Röthges

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Röthges
City of Laubach
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '15 "  N , 8 ° 55' 39"  E
Height : 198 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.06 km²
Residents : 370 approx.
Population density : 121 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35321
Area code : 06405

Röthges is a district of Laubach in the central Hessian district of Gießen .

geography

Röthges is located in the eastern part of the district of Gießen on one of the foothills of the Vogelsberg. Geologically, it is almost in the middle of the area covered by the Vogelsberg volcanic rock, about 60 km in diameter. Röthges is located on the old trade route the "Kurzen Hessen", which connected Frankfurt am Main with Leipzig.

history

Emergence

The development of the village began on a slight southern slope where two streets crossed. It concerned the road connections from Hungen to Grünberg and Villingen - Ettingshausen - into the Lumdatal. In the southern part the old road runs from Laubach to Lich. At the foot of the sloping terrain there was a water point, a pond. This spot is known as weed or kump in the mid-19th century. Long before the village was first mentioned, people were already living here. This statement is supported by finds in the district that go back to the time of the Paleolithic. (See Kari Kunter, "Between Wetterau and Vogelsberg") Röthges is first mentioned in a document in 1322. In it the village appears under the name Rode juxta Wedirveldin. The later names Roda, Rodde or Rodechen also suggest that the village emerged from clearing or settlement. For a long time Röthges belonged to the Falkensteiners. After its end, the village was given to the Count's House of Solms-Braunfels and stayed there for almost 400 years. Only after the secularization or the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, i.e. 1806, Röthges came to Hesse.

During the Thirty Years War the place was almost completely destroyed. Today Röthges is a place for holidaymakers looking for peace and quiet to relax and hike in a wooded area.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Röthges was incorporated into the city of Laubach on December 31, 1970 on a voluntary basis.

Refugees and displaced persons

Like many of the West German villages, Röthges was heavily influenced by the turmoil of the Second World War. The many displaced persons and refugees deserve special mention here, and it is hard to imagine life without them today. A particularly positive example of the integration of many people from the former eastern regions, some of whom made up a third of the population. Schanzmark , Schlewitz , Kratzau , Brieg , Reichenberg , Schröffeldorf or Heidersdorf , to name just a few of the places of today's Röthgeser that are long forgotten today.

Timetable

  • 1322: Röthges is mentioned in a document for the first time.
  • 1420: After the death of the last Falkensteiner, Röthges fell to Count Bernhard zu Solms-Braunfels.
  • 1702: The first school is built. Before that, the students attended the school in Villingen.
  • 1806: Röthges comes to Hesse.
  • 1843: A new school is built at the old location.
  • 1879: The new church is built. The old church in the cemetery is being demolished.
  • 1908: A water pipe with a pumping station in the water house and a water tank are built.
  • 1921: A choral society is founded.
  • 1922: Röthges is connected to the power grid.
  • 1936: The Röthges volunteer fire brigade is founded.
  • 1953: A fire station is built and an extinguishing water pond is set up.
  • 1958: A new school is built. Teaching here only continues until 1969. Then the building will be converted into a village community center.
  • 1961: A cold store is built.
  • 1970: Röthges is incorporated.

The church

The church of Röthges

The old church that stood in the cemetery was demolished in 1846 because of the risk of collapse. The current church was consecrated on September 14, 1879. All the residents of the village and many high-ranking guests attended the celebrations.

The style of the building can be described with the contemporary term pointed arch style . A high rectangular hall with a slate gable roof forms the main body. It is illuminated on the long sides through three pointed arched windows with mock tracery. In front of the south side there is a plastered square tower with an eight-sided stone lantern and stone helmet, which is crowned with a so-called finial. A pointed arch frieze runs along the sloping roof to the side of the tower. The tower leads into the nave with its three-sided gallery. The organ from 1879 was built by the Voigt company in Wiesbaden. It is classified as a monument organ. After a time-consuming renovation in 1986, it impresses again with a beautiful full sound.

The castle

There was a castle near today's cemetery. After the castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648), the owners moved to the village. This castle is said to have been a robber baron castle . Historical documents are not available, but Pastor Göbel - he worked in Wetterfeld and Röthges from 1659 to 1684 - reported about a former robber baron's castle and the remains of a moat. Remains could also be seen later when the water tank was built in 1908. At this point, citizens who were interested in building could previously pick up sand licks and bricks free of charge.

More information about the castle in Röthges: “In the past winter, the foundations of a wall with a thickness of 1.1 meters were exposed on the so-called“ castle ”near Röthges. This fortress is located close to the village mentioned, on the hill to the right of the Laubach - Röthges path, bordering the cemetery. It is noticeable that the castle site is not entirely on the highest point of the hill, but a little below the summit. Nevertheless, it offers a wide view of the surrounding area. This site has served as a general quarry for a long time. Unfortunately the ground was churned and hollowed out in such a way that the original structure can no longer be identified. The inner castle site, on which these remains of the wall are located, is currently a square with rounded corners of approx. 300 m² area, which is enclosed by a 1–3 meter deep, 6–8 meter wide, circular ditch. The outer perimeter of this trench is approx. 150 meters. Nobody remembers seeing the walls above the ground. In contrast, old people told us that they had been told by their grandparents that they had seen the walls at man's height above the ground. We were also told about the discovery of old pots, horseshoes and an old sword that looked like a cross ”. The name “Auf der Burg” has survived to this day; and the village street in this direction is called "Burgstraße".

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or landlords and thus from 1806 the "Patrimonial Court of the Princes Solms-Braunfels" in Hungen was responsible for Röthges. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The second instance for the patrimonial courts were the civil law firms. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance 1821–1822 were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. From 1822, the princes of Solms-Braunfels let the Grand Duchy of Hesse exercise their court rights on their behalf. “ Landgericht Hungen ” was therefore the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Röthges. The prince also waived his right to the second instance, which was exercised by the law firm in Hungen. It was only as a result of the March Revolution in 1848 that the special rights of the civil servants became final with the “Law on the Relationships of Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848 canceled.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts. At the same time, Röthges was assigned to the Laubach Regional Court, which was renamed the Laubach District Court . The second instance was now the Giessen Regional Court . On July 1, 1968, the Laubach District Court was dissolved and Röthges was added to the district of the Gießen District Court . The superordinate instances are now, the regional court Gießen , the higher regional court Frankfurt am Main and the federal court as last instance.

population

Population development

Röthges: Population from 1830 to 1967
year     Residents
1830
  
 261
1834
  
 225
1840
  
 263
1846
  
 264
1852
  
 255
1858
  
 255
1864
  
 260
1871
  
 263
1875
  
 264
1885
  
 279
1895
  
 260
1905
  
 263
1910
  
 247
1925
  
 249
1939
  
 228
1946
  
 403
1950
  
 383
1956
  
 323
1961
  
 308
1967
  
 325
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1830: 254 Protestant, 5 Roman Catholic residents, 2  Mennonites
• 1961: 266 Protestant, 38 Roman Catholic residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: Labor force: 79 agriculture and forestry, 49 prod. Trade, 14 trade, transport and communication, 10 services and other.

politics

From 1822 until the incorporation, Röthges had its own mayor. Since then Röthges has been administered by Laubach and received a local advisory board with a local mayor .

Mayor is Harald Mohr.

Culture and sights

Attractions

Röthges is a typical Hessian village with a few very well-preserved and well-kept half-timbered houses, especially around the village square. The church, built in 1879, with its special organ, restored in 1988, should also be mentioned. The site of the old castle has been used as a playground by local children for decades. The area around Röthges always invites you to go hiking and cycling in an idyllic landscape of forests, small meadows and fields.

societies

The approximately 370 residents are mostly organized in associations, the volunteer fire brigade has over 150 members alone. Other clubs are z. B. the fruit and horticultural association or the FC Bayern Munich fan club.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Röthges, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 19, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b The districts on the website of the city of Laubach , accessed in December 2016.
  3. ^ Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology (2009): Der Vogelsberg
  4. ^ Möll, Robert (2001): Röthges a village chronicle
  5. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 301
  6. ^ Möll, Robert (2013): Röthges in the mirror of history
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  9. ↑ 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. 21, 438 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  10. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 424 ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ^ 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. 135 ( online at Google Books ).
  12. ↑ Theodor Hartleben (Ed.): General German Justice, Camera and Police Fama, Volume 2, Part 1 . Johann Andreas Kranzbühler, 1832, p. 271 ( online at Google Books ).
  13. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  14. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  15. ↑ Second law amending the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210–16) of February 12, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1968 No. 4 , p. 41–44 , Article 1, Paragraph 2 c) and Article 2, Paragraph 4 d) ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 298 kB ]).