Mönstadt

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Mönstadt
community Grävenwiesbach
Coat of arms of Mönstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '16 "  N , 8 ° 25' 34"  E
Height : 296 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.7 km²
Residents : 421  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 74 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 61279
Area code : 06086

Mönstadt is a district of Grävenwiesbach in the Hochtaunus district in Hesse .

geography

Mönstadt is located in the eastern Hintertaunus in the Taunus Nature Park . The village is about 3 kilometers west of Grävenwiesbach. The highest elevations near Mönstadt are the Kaiserley with 363 meters above sea ​​level and the Spießberg with 383 meters above sea level.

Neighboring towns are Heinzenberg (west), Grävenwiesbach (east) and Naunstadt (southeast).

history

Mönstadt is first mentioned in 1404 as "Miönstadt". Like Hundstadt, Mönstadt is probably a planned expansion site to Grävenwiesbach and has always been part of the Grävenwiesbach parish. In 1512 the place was called "Monschit". At that time, 22 families lived in the village. In 1622 the number of families had grown to 33. The Thirty Years' War made the village, as well as many surrounding villages, difficult to create. It was almost completely destroyed. After the destruction, only one family is recorded in the church books. In 1746 the place had grown again to 24 families. They had 3 horses, 20 oxen and bulls, 19 cows, 161 sheep and 45 pigs. From the end of the 18th century the population increased again. While around 1800 the population level of 1622 was reached, in 1830 there were already approx. 185 adult inhabitants. In 1910 about 210 inhabitants were counted. Until after the First World War , the Ernstemühle, an oil mill, belonged to Mönstadt. During the Second World War , around 100 people were evacuated from the Rhine-Main area to Mönstadt in order to protect them from the Allied bombing raids. After the war there was an immigration of displaced persons . From the 1960s, the economic structure changed dramatically. The importance of agriculture, which was almost the only source of income, declined, people worked as commuters in Frankfurt or the Vordertaunus. Associated with this was a doubling of the population.

Territorial history

Mönstadt belonged to the lordship of Neuweilnau and there to the parish of Grävenwiesbach. As part of this rule, Mönstadt came to Nassau-Usingen in 1659 and was incorporated into the Usingen administration . With the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau in 1866, Mönstadt became Prussian and part of the Usingen district , which became part of the Hochtaunus district in 1972 . As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the communities Mönstadt and Grävenwiesbach and other communities voluntarily merged to form the community of Grävenwiesbach on December 31, 1971.

School history

town hall

The children from Mönstadt attended the parish school in Grävenwiesbach until Heinzenberg had its own school in 1661, which was also attended by the children from Mönstadt and Winden. In 1800 a new school building was built in Heinzenberg. In order not to have to share in the costs, Mönstadt decided to send the children back to school in Grävenwiesbach. With the reorganization of the school system in the Duchy of Nassau in 1819, however, it was decreed that Mönstadt belong to the Heinzenberg school district. The now too small school in Heinzenberg was replaced by a new building in 1827, to which Mönstadt also had to contribute financially.

From 1889 the community of Mönstadt had its own school. The pupils were taught in a room above the bakery in the town hall until their own school was built in 1910/1911. However, the school was only used for about 80 years. With the school reform in 1967, central elementary schools were created and the pupils now attended the elementary school in Grävenwiesbach. The school building is now used as a kindergarten. In 1995 the village community center and the fire station were built in the schoolyard .

The railroad

In 1895 the Usinger Land was opened up by railway lines. The Usinger Bahn connected Usingen with Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and Frankfurt am Main . In 1909 Mönstadt was also connected directly via the Weiltalbahn (which led to Weilburg ). The Heinzenberg stop of this train was halfway between Heinzenberg and Mönstadt. In 1912 the connection via the Solmsbachtalbahn to Wetzlar was added. The railway bridge over the Steinkerzbachtal near Mönstadt was spectacular. The steel bridge was about 120 meters long and 24 meters high. In 1969 the railway line was shut down and the bridge demolished in 1974.

Attractions

economy

The savings and loan fund Mönstadt eGmbH merged in 1968 with the Raiffeisenbank Grävenwiesbach .

Web links

Commons : Mönstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  • History Grävenwiesbach im Taunus
  • Karl Moses: 600 years Mönstadt ; in: Yearbook of the Hochtaunuskreis 2004 , ISBN 3-7973-0862-0 , pp. 61–64
  1. ↑ Areas on the website of the municipality of Grävenwiesbach , accessed in July 2016.
  2. ↑ Population statistics on the website of the municipality of Grävenwiesbach , accessed in July 2016.
  3. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 266
  4. ↑ The railway bridge over the Steinkerzbachtal