Graeveneck

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Graeveneck
Community Weinbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 198  (134–222)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.15 km²
Residents : 789  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 110 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 35796
Area code : 06471
Graeveneck from the east
Graeveneck from the east

Gräveneck is a district of the municipality Weinbach in the central Hessian district Limburg-Weilburg .

Geographical location

Gräveneck is located in the Weilburger Lahntal area , with the Eastern Hintertaunus joining a little to the southeast. It is located in the northwest of the Taunus Nature Park , around 2.8 km northwest of the main town. The Lahn flows west of the village . State road  3452 leads through it .

history

Neu-Elkerhausen Castle was built as early as 1352 . The village was first mentioned in documents in 1395.

Only remains of the Steuerburg (destroyed in 1382) and Gräveneck Castle are preserved.

The municipality of Gräveneck in the former Oberlahnkreis merged voluntarily as part of the regional reform in Hesse on December 1, 1970 with the independent municipalities of Weinbach , Freienfels and Blessenbach to form the new large municipality of Weinbach. Weinbach was designated as the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Gräveneck: Population from 1540 to 1970
year     Residents
1540
  
 305
1834
  
 301
1840
  
 305
1846
  
 324
1852
  
 346
1858
  
 364
1864
  
 405
1871
  
 451
1875
  
 386
1885
  
 408
1895
  
 411
1905
  
 395
1910
  
 398
1925
  
 460
1939
  
 475
1946
  
 722
1950
  
 819
1956
  
 860
1961
  
 882
1967
  
 870
1970
  
 859
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 393 Protestant (= 96.32%), 15 Catholic (= 3.68%) residents
• 1961: 643 Protestant (= 72.90%), 229 Catholic (= 25.96%) residents

societies

There are the following clubs in the village:

  • TuS Gräveneck 1907 eV
  • Tennis-Club Gräveneck 1981 eV
  • Voluntary fire brigade Gräveneck, founded in 1934 (since August 1, 1994 with youth fire brigade )
  • MGV Eintracht Gräveneck 1864 eV
  • Women's choir Gräveneck
  • Gräveneck Nature Conservation Group
  • VdK Gräveneck

Facilities

Since 1934, the Gräveneck volunteer fire brigade (from August 1, 1994 with the youth fire brigade) has provided fire protection and general help in this area. There is a village community center on Taunusstrasse, a sports field, the “Rappelkiste” kindergarten, a children's playground and a Protestant and a Catholic church.

railway station

Infrastructure

  • The Lahntalbahn runs past the village and has a train station on the route. There is one of the last mechanically barred level crossings in Hessen. For her report Zug um Zug - The daily chaos in rail traffic (December 2019), ARD reporter Jessica Sander visited the level crossing.
  • There is a campsite on the Lahn .
  • There are hiking trails.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gräveneck  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gräveneck, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers, data - facts . In: Internet presence. Weinbach municipality, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Merger of the communities Weinbach, Blessenbach, Freienfels and Gräveneck in the Oberlahnkreis to form the new community "Weinbach" on November 30, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 50 , p. 2338 , item 2336 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 372 .
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ Article about the level crossing in Gräveneck in the Frankfurter Allgemeine from February 1, 2013.
  7. ^ ARD.de: Ticket to Ride - The daily chaos in rail traffic