Motzenrode

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Motzenrode
Community Meinhard
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 271  (267-293)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.08 km²
Residents : 156  (Sep 2014)
Population density : 38 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 37276
Area code : 05651

Motzenrode is a district of the Meinhard municipality in the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse .

Geographical location

Motzenrode is 37 km north-north-west of Grebendorf , the parish seat of Meinhard. It is located between the mountains of the Gobert , in which the Hessian Switzerland extends near Meinhard, and lies on the right-hand Werra tributary Mühlbach (also called Motzbach). State road 3403 runs through the village, which runs from Hitzelrode through Motzenrode and Jestädt to federal road 249 .

history

The oil mill at Motzenrode. A painting by Wilhelm Schott

In 1451 6/8 were fiefdoms of the lords of Dörnberg with the court , the lords of Welden and von Hundelshausen each owned 1/8. After the Lords of Eschwege had already carried property there as a fief, they acquired Motzenrode in 1490 with court, rights and all accessories. In 1498 the lords of Boyneburg- Hohenstein acquired the possessions of the lords of Eschwege. They combined this with their previous Brunswick fiefdom of the Jestädt court. Motzenrode was part of the partially autonomous Boyneburg court , which existed until 1792 . From 1821 the place belonged to the Eschwege district .

Territorial reform

On April 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Motzenrode was incorporated into the municipality of Meinhard as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Motzenroder oil mill

The Motzendorfer Ölmühle, also known as the lower mill. dates from the year 1789. It stood at the western end of the village and got its water from the Mühlbach. This rises near the Hohenstein. There used to be nine watermills in the so-called Motzenbachtal. The oil mill was driven by an overshot mill wheel with a diameter of 5.50 m and a width of 0.65 m and operated until 1940, the water law expired in August 1940. Curiously, the picture of the water mill is on the cover of the book Mühlen der Eifel . In addition to this mill, there was also the middle or upper mill, also known as the semolina mill, although the name had nothing to do with semolina , but was named after its owner Gries.

Attractions

Infrastructure

literature

  • Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Mills of the Eifel comments on an Eifel book . In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch 1990, 38th volume (49th volume of old series). Published by Verein Trierisch im Selbstverlag, Trier 1998, here: pp. 251–261, with 5 illustrations. This is a critical study of the mill picture on the cover of the book: Erich Mertes, Volume I: Mühlen der Eifel. History-technology-downfall. Helios-Verlag, Aachen, 2nd ext. Edition, Aachen 1995. [In reality no Eifel mill, but the oil mill near Motzenrode, which was formerly in the distant north-east Hessian old district of Eschwege (today Werra-Meißner district).]
  • Hans Joachim Bodenbach: A Hessian watermill in the Eifel? - Comments on an Eifel book. A gloss in: Monument Preservation & Cultural History, State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse 1/2000, Wiesbaden 2000, pp. 62–64, 5 figs. (2 of them in color)
  • Literature on Motzenrode in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Motzenrode  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Motzenrode, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of January 25, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population figures of the districts in the 2015 budget of the municipality of Meinhard (preliminary report, page 2) , accessed in February 2016
  3. ↑ Thomas Diehl: Aristocratic rule in the Werra area. The Boyneburg court in the process of laying the foundations for early modern statehood (late 16th to early 18th century), Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt and Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88443-314-0 (sources and Research on Hessian History 159).
  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. 389 .
  5. ^ Water book file of the Reg.-Pres. Kassel-38/1 WNr. 98 Eschwege
  6. ↑ Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Mühlen der Eifel , comments on an Eifel book in New Trierisches Jahrbuch 1998, pp. 251–261, 5 illustrations, 1 map