Rodau (Groß-Bieberau)

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Rodau
Rodau coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 53 "  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 41"  E
Height : 191  (191–202)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.22 km²
Residents : 563  (Jul 31, 2019)
Population density : 43 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
The center of the Groß-Bieberau district of Rodau with a craft tree
The center of the Groß-Bieberau district of Rodau with a craft tree

Rodau is a district of Groß-Bieberau in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

Rodau is surrounded by forest and is located in the granite area of ​​the northern Odenwald .

history

Former municipal coat of arms
The former Schrautenbach'sche Hof on the southern edge of the town, view from the south

The area was settled very early. The village was first mentioned in writing in 1392.

Rodau was in the judicial district of the district of Oberramstadt . The centering was divided into so-called "rice car," each of which a top magistrate board that the Zentgrafen were subordinated. This district had to provide a freight wagon ( rice wagon ) including draft animals and servants for campaigns. Rodau belonged to the "Großbieberauer Reiswagen", to which Waldhausen consists of the places Niedernhausen , Billings , Meßbach and Nonrod as well as the villages Rodau, Wersau and Steinau belonged. The entire district of Oberramstadt was assigned to the Lichtenberg office . This classification existed until the beginning of the 19th century.

In historical documents the place is documented under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets): Rodin (1392); Roden under Liechtenberg (1400); Rodau im Bachauwe (1454); Roda (1671); Rodau (1730).

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

»Rodau ( L. Bez. Reinheim ) Lutheran Filialdorf; is 1 1 ⁄ 2   St. von Reinheim, and has 46 houses and 343 inhabitants, the other than 5 Catholic and 2 Reform. are Lutheran. There are 3 grinding mills to which 3 cutting and 2 oil mills are connected. - In the year 786 the abbess Abba from the monastery Rodau or Rodaha (which was in the current Rodau) donated her monastery with all its accessories in the Bellinger (Billingser) Mark to the abbey of Lorsch. The family Stumpf von Assbach owned Rodau as a Bickenbach fiefdom from Erbach. The place later came to the von Schrautenbach family, who exchanged it for Hessen in 1672. "

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971, the previously independent community of Rodau was incorporated into Groß-Bieberau on a voluntary basis . For the Rodau district, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

The administration of the place took place in the time of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and after their extinction in the 15th century, in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt by the Lichtenberg Office . The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Rodau was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

dishes

Rodau belonged to the district court Umstadt and later to the district court Oberramstadt . 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 Lichtenberg Office was responsible for Rodau. 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 superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate . The main courts had lost their function.

With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the regional court of Lichtenberg was the court of first instance from 1821 . It followed:

Population development

• 1629: 19 house seats
• 1791: 179 inhabitants
• 1800: 181 inhabitants
• 1806: 222 inhabitants, 35 houses
• 1829: 343 inhabitants, 46 houses
• 1867: 303 inhabitants, 47 houses
Rodau: Population from 1791 to 2019
year     Residents
1791
  
 179
1800
  
 181
1806
  
 222
1829
  
 343
1834
  
 370
1840
  
 330
1846
  
 350
1852
  
 338
1858
  
 314
1864
  
 321
1871
  
 291
1875
  
 291
1885
  
 302
1895
  
 294
1905
  
 312
1910
  
 307
1925
  
 271
1939
  
 274
1946
  
 414
1950
  
 396
1956
  
 380
1961
  
 363
1967
  
 382
1970
  
 378
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2003
  
 514
2007
  
 528
2011
  
 561
2016
  
 574
2019
  
 563
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-Bieberau 2003 , 2016 , 2019; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 336 Lutheran (= 97.96%), 2 Reformed (= 0.58%) and 5 Catholic (= 1.46%) residents
• 1961: 297 Protestant (= 81.82%), 61 Roman Catholic residents (= 16.80%)

politics

There is a local district for Rodau (areas of the former municipality of Rodau) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of five members. Manuela Pilling is the mayor in the 2016–2021 election period.

Culture and sights

Nature and protected areas

In the district of Rodau, on the slope of the Altscheuer mountain, there is the extensive natural monument “ Granitfelsen-Felsenmeer Steingeröll ”.

Regular events

Personalities

Others

The roots of branches and their branches of the Boßler family dynasty are from 1665 to 1738 and thereafter in Rodau in southern Hesse . A number of the ancestors of the Neckarsteinach branch , which has been based in Neckarsteinach since 1822 , can be found there. From the ranks of the family, among others, princely foresters and the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt mayor of Rodau Johannes Boßler (1708–1780), who had worked in this office from 1732 to 1765, emerged. Tree of sex were also ground and farm owner in Rodau whose land with 34 to 43 pages in the past and local corridor book is enumerated.

literature

  • Prof. Dr. Diethard Köhler : Rodau in the 18th century . In: 1200 years of Groß-Bieberau - contributions to its history . Published by the city council of Groß-Bieberau, Groß-Bieberau 1987, ( DNB 880093137 ), pp. 311–328.
  • Prof. Dr. Diethard Köhler: Families in Rodau, Asbach, Klein-Bieberau, Webern 1635–1750 . Vol. II, address book vorderer Odenwald 1635-1750, Ober-Ramstadt 1987, ( DNB 880842164 ).
  • Search for Rodau in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Rodau, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local lexicon for Hessen (as of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Population figures . In: website. City of Groß-Bieberau, accessed October 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  123 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  4. ^ 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. 727 .
  5. ^ Ferdinand Dieffenbach: The Grand Duchy of Hesse in the past and present . Literary Institution, Darmstadt 1877, p. 254 ( online at google books ).
  6. ^ 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. 203 ( online at google books ).
  7. ↑ 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. 230 .
  8. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 146 kB) §; 6. In: Website. City of Groß-Bieberau, accessed in May 2019 .
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ^ 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 ).
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  124 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ^ 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 ).
  14. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. In: 2011 census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  15. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 164 kB) §; 6. In: Website. City of Groß-Bieberau, accessed in May 2019 .
  16. ↑ Rodau local council. In: website. City of Groß-Bieberau, accessed October 2019 .
  17. ↑ Horst Bathon, Georg Wittenberger: The natural monuments of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district with biotope tours , 2nd expanded and completely revised edition. In: Schriftenreihe Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, (Ed.) District Committee of the District of Darmstadt-Dieburg - Lower Nature Conservation Authority, Darmstadt, 2016. ISBN 978-3-00-050136-4 . 243 pages. Pp. 57-58.
  18. ↑ Darmstädter Echo, Friday, October 5, 2018, p. 22.
  19. ^ Ulrich Kirschnick: The population of the district of Ober Ramstadt-Lichtenberg from 1659 to 1695 . Ed .: Hessian Family Studies Association . tape 75 researches on Hessian family and local history. Darmstadt 1991, OCLC 31205965 , p. 67-69 .
  20. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Diethard Köhler: Families in Rodau, Asbach, Klein-Bieberau, Webern 1635–1750 . Volume II: Address book front Odenwald 1635–1750. Ober-Ramstadt 1987, OCLC 74995814 .
  21. ↑ Werner Hahn: Ober-Ramstadt - A chronicle on the history of the city . Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Ober-Ramstadt. Ober-Ramstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813356-0-6 , On the settlement of the parish village of Nieder-Modau after the Thirty Years War , p. 150 .
  22. ^ City of Groß-Bieberau: Schultheißen and Mayor. Retrieved January 11, 2019 (German).
  23. ↑ Prof. Dr. Diethard Köhler: 1200 years of Groß-Bieberau - contributions to its history . Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Groß-Bieberau. Groß-Bieberau 1987, OCLC 74938227 , Rodau in the 18th century , p. 311-312, 323 .