Volkartshain

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Volkartshain
Municipality Grebenhain
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 47 ″  E
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
Photo-request.svg
Image wanted BW

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

Hundsbachbrücke in the Kinzig floodplain north of Volkartshain

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
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):

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

Wind turbines in the Vogelsberg wind farm near Grebenhain, in the background three older turbines in the neighboring Volkartshain wind farm (2013)

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Volkartshain, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 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. ↑ Schmidt, p. 108, note 36 and p. 25, note 81, as well as the enclosed map.
  4. ^ Schmidt, p. 25, note 81.
  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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 368 .
  6. ↑ Erlensee-Aktuell: Mohawk crash in Volkartshain
  7. ↑ Gerhard Mauz: "Then we'll have an excavator come ..." In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1988, p. 75-77 ( online - Jan. 4, 1988 ).
  8. ^ 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 ]).