Oberkalbach

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Oberkalbach
Kalbach municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 18 ″  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 382  (381-459)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.15 km²
Residents : 809  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 62 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 36148
Area code : 09742
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Oberkalbach from above

Oberkalbach is a district of the municipality of Kalbach in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda .

geography

location

Oberkalbach is located in the south of the Fulda district, on the outer northern slope of the ridge at an altitude of 385  m in a side valley of the Fliede . The district Oberkalbach part of the conservation area "Frauenstein" and is located in the Rhön Nature Reserve .

Neighboring places

Mittelkalbach Uttrichshausen
Neighboring communities
Eichenried Heubach

Waters

The Fennbach and the Kalbach flow through the village .

history

Territorial history

Reconstruction of a pigsty from Oberkalbach in the Hessenpark in Neu-Anspach

The oldest surviving documentary mention of the village comes from the year 1167. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the Brandenstein office , but the neighboring Mittelkalbach belonged to the Neuhof office of the Fulda monastery . Since 1316, the office of Brandenstein was given as a fiefdom of the Bishop of Würzburg to the Hanau rulership , later the Hanau-Münzenberg county . The County of Hanau-Münzenberg was finally reformed during the Reformation , including Oberkalbach. In 1717, Hanau pledged it to the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel for a loan of 100,000 guilders and never redeemed it. Since then, Oberkalbach has been administered as part of the Landgraviate.

In 1803 the Landgraviate was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, the Office of Brandenstein and thus also Oberkalbach was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807 to 1810 and to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt from 1810 to 1813 . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, during which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the Brandenstein office was merged into the newly formed Schlüchtern district , where it remained until 1972.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on August 1, 1972 Oberkalbach was assigned a district of the large municipality of Kalbach and at the same time to the district of Fulda by virtue of state law .

population

Traditional costume from Oberkalbach

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1812: 71 fireplaces, 606 souls
Oberkalbach: Population from 1812 to 2015
year     Residents
1812
  
 606
1834
  
 701
1840
  
 739
1846
  
 788
1852
  
 751
1858
  
 728
1864
  
 708
1871
  
 702
1875
  
 689
1885
  
 723
1895
  
 696
1905
  
 699
1910
  
 692
1925
  
 625
1939
  
 546
1946
  
 748
1950
  
 722
1956
  
 606
1961
  
 592
1967
  
 586
1972
  
 587
1987
  
 606
1989
  
 687
1996
  
 737
2006
  
 775
2015
  
 809
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources: after 1970:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 722 evangelical and one catholic resident
• 1961: 596 Protestant and 18 Roman Catholic residents

religion

There is an evangelical church in the village . This was built in 1815 and renovated in 1972. The baptismal font with the date 1516 reminds of the older church history. In 1545 Oberkalbach became an independent parish. The Protestant community in Luke Kalbach is part of the parish of Schlüchtern in Sprengel Hanau the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

Economy and Infrastructure

  • Oberkalbach has its own community center , a Protestant community center and a branch gruff kindergarten .
  • At Oberkalbach there is a solar park with a total output of 365 kW. The plant is the largest of its kind in the Fulda district to date and is operated by the ÜWAG subsidiary Synergie .
  • The village also has a sports facility with two sports fields, a sports center and a smaller hall.

traffic

literature

  • Reimer, Heinrich: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Marburg 1926, p. 267.
  • Michael Mott : Searching for water with a divining rod / 200 year old fountain in Oberkalbach has been dry for three years / More sensitivity required for earthworks to protect springs, in: Fuldaer Zeitung, May 7, 1992, p. 11, (Series: Monument!).
  • Michael Mott: The Frauenstein am Frauenberg / A legendary boulder in the Oberkalbach district, in: "Buchenblätter" Fuldaer Zeitung, 65th year, No. 32, December 19, 1992, pp. 125, 126; 66th year, No. 1, January 5, 1993, pp. 1, 2.
  • Literature about Oberkalbach in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Location, Area, Inhabitants" on the website of the municipality of Kalbach, accessed in March 2016.
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Fulda and Hünfeld and the city of Fulda (GVBl. II 330-14) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 220 , §§ 11 and 18 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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. 395 .
  4. ↑ a b c Oberkalbach, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ Osthessennews of December 29, 2008: "Starting shot for a mega solar system - up to 475,000 kWh of electricity annually"