Schachen (Gersfeld)
Schachen
City of Gersfeld (Rhön)
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 52 ″ N , 9 ° 55 ′ 2 ″ E
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Height : | 551 m |
Area : | 5.76 km² |
Residents : | 281 (Sep 30, 2019) |
Population density : | 49 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | December 31, 1971 |
Postal code : | 36129 |
Area code : | 06654 |
Schachen is a district of Gersfeld (Rhön) in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda .
Geographical location
Schachen is located in the Hessian Rhön Nature Park in the headwaters of the Fulda at 570 m above sea level . It is a scattered settlement with individual farms and the place condensed into group settlement with around 300 inhabitants. He has a modest degree of tourism through pensions , holiday apartments and a campsite . The hamlets of Brembach and Sommerberg, as well as the farms Hünkelshäuptchen , Fazienhof, Oberhof, Oberkohlgraben, Mittelhof, Dreierhof, Unterhof, Veitenhof, Bienloch and Unterkohlgraben belong to the village . Schachen is crossed by Kreisstraße 41, which joins Bundesstraße 284 east of Gersfeld and leads in a north-westerly direction to Poppenhausen .
history
From the village of Schachen, clearing was carried out as early as the 16th century . The black earth and cabbage stalks were built around 1595, and the number of individual farms increased further in the 18th century. In 1626, the community of Conrad and Lucas von Ebersberg, called von Weyhers, received a village order. Under Ebersberg it belonged to the "Buchschen Quartier", an imperial-free knight canton . At that time the village had a parish and a mayor. Since 1819 Schachen belonged to the Bavarian regional court (older order) Weyhers . In 1862 it was added to the Bavarian War and, from 1866, after the so-called German War , to the Gersfeld district office of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau .
Territorial reform
On December 31, 1971, the previously independent municipality Schachen in the wake of was municipal reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis in the city Gersfeld incorporated . For the district of Schachen, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory council and local head was set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.
Population development
- 1830: 24 houses, 34 families, 181 souls: 14 Catholics, 167 Protestants, 1 Protestant school, Catholics go to the Catholic school in Gersfeld. (1830).
Schachen: Population from 1834 to 2018 | ||||
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year | Residents | |||
1834 | 442 | |||
1840 | 438 | |||
1846 | 444 | |||
1852 | 450 | |||
1858 | 431 | |||
1864 | 412 | |||
1871 | 438 | |||
1875 | 445 | |||
1885 | 433 | |||
1895 | 402 | |||
1905 | 375 | |||
1910 | 319 | |||
1925 | 366 | |||
1939 | 348 | |||
1946 | 418 | |||
1950 | 419 | |||
1956 | 335 | |||
1961 | 332 | |||
1967 | 326 | |||
1970 | 307 | |||
1980 | ? | |||
1990 | ? | |||
2000 | 299 | |||
2005 | 314 | |||
2010 | 319 | |||
2011 | 291 | |||
2015 | 277 | |||
2018 | 279 | |||
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 :; After 1970 City of Gersfeld :; 2011 census |
Hamlets and homesteads
Beehole
Courtyard with 3 houses, 3 families, 17 souls: Protestants (1830).
Brembach
(Also called Bremig) 5 houses, 8 families, 31 souls: 7 Catholics, 24 Protestants (1830).
Dreierhof
The name Dreier, Middle High German for lathe operator or turner , suggests that this craft was practiced here in the past.
Single courtyard with 5 houses, 8 families, 35 souls: 4 Catholics, 31 Protestants (1830).
Hünkelshäuptchen
Hünkelshäuptchen is named after an elevation of the same name, 668 NN high, which is in front of the Eubeberg (814 NN) to the south. The courtyard and the surrounding houses are built directly on the southern slope of the elevation. The organ maker Georg Limpert lived at the Hünkelshäuptchen from 1775 to 1851 , who presumably made rotary and annual organs. Then the organ builders Johann and Nikolaus Richter, as well as Peter Limpert in Hünkelshäuptchen are named as organ builders.
The "Eubeberg-Hünkelshäuptchen" nature reserve , with its mixed forest , as well as grassland, wetlands and grasslands, has been included in the maintenance zone B of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve as a cultural landscape worth preserving .
Three courtyards with 4 houses, 5 families, 33 souls: 24 Protestants, 9 Catholics (1830). Today, Hünkelshäuptchen consists of three courtyards with outbuildings.
Facial courtyard
The name comes from Bonifatius , the homestead used to be called Bonifaziushof . Wynfreth Bonifatius (672– approx. 755) was a well-known missionary who converted the area around Fulda to Christianity around 730 . The Fazienhof is located on the eastern slope of the Hünkelshäuptchen.
Courtyard with 2 houses, 3 families, 9 souls: Protestants (1830). Today the Fazienhof consists of two courtyards with outbuildings.
Ober-Kohlgraben, Unter-Kohlgraben
The name indicates, as with other place names with the name component "Kohl", on the extraction of charcoal . Probably stood at these places formerly charcoal kilns , the later the courts, from skating out formed.
Summer mountain
Hamlet with 8 houses, 10 families, 24 (26) souls, 24 Catholics.
Volunteer firefighter
The Schachen local group of the Gersfeld volunteer fire brigade is the only association . The Schachen volunteer fire brigade was founded on April 3, 1935 and had 33 members. In 1963, after a major fire, a motorized syringe was purchased from the manufacturer Metz and the outdated fire horn was replaced by a siren . On February 20, 1966, it was decided to build a new fire station which was inaugurated on October 18, 1970. In October 1995 the 24-year-old vehicle ( TSF ) was replaced by a new TSF from the Fiat Ducato brand. In autumn 1998 the Schachen fire brigade received a new TS 8/8 (portable pump - 800 liters per minute at 8 bar output pressure) from Rosenbauer. In 2007, women were accepted into active fire service for the first time since the fire service was founded. Due to the closure of a neighboring brigade, the Gersfeld-Schachen volunteer fire brigade received a fire engine ( TSF-W built in 2002) with a 750 liter water tank. On June 27, 2013, four new digital radios were installed in the vehicle. In 2013 the Schachen volunteer fire brigade had 40 active members, 9 members of the age and honorary department and 69 passive members.
literature
- Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen , publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse, 1926
- Ute Lange: On the worthy of protection of the Eube and the Hünkelshäuptchen (Wasserkuppenrhön) . In: Contributions to natural history in Osthessen, ISSN 0342-5452 , Vol. 25 (1989), pp. 3-29
Web links
- Website of the city of Gersfeld
- Schachen, District of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about chess in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Schachen, District of Fulda. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Population of the city of Gersfeld (Rhön). (PDF; 76 kB) Retrieved August 2020 .
- ^ Notices to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Cassel, Gebr. Schönhoven, 1897, p. 84
- ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 394 .
- ↑ main statute. (PDF; 791 kB) § 6. In: Website. City of Gersfeld, accessed August 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Historical information from: Anton Rottmayer: Statistical-topographical manual for the Lower Main district of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Sartorius'schen Buchdruckerei, 1830, p. 417 (at Google Books)
- ↑ Population figures from 2000 to 2018. City of Gersfeld, accessed in August 2020 .
- ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office
- ↑ Horst Zimmer: History of German Crafts , Reinhard Welz Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-938622-17-9 , p. 3
- ^ Hermann Fischer : 100 Years of the Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister 1891–1991 , commemorative publication with a lexical directory of German organ building workshops, Orgelbau-Fachverlag, 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 242
- ^ Gottfried Rehm : Life in the Rhön: Contributions to the history and folklore of our homeland , Rhön-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-931796-32-9 , p. 186
- ↑ Document of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, p. 30 (Google document)
- ↑ Rhön Biosphere Reserve ( Memento from June 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Infothek BR General. 2009
- ^ Giessener geographische Schriften , issues 9-10, Justus Liebig University of Giessen. Geographical Seminar, 1957, p. 69
- ↑ Schachen volunteer fire brigade