenstein was the castle of Leiterstädt .

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent community of Langenstein was incorporated into the town of Kirchhain as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Desolation

In the area of ​​today's Langenstein there are the following desolate places:

  • Heimersdorf World icon
  • Leiterstede World icon
  • network World icon

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Langenstein was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Courts since 1821

With an edict of June 29, 1821, administration and justice were separated in Kurhessen. Now judicial offices were responsible for the first instance jurisdiction, the administration was taken over by the districts. The Kirchhain district was responsible for the administration and the Kirchhain Justice Office was responsible for Langenstein as the court of first instance. The Supreme Court was the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel . The higher court of Marburg was subordinate to the province of Upper Hesse. It was the second instance for the Kirchhain Justice Office.

After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia, the justice office became the royal Prussian district court in Kirchhain . In June 1867 a royal decree was issued that reorganized the court system in the former Duchy of Nassau and the parts of the area that had previously belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The previous judicial authorities were to be repealed and replaced by local courts in the first, district courts in the second and an appeal court in the third instance. In the course of this, on September 1, 1867, the previous judicial office was renamed the Kirchhain District Court. The courts of the higher authorities were the Marburg District Court and the Kassel Court of Appeal .

With the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act of 1879, the district court continued to exist under his name. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are the Marburg Regional Court , the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

Population development

Occupied population figures up to 1967 are:

• 1504: 24 able-bodied men
• 1577: 57 house seats
• 1592: 17 four-in-hand farm workers, 33 one-run  men
• 1629: 43 house seats (1 five-in-hand, 6 four-in-hand, 2 three-in-hand, 6 two-in-hand, 3 single-horse farm workers, 21 single men).
• 1697: 41 house seats
• 1747: 74 households
• 1838: 615 residents (61 local residents who are entitled to use, 24 residents who are not entitled to use, 21  residents ).
Langenstein: Population from 1782 to 1967
year     Residents
1782
  
 403
1834
  
 606
1840
  
 602
1846
  
 639
1852
  
 635
1858
  
 627
1864
  
 652
1871
  
 616
1875
  
 574
1885
  
 617
1895
  
 573
1905
  
 600
1910
  
 674
1925
  
 691
1939
  
 748
1946
  
 1,015
1950
  
 977
1956
  
 896
1961
  
 875
1967
  
 976
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1861: 613 Lutheran , 5  Reformed , 20 Roman Catholic residents
• 1885: 613 Protestant (= 99.35%), 4 Catholic (= 0.65%) residents
• 1961: 827 Protestant (= 94.51%), 29 Catholic (= 3.31%) residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1782: Labor force: 3 blacksmiths, 4 tailors, 1 wagner, 2 linen weavers, 1 white weaver, 5 shepherds, 13 day laborers, 14 day laborers.
• 1838: Families: 50 agriculture, 10 trades, 21 day laborers.
• 1961: Labor force: 253 agriculture and forestry, 191 manufacturing, 33 trade and transport, 26 services and other.

Culture and sights

societies

SV Langenstein currently plays football in the Marburg District B League . He also has a girls department. There is also a men's choir, a church choir, a folk dance group, a trombone choir, a youth choir, a gospel choir and a volunteer fire brigade with an associated youth fire brigade in Langenstein .

Buildings

  • The eponymous long stone in the northeast corner of the closed churchyard walling.
  • With the Protestant St. Jakobi Church, Langenstein owns one of two churches in Germany that have a so-called double free-floating hexagonal honeycomb network vault .

Infrastructure

Facilities

Langenstein has a primary school and a Protestant kindergarten. There is also a village community center in Langenstein.

traffic

Langenstein is located on Kreisstraße 15 in the direction of Stadtallendorf and Neustadt and is connected to the B 454 via the Kirchhain-Langenstein junctions .

Web links

Commons : Langenstein (Kirchhain)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Langenstein, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 2, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Budget 2018. In: Internet presence. Stadt Kirchhain, p. 3 , archived from the original ; accessed in May 2018 .
  3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 402 .
  4. ^ Heimersdorf, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Leiterstede, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  6. ^ Network, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . T. Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 413 ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  9. ↑ The affiliation of the Kirchhain office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hesse : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  10. ^ Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender: 1818 . Publishing house d. Orphanage, Kassel 1818, p.  115 ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ↑ Ordinance of August 30th, 1821, concerning the new division of the area , Annex: Overview of the new division of the Electorate of Hesse according to provinces, districts and judicial districts. Collection of laws etc. for the Electoral Hesse states. Year 1821 - No. XV. - August. ( kurhess GS 1821) pp. 223-224 .
  12. ↑ Latest news from Meklenburg / Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities, edited from the best sources. in the publishing house of the GHG privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptouts, Weimar 1823, p.  158 ff . ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  13. ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories excluding the Meisenheim district of June 26, 1867. ( PrGS 1867, pp. 1094–1103 )
  14. ↑ Order of August 7, 1867, regarding the establishment of the according to the Most High Ordinance of June 26th J. in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories, with the exclusion of the Oberamtsbezirks Meisenheim, courts to be formed ( Pr. JMBl. Pp. 218-220 )