Schmalnau (Ebersburg)

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Schmalnau
community Ebersburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 349  (345-420)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.28 km²
Residents : 1112  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 211 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36157
Area code : 06656

Schmalnau is a village in the Fulda district and at the same time the administrative seat of the East Hessian community of Ebersburg .

Geographical location

Schmalnau is located in the Rhön on the southwestern edge of the Hessian Rhön Nature Park and on the western edge of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve at the confluence of the Schmalnau flowing through the village (also called the Rommerser Wasser in the upper and middle reaches ) into the Fulda coming from the east . At about 345 to 420  m above sea level. NN located it is located between the Ebersburger municipality parts Ebersberg and Weyhers in the north, Thalau with the local situation Stellberg in the south-southwest and Ried in the west-northwest and the Gersfelder districts Hettenhausen the east, Gichenbach in the east-southeast.

Panorama Schmalnau
Catholic Church of St. Martin

history

The village was first mentioned around 900 when the property of Count Konrad the Elder was exchanged for the Fulda monastery. Around 1383 and was a branch of Dietershausen and belonged to the diocese of Würzburg . A chapel is mentioned again around 1500.

In 1812 it became the parish church in the diocese of Fulda and was consecrated to St. Martin . The Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast three generations of Otto bells for the tower of the Martinskirche . In 1908 the church received four bronze bells with the tones es - ges - as - b. In the 1st World War they were melted down to the ges bell. In 1926 three new bells were added to the ringing. These bells also fell victim to the war-related bell destruction. In 1951 and 1953, the Ottos delivered three new bronze bells with the chimes E-flat, G sharp and A sharp.

Jewish community

There was a Jewish community in Schmalnau . In 1832 a separate Israelite school was set up, which the Jewish children of the surrounding villages also had to attend. In 1892 there were eleven Jewish families in Schmalnau, and in 1935 there were still 15 Jewish families. Shortly thereafter, the Jewish community dissolved. In the summer of 1938 the political community acquired the synagogue . The last Jew in the village was master butcher Reinberg, who left Schmalnau in autumn 1938. After 1945 the synagogue was converted into a fire station .

Reorganization

On December 31, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Schmalnau was incorporated into the new municipality of Ebersburg as part of the regional reform .

traffic

The Schmalnau stop is on the Fulda – Gersfeld railway line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Schmalnau, District of Fulda". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 7, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population statistics of the Fulda district , accessed in September 2015.
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 224, 408, 517, 528, 550, 552 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 212, 382, ​​481, 490, 506, 507 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  5. ↑ Michael Mott : On the history of the Jews in Schmalnau. In: "Buchenblätter" of the Fuldaer Zeitung, 61st volume, No. 6, March 14, 1988, pp. 21-22.
  6. ^ 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. 394 .

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