Weichersbach

Weichersbach community Sinntal Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 43 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 14" E
Height :	282 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.99 km²
Residents :	834 (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	64 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	36391
Area code :	06664
	View from Schwarzenfels Castle into the Sinntal with the town of Weichersbach and the south portal of the Landrückentunnel

Weichersbach is a district of the Sinntal community in the Main-Kinzig district in East Hesse .

Geographical location

Weichersbach lies at an altitude of 283 m above sea level. NN , about 11 km southeast of Schlüchtern . The Schmale Sinn flows through the place .

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving written mention of Weichersbach comes from the year 1311. The place belonged to the Altengronau court , which came to the Hanau rulership in 1333 as an imperial loan from an inheritance from the Rieneck family. The Schwarzenfels Office of the County of Hanau emerged from the court in the 15th century ; from 1459: County of Hanau-Münzenberg . In 1545 the name Hans Lange called Binmoler, Müller zu Weichersbach, and his wife Jela, who ran the Hanauische Mühle zu Weichersbach for an annual fee of 3 guilders and 9 shillings of Frankfurt currency, are mentioned. See also main article: Biemühle

Historical forms of names

In surviving documents, Weichersbach was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

Wichenspach (1311)
Wychelsbach (1323)
Wichersbach (1346)
Weichersbach (1360)

Modern times

The County of Hanau-Münzenberg initially joined the Lutheran denomination during the Reformation , and was reformed from 1597 . Ecclesiastically, the village belonged to the parish of Mottgers .

In 1643 the Schwarzenfels office - and thus also Weichersbach - was handed over to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as a pledge along with other securities . It was supposed to vouch for Hanau's debts that arose in connection with the liberation of the city of Hanau from the siege by imperial troops in 1636 against Hessen-Kassel. Hanau was no longer able to redeem this pledge from Hessen-Kassel. The office was administered like landgrave property in the following period. Even after Hessen-Kassel in 1736, after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , which inherited the county of Hanau-Munzenberg, it was not reunited with it. In the 18th century, the legendary snake beech was located nearby .

In 1803 the Landgraviate became the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, Weichersbach was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807 to 1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Hanau Department . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, through which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, Weichersbach belonged to the district of Schlüchtern . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War .

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Sinntal was formed on July 1, 1972 through the voluntary merger of the previously independent municipalities of Mottgers, Schwarzenfels and Weichersbach. For Weichersbach a one for the other districts was local district with the town council and mayor formed.

Mills

In the northern part of the village there was the Biemühle , which drew its water through a ditch derived from the Schmalen Sinn , and in the upper village there was the hammer mill on a small brook coming from the Neureuth .

population

Population development

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1549:	31 households and the Zentgraf
• 1587:	25 riflemen and 12 philistines
• 1812:	81 fireplaces, 703 souls

Weichersbach: Population from 1812 to 2017
year		Residents
1812	703
1834	945
1840	929
1846	931
1852	925
1858	863
1864	829
1871	789
1875	731
1885	760
1895	720
1905	703
1910	756
1925	720
1939	749
1946	1,042
1950	1,013
1956	818
1961	818
1967	854
1970	846
1979	872
1990	909
1995	901
2000	869
2005	856
2010	844
2015	838
2017	824
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Further sources:; after 1970: Sinntal community

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885:	755 Protestant (= 99.34%), 5 Catholic (= 0.66%) residents
• 1961:	792 Protestant (= 96.82%), 26 Catholic (= 3.18%) residents

Infrastructure

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in Weichersbach .

literature

Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 40. Hanau 2003, p. 424 f.
Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 14, 1926, p. 489.
Literature on Weichersbach in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

District of Weichersbach on the website of the Sinntal community.
Weichersbach, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Inhabitants, dates and directions. In: Internet presence. Sinntal community, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2018 . (Data from web archive).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Weichersbach, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , item 851; 2. Para. 1. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 376 .
↑ main statute. (PDF; 529 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Sinntal community, accessed February 2019 .
↑ Budget statute for the 2019 budget (PDF; 2.8 MB) Statistical information. Sinntal community, p. 41 , archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .

[DF-1] Inhabitants, dates and directions. In: Internet presence. Sinntal community, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2018 . (Data from web archive).

[lagis-2] Weichersbach, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[3] Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , item 851; 2. Para. 1. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).

[4] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 376 .

[5] main statute. (PDF; 529 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Sinntal community, accessed February 2019 .

[HH2019-6] Budget statute for the 2019 budget (PDF; 2.8 MB) Statistical information. Sinntal community, p. 41 , archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .