Mittelkalbach

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Mittelkalbach
Kalbach municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 311  (301-370)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.56 km²
Residents : 1916  (Dec. 31, 2015)
Population density : 181 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 36148
Area code : 06655
Mittelkalbach seen from the Bornhecke
Mittelkalbach seen from the Bornhecke

Mittelkalbach is the largest district of the municipality of Kalbach in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda and the seat of the municipal administration. The hamlets of Bucheller and Grashof belong to Mittelkalbach .

geography

location

Mittelkalbach is located in the south of the Fulda district, in the "Hessische Rhön" nature reserve .

Neighboring places

Mittelkalbach borders in the north on the place Niederkalbach , in the east on the place Oberkalbach , in the southeast on the places Eichenried and Veitsteinbach , in the south on the place Hutten and in the west on the place Schweben .

history

In the Middle Ages, both the Neuenberg monastery owned in Mittelkalbach, as did the lords of Lauter from Schlüchtern . In the 17th century ownership passed to the Fulda bishopric , which set up a dairy in Mittelkalbach .

Emigrants from Mittelkalbach were among the first to settle in Fulda, Ohio.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , by virtue of state law on August 1, 1972, Mittelkalbach was incorporated into the new large municipality of Kalbach. Mittelkalbach became the seat of the municipal administration.

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1812: 80 fire places, 600 souls
Mittelkalbach: Population from 1812 to 2015
year     Residents
1812
  
 600
1834
  
 934
1840
  
 1,100
1846
  
 875
1852
  
 841
1858
  
 891
1864
  
 894
1871
  
 768
1875
  
 898
1885
  
 802
1895
  
 825
1905
  
 880
1910
  
 910
1925
  
 1,024
1939
  
 1,162
1946
  
 1,402
1950
  
 1,358
1956
  
 1.317
1961
  
 1,408
1967
  
 1,617
1970
  
 1,647
1972
  
 1,668
1987
  
 1,625
1989
  
 1,683
1996
  
 1,896
2006
  
 1,960
2015
  
 1.916
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources: after 1970:

Religious affiliation

Catholic Church of St. Sebastian Mittelkalbach

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 03 Protestant (= 0.37%), 798 Catholic (= 99.50%) and 1 Jewish (= 0.12%) residents
• 1961: 33 Protestant (= 2.34%), 1362 Roman Catholic (= 96.73%) residents

religion

There is a Catholic Church of St. Sebastian in the village . In 1898 Pastor Dr. Rügel for the church two bronze bells at the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen. It was melted down during World War I. In 1920 and 1926 Otto cast two new bronze bells. They were confiscated and melted down during World War II . The third generation of Otto bells was cast and delivered in 1950. The bell weighs 2,340 kg and has the following sequence: f - a flat - b - c. The bells have the following diameters: 1170 mm, 984 mm, 876 mm and 780 mm.

Today the Catholic parish of St. Sebastian is organizationally part of the Kalbach-Neuhof pastoral network .

politics

In the 2016 local elections, the CDU won 4 seats in the local advisory board , the SPD 3 seats and the citizens of Kalbach (BfK) 2 seats. The mayor is Werner Stey (SPD).

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Others

  • The place became famous when on April 26, 2008 an ICE drove into a flock of sheep in the nearby Landrückentunnel and the 170 passengers were brought to the community center in Kalbach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Location, Area, Inhabitants" on the website of the municipality of Kalbach, accessed in March 2016.
  2. ↑ The German beginning of Fulda, Ohia (engl.) ( Memento from December 3, 2002 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Fulda and Hünfeld and the city of Fulda (GVBl. II 330-14) 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. 220 , § 11 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 395 .
  5. ↑ a b c Mittelkalbach, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 509, 520, 528 .
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 476, 484, 489, 504 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  8. ^ Final result of the election of the Mittelkalbach local advisory board , accessed in June 2016.
  9. ↑ mayor of the municipality Kalbach , accessed in June 2016th
  10. ↑ Preferred variant for the new Gelnhausen - Fulda line has been determined . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 10 , October 2018, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 544 .
  11. ↑ FAZ: ICE raced in flocks of sheep