Richen (Groß-Umstadt)

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Rich
City of Groß-Umstadt
Richen coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '20 "  N , 8 ° 55' 26"  E
Height : 154 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6 km²
Residents : 1614  (Dec 2016)
Population density : 269 ​​inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 64823
Area code : 06078
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Location of Richen in Groß-Umstadt

Richen is a district of Groß-Umstadt in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

geography

The neighboring towns of Richen include: Altheim , Semd , Kleestadt , Klein-Umstadt and the core city of Groß-Umstadt .

history

The Richer district was already settled by the Romans. The town itself was first in 1350 as Rychen later than Ryechin , Rychen and smelling mentioned. Viticulture in Richen has been documented since 1457.

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

»Richen (L. Bez. Dieburg) Lutheran Filialdorf; is located at the Richenbach (Mühlbach) 1 1 / 2  hrs from Dieburg and 1 / 2 hrs from Umstadt, in a beautiful Wiesengrund. The place counts 79 houses and 507 inhabitants, which up to 42 reform. and 8 Cath. are Lutheran; among these are 33 farmers, 30 artisans and 20 day laborers. You can find a new communal church, 2 mills and peat cuttings in which 60,000 pieces of peat are cut every year. - The village takes its name from a brook that occurs in 768 under the name Ricchina . But now Umstädter Mühlbach is also called. Richen was in common with Churpfalz, and in 1802 it came entirely to Hesse. "

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Groß-Umstadt and the municipalities of Dorndiel , Heubach, Kleestadt , Klein-Umstadt , Richen and Semd became the new city of Groß-Umstadt on January 1, 1977 through the state law to reorganize the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt. Umstadt merged. For the core city of Groß-Umstadt and the districts of Dorndiel, Heubach, Kleestadt, Klein-Umstadt, Raibach, Richen, Semd and Wiebelsbach, local districts with local advisory councils and local heads were established in accordance with the Hessian municipal code. The boundaries of the local districts follow the municipal boundaries of December 30, 1971.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1633: 094 inhabitants
• 1806: 414 inhabitants, 69 houses
• 1829: 507 inhabitants, 79 houses
• 1867: 467 inhabitants, 75 houses
Richen: Population from 1806 to 2016
year     Residents
1806
  
 414
1829
  
 507
1834
  
 458
1840
  
 510
1846
  
 539
1852
  
 515
1858
  
 510
1864
  
 484
1871
  
 511
1875
  
 486
1885
  
 491
1895
  
 490
1905
  
 450
1910
  
 463
1925
  
 441
1939
  
 449
1946
  
 735
1950
  
 690
1956
  
 612
1961
  
 804
1967
  
 900
1970
  
 1,275
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2006
  
 1,652
2016
  
 1,614
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; City of Groß-Umstadt; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 457 Lutheran (= 90.14%), 42 Reformed (= 8.28%) and 8 Catholic (= 1.58%) residents
• 1961: 556 Protestant (= 69.15%), 217 Catholic (= 26.99%) residents

  • Refurbished half-timbered houses in the old town center

  • Courtyard and half-timbered houses in the town center

  • Typical arched entrances and entrances to the riding school

politics

Local advisory board

For Richen, there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Richen) with a local advisory board and mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of seven members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has had three members of the SPD and four members of the CDU . Mayor is Heiko Handschuh (CDU).

badges and flags

Banner Richen (Groß-Umstadt) .svg

coat of arms

Richen coat of arms

Blazon : Above a sloping left undulating foot in black, divided five times by silver and blue, a growing upright golden horse with red tongues.

The coat of arms was designed in 1959 by the heraldist Heinz Ritt and approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on May 4, 1960

flag

The flag of the former municipality was approved on April 17, 1963 and is described as follows: "The municipal coat of arms on a wide, yellow central strip of the black, yellow and black flag cloth."

societies

  • The largest association is TSV 1908 Richen eV with around 650 members.
  • Shooting club Germania Richen 1978 eV

Regular events

  • October: baking festival

Web links

Commons : Richen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Richen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b city ​​districts. In: website. City of Groß-Umstadt, accessed November 2017 .
  3. ^ 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. 201 ( online at google books ).
  4. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 231 .
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 14 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  6. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 97 kB) §; 5. In: Website. City of Groß-Umstadt, accessed May 2019 .
  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 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 74 ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ 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;
  12. ^ Richen local advisory board. In: Citizen Information System. City of Groß Umstadt, accessed March 2017 .
  13. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Richen, district of Dieburg from May 14, 1960 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1960 no. 20 , p. 582 , point 585 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.7 MB ]).
  14. ^ Approval of a flag of the municipality of Richen, district of Dieburg from May 6, 1963 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1963 No. 18 , p. 529 , point 438 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.5 MB ]).
  15. ↑ TSV 1908 Richen eV , accessed in November 2019.
  16. ^ Germania shooting club, Richen
  17. ↑ Dorothee Dorschel. In: Darmstädter Echo, Monday, October 21, 2019, p. 20.