Somborn (open court)

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Somborn
Community Freigericht
Coat of arms of the municipality of Somborn from 1967 and of the municipality of Freigericht from 1971
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 36 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 147 m
Residents : 6172  (Jul 30, 2019)
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 63579
Area code : 06055
Aerial view of the place
Aerial view of the place
View of Somborn
St. Anna Church illuminated by the morning sun

Somborn is the largest part of the municipality of Freigericht in the East Hessian Main-Kinzig district and the seat of the municipal administration.

Geographical location

Somborn is located in the Spessart am Hasselbach nature park at an altitude of 150 m above sea ​​level , 8.5 km southwest of Gelnhausen , directly on the border with Bavaria .

history

On June 19, 1930, a 40,000 year old mammoth tooth was found during construction work in the village .

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Somborn comes from the year 1025, when the nobleman Ruogger transferred possessions in Somborn to the Fulda monastery. The village was the capital of the Somborn court , which in turn was part of the Alzenau free court . This was directly imperial , but the empire pledged or forgave the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg , the lords of Eppstein and Kurmainz . In 1255 the Neuenberg monastery had a labor court, in 1482 a court court in Somborn.

The church of Somborn mentioned from 1184 was under the patronage of the apostles Peter and Paul . As early as 1184, the parish church belonged to the St. Peter and Alexander monastery in Aschaffenburg , to which it was incooperated in 1316. The right of patronage was also with the pen. The surrounding villages of Altenmittlau , Bernbach , Horbach , Neuses and Hüttelngesäß as well as Albstadt also belonged to the parish .

Place name

The spelling of the place name changed:

  • Sunnibrunno (1025)
  • Sonneborn (1030)
  • Sunneburnen (1270)
  • Suneborn (1332)
  • Sonborn (1634)

Early modern age

In 1500 the elector-archbishop of Mainz and the counts of Hanau-Münzenberg received the free court and thus also Somborn together as a fief . It was now ruled as a condominate . 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. Somborn remained a Roman Catholic .

In 1740, the condominium was dissolved in a real division with a contract, the " partification recess ". Somborn fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which had inherited the Counts of Hanau in 1736. The village has now been assigned to their office in Altenhaßlau .

Modern times

In 1803 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, the Altenhaßlau office was initially under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807–1810 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, by which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the office of Altenhaßlau became part of the newly formed Gelnhausen district . With the annexation of Kurhessen by the Kingdom of Prussia after the lost war of 1866 , Somborn also became Prussian.

Until the Second World War there was a small Jewish community in Somborn with its own synagogue . The synagogue building was saved on the night of the pogrom on November 9, 1938 by the intervention of the Somborn mayor, and it also survived the chaos of war. The building was later converted into a residential building.

In the local situation, fed by company ditches that branched off from the Haselbach, existed the Schreibersmühle (also Grimmsmühle) and the Kreisemühle (also Schillingsmühle). The last of the watermills was shut down in 1972.

For January 1, 1970 Somborn in the wake of was municipal reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis with other communities to the new community Freigericht together . At the same time, the Gelnhausen district became part of the Main-Kinzig district.

Population development

  • 1581: 0.073 households
  • 1753: 0.101 households and 5 Jews
  • 1895: 1,784 inhabitants
  • 1939: 2,718 inhabitants
  • 1961: 4,338 inhabitants
  • 1970: 5,081 inhabitants
  • 2012: 6,099 inhabitants

politics

Local advisory board

After the independent municipalities merged to form the municipality of Freigericht in 1970, the individual municipal councils were dissolved and replaced by local advisory boards. The local advisory boards in the individual districts are to be heard in all important decisions that affect the respective district and have the right to make suggestions. The members of the local councils elect a local mayor from among their number as the chairman of the local council . The local councils will be dissolved at the end of the municipal electoral period in 2021.

Parties and constituencies 2016 2011 2006 2001 1997
Seats Seats Seats Seats Seats
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 3 3 4th 5 4th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 3 2 2 3 3
FDP Free Democratic Party 0 0 1 0 0
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 0 2 0 0 0
UWG Independent voter community Freigericht 3 2 2 1 2
total 9 9 9 9 9

Mayor:

  • Ortwin Hackenberg SPD (1997-2001)
  • Emil Trageser, CDU (2001-2006)
  • Günther Roß, CDU (2006-2011)
  • Ottmar Trageser, SPD (2011)
  • Bernd Hofmann, UWG (2012–2021)

coat of arms

On July 12, 1967, the municipality of Somborn in what was then the district of Gelnhausen , administrative district of Wiesbaden , was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In silver, a straight-armed black paw cross, crossed with a blue key and a blue sword.

Meaning : The black cross on a silver background symbolizes the old relationship between the community and the diocese of Fulda. Key and sword are the symbols of Saints Peter and Paul, the two oldest patrons of the Somborn parish church. After the merger to form the municipality of Freigericht, the Somborn coat of arms became the coat of arms of the new municipality in 1971.

Infrastructure

Personalities

  • Adam Müller , called Millerche (1863–1932), native Hessian poet and humorist from the "Fröhlichen Freigerichter Runde", born in Somborn
  • Christian Schreiber (1872–1933), bishop born in Somborn
  • Gerhard Benzing (born March 22, 1932 in Somborn; † May 10, 2008 in Fulda), Roman Catholic pastor in St. Goar Flieden from 1973 to 2006, from 1988 to 2002 dean in the Neuhof dean's office, from 1975 president of the KAB in Flieden and from 2006 honorary citizen of the municipality of Flieden .
  • Martin Trageser (* 1943), politician (CDU)

literature

Web links

Commons : Somborn  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community registration
  2. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900-1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 212 .
  3. ^ Thea Altaras : Synagogues in Hessen - what has happened since 1945 . Königstein 1988, p. 172.
  4. ↑ Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 40. Hanau 2003, p. 316 f.
  5. ↑ Amalgamation of the municipalities Altenmittlau, Bernbach, Horbach, Neuses and Somborn in the district of Gelnhausen to form the new municipality "Freigericht" on December 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 1 , p. 5 , point 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Amendment of the main statutes - local advisory board deleted. Notice of the community, accessed on February 19, 2020
  7. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Somborn in the district of Gelnhausen, government district Wiesbaden dated July 12, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 31 , p. 933 , point 772 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.3 MB ]).
  8. ↑ Municipality of Freigericht: The coat of arms on the website of the municipality of Fraigericht. Accessed July 2018.