Siegelhausen
Siegelhausen is a district of the city of Marbach am Neckar in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg .
geography
Siegelhausen, a small hamlet with about 30 inhabitants, is located about five kilometers southeast of the city center off the road between Affalterbach and Hochdorf in the valley of the Strombach, which is also known as the Apfelbach.
history
Siegelhausen came into the light of history in 1225 when the place was first mentioned on the occasion of a church trial for the patronage rights of the Bittenfeld chapel. The name of the place occurs at this time as Siglerhusen or Sigelarhusin . The name is of Celtic origin and can either denote the residence of a Sego or the residence on a body of water. The place was on Ochsengasse , which possibly existed in pre-Roman times, then formed one of the paths to the Murrhardt fort in Roman times and was later an important trade route between the Swabian Forest and the Neckarland until the 19th century. The path that crosses its mark to the north of the village was removed during the land consolidation in 1910.
In 1230, Count Berthold von Beilstein and his wife, née von Bonfeld, gave the Backnang monastery an estate and the right of patronage in Siegelhausen. In 1243, the monastery also received the rest of the property on site through a gift from Friedrich von Bonfeld and was then the sole owner of Siegelhausen. The monastery had the property administered as a fief by two Meier.
Siegelhausen already owned a church when it was first mentioned (the Martinskirche), whose parish in 1458 also included Schwaikheim and Bittenfeld . In 1468, however, the parish was relocated to Bittenfeld, where the place belongs to this day in church and school terms. After 1592 the Siegelhausen Church no longer existed and the place remained a small, agricultural hamlet.
After the Abbey of Backnang was dissolved during the Reformation, ownership of the site came to Württemberg. Then Siegelhausen belonged to the Oberamt Backnang as an independent municipality from 1806 . In 1810 Siegelhausen was assigned to the Oberamt Marbach . The two farms in the village came to the previous tenants as inheritance.
In 1822, the Württemberg government issued a request to the hamlets to join the closest communities in the respective Oberamt. For Siegelhausen this was Affalterbach, since Bittenfeld and Hochdorf belonged to the Waiblingen Oberamt. Siegelhausen wanted to keep his church and school ties to the nearby Bittenfeld, which would have been called into question by incorporation into Affalterbach. Therefore Siegelhausen tried to be incorporated into Marbach, which, however, had no common border with Siegelhausen. The incorporation to Marbach took place in 1828 and Siegelhausen left its ties to Bittenfeld.
In the course of the replacement of the tithe in the 19th century, the leaseholders became the owners of the former feudal farms and the arable and forest areas. As a sub-community of Marbach, Siegelhausen was administered by a mayor (from 1822 called “local chief” or “lawyer”) who was elected from among the few residents. The mayor had their position mostly for life and resigned at most for reasons of age. Among them, Johann Georg Rath (1847–1922) stands out, who held the office from 1873 for 45 years and was awarded several medals for his services. He took care of the family and local history and also wrote poems. During his tenure, Siegelhausen received its own fire brigade syringe in 1896, and a little later also a syringe house. In 1913 it was connected to the electricity supply.
In 1935 the place became a district of Marbach, whereby a separate mayor for Siegelhausen was omitted. For the shop steward between the citizens and the city administration, however, the term “lawyer” has been retained. In the second half of the 20th century, the farmer Rudolf Häußermann held this office for several decades from 1953.
In 1944, explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped over the place and caused property damage.
In 1963 it was connected to the Affalterbach water supply. Anniversaries celebrations for the 150th and 175th anniversary of the incorporation were held in 1978 and 2003.
literature
- Eugen Munz and Hans Besch: Siegelhausen. Past - Present (Writings on Marbach City History 5), Marbach 1988
- Albrecht Gühring u. a .: History of the City of Marbach am Neckar Vol. 1 (until 1871) , Marbach am Neckar, 2002, ISBN 3-89735-189-7 .
- Hermann Schick: History of the city of Marbach am Neckar Vol. 2 (1871-1959). Marbach am Neckar, 1992.
- Albrecht Gühring: Marbach am Neckar. A guide through the Schillerstadt and its districts , Marbach am Neckar, 2nd edition, 2004, ISBN 3-923107-13-7 .
- Ulrich Hartmann (Ed.): The Ludwigsburg district . 2nd edition, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1055-1 .
- Jörg Heinrich: Church book Bittenfeld 1558 to 1712, copy with additions. Karlsruhe, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86805-352-4 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ' N , 9 ° 19' E