Ober-Widdersheim

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Ober-Widdersheim
City of Nidda
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 32 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 146 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.73 km²
Residents : 1066  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 225 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 63667
Area code : 06043

Ober-Widdersheim is a district of Nidda in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .

Geographical location

The place is in the northern Wetterau . Ober-Widdersheim is located west of the city of Nidda between the Horloff and Nidda rivers .

traffic

The federal highway 455 runs south of the village . The local train station on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line ( Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn ) has connected Ober-Widdersheim to the railway network since 1870. The Häuserhof stop on the route between Nidda and Friedberg is only about 750 meters south of the village .

history

Fortified church Ober-Widdersheim, 13th century, from the southwest

prehistory

Neolithic

A prehistoric monument to the megalithic culture is the menhir near Ober-Widdersheim.

First mention and place name

As is well known, the place was mentioned as Wetritisheim as early as the 9th century . The place name is derived from its presumed founder, ie the "home of Witrat." The village has its origin in the time of the Frankish conquest , the Merovingian period . Before 800 Hildebrand and his wife gave Berttrut and after 800: “Wigant et Burgolf tradid. bona sua sancto Bonifatio in uilla Wetritisheim cum mancipiis. "" Wigant and Burgolf handed over their goods and serfs in Wetritisheim to St. Boniface . "

  • before 800: Watresheim
  • n.800: Wetritisheim
  • 1247: Wetersheim
  • 1311: Opposition
  • 1346: Abirn-Wedyrsheim, Nydern Wedyresheim .

dish

Since 1258 the court of Ober-Widdersheim was a Fulda fief of the Counts of Ziegenhain in the county of Nidda . The Counts of Ziegenhain inherited the county of Nidda in 1205. In 1450 the county of Nidda came to the Landgraviate of Hesse in the same way . The office of Nidda continued to exist. This also included the Stornfels court with the villages of Stornfels, Ulfa , Borsdorf and Ober- and Unter-Widdersheim.

The Landgrave Otto I . von Hessen gave on October 2, 1311 a Cologne Schilling "to oppose the court" for repayment of a debt of his father, Landgrave Heinrich I.

Co-markers in the Markwald Berstadt

To this day, local residents and the owner of the courtyard are so-called Mitmärker in the Markwald Berstadt . Since the 15th century there was a dispute because Ober-Widdersheim saw its rights restricted. According to the market order of 1481, the Ober-Widdersheim co-markers had to be present at the market court in Berstadt, but had no right to vote in the election of the market master. In 1549 the Ober-Widdersheimer Mitmärker were disadvantaged in the allocation of timber on the grounds that Ober-Widdersheim also had its own forest. In 1581 the Ober-Widdersheim court demanded the division of the Markwald, which it approved in 1593, but which was never carried out.

Thirty Years' War

In the fourth year of the Thirty Years' War , in 1622, the troops of the "great Halberstadt" Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel devastated Hesse-Darmstadt areas, especially the Fuldische Mark and neighboring towns such as Ober-Widdersheim.

In July 1625, the so-called Mansfeld War Damage Register for 1622 was drawn up. Peter Ernst II von Mansfeld stayed in Nidda on June 12th. The atrocities were committed by the mercenaries of the “great Halberstadt” and Mansfeld. The Berstädter Conrad Moller reported that the Soldateska had "hung up his father in Widdersheim, Johannes Mollern, ... and since the rope did not break, so he had to die, they also cut his arm in two ..."

robber

In 1809 a group of the Wetterau gang tried to steal a brewing kettle in Ober-Widdersheim. Ludwig Funk from Sellnrod vulgo Selnröder Ludwig and his cronies Hessen-Heinrich, Peter Görzel vulgo Heiden-Peter, Conrad Anschuh from Rodheim , Schoden-Heinrich and Johann Justus Dietz vulgo Lumpen Jost from Aßlar wanted to rob a brew kettle, but failed because of a watchful dog on the thickness of the wall that they had to break through.

Church history

Today's Protestant church was built in the 13th century and first mentioned in 1318. Ober-Widdersheim formed its own parish and in the Middle Ages belonged to the Archdiaconate of St. Mariengreden in Mainz .

reformation

The Reformation was introduced in Ober-Widdersheim very quickly and apparently without any resistance. As otherwise only in Crainfeld and Echzell , the specific date of the introduction is known here. In the funeral sermon of the superintendent Jeremias Vietor on June 27, 1606 in Giessen for the councilor Philipp Chelius it was said: It was in the year 1528, when “Pancratius Chelius of his origin was a Württemberg, pastor of Widdersheim in the Ampt Sturmfelß auf Befelch the old prince of Hesse , Philipsen , Hochblseligen Andenckens, in Anno 28 Sunday after Michaelis there, from what time ... this Pancratii Chelii children and descendants said parish ... have. "

Pastor

Pancratius Chelius came from Murrhardt , where he was born around 1500. In 1564 he died in Ober-Widdersheim. He was followed in office by:

  • His son Johannes Chelius until his death in December 1591. On his tombstone it says: ANNO 1591 THE DECIMA DECEMBRIS REVERENDUS ET DOCTISSIMUS VIR M IOHANNIS CHELIVS ECCLESIAE HUYUS :: IN CHRISTO OBDORMIT :,
  • Johannes Chelius, grandson, 1591–1634,
  • After his death, his son-in-law Melchior Ebel, who died in 1635, became the local priest.
  • He was followed by his brother-in-law Johann Ludwig Chelius.
  • Johann Georg Schmidt, Latinized Fabricius, was born in Giessen in January 1608 and was the first pastor from Ober-Widdersheim who did not come from the Chelius family. His son Johann Roland Fabricius was born in the village in 1637. Johann Georg Fabricius died in Ober-Widdersheim on March 29, 1663.
  • Between 1833 and 1863, Adolf Becker laid out a large herbarium , which is in the parish archive and was presented to the Senckenberg Nature Museum in 2007 . Becker was born on October 11, 1801 in Nidda. After studying theology in Giessen, he became vicar in Hartershausen , Schlitz and Queck between 1825 and 1835 , pastor (and school teacher) in Busenborn from 1835–1841, and pastor in Okarben from 1842–1856 . From 1857 until his retirement in 1887 he worked in Ober-Widdersheim. He died on January 20, 1897 in Darmstadt .
  • August Wilhelm Heinrich Knodt, parish administrator until 1886, married Helene Fertsch there and became the Rev. in Groß -zimmer .

Pastor from Ober-Widdersheim

  • Johannes Meles, German: Dachs, was born on February 24, 1600 in Ober-Widdersheim. From 1619 to 1623 he had a scholarship at the Ludwig University of Giessen . In 1624 he became a teacher in Oppenheim , but had to leave the city again because of the re-Catholicization . Between 1626 and 1635 he was a deacon in Echzell. In the great plague year he took up the position as pastor in Berstadt. His predecessor there was Aegid Arcularius, who had previously been a teacher in Ober-Widdersheim. Meles remained pastor in Berstadt for 48 years until his death. His gravestone has been preserved in a Berstadt estate to this day.
  • Johann Roland Fabricius, b. On October 22, 1637 in Ober-Widdersheim, was pastor in Großen-Linden from 1682 to 1699 , was deposed there in 1699 for his way of life, but worked again as pastor in Klein-Rechtenbach from 1702 to 1710 . He died in Grossen-Linden in 1713.
  • Volker Guth, dean of the ev. Deanery Wetterau, comes from Ober-Widdersheim.

School history

With the introduction of the Reformation there was also a school founded, all of whose teachers were theologians until the 19th century.

Teacher

  • Johannes Weishuhn (1542–1549), who served as a chaplain from 1549 to 1551 in Echzell , is known as the first teacher .
  • Aegidius Arcularius, German: jewelry box maker, was the son of the Marburg professor and Ephorus Daniel Arcularius. He studied theology in Marburg . From 1600 to 1605 he had a scholarship. In 1612/13 he was a schoolmaster in Ober-Widdersheim, then chaplain in Echzell until 1625/26. Then he became a pastor in Berstadt , where he died of the plague in 1635.
  • Johannes Porsius (German: Frosch) was the son of the Rodheim pastor Porsius. He is said to have been a teacher in Ober-Widdersheim from 1621 to 1624. According to other sources, he had been a teacher in Berstadt since 1618.
  • In 1794 there was no teacher in Ober-Widdersheim.
  • Wilhelm Geist, b. on February 24, 1908 in Ober-Widdersheim. After graduation, he first taught in Ober-Widdersheim before taking up the teaching position in Berstadt.

Teacher from Ober-Widdersheim

  • Conrad Kornmesser was born on February 26th, 1669 in Ober-Widdersheim and studied in Giessen. In 1689/1690 he was a schoolmaster in Trebur , then in Rodheim . He lived as a schoolmaster in Berstadt for 58 years. He shared this position for 17 years with his second youngest son Christian Moritz Kornmesser, who married the daughter of the founder of Buderus , Johann Wilhelm Buderus .

Territorial history and administration

In 1787 the court of Widdersheim belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt (part of the Principality of Upper Hesse), the office of Stornfels .

In 1806 the Grand Duchy of Hesse was founded. The Schotten Office, created in 1820, was integrated into the Nidda district in 1821 . Regional courts were set up at the same time as the district districts. The district court of Nidda was responsible for Ober-Widdersheim . With the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act in the Grand Duchy of Hesse on October 1, 1879, the previous regional court became the district court of Nidda , which now belonged to the district of the newly established regional court of Gießen.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Ober-Widdersheim in 1830:

"Oberwiddersheim (L. Bez. Nidda) evangel. Parish village; lies between the Nidda and the Horloff 1 12 St. von Nidda, has 1 church, 75 houses and 455 inhabitants. all of which are evangelical. This is where the courtyard belongs. - The place already had a parish church in the 14th century, the church of which belonged to the Abbot of Fuld . Widdersheim formed its own court, which was a fuldisches fief, about which all news is missing. "

In 1832 the Nidda district was created. The authorities reacted to the revolution of 1848 by organizing administrative districts such as the administrative district of Nidda. These cannot be compared with today's administrative districts. In 1852 the administrative districts were abolished and the Nidda district re-established. Ober-Widdersheim became part of the Büdingen district in 1874. As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the Büdingen district merged with the Friedberg district in 1972 to form the Wetterau district .

In 1853, Grund-Schwalheim and its mill were incorporated into Ober-Widdersheim, but became independent again in 1924. For this, the local residents had to bring their private forest property of 6.3 hectares into the community property.

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

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipalities of Bad Salzhausen, Borsdorf, Fauerbach bei Nidda, Geiß-Nidda, Harb, Kohden, Michelnau, Ober-Lais, Ober-Schmitten, Ober-Widdersheim, Stornfels, merged on December 1, 1970 Ulfa, Unter-Schmitten, Wallernhausen and the city of Nidda to form the new city of Nidda.

Population development

• 1791: 366 inhabitants
• 1800: 372 inhabitants
• 1806: 342 inhabitants, 71 houses
• 1829: 455 inhabitants, 75 houses
• 1867: 473 inhabitants, 89 inhabited buildings
• 1875: 489 inhabitants, 94 inhabited buildings
Ober-Widdersheim: Population from 1791 to 2019
year     Residents
1791
  
366
1800
  
372
1806
  
342
1829
  
455
1834
  
466
1840
  
493
1846
  
511
1852
  
491
1858
  
469
1864
  
483
1871
  
479
1875
  
489
1885
  
518
1895
  
494
1905
  
556
1910
  
569
1925
  
619
1939
  
666
1946
  
900
1950
  
966
1956
  
904
1961
  
861
1967
  
917
1970
  
916
1980
  
?
1990
  
?
1996
  
1.101
2000
  
1,133
2006
  
1,126
2010
  
1,041
2011
  
984
2016
  
1,027
2019
  
1,066
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 2000:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 455 Protestant (= 100%) residents
• 1961: 722 Protestant (= 83.86%) and 123 Catholic (= 14.29%) residents

surface

  • 1854 acres : 1889, of which 1161 arable land, 183 meadows, 414 forest
  • 1961 hectares : 473, of which 42 are forest

politics

The mayor is Michael Theel (as of June 2019) .

Culture and sights

Buildings

In the monument topography , the " street village in exceptionally good, closed state of preservation" is praised.

  • Protestant church with "castle-like fortified cemetery."
  • Half-timbered houses from the 17th and 18th centuries * " Großer Burgmannenhof ," built in 1576 by the pastor Johannes Chelius. The house has two inscriptions. One reads: ANNO DNI 1576 ... IOHANNIS CHELIVS W PF. A second inscription was written in Latin: NOSTRUM OPVS VT LAVDI SERVIAT OMNI TUA:

societies

  • ASV 1989 Ober-Widdersheim
  • FC Victoria 1926 Ober-Widdersheim
  • Volunteer firefighter
  • Singing Association Eintracht Fidelio Ober-Widdersheim e. V.
  • Country women Ober-Widdersheim
  • Fruit and horticultural association Ober-Widdersheim eV

Infrastructure

Former basalt works in Ober-Widdersheim

literature

  • Udo Mübus: Ober-Widdersheim; History; Jobs as economic factors in companies , part 1, 2008
  • Udo Mübus: Ober- and Unter-Widdersheim; Confirmands 1920–1985 , parts 1 and 2, 2008
  • Udo Möbus: Ober-Widdersheim; Class photos pupils , 2007
  • Udo Möbus: Ober-Widdersheim; Photo documents; A village on the edge of the Wetterau and the Vogelsberg , 2007
  • Friedrich Karl Nickel: 100 years of basalt extraction in Ober-Widdersheim , Johannes Nickel GmbH, Nidda / Ober-Widdersheim, 1997
  • Horst Günter Stelz: Ober-Widdersheim: a look into history , In: Heimat im Bild, 1970, issue 10
  • Wieland Schnedler: The Schieferberg near Ober-Widdersheim: botanical gems in the Wetterau (4) , contributions to the natural history of the Wetterau, journal for ornithology and nature protection, Hessian society for ornithology and nature protection (working group Wetterau), German association for bird protection (district association Wetterau) , Friedberg 1983, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 177-178
  • Gerhard Hentschel, Rolf Vollrath: The zeolites in the basalt of Ober-Widdersheim, Vogelsberg , In: Der Aufschluss, Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie und Geologie (VFMG) eV, Heidelberg, 1977, Volume 28, Issue 11, pp. 409-412,
  • Literature on Ober-Widdersheim in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ober-Widdersheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Ober-Widdersheim, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. a b Nidda in numbers. In: Website of the city of Nidda, accessed in May 2020.
  3. Vera Rupp , An archaeological journey through time through Wetterau and Vogelsberg. = History and culture in Wetterau and Vogelsberg. Vol. 7, p. 8.
  4. ^ Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke , Traditiones et antiquitates Fuldenses, p. 108, no. 150, Edmund Ernst Stengel , document book of the Fulda monastery. Marburg 1958. Volume 1. The time of the abbots Sturmi and Baugulf. = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck 10.1, 406
  5. ^ Jürgen Steen, Kings and nobility in the early medieval settlement, social and agricultural history of the Wetterau. Studies on the relationship between land acquisition and continuity using the example of a peripheral landscape of the Merovingian Empire. Ffm. 1979 = Writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main XIV. P. 142.
  6. ^ Document book Fulda, 516.
  7. ^ Helfrich Bernhard Wenck , Hessische Landesgeschichte. Volume 2. Frankfurt, Leipzig 1789, 1797, p. 359.
  8. Wenck, Landesgeschichte. II, No. 270.
  9. Ingo Kattenberg, Markwald Berstadt, p. 28.
  10. Eugen Riess, Willy Roth, Berstadt. Vol. 1, pp. 455-465, pp. 459.
  11. ^ Friedrich Ludwig Adolph Grolman, history of the Vogelsberg and Wetterau robber gangs and several criminals associated with them. In addition to personal description of many thieves and robbers scattered throughout the German dialect; With a copper plaque, which shows the faithful portraits of 16 main criminals. Giessen 1813, p. 298.
  12. ^ Stephan Alexander Würdtwein , Dioecesis Moguntia in Archidiaconatus distincta. Vol. I-IV, 1767-1790. Vol. III. P. 95.
  13. ^ Wilhelm Diehl , Reformation book of the Protestant parishes of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. 2nd edition Friedberg 1917, pp. 83-85, pp. 83 f. Original: digitized version at the Saxon State Library
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  16. Botany and nature conservation in Hessen 24, Frankfurt am Main 2012. The Herbarium Adolf Becker in the parish archive of Ober-Widdersheim (pdf)
  17. Eugen Riess, Willy Roth, Berstadt. 2 Vol. 1, Rockenberg 2005, pp. 224-227.
  18. Eugen Riess, Willy Roth, Berstadt. Vol. 1, p. 223.
  19. ^ Wilhelm Diehl, Hessen-darmstädtisches Pfarrer- und Schulmeisterbuch, p. 302.
  20. Eugen Riess, Willy Roth, Berstadt. Vol. 1, p. 295.
  21. ^ Hochfürstlich Darmstädtischer Staats- und Adreßkalender 1794, p. 158.
  22. Eugen Riess, Willy Roth, Berstadt. Vol. 1, p. 303 f.
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  28. ^ The affiliation of the office of Schotten based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567-1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604-1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567-1866 .
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  30. a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  208 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  31. Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 9 ( online at google books ).
  32. a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  277 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  33. Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 345, 422 ( online at Google Books ).
  34. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 262 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  35. Law on the repeal of the provinces of Starkenburg, Upper Hesse and Rheinhessen from April 1, 1937 . In: The Reichsstatthalter in Hessen Sprengler (Hrsg.): Hessisches Regierungsblatt. 1937 no.  8 , p. 121 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 11.2 MB ]).
  36. ↑ Amalgamation of the city of Nidda and the municipalities of Bad Salzhausen, Borsdorf, Fauerbach near Nidda, Geiß-Nidda, Harb, Kohden, Michelnau, Ober-Lais, Ober-Schmitten, Ober-Widdersheim, Stornfels, Ulfa, Unter-Schmitten, Wallernhausen in the district Büdingen on the new town "Nidda" from November 24, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 49 , p. 2290 , point 2281 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
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  38. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  229 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  39. Housing spaces 1867 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 121 ( online at google books ).
  40. Residential places 1875 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 15 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 14 ( online at google books ).
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  42. Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  43. ^ Philipp Alexander Ferdinand Walther, The Grand Duchy of Hesse by history, country, people, state and locality. Darmstadt 1854, p. 455.
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  46. Monument topography Wetteraukreis I, p. 324.
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