Niedergründau

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Niedergründau
Community of Gründau
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 39 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 149  (133-174)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.18 km²
Residents : 1749  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 244 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 63584
Area code : 06058
Mountain church
Mountain church

Niedergründau is a district of the community of Gründau in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district .

geography

The place is in the Büdingen-Meerholzer hill country on the Gründau , which flows in the north of Niedergründau towards Langenselbold . The county road 906 runs through the village, the state road 3271 runs past the northern edge of the village. In the south Niedergründau borders directly on Rothenbergen. The district of the district covers 715 hectares (in 1949 277 hectares were arable land).

history

Prehistory and foundation in the Middle Ages

The place was first mentioned in 1217 as Grinda on the occasion of a dispute over the patronage of the church.

Hunting of witches between 1595–1597 and 1632–1635

At the beginning of the modern era there were witch hunts all over Europe , in Niedergründau in an initial phase between 1591-1606. There is evidence of the witch trials against Margaretha Weigel (widow of Kuntz Henkell), who was sentenced to death in 1595, and that against Martha Schlegell and her daughter Lena Schlegell for proven sorcery (based on a confession!). The two had to spend a year in the witch tower in Büdingen . They were released after a lawsuit at the Count's Court Court , and the Niedergründau community was sentenced to 1,000  florins (guilders) in damages. But the anger was so great that Henn Schlegell had to flee and the two women were burned as witches in 1597. In 1596 alone another three women and in 1597 eight women from the Gründau court on the place of execution (the Herzberg in Lieblos ) were killed, 52 were branded. Another phase followed in the plague years 1632–1635 (in the Thirty Years' War ), where the plague raged across Germany (for details see also, the enlightening witch theorist Friedrich Spee in his work Cautio Criminalis ). During this time u. A. Jost Plein's wife was executed by fire on March 7, 1633 and Christine Weigel, Fischer's wife, executed by sword on October 26, 1633 for proven sorcery (based on a confession!). The number of witches not named in the documents (only the number has been communicated) is so high that it must have been the majority of all women in the Gründau court.

History of location-based money management: banks, credit industry, Raiffeisenkassen

  • April 2, 1917 Founding of the Niedergründauer savings and loan association;
  • October 23, 1938 Merger of the Niedergründauer savings and loan association with the Lieblos savings and loan association;
  • December 20, 1950 Renaming of the Lieblos savings and loan association to Raiffeisenkasse Lieblos;
  • March 29, 1972 Merger of the Raiffeisenkasse Lieblos and Meerholz to form Raiffeisenbank Mittlere Kinzig;
  • May 11, 1990 Renaming of Raiffeisenbank Mittlere Kinzig to Raiffeisenbank Gelnhausen;
  • September 13, 2001 Merger of Raiffeisenbank Gelnhausen and VR Bank Bad Orb-Gelnhausen under the company VR Bank Bad Orb-Gelnhausen eG .

From 1920 there was electric light in the place; the supply of electrical energy came from the Kinzigmühle in Lieblos (water power).

Territorial reform in Hesse 1970–1977

As part of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971, the previously independent town came to the municipality of Gründau.

Population development

Niedergründau: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
663
1840
  
683
1846
  
753
1852
  
737
1858
  
659
1864
  
576
1871
  
567
1875
  
557
1885
  
574
1895
  
603
1905
  
653
1910
  
687
1925
  
768
1939
  
822
1946
  
1,074
1950
  
1,078
1956
  
1,123
1961
  
1,145
1967
  
1,331
1970
  
1,339
2008
  
1,785
2014
  
1,749
2017
  
1,749
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Community of Gründau

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 563 Protestant (= 98.08%), 7 Catholic (= 1.22%), 4 Jewish (= 0.70%) residents
• 1961: 958 Protestant (= 83.67%), 176 Catholic (= 15.37%) residents

coat of arms

On August 17, 1967, the community Niedergründau in what was then the district of Gelnhausen , administrative district of Wiesbaden , was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In the split shield in front a silver key, behind in silver at the gap a half red-armored black eagle.

Attractions

  • The Bergkirche , Niedergründau's oldest building, first mentioned in a document around 1217
  • The museum, formerly a fire station and school, classroom is currently on display
  • The nature trail below the mountain church
  • The annual "motorcycle start" in the Bergkirche, on the 3rd or 4th Sunday in April
  • The nature reserve west of Niedergründau

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Niedergründau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Budget plan of the community of Gründau 2014. p. 4 , archived from the original ; accessed in October 2018 .
  2. "Facts and Figures" on the website of the community of Gründau, accessed in October 2018.
  3. ^ Regesta Imperii Friedrich II. V, 1.1 n.915f.
  4. Jürgen Sternberg, pastor of the church on the mountain in Niedergründau Witch persecution in the Gründau court in Grindaha, publications by the Gründau e. V. 2.1 modified edition, Gründau 1993 No. 4 (7 pages), p. 5
  5. Jürgen Sternberg, pastor of the church "on the mountain" in Niedergründau: witch hunt in the court of Gründau . In Grindaha, publications by the Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V. 2.1 modified edition, Gründau 1993 No. 4 (7 pages), p. 7
  6. VR Bank Bad Orb-Gelnhausen eG (ed.): 150 years of VR Bank Bad Orb-Gelnhausen eG . VR Bank archive, 2014 p. 18.
  7. ^ 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. 362 .
  8. a b Niedergründau, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  9. ^ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the community Niedergründau, district Gelnhausen, administrative district Wiesbaden dated August 17, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 36 , p. 1115 , no. 904 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.8 MB ]).