Motzfeld

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Motzfeld
Municipality Friedewald
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 333 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.91 km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 36289
Area code : 06629
Motzfeld, from the western slope of the Landecker Berg
Motzfeld, from the western slope of the Landecker Berg

Motzfeld is a district of the community Friedewald in the eastern Hessian district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg with about 315 inhabitants.

geography

The village is four kilometers south of the core community and four kilometers north of Schenklengsfeld . It lies to the west between the Landecker Berg and the Dreienberg in the Rhön .

history

The village was mentioned for the first time in a document in the Breviarium Sancti Lulli list of goods as "Mutesfeldt in Thuringia". Donations to the Hersfeld Abbey were listed here in the 8th century . In 1394 the place is mentioned as "Mutzfelt" and in 1416 as "Mottesfeld". Ecclesiastically Motzfeld belonged to the Deanery Geisa , but politically the place belonged to the Landecker Amt .

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the place was incorporated into the Friedewald community on August 1, 1972.

societies

In addition to the Motzfeld volunteer fire department and the football club, there is the mixed choir, the shooting club and the NABU .

traffic

The district road 13, which connects the place north with the core municipality and the federal road 62 , leads through the place . To the south, the same county road connects the place with Schenklengsfeld.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Groscurth: Villages of the district of Hersfeld in Mein Heimatland, January 1961 Volume 19. (Supplement of the Hersfelder Zeitung )
  2. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Hersfeld and Rotenburg (GVBl. II 330-13) 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. 217 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).