Ruhlkirchen
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Ruhlkirchen
Antrifttal municipality
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| Height : | 250 m |
| Area : | 6.95 km² |
| Residents : | 576 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density : | 83 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 1971 |
| Postal code : | 36326 |
| Area code : | 06631 |
 Church of St. Michael in Ruhlkirchen
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Ruhlkirchen is the largest part of the municipality of Antrifttal in the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse . The place is the seat of the municipal administration.
geography
Ruhlkirchen is located in Upper Hesse in the valley of the Drift . In the hit state roads 3070 and the 3344th
history
The place belonged to the Katzenberg court from the 12th to the 19th century . The moated castle Ruhlkirchen was built around 1120
Early 19th century the village went with the entire court Katzenberg as a result of Reichsdeputationshauptschluss conclusion of Kurmainzer ownership of Kurhessen over. With the peace treaty between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse on September 3, 1866, following the war of 1866 , the villages of the "Katzenberg District" fell to the Grand Duchy. In Ruhlkirchen, Hessian law was valid at that time. This retained its validity even while it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1866. On January 1, 1900, it was replaced by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .
Territorial reform
As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the five municipalities of Bernsburg, Ohmes, Ruhlkirchen, Seibelsdorf and Vockenrod merged on December 31, 1971 to form the new large municipality of Antrifttal.
Population development
Source: Historical local dictionary
- 1961: 31 Protestant (= 4.80%), 615 Catholic (= 95.20%) inhabitants
| Ruhlkirchen: Population from 1834 to 2014 | ||||
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| year | Residents | |||
| 1834 | 775 | |||
| 1840 | 784 | |||
| 1846 | 818 | |||
| 1852 | 846 | |||
| 1858 | 768 | |||
| 1864 | 777 | |||
| 1871 | 611 | |||
| 1875 | 581 | |||
| 1885 | 573 | |||
| 1895 | 559 | |||
| 1905 | 545 | |||
| 1910 | 537 | |||
| 1925 | 508 | |||
| 1939 | 568 | |||
| 1946 | 760 | |||
| 1950 | 724 | |||
| 1956 | 661 | |||
| 1961 | 646 | |||
| 1967 | 684 | |||
| 1970 | 682 | |||
| 2008 | 622 | |||
| 2011 | 621 | |||
| 2014 | 582 | |||
| Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources: | ||||
Attractions
- The medieval moated castle Ruhlkirchen , excavated at the end of the 20th century and partially restored, is located right next to the drift, near today's fire station .
- The Church of St. Michael was built between 1820 and 1824.
coat of arms
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Blazon : "In red, two erect turned away silver battle axes." |
| Founding of the coat of arms: This coat of arms, officially awarded to the community on March 2, 1951, was created after the seal of the knight Gerhard von Ruhlkirchen (1262–1272). |
Infrastructure
- There is a village community center , a primary school and a day-care center in the village .
- Antrifttal-Ruhlkirchen volunteer fire department .
Personalities
- The church musician Heinrich Rohr (1902–1997) taught in Ruhlkirchen between 1926 and 1929 .
literature
- Literature about Ruhlkirchen in the Hessian Bibliography
- Search for Ruhlkirchen in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library
- Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.
Web links
- Ruhlkirchen district on the Antrifttal municipality's website.
- Ruhlkirchen yesterday & today. Local history, information. Private website
- Ruhlkirchen, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ruhlkirchen, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b Numbers - data - facts. In: Internet presence. Municipality of Antrifttal, archived from the original ; accessed on June 20, 2018 . (Data from web archive)
- ↑ Schmidt, p. 45.
- ^ Schmidt, pp. 104, 46 and accompanying map.
- ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 347 .
- ^ Karl Ernst Demandt , Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 142.
- ↑ Granting of the right to use a coat of arms to the community of Ruhlkirchen in the Alsfeld district, Darmstadt district on March 2, 1951 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1951 no. 11 , p. 123 , point 218 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.0 MB ]).
