Michelau (Büdingen)

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Michelau
City of Büdingen
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 40 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 319 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.9 km²
Residents : 307  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 63 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 63654
Area code : 06049
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Overview map of Michelau (Büdingen)
View over Michelau, 2019
View over Michelau, 2019

Michelau ( coll .: The Michelau) is the highest district of Büdingens in the Wetterau district .

location

Michelau is 5.5 km northeast of Büdingen and can only be reached via the road from Wolferborn.

history

The old school
The bakery

In 1960 a Neolithic stone ax was found in the Michelau district . The ax has a ball of 48 mm, a neck of 30 mm, a length of 70 mm and a thickness of 18 mm. The basalt hatchet belongs to the group of broad-nosed hatchets, a shape that dates from 3000–2000 BC. Was found more frequently in the southern Vogelsberg .

The history and local researcher Peter Nieß names 1284 as the date of the first documentary mention of Michelau, his colleague Karl Heuson dates to 1553. There is no written evidence for any of the dates. The oldest document that can be found is a mayor's invoice for the city of Büdingen from 1620. For the price of six guilders, eight truckloads of oak wood that had been struck “Uff der Michelay” are delivered . In the court register of the community Wolferborn , an entry from the year 1620 first mentions the place “Michelau” . Werner Wagner dates the first mention of the Intradenbuch from 1628 in the Princely Archives in Büdingen to the year 1628.

The Michelau district is a late clearing of the Büdinger Markwald and belonged to Wolferborn in church and administrative terms. The historical researcher and long-time Büdingen monument conservator and city archivist Hans-Velten Heuson suspects that Michelau must have been created as part of Wolferborn in the second half of the 16th century. The place name could come from the first settler, a Michel, or it could be derived from the old word mickil , michil , michel for large , so that Michelau could simply be understood as “To the great Au” or “On the large meadow” .

A school for Michelau is first mentioned in 1733. The aqueduct was built against isolated opposition in 1912. In 1921 the village received electric light.

On the occasion of the regional reform , Michelau lost its independence on April 1, 1972 and was incorporated into the city of Büdingen.

Population development

year Residents
1814 177
1828 217
1861 ¹ 211
1910 231
year Residents
1939 ¹ 255
1946 ¹ 354
1950 347
1959 311
year Residents
1990 356
1995 352
2000 371
2005 349
year Residents
2010 341
  • ¹ census result

politics

In the 2016 election of the city council , the NPD in Michelau achieved the highest value of all electoral districts with 10.2%.

literature

  • Ruppel, Hans Georg (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 until the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform , series Darmstädter Archivschriften (2), 1976, p 144
  • Architectural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Wetteraukreis I , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn 1982, ISBN 3-528-06231-2 , p. 173

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics on the website of the city of Büdingen (pdf; 21.5 kB), accessed in January 2016.
  2. ↑ Population figures on the city of Büdingen's website , accessed in June 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Anniversary publication: 40 years of the Association for Lawn Games Michelau e. V. 1949-1989 , 1989
  4. ↑ Werner Wagner: The villages and towns of the 1972 dissolved district of Büdingen and the first mention of each individual place . In: Büdinger Geschichtsblätter , Volume ;; II, 2011, p. 235
  5. ^ Hans-Velten Heuson: Büdingen - Yesterday and Today: Works on the history of the city and its surroundings (1300-1945) . Collection of articles by Hans-Velten Heuson, Büdingen 2004, chapter Büdingen - Landscape and History
  6. ^ 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. 353 .
  7. ^ Boundary change and integration agreement of November 26, 1971
  8. ^ Results of the local elections in Büdingen

Web links

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