Schwarzenfels

Schwarzenfels community Sinntal Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 59 ″ N , 9 ° 40 ′ 26 ″ E
Height :	402 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.02 km²
Residents :	558 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	46 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	36391
Area code :	06664

Schwarzenfels is a district of the Sinntal community in the Main-Kinzig district of Hesse .

Geographical location

Schwarzenfels am Hopfenberg with Schwarzenfels Castle

Schwarzenfels is located in the northeast of the Main-Kinzig district in the Brückenauer Kuppenrhön . It spreads in the Hessischer Spessart Nature Park on the south and south-west flank of the Hopfenberg ( 491.5 m ) and on the west flank of the Escheberg ( 516.3 m ) at an altitude of 403 m above sea level. NHN off. About 11.5 km north-west is Schlüchtern , 3.7 km north-west Sterbfritz as a place of meaning Taler local government, and in Bavaria are located 8.5 km east-northeast Brückenau and 4 km (each a straight line ) south Zeitlofs . Schwarzenfels borders in the north on Weichersbach and Oberzell , in the northeast on Züntersbach , in the west on Mottgers and in the south on Güntershöfe (Güntershof) , which are all districts of Sinntal.

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of the place comes from 1290. The place belonged to the Altengronau court , which came to the Hanau rulership in 1333 as an imperial loan from an inheritance from the Rieneck family. The Schwarzenfels Office of the County of Hanau emerged from the court in the 15th century ; from 1459: County of Hanau-Münzenberg . Schwarzenfels Castle was the seat of the bailiff until the middle of the 16th century .

Surname

The name is probably derived from the dolerite basalt of the Hopfenberg, on the slope of which Schwarzenfels was formed. In surviving documents, Schwarzenfels was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

Swarzenfels (1290)
Swarcefels (1305)
Zwarzenfils (1361)

Modern times

The County of Hanau-Münzenberg initially joined the Lutheran denomination during the Reformation , and was reformed from 1597 . The parish of Schwarzenfels was parish after Mottgers.

In 1643 the Schwarzenfels office - and with it the town of the same name - was handed over to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as a pledge along with other securities . It was supposed to guarantee Hanau's debts, which arose in connection with the liberation of the city of Hanau from the siege by imperial troops in 1636 against the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel. The Counts of Hanau were no longer able to redeem this pledge from Hessen-Kassel. The office was administered like landgrave property in the following period. Even after Hessen-Kassel in 1736, after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , which inherited the county of Hanau-Munzenberg, it was not reunited with it.

In 1803 the Landgraviate became the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, Schwarzenfels was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807 to 1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, under which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, Schwarzenfels belonged to the Schlüchtern district . In 1866, after the Austro-Prussian War , the electorate was united (annexed) with the Prussian monarchy by law .

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Sinntal was formed on July 1, 1972 through the voluntary merger of the previously independent municipalities of Mottgers, Schwarzenfels and Weichersbach. For Schwarzenfels, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed for the remaining parts of the village .

population

Population development

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1549:	17 households
• 1587:	12 shooters, 7 philistines
• 1812:	63 fireplaces, 482 souls
• 1821:	63 houses

Schwarzenfels: Population from 1812 to 2017
year		Residents
1812	482
1834	657
1840	710
1846	749
1852	702
1858	657
1864	617
1871	614
1875	537
1885	539
1895	480
1905	461
1910	553
1925	508
1939	544
1946	752
1950	675
1956	476
1961	491
1967	523
1970	501
1979	508
1990	602
1995	606
2000	585
2005	605
2010	558
2015	557
2017	548
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Further sources:; after 1970: Sinntal community

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885:	528 Protestant (= 97.96%), 9 Catholic (= 1.67%), 2 Jewish (= 0.37%) residents
• 1961:	441 Protestant (= 89.82%), 46 Catholic (= 9.37%) residents

politics

The mayor is Torsten Richter.

Infrastructure

There is a kindergarten and a village community center in Schwarzenfels.
State road 3180 runs through the village .
The next rail connections are in Schlüchtern station to the Kinzig valley railway from Frankfurt to Fulda and in Jossa and Sterbfritz to the railway line Flieden – Gemünden to Fulda and Würzburg .

Personalities

Heiner Boehncke (* 1944), literary scholar
Ulrike Edschmid (* 1940), writer
Several artists and artisans live in Schwarzenfels. The best known of them was Helmut Nitzsche (1914–2002), visual artist and glass painter.

literature

Anneliese Hofemann: Studies on the development of the territory of the imperial abbey of Fulda and its offices . Diss. 1938 = Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 25. 1958, p. 120.
Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 40. Hanau 2003, pp. 430–432.
Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 371-372.
Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 14, 1926, p. 345.
Literature about Schwarzenfels in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Schwarzenfels district on the Sinntal municipality's website.
Schwarzenfels, a village introduces itself. Local history, information. In: www.schwarzenfels.de. AktivGemeinschaft Schwarzenfels eV; accessed on June 3, 2018
Schwarzenfels, Main-Kinzig-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Inhabitants, dates and directions. In: Internet presence. Sinntal community, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2018 . (Data from web archive).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Schwarzenfels, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
^ Collection of laws for the royal Prussian states. No. 47 . Königliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), Berlin 1866, p. 555 ( google.de [accessed on July 5, 2019]).
^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , item 851; 2. Para. 1. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
^ 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. 376 .
↑ main statute. (PDF; 529 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Sinntal community, accessed February 2019 .
^ Thomas Klein: Outline of the German administrative history 1815-1845 . Row A: Prussia. Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau including predecessor states. Marburg 1979, p. 115
↑ Budget statute for the 2019 budget (PDF; 2.8 MB) Statistical information. Sinntal community, p. 41 , archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .