Vockenrod

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Vockenrod
Antrifttal municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 34 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 239 m
Area : 2.9 km²
Residents : 277  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 96 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36326
Area code : 06631

Vockenrod is a district of the municipality of Antrifttal in the Vogelsberg district in Central Hesse .

history

Middle Ages and early modern times

Vockenrod was probably founded in the 12th century together with the Hermannshain hereditary farm. The oldest surviving written mention dates from 1263.

In 1283 it was part of the goat grove court Katzenberg with its seat in Ruhlkirchen . At the end of the 14th century, Vockenrod and Hermannshain were destroyed in a dispute between the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Archdiocese of Mainz and only settled again after more than 100 years. As part of the Katzenberg court, the village was subordinate to various lords, the Teutonic Order , Hans von Dörnberg , the Landgrave of Hesse and the Archdiocese of Mainz .

The Peasant Wars and the Thirty Years' War brought not only robbery, looting, rape and abuse but also manifold destruction. In 1580, the community had twenty houses, but in 1630 only twelve.

Modern times

At the beginning of the 19th century, the village with the entire court of Katzenberg passed from Kurmainzer property to Kurhessen as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . With the peace treaty between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse on September 3, 1866, following the war of 1866 , the villages of the "Katzenberg District" fell to the Grand Duchy. In Vockenrod, Hessian law was valid at that time. This retained its validity even while it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1866. On January 1, 1900, it was replaced by the civil code that was uniformly applicable throughout the German Empire .

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the five municipalities of Bernsburg, Ohmes, Ruhlkirchen, Seibelsdorf and Vockenrod merged on December 31, 1971 to form the new large municipality of Antrifttal.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 4 Protestant (= 1.41%), 279 Catholic (= 98.24%) residents
Vockenrod: Population from 1834 to 2014
year     Residents
1834
  
 245
1840
  
 247
1846
  
 287
1852
  
 279
1858
  
 280
1864
  
 233
1871
  
 273
1875
  
 269
1885
  
 258
1895
  
 266
1905
  
 254
1910
  
 282
1925
  
 252
1939
  
 267
1946
  
 416
1950
  
 392
1956
  
 311
1961
  
 284
1967
  
 296
1970
  
 313
2008
  
 334
2011
  
 328
2014
  
 297
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

church

Church in Vockenrod

Today's church was only built in 1908 under the direction of the Mainz architect Greifzu (mostly by the citizens themselves) and consecrated to the "Most Holy Virgin Mary" and St. Boniface as a secondary patron. It cost 40,568 marks. Inside, it has Art Nouveau elements and a remarkable altar, including depictions from the life of St. Boniface.

literature

  • Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Vockenrod, Vogelsberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Numbers - data - facts. In: Internet presence. Municipality of Antrifttal, archived from the original ; accessed on June 20, 2018 . (Data from web archive)
  3. ↑ Schmidt, p. 45.
  4. ^ Schmidt, pp. 104, 46 and accompanying map.
  5. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 347 .