Mosbach (Schaafheim)

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Mosbach
Community Schaafheim
Mosbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '28 "  N , 9 ° 1' 46"  E
Height : 158 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.59 km²
Residents : 2029  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 308 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 64850
Area code : 06073

Mosbach is a district of the municipality of Schaafheim in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

geography

Mosbach is located in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park . It is 5 km south of Schaafheim and borders the neighboring towns of Radheim and Wenigumstadt (district of Großostheim ). The latter is already in Bavaria .

history

The oldest surviving document that mentions Mosbach comes from 828 and names Einhard as the exhibitor. Mosbach, then still called Machesbach , was the seat of a nunnery. At the beginning of the 13th century, the Order of St. John came to the Bachgau community through a donation from the Counts of Wertheim ; Through further donations and purchases, the Johanniter became the sole masters of the village. Above the old St. John's Church, an extensive religious settlement was built, which was also the seat of a religious convent. For more than six centuries, the fate of Mosbach was determined by the Johannites. The property of the order was secularized in 1806. Mosbach, which, along with the former Electoral Mainz part of the Bachgau, had belonged to the Mainz Obererzstift for centuries, came to the Principality of Aschaffenburg in 1803 with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and in 1810 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . After the end of the Grand Duchy it was transferred to the Kingdom of Bavaria on June 26, 1814 as a result of the Paris Treaties . On January 29, 1817, an exchange of territory resulted in the Grand Duchy of Hesse together with Radheim and Dorndiel .

In Mosbach, the Mainz land law was considered to be a particular law and the common law beyond that, insofar as the Mainz land law did not contain special provisions for a matter. This special rights retained its validity and throughout the 19th century during the affiliation of the area to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was only on January 1, 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Mosbach in 1829:

»Moßbach (L. Bez. Dieburg) cath. Parish village; is located on the Welzbach on a gentle hill, 3 St. from Dieburg and 1 3 ⁄ 4   St. from Umstadt. The place consists of 88 houses and has 591 inhabitants, up to 25 Luth. are Catholic, and among these 42 farmers and 34 artisans. Here you can find the Commendehof with around 800 acres of arable and meadow land, 2 grinding mills and 1 paint factory. The place has 4 markets a year. - Moßbach, whose name probably originated from Macho, was called Machesbach in the Carolingian times. Around the year 827 there was a nunnery here, presumably from the order of the Benedictines. In the possession of this monastery, the Order of St. John appears in 1312, called the Order of Malta since 1530. When the convent of the nuns ended is unknown, but the buildings were still standing in 1564. - A Johanniter Ordens-Commendehaus was built here, the origin of which is shown quite clearly in a document from 1218, in which Count Boppo von Wertheim gave the Order of St. John the patronage of the Parish of Moßbach during a crusade. The possessions of the order gradually increased in Moßbach, and around 1253 and 1255 Moßbach appeared as a member of the main commendation of Frankfurt. Since 1400 the members Frankfurt, Moßbach, Gelnhausen and Rüdigheim were united in a commende under the Ballei Wetterau. This commende was called Frankfurt and Mosbach; The Comthur used to live permanently at Moßbach, and later alternately at Frankfurt. - The Order of St. John, first a spiritual, then a secular order, founded at the beginning of the Crusades and mainly to defend the Church against the unbelievers, received large estates throughout almost all of Europe. The affairs of the Order were directed by the Chapter, which consisted of 8 Ballivi Conventuali . The whole was divided into 8 tongues (districts). The lands of the districts were divided into priories, these into balleien and these again into commenden (commenthureien). - In 1781, the Comthur Freiherr von Rottberg built what is now the beautiful Hof- und Commende-Haus. In 1806 and 1807 the German Johanniter goods were generally confiscated and in 1819 the last Comthur, Baron von Pfürdt zu Blumberg, died. The place had its nobles who have named themselves by him. Mosbach was Tilly's headquarters in 1622. The town was swapped from Baiern to Hesse in 1817, and in 1818 it was converted to the Dieburger Landkapitel. "

Mosbach has completely given up its former rural structure and is now a pure residential community.

Territorial reform

On January 1, 1977 Mosbach lost its independence and was incorporated into the municipality of Schaafheim by state law as part of the regional reform in Hesse . For Mosbach as well as for the other incorporated places local districts with local advisory council and local councilor were formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Historical forms of names

In historical documents, the place is documented under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets): Machesbach (828); Masbach (1165, 1218); Mosbach (1253); Maspach (1260); Masbac, Masbach (1261); Mosebach (1291); Masbach (1303); Maspach (1314); Mospach (1385); Moßbach, Moßpach (1403).

Territorial history and administration

The higher-level administrative units are documented as follows while they belong to Hessen:

dishes

The competent jurisdiction of the first instance was:

Population development

• 1812: 87 fireplaces, 486 souls
Mosbach: Population from 1812 to 2016
year     Residents
1812
  
 486
1829
  
 591
1834
  
 524
1840
  
 666
1846
  
 719
1852
  
 802
1858
  
 662
1864
  
 666
1871
  
 630
1875
  
 621
1885
  
 617
1895
  
 569
1905
  
 549
1910
  
 533
1925
  
 601
1939
  
 651
1946
  
 840
1950
  
 921
1956
  
 931
1961
  
 1.005
1967
  
 1,239
1970
  
 1,272
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 2,040
2012
  
 2,061
2016
  
 2,029
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 ; after 2011: municipality of Schaafheim

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 25 Lutheran (= 4.23%) and 566 Catholic (= 95.77%) residents
• 1961: 97 Protestant (= 9.65%), 906 Catholic (= 90.15%) residents

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Schaafheimer Wartturm on a photo from 2008

To the north of Mosbach on the Mosbacher district on the border to the Schaafheimer district is the Wartturm , a defense tower built in 1492 by the Archbishop of Mainz Berthold von Henneberg on the old Bachgauer Landwehr . He secured the transition from the so-called Schiffweg to the Kurmainzer area. The watch tower is located on the 216 m high Binselberg. The tower itself is 22 m high. In 1992 it was restored and made mountable again. In 2008 the municipality of Schaafheim fundamentally redesigned the area around the tower. From the watch tower you have a wonderful view of the Bachgau.

The Catholic Church of St. John Baptist is also worth seeing . This was built around 1250 by the Johanniter.

Regular events

  • September: curb
  • October: Oktoberfest

traffic

Mosbach is connected to the rest of the Bachgau communities, as well as Aschaffenburg and Babenhausen , by the bus network operated by the Untermain transport company .

At the train station in Babenhausen there is a connection to regional traffic in the direction of Darmstadt and Hanau , in Aschaffenburg to long-distance traffic in the direction of Frankfurt am Main and Würzburg , and to regional traffic in the direction of Miltenberg .

K54: Aschaffenburg - Großostheim - Pflaumheim - Mosbach - Schaafheim - Babenhausen

Monday – Friday: connections every hour
Saturday, Sunday or public holiday: connections every two hours

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Mosbach, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population figures . In: website. Schaafheim community, accessed July 2019 .
  3. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 109.
  4. ^ A b Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, p. 160 ( online at Google Books ).
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 15 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  6. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 81 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Schaafheim community, accessed February 2019 .
  7. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Darmstadt 1866, p. 43 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  8. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. In: 2011 census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  9. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Saturday, September 19, 2015, p. 26
  10. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, October 13, 2016, p. 24