Seehof (Lorsch)

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Seehof
Cities of Lorsch and Lampertheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 23"  E
Height : 95 m above sea level NN
Residents : 40  (1971)

Seehof was an independent district until October 1, 1971 . In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , it was divided between the cities of Lampertheim and Lorsch . After Lorsch, the northern part with the actual Seehof at Froschkanzelsee with around 40 inhabitants at that time was incorporated. Several excavations have been carried out since the 19th century to support the assumption that it was the founding monastery of Lorsch Abbey , the Altenmünster Monastery.

In the years 1833-1856 Seehof was an independent municipality with over 200 inhabitants. Due to poor agricultural conditions, most of the residents emigrated to the United States of America in 1853/54 . The houses were auctioned and mostly rebuilt in the Hüttenfeld district of Lampertheim, and the church bell moved to the Hüttenfeld schoolhouse. This is why the Hüttenfeld elementary school is called "Seehofschule".

history

The first documentary mention as palus Laurissensis took place in 1265 as a farm of the Lorsch monastery .

Konrad Dahl reports in 1812 in his historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch, or church history of the Upper Rhinegau, about Seehof as an estate of the Lorsch monastery:

»When it was first built, the Seehof was probably an okonomiehof belonging to the Lorsch monastery and then belonging to the Altenmünster provost. It got its name from the small lake that the Weschnitz once formed there, and which was subsequently dried up and made arable with great effort and expense. Since this was primarily due to the diligence of the cathedral chapter at Mainz: so the Archbishop Werner von Mainz donated the third part of the field to be cultivated to the said cathedral chapter in 1265, as well as the third part of all toes, the mill and tariff gradients also all other uses that could possibly be collected there in the future. He also handed over the parish of Heppenheim to the said chapter and confirmed this donation in 1266. The Seehof is almost an hour away from Lorsch, but it is no longer a single farm, but rather a hamlet consisting of 15 houses in which 119 Souls dwell. It's a branch of Lorsch. "

Several documents testify to the eventful history of the Seehof in the Middle Ages. In 1474, for example, it is reported that the Lorsch lake was used by the Count Palatine Friedrich to supply his court at Friedrichsburg (today Neuschloss ). From the year 1648 it is handed down that a burned down house stood on the Lorscher See and the district Seehof is described as follows: "The district consists of 1200 acres and the fishing water Lorscher See extends next to the Lorsch forest up to the Virnheimer district." From 1673 a comparison between Kurmainz and the diocese of Worms has come down to us, in which, after stone removal, Mainz receives the Lorsch lake, while the Lampertheimer lake remains near Worms. This comparison was confirmed in 1721. As in 1784 from the documents of the State Archives Darmstadt stating the yard was awarded in Erbbestand by the Lorsch Abbey and was one of the Electorate of Mainz in "Lower Archbishopric" to Amtsvogtei Lorsch of Oberamt Starkenburg .

As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss was passed in February 1803 , which implemented the provisions of the Peace of Lunéville and dissolved Kurmainz. The Upper Office Starkenburg and with it the Office Lorsch came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt . There it was continued as the Hessian district bailiff, but the Oberamt was dissolved in 1805.

Under pressure from Napoleon , the Rhine Confederation was founded in 1806 , this happened when the member territories left the empire at the same time. This led to the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806, with which the old empire ceased to exist. On August 14, 1806, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was raised by Napoleon to the Grand Duchy of France against high military contingents and membership of the Rhine Confederation , otherwise he was threatened with invasion.

Until 1821, the Grand Duchy of Hesse was divided into offices. The Lorsch office was published in the Latest Country and Ethnology: A Geographic Reading Book for All Estates. Volume 22 - Meklenburg Kur Hessen Hessen Darmstadt and the free cities are described as follows:

»Office Lorsch with 1 market town, 7 other places, 1,146 houses. and 8,755 a.
Lorsch, market town on the Waschnitz, and the official seat in the buildings of the former Premonstratensian Abbey. 262 house. and 1,660 inh. As in the vicinity of old monasteries, game, wood, fish, good pasture and good wine, as soon as the climate allows it, never fail to be absent: so are all these aids to a comfortable speculative life in the vicinity Lorsch united. - Villages: Biblis, Bürstadt, Kleinhausen, Seehoff, Virnheim. "

In 1821, as part of a comprehensive administrative reform, the district bailiffs in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy were dissolved and district councils were introduced, with the Lorsch district becoming part of the Heppenheim district . As part of this reform, regional courts were also created, which were now independent of the administration. The district court districts corresponded in scope to the district council districts and the district court of Lorsch was responsible as the court of first instance for the district of Heppenheim . This reform also arranged the administrative administration at the municipal level. The mayor's office in Lorsch was also responsible for Seehof.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg from 1829 describes Seehof as:

»Seehof (L. Bez. Heppenheim) cath. Branch village; is a der Weschnitz 1 St. from Heppenheim and 1 St. from Lorsch. There are 21 houses and 186 inhabitants, who, apart from 31 Lutherans, are Catholic. This farm was probably an economic farm, first belonging to the Lorsch monastery and then to the Altenmünster provost. Seehof came to Hessen from Mainz in 1802. "

In the Grand Duchy of Hesse there are references to the village of Seehof until 1854. The latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states from 1845 reports :

»Seehof b. Lorsch. - Village, to the Lutheran. Parish Schwanheim, resp. Catholic parish belonging to Lorsch. - 21 H., 186 (mostly Catholic) E. - Großherzogth. Hesse. - Prov. Starkenburg. - Bensheim district. - Lorsch District Court. - Darmstadt Court of Justice. - The village of Seehof, on the Weschnitz, passed from Mainz to Hesse in 1802. "

In 1854 there are still 261 inhabitants and the following entry can be found in Philipp Alexander Ferdinand Walther's The Grand Duchy of Hesse by history, country, people, state and locality :

»Seehof, cath. Fld., An der Weschnitz, then belonged to Lorsch to the Probstei Altenmünster and came from Mainz to Hesse in 1802. Gem .: 1208 M. (1073 A., 43 Wi., 66 Wa.) Pop. 261. «

With the wave of emigration of 1853/1854, the place was then almost completely abandoned and in the list of residential areas of the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1867, Seehof is described as a district of the municipality of Lorsch with one house and eight residents.

In 1927, the district was given in the housing directory of the People's State of Hesse as "belonging to Lampertheim and 302 ha ".

Web links

Seehof, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 210 .
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Bergstrasse district (GVBl. II 330–15 § 7) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 222 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ↑ Maxi Maria Platz: The Altenmünster and Seehof churches in Lorsch. ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bulletin of the German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times. 22 (2010), pp. 93-100 (PDF; 1.3 MB).
  4. ↑ a b c Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place names book: Starkenburg . Ed .: Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse. tape 1 . Self-published, Darmstadt 1937, DNB  366995820 , OCLC 614375103 , p. 653-654 .
  5. ↑ History of the Seehof School in Hüttenfeld. (PDF) In: Website. Seehofschule Hüttenfeld., Accessed in October 2019 .
  6. ↑ Seehof, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 10, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ^ Johann Konrad Dahl: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch or church history of the Upper Rhinegau . Darmstadt 1812, OCLC 162251605 , p. 230 ( online at google books ).
  8. ↑ Latest regional and ethnology: A geographical reader for all classes. Mecklenburg, Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape 22 . Published by the geographical institute, Weimar 1921, OCLC 900105572 , p. 383 ( online at google books ).
  9. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 217 ( online at google books ).
  10. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : The newest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states . Part 2nd volume 2 . Zimmermann, Naumburg 1845, OCLC 162810705 , p. 557 ( online at google books ).
  11. ^ Ph. AF Walther : The Grand Duchy of Hessen: according to history, country, people, state and locality . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1854, DNB  730150224 , OCLC 866461332 , p. 338 ( online at google books ).
  12. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 80 ( online at google books ).