Weckesheim

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Weckesheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 50 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 130  (128-136)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.25 km²
Residents : 1042  (Dec. 30, 2018)
Population density : 245 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 61203
Area code : 06035
Former coal train from the lignite mine

Weckesheim is a district of Reichelsheim in the Wetterau district in southern Hesse .

geography

location

Weckesheim is located in the Wetterau, 2 kilometers west of the capital, Reichelsheim, between Frankfurt am Main and Gießen , in the heart of the "Goldenen Wetterau" (about 30 kilometers from Frankfurt ). In the south , Weckesheim borders the Reichelsheimer Bergwerkssee.

Neighboring places

Weckesheim borders in the northeast on Gettenau , a district of Echzell , in the east on the small town Reichelsheim, into which the village is incorporated. In the south there is Dorn Assenheim , in West Beienheim and Northwest Melbach which the community Wölfersheim counts.

nature

Weckesheim is surrounded by arable land . In the northeast is the nature reserve between Weckesheim and Gettenau with the two lakes Teufelsee and Pfaffensee. In the south of the is the mining lake.

history

prehistory

Graves from the Iron Age (approx. 900 BC) indicate that the area around Weckesheim was briefly inhabited as early as the Iron Age. Since there are no further finds from the next few centuries, researchers assume that the settlement will not be permanent.

After the wars between Chatti and Romans around 10 AD, some Romans stayed in the Golden Wetterau . Finds in Echzell indicate this. When the Romans from the Limes areas withdrew who took Alemanni the area owned and emigrated probably one from the north. At the beginning of 2012, during excavations in Reichelsheim, fragments , bones and Roman and Alemannic ceramics were found. Smaller depressions were identified as post holes. They indicate houses and barns. The largest and most spectacular find was the skeleton of a horse. Except for damage to the head, which was probably caused by a plow, the skeleton was almost completely preserved. The horse was neatly laid down, the hole deliberately dug for the animal. Another very special find was a Roman coin , barely an inch tall, with embossing on both sides.

middle Ages

The Middle Ages shaped Weckesheim especially in the vicinity of Lindenplatz. There are many half-timbered houses there.

First mention

The establishment of the settlement goes back to Franconian times . The place is mentioned for the first time as Weckesheim in the Codex Eberhardi , but this document is undated, research assigns it to the period around 1090 to 1150. The copy of the monk Eberhard was created in the Fulda monastery around 1160. The village was also called "Weggoheim" by the Franks . "Weggo" comes from the shepherd. It is therefore assumed that Weckesheim must have been a sheep farm in the beginning .

To 1255 Weckesheim was owned by the Lords of Münzenberg and fell extinction of this line handed down to the Lords of Falkenstein . On March 22, 1270 the place is mentioned as Wekesheim . The document reads: "Philippus et Werherus, fratres juniores de Valkenstein, nobiles, ... bonis nostris in Wekensheim ... duos mansos et tria jugeria cum ..., Frideberto Juveni, civi Fridebergensis" Translation: The brothers Philipp der Younger and Werner the Younger from Falkenstein , noblemen, enfeoff Fridebert Jung, citizen in Friedberg , 2 Hufen or Mansen and a few yokes in Weckesheim.

From 1419 the village went to the Counts of Solms , in whose possession it remained until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, when it then fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Modern times

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 landlords and thus the "Patrimonial Court of the Princes Solms-Braunfels" in Wölfersheim was responsible for Weckesheim from 1806. 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 second instance for the patrimonial courts were the civil law firms. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance 1821–1822 were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. From 1822, the princes of Solms-Braunfels let the Grand Duchy of Hesse exercise their court rights on their behalf. “ Landgericht Hungen ” was therefore the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Weckesheim. The prince also waived his right to the second instance, which was exercised by the law firm in Hungen, in 1823. It was only as a result of the March Revolution in 1848 that the special rights of the civil servants were granted with the “Law on the Relationships of Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848 permanently repealed.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to "Hungen Local Court" and allocation to the district of the regional court of Giessen . At the same time, Weckesheim came to the Friedberg district court . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are the Regional Court of Giessen , the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

Mining

When lignite deposits were discovered in the Horloffgraben at the beginning of the 19th century, Grand Duke Ludwig I of Hessen-Darmstadt issued an ordinance according to which lignite should be extracted for heating purposes. In 1842 the first lignite mine was put into operation in Weckesheim . The lignite was mined underground and brought to the surface using winches . Here it was formed into square blocks, dried on scaffolding and sold as fuel to the local population. With the start of mining in Weckesheim, the social structures of the village changed . For centuries characterized exclusively by agriculture , the community now came under the influence of the numerous miners . The mining, which influenced the life of the village Weckesheim for almost 150 years, came to an end with the coaling of the Wetterau lignite deposits in 1991.

First and Second World War

Weckesheim did not play a major role in the two world wars . Weckesheim was largely spared from the hostilities of World War II . There were more important tactical targets than the small agricultural village in the Wetterau. The invading Allied troops also mostly moved east and west past Weckesheim. It is said that at the beginning of the 1930s the nationalist forces in the surrounding communities had a large following; the Weckesheimers, however, drove the Nazis out of their village. Even after the Second World War, people occasionally spoke of the “red Weckesheim”.

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the community Weckesheim was in the town Reichelsheim in the Wetterau powerful state law on August 1, 1972 incorporated .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 730 Protestant (= 80.13%), 176 Catholic (= 19.32%) inhabitants
Weckesheim: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 287
1840
  
 340
1846
  
 399
1852
  
 397
1858
  
 396
1864
  
 399
1871
  
 407
1875
  
 388
1885
  
 383
1895
  
 368
1905
  
 362
1910
  
 392
1925
  
 431
1939
  
 603
1946
  
 899
1950
  
 931
1956
  
 902
1961
  
 911
1967
  
 971
1970
  
 957
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

religion

Evangelical parish

The evangelical-reformed parish has a church whose choir is dated to the 13th century. Later the nave with a gallery and organ gallery was added.

Weckesheim used to be a branch church of the Melbach parish, became a branch of Wölfersheim with the introduction of the Reformed denomination and is today connected with Beienheim through the parish .

Catholic parish

Weckesheim belongs together with Reichelsheim, Dorn-Assenheim and Bauernheim to the parish of St. Maria Magdalena Dorn-Assenheim. Together with Florstadt and Wickstadt they form a parish group. Markus Stabel has been the pastor of the parish group since December 1st, 2011 . The service mainly takes place in Florstadt, Dorn-Assenheim and Assenheim .

Attractions

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Weckesheim stop is on the Beienheim – Schotten railway line and until 2016 had a narrow house platform. The station has a typical rural station building that was used for a long time by the Reichelsheim branch of the German Red Cross and is now privately owned. In 2016 the stop was modernized and rebuilt approx. 200 meters further west. Weckesheim is divided by state road 3186 . Local public transport is ensured by bus routes 5155 and 210. The bus stops are located on Reichelsheimer Straße at the level of the former train station building and on Borngasse.

Public facilities

The village has the Flohkiste kindergarten and a mining museum in the Weckesheim community center. In the north is the cemetery .

Fire brigade and German Red Cross

The Weckesheim volunteer fire brigade is housed on Schulstrasse in a fire station that was inaugurated in 2005 . The fire brigade are two vehicle boxes are available, which with a fire-fighting vehicle 10 civil protection (LF10-KatS), a team transport vehicle are equipped (MTF), and a tube trailer.

The Reichelsheim branch of the German Red Cross has been housed in the former fire station on Lustgartenstrasse since 2005 . The DRK team provides 3 rescue vehicles in the disaster control of the state of Hesse , a transport troop in the 3rd medical train and a support group in the 1st care train.

Web links

Commons : Weckesheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  17. ↑ Welcome - Parish St. Maria Magdalena - Dorn-Assenheim. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
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