Ober-Mockstadt

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Ober-Mockstadt
Ranstadt municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 39 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 138 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.94 km²
Residents : 780 approx.
Population density : 131 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 63691
Area code : 06041

Ober-Mockstadt is a place built on two hills in the municipality of Ranstadt in the Wetterau district in Hesse . Neighboring towns of Ober-Mockstadt are Nieder-Mockstadt in the south, Ranstadt in the east ( core town ) and Dauernheim in the north .

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Panorama picture Ober-Mockstadt

history

Detail of a map of the Mockstadt Abbey drawn around 1680

Mockstadt was first mentioned in a document on March 20, 930 as in inferiore Muggunstat , the word form Ober-Mockstadt on July 1, 1308. As early as the 10th century, the place was known as an oppidum , so it was already fortified. The place name can be determined by prevailing view on a old German personal names Muggo traced. It is assumed that the place was built between the 7th and 9th centuries. originated.

When the wife of the noble free Hartmann von Büdingen was dying in 950 , he donated the bones of five martyrs to the Donatus Church in Mockstadt (then Muggistat) in order to save his wife's salvation. Because of this donation, Mockstadt became a place of pilgrimage .

The Untergasse

The subsequent development of the place caused that as early as 1132 a provost was registered for the first time in Mockstadt. When there was a provost in Mockstadt, the monastery had enough goods and money to build a large new church for the monastery, the provost and community. On May 20, 1220, the Archbishop of Mainz took over all the construction costs of the Ober-Mockstädter Church until it was completed, in order to save the salvation of his dead brother's soul. Due to this happy occurrence, the church could be built even larger and more powerful than originally planned.

On February 11, 1404, Johann II of Limburg sold the castle and the city of Staden with the courts located in Mockstadt and Heegheim to Löw von Steinfurth and various nobles from the Wetterau. A few months later, Johann II von Ysenburg-Büdingen also took part in the purchase. They signed a truce .

After the Thirty Years' War , only nine families lived in Mockstadt and they rebuilt the place.

In 1662 Mockstadt raised Ranstadt to a parish.

In 1840 the last remains of the Mockstädter Marien-Stift were demolished.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Ober-Mockstadt was incorporated into the municipality of Ranstadt on October 1, 1971.

Personalities

Religions

The Ober-Mockstadt parish is the seat of the Evangelical Parish of Ober-Mockstadt. The Catholic parish was dissolved in 1840 with the demolition of the Catholic Church. After the Second World War, a new Catholic parish with a parish office was formed in Ranstadt.

Buildings

There are 19 listed buildings in Ober-Mockstadt. The oldest house was built in 1571 and has a vaulted cellar. The church was built in 1220. In 1543 the church was reformed and in 1710 separated into Protestant and Catholic. In 1717 the Protestant nave collapsed. From 1720 to 1726 Johann David Schneider rebuilt the nave in the baroque style . In 1755 the Gothic tower was demolished and rebuilt in Baroque style by J. Ph. Seiz. In 1840 the Catholic choir was demolished. Thus only the baroque parts of the once Gothic church remained. Three “ sugar loaf bells ” still bear witness to this time.

  • Altar of the Ober-Mockstädter parish church

  • Elfuhr bell of the church from 1220

  • Church organ

  • Parish Church of Ober-Mockstadt

  • Parish Church of Ober-Mockstadt

  • Parish Church of Ober-Mockstadt

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Ober-Mockstadt, Wetteraukreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 15, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ The location on the website of the municipality of Ranstadt , accessed in April 2016.
  3. ^ Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke: Codex diplomaticus Fuldensis , Kassel 1850.
  4. ^ Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches Namenbuch , Vol. 2: Place and other geographical names. 2nd edition, edited by Hermann Jellinghaus, Bonn 1913/16.
  5. ^ Karl Weigand: Upper Hessian place names . Archive for Hessian history and antiquity 7, pp. 241–332.
  6. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 352 .

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