Modautal is a municipality in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hesse , Germany . Approximately 5,050 inhabitants live in 11 districts on an area of 31 km with about 38.7% wood. The first historical chronicles date back to the 13th century.
4-584: Brandau may refer to: Brandau, district in Modautal Brandau (surname) Brandau Crater , volcano Brandau Glacier , glacier Brandau Rocks , rock formation Brandov , a village in the Czech Republic Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Brandau . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
8-523: The family from Frankenstein , the one from Mosbach , the family of Wallbrunn as well as Stumpf von Asbach and Kalb von Reinheim just to name a few. The oldest available documents date back to 1651 and are the so-called "Haingerichtsbücher" (written rules of the peasants in Brandau). During the revolution in 1848 and due to failure of crops, huge parts of the inhabitants of the villages emigrated to North America. This Hesse location article
12-436: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brandau&oldid=907258025 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Modautal The municipality was formed in 1977 by putting together eleven districts during
16-625: The so-called Gebietsreform . During the time of the Celts the area must have already been inhabited since the so-called "Heuneburg" on a hill in Fischbachtal was a Celtic castle where the people and their animals from the region could flee ( Fluchtburg ). To construct such a building, a lot of helping hands must have been living nearby. In the Middle Ages, the eleven villages of Modautal belonged to different knight's families: The family of Rodenstein ,
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