Merzhausen (Usingen)

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Merzhausen
City of Usingen
Coat of arms of Merzhausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 441 m above sea level NN
Residents : 832  (June 30, 2011)
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 61250
Area code : 06081
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Location of Merzhausen in Usingen
Evangelical Church and Old Town Hall

Merzhausen is a district of Usingen in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis .

geography

Merzhausen lies between the Weil and Usa valleys on the northern slope of the Stockberg in the eastern Hintertaunus . The height bolt on the west side of the Protestant church has an exact height of 439.575 m above sea level. NN. The highest point is the Hirschberg at 484.40 m above sea level. NN. The lowest point in the district is the "Höll" at 350.00 m above sea level. NN. The mean height is 441 m.

The B 275 runs through the village . Today's main road was already a much-used trade route through the Taunus to the Rheingau in the Middle Ages . The Merzhausen ski jump is located to the south .

history

For a long time 1293 was considered the year of the first documentary mention. More recent investigations based on a document listing taxes to the Altmünster monastery in Mainz suggest the year 1120.

The name “Merzhausen” was derived from Mertinshusen, with the first half of the word referring to Saint Martin .

Merzhausen, with its 100 to 150 inhabitants at the time, was the court and parish of the Stockheim Court , a small lordship of the von Stockheim family who has been known since 1195. It had its moated castle between Usingen and Merzhausen on the site of today's Stockheimer Hof.

In 1669, Count Walrad von Nassau-Usingen acquired the village of Merzhausen.

In World War II Merzhausen has been greatly affected. Due to the nearby airfield , Merzhausen was the target of Allied bombing raids on Christmas Eve 1944. Another destruction took place in Easter 1945 when an SS unit settled in Merzhausen and the Allies bombarded the village with artillery for 24 hours.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Merzhausen lost its independence on August 1, 1972 and became a district of the city of Usingen by virtue of state law.

Merzhausen airfield

The former field airfield Merzhausen, on the site of which the Usingen earth station is located today , was laid out in 1937 under the code name "Schafweide". The facilities, both for the technology and for the personnel on the airfield, were camouflaged as agricultural buildings. The airfield was part of the Führer Headquarters Adlerhorst in Ziegenberg, about 15 km away. The first teams moved into their quarters from August 1939. Flight crews had been stationed since the spring of 1940 and launched attacks on the Benelux countries and France. Operation Sea Lion should also be directed from here. After that, the airfield was not used again for military purposes until 1944. With the Ardennes offensive at the end of the year, the square became an air base for this offensive. On the northeastern edge of the airfield 1,944 prisoners of the local were in the summer satellite camp Hinzert quartered.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms is designed as a three-part shield. In the middle there is an ascending, curly golden tip with a black rhizome, which refers to the Niederstockheim dish. The Lords of Stockheim derived their name from the lands they had acquired from clearing forests. The left part of the coat of arms shows a golden, red crowned Palatinate lion on a black background. This lion refers to the Electoral Palatinate , which was feudal lord of Merzhausen for a long time. The right part of the coat of arms consists of white and blue diamonds, which refer to the Wittelsbach family who owned the Electoral Palatinate since the 14th century.

Attractions

Old town hall Merzhausen

town hall

The half-timbered town hall in the center of the town, built around 1530, was the seat of the municipal administration until it was incorporated in 1972. It is a sign of the past judicial glory of the place.

Sea pool

Sea pool

The Meerpfuhl is an artificially created pond that used to be used as a water supply for the Landsteiner Mühle in the Weiltal and is now used as a fishing and ice skating area. It is 1.6 hectares and was first mentioned in 1579 as "Eger Pfuhl".

The Meerpfuhl was considered an ecologically extremely important body of water with a multitude of rare plants and animals. In particular, it was considered the only Hessian site of the "floating frog herb" ( Luronium natans ). In 1977, however, the ecosystem was destroyed by an attempt by the fisheries association to reduce the weeds in the pond. The herbicide “ Gramoxone ” (now banned) was used . The effect of this plant poison, however, went far beyond what was desired and permanently damaged the entire flora of the pond. Even if extensive protective measures have been taken over the years, the old diversity has not been achieved again.

Economy and Infrastructure

Earth station

While the residents in earlier times lived mainly from agriculture, today most of the residents are commuters and work in the Vordertaunus or the Frankfurt area.

Community center

The "Noise Penn Hall" serves both as a sports hall as well as a community center .

Earth station

Below Merzhausen, in the area of ​​the city of Neu-Anspach , is the Usingen earth station , a Media Broadcast system with over 100 antennas.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the district

literature

Web links

Commons : Merzhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration office statistics. (PDF) City of Usingen, archived from the original on February 20, 2014 ; accessed in August 2018 .
  2. ↑ Mean height of Merzhausen: TK Kompass - Eastern Taunus 840 - 1: 50,000
  3. Jump in age for two Taunus communities Frankfurter Neue Presse. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II 330-18) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 227 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 379 .
  6. ↑ Merzhausen, Merzhausen Airfield. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen. December 2, 2015, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The port of operations at Merzhausen. Accessed December 31, 2019 .