Merlau

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Merlau
Municipality Mücke (Hessen)
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '22 "  N , 9 ° 1' 37"  E
Height : 267 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.48 km²
Residents : 1084  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 145 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : September 1, 1970
Postal code : 35325
Area code : 06400

Merlau is a district of the municipality of Mücke in the central Hessian Vogelsbergkreis and the seat of the municipal administration.

Geographical location

Merlau is located on the northern edge of the Vogelsberg and on the left western side of the valley of the Seenbach . The development has grown together with that of the neighboring district of Flensungen to the south .

The district area is 748 hectares, of which 314 hectares are forested (status: 1961).

history

Merla
Evangelical Church in Merlau from 1857

The oldest known written mention of ooo was in 1199 under the name Merlouwe . A regionally important noble family resided in Merlau in the Middle Ages. One son of the house, Johann I von Merlau , was prince abbot of Fulda from 1395 to 1440 .

Heinrich von Eisenbach , Hereditary Marshal of Hesse , confessed on April 11, 1344 that he wanted to redeem the House of Merlau and the associated courts in Felda and Bobenhausen , which he had pledged to him, to Landgrave Heinrich zu Hesse , but that he was Petershagen except that the landgrave had given him to sit in on his castle .

In the Merlau Treaty of 1582, Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel and the Archbishop of Mainz Wolfgang von Dalberg agreed on long-simmering border conflicts between Kurmainz and the Landgraviate, with almost all of the remaining Mainz possessions in North Hesse finally falling to the Landgraviate, however Hessen-Kassel gave up its claims in Eichsfeld .

In the Topographia Germaniae by Matthäus Merian from 1646/1655 Merlau is described as follows:

"Not far from this place is the imaginary castle Mörla / or Merla / in a valley vnnd Wiesengrund / which LandGraff Ludwig elder has most gracefully inherited: And in this area there are many beautiful forests / and comfortable hunts."

- Matthäus Merian : Topographia Hassiae et Regionum Vicinarum

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

"Merlau (L. Bez. Grünberg) evangel. Parish village; is located on the Seebach, 1 1 ⁄ 2  St. from Grünberg, has 78 houses and 421 inhabitants, who are Protestant apart from 1 Catholics and 18 Jews. The service is held in a former stately building; Merlau then has 2 mills, under which there are 2 oil and 1 cutting mill. - The place already had its own centgrave in 1190, and in 1327 its own pastor. In 1344 the Merlau house, along with the associated courts of Felda and Bobenhausen, was pledged by the Landgrave to the Hereditary Marshal Heinrich von Eisenbach. The lords of Merlau, who were sometimes called bailiffs and sometimes lords of Merlau, but who definitely belonged to the lower nobility from the 14th to the 17th century, had half of the castle and court in Merlau as a pledge, but received it after Landgrave Philip had it Had paid pledge, as a loan. "

and about the hamlet of Kirschgarten:

“Kirschgarten (L. Bez. Grünberg) hamlet; is located on the Ohm, 1 3 ⁄ 4  St. from Grünberg, has 9 houses and 48 inhabitants, like a castle with a beautiful dairy. "

In Merlau - as well as in the municipality of Kirschgarten , which was incorporated there in 1939 - the municipal and official usage of Grünberg was a particular right . The Common Law was only included if the office I do not need regulations. This special law of old tradition retained its validity during the affiliation to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century, until it was replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly valid throughout the German Empire .

On April 1, 1939, the Kirschgarten community was incorporated.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the communities of Flensungen and Merlau in the Alsfeld district merged on September 1, 1970 to form the new community of Mücke. After the incorporation of a number of other communities into the community of Mücke, the common local district of Mücke with local advisory board and mayor was set up for Flensungen and Merlau . The boundaries of the other local districts follow the previous district boundaries.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Merlau was located 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 the "Amt Grünberg" was responsible for Merlau. 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 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 courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. " Landgericht Grünberg " was therefore from 1821 to 1879 the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Merlau.

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 "Amtsgericht Grünberg" and assigned to the district of the regional court of Giessen . On July 1, 1968, the Grünberg District Court was dissolved, Merlau was added to the Alsfeld District Court . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are 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: 316 (Kirschgarten 38) inhabitants
• 1800: 316 (Kirschgarten 43) inhabitants
• 1806: 312 (Kirschgarten 27) residents, 60 (Kirschgarten 7) houses
• 1829: 421 (Kirschgarten 48) inhabitants, 78 (Kirschgarten 9) houses
• 1867: 376 (Kirschgarten 65) inhabitants, 72 (Kirschgarten 10) inhabited buildings
• 1875: 378 (Kirschgarten 57) inhabitants, 72 (Kirschgarten 10) inhabited buildings
Merlau: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 316
1800
  
 316
1806
  
 312
1829
  
 421
1834
  
 497
1840
  
 523
1846
  
 547
1852
  
 541
1858
  
 493
1864
  
 451
1871
  
 475
1875
  
 435
1885
  
 423
1895
  
 423
1905
  
 542
1910
  
 593
1925
  
 674
1939
  
 706
1946
  
 999
1950
  
 1,036
1956
  
 995
1961
  
 963
1967
  
 973
1970
  
 1,016
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 1,134
2015
  
 1,084
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: 402 Protestant (= 95.49%) 12 Jewish (= 2.85%), one Catholic resident
• 1961: 817 Protestant (= 83.11%), 141 Catholic (= 14.34%) residents

religion

The Catholic Church in Merlau

The previous church already served as a parish church in the pre-Reformation period. The parish were cherry orchard and Weick Arts grove . There was also the castle church of Merlau Castle . Merlau was subordinate to the Send district in Nieder-Ohmen, but formed its own court in 1577. Ecclesiastically it was assigned to the Archdiocese of Mainz in the Archdiaconate St. Stephan . After the Reformation in 1536, Merlau was the first Lutheran pastor.

Evangelical

There is a Protestant church in Merlau,

Catholic

the Catholic parish of St. Johannes Evangelist, Mücke-Merlau, Flensunger Weg 57

and a New Apostolic Congregation .

When the castle was demolished in the 19th century due to its dilapidation, stones were reused in the construction of the Merlau Church (1853–1857).

Culture and sights

The following associations make up the club life:

  • Youth Leisure Club Merlau
  • Fruit and horticultural association
  • Merlauer Carnevals Association
  • TSG Merlau
  • DRK OV mosquito
  • Singers Association
  • Shooting club
  • Bayern Munich Fan Club.

Transport and infrastructure

Village community center (DGH) in Merlau

The place is on the L 3325 state road between Nieder-Ohmen and Flensungen and on the Vogelsbergbahn .

Merlau is the seat of the municipal administration, which is directly opposite the Mücke train station. With three centrally located supermarkets, Merlau is also a shopping destination for many customers from neighboring towns.

The village has a volunteer fire brigade , a village community center and the Hobstallstowwe local history museum .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Merlau, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b "Facts and Figures". In: Internet presence. Mücke municipality, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2018 . (Data from web archive)
  3. ^ Helfrich Bernhard Wenck, Hessische Landesgeschichte. Vol. 2. p. 359, Note Extr .; Heinrich Eduard Scriba , Regesten the far printed documents of the state and history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Volume 2: The Regesten the province of Upper Hesse containing. 1849, no.1371.
  4. ↑ Friedrich P. Kahlenberg: Consolidation and consolidation of the territorial state in the second half of the 16th century. The Merlau Treaty of 1582 between Hesse and Mainz. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 14 , 1964, ISBN 3-921254-14-0
  5. ↑ Grunberg in: 7. Topographia Hassiae et Regionum Vicinarum (Hessen), 1646/1655 etc.
  6. ^ 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. 173 ( online at google books ).
  7. ^ 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. 142 ( online at google books ).
  8. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 67, note 40 and p. 103.
  9. ↑ Kirschgarten, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  10. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Alsfeld district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  11. ↑ Amalgamation of the communities of Flensungen and Merlau in the Alsfeld district to form the community of Mücke on August 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 35 , p. 1698 , point 1593 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
  12. ^ 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).
  13. ^ 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 ).
  14. ^ The affiliation of the office Grünberg 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 .
  15. ^ 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 ., § 26 point d) III. ( Online at google books ).
  16. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  212 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  17. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  197 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  18. ↑ 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 ).
  19. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  256 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  20. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 419 ( online at Google Books ).
  21. ^ 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 ]).
  22. ↑ 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 , Article 1, Paragraph 2 a) and Article 2, Paragraph 4 a) ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 298 kB ]).
  23. ↑ 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. 119 ( online at google books ).
  24. ↑ Residential places 1875 . 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. 12 ( online at google books ).
  25. ↑ 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;
  26. ^ Wilhelm Classen: The ecclesiastical organization of Old Hesse in the Middle Ages, including an outline of the modern development. Elwert, Marburg 1929, pp. 90-91.
  27. ↑ Merlau village museum "Hobstallstowwe" on the Internet

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