Mellnau

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Mellnau
Community Wetter (Hessen)
Mellnau coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 313  (270-340)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 26.78 km²
Residents : 764  (June 30, 2018)
Population density : 29 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35083
Area code : 06423
Mellnau
Mellnau

Mellnau is a district of the municipality of Wetter (Hessen) in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf and has around 800 inhabitants.

geography

Mellnau is located in the castle forest at an altitude of about 270 to 340 m above sea level. NN.

history

At Mellnau was the Archbishop of Mainz , probably Siegfried III. von Eppstein , the Elnhoch Castle was built between 1248 and 1250 to protect the Wetter Monastery , the first documentary mention of which dates back to 1263. The castle Mellnau today is in ruins.

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, Mellnau was incorporated into the city of Wetter (Hessen-Nassau) as part of the regional reform in Hessen (the city's name at the time) .

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1821

With an edict of June 29, 1821, administration and justice were separated in Kurhessen. Now judicial offices were responsible for the first instance jurisdiction, the administration was taken over by the districts. The Marburg district was responsible for the administration and the Wetter Judicial Office was the court of first instance for Mellnau. The Supreme Court was the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel . The higher court of Marburg was subordinate to the province of Upper Hesse. It was the second instance for the judicial offices.

After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia, the judicial office of Wetter became the royal Prussian district court of Wetter in 1867 . In June 1867, a royal ordinance was issued that reorganized the court system in the areas that belonged to the former Electorate of Hesse. The previous judicial authorities were to be repealed and replaced by local courts in the first, district courts in the second and an appeal court in the third instance. In the course of this, on September 1, 1867, the previous judicial office was renamed the Wetter District Court. The courts of the higher authorities were the Marburg District Court and the Kassel Court of Appeal .

Even with the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act (GVG) in 1877, the district court remained in existence. In 1943 the district court became a branch of the district court of Marburg and in 1946 the branch was also closed. The district of the district court of Wetter merged with the district of the district court of Marburg.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are the Marburg Regional Court , the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1577: 35 house seats
• 1681: 18 home-seated teams
• 1747: 39 house seats
Mellnau: Population from 1785 to 2018
year     Residents
1785
  
 243
1834
  
 396
1840
  
 438
1846
  
 433
1852
  
 433
1858
  
 423
1864
  
 457
1871
  
 388
1875
  
 404
1885
  
 446
1895
  
 474
1905
  
 492
1910
  
 526
1925
  
 530
1939
  
 573
1946
  
 791
1950
  
 776
1956
  
 717
1961
  
 702
1967
  
 762
1976
  
 809
1995
  
 877
2018
  
 764
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1861: 423 Lutheran , 6  Reformed inhabitants
• 1885: 445 Protestant and one Catholic inhabitant
• 1961: 634 Protestant , 28 Roman Catholic residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1785: Labor force: 2 linen weavers, 1 tailor, 1 potash leather, 1 brickmaker, 2 shepherds, 8 day laborers.
• 1838: Families: 49 agriculture, 5 trades, 16 day laborers.
• 1961: Labor force: 169 agriculture and forestry, 136 manufacturing, 34 trade and transport, 28 services and other.
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Panoramic view from the castle

Infrastructure

In Mellnau there are sports and music clubs as well as a fraternity, the volunteer fire brigade , a traditional costume group and a tourist association. There is a kindergarten and a Protestant church.

Web links

Commons : Mellnau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Budget 2019 (statistical information) of the city of Wetter (PDF 5.4 MB)
  2. ↑ a b Mellnau - The village
  3. ^ Mellnau castle ruins
  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. 402 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Mellnau, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . T. Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 389 ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  8. ^ The affiliation of the weather office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  9. ^ Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender: 1818 . Publishing house d. Orphanage, Kassel 1818, p.  123 ( online at Google Books ).
  10. ↑ Ordinance of August 30th, 1821, concerning the new division of the area , Annex: Overview of the new division of the Electorate of Hesse according to provinces, districts and judicial districts. Collection of laws etc. for the Electoral Hesse states. Year 1821 - No. XV. - August., ( Kurhess GS 1821) pp. 223-224
  11. ↑ Latest news from Meklenburg / Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities, edited from the best sources. in the publishing house of the GHG privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptouts., Weimar 1823, p.  158 ff . ( Online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  12. ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Electorate of Hesse and the formerly Royal Bavarian territories with the exclusion of the enclave Kaulsdorf from June 19, 1867. ( PrGS 1867, pp. 1085-1094 )
  13. ↑ Order of August 7, 1867, regarding the establishment of the according to the Most High Ordinance of June 19 of this year. J. in the former Electorate of Hesse and the formerly Royal Bavarian territorial parts with the exclusion of the enclave Kaulsdorf, courts to be formed ( Pr. JMBl. Pp. 221–224 )
  14. ↑ Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann (Ed.): Weather, text booklet . Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-87707-642-4 , pp. 16 ( Online at Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen [PDF; 334 kB ]).