Zell (Bensheim)

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Cell
City of Bensheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 26 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 45"  E
Height : 124 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 924  (June 30, 2019)
Incorporation : April 1, 1939
Postal code : 64625
Area code : 06251
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Map of Bensheim with the district of Zell

Zell is a district of Bensheim with around 1000 inhabitants in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse . It is located east of Bensheim in the Meerbach Valley and borders directly on Bensheim and in the northeast on Gronau .

history

From the beginning to the 18th century

It can be assumed that Zell was inhabited by Celts as early as 500 BC . At the beginning of the era they were driven out by the Teutons . In the first centuries after Christ, they had to give way to the Romans invading from the west . The Villa Rustica on the nearby Hemsberg and in the Meerbach Valley testify to this. Around 500 the Franks settled the area between the Rhine , Main and Neckar , which they declared to be king's booty and divided into districts and brands . The Meerbachtal was then obviously assigned to the Bensheim mark. This thesis is supported by the common use of the Märkerwald and the cattle pasture on the Meerbach, which continued into the 19th century.

The first mention of the place comes from the year 805, when in the border description of the parish the church of St. Peter in Heppenheim by Emperor Charlemagne Zell was named under the name Cilewardesdorsul . Zell is first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex , a property register of the imperial monastery Lorsch , under the name Cella , with the confirmation of Emperor Heinrich V to Abbot Benno von Lorsch on March 20, 1113 in Worms about his property. Supported by many other donations, the Lorsch Monastery belonged to the 9th-12th Century one of the largest and most powerful Benedictine abbeys in Germany.

When after the decline of the monastery, in 1232 Emperor Friedrich II. The empire abbey Lorsch to the archbishopric Mainz and his bishop Siegfried III. Von Eppstein transferred to reform, the area of ​​the later office of Schönberg , to which Zell also belonged, was already in the possession of the Count Palatine .

In 1339, as a fief of the Count Palatinate , Zell is owned by Erbach . Because this year comes a certificate in the Schenk Konrad von Erbach his wife Kunigunde, nee. Brugge, with will of his lords Pfalzgraf Rudolf , with a quarter of the castle Schoenberg to the slopes belong to Schoenberg, Elmshausen, Wilmshausen, Gronau, cell and Reilenbach, bewittumt . The county of Erbach , from 1500 onwards belonged to the Franconian Empire and the taverns of Erbach were elevated to the status of imperial count in 1532. The high jurisdiction over the place was exercised by the Zent Heppenheim , whose highest judge was the burgrave on the Starkenburg (over Heppenheim), first mentioned in 1267 . The lower jurisdiction was exercised by the office of Schönberg on behalf of the Erbach counts.

In 1544 the Reformation was introduced in the county of Erbach . From an ecclesiastical point of view, Zell belonged to the Archdiakonat Stift St. Viktor before Mainz of the Bensheimer Landkapitels before the Reformation . After that, Zell belonged to the Gronau parish, which in addition to Zell included Schönberg Castle and the villages of Gronau, Schönberg , Wilmshausen and Elmshausen .

During the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648), the place largely shared the fate of Bensheim. In July 1621, it was conquered and looted together with Schönberg Palace. At the end of the war, large areas of the Bergstrasse outside the fortified cities were completely depopulated. Fifty years after the end of the Thirty Years' War, the region was again hit hard by the aftermath of the war when France tried to move its borders to the east. It was not until the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697 that the French withdrew behind the Rhine.

In 1717 the Erbach Count's House was divided and Schönberg Palace became the seat of the younger line Erbach-Schönberg under Count Georg August zu Erbach-Schönberg . This received the offices of Schönberg and King and half of the reign of Breuberg . The Erbach-Schönberg line made the castle their place of residence, which gave it its current castle character.

From the 19th century until today

Zell becomes Hessian

The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) was reorganized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803. This last set of laws of the old empire implemented the provisions of the Peace of Luneville and ushered in the end of the old empire. Under pressure from Napoléon , the Confederation of the Rhine was founded in 1806 , this happened with the simultaneous withdrawal of the member territories from the Reich. This led to the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806, with which the old empire ceased to exist. On August 14, 1806, Napoleon elevated the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt to the Grand Duchy , against joining the Confederation of the Rhine and placing high military contingents in France , otherwise he threatened an invasion. The County of Erbach was mediated by the Rhine Federation Act and largely incorporated into the newly founded Grand Duchy of Hesse, including the “Office of Schönberg”. The office was initially retained as a civil office.

As early as December 9, 1803, the judicial system in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt was reorganized through an executive order. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . 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 this the Zente and the associated central courts had lost their function. The regulations also applied in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, founded in 1806.

The historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch, or church history of the Oberrheingau reports from a Catholic point of view about Zell, as a branch of the parish Bensheim:

“The Graeflich Erbachische Dorf Zell is, regardless of its inhabitants professing the Lutheran religion, still really a branch of Bensheim, and the inhabitants have to baptize their children in the parish church there, copulate there , and have their dead buried in the cemetery there. Already in the 12th century this place had its own church which Billing von Lindenfels built and gave the monastery Lorsch and its members a part with the condition that there should be three services every week in this church. When the residents of Zell wanted to evade parish rights to Bensheim after the Reformation in the county of Erbach and on Bergstrasse, but especially after the reintroduction of the Catholic religion in the Starkenburg Oberamt, the pastor of Bensheim tried to assert such rights in every possible way. To this end, a procession from Bensheim to the chapel in Zell was led in 1653, led to Peter and Paul , held in the same office and sermon, and this procession and parish service was also held properly every year thereafter. The old chapel has since fallen into disrepair, but the processions are still being led there and the sermon is being held on the place of the chapel «

After Napoléon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also regulated the territorial situation for Hesse and confirmed that the County of Erbach was part of the “Principality of Starkenburg” of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. As a result, provinces were formed in the Grand Duchy in 1816 and the area previously known as the “Principality of Starkenburg” was renamed “Province of Starkenburg” . In 1814 serfdom was abolished in the Grand Duchy and with the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse introduced on December 17, 1820, it was given a constitutional monarchy , in which the Grand Duke still had great powers. The remaining civil rights magnificent as Low jurisdiction , tithes, ground rents and other slope but remained composed until 1848.

In 1821/22, as part of a comprehensive administrative reform, the district bailiffs in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy were dissolved and district councils were introduced, with Schönberg being assigned to the district of Lindenfels in 1822 . As part of this reform, regional courts were also created, which were now independent of the administration. The district court districts corresponded in scope to the district council districts, and the district court of Fürth was responsible as the court of first instance for the district of Lindenfels . For the office of Schönberg, the lower jurisdiction was exercised in the name of the landlords by the district administrator. It was not until 1826 that all functions of the former rulers' office in Schönberg were transferred to the state institutions. This reform also arranged the administrative administration at community level, with Zell having its own mayor's office .

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

»Zell (L. Bez.) Lindenfels, Lutheran Filialdorf; Cella; is 3 St. from Lindenfels, 1 ⁄ 2  St. from Bensheim and belongs to the Count of Erbach-Schönberg. The place consists of 72 houses, and has 554 inhabitants, except 69 Cath., 1 Reform. and 20 Jews are Lutheran. A sought-after wine grows here. - The church came to the Lorsch monastery. Zell came under Hess in 1806. Your Highness. "

In 1832 the administrative units were further enlarged and circles were created. After the reorganization announced on August 20, 1832, there should only be the districts of Bensheim and Lindenfels in the future in Süd-Starkenburg; the district of Heppenheim was to fall into the Bensheim district. Even before the ordinance came into force on October 15, 1832, it was revised to the effect that instead of the Lindenfels district, the Heppenheim district was formed as the second district, to which Zell now belonged. With the Grand Ducal Government Ordinance No. 37 of December 31, 1839, Gronau was added to the Bensheim district with effect from January 15, 1940 . In it, other places in the Zeller and Schönberger valleys were separated from the Heppenheim district and incorporated into the Bensheim district.

From 1839 the Nibelungenstrasse was expanded from Bensheim into the Lautertal to Lindenfels, thus creating an important contribution to improving the infrastructure of the front Odenwald . A further improvement was achieved with the opening of the Main-Neckar Railway in 1846, which initially connected Bensheim with Langen , Darmstadt and Heppenheim and a little later extended to Frankfurt and Mannheim . In 1842 the tax system in the Grand Duchy was reformed and the tithe and the basic pensions (income from property) were replaced by a tax system of the kind that still exists today.

The following entry can be found in the latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states from 1845 to 1848:

»Zell b. Bensheim. - Village with a Lutheran branch church in Gronau. - 78 H. 279 E. (including 69 Catholics and 20 Jews). - Grand Duke. Hesse. - Starkenburg Province. - Bensheim district. - District Court of Zwingenberg. - Darmstadt Court of Justice. - The village of Zell (Cella), part of the rulership of the Count of Erbach-Schönberg, is the grand duke in 1806. Hessian sovereignty has been subjected. In addition to the on-board mill, the village also has 2 grinding and 1 oil mill. A good wine grows in the district. "

As a result of the March Revolution of 1848, with the "Law on the Relationships of the Classes and Noble Court Lords" of April 15, 1848, the special rights of the class were finally repealed. In addition, the districts and districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished in the provinces on July 31, 1848 and replaced by "administrative districts", with the previous districts of Bensheim and Heppenheim being combined to form the administrative district of Heppenheim . However, this was reversed on May 12, 1852 and Zell was reassigned to the Bensheim district .

The population and cadastral lists recorded in December 1852 showed for Zell: Lutheran branch village with 523 inhabitants. This includes the on-board mill. The district consists of 1462 acres , of which 751 acres of arable land, 75 acres of meadows, 182 acres of pastures and 397 acres of forest.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the branch village of Zell has its own mayor's office, 81 houses, 545 inhabitants, the Bensheim district, the Zwingenberg district court, the Protestant parish of Gronau with the dean's office in Lindenfels and the Catholic parish of Bensheim's dean's office Bensheim, stated. The Bord-Mühle (1 house, 9 inhabitants) also belonged to the district. The responsible tax commissioner's office is Zwingenberg of the Bensheim district takers and Bensheim takers. The domain administration consists of the Lindenfels Rent Office, the Lorsch Forestry Office and the Heppenheim Forestry Office.

In 1870, the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck provoked the Franco-German War with the so-called Emser Depesche in which the Grand Duchy of Hesse took part as a member of the North German Confederation on the side of Prussia . Before its official end on May 10, 1871, the southern German states joined the North German Confederation, and on January 1, 1871 its new constitution came into force, with which it was now called the German Empire . On the German side, this war claimed around 41,000 deaths.

In 1869 the opening of the Nibelungen Railway from Worms via Lorsch to Bensheim was celebrated, where it was connected to the Rhein-Neckar Railway , which was completed in 1846 . Further infrastructure improvements were reported for 1900. Both the Ernst Ludwig Bridge for road traffic and the railway bridge over the Rhine were opened to traffic near Worms . The numbers of emigrants show that the times were also marked by a lot of poverty. From 1881 to 1900, 529,875 German emigrants were counted. On January 1, 1900, the Civil Code came into force throughout the German Empire .

Time of world wars

On August 1, 1914, the First World War broke out, which put an end to the positive economic development throughout the German Empire . When the armistice was signed after the German defeat on November 11, 1918, Gronau also had many casualties to mourn, while the war cost a total of around 17 million human lives. The end of the German Empire was thus sealed, and the troubled times of the Weimar Republic followed. In the period from 1921 to 1930, there were 566,500 emigrants in Germany who tried to escape the difficult conditions in Germany.

On April 28, 1928, the Bergstrasse was hit by a catastrophic storm, nobody in the affected area could remember anything similar. "Bensheim, Auerbach, Zell, the Ried and above all Zwingenberg offered a picture of devastation". Thunderstorms and hail destroyed the hope of a harvest and masses of water rolled from the slopes of the mountain road into the affected places. "In Zell houses are said to have collapsed, in Bensheim some factories - like Euler - were badly affected"; it was said.

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, which marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship. In November 1938 the so-called Reichskristallnacht brought hardship and misery to the Jewish fellow citizens. The Jewish residents of Zell belonged to the Jewish community of Bensheim, whose synagogue was burned down by SS men that day.

The Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were abolished in 1937 after the provincial and district assemblies were dissolved in 1936. On November 1, 1938, a comprehensive regional reform came into force at the district level. In the former province of Starkenburg, the Bensheim district was particularly affected, as it was dissolved and most of it was added to the Heppenheim district. The district of Heppenheim also took over the legal successor to the district of Bensheim and was given the new name Landkreis Bergstrasse .

Since April 1, 1939, the place with Auerbach and Schönberg belongs to Bensheim. It is one of the oldest parts of the city.

On September 1, 1939, when German troops marched into Poland, the Second World War began , the effects of which were even more dramatic than the First World War and the number of victims estimated at 60 to 70 million people. In the final phase of the Second World War in Europe, the American units reached the Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim in mid-March 1945. On March 22nd, the 3rd US Army crossed the Rhine near Oppenheim and occupied Darmstadt on March 25th. In the first hours of March 26, 1945, American units crossed the Rhine near Hamm and south of Worms, from where they advanced on a broad front towards the Bergstrasse. On March 27, the American troops were in Lorsch, Bensheim and Heppenheim and a day later Aschaffenburg am Main and the western and northern parts of the Odenwald were occupied. The war in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of all German troops, which came into effect on May 8, 1945 at 11:01 p.m. Central European Time.

The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a member state of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866 and then a federal state of the German Empire . It existed until 1919. After World War II, the Grand Duchy for was republican written People's State of Hesse . In 1945 after the end of the Second World War, the area of ​​today's Hesse was in the American zone of occupation and by order of the military government, Greater Hesse was created , from which the state of Hesse emerged in its current borders.

Post-war and present

Since 1968 there has been a twinning with Manlay (France). In 1964, Bensheim's first village community center was built in Zell. This was torn down in 2006 and replaced by a new building, which was inaugurated on June 22, 2007 as part of the Zell Week . Zell has been participating in the village renewal program since 2002 , which is scheduled to run until 2011.

Courts in Hessen

Until 1822 the competent jurisdiction lay with the municipal office of Schönberg . From 1822 to 1826 lower jurisdiction was exercised by the district administrator on behalf of the landlord. In 1826 jurisdiction was transferred to the Fürth district court in the first instance . Zell was spun off again in the course of its assignment to the Bensheim district in 1839 and came to the Zwingenberg district court . On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts functioned as higher courts. As a result, it was renamed the District Court of Zwingenberg and assigned to the district of the Regional Court of Darmstadt . In 1934 the Zwingenberg District Court was dissolved and the tasks were transferred to the Bensheim District Court .

Origin of name

Mentioned in a document as Cilewardes 805 and as uicus Cella 1139. Other mentions: as Cello, in vico (1210–1220), as Cellen (1213, 1451), as Tzeln 1431 and as Zell 1530.

Meaning:

  • Old New High German: cell 'room in the monastery; small monastery; Monastery property '

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

 Source: City of Bensheim

  • 1717: 40 cent men
  • 1829: 554 inhabitants, 72 houses
  • 1867: 554 inhabitants, 82 houses
  • 2007: 959 inhabitants
  • 2010: 962 inhabitants
  • 2011: 954 inhabitants ( 2011 census )
  • 2015: 923 inhabitants
  • 2019: 924 inhabitants
  • 2032: 850 inhabitants (forecast)
Zell: Population from 1829 to 1925
year     Residents
1829
  
 554
1834
  
 544
1840
  
 586
1846
  
 582
1852
  
 530
1858
  
 559
1864
  
 550
1871
  
 542
1875
  
 589
1885
  
 577
1895
  
 581
1905
  
 596
1910
  
 615
1925
  
 612
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

politics

For Zell there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Zell) with a local advisory board and local mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of seven members. Since the local elections in 2016, he has seven members of the “Free Voting Community Zell” (FWG). The head of the village is Hans-Peter Ott (FWG).

Culture and sights

  • Even today, Zell has retained much of the character of a farming village. In addition to old farms, barns and half-timbered houses, the Meerbach on the main street and the old town hall are the most important sights in Zell.
  • The Bismarck Tower on the Hemsberg is a Bismarck monument erected in 1902 by the Bensheim section of the Odenwald Club. The tower is used as an observation tower on Sundays and as a hiker's home.
  • There are two nature trails in Zell. Information is provided about the formation of ravines . Some ravines on the Bergstrasse have existed since the Middle Ages.

  • The old school house

  • Bismarck tower on the Hemsberg

  • Old postcard from Zell an der Bergstrasse

Religious communities

Personalities

Michael Meister MdB was mayor of Zell from 1983 to 1994 .

Web links

Commons : Bensheim-Zell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Regests of the city of Heppenheim and Starkenburg Castle until the end of Kurmainzer rule (755 to 1461) . No. 6 ( digital view [PDF; 2.0 MB ] Compiled and commented on by Torsten Wondrejz on behalf of the Heppenheim City Archives).
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  24. ^ Incorporation of the communities Auerbach, Schönberg and Zell into the city of Bensheim on February 22, 1939 . In: Reichsstatthalter in Hessen (Hrsg.): Hessisches Regierungsblatt. 1939 no. 5 , p. 25 , no. 2368 / L / 38 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.9 MB ]).
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  30. ↑ 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;
  31. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 69 kB) § 6. In: Website. City of Bensheim, p. 5 , accessed December 2019 .
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