Reiskirchen, Hesse, Germany

🇩🇪 Reiskirchen is a municipality in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany and is located 11 km east of Gießen.

Geography: Location The villages of Reiskirchen, Bersrod and Burkhardsfelden belonged to the Busecker Valley. Watering is approx. 8 km west of Reiskirchen. The Hohe Warte nature reserve is also located west of the village. In the Reiskirchen district of Saasen, the Wieseck springs, which flows into the Lahn near Gießen.

Reiskirchen borders the municipality of Rabenau to the north, the city of Grünberg to the east, the city of Laubach to the south-east, the city of Lich to the south, and the municipalities of Fernwald and Buseck to the west. In the north-east between Saasen and Grünberg stands the former monastery complex Wirberg.

Municipal division • Bersrod • Burkhardsfelden • Ettingshausen • Hattenrod • Lindenstruth • Reiskirchen • Saasen, with Bollnbach and Wirberg • Winnerod.

History The oldest certainly attributable documentary mention as Ricolfiskirchen comes from the document book of the Arnsburg monastery and is dated 1305. 2] In later documents, the place name appears as Richolskirchin (1319), Richelskyrchen (14. century) and Ryßkirchen (1501). (Urkundliche mentions of Richolueschiricha (975) and Richoluiskirchen (1238) probably refer to Reiskirchen in the Lahn-Dill district south of Wetzlar.)

See also:Burgstall Reiskirchen

Around 1300, a new church was built, whose choir tower has been preserved. The present nave of the Evangelical Church was built from 1769 to 1771 in the transitional style between late Baroque and classicism.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on the Busecker Valley in 1830: Busecker Thal (L. Bez. Giessen) Land. The Busecker Thal consists of 9 places: Altenbuseck, Großenbuseck, Albach, Beuern, Bersrod, Burkhardsfelden, Oppenrod, Reißkirchen and Rödchen, which have a total of 5675 inhabitants. - The four and heirs of Buseck came under state jurisdiction in 1332. However, they never wanted to be regarded as country sems, but as immediate imperial sems. In 1547, great disputes arose about this, and in the settlement made in 1576, the inhabitants recognised the princely sovereignty of the Landgrave, but the jurisdiction of the von Buseck recognised the landgrave as an undisputed imperial fief. New stingeties prompted the imperial Reichshofrath in 1706 to cancel the settlement and to declare the Busecker Thal for an immediate imperial fiefdom, to punish the people of other people with 50 marks of soldered money, and to transfer the maintenance of this decision to several neighboring imperial estates. Then the Landgrave turned to the Imperial Assembly of Regensburg, whereupon in 1725 the house of Hesse-Darmstadt was entrusted with the jurisdiction, in addition to the feudal glory, as a permanent imperial commission, and the comparison of 1576 was confirmed. In 1827, the Baronly Family von Buseck ceded the patrimonial jurisdiction to which it was entitled in Busecker Thal to the state". 3]

as well as about rice churches: "Reißkirchen (L. Bez. Giessen) evangel. Pfarrdorf; located on the Chaussee from Giessen to Alsfeld, 2 St. from the first place. The village belongs to the Freiherrl. Family von Buseck, has 98 houses and 590 inhabitants, who are Protestant except 24 Jews. Quite a lot of canvas is made here. - Reißkirchen, formerly Richoloiskirchen, already had its own church in 1226. In 1827, the Freiherrl. The von Buseck family ceded the patrimonial jurisdiction to which they are entitled in this village to the state". 4]

In the Reiskirchen district of Saasen, there is still a relic from the 1950s: A freezer community, founded when the purchase of freezers for private households was still too expensive.

On the 31st In December 1970, the previously independent municipalities of Reiskirchen, Hattenrod, Saasen and Winnerod voluntarily merged into the new large municipality of Reiskirchen in the course of the territorial reform in Hesse. 5] On the 1st In April 1972, the municipality of Burkhardsfelden was incorporated on a voluntary basis. On the 1st In January 1977, the municipalities of Bersrod, Ettingshausen and Lindenstruth were added by the law on the reorganization of the Dillkreis, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen. 6] For all formerly independent municipalities of Reiskirchen, a local district with local advisory board and local head was installed.

The municipality was appointed by the Hessian Minister of the Interior on the 8th. November 1974 granted permission to keep the coat of arms developed by the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt, whose description is "in a black coat of arms shield divided like a net by golden stripes, a silver tip covered with a red church tower".

An overview of the history of the municipality of Reiskirchen is provided by an exhibition in the Hirtenhaus, which is used as a local history museum and operated by the Heimatgeschichtlichen Vereinigung Reiskirchen.

Employment Source: Historisches Ortslexikon; Gemeindelexikon • 1961: Labour force: 195 agriculture and forestry (22.9%), 338 manufacturing (39.6%), 173 trade, transport and communication (20.3%), 148 services and other (17.3%). • 2000: Employees subject to social security contributions: 2635 people. Of which manufacturing industry 56.2%, trade, hospitality and transport: 22.8%, business services 7.4%, public and private services 13.2%, other (or anonymized) 0.4% • 2000: Exclusively minor employees: 422 people. • 2016: Employees subject to social security contributions: 2899 people. Of which manufacturing industry 52.2%, trade, hospitality and transport: 22.3%, business services -, public and private services 16.9%, other (or anonymized) 8.6% • 2016: Only minor employees: 499 people.

Culture The wind orchestra of the volunteer fire brigade Reiskirchen under the musical direction of Otmar Scheld, who for his services on the 23rd, has a high degree of fame. December 2007 was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on the ribbon by the then Hessian Minister of the Interior Volker Bouffier. 34]

Sport Worth mentioning are the sports clubs TSG Reiskirchen, the tennis club Reiskirchener TC with four tennis courts and the sports field Jahnstraße. The bowling club Meteor 85 Reiskirchen plays with the 1. Team in the Kegel Bundesliga.

Traffic Reiskirchen is conveniently located on motorways 5 and 480 (Reiskirchener Dreieck) and on the federal highway 49. A bypass in the south is planned for the B 49. Especially due to the level crossing at Reiskirchener Bahnhof, traffic accumulates very much when the barriers are closed, and since the traffic volume is to increase by 33% by 2020, the bypass is classified in the category of urgent need. Approximately 12 million euros are given as costs for the southern bypass.

On the 22nd In March 2009, the citizens of Reiskirchen entitled to vote voted in a referendum on whether a decision of the municipal council for the southern bypass would be revoked. 66 percent of the voters voted against this proposal with a turnout of 56.6 percent.