Schlierbach (Brachttal)

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Schlierbach
Brachttal municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 14 ″  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 155 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.77 km²
Residents : 1896  (April 1, 2001)
Population density : 329 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1970
Postal code : 63636
Primaries : 06053, 06054
Administration building of Waechtersbacher Keramik

Schlierbach is, in Udenhain , Light Stone , New Schmidten , Spielberg and Streiberg the largest of the six districts of the municipality Brachttal in Main-Kinzig-Kreis in Hesse . The municipal administration is based in Schlierbach.

geography

Geographical location

Schlierbach is located on the southern edge of the Vogelsberg , on the right bank of the Bracht . The federal road 276 runs through the village . From 1898 to 1967 the Vogelsberger Südbahn ran through Schlierbach, which connected Wächtersbach with Hartmannshain in the Vogelsberg.

Neighboring communities

Schlierbach borders Neuenschmidten in the north, another district of Brachttals, which lies on the B276, which then continues to Birstein . To the south, following the same main road, you come to Hesseldorf , a district of Wächtersbach. To the northeast, the state road 3443 finally leads out to the districts of Hellstein and Udenhain.

history

Place name

The name of the place changed over the centuries from Slierbach , in 1276 and 1347 to Slirbach (1377) and Schlerbach (1529), before it finally became Schlierbach.

While the 2nd part of the name indicates the location on a brook or flowing water (the Bracht), the "slier" in Slierbach is interpreted as loam , clay , greasy water.

middle Ages

For the first time Slierbach , documented in 1276, when the Roman-German King I. Rudolf von Habsburg the Counts of Weilnau for his Burgmannen services at the Castle Gelnhausen thanks. Other historical place names are Slirbach (1377) and Schlerbach (1529). Starting with Heinrich II. Von Isenburg, Schlierbach gradually passed into Isenburg possession from 1332 . It was Diether I. von Ysenburg in Büdingen who in 1460 gave the order to build a wooden chapel, the forerunner of the later local church .

From the Middle Ages to the 19th century, the place had forest rights ( wood and hat rights ) in the Büdinger Forest .

Modern times

In 1529 there were 65 houses in Schlerbach . In the Thirty Years War , the Protestant chapel, which had been in use since Count Anton von Isenburg , was destroyed. However, a new Protestant church was built as early as 1656. In 1865 it was extended to the west for the place that had grown in the meantime. In 1959 the Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche was added to the village.

Although Schlierbach remained Isenburg throughout, the administration changed frequently. From 1787 it was part of the Wächtersbach office and the Spielberg court in the county of Isenburg-Wächtersbach . From 1806 to the Principality of Isenburg, Amt Wächtersbach, Spielberg court . From 1816 to 1867 it was with the Electorate of Hesse and from 1867 with the Kingdom of Prussia , Province of Hesse-Nassau .

Territorial reform

On July 1, 1970 - Schlierbach had 1,331 inhabitants at the time - the new municipality of Brachttal was created as part of the regional reform in Hesse , through the voluntary merger of the independent communities Schlierbach, Hellstein and Neuenschmidten. Spielberg and Streitberg were added later on February 1, 1971. On July 1, 1974, the previously independent municipality of Udenhain was incorporated as the last sub-municipality of Brachttal into the municipality of Brachttal by state law.

Public facilities

schools

At the end of the 1950s, the then still independent communities Schlierbach agreed with the neighboring communities Hellstein and Neuenschmidten to build a larger "central school". The "one-class schools" in the towns were in a bad state. The new school, located on the border between Schlierbach and Neuenschmidten, was inaugurated on January 12, 1961. A first expansion followed soon (1966) due to the rapid growth in the number of pupils, and more followed in 1990 and 2003.

The school gradually developed from a school with primary and secondary levels to a pure elementary school . The secondary school for Schlierbach, as for the other Brachttaler districts, is the cooperative comprehensive school , the Friedrich-August-Genth-Schule, located in the city center of Wächtersbach . The districts are connected to this school center by bus lines.

Village community center

The village community center in Schlierbach has a large hall that can hold up to 122 people, with 122 m² and a 36 m² stage as well as a town hall tavern. An adjoining room has 26 m². In addition to communal use, the facilities can also be booked for private events of all kinds, family celebrations, presentations, seminars and the like.

Volunteer firefighter

The Schlierbach volunteer fire brigade was originally founded (1875) as the "protective guard of the stoneware factory" . Later it was reorganized into the local fire brigade with its own base. This makes it one of the oldest fire departments in the Gelnhausen district. A youth fire brigade was added in 1964 and the Bambini fire brigade in 2010. Today the operations department has 35 people, the youth fire brigade 8 people and the children's group has 15 members.

Economy and industry

Waechtersbacher ceramics, decor-dancing Hessen couple, design Ursula Fesca

After white clay was discovered in the Leite forest of Schlierbach in 1829 , Count Adolf II. Zu Ysenburg-Wächtersbach , together with other partners, founded a ceramic factory in Weilers on June 8, 1832 , the Waechtersbacher Keramik . Other minerals necessary for the manufacture of ceramics, such as pebbles, tufa and white sand , were also found nearby . In 1833 the shareholders succeeded in acquiring the Schlierbacher Mühle. On January 1, 1834, production was relocated from Weilers to Schlierbach. At that time the place had 372 inhabitants. In 1856 Count Ferdinand Maximilian III took over . von Ysenburg-Wächtersbach all shares in the company.

There was a special artistic boom in the years from 1900 to 1920. Christian Neureuther in particular , as founder of the ceramic studio Wächtersbach Christian Neureuther and head of the artistic department, produced ceramics in the Wächtersbach Art Nouveau style , which is of very special value. As a successor to Neureuthers, Ursula Fesca (1900–1975) worked from 1931 to 1939 and from 1947 to 1965, a new and very unique style ("Fesca style"), which is based on modern forms based on the Bauhaus style characterized by simplicity, timelessness and objectivity. Fesca Hessian traditional costumes were also very popular.

Waechtersbacher Keramik worked until 2011. In the summer of 2018, the Main-Kinzig district bought the company archive of "Waechtersbacher Keramik" .

Jewish life in Schlierbach

The relatively small group of Jewish residents of Schlierbach was also provided for by the synagogue community in Hellstein. There was a Jewish school and a ritual bath in Hellstein . Deceased Jewish citizens were buried in the Birstein cemetery. In 1835 five Jews lived in Schlierbach, in 1861 there were seven and in 1905 there were 14. Two Jewish citizens, Moses Buxbaum and Meyer Kahn, died for Germany in the First World War . In 1924 24 parishioners lived in Schlierbach (with over 800 inhabitants in total). Max Fürth from Schlierbach was the secretary of the community leaders Ludwig Moritz and Jonas Grünebaum. Ernst and Rudolf Buxbaum died during the Nazi era, Sofie Buxbaum geb. Kahn, Emilie Grünebaum b. Sonn, Rosa Kahn, Irma and Max Kaufmann, Jenny Morgenthau b. Sonn, Adelheid Oppenheimer, Max Sonn and Else Strauss born. Sunday

After the war, in 1946, 1422 people lived in Schlierbach, but no longer Jews.

Churches and parishes

Around the year 900 Schlierbach belonged to Salmünster church . From around the year 1000 until the time of the Reformation, the parish was connected to Udenhain, although the rule changed in the meantime. In 1947 Udenhain and Schlierbach became part of the Reichenbach parish . Later, Schlierbach and Hellstein were a parish until Schlierbach finally, in 1901, became an independent church.

On the occasion of the church renovation in 1961, the church in Schlierbach was named Friedenskirche . Temporarily forgotten, the name came back into use later. The parishes of Schlierbach, Hellstein and Udenhain have merged since January 1, 2010 to form the Evangelical Martins parish of Brachttal.

The Marienglocke of the Friedenskirche has been ringing for the believers in the Schlierbach community since 1520. Their chimes were added to the national bell database in 2020. It can be called up there at any time.

From 1904, the Prince of Isenburg approved the Catholic population in Schlierbach to celebrate one mass per month. In the absence of a church, the Catholic community initially made do with a former tool shed in the stoneware factory. The influx of Catholic refugees after the Second World War made it necessary to install a Catholic pastor in 1947. In 1959 a Sacred Heart Church was inaugurated in Schlierbach. For spiritual care, the parish is affiliated with the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Wächtersbach. The need for renovation of the branch church determined in the mid-1990s ultimately led to the decision to build a new one. The newly built Herz-Jesu-Kirche was consecrated on May 11, 1997. In 2006, Brachttal was incorporated into the St. Jakob Pastoral Association.

Attractions

Fortuna, goddess of luck (C. Neureuther around 1890), in front of Christian Neureuther's villa

See also: List of cultural monuments in Brachttal-Schlierbach

Personalities

Daughters and sons of the place

People associated with the place

Christian Neureuther
  • Christian Neureuther (1868–1921), art ceramist, inventor of the “Wächtersbach Art Nouveau”, founder of the Wächtersbach ceramic studio. He was associated with Schlierbach all his life, from his first professional activity to the end of his active career, and shaped Wächtersbach ceramics for two decades. His former villa, with the figure of the ancient goddess of fortune Fortuna in front of it, one of his youthful works, still reminds of him today.
  • Dina Kuhn (1891–1963), ceramist in the Waechtersbach manufactory
  • Ursula Fesca (1900–1975), ceramist, in two creative periods (1931–1939 and 1947–1965) she designed modern ceramics based on the Bauhaus style for the Waechtersbach stoneware factory

Trivia

In March 2015 Schlierbach was seen as " Dolles Dorf der Woche" on Hessischer Rundfunk .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Schlierbach, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 5, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Martin Schäfer, Heimatbuch des Kreises Gelnhausen , ed. Kreisverwaltung Gelnhausen, 1950, p. 259
  3. ^ Martin Schäfer, Heimatbuch des Kreises Gelnhausen , ed. Kreisverwaltung Gelnhausen, 1950, p. 261
  4. ↑ a b The districts on the website of the municipality of Brachttal
  5. ↑ https://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/rsrec/sn/ol/register/ort/entry/435005030%3Aschlierbach , Historisches Ortslexikon, Schlierbach
  6. ↑ Amalgamation of the communities Hellstein, Neuenschmidten and Schlierbach in the Gelnhausen district to form the new community "Brachttal" on June 11, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 26 , p. 1300 , point 1227 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.6 MB ]).
  7. ↑ Brachttal Primary School
  8. ^ Schlierbach village community center
  9. ^ Brachttal village community houses
  10. ↑ Brachttal fire brigade
  11. ↑ J. Ackermann, "From mills and millers near Hesseldorf", Samml. Gesch. Wächtersbach, 40. L., August 2002, No. 262, ISSN 0931-2641, p. 5
  12. ↑ Wächtersbacher ceramics. Verkehrs- und Gewerbeverein Wächtersbach eV, archived from the original on July 21, 2013 ; accessed in August 2018 .
  13. ^ History of the stoneware factory in Wächtersbach
  14. ↑ Waechtersbacher ceramics
  15. ^ Alemannia Judaica
  16. ^ Renovation of the Schlierbach church
  17. ↑ Don't you hear the bells? Yes , GNZ, April 8, 2020
  18. ↑ National Bell Database
  19. ↑ Sacred Heart Church in Schlierbach
  20. ↑ Dolles village with a solar eclipse. Genlnhäuser Tagblatt, March 21, 2015, accessed December 20, 2016 .

literature

  • J. Ackermann, "From mills and millers near Hesseldorf", Samml. Gesch. Wächtersbach, 40. L., August 2002, No. 262, ISSN 0931-2641
  • Martin Schäfer, Heimatbuch des Kreis Gelnhausen , published by the district administration Gelnhausen, 1950

Web links

Commons : Schlierbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files