Altenkirchen (Hohenahr)

Altenkirchen community Hohenahr Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 49 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 34 ″ E
Height :	305 (300-344) m
Area :	10.74 km²
Residents :	749 (June 30, 2018)
Population density :	70 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1977
Postal code :	35644
Area code :	06444

Evangelical parish church Altenkirchen

Altenkirchen ( pronunciation ^?^/^I ) is a district of the municipality of Hohenahr in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . The Grundmühle located outside of the village and the adjacent weekend area towards Bellersdorf also belong to the village.

Altenkirchen is surrounded by forest in the Gladenbacher Bergland and has about 750 inhabitants. State road 3052 runs through the village .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1241. The first church was mentioned in 1294, but is probably even older. In 1939 the village belonged to the Wetzlar district and had 517 inhabitants.

Altenkirchen from the south

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality of Altenkirchen was incorporated into the municipality of Hohenahr, founded in 1972, by state law on January 1, 1977 . For Altenkirchen, as for the other districts, a local district with a local council and community leader was established. The district of Erda remained the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

1232 Aldenkirken, de

before 1351: Holy Roman Empire , House of Solms (joint ownership of the lines Solms-Braunfels, Solms-Burgsolms and Solms-Königsberg)

from 1351: Holy Roman Empire, Counties of Solms-Braunfels, Solms-Burgsolms and Landgraviate of Hesse

from 1415: Holy Roman Empire, County of Solms-Braunfels and Landgraviate of Hesse, joint office of Hohensolms and Königsberg

from 1432: Holy Roman Empire, County of Solms-Lich in various partition constellations and Landgraviate of Hesse, joint office of Hohensolms and Königsberg

from 1622: Holy Roman Empire, Landgraviate of Hesse (-Darmstadt) (4/8), Counties of Solms-Hohensolms (3/8) and Solms-Lich (1/8), community office Hohensolms and Königsberg

from 1629: Holy Roman Empire, County of Solms-Hohensolms (3/4) and County of Solms-Lich (1/4), Office of Hohensolms

from 1718: Holy Roman Empire, County of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Office of Hohensolms

from 1792: Holy Roman Empire, Principality of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich , Office of Hohensolms

from 1806: Duchy of Nassau , Office of Hohensolm

1816: Kingdom of Prussia , Rhine Province , Region of Koblenz , county Braunfels , Amtsbürgermeisterei Hohensolms

from 1822: Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District , Hohensolms District Mayor

from 1866: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District, Hohensolms District Mayor

from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District, Hohensolms District Mayor

from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District, Hohensolms District Mayor

from 1932: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , District of Wetzlar

from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Wetzlar District

from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district

from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district

from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , district of Wetzlar

on January 1, 1977 Altenkirchen was incorporated as a district of the newly formed community Hohenahr.

from 1977: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt administrative district, Lahn-Dill district

from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen administrative district , Lahn-Dill district

population

Population development

Altenkirchen: Population from 1834 to 2018
year		Residents
1834	464
1840	482
1846	501
1852	489
1858	501
1864	498
1871	463
1875	494
1885	427
1895	419
1905	433
1910	426
1925	515
1939	517
1946	706
1950	658
1956	606
1961	610
1967	648
1970	644
1980	?
1990	?
2004	803
2010	763
2013	776
2018	749
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: Hohenahr community:

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

1834: 412 Protestant and 26 Jewish residents
1961: 572 Protestant (= 93.77%), 35 Catholic (= 5.74%) residents

Cultural monuments

see list of cultural monuments in Altenkirchen

Web links

Commons : Altenkirchen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Altenkirchen district on the Hohenahr community website.
Altenkirchen (Hohenahr), Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about old churches in the Hessian bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Figures / data / facts. In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 15 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
↑ main statute. (PDF; 38 kB) §; 8. In: Website. Hohenahr community, accessed February 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Altenkirchen (Hohenahr), Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Albert Huyskens: Source studies on the history of St. Elisabeth, Landgrave of Thuringia . No. 20 . Elwert, Marburg 1908, p. 278 .
↑ Population figures . In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
↑ Figures, data and facts of the Hohenahr community. In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .

[DF-1] Figures / data / facts. In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .

[2] Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 15 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).

[3] main statute. (PDF; 38 kB) §; 8. In: Website. Hohenahr community, accessed February 2019 .

[lagis-4] Altenkirchen (Hohenahr), Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[Huyskens-6] Albert Huyskens: Source studies on the history of St. Elisabeth, Landgrave of Thuringia . No. 20 . Elwert, Marburg 1908, p. 278 .

[EW2004-7] Population figures . In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .

[EW2010-8] Figures, data and facts of the Hohenahr community. In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .