Leimbach (Willingshausen)

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Leimbach
Municipality Willingshausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 225 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.21 km²
Residents : 38  (Jan. 1, 2015)
Population density : 12 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 34628
Area code : 06691

Leimbach is a district of the Willingshausen community in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

geography

The place is in the south of the Schwalm on the small Leimbach. The small village consists of six homesteads .

history

The village was first mentioned in writing in 1196 in a document from the Spieskappel monastery . The places Mittelleimbach and Niederleimbach, also known as Mönchleimbach, became deserted in 1502 .

Today's Leimbach emerged from Oberleimbach. During the Thirty Years' War , the small village was completely burned down by the imperial troops of General Hans Rudolf von Breda on November 13 or 14, 1640, before the battle on Riebelsdorfer Berg , as well as Niederlimitebach , Steina , Loshausen , Ransbach , Zella and Salmshausen .

Territorial reform

On 1 January 1974 Leimbach was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse powerful state law with other municipalities and the community formed at 31 December 1971 Antrefftal to a new Village with the name Willingshausen together . Local districts were established for all former municipalities .

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Leimbach was mentioned under the following names (the year in which it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Linpach (1196)
  • villa Leinbach (1196)
  • Leigenbach (1197)
  • Leinbach (1251)
  • Leymbach (1252)
  • de superiori Lembach (1291)
  • media villa Lembach (1308)
  • in inferiori Lembach (1311)
  • Moniche Leymbach in the auwe (1341)
  • Moncheleimbach (1426)
  • Unterhof, Oberhof Leimbach (1585)
  • Niederleimbach, Nieder-Leimbach
  • Mönchleimbach, Mönch-Leimbach
  • Mittelleimbach, Mittel-Leimbach
  • Oberleimbach, Ober-Leimbach

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Leimbach .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Leimbach (upper, middle, lower), Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 8, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Economy and Transport. (No longer available online.) In: internetseite. Willingshausen community, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; accessed in September 2018 .
  3. ^ Topographia Hassiae: Treysa
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 412 .

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