Züntersbach

Züntersbach community Sinntal Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 46 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56 ″  E
Height :	358 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.14 km²
Residents :	670  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	109 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1977
Postal code :	36391
Area code :	09741
Züntersbach from above

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

Geographical location

Züntersbach lies at an altitude of about 360 m above sea ​​level on the border between Spessart and Rhön , 15 km southeast of Schlüchtern . In the south, the Hessian community borders on the state border with Bavaria . The Schluppach flows through the place and flows into the Sinn .

history

middle Ages

Züntersbach, originally Königsgut, is located in an area that Count Hessi acquired and is first mentioned as Ziuncilesbah in pago Salagewe (Züntersbach im Saalgau ) around 900 when it was donated to the Fulda monastery . The village passed this on to its branch , the Schlüchtern monastery , to which it belonged in 1167.

Division: The Fulda half

In 1306 Ulrich von Steckelberg sold half of the village to his brother, the provost of the Petersberg monastery near Fulda . The village was actually divided. Since then this monastery has owned half of the village to the left of the Schluppach .

Division: The Hanau half

Half of the village to the right of the Schluppach belonged to the Altengronau court , which came to the Hanau rulership in 1333 as an imperial fief 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 .

Modern times

The Hanau half

In 1643 the Schwarzenfels office - and thus also the Hanau half of Züntersbach - was handed over to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as a pledge along with other securities . It was supposed to guarantee the repayment of Hanau debts that had arisen in connection with the liberation of the city of Hanau from the siege by imperial troops in the Thirty Years' War against Hessen-Kassel in 1636. The Counts of Hanau were no longer able to redeem this pledge from Hessen-Kassel. In the following period the office was administered like landgrave property, even after Hessen-Kassel in 1736, after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , inherited the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg.

Union

The division of the village even survived the regional consolidation in Napoleonic times: the Fulda half came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , the Hessian half remained with the Electorate of Hesse , which had emerged from the Landgraviate in 1803. It was not until 1863 that the Bavarian half was ceded to Kurhessen when the two states exchanged territory.

In the Electorate, Züntersbach belonged to the Schlüchtern district after the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, which divided the Electorate of Hesse into four provinces and 22 districts (the districts in the new state of Hesse were only referred to as districts after 1945). The municipality of Züntersbach initially retained its independence when the Main-Kinzig district and the municipality of Sinntal were created as part of the regional reform in Hesse on July 1, 1974, since the Hessian state government did not want to anticipate a proper, cross-border reorganization of the border area. At that time it was intended to incorporate the community of Züntersbach into the Bavarian city of Bad Brückenau . It was only when these plans to change the state border were abandoned that the community was incorporated into the Sinntal community on January 1, 1977.

Historical forms of names

Züntersbach was mentioned under the following names in documents that have survived (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

• Zuncilesbah (911)
• Zonzelsbach (1167)
• Scintilspach (1306)
• Zontersbach (1374)
• Suntirspach (1384)
• Zinzilsbach (1392-1394)
• Zünkelsbach (1460)
• Zuntersbach (1549)

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1549:	18 households (Hanau half)
• 1587:	12 shooters and 7 philistines
• 1812:	41 fireplaces, 309 souls

Züntersbach: Population from 1812 to 2017
year				Residents
1812			309
1834			704
1840			719
1846			722
1852			694
1858			662
1864			648
1871			620
1875			500
1885			585
1895			566
1905			523
1910			556
1925			516
1939			551
1946			815
1950			769
1956			625
1961			586
1967			617
1970			647
1979			752
1990			797
1995			748
2000			740
2005			716
2010			692
2015			654
2017			659
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:	280 Protestant (= 47.86%), 250 Catholic (= 42.74%), 55 Jewish (= 9.40%) residents
• 1961:	280 Protestant (= 47.78%), 306 Catholic (= 52.22%) residents

religion

The village church belonged to the Schlüchtern monastery and the parish Ramholz in 1167 . The political division of the place in 1303 also meant that the Fulda half of the village remained Roman Catholic after the Reformation , while the County of Hanau-Münzenberg accepted the Reformation in the middle of the 16th century, which was based on the principle of " cuius regio, eius religio “Meant that the Hanau half of the village was reformed in 1597 initially Lutheran . In 1602 the Hanau half belonged to the Mottgers parish , then to the Oberzell parish . Today there is a Protestant and a Roman Catholic church in Züntersbach.

There has also been a lively Jewish community in Züntersbach for centuries. A synagogue, a Jewish clergyman with a house, a Jewish bath (now a small fish pond in private ownership). As well as a Jewish slaughter site where the slaughter was carried out according to the Jewish rite.

economy

The Obere Mühle stood at the eastern exit of the village . There was also the old mill , which was 500 meters southeast of Züntersbach. It was shut down in 1940. In 1970 the mills were destroyed by a storm. Both mills were fed by operating ditches derived from the Schluppach .

Züntersbach is strongly influenced by agriculture, but also a state health resort with 10,000 overnight stays annually.

Public facilities

Züntersbach has a dwarf school , which is attended by 19 students. All four grades are taught in one class. There is also a kindergarten in town.

traffic

Züntersbach is connected to the neighboring towns of Oberzell, Schwarzenfels and Bad Brückenau via the state roads 3141 and 3180.

literature

• Rudolf Gerngras: Chronicle of a village . Ed .: Verkehrs- und Heimatverein Züntersbach 1969 eV 1994.
• Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 40. Hanau 2003, p. 432 f.
• Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 14, 1926, p. 538.
• Literature on Züntersbach in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

• Züntersbach district on the Sinntal community's website.
• Züntersbach, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Inhabitants, dates and directions. In: Internet presence. Sinntal community, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2018 .  (Data from web archive).
2. ↑ StGH of the State of Hesse, decision of April 11, 1973 Az. P.St. 697
3. ^ 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. 385 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Züntersbach, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
5. ↑ Budget statute for the 2019 budget (PDF; 2.8 MB) Statistical information. Sinntal community, p. 41 , archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .  
6. ^ Züntersbach, Jewish history / synagogue on http://www.alemannia-judaica.de . Accessed June 2018.
7. ^ Züntersbach keeps his school - Main-Post