Watzenborn-Steinberg

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Watzenborn-Steinberg
City of Pohlheim
Watzenborn-Steinberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 37 ″  E
Height : 202  (174–236)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.91 km²
Residents : 8077  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 907 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35415
Area code : 06403

Watzenborn-Steinberg is the largest district of the city of Pohlheim in the central Hessian district of Gießen .

geography

location

Watzenborn-Steinberg is located on the Upper German Limes on the edge of the Wetterau in Central Hesse . The district is 6 km southeast of Giessen . The state roads 3129 and 3132 meet in the village. Since 1869 there has been a train station on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line ( Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn ).

Settlement sites

Settlements within the district were or are:

  • Dickmühle,
  • Neumühle,
  • Schiffenberger Mill,
  • Brickworks,
  • Erlebach desert ,
  • Deserted Koden,
  • Desert Konradsrode,
  • Pohlheim desert,
  • Desert Steinberg (Upper)

history

Girls in Watzenborn costume , 1901

Watzenborn was first mentioned in a document as one of five villages created by clearing in 1141. 1161 a baptistery is mentioned. Steinberg was first mentioned in a document in 1288. The first school dates from 1680. In 1765 the rectory was added.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Watzenborn and Steinberg in 1830:

"Watzenborn (L. Bez. Giessen) evangel. Parish village; is 1 1 / 4  St. Giessen, has 106 houses and 642 residents who are out of 1 Catholics and Jews 9 Protestant. You will find 1 church, 1 schoolhouse and 1 meal and oil mill. - The Countess Clementia von Gleiberg had a foundation for canons of the rule of the Heil. Augustins founded on the Schiffenberg. With a document the Countess decided that the six villages that were laid out on the new clearing should be parish off to Schiffenberg, and by a document from 1145 the Archbishop Albero assigned these six newly created villages to the church in Schiffenberg. These villages were: Steinbach , Wazemburne , Erlebach , Gariwarthseich , Lotthen , Vronebach , from which Steinbach, Watzenborn and Garbenteich still exist, but the others have started. The names of the Erlebacher and Fronbacher fields have still been preserved. Steinberg was undoubtedly created later, as it is parish after Watzenborn. Accordingly, Watzenborn was only created in the 12th century. "

Steinberg was merged with Watzenborn as early as the second half of the 16th century.

"Steinberg (L. Bez. Giessen) evangel. Branch village; is 1 St from Giessen, has 51 houses and 300 inhabitants who are Protestant apart from 2 Catholics and 11 Jews, like a grinding mill. - This village is probably of later origins than the village of Watzenborn, which emerged in the Wiesecker Wald in the 12th century, because it is parish in its church "

The Christ Church was built in 1955 , after which the Old Church became Catholic again. In 1972 Watzenborn-Steinberg got an indoor swimming pool.

From the 18th century until 1942 there was a Jewish community in the village, which from 1887 even had its own cemetery and from 1892 its own synagogue . In 1939 the place belonged to the district of Gießen and had 2690 inhabitants.

The municipality of Pohlheim was founded on December 31, 1970 as part of the regional reform in Hesse through the voluntary amalgamation of the municipalities of Dorf-Güll , Garbenteich , Grüningen , Hausen , Holzheim and Watzenborn-Steinberg. For Watzenborn-Steinberg, as for the other former municipalities of Pohlheim, a local district with a local advisory board and local chief was formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have been preserved, Watzenborn-Steinberg was mentioned under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Wazemburne , Wazenburnen (1141) [ bogus original or forgery XIII century Wyss, document book of the Deutschordens-Ballei 3 , no. 1331, 1333]
  • Vezetburnen (1278) [Document book of the Lords of Hanau 1, No. 566]
  • Watzenburnen , to (1353) [Document book of the Arnsburg monastery 3, no. 808]
  • Watzenburne , under (1376) [Wyss, document book of the Deutschordens-Ballei 3, no. 1147]

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or registry lords and thus the "Landamt Gießen" was responsible for Watzenborn-Steinberg. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. " Landgericht Gießen " was therefore the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Watzenborn-Steinberg from 1821 to 1879.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act on October 1, 1879, the previous regional and city courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse were repealed and replaced by local courts in the same place, as was the case with the higher courts, whose function was now taken over by the newly established regional courts. The districts of the city and regional court of Gießen were merged and now, together with the towns of Allertshausen and Climbach , which previously belonged to the district court of Grünberg, formed the district of the newly created district court of Gießen, which has since been part of the district of the newly established regional court of Gießen . Between January 1, 1977 and August 1, 1979, the court was called "District Court Lahn-Gießen", which was renamed "District Court Gießen" when the city of Lahn was dissolved. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances of the District Court of Gießen, the Regional Court of Gießen , the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main and the Federal Court of Justice are the last instance.

population

Population development

• 1502: 12 + 7 men
• 1577: 61 house seats
• 1630: 06 two-horse farm workers, 22 single horse farm workers, 18 single-horse workers  , 8 widows, 8 guardians
• 1669: 353 souls
• 1742: 05 clergymen / officials, 149 subjects, 51 young men, 2  inmates / Jews
• 1791: 622 inhabitants
• 1800: 421 (Steinberg 235) inhabitants
• 1806: 763 inhabitants, 138 houses
• 1829: 942 inhabitants, 157 houses
• 1867: 1247 inhabitants, 217 houses
Watzenborn-Steinberg: Population from 1791 to 2011
year     Residents
1791
  
 622
1800
  
 656
1806
  
 763
1829
  
 942
1834
  
 1.008
1840
  
 1,080
1846
  
 1,141
1852
  
 1,231
1858
  
 1,137
1864
  
 1,188
1871
  
 1,318
1875
  
 1,373
1885
  
 1,462
1895
  
 1,585
1905
  
 1,909
1910
  
 2,044
1925
  
 2.149
1939
  
 2,690
1946
  
 3,437
1950
  
 3,665
1956
  
 3,855
1961
  
 4,247
1967
  
 4,848
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 7.206
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1830: 632 Protestant, one Roman Catholic, 9 Jewish residents
• 1861: 284 Evangelical Lutheran and 2 Roman Catholic residents
• 1961: 3289 Protestant, 739 Roman Catholic residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1747: Labor force: 2 blacksmiths, 2 linen weavers, 1 wood turner, 1 shoe repairer, 2 day laborers.
• 1961: Labor force: 308 agriculture and forestry, 1028 prod. Trade, 373 trade, traffic and communication, 326 services and other.

politics

The coat of arms and the flag were approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on December 23, 1953.

coat of arms
Watzenborn-Steinberg coat of arms
 Blazon : “Shield divided diagonally to the left. Above in the silver field a black Teutonic Knights Cross, below in the blue field two silver notes (connected eighths) in the stave system. "

Watzenborn and the more recently incorporated Steinberg belonged to the original property of the Schiffenberg Monastery , which was incorporated into the Coming Marburg of the Teutonic Order in 1323 . Therefore, the order cross is in the municipal coat of arms. The music notes represent a unique idea in communal heraldry. They symbolize the joy of singing of the community population, which is expressed in the numerous well-known choral societies in the village.

flag

Flag description: "The coat of arms of the municipality of Watzenborn-Steinberg on the white central panel of the blue-white-blue flag cloth."

societies

The clubs Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg (soccer) and NSC Watzenborn-Steinberg (table tennis) are based in Watzenborn-Steinberg .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Watzenborn-Steinberg stop

The Watzenborn-Steinberg stop is on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line . The RB 46 Gießen – Hungen – Nidda – Gelnhausen runs.

literature

Web links

Commons : Watzenborn-Steinberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Watzenborn-Steinberg, Gießen district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers and dates. Population structure. (No longer available online.) In: Website. City of Pohlheim, archived from the original on April 16, 2019 ; accessed in April 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 310 ( online at google books ).
  4. ^ A b Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 274 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Amalgamation of communities to form the community "Pohlheim", district of Gießen on January 6, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 140 , point 165 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 307 .
  7. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 97 kB) § 6. In: Website. Municipality of Pohlheim, accessed August 2020 .
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  10. ↑ The affiliation of the Gießen office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hesse : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  11. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  172 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 6 ( online at google books ).
  13. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  220 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 413 ( online at Google Books ).
  15. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  16. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  181 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  17. ^ 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 ).
  18. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  19. ↑ a b c Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the municipality of Watzenborn-Steinberg in the district of Gießen, administrative district of Darmstadt from December 23, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1954 No. 2 , p. 14 , point 16 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.8 MB ]).
  20. ^ Klemens Stadler : The municipal coat of arms of the state of Hesse . New edition of the collection of German local coats of arms by Prof. Otto Hupp on behalf of HAG Aktiengesellschaft in Bremen, edited by Dr. Klemens Stadler, drawings by Max Reinhart (=  German coat of arms - Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 3 ). Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 91 .
  21. ↑ Student numbers at ARS rise to over 800 , Gießener Anzeiger from March 31, 2010, accessed on June 29, 2010