Michelbach (Alzenau)

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Michelbach
City of Alzenau
Michelbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 141 m
Residents : 2961  (May 1, 2009)
Incorporation : July 1, 1975
Postal code : 63755
Area code : 06023

Michelbach is one of the six districts of the city of Alzenau in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg .

geography

Michelbach is located in the lower Kahlgrund northeast of the core town of Alzenau and has 2961 inhabitants. The Kahl and the State Road 2305 separate the place into a north and a south part. The Franconian Marienweg runs through Michelbach and the Kahl – Schöllkrippen railway line and the Kahltal-Spessart cycle path run through the southern part of the village . The topographically highest point of the village mark is below the summit of the Hohe Mark at 383  m above sea level. NN (location) , the lowest is on the Kahl at 131  m above sea level. NN (location) . The Birkenberg housing estate is located on the slopes of the Heidkopf , a secondary peak of the Hahnenkamm ridge . Michelbach is the northernmost wine-growing region in Bavaria . Mainly Riesling and Müller-Thurgau are grown here.

Surname

Michelbach takes its name from the Michelbach of the same name (today Weibersbach ), which flows through the town of the Kahl . In the 9th century the place was still called Mihilbaha . The place is called "Mechelbach" in the dialect of Kahlgründer .

history

middle Ages

Parish Church of St. Laurentius in Michelbach, view from Laurentiusstrasse

Michelbach belonged to the Alzenau court , which in turn was part of the Alzenau free court . The free court was directly imperial , but the empire pledged or lent the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg and the lords of Eppstein .

Modern times

In 1500 , the Roman-German King Maximilian I enfeoffed the Archbishop of Mainz and the Count of Hanau-Munzenberg together with the Freigericht, which they now administered as a condominium . Since ecclesiastical jurisdiction remained with the Archbishops of Mainz at the time of the condominium , the Reformation - in contrast to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg - could not prevail here. Michelbach remained Roman Catholic .

When Count Johann Reinhard III. The last male representative of the House of Hanau died in 1736, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel was the heir to the County of Hanau-Munzenberg on the basis of an inheritance contract . Whether the legacy extended to Hanau's share in the condominium was hotly debated in the years that followed between Kurmainz and Hessen-Kassel. The dispute ended in a compromise, the "party recession" of 1740, which provided for a real division of the condominium. However, it took until 1748 for the contract to be implemented. Michelbach fell to Kurmainz.

The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 proposed the Alzenau office to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which it only retained for 13 years. In 1816 the Grand Duchy ceded the office to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Michelbach has been Bavarian since then.

The community of Michelbach belonged to the Alzenau district office , which was formed on July 1, 1862. On January 1, 1939, this became part of the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia . With its dissolution, Michelbach came to the newly formed district of Aschaffenburg on July 1, 1972 .

On July 1, 1975, Michelbach gave up his independence in the course of the regional reform in Bavaria and was incorporated into the city of Alzenau.

Attractions

The Michelbacher Schlösschen
The corn Hausen Castle
The Lindenplatz in Michelbach
Vineyard Apostelgarten
  • The Michel Bacher castle is a two-storey baroque castle , which consists of a moated castle emerged the 16th century. It is located near the intersections of State Roads 2305/2444; only a wall core has been preserved from the old system. The first owner of the castle was Rupertus de Willemin , he was followed by a baron Ferdinand Kaspar Joseph von Wrede , who rebuilt the moated castle in its present form around 1700. This was followed by the Marquis du Chastler , who acquired the castle from his predecessor. After another change of ownership, Frankfurt councilor David Domer bought it in 1862. The Michelbach community acquired it from the Domer / Hendschel family in 1930. From 1949 it was available to the parish for use. In the meantime it served as a retirement home until 1980 . Since September 2006 it has been given a new purpose through general refurbishment and conversion to the Museum of the City of Alzenau and also serves as an event location.
  • The parish church of St. Laurentius was built in the years 1776/1777 partly on the remains of the wall of a chapel built in 1588. Inside there are several epitaphs of the local nobility. In 2006/2007 the interior of the parish church was renovated, renovation work was mainly carried out on the newly designed chancel. On April 1, 2007, the first mass was celebrated in the renovated church.
  • The corn Hausen Castle , built in Michel Bacher outskirts of the district of Albstadt, is a converted to the villa estate (1753), which is privately owned and is not open to the public.
  • Kulturweg Am Sülzert - From the ring wall to the country estate
  • The Kihn mill used to be in Michelbach. It was once the most powerful mill in Lower Franconia and supplied the village with electricity. Today nothing can be seen of the mill. The building was demolished in 2011. Originally the "bridge mill" was acquired by Johann Adam Kihn in 1731 and expanded into a large mill in 1848 by Valentin Kihn.

Viticulture

Next to the Michelbach has listed vineyard Apostelgarten more vineyards, where for centuries on the west side of the Hahnenkamm white wines are grown.

Associations and associations

Michelbach has an active club life with several singing and music clubs, a small animal breeding club, a gymnastics club, a shooting club, the football sports club and the volunteer fire department. The minstrel orchestra of TV 1901 Michelbach eV was officially founded in 1906, making it the oldest minstrel in Bavaria and the owner of the Pro Musica badge . He was Bavarian champion 1999, 2009 and 2017 of LSW Bayern, German champion 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2019 of DBV and two-time Rhineland-Palatinate champion 2005 of LSW Rhineland-Palatinate.

Personalities

  • Karl Kihn (born May 28, 1854 in Michelbach; † January 9, 1934 in Aschaffenburg), German doctor and historian and local researcher
  • Valentin Kihn (born January 9, 1822 in Michelbach, † April 13, 1901 in Michelbach), member of the Bavarian state parliament for the Patriot Party
  • Rudolf Ritter von Horstig , called d'Aubigny von Engelbrunner (1858–1936), architect in Munich and Würzburg, director of the royal university building inspection in Würzburg
  • Friedrich Huth (born November 19, 1892 in Michelbach, † April 20, 1980 in Alzenau-Michelbach), member of the Reich and Landtag; Member of the state constituent assembly; District Administrator
  • Anna Bergmann (* 1953), cultural historian
  • Dominik Bauer (* 1978), part of the cartoonist duo Hauck & Bauer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ residents of Alzenau (as of May 1, 2009)
  2. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  3. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1980 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  4. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 736 .
  5. ↑ Spessart project ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Am Sülzert" cultural trail @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spessartprojekt.de

literature

  • City of Alzenau (ed.); Alzenau city book. Contributions to the history of the city of Alzenau and its districts . Alzenau 2001. ISBN 3-00-008608-0 .
  • City of Alzenau (ed.): Alzenauer contributions to local history. Volume 3, Museum of the City of Alzenau in the Michelbach Castle . Alzenau 2006. ISSN  1610-4897 .
  • Manfred Frühwacht / Joachim Schulmerich: Paths to wine - on Franconia's veteran . Cocon-Verlag, Hanau 2011. ISBN 978-3-86314-208-7 .

Web links

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