Munzenberg

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Munzenberg
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Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '  N , 8 ° 47'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Wetteraukreis
Height : 186 m above sea level NHN
Area : 31.63 km 2
Residents: 5777 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 183 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 35516
Primaries : 06033, 06004
License plate : FB, BÜD
Community key : 06 4 40 015
City structure: 4 districts

City administration address : 		Main street 22
35516 Munzenberg
Website : www.muenzenberg.de
Mayor : Dr. Isabell Tammer (FWG)
Location of the city of Munzenberg in the Wetterau district
Butzbach Münzenberg Rockenberg Ober-Mörlen Bad Nauheim Friedberg (Hessen) Rosbach vor der Höhe Wöllstadt Karben Bad Vilbel Wölfersheim Reichelsheim (Wetterau) Niddatal Florstadt Echzell Reichelsheim (Wetterau) Nidda Hirzenhain Gedern Ranstadt Glauburg Altenstadt (Hessen) Limeshain Ortenberg (Hessen) Kefenrod Büdingen Lahn-Dill-Kreis Landkreis Gießen Vogelsbergkreis Hochtaunuskreis Frankfurt am Main Main-Kinzig-Kreismap
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View of the Munzenberg district with a church and castle

Munzenberg is a town in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

geography

Munzenberg lies on the northern edge of the Wetterau at an altitude of 202  m above sea level. NN , 7.5 km northeast of Butzbach, and is traversed by the weather . Munzenberg consists of the districts of Gambach , Munzenberg, Ober-Hörgern and Trais .

Munzenberg borders in the north on the city of Pohlheim , in the east on the cities of Lich and Hungen (all three in the district of Gießen ), in the southeast on the municipality of Wölfersheim , in the south on the municipality of Rockenberg and in the west on the city of Butzbach (all three in the Wetteraukreis ).

history

middle Ages

The village of Munzenberg emerged as a settlement around Munzenberg Castle , which was built in the second half of the 12th century for Kuno I von Hagen-Arnsburg, who had named himself after Kuno I von Munzenberg Castle since 1156 at the latest . In 1245 the settlement was granted city rights.

In 1255, Munzenberg belonged as an allod to the Munzenberg inheritance , the estate of Ulrich II von Munzenberg . The Munzenberg inheritance was shared between six of his sisters, but continued to be administered together as a condominium . So initially each received a share:

The rights to the shares - and thus the rights of domination over Munzenberg - were inherited and in some cases also sold, so that different owner associations were formed again and again. The individual owners integrated their respective share in the administrative structures of their own rule. In the rule and later county of Hanau , the share was z. B. assigned to the local office of Münzenberg , in the county of Stolberg-Roßla to the local office of Ortenberg . The allocation of the shares to individual owners developed as follows:

Period Men's Remarks
1255-1256 Adelheid 1 / 6
∞ Reinhard I of Hanau 		Isengard 1 / 6
∞ Philip I of Falkenstein 		Mechthild 1 / 6
∞ Engelhard Weinberg 		Irmengard 1 / 6
∞ Konrad Weinberg 		Agnes 1 / 6
∞ Konrad of Schoneberg 		Hedwig 1 / 6
∞ Heinrich of Pappenheim 		Distribution of inheritance among six married daughters
1256-1272 Rule Hanau 1 / 6 Falk stone 3 / 6 Schoneberg 1 / 6 Pappenheim 1 / 6 Falkenstein acquired the two Weinsberg shares in 1256.
1272-1286 Rule Hanau 1 / 6 Falkenstein 4 / 6 Pappenheim 1 / 6 Falkenstein acquired the Schöneberg share in 1272.
1286-1418 Rule Hanau 1 / 6 Falk stone 5 / 6 Falkenstein acquired the Pappenheim share in 1286.
1418-1420 Rule Hanau 8 / 48 Eppstein 20 / 48 1418-1420 Solms-Braunfels (undivided) 20 / 48 In 1418 the Falkensteiners went out. Their share fell in equal parts to Solms and Eppstein.
1420-1433 Rule and county of Hanau 8 / 48 Eppstein 20 / 48 Solms -Braunfels (new branch) 15 / 48 Solms -lich 5 / 48 When the Solms house was divided in 1420, the Solms share was divided in a ratio of 3: 1 between the new Braunfels and Lich lines.
1433-1458 County Hanau 8 / 48 1433-1507 Eppstein coins Berg and Eppstein-Königstein 20 / 48 Solms -Braunfels 15 / 48 Solms -lich 5 / 48 The Eppstein house was divided into two lines.
1458-1507 Hanau-Münzenberg 8 / 48 1433-1507 Eppstein coins Berg and Eppstein-Königstein 20 / 48 Solms -Braunfels 15 / 48 Solms -lich 5 / 48 The Hanau house was divided into two lines in 1458. The Münzenberger shares come to Hanau-Münzenberg. The other line is Hanau-Babenhausen, later -Lichtenberg
1507-1535 Hanau-Münzenberg 8 / 48 1507-1535 Eppstein-Königstein 20 / 48 Solms-Braunfels 15 / 48 Solms-Lich 5 / 48 In 1507, the last male representative of the Eppstein-Munzenberg branch (expired in 1522) ceded his rights in exchange for a pension to the Eppstein-Königstein branch (expired in 1535).
1535-1548 Hanau-Münzenberg 8 / 48 1535-1581 Stolberg-Königstein 20 / 48 Solms-Braunfels

15 / 48

to 1548 Solms-Lich 5 / 48 Heir was the son of the sister of the last Count of Königstein from the Eppstein family. The Eppsteiner shares came to the House of Stolberg, from which two brothers formed the short-lived line Stolberg-Königstein 1535–1581.
1548-1581 Hanau-Münzenberg 8 / 48 1535-1581 Stolberg-Königstein 20 / 48 Solms-Braunfels 15 / 48 from 1548 Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 The Solmser Lich line split up in 1548, creating the Laubach line
1581-1642 Hanau-Münzenberg 8 / 48 Mainz 10 / 48 1581-1677 Stolberg-Wernigerode 10 / 48 to 1602 Solms-Braunfels, after 1602 Solms-Greifenstein 15 / 48 Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 1581 When the Stolberg-Königstein line was extinguished, Kurmainz occupied Königstein. Only half of the Eppsteiner share remained for the Stolberg family, while Kurmainz had collected the other half as a settled imperial fief. Comparison 1590. In 1602 the line Solms-Braunfels divided into three branches.
1642-1677 Hanau-Lichtenberg 8 / 48 Mainz 10 / 48 1581-1677 Stolberg-Wernigerode 10 / 48 to 1602 Solms-Braunfels, after 1602 Solms-Greifenstein 15 / 48 Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 In 1642 Hanau-Münzenberg goes out and falls to Hanau-Lichtenberg. Only for a short time independent again, shortly afterwards falls back to his brother.
1677-1684 Hanau-Lichtenberg 8 / 48 Mainz 10 / 48 1677-1684 Stolberg-Gedern 10 / 48 Solms-Greifenstein 15 / 48 Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 The line to Gedern split from Stolberg-Wernigerode in 1677.
1684-1736 Hanau-Lichtenberg 18 / 48 Stolberg-Gedern 10 / 48 Solms-Greifenstein 15 / 48
from 1693 Solms-Braunfels 		Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 In 1684 Mainz ceded its share to Hanau as part of an area swap. Solms-Braunfels dies out in 1693, Solms-Greifenstein takes over.
from 1736 Hesse-Kassel 18 / 48 Stolberg-Gedern 10 / 48 Solms-Braunfels 15 / 48 Solms-Laubach 5 / 48 In 1736 the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel inherited the County of Hanau-Münzenberg from Hanau-Lichtenberg, see here . The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg falls to Hessen-Darmstadt.

Clerics are mentioned in the village as early as 1183 , but it was not until 1376 that the local parish separated from the mother church in Trais and became an independent parish. The patronage of the church lies partly with the Ganerbschaft , the legal successors of the Munzenberg inheritance. The parish belonged to the diocese of Mainz . The middle church authority was the archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz , deanship Friedberg .

Various monasteries had farms in Munzenberg, such as the Arnsburg Monastery , the Dominican Monastery in Frankfurt and the Antonite Monastery in Grünberg .

Modern times

The shareholders in the condominium, to which Münzenberg also belonged, were predominantly members of the Wetterau Counts Association or were close to it. That is why the Reformation took hold here in the second half of the 16th century , ultimately in its Reformed form.

With the dissolution of the old territorial structures in Napoleonic times, Munzenberg was added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . However, until the administrative reform of 1821, it was still a part of the territorial lordship, which was to 18/48 the grand ducal office of Butzbach , 15/48 to the civil -Solms-Braunfels office of Hungen , to 10/48 to the civil-Stolberg-Ortenberg office of Ortenberg and to 5/48 belonged to the civil-Solms-Laubachischen Amt Utphe . In 1821 the district of Butzbach was formed, to which the grand-ducal and Stolberg part belonged, while the district of Hungen was responsible for the Solms part. All of this was brought together in the Hungen district in 1841 . During the revolution of 1848 , Münzenberg belonged to the Friedberg administrative district , from 1852 to the Friedberg district , which was merged into the Wetterau district in 1972. In 1957, Munzenberg became town again.

Incorporations

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the city of Munzenberg and the municipality of Gambach were merged on October 1, 1971; the amalgamation was given the name of Münzenberg and the right to continue to use the name “city”, which the municipality of Münzenberg was previously entitled to. On December 31, 1971, the communities of Trais-Munzenberg and Ober-Hörgern ( district of Gießen ) were incorporated into the new town.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Münzenberg was located since the end of the 18th century 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 Domominalmt Butzbach and the civil offices of Hungen, Ortenberg and Utphe were responsible for Munzenberg. 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 1821 the Friedberg district court was responsible for Dominalen and Stolberg shares and from 1822 the Hungen district court for Solms shares. In the years up to 1825, the landlords gave their rights to the courts to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. It was only as a result of the March Revolution of 1848 that the special civil rights were finally abolished with the “Law on the Relationships of Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848. On November 1, 1848, the whole city of Munzenberg belonged to the Butzbach 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 "Butzbach Local Court" and assigned to the district of the regional court of Giessen . On June 1, 1934, the Hungen District Court was dissolved and Utphe was assigned to the Lich District Court .

In 2004 the Butzbach District Court was dissolved and integrated into the Friedberg 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 development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: 1057 Protestant (= 84.90%), 167 Catholic (= 13.41%) residents
Munzenberg: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 863
1840
  
 851
1846
  
 840
1852
  
 909
1858
  
 928
1864
  
 933
1871
  
 902
1875
  
 880
1885
  
 803
1895
  
 819
1905
  
 856
1910
  
 905
1925
  
 968
1939
  
 930
1946
  
 1,362
1950
  
 1,372
1956
  
 1,309
1961
  
 1,245
1967
  
 1,206
1970
  
 1,057
1972
  
 4,470
1976
  
 4,608
1984
  
 4,898
1992
  
 5,151
2000
  
 5,600
2015
  
 5,600
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000, 2015 :; 2010:
From 1972 including the towns incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
   
A total of 23 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 43.5 10 48.5 12 42.6 10 40.5 12
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 38.9 9 40.9 10 46.6 12 41.9 13
FWG Free community of voters in Munzenberg 17.6 4th 10.6 3 10.7 3 11.7 4th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens - - - - - - 5.4 2
FDP Free Democratic Party - - - - - - 0.5 0
total 100.0 25th 100.0 25th 100.0 25th 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 60.9 66.4 59.5 61.7

Town twinning

Munzenberg maintains a partnership with Ronneburg in Thuringia .

Attractions

Munzenberg Castle in an engraving by Matthäus Merian

traffic

Street

Berg coins is the national road 488 and the highway access coins Berg on the motorway 45 opened up. The Autobahn 5 (Hattenbacher Dreieck - Weil am Rhein ) and the A 45 ( Dortmund - Aschaffenburg ) meet at the neighboring Gambacher Kreuz .

railroad

Entrance building of the station

Munzenberg station is on the Butzbach - Lich trunk line of the Butzbach-Licher Railway (BLE). It went into operation together with the line on March 28, 1904. Passenger traffic was abandoned here on May 27, 1961. Freight traffic was stopped on September 26, 1985 between Munzenberg and Trais-Munzenberg.

Today the Munzenberg train station is the end of the trains of the museum railway of the Eisenbahnfreunde Wetterau e. V. (EfW) . The trains travel the route via Griedel and Rockenberg to Bad Nauheim Nord . In freight transport, wood is loaded here, which is transported to the Main-Weser Railway via the Butzbach Ost station . The entrance building of the Munzenberg train station is now a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Bus transport

Munzenberg belongs to the area of ​​the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). The buses of the VGO lines FB-52 and FB-57, which connect Munzenberg with Butzbach , Lich and Beienheim , stop in town .

Born in Munzenberg

literature

  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area = writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 (1937). ND 1984, p. 26.
  • Upper Hessian Association for Local History (Hrsg.): History and description of Munzenberg in the Wetterau. Roth, Giessen 1879 ( digitized version )
  • Heinz Wionski: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II. Stuttgart 1999, pp. 750-788.
  • Literature on Munzenberg in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Literature by and about Münzenberg in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Commons : Munzenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Munzenberg in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 360 .
  3. ↑ a b c Münzenberg, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ↑ 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 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  6. ↑ 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 ).
  7. ^ A b 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. 72 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  8. ↑ 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 ]).
  9. ^ Announcement, various changes in the district division of the Laubach, Hungen, Lich and Butzbach regional courts regarding October 5, 1848 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. p. 366)
  10. ^ 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 ]).
  11. ^ 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 ]).
  12. ^ Local elections 1972; Relevant population of the municipalities on August 4, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No.  33 , p. 1424 , point 1025 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  13. ↑ Local elections 1977; Relevant population figures for the municipalities as of December 15, 1976 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1976 No.  52 , p. 2283 , point 1668 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.3 MB ]).
  14. ^ Local elections 1985; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 30, 1984 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1984 No.  46 , p. 2175 , point 1104 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  15. ↑ local elections 1993; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 21, 1992 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1992 No.  44 , p. 2766 , point 935 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).
  16. ↑ Municipal data sheet : Munzenberg. (PDF; 222 kB) In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agency GmbH ;
  17. ↑ The population of the Hessian communities on June 30, 2010. (PDF; 552 kB) Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, p. 11 , archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  18. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  19. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  20. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006