Volkartshain
Volkartshain
Municipality Grebenhain
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 49 ″ N , 9 ° 16 ′ 47 ″ E
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Height : | 489 m |
Area : | 3.98 km² |
Residents : | 136 (December 31, 2016) |
Population density : | 34 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | December 31, 1971 |
Postal code : | 36355 |
Area code : | 06668 |
Volkartshain is a district of the Grebenhain community in the Vogelsberg district in Central Hesse .
geography
Volkartshain is the southernmost part of the large community Grebenhain and is located on the edge of the Hohen Vogelsberg , around 4 km south of the Herchenhainer Höhe .
history
middle Ages
The oldest known written mention of the place comes from the year 1385, as Folkartshen . In the Middle Ages and early modern times, the village belonged to the Ortenberg Office , a condominium that was formed by three rulers from among the members of the Wetterau Counts' Association .
Early modern age
Since all three gentlemen of the condominate turned to the Reformation , Volkartshain also became Lutheran .
Volkartshain is one of the areas in which the Solms land law of 1571 was accepted under customary law , but only partially . This applied in particular to the areas of guardianship law , inheritance and matrimonial property law . Moreover, the applied Common Law . It was not until January 1, 1900, when the Civil Code , which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was suspended .
In 1601 there was a real division of the condominium, whereby Volkartshain was added to the rule Gedern of the Counts of Stolberg-Gedern .
Modern times
In 1806 the county of Stolberg - and with it Volkartshain - fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Here Volkartshain belonged to the civil office of Gedern . In 1821 the Grand Duchy formed the district of Nidda , to which Volkartshain was also assigned, and which was called Kreis Nidda from 1832 . With the revolution of 1848 the administrative district of Nidda was briefly formed, but in 1852 the district of Nidda was revived. In 1874 the village came to the Schotten district , 1938 to the Lauterbach district , and in 1972 to the Vogelsberg district . With the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971, Volkartshain became a part of the newly formed Grebenhain community.
During the Second World War , British fighter jets dropped several high-explosive bombs over Volkartshain on the night of August 3rd to 4th, 1941, destroying a farmhouse and killing two people.
On December 7, 1966, the site narrowly escaped disaster when an American Grumman OV-1 reconnaissance aircraft crashed into the nearby forest while burning. The pilot had previously succeeded in pulling the machine up again via Volkartshain before leaving it - like his copilot before - by operating the ejector seat. Both crew members were made honorary citizens of the Volkartshain community in the same year .
Volkartshain hit the national headlines because of a triple murder in February 1985, which has not yet been resolved.
Territorial reform
The current municipality of Grebenhain was established as part of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971 through the formally voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Bannerod, Bermuthshain, Crainfeld, Grebenhain (with Oberwald), Hartmannshain, Herchenhain, Ilbeshausen (with Hochwaldhausen), Metzlos, Nösberts-Weidmoos, Vaitshain and Volkartshain. Local councils with a local mayor have been formed for all formerly independent communities .
Population development
Source: Historical local dictionary
- 1961: 174 Protestant (= 90.16%), 19 Catholic (= 9.84%) residents
Volkartshain: Population from 1834 to 1970 | ||||
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year | Residents | |||
1834 | 265 | |||
1840 | 261 | |||
1846 | 266 | |||
1852 | 251 | |||
1858 | 240 | |||
1864 | 216 | |||
1871 | 199 | |||
1875 | 187 | |||
1885 | 187 | |||
1895 | 194 | |||
1905 | 200 | |||
1910 | 182 | |||
1925 | 197 | |||
1939 | 179 | |||
1946 | 230 | |||
1950 | 226 | |||
1956 | 180 | |||
1961 | 193 | |||
1967 | 193 | |||
1970 | 189 | |||
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources: |
religion
Volkartshain originally belonged to the Lutheran parish of Gedern, which had been Lutheran since 1537 . At the end of the 16th century, their subsidiary community of Ober-Seemen was raised to an independent parish, which included Ober-Seemen as well as Mittel-Seemen , Nieder-Seemen and Volkartshain. Since 1724 the parish has only consisted of Ober-Seemen and Volkartshain, after Mittel-Seemen was separated as a separate parish. At the beginning of the 19th century, the former Stolberg tithe barn was converted into a church.
politics
The mayor of Volkartshain is Jürgen Sill (as of 2016) .
societies
The following clubs and associations exist in Volkartshain today (year of foundation in brackets):
- Volunteer Fire Brigade Volkartshain (1936)
- Culture and Sports Club Volkartshain-Völzberg (1952)
Cultural monuments
See: List of cultural monuments in Volkartshain
Economy and Infrastructure
The originally agricultural village of Volkartshain has developed almost entirely into a commuter residence since the 1950s, due to the structural change in agriculture . There is also a restaurant, a taxi company and a small IT service company on site .
Wind farm
In the northern part of the district there is a wind park with a total of six wind turbines , three of which were built north-east of the town and in the area of the state road . The oldest part of the wind farm consists of the three AN Bonus 600/41 turbines with a nominal output of 600 kW each north-east of Volkartshain, which were commissioned in November 1995 and are therefore also the oldest wind turbines in the area of the larger municipality of Grebenhain (after the repowering of the neighboring Hartmannshain wind farm ). The Vestas V44-600kW (two units) and Enercon E-40 / 5.40, each with an output of 600 and 500 kW , were installed near the main road . The operator of the wind farm is a local company.
traffic
State road 3010 runs through the village . It connects Volkartshain with the federal road 276 , which passes around 1 km north of the town, and with Ober-Seemen.
literature
- Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893.
Web links
- Volkartshain district. In: Website of the Grebenhain community.
- Volkartshain, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Volkartshain, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b Information on the districts. In: Website of the municipality of Grebenhain. Retrieved January 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Schmidt, p. 108, note 36 and p. 25, note 81, as well as the enclosed map.
- ^ Schmidt, p. 25, note 81.
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Erlensee-Aktuell: Mohawk crash in Volkartshain
- ↑ Gerhard Mauz: "Then we'll have an excavator come ..." In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1988, p. 75-77 ( online - Jan. 4, 1988 ).
- ^ Hesse municipal area reform; Amalgamation and integration of municipalities of December 29, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 3 , p. 89 , point 94, para. 30 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).