Waschenbach

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Waschenbach
municipality Mühltal
Waschenbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 15 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 209 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.16 km²
Residents : 615  (June 30, 2018)
Population density : 285 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Incorporated into: Nieder-Ramstadt
Postal code : 64367
Area code : 06154
View of Waschenbach (2015)
View of Waschenbach (2015)

Waschenbach is the smallest part of the community Mühltal in the southern Hessian district of Darmstadt-Dieburg .

geography

Waschenbach is surrounded by wooded ridges, in the Vorderen Odenwald in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Geo-Nature Park in the granite area. There are no main thoroughfares through the village.

history

Waschenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1340.
In the 14th century, Waschenbach was owned by the County of Katzenelnbogen and in the 15th century, it changed hands to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt .
A reference from 1403 to a mill probably means the Waschenbacher mill.
Historical documents have come down to us: In
1383, the noble servant Johann Bach von Waschenbach received goods from Count Wilhelm von Katzenelnbogen to Waschenbach as a fief .
In 1489, Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen enfeoffed Philipp von Rohrbach with Waschenbach.
In 1571 Waschenbach belongs to the Junkers Mosbach and Kalb, the Landgrave has the cents and high authority , command and ban.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Waschenbach in 1829:

»Waschenbach (L. Bez. Reinheim) Lutheran Filialdorf; is 2 1 ⁄ 2  St. from Reinheim, has 37 houses and 251 inhabitants, who are Lutheran except for 6 Catholics, and among them are 18 farmers, 16 tradesmen and 14 day laborers. The Kalben von Reinheim and the Mosbach von Lindenfels had a dish here that later came to Hesse. A noble family named Bach von Waschenbach named themselves after this village. "

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Waschenbach voluntarily merged with Nieder-Ramstadt on April 1, 1972 . According to state law, the place came to the municipality of Mühltal on January 1st, 1977 together with Nieder-Ramstadt. For Waschenbach, as for the rest of the formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was formed according to the Hessian municipal code. The seat of the municipal administration was Nieder-Ramstadt.

Historical forms of names

In the historical documents the place is documented under changing place names over the centuries (in brackets the year of mention):

  • Wassenbach (1340)
  • Wassinbach (1352)
  • Wassenbach ; Wachsenbach ; Wassinbach (1st half of the 15th century)
  • Wassenbach (1457)
  • Waschenbach (1560)
  • Waschenbach (1669)

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Waschenbach was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

dishes

The competent jurisdiction of the first instance was:

Population development

• 1629: 019 house seats
• 1791: 143 inhabitants
• 1806: 155 inhabitants, 27 houses
• 1829: 251 inhabitants, 37 houses
• 1867: 255 inhabitants, 36 houses
Waschenbach: Population from 1791 to 2018
year     Residents
1791
  
 143
1806
  
 155
1829
  
 251
1834
  
 242
1840
  
 250
1846
  
 256
1852
  
 232
1858
  
 235
1864
  
 229
1871
  
 228
1875
  
 234
1885
  
 224
1895
  
 224
1905
  
 227
1910
  
 259
1925
  
 279
1939
  
 269
1946
  
 373
1950
  
 385
1956
  
 371
1961
  
 456
1967
  
 502
1970
  
 526
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 615
2013
  
 656
2016
  
 610
2018
  
 615
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 2013: Mühltal website (web archive); 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 245 Lutheran (= 97.61%) and 6 Catholic (= 2.39%) residents
• 1961: 374 Protestant (= 82.02%), 65 Catholic (= 14.25%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

For Waschenbach, there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Waschenbach) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of five members. Mayor is Michael Reiser.

coat of arms

DEU Waschenbach COA.svg

Blazon : "In blue, accompanied by a stylized, three-pointed crowned, red-tipped lion head and a gold, six-spoke mill wheel with 12 paddle blades, a silver oblique left-hand shaft."

The coat of arms of the municipality of Waschenbach in what was then the district of Darmstadt was approved by the Hessian Interior Minister on October 25, 1968 . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The lion's head refers to both the earlier Katzenellenbogige and the Hessian affiliation of Waschenbach, which continues to this day. The wave bar is a talking element and together with the mill wheel a reference to the importance of the Waschebacher mill.

Culture and sights

Buildings

See the list of cultural monuments in Waschenbach

  • Waschenbach (2015)

  • Panoramic view of Waschenbach (2016)

  • Waschenbach (top left) (2010)

Natural monuments

The geological natural monument " Billersteine " is located in the Waschenbach district . Another natural monument is the "Glockert Summit", a bird and forest protection wood.

Regular events

Web links

Commons : Waschenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mühltal in numbers: EWZ with NW. Mühltal community , accessed November 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Waschenbach, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 255 ( online at google books ).
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  5. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; 62 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Mühltal community, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  8. ↑ a b List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  9. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  120 ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  10. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 92 ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  12. ↑ Local Advisory Boards. In: Council and Citizen Information System. Mühltal community, accessed in August 2019 .
  13. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the municipality of Waschenbach, Darmstadt district, Darmstadt administrative district of October 25, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1968 No. 46 , p. 1696 , point 1317 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.7 MB ]).
  14. ↑ http://www.muehltal-odenwald.de/geschich/mu/wappen.html Coats of arms tell a story - The Mühltaler coat of arms, Waschenbach; on muehltal-odenwald.de (accessed January 1, 2020)
  15. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Friday, August 28, 2015, p. 17