Reulbach

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Reulbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 575 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.1 km²
Residents : 365  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 40 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 36115
Area code : 06681

Reulbach is a district of the municipality of Ehrenberg (Rhön) in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda .

Geographical location

Reulbach is located on a high plateau between the 816 meter high Ehrenberg in the east and the 950 meter high Wasserkuppe in the southwest. The Reulbach, which rises in the village, soon flows into the Brandbach, a left tributary of the Ulster . Reulbach borders in the north on Wickers and Brand , in the west on Abtsroda and Obernhausen , in the south on Sandberg and Wüstensachsen and in the east on Seiferts and Melperts .

history

The working group "Chronik 700 Jahre Reulbach" assumes the first documentary mention of Reulbach with Rügelberk because it appears under this name in 1303 in the fiefdom index of the Würzburg prince-bishop Andreas von Gundelfingen , the oldest fief book of the diocese of Würzburg . After a period of desertification , the place was settled again in the 16th century.

Territorial reform

On August 1, 1972 Reulbach was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse powerful state law in the 197'0 newly established community Ehrenberg (Rhön) incorporated . For Melperts as for the other formerly independent municipalities, local districts with local advisory council and local councilor were formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Population development

Reulbach: Population from 1834 to 2019
year     Residents
1834
  
481
1840
  
466
1846
  
460
1852
  
452
1858
  
442
1864
  
429
1871
  
401
1875
  
375
1885
  
376
1895
  
394
1905
  
405
1910
  
415
1925
  
420
1939
  
412
1946
  
572
1950
  
537
1956
  
404
1961
  
384
1967
  
405
1970
  
380
1980
  
?
1992
  
374
1995
  
394
2000
  
418
2005
  
419
2010
  
413
2015
  
401
2019
  
365
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources: up to 1970 :; from 1962

religion

Introduction of the Reformation: probably around 1540 by Marcus Sebander. Change of Catholic confession: 1628.

traffic

The district road 38, which connects the place with Brand and desert Saxony, runs through Reulbach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Reulbach, district of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. a b Resident Statute 2020 (PDF; 4 MB). In: website. Ehrenberg Municipality (Rhön), p. 2 , accessed in August 2020 .
  3. Working group "Chronicle 700 Years Reulbach": Rügelberk becomes Reulbach . Ed .: Local Advisory Board Reulbach. Ehrenberg (Rhön) 2003, p. 14 .
  4. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Fulda and Hünfeld and the city of Fulda (GVBl. II 330-14) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 220 , § 6 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. main statute. (PDF; 120 kB) § 5. In: Website. Ehrenberg community, accessed in August 2020 .