Hohensolms

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Hohensolms
community Hohenahr
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 4 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 56"  E
Height : 392  (307-442)  m
Area : 8.56 km²
Residents : 752  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Population density : 88 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 35644
Area code : 06446
The historic center of Hohensolms with the castle
The historic center of Hohensolms with the castle

Hohensolms is a district of the municipality of Hohenahr in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

The place Hohensolms is located on a high plateau in the southern part of the Lahn-Dill-Bergland nature park in the middle of a typical low mountain range. The highest point in the district is on the 442 meter high Altenberg .

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Low mountain range of Hohensolms in the Lahn-Dill Bergland nature park

history

Former city gate

In 1350 the Counts of Solms built a castle on the 435-meter-high Ramsberg as a successor to their destroyed castle complex on Altenberg, 2 kilometers away. At the same time, a settlement of the same name developed under the protection of this new Hohensolm Castle . The place was first mentioned in documents as early as 1358.

The place had partial city ​​rights early on , which were confirmed several times by counts' letters of freedom in the years 1639, 1641, 1658 and 1803. The privileges included a. the market law and its own jurisdiction. From 1509 onwards, the existence of a lay jury is proven. The "wool market", which has also been occupied since the 16th century, played an important role in the past. It was held every year in June and was at times a national festival of national importance.

The Thirty Years' War brought great hardship , in which Hohensolms was occupied by imperial troops who undertook raids into the area from here. This was associated with a sharp drop in population. Serious unrest returned to the then city of Hohensolms in the Seven Years' War and in the French Revolutionary Wars , when billeting and fighting took place nearby.

Numerous houses were destroyed in major fires in 1751, 1786 and 1803.

In 1448 a castle chapel was built, which in 1454 was raised to the rank of parish church . Hohensolms was the parish seat until December 31, 2019 and has since then been parishally connected to the Evangelical Church Community of Erda-Großaltenstädten.

From 1629 Hohensolms was the residence of the Counts of Solms-Hohensolms . Associated with this was the town's heyday. Between 1760 and 1770, the count's court then moved from Hohensolms to Lich . As a result, the former residence town sank to a predominantly rural settlement.

In 1806 the Solms area became Nassau for a few years before it came to Prussia in 1815 and became part of the Prussian Braunfels district . In 1822 Hohensolms came to the Wetzlar district . It has belonged to the Lahn-Dill district since 1977.

For centuries the administrative seat of the first Solmese, later Nassau and finally Prussian office of Hohensolm , an administrative district comprising ten localities, was located in the village . The mayor's office was dissolved in 1934. Then the place formed an independent municipality until 1972.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality of Hohensolms merged on April 1, 1972 on a voluntary basis with the municipalities of Erda and Ahrdt to form the newly founded municipality of Hohenahr. For Hohensolms, as for the other districts, a local district with a local council and community leader was established. The district of Erda became the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Hohensolms: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 479
1840
  
 473
1846
  
 522
1852
  
 487
1858
  
 467
1864
  
 474
1871
  
 432
1875
  
 446
1885
  
 509
1895
  
 495
1905
  
 495
1910
  
 484
1925
  
 567
1939
  
 500
1946
  
 743
1950
  
 746
1956
  
 696
1961
  
 673
1967
  
 774
1970
  
 781
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2004
  
 795
2010
  
 734
2013
  
 747
2018
  
 752
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: 430 Protestant residents, 3 Catholics, 12 Mennonites , 34 Jews
• 1961: 610 Protestant (= 90.64%), 62 Catholic (= 9.21%) residents

Sights and cultural monuments

  • Hohensolms Castle
  • Evangelical church with Christophorus painting
  • Lookout tower on the Altenberg
  • Archway system
  • "Hals" park
  • Cenotaph on the neck
  • extensive forest areas with hiking opportunities (two castle tour)
  • Jewish Cemetery
  • Schlossberg lift

Economy and Infrastructure

Hohensolms is connected to the surrounding area by state road 3053. A bakery with a grocery store, several service and craft businesses, a general practitioner, a dental practice and a law firm are located in the village.

The place has a village community center with hall, library and bowling alley, a parish hall of the Protestant parish , a kindergarten, a fire station , an artificial turf sports field with a home for athletes and a rifle house with small caliber and air rifle stands. A ski and toboggan lift is in operation behind the castle in winter when there is enough snow. Paragliders use the "neck" above the village for their take-offs.

Outside the town center, a former mill (Lohmühle) and two agricultural farms (Weiherhof and Leiterhof) belong to the Hohensolms district.

Hohensolms has always been known as the "mountain of youth". As early as 1924 the former castle and palace complex of the Solms counts became the seat of the "Christian German Youth" . Today the EKHN operates a well-known conference and leisure center there (Evangelische Jugendburg Hohensolms). In a quiet location on the neighboring "neck" there is also a rehabilitation center for disabled children and young people (Haus Hohensolms).

In 2012/13 the Hohenahr wind farm with seven wind turbines was built in the Hohensolms district .

literature

  • Otto Kammer: The Evangelical Youth Castle Hohensolms. A look at history in the seventieth year of its existence, Hohensolmser Freundeskreis, Darmstadt 1994.
  • Emil Kemper: Lutheranism and Calvinism in the city and office of Hohensolm up to the Thirty Years' War. Hohensolms 1917.
  • Waldemar Küther: The patronage right of the church of Hohensolms. In: Messages from the Wetzlar History Association. 19, 1961.
  • Timo Zimmermann: Hohensolms. Valley, town, municipality and district. Hohenahr 2000.
  • Back then. Hohensolms memories, told from the Altenkreis. Edited by Marie Agnes Klapsch, Hohenahr 1984.
  • Hans Hermann Hagmann: History of the Evangelical Churches in Hohensolms (1964–1985), Großaltenstädten (1964–1971) and Blasbach (1971–1985). Hohenahr 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Figures / data / facts. In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 297. DNB 770396321
  3. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 38 kB) §; 8. In: Website. Hohenahr community, accessed February 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Hohensolms, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 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. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ^ Ernst Vogt: Regests of the Archbishops of Mainz from 1289-1396 . Ed .: Goswin von der Ropp. tape 1.1 , no. 2464 . Veit, Leipzig 1913, DNB  457907231 ( URI: ingrossaturbuecher.de/id/source/20490 ).
  7. ↑ Population figures . In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  8. ↑ Figures, data and facts of the Hohenahr community. In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .