Ober-Seemen

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Ober-Seemen
City of Gedern
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 9 ″  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 388 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.55 km²
Residents : 1500 approx.
Population density : 85 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 63688
Area code : 06045

Ober-Seemen is a district of Gedern in the Wetteraukreis in Hesse .

geography

Ober-Seemen is located on the southwest slope of the Vogelsberg , 16 km east of Nidda . The actual "high Vogelsberg" begins here. The village borders with its district in the east on the von Illnhausen - Birstein , in the south on the von Mittel-Seemen and Wenings and in the west on the von Gedern. In the north it is surrounded by an extensive forest, behind which the district of Volkartshain - Grebenhain begins. Ober-Seemen is located at heights between 404  m above sea level. NN in the valley up to 626 m at the Altenburg. Together with the villages of Mittel-Seemen and Nieder-Seemen, it forms the Seemental. Ober-Seemen is part of the Hoher Vogelsberg Nature Park . The Seemenbach rises in Ober-Seemen, below the Altenburg.

Streams

Seemenbach

  • Hundsbach (Bracht)
  • Hettenbach
  • Steinbach
  • Gottesbach
  • Pig pit
  • Krohbach

Standing waters

  • Schmidtbornteich
  • Goose pond
  • Shaft pond
  • Brühlingsweiher
  • Fire pond
  • Georgenwiesenseifenweiher

history

Surname

The name Ober-Seemen probably goes back to the name Seemenaha . The rush is popularly referred to as symmetry or symmetry . The word aha means something like water. This syllable has been sanded down over the centuries. Seemenaha is synonymous with Seemenbach or Binsenbach.

prehistory

A hand ax that was found at the Alteburg proves that people stayed here more than 20,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age . During the Iron Age , Celts lived here who were arable farmers, cattle breeders, artisans and traders. They also mined the metals and salts in the region.

An important ground monument in the area is the Alteburg. She was a refuge . Today the areas of four municipalities border each other here: Gedern, Schotten , Grebenhain and Birstein . Traces of prehistoric ramparts can still be seen here.

middle Ages

Evangelical Church in Ober-Seemen

In the High Middle Ages at the latest , the valleys at the foot of the Vogelsberg were settled from the Wetterau , when the more fertile soils there were no longer sufficient for a growing population. During this time the Seemental belonged to the Bannforst Büdingen , which was bounded in the northwest by the Nidder and in the east by the salt . The places Mittel-Seemen and Nieder-Seemen are expansion sites of the original Seemen.

The oldest surviving written mention of "Seemen" dates from around the year 1000 and can be found in the interest registers of the Seligenstadt monastery . There the place is called "Siemina". Then the places Mittel-, Ober- and Niederseemen are meant. Siemina was identified as a Seemen as early as the 19th century. A reference to the place Semd near Dieburg was excluded.

A "Hermann de Symene" is mentioned in 1264. The place Ober-Seemen appears for the first time explicitly in a document from the year 1320. In it, the feudal lord Gottfried von Brauneck, as feudal lord, approves the sale of the tithe to "Obersiemene" / "Obernsemene."

In the Middle Ages and early modern times , the village continued to belong to the Ortenberg Office , a condominium formed by three sovereigns from among the members of the Wetterau Counts' Association .

In 1421 the place belonged to the Lords of Rodenstein , who pledged it to the Lords of Hanau that year . They sold the pledge on to the Counts of Isenburg in 1500 .

The church of Ober-Seemen probably goes back to a medieval chapel , the remains of which are said to still be in the choir of the church that stands today.

Early modern age

Since all three gentlemen of the condominium turned to the Reformation , the parish of Ober-Seemen, at that time a subsidiary church of Gedern, became Lutheran around 1535 under its pastor, Geiß . From 1595 there was evidence of a parish in Ober-Seemen , which also included Mittel- and Nieder-Seemen. The latter two villages were ecclesiastically separated in 1724 and received their own parish.

Ober-Seemen was one of the places in which the Solms land law of 1571 was accepted under customary law , but only partially . This applied in particular to the areas of guardianship law , inheritance and matrimonial property law . Moreover, the applied Common Law . It was not until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was suspended .

In 1595 the Ober-Seemen court included the four villages of Ober-Seemen, Mittel-Seemen, Nieder-Seemen and Steinberg . In 1601 there was a real division of the condominium, whereby the village of Ober-Seemen of the county of Stolberg-Roßla and the local "Amt Ortenberg" was added. The church registers begin with the year 1649, the older ones were probably lost in the Thirty Years War .

From 1742 to 1766 a deacon for Ober-Seemen is mentioned, and in 1752 a preceptor for the school there. In 1791 around 90 to 100 children attended the Ober-Seemen school.

Ober-Seemen received market rights in 1797 . Markets where the count's winery manager of the Vorwerk Ober-Seemen had to collect the demurrage on behalf of the Ortenberg office are occupied for Whitsun , in summer, as Bartholomäi-Markt, Petri-Markt and in October. The markets were two days, on the first day there was cattle and on the second day grocer's. The markets were always associated with festivals.

Modern times

Synagogue in Ober-Seemen

In 1806 the county of Stolberg - and with it Ober-Seemen - fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Here Ober-Seemen belonged to the civil authority of Ortenberg. In 1821 the Grand Duchy formed the district of Nidda , to which Ober-Seemen was also assigned, and which was called Kreis Nidda from 1832 . With the revolution of 1848 the administrative district of Nidda was briefly formed, but in 1852 the district of Nidda was revived. In 1874 the village became part of the Schotten district .

In 1904 the public water supply went into operation, in 1905 the place received a connection to the railway through the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community and the Oberwaldbahn . The first radio was in the village in 1921, the first car in 1925. In 1924 a land consolidation was carried out before the Schotten district was dissolved in 1938 and Ober-Seemen became part of the Büdingen district in 1938 .

The First World War killed 50 and the Second World War 77 dead and missing among the population.

There had been a Jewish community in the village since the 17th century , which reached its largest number of members with around 150 people in the late mid-19th century. In 1900/01 the community built a synagogue , the building and the Jewish cemetery have been preserved . The number of members of the Jewish community decreased continuously from the late 19th century onwards due to the emigration of Jews to larger cities. In 1933 the Jewish community still numbered 73 people (6.8% of the population), decreased further to 15 people in 1937 and dissolved in spring 1938. In 1940 there was only one Jewish family left on site. More than 40 Jews who were born in Ober-Seemen or who lived there for a long time were murdered in the course of the Nazi persecution of Jews .

With the regional reform in Hesse , Ober-Seemen was incorporated into the city of Gedern on December 1, 1970 on a voluntary basis . In 1975, passenger traffic was discontinued , followed by freight traffic on the Oberwaldbahn in 1982 , and the railway facilities were soon demolished. Today the volcano bike path runs along the former route . The reception building of the former train station is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Population development

  • 1834: 0997 inhabitants
  • 1852: 1051 inhabitants
  • 1885: 0822 inhabitants
  • 1939: 1030 inhabitants
  • 1946: 1354 inhabitants
  • 1961: 1319 inhabitants
  • 1970: 1440 inhabitants

societies

  • Seemental musicians
  • Gesangsverein Liederlust 1840 Ober-Seemen eV
  • History Association Seemental
  • Church choir Ober-Seemen
  • Rural Women's Association Ober-Seemen eV
  • Fruit and horticultural association Ober-Seemen
  • VdK Seemental
  • Angelsportverein Ober-Seemen eV
  • KSG Ober-Seemen
  • Volunteer fire brigade Ober-Seemen
  • Youth fire brigade Ober-Seemen
  • Ober-Seemen hunting association
  • Interest group for village renewal Ober-Seemen
  • SV Seemental
  • Association of Expellees Ober-Seemen
  • OS-Events eV

Regional cuisine

In Ober-Seemen, the so-called bumps are cooked: These are sausage-shaped potato rolls made from raw potatoes and meat. Solper meat is usually added to this potato mixture in Ober-Seemen, but it can also be black pudding or a coarse smoked sausage and leek . Beulches are cooked in linen sacks (small bags, locally: sachets) and served with an onion sauce. Prislaabs Woischsel is another specialty from Ober-Seemen. It is similar to the Frankfurt green sauce and consists of sour milk or buttermilk with sour cream and chives . There is also a boiled egg and boiled potatoes.

Infrastructure

traffic

The state roads 3192 and 3010 and the volcano cycle path run through Ober-Seemen . The Oberwaldbahn , which formerly touched the town , has been shut down since 1982.

education

Ober-Seemen has a kindergarten and a primary school , the Seementalschule, in which children from Ober-Seemen, Nieder-Seemen and Mittel-Seemen attend the first four years of school.

literature

  • Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 to the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform = Darmstädter Archivschriften 2. 1976, p. 165.
  • Heinz Wionski: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis I. Stuttgart 1999, p. 229f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ober-Seemen, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 15, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ The location on the city of Gedern's website , accessed in April 2016.
  3. ↑ Geospatial data online. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ K. Heuson, Where did the name Bösgesäß come from? An explanation of the place names in the Büdingen district. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch 1952 des Landkreis Büdingen, pp. 21-25, p. 24.
  5. ↑ Peter Engels, The Seligenstädter Interest Register and the first mention of the Darmstadt district of Arheiligen. In: AHG NF 60, 2002, pp. 371-386, pp. 380, 386
  6. ^ Adolf Schmidt, Mittheilungen from Darmstadt manuscripts. In: New archive of the society for older German history. Vol. 13, Hannover 1888, ND 1983, pp. 603-622, p. 610, note 5.
  7. ^ Heinrich Reimer , document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Part 1. Leipzig 1891, No. 397, p. 292.
  8. ^ Karl Weller, Hohenlohisches Urkundenbuch, Vol. 2, Stuttgart 1901, No. 166, p. 122 f.
  9. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900–1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 209 .
  10. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 108, note 36 and p. 25, note 82, as well as the enclosed map.
  11. ↑ Jan Grossarth : Stone Heart . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 24, 2017, p. 18.
  12. ^ The Jewish community in Ober-Seemen near Alemannia Judaica
  13. ↑ Incorporation of the Ober-Seemen community into the town of Gedern, Büdingen district on November 24, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 49 , p. 2291 , point 2283 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  14. ^ 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. 352 .

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