Langsdorf (Lich)

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Langsdorf
City of Lich
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 167 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.29 km²
Residents : 1379  (Dec. 2018)
Population density : 112 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35423
Area code : 06404

Langsdorf has been part of the city of Lich in the central Hessian district of Gießen since January 1st, 1977 and is located about three kilometers southeast of the city center.

history

Evangelical Reformed Church Langsdorf
Lich-Langsdorf, town hall
Half-timbered ensemble in Langsdorf

Langsdorf was first mentioned in a document in 771 in the Lorsch Codex on the occasion of a donation of 20 yoke of farmland to the Lorsch Monastery as Lanctorp . Later spellings of the place name are u. a. Langesdorf (1263) or Langistorff (1367). It is not clear whether the name is derived from Langes Dorf or is based on a personal name Lanco .

Langsdorf came to Hersfeld Abbey in 782 through a donation from Charlemagne . As one of the oldest settlements in the Hersfelder Mark, the place had its own court , chaired by the Zentgraf , later the bailiff , and then the mayor . In a so-called freedom letter , the Langsdorf residents were assured that they had to pay taxes, but were exempt from the so-called court services for the rulership. Langsdorf later became the property of the Falkensteiners , in 1418 to the Solms family and to Solms-Braunfels .

In September 1263, Hessian and German history was written in the town: Langsdorf became a neutrally situated place of negotiation over territorial disputes between Margrave Heinrich von Meißen , Sophie von Brabant and the Archbishop of Mainz , Werner von Eppstein . Their result, the replacement of Hesse from the Landgraviate of Thuringia , was proclaimed in the Langsdorf Peace .

The Thirty Years War brought difficult times . Both Tilly's troops and those of Wallenstein devastated the place. After 1648, only 250 of the 450 inhabitants were still alive, and only 50 of 88 houses remained. 30 families were completely wiped out. During the Napoleonic Wars Langsdorf had to serve in the French army.

Around 1700 there were disputes with the sovereign Wilhelm Moritz zu Solms-Braunfels in several communities around Hungen ; the leaders of these cross brothers , as they called themselves, came from Langsdorf. After Braunfels had initially sent its own troops , later also to aid Prussian troops, to the "Hoingische Aufwickler" (for non-Hessians: Hungener rebellious) , there was an escape to the neighboring territories.

In 1848 the March Laws gave Jews full citizenship; In Langsdorf alone, 300 guilders per capita were required to be registered in the citizens' list. Meanwhile belonging to the district of Friedberg , the local court had to intervene and help the then around 50 local Jews to their rights. Bad economic conditions meant that between 1840 and 1900 about 170 residents left the place to make a fresh start in America .

There were also many dead in the First and Second World Wars . The population increased considerably after 1945 due to the influx of expellees from the eastern German territories ; a new district was created on the other side of the railway, which today is as big as the old village center.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipal council decided with 7: 1 votes for incorporation into the city of Hungen; this was refused by the state of Hesse , so that after some quarrels, the community was incorporated into Lich on January 1, 1977 under the law for the reorganization of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen . For Langsdorf, as for all parts of the city, a local district with a local advisory council and a local mayor was set up.

School system

The first expenses for a school are documented in box bills from 1562, in 1595 a first school house was built, which was probably not used for long, because in the following years constantly changing school addresses are noted. From 1849 the two-class school got its permanent seat in the manor house, with the beginning of the school year 1955/56 the current school could be occupied. Originally an eight-grade elementary school , it has been a pure elementary school for the children from Birklar and Bettenhausen since 1969, and the older pupils have been taught at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer School in Lich since then.

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or landlords and thus from 1806 the "Patrimonial Court of the Princes Solms-Braunfels" in Hungen was responsible for Langsdorf. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The second instance for the patrimonial courts were the civil law firms. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance 1821–1822 were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. From 1822, the princes of Solms-Braunfels let the Grand Duchy of Hesse exercise their court rights on their behalf. “ District Court Hungen ” was therefore the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Langsdorf. The prince also waived his right to the second instance, which was exercised by the law firm in Hungen. It was only as a result of the March Revolution in 1848 that the special rights of the civil servants became final with the “Law on the Relationships of Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848 canceled. With effect from January 1, 1882, the Langsdorf community was assigned to the Lich District Court .

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to "Lich Local Court" and allocation to the district of the regional court of Giessen . On June 1, 1934, the Lich District Court was dissolved and Langsdorf was assigned to the Gießen District Court . The superordinate instances are now, the regional court Gießen , the higher regional court Frankfurt am Main and the federal court as last instance.

population

Population development

Langsdorf: Population from 1830 to 2018
year     Residents
1830
  
 828
1834
  
 798
1840
  
 824
1846
  
 854
1852
  
 728
1858
  
 753
1864
  
 810
1871
  
 853
1875
  
 885
1885
  
 920
1895
  
 889
1905
  
 915
1910
  
 919
1925
  
 939
1939
  
 886
1946
  
 1,462
1950
  
 1,532
1956
  
 1,294
1961
  
 1,270
1967
  
 1,219
1970
  
 1,218
1988
  
 1,178
2008
  
 1,399
2011
  
 1,382
2015
  
 1,385
2018
  
 1,379
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1970 :; 1988-2008; after 2010: City of Lich

In 1961 the following labor force was counted: 270 in agriculture and forestry; 222 in manufacturing; 71 in commerce, transport and communications; 71 in the service sector or other trade.

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1830: 775 Protestant, one Roman Catholic and 52 Jewish residents
• 1961: 960 Protestant, 227 Roman Catholic residents

Religions

  • Evangelical parish: An independent parish has existed in Langsdorf since 1553. With the conversion to the Reformed Confession of the then sovereign Konrad von Braunfels in the course of the Reformation, Langsdorf also became an Evangelical Reformed parish in 1582.
  • New Apostolic Church : Founded in 1920, a small church of its own could be built in 1980.
  • A synagogue existed from 1866 to 1934.

coat of arms

The local coat of arms shows the former gate with the towers of Langsdorf under a sun.

Culture and sights

The cultural center is the Volkshalle . Around 27 to 30 associations improve the village climate and support the communicative interaction between the citizens. After winning the title " Dolles Dorf " in 2005, a community foundation was established, which financially supports projects in the village, including the construction of the barbecue hut.

Buildings

Half-timbered houses in Reichgasse
  • Church , consecrated in 1782. Baroque-classical mixed building without choir. The church tower from the 13th century with two bells from 1657 and two new ones from 1949 comes from the previous church that was demolished in 1780.
  • Half-timbered town hall from the end of the 17th century with an oriel porch and arched window hall on the ground floor, saved shortly before complete deterioration in 1921 and beautifully restored.
  • In the village center there are still many well-preserved and lovingly restored half-timbered houses in the Franconian-Hessian half-timbered construction typical of the region. The oldest building in the village is in Reichgasse and was built between 1561 and 1563 by the Lower Saxon master builder Christian Gabriel von Ilmenau. Unlike most of the half-timbered houses in Langsdorf, this so-called Hegerich house is characterized by Lower Saxon decorative shapes and the strikingly high courtyard gate.

traffic

View of the old station building in Langsdorf

Until December 2001 the federal highway 457 running from Gießen to Gründau ran through the center of Langsdorf. Since then, a bypass has led directly past Langsdorf. There is also a stop in Langsdorf on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line ( Lahn-Kinzig railway ).

Personalities

literature

  • Reinhold Jacobi: Langsdorf. In: Licher Heimatbuch. The core city and its districts. Edited by Paul Görlich, published by the Lich City Administration in 1989.
  • Dieter Wolf : A map of the offices of Gambach and Langsdorf in Solms-Braunfels from 1695. In: Butzbacher Geschichts-Blätter. No. 195, 2005, pp. 185 ff.
  • Literature about Langsdorf in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Langsdorf  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Lich profile. In: website. City of Lich, archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .
  3. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3028, April 29, 771 - Reg. 607. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 61 , accessed on May 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ↑ City committees. In: website. City of Lich, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  8. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 21, 438 ( online at google books ).
  9. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 424 ( online at Google Books ).
  10. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 135 ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ↑ Theodor Hartleben (Ed.): General German Justice, Camera and Police Fama, Volume 2, Part 1 . Johann Andreas Kranzbühler, 1832, p. 271 ( online at Google Books ).
  12. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  13. ↑ Announcement concerning the formation of the district court districts of Hungen, Lich, Laubach, Grünberg, Homberg, Alsfeld, Vilbel and Friedberg on December 24, 1881 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. pp. 203-204 )
  14. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  15. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of district courts of April 11, 1934 . In: The Hessian Minister of State (Hrsg.): Hessisches Regierungsblatt. 1934 No. 10 , p. 63 ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 13.6 MB ]).
  16. ^ 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. 364 .
  17. ^ " Heimatbuch der Stadt Lich", Stadtverwaltung Lich.
  18. ↑ Lich profile (2011-2015). In: website. City of Lich, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  19. ↑ Lich profile (from 2015). In: website. City of Lich, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  20. ↑ The "Dolle Village" can benefit from its success in the long term. In: Gießener Allgemeine from August 11, 2008.