Vaitshain

Vaitshain Municipality Grebenhain Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 56 ″  N , 9 ° 21 ′ 28 ″  E
Height :	430 m above sea level NN
Area :	2.62 km²
Residents :	87  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	33 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Postal code :	36355
Area code :	06644

Vaitshain is a district of the Grebenhain community in the Vogelsberg district in Central Hesse .

geography

Vaitshain is located in the southeastern Vogelsberg at an altitude of 430  m above sea level. NN . The Schwarza flows east of the village and rises about 5 km away near the Herchenhainer Höhe and flows into the Lüder between Zahmen and Blankenau .

history

Location of Veitshain ( Veitshaim ) on a map of the Fulda Monastery from 1574

middle Ages

Vaitshain was probably created around 1000 in connection with the increasing clearing and land development in the Vogelsberg area during the high Middle Ages . The place Fogetdeshagen is listed in a deed of gift from the Fulda Vogts Gerhard and his wife Hacecha about their goods to the Fulda Monastery . This document is said to have been made around 1076, but only one copy in the Codex Eberhardi from the 12th century is preserved and therefore possibly one of the forgeries or falsifications of the Fulda monk Eberhard.

On November 23, 1338, a document was issued about the pledge of Foytishein by Werner von Blankenwald to the brothers Johann and Heinrich von Eisenbach. It is the oldest unequivocal mention of Vaitshain and was also used as the basis for the 675th anniversary of the place in July 2013. By pledging in 1338 Vaitshain came into the hands of the lords of Eisenbach and, after their extinction in the male line in 1428, to the barons of Riedesel .

Early modern age

Until the end of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and mediatization in 1806, Vaitshain was part of the empire-free rule of Riedesel and belonged to the Schlechtenwegen court (court seat from 1680 in Altenschlirf ). The small village was always on a special border with the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which surrounded it on three sides. A distinctive and always controversial border point was the Vaitshainer Mühlwehr, first mentioned in 1480 , at the intersection of the districts of Vaitshain and its two neighboring towns in Hesse, Crainfeld and Grebenhain . The associated mill was in operation until 1814. In 1542 the Hessian-Riedesel border was re-regulated and stoned .

In two interest registers of the Schlechtenwegen court from the years 1537 and 1543, the names of 13 and 22 head of households, respectively, are named. This is the first of a large number of Vaitshainer family names to be mentioned.

The children from Vaitshain first attended the school established in the parish of Nieder-Moos in 1540 , before the village received its own school teacher in 1747.

During the Seven Years' War in 1759, between Vaitshain and Crainfeld, there was a minor battle between French hussars and soldiers from Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel's army .

In Vaitshain, the Riedesel'schen ordinances from the 18th century were considered particular law . The Common Law applied only to the extent those regulations did not contain provisions. Theoretically, this special right retained its validity even while it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century, but only individual provisions were used in judicial practice. The particular law was replaced on January 1, 1900 by the civil code that was uniformly valid throughout the German Empire .

Modern times

After being incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, Vaitshain initially belonged to the Altenschlirf office. After the new Hessian municipal and district regulations came into force in 1821, Vaitshain was incorporated into the Herbstein District (from 1825 Lauterbach District). In 1848 the village became part of the short-lived Alsfeld administrative district and after its dissolution in 1852 it became part of the Lauterbach district .

From 1821 to 1908 the municipality of Vaitshain formed a mayors' association together with the neighboring municipality of Bannerod , to which the northern municipalities of Nösberts and Weidmoos also belonged from 1887 .

Between 1831 and 1857 the state road (identical to today's Bundesstraße 275 ) was built between Lauterbach and Gedern, which also ran through Vaitshain. The Vogelsbergbahn , which opened in 1901 between Lauterbach and Grebenhain, ran through the Vaitshain district, but the village did not have its own stop on the route. In 1910 a new school building was built. In 1921 it was connected to the power grid of the Oberhessen overland plant .

The Vaitshainer School was initially closed in 1939 due to insufficient student numbers and the children started school in Grebenhain. In 1947, however, the school reopened after the population of Vaitshain had increased significantly due to the admission of numerous displaced persons . In 1965 the one-class elementary school was finally closed as a result of the school reform in Hesse in favor of the new central school ( Oberwaldschule ) in Grebenhain. The schoolhouse was then converted into a village community center.

Vaitshain in the large municipality of Grebenhain

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Vaitshain merged with ten neighboring municipalities on December 31, 1971 to form the newly formed larger municipality of Grebenhain.

In 1975, after the previous construction of a local sewer system, a joint sewage treatment plant for Grebenhain and Vaitshain was put into operation, which was expanded in 1986.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: 113 Protestant (= 100.00%) residents

Vaitshain: Population from 1834 to 1970
year				Residents
1834			136
1840			125
1846			136
1852			111
1858			114
1864			115
1871			101
1875			108
1885			109
1895			108
1905			134
1910			119
1925			124
1939			116
1946			186
1950			163
1956			132
1961			113
1967			117
1970			110
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources:

religion

Vaitshain belonged from 1011 to 1524 and has belonged again to the parish in neighboring Crainfeld since 1920, after an interruption of almost four hundred years. In 1524, however, the parish villages in the area of ​​Riedesel zu Eisenbach were separated from the mother church in Hesse and elevated to the status of an independent parish of Nieder-Moos. In 1528 the Reformation was introduced in the newly founded parish, after which Vaitshain remained purely Protestant until 1945. At the request of the filial community , Vaitshain was separated from the Nieder-Moos parish in 1920 and re-incorporated into Crainfeld. Due to the long and arduous walk to the mother church in Nieder-Moos, most of the local residents almost exclusively attended church services in Crainfeld long before.

politics

The mayor of Vaitshain is Wolfgang Hardt (as of 2016) .

Culture and sights

societies

The following clubs and associations exist in Vaitshain today (year of foundation in brackets):

• Vaitshain Volunteer Fire Brigade (1933)
• Culture and Village Association Vaitshain (2012)

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Vaitshain .

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

The originally agricultural village changed from the beginning of the 1970s to a pure commuter residence , which is characterized by the proximity to the core district of Grebenhain.

traffic

The federal highway 275 runs through Vaitshain . In 2000, the Vulkanradweg was opened on the route of the former Vogelsbergbahn , which is part of the Hesse Railway Cycle Route .

Web links

• District Vaitshain. In: Website of the Grebenhain community.
• Vaitshain, Vogelsberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Vaitshain, Vogelsberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Information on the districts. In: Website of the municipality of Grebenhain. Retrieved January 21, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 29, note 92 and p. 103, note 14.
4. ^ 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. 368 .