Upper Modau

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Upper Modau
City of Ober-Ramstadt
Coat of arms of Ober-Modau
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 17 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 27"  E
Height : 234 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.54 km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Incorporated into: Modau
Town center in Odenwaldstraße with the former Boßler-Hof on the left [2]
Town center in Odenwaldstraße with the former Boßler-Hof on the left

Ober-Modau (in the local dialect: Owwern-Murre), the formerly independent municipality was a district of Modau, which is now a district of Ober-Ramstadt in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

history

From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age

The place was first mentioned in a document around 1360. Later forms of name were Kleinmodau (1386), Obirn Modau (1451), Obern Modauwe (1454), Obern Muda (1516) and Obern Modau (1674). It is documented that the place belongs to the administrative districts of Amt Lichtenberg (from 1783), District of Reinheim (from 1821), District of Dieburg (from 1832), District of Dieburg (from 1848), District of Dieburg (from 1852) and District of Darmstadt (1938) belonged to.

Fiefs in Ober-Modau in the late Middle Ages were the Jude vom Stein families, (Steyne) (1360) a family from Mainz and later settled in Bensheim, Kalb von Reinheim (1382), the family later became a member of the knightly canton of Odenwald and Werberg von Lindenfels (1403), a very influential family at the Heidelberg court in the 15th century .

1382 have "Werner calf war" horsemen (armed servants) of the cities of Frankfurt, Mainz and Worms significant damage in Nieder-Modau Ober-Modau, Rohrbach, Wembach and served on the Hofgut Illbach (Eulbach). In 1449, Count Philip I von Katzenelnbogen, called the Elder (* 1402; † 1479) , transferred Ober-Modau to his son Philip the Younger (* 1427; † February 27, 1453 - he was stabbed in Bruges ) so that he could get his could set up their own household. Around 1490, Ober-Modau, along with other neighboring towns, was obliged to bring firewood to Lichtenberg Castle as a labor service. In 1549 the court under the linden tree is mentioned. At the end of the Thirty Years War the place was uninhabited. At the beginning of 1785 a school of its own was opened in Ober-Modau, it existed for about 10 years and was then replaced by a winter school. In 1834 Ober-Modau received a permanent school again, which replaced the winter school.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reported in 1829 about Ober-Modau:

»Obermodau (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran Filialdorf; is located on the Modaubach 2 St. von Reinheim, has 31 houses and 234 inhabitants, who are Lutheran except for 1 Catholic, and among these 9 farmers and 18 who are civil trades. - The von Wallbrunn and the Kalben von Reinheim, which the latter were also wealthy here, had a rural settlement court here in an undivided community, which later came to the former alone. The plague raged here in 1626. "

Around 1865 Neutsch belonged to Ober-Modau.

Territorial reform

On July 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, Ober-Modau and Nieder-Modau voluntarily merged to form the municipality of Modau , which was incorporated into Ober-Ramstadt on January 1, 1977 by state law. A local district according to the Hessian municipal code was not established, but the place still forms its own boundary .

Territorial history and administration

The administration of the place takes place already at the time of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and after its extinction in the 15th century, in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt by the Office of Lichtenberg . Ober-Modau was in the judicial district of the district of Oberramstadt . The centering was divided into so-called "rice car," each of which a top magistrate board that the Zentgrafen were subordinated. This district had to provide a freight car ( rice wagon ) including draft animals and servants for campaigns. Ober-Modau belonged to the "Ober-Ramstädter Reiswagen", which also included the towns of Ober-Ramstadt with its mills and the German residents of Hahn and Wembach , Asbach , Dilshofen , Nieder-Modau and Frankenhausen . The entire district of Oberramstadt was assigned to the Lichtenberg office . This classification existed until the beginning of the 19th century.

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

dishes

Ober-Modau belonged to the Oberramstadt district court . 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 Ober-Modau. 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

  • 1630: 50 (estimated)
  • 1791: 136 inhabitants
  • 1800: 147 inhabitants
  • 1806: 175 inhabitants, 23 houses
  • 1829: 234 inhabitants, 31 houses
  • 1867: 335 inhabitants, 45 houses
Ober-Modau: Population from 1791 to 1970
year     Residents
1791
  
 136
1800
  
 147
1806
  
 175
1829
  
 234
1834
  
 261
1840
  
 284
1846
  
 322
1852
  
 331
1858
  
 340
1864
  
 343
1871
  
 349
1875
  
 379
1885
  
 425
1895
  
 369
1905
  
 388
1910
  
 395
1925
  
 361
1939
  
 356
1946
  
 620
1950
  
 575
1956
  
 512
1961
  
 530
1967
  
 525
1970
  
 550
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 233 Lutheran (= 99.57%) and one Catholic (= 0.43%) residents
• 1961: 408 Protestant (= 76.98%), 103 Catholic (= 19.43%) residents

mayor

Former town hall in Odenwaldstraße
  • 1848 - 1856 Boßler, Johann Adam
  • 1857 - 1865 Hahn, Adam II.
  • 1865 - 1874 Hahn, Johannes
  • 1874 - 1894 Keller, Philipp V.
  • 1894 - 1918 Keller, Johannes
  • 1919-1938 Daum, Peter
  • 1938 - 1945 Hahn, Georg
  • 1945 - 1948 Keller, Georg Philipp
  • 1948 - 1965 Roßmann, Georg
  • 1965 - 1968 Ritscher, August
  • 1968 - 1971 Lorz, Hermann

literature

  • Karl E. Demandt: Regest of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen 1060–1486, Volumes I – IV. Self-published by the Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1953/57
  • Arthur Funk: Home in old photographs: Ober-Modau . In: Zeitschrift des Breuberg-Bund, 1988, issue 3, p. 114
  • Rudolf Kunz: wisdom of the Landsiedel -gericht zu Ober-Modau (1549). In: Der Odenwald , Zeitschrift des Breuberg-Bund, 1971, No. 4, pp. 124–126
  • Magistrate of the city of Ober-Ramstadt: Ober-Ramstadt - A chronicle of the history of the city . Ober-Ramstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813356-0-6 .
  • Horst Matthes: Ober-Modau after 1945 . Ober-Ramstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3-9812976-9-0
  • Thomas Steinmetz: The southwestern tip of the Dreieich wilderness in the Odenwald - A contribution to the history of the upper Modautal and Nieder-Modau Castle , In: “Der Odenwald”, magazine of the Breuberg-Bund, 2014, issue 2, pp. 43-62
  • Literature about Ober-Modau in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Ober-Modau, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of August 14, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Werner Hahn: Ober-Ramstadt - A chronicle on the history of the city . Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Ober-Ramstadt. Ober-Ramstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813356-0-6 , pp. 150 .
  3. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Tuesday, December 1, 2015, p. 19
  4. ↑ Karl E. Demandt: Regesten der Graf von Katzenelnbogen. No. 1237, No. 5.
  5. ↑ Karl E. Demandt: Regesten der Graf von Katzenelnbogen. No. 1838, point 12.
  6. ^ Rudolf Kunz: Weistum des Landsiedel -gericht zu Ober-Modau (1549). In: Der Odenwald , Zeitschrift des Breuberg-Bund, 1971, No. 4, pp. 124–126
  7. ↑ Jew from Steyne . In: Regesta of the Archbishops of Mainz, StA Wü, MIB 14 fol. 375v, July 20, 1413 ( online )
  8. ↑ Karl E. Demandt: Regesten der Graf von Katzenelnbogen. No. 4590 HStAD inventory B 3 No. 452
  9. ↑ Online Regest No. 6513 of September 29, 1490. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  10. ^ Johann Friedrich Conrad Retter: Heßische Nachrichten 2, Frankfurt am Main 1739, p. 193.
  11. ^ 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. 173 ( online at google books ).
  12. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 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 ff ., § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  13. ^ Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present . Literary Institution, Darmstadt 1877, p. 254 ( online at google books ).
  14. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  123 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ^ 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).
  16. ^ 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 ).
  17. ↑ a b List of offices, places, houses, population. HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  18. ↑ Population 1630. In: "Der Odenwald", magazine of the Breuberg-Bund, 1965, issue 3, p. 79.
  19. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  125 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  20. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 66 ( online at google books ).
  21. ↑ Mayor Johann Adam Boßler * January 22, 1797 Beedenkirchen † May 29, 1856 Ober-Modau. The Ober-Modau mayor's office is responsible for the communities of Ober-Modau and Neutsch. In: Advertisement sheet for the Dieburg u. Neustadt No. 9/1856 a. No. 19/1862.
  22. ↑ Mayor Johann Adam Boßler . In: Odenwälder Bote (Groß-Umstadt), November 16, 1898.
  23. ↑ The Ober-Modau mayor's office is responsible for the communities of Ober-Modau and Neutsch. In: Advertisement sheet for the Dieburg u. Neustadt No. 27/1865.
  24. ^ Keller, Philipp V., since 1862 alderman. In: Advertisement sheet for the Dieburg u. Neustadt No. 19/1862.
  25. ↑ Mayoral election on December 15, 1874 and October 11, 1892 . In: Odenwälder Bote (Groß-Umstadt), December 19, 1874, August 25, 1883 and October 19, 1892.
  26. ↑ Philipp Keller passed away . In: Odenwälder Bote (Groß-Umstadt), May 11, 1898.
  27. ↑ Former Mayor Johannes Keller died in 1929.