Oberzell (Sinntal)

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Oberzell
community Sinntal
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 343 m above sea level NHN
Area : 19.62 km²
Residents : 982  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 50 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 36391
Area code : 06664
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Oberzell (aerial photography)

Oberzell is a district of the Sinntal community in the Main-Kinzig district in eastern Hesse .

Geographical location

Oberzell is located in the valley of the Schmalen Sinn in the Rhön . The 585 meter high Haag rises south of the village , the highest point in the Main-Kinzig district. The historic center of Oberzell grew as a parish village around the centrally located church, there is also a second settlement center around a former brickworks on the road to Fulda.

Oberzell borders on Heubach in the north, Gundhelm in the northwest , Weichersbach in the west and Züntersbach in the south . In the east lies the state border with Bavaria and the local town of Speicherz .

history

middle Ages

Oberzell was first mentioned in 1167 as a cella owned by the Schlüchtern monastery . In 1357 it was called Oberncel . In 1331 the abbot von Schlüchtern owned a tithe from the parish of Oberzell. The place for the Altengronau court , which came to the Hanau rulership in 1333 as an imperial loan from an inheritance from the Rieneck family. The Schwarzenfels Office of the County of Hanau emerged from the court in the 15th century ; from 1459: County of Hanau-Münzenberg .

Modern times

In 1643 the Schwarzenfels office - and thus also Oberzell - was handed over to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as a pledge, along with other securities . It was supposed to vouch for Hanau's debts that arose in connection with the liberation of the city of Hanau from the siege by imperial troops in 1636 against Hessen-Kassel. The Counts of Hanau were no longer able to redeem this pledge from Hessen-Kassel. In the following period the office was administered like landgrave property, even after Hessen-Kassel in 1736, after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , inherited the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg.

In the Electorate of Hesse , Oberzell belonged to the district of Schlüchtern after the administrative reform of 1821 . In 1866 Oberzell was part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau .

33 residents were killed in the First World War.

Stumbling blocks in memory of the Jewish Aronsohn family

When the National Socialists came to power in 1937, a camp for the Reich Labor Service was set up in the Ziegelhütte district . After the Second World War, Oberzell had 43 casualties. In addition, 21 people were missing. In April 1945 the village was liberated by Allied troops and became part of the US occupation zone .

In September 1945 Oberzell became part of the newly founded state of Greater Hesse . The previously independent municipality came in the course of the regional reform in Hesse on July 1, 1974 by virtue of state law as a district to the municipality of Sinntal formed in 1972 and the newly formed Main-Kinzig district. For Oberzell, as for the other districts, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed.

Mayor of the municipality

Term of office Surname
1860 1877 Konrad Kühlthau
1877 1911 Philipp Christ
1911 1924 John Christ
1924 1930 Wilhelm Behacker
1930 1933 Nikolaus Fehl
1933 1945 Johannes Malkmus
1945 1949 Heinrich Christ
1949 1951 Heinrich Lins
1951 Konrad Manns
1974 Konrad Dorn

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

• 1549: 031 households
• 1587: 030 shooters, 20 philistines
• 1812: 102 fire places, 837 souls
Oberzell: Population from 1812 to 2017
year     Residents
1812
  
 837
1834
  
 1,318
1840
  
 1,390
1846
  
 1,425
1852
  
 1.313
1858
  
 1,171
1864
  
 1,174
1871
  
 1,076
1875
  
 1,016
1885
  
 923
1895
  
 832
1905
  
 876
1910
  
 885
1925
  
 849
1939
  
 1,086
1946
  
 1,213
1950
  
 1,139
1956
  
 980
1961
  
 972
1967
  
 1,017
1970
  
 1,063
1979
  
 1,080
1990
  
 1,116
1995
  
 1,089
2000
  
 1,124
2005
  
 1,066
2010
  
 1,058
2015
  
 990
2017
  
 1,026
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: Sinntal community

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 889 Protestant (= 96.32%), 6 Catholic (= 0.65%), 28 Jewish (= 3.03%) residents
• 1961: 921 Protestant (= 94.75%), 30 Catholic (= 3.09%) residents

education

The Alfred Kühnert School , named after the local researcher Alfred Kühnert, is the town's primary school. In this dwarf school , 18 elementary school students are taught in two classes (1st / 2nd and 3rd / 4th grade).

literature

  • Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 40. Hanau 2003, p. 419.
  • Matthias Nistahl: Studies on the history of the Schlüchtern monastery in the Middle Ages . Diss. Darmstadt a. Marburg, 1986, pp. 94, 165, 181.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 14, 1926, p. 534.
  • Literature about Oberzell in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Oberzell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inhabitants, dates and directions. In: Internet presence. Sinntal community, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2018 . (Data from web archive).
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Gelnhausen, Hanau and Schlüchtern and the city of Hanau as well as the recirculation of the cities of Fulda, Hanau and Marburg (Lahn) concerning questions (GVBl. 330-26) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 149 , § 15 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 376 .
  4. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 529 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Sinntal community, accessed February 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c Oberzell, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ↑ Budget statute for the 2019 budget (PDF; 2.8 MB) Statistical information. Sinntal community, p. 41 , archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .
  7. ^ Ceremony for the 100th birthday of the school director and local history researcher Alfred Kühnert