Neunkirchen (Modautal)

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Neunkirchen
Modautal municipality
Coat of arms of Neunkirchen
Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 59 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 29"  E
Height : 510  (502-527)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 1.92 km²
Residents : 159  (Jun 30, 2019)
Population density : 83 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Brandau
Postal code : 64397
Area code : 06254

Neunkirchen is the second smallest district of the Modautal municipality in the Odenwald and the highest village in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Neunkirchen is located in the Vorderen Odenwald at the Neunkircher Höhe ( 605  m above sea  level ), the highest point in the Hessian Odenwald. State road 3399 runs southwest of the village. Adjacent villages are Brandau in the west, Lützelbach in the north-north-west, Steinau in the north-east, Winterkasten in the south and Gadernheim in the south-west. Another neighboring town is Laudenau in the southeast.

history

The village was first mentioned in documents in 1222. In 1347 Erkinger von Rodenstein sold everything he owned in Neunkirchen to Count Wilhelm von Katzenelnbogen . In 1433 the brothers Hermann and Konrad von Rodenstein also sold their share in Lützelbach to Count Philipp von Katzenelnbogen . In the 16th century the village belonged to the Junkers von Rodenstein, the Landgrave of Hesse had the cent and high authorities with orders and prohibitions.

In the historical documents, the place has changed place names over the centuries : Nuenkirchen (1222), Nuwenkirchen (late 14th century), Nunkirchen (1433), Neunkirchen (1748).

Neunkirchen was in the judicial district of the district of Oberramstadt . The cent was divided into so-called "rice wagons", each of which was headed by a high school , who were subordinate to the centre. This district had to provide a freight wagon ( rice wagon ) including draft animals and servants for campaigns. Neunkirchen belonged to the “Brandauer Reiswagen”, to which the towns of Brandau , Allertshofen , Hoxhohl , Herchenrod , Lützelbach , Ernsthofen , Neutsch , Klein-Bieberau and Webern also belonged. The entire district of Oberramstadt was assigned to the Lichtenberg office . This classification existed until the beginning of the 19th century.

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

»Neunkirchen (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran parish village; is 2 1 ⁄ 2 hours from Reinheim and almost on the summit of the so-called Neunkircher Höhe, the 2364 Hess. (1820 par.) Is raised feet above the surface of the sea. The place has 15 houses and 102 Lutherans. There is a beautiful church built in 1742, which is visible from afar because of the light paint, a very massive rectory and under the shade of a beautiful old linden tree a fountain, which is a strange phenomenon at such a height. At the top of the mountain, which is littered with colossal granite blocks, you can enjoy a wonderful, unrestricted view of the Vosges, the Donnersberg, the Taunus; one can see the Rhine from Speier to Mainz, Frankenstein, Lichtenberg, Otzberg, the plain towards Frankfurt, the odenwald mountains and below this the outstanding Katzenbuckel. - According to tradition, a fountain of health gave rise to the building of the church. Gradually, several families settled there, and the Rodensteiners and others parish their subjects. The oldest known clergyman is Rudolph von Rodenstein, a brother of Heinrich and Erkinger, and appears in 1360. In 1347, Erkinger von Rodenstein pledged the place to Wilhelm II von Katzenellenbogen. This pledge, however, must have been redeemed again when Neunkirchen was transferred to the Palatinate for 200 florins by Herrmann von Rodenstein in 1413. "

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Neunkirchen and Lützelbach were incorporated into the municipality of Brandau on a voluntary basis on December 31, 1971, and on January 1, 1977 by state law with the municipality of Modautal formed on April 1, 1971, and other municipalities to form the new municipality of Modautal united . For Neunkirchen, a local district with a local advisory council and a local councilor was formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

Neunkirchen belonged to the centering Ober Ramstadt and temporarily Reichelsheim . In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . This meant that the Lichtenberg Office was responsible for Neunkirchen. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate . The main courts had lost their function.

With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the regional court of Lichtenberg was the court of first instance from 1821 . It followed:

Population development

• 1629: 008 house seats
• 1637:   devastated
• 1791: 081 inhabitants
• 1800: 088 inhabitants
• 1806: 096 inhabitants, 14 houses
• 1829: 102 inhabitants, 15 houses
• 1867: 101 inhabitants, 13 houses
Neunkirchen: Population from 1791 to 2018
year     Residents
1791
  
 81
1800
  
 88
1806
  
 96
1829
  
 102
1834
  
 120
1840
  
 113
1846
  
 116
1852
  
 107
1858
  
 103
1864
  
 100
1871
  
 111
1875
  
 104
1885
  
 94
1895
  
 96
1905
  
 99
1910
  
 89
1925
  
 92
1939
  
 87
1946
  
 201
1950
  
 165
1956
  
 121
1961
  
 124
1967
  
 119
1970
  
 111
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2007
  
 152
2010
  
 157
2011
  
 156
2015
  
 146
2018
  
 165
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Modautal municipality :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 102 Lutheran (= 100.00%) residents
• 1961: 105 Protestant (= 84.68%), 15 Catholic (= 12.10%) residents

politics

For Neunkirchen there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Neunkirchen) with a local advisory board and mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of three members. Sabrina Bormuth has been the mayor since the local elections in 2016.

badges and flags

Banner Neunkirchen (Modautal) .svg

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Neunkirchen

Blazon : In a golden shield on a black tip that tapers into a cross, a silver fountain, on the right side a red bell, on the left a red box.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Heinz Ritt and approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on September 2, 1963 .

flag

The flag was approved together with the coat of arms on September 2, 1963 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Flag description: "The municipal coat of arms is placed on the cross point on a red and white flag cloth."

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Former pilgrimage church with Heil (iger) spring
  • Ohly memorial stone
  • Kaiserturm on the Neunkircher Höhe
  • Aviation radar tower

  • The Evangelical Church of St. Cosmas and Damian

  • St. Cosmas and Damian, interior view

  • St. Cosmas and Damian, frescoes

  • Ohly memorial stone in Neunkirchen

  • Kaiserturm near Neunkirchen

  • Radar tower near Neunkirchen

Regular events

Web links

Commons : Neunkirchen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Neunkirchen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of May 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  3. ^ Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present . Literary Institution, Darmstadt 1877, p. 254 ( online at Google Books ).
  4. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 167 ( 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 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 234 .
  7. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 36 kB) §; 6. In: Website. Modautal municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  10. ↑ a b List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  11. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  122 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  124 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 62 ( online at google books ).
  14. ↑ Budgets for 2017 to 2019 (preliminary report: Population statistics). (PDF) In: Website. Municipality of Modautal, p. 30 ff , accessed in July 2019 .
  15. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  16. ↑ Mayor. In: website. Modautal municipality, accessed November 2019 .
  17. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the community Neunkirchen, district Darmstadt, administrative district Darmstadt from September 2, 1963 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1963 No. 38 , p. 1100 , point 967 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).
  18. ^ Neukirchen: Wappen  In: Archivinformationssystem Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), status: 1963.
  19. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Friday, December 4, 2015, p. 20