Neesbach

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Neesbach
Municipality of Hünstelden
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 47 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 175 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 761  (Jan. 1, 2019)
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 65597
Area code : 06438

Neesbach is the smallest district of the municipality of Hünstelden in the Limburg-Weilburg district in central Hesse .

geography

The Neesbacher district describes an elongated square shape stretched in a south-west-north-east direction with an elongated point to the south. In the northeast, it borders on Werschau and then, clockwise, on the districts of Dauborn , Kirberg , Heringen and Nauheim .

The district consists almost exclusively of agricultural land. The federal highway 417 runs around 500 meters southwest of the village . The landscape has only slight differences in altitude, with the slightly incised valley of the Neesbach running through it from southwest to northeast, in which the town, shaped as a street village, is also located.

history

The Neesbacher Church

Neesbach was first mentioned in 779. At that time the village was donated to the Fulda Monastery by a Countess Adeltrud . During excavations in the cemetery, burial sites were discovered that point to the Merovingian or Carolingian times. The location in the area where Hünerstrasse and Hessenstrasse meet was likely to have been decisive for the foundation . The latter ran through the place.

In 1129 Neesbach was owned by Limburg Abbey , to which all residents were subservient . A church ban is guaranteed for 1363 because the Neesbachers wanted to break away from this connection to the monastery.

In 1607 the place was almost completely depopulated by the plague . Neesbach was not spared even during the Thirty Years' War .

Ecclesiastically, Neesbach was assigned to the church of the meanwhile desert town of Bergen (today in the district of Werschau). A separate chapel in the village is first mentioned in 1339. In 1571 the neighboring towns of Nauheim and Neesbach were detached from the parish and Neesbach was looked after by the pastor of Nauheim. In 1711, the baroque St. John's Church was built on the site of the old church, which was also consecrated last to John. The building was modeled on the model of the church in neighboring Nauheim. The interior decoration in both churches was also very similar. In 1975, during the restoration of this church, culturally and historically valuable paintings were uncovered. The restoration of these only partially existing paintings cost 365,500 DM at the time.

In 1717 a town hall was built, which also served as a bakery and school building. In 1756 a school followed.

As in all Protestant districts of Hünfelden, the NSDAP found a large following in rural Neesbach early on. The NSDAP achieved 92.7% of the votes in the Reichstag election on September 14, 1930 , in particular through the popularity of Jakob Sprenger , while it won only 18.3% of the votes in the entire Reich.

A multipurpose hall was built in 1968 where the refugees' barracks stood during the Second World War . In 1973 a new sports field was laid out.

The oldest information about the size of the place comes from the year 1512. At that time there were eight men (probably only wealthy farmers) with 18 horses. During a plague epidemic in 1607, 80 deaths were reported from the place. In 1647, at the end of the Thirty Years' War , eight households are listed. In 1746 194 inhabitants were recorded and in 1810 there were 307 inhabitants.

Territorial reform

On October 1, 1971, Neesbach merged with six neighboring towns to form the municipality of Hünstelden as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Neesbach was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

population

Population development

Neesbach: Population from 1746 to 2019
year     Residents
1746
  
 194
1834
  
 446
1840
  
 469
1846
  
 487
1852
  
 504
1858
  
 493
1864
  
 497
1871
  
 455
1875
  
 441
1885
  
 489
1895
  
 468
1905
  
 420
1910
  
 423
1925
  
 430
1939
  
 398
1946
  
 589
1950
  
 573
1956
  
 527
1961
  
 514
1967
  
 550
1970
  
 528
2008
  
 805
2011
  
 761
2019
  
 761
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: municipality of Hünstelden

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1885: 485 Protestant (= 99.18%), 4 Catholic (= 0.82%) residents
  • 1961: 415 Protestant (= 80.74%), 87 Catholic (= 16.93%) inhabitants

Culture and sights

societies

The two largest clubs in town are the Neesbach volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1934 (since April 1, 1972 with a youth fire brigade and since October 30, 2009 with a children's fire brigade ) and the gymnastics and sports club . The men's choir Frohsinn was founded in 1860, making it the oldest Neesbacher club. There is also a rural women's association , a local branch of the VdK and a hiking association .

Regular events

The fair is celebrated every year on the third weekend in July.

Buildings

Infrastructure

In Neesbach, the Neesbach volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1934 (since April 1, 1972 with its youth fire brigade and since October 30, 2009 with its children's fire brigade), provides fire protection and general help.

Web links

Commons : Neesbach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistics - residents of the districts. In: website. Municipality of Hünstelden, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ↑ Stephanie Zibell, Jakob Sprenger: (1884–1945). Nazi Gauleiter and Reich Governor in Hesse. Sources and research on Hessian history vol. 121, Darmstadt: Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hessen 1999
  3. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 369 .
  4. ↑ a b c Neesbach, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ Citizens Brochure. (PDF; 15.7 MB) In: Website. Municipality of Hünstelden, 2012, p. 39 , archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .