Metzlos

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Metzlos
Municipality Grebenhain
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 431 m
Area : 4.41 km²
Residents : 168  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 38 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36355
Area code : 06644

Metzlos is a district of the Grebenhain community in the Vogelsberg district in Central Hesse .

geography

Metzlos is located in the eastern Vogelsberg at an altitude of 431  m above sea level. NN . The Moosbach flows through the village, which rises near Ober-Moos and flows into the Lüder between Zahmen and Blankenau . Metzlos lies in the valley through which the Moosbach flows, the Moosgrund (also called Mooser Grund ).

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Metzlos can be found in the wisdom about the re-establishment of the court in Mooser Grund from July 3, 1482 under the name Metzles . This wisdom refers to the destruction of the villages in the Riedeselian court Moos as a result of the feud between the Riedeseln and the Fulda monastery in 1467. It can therefore be assumed that the place was actually centuries earlier in connection with the beginning of the clearing and the development of the country originated in the Vogelsberg region during the high Middle Ages .

From the time it was first mentioned until the beginning of the 19th century, the village was always under the rule of the Riedesel family . Together with Gunzenau , Metzlos-Gehaag , Nieder-Moos and Ober-Moos, it belonged to the Moos court , whose mayor had its seat in Nieder-Moos. The Moos court belonged to the Lords of Blankenwald, a sideline of the Lords of Schlitz , until 1338 , and then came to the Lords of Eisenbach as a fiefdom of the Electoral Palatinate . With their extinction in the male line, the property fell to the Riedesel in 1428. From 1715, the Moos court was administered together with the Freiensteinau court by a Riedeselian official based in the Freiensteinau court .

Early modern age

In 1540 a school was set up for the first time in Nieder-Moos, which was also attended by children from the other branches of the parish. A separate school in Metzlos is first recorded for 1714. At the beginning of the 19th century a half-timbered school building with a small bell tower was built.

During the Thirty Years War in 1629 the plague raged in Moosgrund, which was brought in by troops passing through.

In Metzlos, the Riedesel'schen ordinances from the 18th century were considered particular law . The Common Law applied only to the extent those regulations did not contain provisions. Theoretically, this special right retained its validity even while it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century, but only individual provisions were used in judicial practice. The particular law was replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly valid throughout the German Empire .

Modern times

As a result of the mediatization at the end of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1806, the knighthood of the Barons Riedesel zu Eisenbach was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Metzlos has been in Hesse since that year and was initially administered as part of the Freiensteinau office. After the new Hessian municipality and district regulations came into force in 1821, Metzlos initially belonged to the Herbstein District (from 1825 Lauterbach District). In 1848 the village became part of the short-lived Alsfeld administrative district and after its dissolution in 1852 it became part of the Lauterbach district .

Due to the low number of local residents, the municipality of Metzlos did not initially have its own mayor, but instead formed a joint mayor's office with Metzlos-Gehaag and Nieder-Moos . This lasted until 1913.

In 1960 a new school building was built. However, as a result of the school reform in Hessen in favor of the new central school ( Oberwaldschule ) in Grebenhain, it lost its real purpose in 1969. After the closure of the one-class primary school in Metzlos, the vacant school building was converted into a village community center in 1973–1976 .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Metzlos merged with ten neighboring municipalities on December 31, 1971 to form the newly formed large municipality of Grebenhain. Since August 1st, 1972 the place belongs to the then newly formed Vogelsbergkreis .

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 169 Protestant (= 88.02%), 14 Catholic (= 7.29%) residents
Bannerod: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 193
1840
  
 187
1846
  
 172
1852
  
 161
1858
  
 172
1864
  
 189
1871
  
 197
1875
  
 193
1885
  
 164
1895
  
 171
1905
  
 190
1910
  
 183
1925
  
 179
1939
  
 175
1946
  
 288
1950
  
 258
1956
  
 217
1961
  
 192
1967
  
 181
1970
  
 193
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

religion

In the Middle Ages, Metzlos belonged to the parish of Crainfeld, founded in 1011. In 1524, the Riedesel appointed a priest in Nieder-Moos on their own initiative and thus split off the localities in Mooser Grund, including Metzlos, from their mother church on Hessian soil. In 1528 the Reformation was introduced in the newly founded parish. Until 1945 Metzlos was purely Protestant.

At the time of the establishment of the Nieder-Moos parish, the actual parish church, located at today's Nieder-Mooser Friedhof between this village and Ober-Moos, was not fully rebuilt as a result of the collegiate feud of 1467. As the then Crainfeld pastor Ludwig Wagenhausen in a letter to the then Fulda abbot Johann III. from 1525 writes, the first priest appointed by the Riedeseln officiated in a chapel at Metzlos. This is the only indication that Metzlos once had its own house of worship. The later fate and location of this building are unknown.

politics

The mayor of Metzlos is Andreas Kauck (as of 2016) .

societies

The following clubs and associations exist in Metzlos today (year of foundation in brackets):

Cultural monuments

See: List of cultural monuments in Metzlos

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

The originally agricultural village of Metzlos is today, with the exception of a carpentry and a holiday farm , almost a pure work-commuter residence . Since 2013, a wind farm with originally up to eight and finally three wind turbines in the districts of Zahmen, Metzlos-Gehaag and Metzlos near the border with the district of Fulda has been in the planning stage. It was supposed to be operated by HessenEnergie, a subsidiary of OVAG . However, due to the deletion of the priority area Werschbach there from the subregional energy plan for Central Hesse at the end of 2016, the wind farm could no longer be realized, which is why the planning was discontinued.

traffic

Metzlos is the intersection of several district roads in the Vogelsberg district. The district road 250 leads through the village from Nieder-Moos to the district boundary at Zahmen. Coming from Bannerod, Kreisstrasse 90 joins the K 250 in Metzlos. This is also where the district road 92 begins , which runs until it joins the state road 3079 in the direction of Fulda , which begins in the neighboring town of Gunzenau .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Metzlos, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Information on the districts. In: Website of the municipality of Grebenhain. Retrieved January 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 29, note 92 and p. 103, note 14.
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 368 .
  5. ↑ No wind turbines in the "Werschbach". In: Lauterbacher Anzeiger. March 1, 2017, accessed March 2, 2017 .

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