Schwarzenfels
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Blackrock is a municipality in the Hessian Sinntal Main- Kinzig-Kreis.
Geographical location
Blackrock is located in the northeast of the Main- Kinzig -Kreis in the Brückenauer Kuppenrhön. It spreads in the Hessischer Spessart Nature Park on the southern and south-western flank of the mountain hops ( 491.5 m ) and on the western flank of the mountain ash ( 516.3 m) at altitudes around 403 m above sea level. NHN out. Some 11.5 km north- west is Schlüchtern, 3.7 km north-west Sterbfritz as a place of meaning Taler local government, and in Bavaria are 8.5 km east-northeast Brückenau and 4 km (each crow flies) south Zeitlofs. Blackrock is bordered to the north by Weichersbach and upper cell, on the northeast by Züntersbach, on the west by Mottgers and on the south by Günter yards ( Güntershof ), all districts of Sinntal.
History
Middle Ages
The oldest surviving mention of the town dates from 1290th The place belonged to the court Altengronau that came in 1333 as an imperial fief from an inheritance from the house Rieneck to the rule Hanau. Off the court in the 15th century, the Office Blackrock the county of Hanau, from 1459: county of Hanau coins mountain. Until the mid- 16th century the castle was the seat of Blackrock bailiff.
Name
The name probably derives from the Doleritbasalt of hops from the mountain, was built on the slope Blackrock. Historical forms of the name were:
- Swarzenfels ( 1290 )
- Swarcefels ( 1305)
- Zwarzenfils ( 1361 )
Modern Times
The county of Hanau- Miinzenberg joined in the first Reformation of Lutheran Confession in, from 1597 it was reformed. The parish of Blackrock was the parish after Mottgers.
1643 the Office Blackrock - and thus the same place also - passed as a deposit along with other securities of Hesse- Kassel. It should guarantee Hanauer debts that were incurred in connection with the liberation of the city of Hanau from the siege by imperial troops in 1636 compared with the Hesse- Kassel. The Counts of Hanau was no longer able to solve this pledge of Hesse- Kassel. The Office was administered in the following period as country Gräfliches property. Even after Hesse -Kassel in 1736, after the death of the last Count of Hanau, Johann Reinhard III. , The county of Hanau - Miinzenberg inherited, it was not associated with this again.
From the land County was 1803, the Electorate of Hesse. During the Napoleonic period Blackrock stood from 1806 under French military administration, 1807 to 1810 belonged to the Principality of Hanau and then from 1810 to 1813 the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Department of Hanau. It then fell back to the electorate of Hesse. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, under which the Electorate of Hesse in four provinces and 22 districts divided, Blackrock belonged to the district of Schlüchtern. 1866 the electorate was annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of Prussia.
The formerly independent municipality came through the Hessian government reform on 1 July 1972 Sinntal.
Population Development
Policy
Mayor is William Burow.
Others
- In Blackrock there is a kindergarten and a village hall.
- Through the village leads the country road 3180th
- The next train connections exist in Schlüchtern station on the Kinzig Valley Railway from Frankfurt to Fulda and in Jossa and Sterbfritz to the railway line Flieden - Gemünden to Fulda and Würzburg.
- In Blackrock, some artists and artisans live. The most famous of them was Helmut Nitzsche (1914-2002), artist and glass painter.