Nieder-Ramstadt

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Nieder-Ramstadt
municipality Mühltal
Coat of arms of Nieder-Ramstadt
Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 17 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 167 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.27 km²
Residents : 5490  (June 30, 2018)
Population density : 535 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 64367
Area code : 06151
View of Nieder-Ramstadt
View of Nieder-Ramstadt

Nieder-Ramstadt (in the local dialect: Nidder-Ramschd ) is a district of the municipality of Mühltal in the southern Hessian district of Darmstadt-Dieburg . The hamlet In der Mordach belongs to the district . The now independent Mühltal district of Trautheim used to belong to Nieder-Ramstadt.

geography

Nieder-Ramstadt is located in the front Odenwald in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Geo-Nature Park in the granite area. The Modau flows through the village . The federal highway 449 runs in the north and the federal highway 426 in the south .

history

Nieder-Ramstadt, postcard from 1907
Nieder-Ramstadt with Wingertsberg quarry in the foreground. Above in the picture: Kirchberg-Lindenberg -Rücken north of Trautheim

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1190/94, when a Cunradus de Ramstadt was attested as a canon of the St. Andrews monastery in Worms . However, archaeological finds have shown that the Alemanni had already settled in this area. An Alemannic settlement from the 4th century AD and a late Merovingian burial ground (around 700 AD) have been proven by numerous finds.

Since the 13th century it belonged to the domain of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen . In 1259, the Bishop of Würzburg awarded the Gerau royal court to the County of Katzenelnbogen. In 1318 Nieder-Ramstadt was in the course of a partition contract between Count Berthold III. (Bertolf) and Count Eberhard II. Von Katzenelnbogen mentioned. In 1403 Count Johann IV. Von Katzenelnbogen confirmed that he a. a. Nieder-Ramstadt as a fief of Bishop Johann von Würzburg . With the death of the last male descendant Philip I of Katzenelnbogen in 1479, it was inherited by Heinrich III. to the Landgraviate of Hesse .

From the Middle Ages to the 19th century, the bakers and millers from Nieder-Ramstadt were of supraregional importance. In 1623 53 masters were named in the corresponding guild for the place.

The hamlet In der Mordach was formed at the beginning of the 18th century from four mills, the Neue Bohlen-, the Frankenbergers- (today Waldhof), the Glashütten- (today Haus Burgwald) and the Zehmühle.

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

»Niederramstadt (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran parish village; lies on both sides of the Modaubach, over which a beautiful stone bridge built in 1734 leads, and 2 St. from Reinheim. The place consists of 159 houses and 1283 inhabitants, up to 15 Cath., 7 Reform. and 9 Jews are Lutheran. There are 60 farmers, 57 tradespeople and 58 day laborers among the population. You will find 1 church with a wonderful bells, 1 rectory, 2 schoolhouses, 1 town hall, built in 1729, 1 small educational institution for female orphans, built in 1822, 15 grinding mills, 1 powder, 1 paper and 1 oil mill. This village was probably carried by the Counts of Katzenellenbogen, a fief of the Würzburg monastery; but in another place Niederramstadt is listed as a Katzenellenbogensches allodium . The church was initially a mother church, but became a branch of Darmstadt in the 14th century and only received its own pastor after the Reformation. Masonry found suggests that the village was once larger. "

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on April 1, 1972, the municipality Waschenbach was incorporated as a district on a voluntary basis . On January 1, 1977, the previously independent municipalities Nieder-Ramstadt, were then Frankenhausen , Nieder-Beerbach and Traisa powerful state law the new municipality Mühltal together . For Nieder-Ramstadt, as for the other former municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed according to the Hessian municipal code. The seat of the municipal administration was Nieder-Ramstadt.

Historical forms of names

In historical documents the place is under the following place names (in brackets the year of mentioning): Ramestat (around 1190); Ramestat (1194); Ramestat (1222); Nyder Ramstat, Nider Ramstat (1360); Nyder Ramstat (1403); Niddernramstadt (1450); Nidderramstait (1509); Niederrambstatt (1589); Ramstadt, Nieder-Ramstadt.

Territorial history and administration

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

dishes

Nieder-Ramstadt belonged to the center of Pfungstadt whose tasks were carried out from around 1800 by the Pfungstadt office. 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 . The Pfungstadt Office was responsible for Nieder-Ramstadt. 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: 0106 house seats
• 1791: 660 inhabitants
• 1800: 831 inhabitants
• 1806: 0980 inhabitants, 147 houses
• 1829: 1383 inhabitants, 159 houses
• 1867: 1333 inhabitants, 185 houses
Nieder-Ramstadt: Population from 1791 to 2018
year     Residents
1791
  
 660
1800
  
 831
1806
  
 980
1829
  
 1,283
1834
  
 1.310
1840
  
 1,394
1846
  
 1,498
1852
  
 1,478
1858
  
 1,451
1864
  
 1,380
1871
  
 1,331
1875
  
 1,318
1885
  
 1,401
1895
  
 1,387
1905
  
 2,021
1910
  
 2,458
1925
  
 2,907
1939
  
 3,407
1946
  
 5,041
1950
  
 5,271
1956
  
 5,278
1961
  
 5,702
1967
  
 5,712
1970
  
 5,655
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 5,286
2013
  
 5,806
2016
  
 5,663
2018
  
 5,490
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 2013: Mühltal website (web archive); 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 1252 Lutheran (= 97.58%), 7 Reformed (= 0.56%), 9 Jewish (= 0.70%) and 15 Catholic (= 1.70%) residents
• 1961: 4418 Protestant (= 77.48%), 945 Catholic (= 16.57%) residents

politics

For Nieder-Ramstadt there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Nieder-Ramstadt) with a local advisory board and mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of five members. Since the local elections in 2016, he has had one member of the SPD , two members of the CDU and two members of the electoral association “Die Mühltaler”. Mayor is Niels Starke (CDU).

coat of arms

DEU Nieder-Ramstadt COA.svg

Blazon : "In the shield, which is quartered with silver and red, a blue vine leaf in each of the silver fields and a golden pretzel in each of the red fields."

The coat of arms was approved by the local council in a meeting on October 6, 1966 and approved by the Hessian Minister of the Interior for the Nieder-Ramstadt community in what was then the Darmstadt district on February 17, 1967 . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

It shows the two branches of the economy that are historically important for Nieder-Ramstadt, the bakers and millers who were organized in a common guild with Traisa, and viticulture, which was once very important in the region. The crossing in red and silver goes back to the Würzburg imperial storm flag, since Nieder-Ramstadt used to belong to the diocese of Würzburg.

Local coat of arms before 1967

Before the current coat of arms was awarded, the Nieder-Ramstädter coat of arms showed a horizontally inlaid silver mill iron on a red shield, above it a golden pretzel and two different crossed golden alarm clocks.

This coat of arms, which can still often be found today, goes back to court seals of the 16th and 17th centuries and emphasizes the importance of the bakers and millers in the village.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Regular events

Economy and Infrastructure

The largest employer is the Nieder-Ramstädter Diakonie Foundation (NRD), which operates apartments and workshops for people with physical and mental disabilities and looks after them.

Sons and daughters of Nieder-Ramstadt

Web links

Commons : Nieder-Ramstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mühltal in numbers: EWZ with NW. Mühltal community , archived from the original ; accessed in July 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Nieder-Ramstadt, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 8, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ Heinrich Tischner: Katzenelnbogen division contract of August 26, 1318. In: www.heinrich-tischner.de. Accessed November 2019 .
  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. 170 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. No. 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 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  6. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 62 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Mühltal community, accessed February 2019 .
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ^ 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 ).
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  120 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  11. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  128 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 64 ( online at google books ).
  13. ↑ 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;
  14. ↑ Local Advisory Boards. In: Council and Citizen Information System. Mühltal community, accessed in August 2019 .
  15. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the Nieder-Ramstadt community in the Darmstadt district of February 17, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 10 , p. 299 , point 224 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  16. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, holdings R 4 No. 11730
  17. ↑ Stadler, Klemens (1967): German coat of arms Federal Republic of Germany Volume 3 The municipal coat of arms of the state of Hesse. Bremen: Angelsachsen-Verlag.
  18. ↑ http://www.muehltal-odenwald.de/geschich/mu/wappen.html Coats of arms tell a story - The Mühltaler coat of arms, Nieder-Ramstadt; on muehltal-odenwald.de (accessed December 27, 2019)
  19. ↑ Demandt, Karl E .; Renkhoff, Otto (1956): Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. Glücksburg / Ostsee: Strong publisher; Page 131.
  20. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Monday, August 8, 2016, p. 21
  21. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, November 26, 2015, p. 20