Reith (cloister courtyard)

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Reith was a cloister in what is now the district of Schlüchtern in the East Hessian Main-Kinzig district . Today it belongs to the Schlüchtern district of Klosterhöfe .

Geographical location

Drasenberg is located in the northeast of the Main-Kinzig district at an altitude of 230 m above sea ​​level , about 1 km north of the center of Schlüchtern.

history

Early modern age

The oldest surviving mention of Reith comes from 1496. At that time it was a court of the Trimberg court of Schlüchtern. The courtyard of the Schlüchtern monastery belonged to the county of Hanau-Munzenberg and there to the office Schlüchtern . The County of Hanau-Münzenberg initially joined the Lutheran denomination during the Reformation , and was reformed from 1597 . With the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , Reith fell in 1736 with the entire county of Hanau-Münzenberg to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which in 1803 became the Electorate of Hesse .

Modern times

During the Napoleonic period, Reith was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807–1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . 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, Reith belonged to the district of Schlüchtern . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War . In the second half of the 19th century, the farms in Drasenberg , Gomfritz , Reith and Röhrigs merged under the name "Klosterhöfe", now a district of Schlüchtern.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have been preserved, Reith was mentioned under the following names (the year in which it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Ryde (1496 and 1516)
  • Reith (1538)
  • Raitz (1787)

For a long time the place name was then written "Raith". Today the form "Reith" is used.

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

  • 1538: 5 steering ends
  • 1753: 1 housekeeping
  • 1895: 2 houses with 59 residents

literature

  • Matthias Nistahl: Studies on the history of the Schlüchtern monastery in the Middle Ages (= sources and research on Hessian history. Vol. 65). Hessische Historische Kommission et al., Darmstadt et al. 1986, ISBN 3-88443-154-4 , pp. 125, 138-139, 142-143, 166, 182, (at the same time: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1984).
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Vol. 14, ISSN  0342-2291 ). Elwert, Marburg 1926, p. 372.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hof Reith, Main-Kinzig-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 24, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

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Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 40.7 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 35.9 ″  E