Ober-Mossau
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Ober-Mossau
Mossautal municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 37 " N , 8 ° 55 ′ 37" E
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| Height : | 338 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 12.75 km² |
| Residents : | 550 |
| Population density : | 43 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 1971 |
| Postal code : | 64756 |
| Area code : | 06061 |
 View of Ober-Mossau
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Ober-Mossau is a district of the municipality of Mossautal in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse .
geography
The Waldhufendorf is located in the Odenwald in the Hessian red sandstone area in the Geo-Nature Park Bergstrasse-Odenwald am Mossaubach . State road 3260 runs through the village .
history
The village was first mentioned in a document in 1253. Around this time, a church was built in the village by the Johanniter . In the Middle Ages there were ore mines in the village.
Territorial reform
On December 31, 1971, Ober-Mossau was incorporated into the new Mossautal community.
Historical forms of names
In documents that have been received, Ober-Mossau was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):
- Mosaha (1253)
- Mossa (1267)
- Mosa (1277)
- Mosaics (1290)
- Masae (1324)
- Kirchmossauwe (1443)
- Kirchmossauwe (1480)
- Ober-Mossaue (1558)
- Obermossau
Population development
Source: Historical local dictionary
| • 1522: | 22 able-bodied men |
| • 1623: | 28 houses with 120 inhabitants |
| Unter-Mossau: Population from 1834 to 1970 | ||||
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| year | Residents | |||
| 1834 | 350 | |||
| 1840 | 370 | |||
| 1846 | 433 | |||
| 1852 | 399 | |||
| 1858 | 464 | |||
| 1864 | 422 | |||
| 1871 | 415 | |||
| 1875 | 408 | |||
| 1885 | 426 | |||
| 1895 | 425 | |||
| 1905 | 425 | |||
| 1910 | 411 | |||
| 1925 | 428 | |||
| 1939 | 470 | |||
| 1946 | 618 | |||
| 1950 | 553 | |||
| 1956 | 520 | |||
| 1961 | 517 | |||
| 1967 | 514 | |||
| 1970 | 501 | |||
| 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
Source: Historical local dictionary
| • 1961: | 438 Protestant (= 84.72%), 76 Catholic (= 14.70%) residents |
Territorial history and administration
The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Lower Mossau was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:
- before 1806: Holy Roman Empire, County of Erbach-Fürstenau , Amt Fürstenau
- from 1806: Grand Duchy of Hesse , sovereign states, Fürstenau office (belonging to the Erbach class)
- from 1815: German Confederation , Grand Duchy of Hesse, sovereign states, Fürstenau office (belonging to the Erbach class)
- from 1822: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Starkenburg Province , Erbach District District (separation between justice ( Michelstadt District Court ) and administration)
- from 1848: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Erbach district
- from 1852: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Starkenburg, District of Erbach
- from 1918: German Empire, People's State of Hesse , Starkenburg Province, Erbach district
- from 1945: American occupation zone , Greater Hesse , Darmstadt administrative region, Erbach district
- from 1946: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Darmstadt district, Erbach district
- from 1972: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt district, Erbach district
Economy and Infrastructure
There is a children's playground and a kindergarten in the former school .
Companies
The largest employer in Ober-Mossau is the local Schmucker brewery with around 90 employees. In 1780 the Hirschwirt Nikolaus Schönberger founded a private brewery . 20 years later, the Odenwald farmer with the black three-cornered hat becomes the trademark of the brewery and beer. In 1895 Johann Gottlieb Schmucker married into the company and gave the brewery his name.
traffic
In the valley floor of the Mossau brook , the state road L 3260 runs through the village and connects the federal road 460 in the south with the federal road 47 in the north. In the local area, the district road K 50 branches off to the east and leads via Steinbuch and Steinbach to Michelstadt . The county road K 50 branches off to the west and leads via Rohrbach to Unter-Easter .
Regular events
- Corpus Christi: Schmucker-Oldtimer-Classics
- On the last full weekend in June: Brewery Festival
Personalities
- Johann Gottlieb Schmucker, namesake of the private brewery Schmucker
literature
- Literature about Ober-Mossau in the Hessian Bibliography
- Search for Ober-Mossau in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library
- Search for Ober-Mossau in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Web links
- Internet presence of the municipality of Mossautal
- Ober-Mossau, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 359 .
- ↑ a b c d e Ober-Mossau, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Odenwälder Kartoffelsupp, Echo Newspapers GmbH, Darmstadt, June 2019.
- ↑ Odenwälder Kartoffelsupp, Echo Newspapers GmbH, Darmstadt, June 2019.
