Munster (Butzbach)

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Muenster
City of Butzbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 25 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 253 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.12 km²
Residents : 606  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 118 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Incorporated into: Philippseck
Postal code : 35510
Area code : 06033
Münster in front of the local mountain
Münster in front of the local mountain

Münster is a district of Butzbach in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

Geographical location

Münster is located on the western edge of the Wetterau on the border with the densely wooded Hintertaunus, around five kilometers southwest of the core town of Butzbach and is part of the Taunus Nature Park . District road  15 leads through the village .

history

The place name is of a busy multi-clergy church , a so-called. Munster derived. Fauerbach vor der Höhe , Maibach and Bodenrod still belong to the parish today . The first documented mention that has been preserved comes from the year 1271, however, based on excavations, it is assumed that the first settlement took place as early as the Stone Age .

Between 1626 and 1628 Landgrave Philip III built. von Butzbach built an escape lock on the Schlossberg Haus Philippseck . Today only remains of it are preserved.

The Protestant church was consecrated on May 1, 1631. Below Philippseck was a smelting mill, which was used as a hammer mill and smelter in the times when silver and ore were mined in this area . The silver and ore mining ended in the 15th and 16th. Century. Lead was mined until 1878. The last mine ( Philippseck mine ) was finally shut down in the 1930s.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the state government approved the voluntary amalgamation of the communities of Fauerbach vor der Höhe and Münster in the Friedberg district to form a community called Philippseck , which was to exist for only 13 months, with effect from December 31, 1970 . After the incorporation of the Philippseck community into the city of Butzbach on February 1, 1972, a local district with a local advisory council and mayor was set up for Münster as for every district . The local district includes the area of ​​the Münster district without the Wiesental area .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 252 Protestant (= 58.60%), 171 Catholic (= 39.77%) residents
Münster: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 361
1840
  
 366
1846
  
 388
1852
  
 390
1858
  
 386
1864
  
 298
1871
  
 294
1875
  
 262
1885
  
 237
1895
  
 219
1905
  
 215
1910
  
 229
1925
  
 232
1939
  
 215
1946
  
 386
1950
  
 459
1956
  
 490
1961
  
 430
1967
  
 575
1970
  
 549
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2008
  
 746
2010
  
 600
2015
  
 596
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: City of Butzbach

Cultural monuments

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Münster, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 7, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population of the individual city districts. In: Internet presence. City of Butzbach, archived from the original ; accessed on May 22, 2018 . (archived numbers)
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of communities to form the Philippseck community on January 6, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 140 , point 163 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 361 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 103 kB) § 5. In: Website. City of Butzbach, 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. 8 ( 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. 418 ( online at Google Books ).

Web links

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