Meiches

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Meiches
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 465  (463-487)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.35 km²
Residents : 460  (Dec 2011)
Population density : 55 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36369
Area code : 06630

Meiches is a district of the Lautertal municipality in the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse .

geography

Meiches is located on the Vogelsberg in the "Hoher Vogelsberg" nature park. State roads 3162 and 3163 meet in the village .

geology

South of Meiches, in the otherwise fine-grained basalt of the Vogelsberg, there are veins and dikes of a coarse-grained rock, which is described in the literature as "nepheline indolerite" and consists of nepheline , titanium nugite, leucite , magnetite , sanidine , apatite and biotite , with the single grains reach cm size. In 1741 the rock was (unsuccessfully) mined there on a trial basis for silver extraction.

history

Evangelical Church in Meiches

The earliest known written mention of Meiches as Eyches is dated after 1342. The Meicheser Totenkirche was built in 1729. Before that there was a Holy Cross Church in the same place, which until 2008 was assumed to be St. George's Church. This church was probably built around 1300.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Meiches in 1830:

"Meiches (L. Bez. Alsfeld) evangel. Parish village; is located in Vogelsberg, 3 St. from Alsfeld, has 100 houses and 524 inhabitants, all of whom are Protestant, then 1 church in the village, 1 Todtenkirche (chapel) not far from the village, and 2 community bakeries. Among the tradespeople are some linen weavers, lathe operators, brandewein distillers, etc. At the Todtenkirche there is a baptismal font, or actually a votive cauldron, with the year CCCCCI. which is probably MCCCCI. should be read. The earlier name was Eiches or to the Eiches, from which Meiches subsequently arose. "

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality Lautertal was newly formed on December 31, 1971 through the merger of the previous municipalities Eichelhain, Eichenrod, Engelrod, Hörgenau and Meiches. On February 1, 1972 Dirlammen and Hopfmannsfeld were added. On February 1, 1980, the name of the municipality was officially changed to Lautertal (Vogelsberg) .

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Meiches was located or 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 the Ulrichstein office was responsible for Meiches.

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 establishment of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts between 1821 and 1822 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. Meiches fell into the judicial district of the " Alsfeld Regional Court ".

By order of the Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Justice, Meiches was ceded to the district of the newly established Ulrichstein Regional Court on December 1, 1838 .

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 "Ulrichstein Local Court" and allocation to the district of the regional court of Giessen .

In 1943 the Ulrichstein District Court lost its independence and became a branch of the Schotten District Court . With effect from July 1, 1968, the local court Schotten and Meiches came to the judicial district of the Lauterbach local court .

On January 1, 2005, the Lauterbach District Court was repealed as a full court and became a branch of the Alsfeld District Court .

On January 1, 2012, this branch was also closed. The superordinate instances are now the Regional Court of Giessen , the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

Population development

• 1791: 455 inhabitants
• 1800: 435 inhabitants
• 1806: 492 inhabitants, 93 houses
• 1829: 524 inhabitants, 100 houses
• 1867: 539 inhabitants, 90 inhabited buildings
• 1875: 508 inhabitants, 93 inhabited buildings
Meiches: Population from 1791 to 2011
year     Residents
1791
  
 455
1800
  
 435
1806
  
 492
1829
  
 524
1834
  
 523
1840
  
 565
1846
  
 598
1852
  
 592
1858
  
 501
1864
  
 545
1871
  
 533
1875
  
 508
1885
  
 507
1895
  
 473
1905
  
 463
1910
  
 465
1925
  
 442
1939
  
 465
1946
  
 619
1950
  
 580
1956
  
 507
1961
  
 477
1967
  
 466
1970
  
 487
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 459
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 524 Protestant (= 100%) residents
• 1961: 459 Protestant (= 96.23%), 18 Catholic (= 3.77%) residents

politics

The mayor is Achim Hofmann (as of April 2016) .

Culture and sights

Regular events

In Meiches there is a church fair every year at Whitsun .

societies

  • Volunteer firefighter
  • Shooting club
  • Fair boys
  • Male choir "Liederkranz" Meiches
  • Evangelical women's choir

Local peculiarities

Board with a map of the grave sites on the Totenkopf in Meiches
  • Meiches is the only place in Germany that still has clan graves in addition to the usual row graves. Every house in the village has specific graves in the cemetery, and those who are buried there are usually buried in the graves of their own ancestors.

Sons and daughters of Meiches

  • Else Bierau (1877–1966), member of the Hessian state parliament (DVP)

Infrastructure

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Meiches, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 15, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ District profile of Meiches. (PDF; 564 kB) Lautertal (Vogelsberg) community, accessed on December 10, 2017 .
  3. ^ W. Wimmenauer: Petrography of igneous and metamorphic rocks . Enke, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-432-94671-6 , pp. 204 .
  4. ↑ C. Chelius: Geological guide through the Vogelsberg . Emil Roth, Giessen 1904, p. 16-17 .
  5. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 172 ( online at google books ).
  6. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 367, 368 and 386 .
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ^ 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 ).
  9. ^ The affiliation of the Ulrichstein office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hesse : Hessen-Marburg 1567-1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604-1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567-1866 .
  10. ^ 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. 13 ff ., § 24 point d) VIII. ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  211 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ 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. 9 ( online at google books ).
  13. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  280 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 423 ( online at Google Books ).
  15. ^ 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. 6th ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  16. ↑ Announcement, the establishment of a regional court in Ulrichstein on October 31, 1938 . In: Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior and Justice (Ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1838 No. 36 , p. 385 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 40,9 MB ]).
  17. ^ 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 ]).
  18. ^ Order of the President of the Regional Court in Giessen from June 16, 1943 - 3200 - Subject: Establishment of the Ulrichstein branch of the Schotten Local Court
  19. ↑ Second law amending the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210-16) of February 12, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1968 No. 4 , p. 41–44 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 298 kB ]).
  20. ↑ Amendment to the Court Organization Act (GVBl. I pp. 507–508) of December 20, 2004 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 2004 No. 24 , p. 507–508 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,4 MB ]).
  21. ↑ Fourth ordinance on the adaptation of organizational regulations in the courts. Art. 1, §4, Paragraph 1 (GVBl. I p. 552) of December 29, 2004 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 2004 No. 25 , p. 552 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  22. ^ Fifth ordinance amending the judicial jurisdiction ordinance Justice. (Article 1, Paragraph 2. aa)) of December 9, 2010 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 2010 No. 25 , p. 709 f . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 148 kB ]). Refers to the ordinance on judicial competences in the area of ​​the Ministry of Justice (Judicial Competency Ordinance Justiz) (GVBl. II 210-98) of October 26, 2008 . In: Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 2008 No. 17 , p. 822 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 116 kB ]).
  23. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  231 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  24. ↑ Housing spaces 1867 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 117 ( online at google books ).
  25. ↑ Residential places 1875 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 15 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 18 ( online at google books ).
  26. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;

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