Ostheim (Malsfeld)
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Ostheim
Malsfeld municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 45 " N , 9 ° 28 ′ 51" E
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| Height : | 277 (269-304) m |
| Residents : | 409 (December 31, 2012) |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 34323 |
| Area code : | 05661 |
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Ostheim is a district of the municipality of Malsfeld in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .
Geographical location
Ostheim is located about 4.5 km southwest of the Malsfeld core town on the Schwalm tributary Rhünda . To the north of the village lies the Ostheimer Senke, through which the Rhünda flows. In the southeast of the Ostheim district is the 392 m high hill head. To the south-southwest lies the Goldbergsee , a former open-cast brown coal mine and today's nature reserve . The state road 3428 runs through the village and meets the L 3224 to the west of the village. The federal motorway 7 leads past to the east .
history
The place name goes back to the eastern location in relation to Hohenburg (Homberg) . The ending -heim suggests that the village was founded by the Franks . The village was first mentioned in a document from the years between 1145 and 1159. In 1376 Ostheim belonged to the Homberg district, and in 1542 it was assigned to the Melsungen district. The name of the place has never changed over time, but it occasionally appears in a different spelling, e.g. B. "Osthem".
Ostheim as a district of Malsfeld
On 1 January 1974 in the wake of were municipal reform in Hesse municipalities Malsfeld (with the districts Elfershausen and Dagobertshausen) Beiseförth, Mosheim (by virtue of state law county Fritzlar-Homberg ), Ostheim and Sipperhausen (county Fritzlar-Homberg) for new large community Malsfeld together . At the same time, Malsfeld moved to the newly established Schwalm-Eder district. Malsfeld was designated as the seat of the municipal administration. Local districts were set up for all formerly independent communities .
In 2012 the 850th anniversary of the village was celebrated. The celebrations were postponed by three years, as Ostheim was still in the village renewal program in 2009.
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In the past, the Ostheim residents were known as Kohlkippen. The origin of this name is unknown.
Population development
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religion
The Protestant parish of Ostheim has belonged to the parish of Sipperhausen since 1585.
economy
350 jobs were created in the nearby intermunicipal industrial park . In earlier times, the inhabitants worked partly in the nearby basalt quarries . Until the early 1990s, lignite was mined in open-cast mining.
literature
- Literature about Ostheim in the Hessian Bibliography
- Search for Ostheim (Malsfeld) in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library
Web links
- Ostheim district. In: Website of the municipality of Malsfeld.
- Ostheim, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Virtual tour through Ostheim
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ostheim district. In: Website of the municipality of Malsfeld, accessed in October 2018.
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain (GVBl. II 330-22) of September 28, 1973 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1973 No. 25 , p. 356 , §§ 13 and 27 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
- ^ 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. 405 .
- ↑ a b Ostheim, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of July 29, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on August 8, 2015 .
