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Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 43 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 148 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.34 km²
Residents : 1112  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 333 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 69488
Area code : 06209
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Reisen , known by post as Reisen (Odenwald) before the regional reform in Hesse , is a district of the municipality of Birkenau in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse with around 1100 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Reisen is located in the western Odenwald near the Bergstrasse . Reisen and the neighboring core community of Birkenau to the southwest are the only districts that lie on the Weschnitz . Away from the Weschnitz, in the south-east of the district, the hamlet of Schimbach on the stream of the same name is also part of travel. West of Reisen is the Nieder-Liebersbach district and the Hornbach district to the southeast . The capital of the neighboring municipality of Mörlenbach borders Weschnitz upstream .

A memorial stone commemorates the Great People's Assembly in Reisen in 1848

history

overview

Reisen was first mentioned on October 1, 877 in the Lorsch Codex as Ruzondum . The spelling soot dates from the years 1398 to 1400.

The place belonged to the possessions of the imperial monastery Lorsch and after its decline came under the rule of the Electoral Palatinate . During the Reformation the place became predominantly Protestant and at the end of the Thirty Years War (1648) the place like Birkenfeld was probably almost deserted.

Under Palatinate rule, the place belonged to the Oberamt Lindenfels until 1803 and then came to Hesse as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , which ordered the dissolution of the Electoral Palatinate. From 1821 it is administered there by the Lindenfels district, with the mayor's office in Ober-Mumbach also responsible for managing travel. Reisen was later given its own mayor's office, which is now responsible for the towns of Hornbach and Ober-Mombach and the hamlet of Schimmbach.

On April 9, 1848, during the German Revolution, around 7,000 people gathered in Reisen to fight for freedom and justice. Today a simple memorial stone on the Weschnitz Bridge commemorates this event.

After several administrative reforms in Hesse, the place finally came to today's Bergstrasse district in 1938 . In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , the community voluntarily joined the community of Birkenau on December 31, 1970 at the same time as Hornbach .

From the beginning to the 18th century

Reisen originated in the area of ​​the former Mark Heppenheim which designated an administrative district of the Franconian Empire . On January 20, 773, Charlemagne donated the city of Heppenheim and its district, the extensive Mark Heppenheim , to the imperial monastery of Lorsch . From here the reclamation and settlement of the area was carried out. The heyday of Lorsch Monastery, in whose area Reisen was located, was followed by its decline in the 11th and 12th centuries. In 1232 Lorsch was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Mainz . After long disputes could Palatinate and the Archdiocese of Mainz early 14th century about the legacy of the Lorsch Abbey few and the Palatine parts were the Amtsvogtei managed Lindenfels.

The earliest known mention of travel was in the Lorsch Codex as Ruzondum in 877 , when Liuthar von Hausen donated his goods to the Lorsch Monastery. Thereafter, several letters of fief and the approval of Wittum the Palatinate Elector for the place have been received.

For 1568 it is documented that Reisen belongs to the Waldmichelbach district, whose district court functions as the Oberhof. With the lower jurisdiction various noble houses were enfeoffed by the count palatine.

In the early days of the Reformation , the Palatinate rulers openly sympathized with the Lutheran faith, but it was not until Ottheinrich (Elector from 1556 to 1559) that the official transition to Lutheran teaching took place. After that, his successors and inevitably the population changed several times between the Lutheran , Reformed and Calvinist religions. The place becomes a branch of the Lutheran parish Birkenfeld. In 1613 there were 4 men and 4 women as well as 5 house inmates at 4½ hubs on serfs .

At the end of the Thirty Years War (1648), the place should have been almost deserted. After the devastating war, the Electoral Palatinate pursued a policy of resettlement in its area characterized by religious tolerance. But the wars that broke out in the troubled times that followed, such as the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697) and the War of Spanish Succession (1701–1714) destroyed many of the efforts and tens of thousands of Palatine emigrated and the like. a. to North America and Prussia.

From a religious point of view, too, the time after the Thirty Years' War was marked by great unrest. In 1685 the Reformed Palatinate-Simmern line died out and the Catholic cousins ​​of the Palatinate-Neuburg line took over the government in the Electoral Palatinate with Elector Philipp Wilhelm . This ordered the equality of the Catholic faith in the predominantly Protestant Palatinate. Even during the War of the Palatinate Succession, France tried to advance the Counter-Reformation in the conquered areas and founded a number of Catholic parishes. The war ended in 1697 with the Peace of Rijswijk , which strengthened the position of the then reigning Catholic Elector Johann Wilhelm . This led to the decree of the Simultaneum on October 26, 1698 . According to this, the Catholics were entitled to use all reformed institutions such as churches, schools and cemeteries, while the reverse was not allowed. Furthermore, the reformed church administration, which had been independent until then, was subordinated to the sovereign. Only at the instigation of Prussia in 1705 came the so-called Palatinate church division in which the simultanum was reversed and the churches in the country, including rectories and schools, were divided between the Reformed and the Catholics in a ratio of five to two. There were special regulations for the three capitals Heidelberg , Mannheim and Frankenthal as well as the regional authorities Alzey , Kaiserslautern , Oppenheim , Bacharach and Weinheim . In cities with two churches, one should go to Protestants and the other to Catholics; in the others, where there was only one church, the choir was separated from the nave by a wall, and the one to the Catholics and the other to the Protestants. The Lutherans were only allowed those churches that they owned in 1624 or had built afterwards.

Until 1737 the "Amtsvogtei Lindenfels" was subordinate to the Oberamt Heidelberg , after that Lindenfels became an Oberamt in the "Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein" (in the "Kurfürstentum Pfalzbayern" from 1777). Reisen was part of the "Zent-Waldmichelbach" within the Lindenfels Office, which however hardly had any powers of its own.

In 1784 the population consisted of 23 families with 100 "souls" and the district of 473 acres of fields, 78 acres of meadows, 6 acres of gardens and 255 acres of forest; 172 acres of which belonged to the Huben and the rest of the community as well as the Count of Bretzenheim and the Freiherr von Wrede. In addition, there were 800 acres of forest that was shared by the Zent Wald-Michelbach. There was an electoral forester who was in charge of both these and all of the other forests in the Cent Wald-Michelbach and the Cent Hammelbach . The Landschad zu Steinach used to receive tithes from the tithe , and after that the Baron von Wrede received two thirds, the Lorsch monastery and after him Kurmainz one third.

From the 19th century until today

The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) was reorganized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and ceased to exist with the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806. Through this reorganization and dissolution of the Electoral Palatinate came the Oberamt Lindenfels and with it trips to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt .

After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 had assigned the "Oberamt Lindenfels" to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , it was initially continued there as the Hessian district bailiff . In 1806, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt merged into the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which came into being under the pressure of Napoléon , where the administrative area of ​​the "Lindenfels Office" was divided up in 1812 and Reisen was assigned to the " Waldmichelbach Office ". The superordinate administrative authority was the "Administrative Region Darmstadt" which from 1803 was also referred to as the "Principality of Starkenburg".

After Napoléon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also regulated the territorial situation for Hesse, and in 1816 provinces were formed in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The area previously known as the “Principality of Starkenburg”, which consisted of the old Hessian territories south of the Main and the territories on the right bank of the Rhine that were added from 1803, was renamed “Province of Starkenburg” .

In 1821, as part of a comprehensive administrative reform, the district bailiffs in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy were dissolved and district districts were introduced, with trips to the district of Lindenfels . As part of this reform, regional courts were also created, which were now independent of the administration. The district court districts corresponded in scope to the district council districts and the district court of Fürth was responsible as the court of first instance for the district of Lindenfels . This reform also arranged the administrative administration at the municipal level. The mayor's office in Ober-Mumbach was also responsible for Geisenbach , Hornbach , Reisen, Schimbach (today a hamlet of the municipality of Birkenau) and Vöckelsbach . According to the municipal ordinance of June 30, 1821, there were no longer appointments of mayors , but an elected local council, which was composed of a mayor, aldermen and council.

In 1832 the administrative units were further enlarged and circles were created. After the reorganization announced on August 20, 1832, there should only be the districts of Bensheim and Lindenfels in the future in Süd-Starkenburg; the district of Heppenheim was to fall into the Bensheim district. Even before the ordinance came into force on October 15, 1832, it was revised to the effect that instead of the Lindenfels district, the Heppenheim district was formed as the second district, to which Reisen now belonged, alongside the Bensheim district . In 1842 the tax system in the Grand Duchy was reformed and the tithe and the basic pensions (income from property) were replaced by a tax system of the kind that still exists today.

As a result of the March Revolution of 1848, with the "Law on the Relationships of the Classes and Noble Court Lords" of April 15, 1848, the special rights of the class were finally repealed. In addition, in the provinces, the districts and the district administration districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by "administrative districts", whereby the previous districts of Bensheim and Heppenheim were combined to form the administrative district of Heppenheim . Just four years later, in the course of the reaction era, they returned to the division into circles and travel became part of the newly created Lindenfels district .

The population and cadastral lists recorded in December 1852 showed for travel: Lutheran and Catholic branch villages with 206 inhabitants form a common district with Schimbach. This district consists of 1338 acres , of which 812 acres are arable land, 154 acres of meadows and 333 acres of forest.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the branch village Reisen with its own mayor's office, 32 houses, 258 inhabitants, the district of Lindenfels, the district court of Fürth, the Protestant Reformed parish of Wald-Michelbach and the Lutheran parish of Birkenau are included in the deanery Lindenfels and the Catholic parish of Birkenau of the dean's office in Heppenheim. The hamlet of Geisenbach (5 houses, 34 inh.), Hornbach (30 houses, 195 in.), Ober-Mumbach (21 houses, 198 in.) And Rohrbacher Höhe (one house, 4 in.) Were also acquired by the mayor's office .) and the hamlet of Schimmbach (4 houses, 45 inhabitants).

After the Grand Duchy of Hesse had been part of the German Empire from 1871, a series of administrative reforms were decided in 1874. The state-specific rules of procedure as well as the administration of the districts and provinces were regulated by district and provincial assemblies. The new regulation came into force on July 12, 1874 and also decreed the dissolution of the Lindenfels and Wimpfen districts and the reintegration of travel into the Heppenheim district .

The Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were abolished in 1937 after the provincial and district assemblies were dissolved in 1936. On November 1, 1938, a comprehensive regional reform came into force at the district level. In the former province of Starkenburg, the Bensheim district was particularly affected, as it was dissolved and most of it was added to the Heppenheim district. The district of Heppenheim also took over the legal successor to the district of Bensheim and was given the new name Landkreis Bergstrasse .

The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a member state of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866 and then a federal state of the German Empire . It existed until 1919, after the First World War, the Grand Duchy for was republican written People's State of Hesse . In 1945 after the end of the Second World War , the area of ​​today's Hesse was in the American zone of occupation and by order of the military government, Greater Hesse was created , from which the state of Hesse emerged in its current borders.

In 1961 the size of the district was given as 334  hectares , of which 57 hectares were forest.

In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , the community voluntarily joined the community of Birkenau on December 31, 1970 at the same time as Hornbach . A local district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up for travel .

Courts in Hessen

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg. The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords. The Lindenfels Office was responsible for travel. The jurisdiction of the Lindenfels Office was transferred to the new Justice Office in Fürth in 1813.

With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Fürth regional court was the court of first instance from 1821 . 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, the name was changed to the Fürth Local Court and assigned to the district of the Regional Court Darmstadt .

Historical descriptions

In the attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the Elector. Pfalz am Rheine can be found in 1786 via Reisen:

"Tear. It is four hours south-west of Lindenfels and has Ober-Mumbach, which is intended to be neighbors to the east; towards south Hornbach and Birkenau; against West Liebersbach; to the north of Mörlenbach, both Mainzisch. In K. Heinrich II's certificate of confirmation of the establishment of the little monastery on the Abrinsberg in 1023, this village is named Eressam and, in the description of the hubs of the Lorsch monastery, Ersam. But in the old interest book it is called soot. The Weschniz runs through the village. At the top of the place the Bettenbach falls, but below the Euterbach coming from Schimbach. The country road leading from Lindenfels to Weinheim passes the village. [...] The field grounds also include a court estate, as previously the Ulner von Dieburg, but dermally the Count von Brezenheim refers to as a Palatinate fief. [...] Schimbach, is a hamlet, half an hour south of Reißen, which contains 175 m of land in all, and is of the same nature as the covered village. "

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on travel in 1829:

»Reissen (L. Bez. Lindenfels) Lutheran and Catholic Branch village; is 3 St. von Lindenfels on both sides of the Weschnitz, has 32 houses and 178 inhabitants, of which 107 Luth. 30 Cath. And 41 Reform. are; as well as 1 Gypsmühle - In a document of Emperor Heinrich II. from 1023 the place Eressam and in the interest book of 1369 Russians are mentioned. Reissen came to Hessen from Churpfalz in 1802. "

The latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states from 1845 states:

»Tear b. Lindenfels. - village, to evang., Resp. Catholic parish of Birkenau belongs. - Pop. 32 H. 178 (mostly Lutheran) - Grand Duchy of Hesse. - Prov. Starkenburg. - Heppenheim district. - Landger. Fuerth. - Darmstadt Court of Justice. - The village of Reissen, located on both sides of the Weschnitz, has 1 plaster cast. - It passed from Churpfalz to Hesse in 1802. "

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which travel was located or the administrative units to which it was subject:

Population development

• 1784: 100 souls, 23 families
• 1806: 121 inhabitants
• 1829: 178 inhabitants, 32 houses
• 1867: 258 inhabitants, 32 houses
Travel: Population from 1784 to 2018
year     Residents
1784
  
100
1829
  
178
1834
  
223
1840
  
239
1846
  
260
1852
  
289
1858
  
279
1864
  
279
1871
  
296
1875
  
292
1885
  
296
1895
  
320
1905
  
393
1910
  
408
1925
  
427
1939
  
437
1946
  
631
1950
  
600
1956
  
687
1961
  
835
1967
  
957
1970
  
1,070
1980
  
?
1990
  
?
2000
  
?
2011
  
1,212
2015
  
1,175
2018
  
1,112
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 107 Lutheran (= 60.11%), 41 Reformed (= 23.03%) and 30 Catholic (= 16.86%) residents
• 1961: 581 Protestant (= 69.58%), 224 Catholic (= 26.83%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

For travel, there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Reisen) with a local advisory board and mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of eight members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has had four members of the SPD , two members of the CDU , one member of the FDP and one member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . The mayor is Frank Jochum (SPD).

coat of arms

Wappen Reisen (Odenwald) .svg

Blazon : "In the middle of the shield, roughened with silver and blue, there is a large golden diamond with a red fish trap."

The coat of arms was approved for the community of Reisen on July 6, 1962 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The diamonds come from the coat of arms of the Electoral Palatinate, to which Reisen used to belong. The fish trap is a talking coat of arms (trap = travel).

traffic

Reisen is accessible for road traffic through several district roads. The K 12 leads to the core community and in the opposite direction to Nieder-Mumbach , Ober-Mumbach and Vöckelsbach . The K 209 leads to Schimbach and ends there. The K 13 has Hornbach as its end point.

Reisen has a connection to the Weschnitz Valley Railway , which runs from Weinheim to Fürth in the Odenwald.

The federal highway 38 led through journeys until 1999 a bypass road to the Saukopftunnel was completed west of the district . Since then there has been a connection to the federal highway north of Reisen.

literature

  • Johann Goswin Widder: Attempt of a complete geographic-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Palatinate on the Rhine. Volume 1 , Leipzig 1786–1788. ( Online at Hathi Trust, digital library )
  • Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg, volume October 1 , 1829.
  • Christoph Friedrich Moritz Ludwig Marchand: Lindenfels. A contribution to the local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Darmstadt 1858 ( online at google books ).
  • Philipp Alexander Ferdinand Walther: The Grand Duchy of Hesse by history, country, people, state and locality. Jonghans, Darmstadt 1854. ( Online at google books )
  • Literature about travel in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f travel, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. a b Population development in the districts. In: website. Birkenau community, accessed January 2020 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place names book: Starkenburg . Ed .: Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse. tape 1 . Self-published, Darmstadt 1937, DNB  366995820 , OCLC 614375103 , p. 583 f .
  4. a b c d Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Palatinate on the Rhine . First part. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1786, OCLC 1067855437 , p. 519 , 7) Reissen ( online at googe books ).
  5. Christoph Friedrich Moritz Ludwig Marchand: Lindenfels. A contribution to the local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Darmstadt 1858, p. 51 f . ( Online at google books ).
  6. ^ Johann Konrad Dahl: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch or church history of the Upper Rhinegau . Darmstadt 1812, OCLC 162251605 , p. 248 ( online at google books ).
  7. ^ Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Germany for a hundred years: Abth. Germany fifty years ago . tape 3 . Voigt & Günther, Leipzig 1862, OCLC 311428620 , p. 358 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  8. ^ M. Borchmann, D. Breithaupt, G. Kaiser: Kommunalrecht in Hessen . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-555-01352-1 , p. 20 ( partial view on google books ).
  9. 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 ]).
  10. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Grand Duchy into circles of May 12, 1852 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1852 No. 30 . S. 224–229 ( online at the Bavarian State Library digital [PDF]).
  11. Wolfgang Torge : History of geodesy in Germany . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2007, ISBN 3-11-019056-7 , pp. 172 ( partial view on google books ).
  12. ^ Ph. AF Walther : The Grand Duchy of Hessen: according to history, country, people, state and locality . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1854, DNB  730150224 , OCLC 866461332 , p. 349 ( online at google books ).
  13. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 66 ( online at google books ).
  14. Martin Kukowski: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt: Tradition from the former Grand Duchy and the People's State of Hesse. Volume 3 , KG Saur, 1998, ISBN 3-598-23252-7
  15. Headlines from Bensheim on the 175th anniversary of the "Bergsträßer Anzeiger". (PDF; 9.0 MB) The creation of the Bergstrasse district. 2007, p. 109 , archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 .
  16. ^ 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. 348 .
  17. a b main statute. (PDF; KK kB) § 6. In: Website. Birkebau community, accessed February 2019 .
  18. ^ 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 ]).
  19. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 406 ( online at google books ).
  20. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : The newest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states . Part 2nd volume 2 . Zimmermann, Naumburg 1845, OCLC 162810705 , p. 273 , [Reissen] ( online at google books ).
  21. ^ 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).
  22. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  23. a b List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  24. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 78 ( online at google books ).
  25. Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  26. Local Advisory Board Hornbach. In: website. Birkenau community, accessed January 2020 .
  27. approving an emblem of the municipality of travel in the district Bergstraße, Darmstadt Region on 6 July 1962 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1962 No. 29 , p. 954 , point 798 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.1 MB ]).