Möttau

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Möttau
Community Weilmünster
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '12 "  N , 8 ° 23' 58"  E
Height : 276 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.48 km²
Residents : 338  (Jun 30, 2020)
Population density : 75 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35789
Area code : 06472

Möttau is a district of the hamlet of Weilmünster in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

geography

Möttau is located in the eastern Hintertaunus , northeast of the core town of Weilmünster and directly on the border with the Lahn-Dill district . The Möttbach rises in the village and continues to flow to Philippstein . In addition, the Iserbach flows here from Dietenhausen into the Möttbach. Together they form a valley that lies in a north-south direction and in which Möttau is located. The district also includes a very large forest area. The highest elevations near Möttau are the Hirschberg at 333 meters above sea level and the Buhlenberg at 363 meters above sea level.

Neighboring towns are Weilmünster (south-west), Altenkirchen (north), Kraftsolms (east), and Dietenhausen (south-east).

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from the Codex Eberhardi in the Fulda monastery . The exact date is unknown, but the document must have been issued between 779 and 802. The document says that Frederick donated the Mitie estate to St. Boniface . In 912, King Conrad I pledged his property at Mitiu to the Fulda monastery.

Since 1317 Isenmitte (1337) belonged to the County of Weilnau and was pledged to the provost of Gemünden on June 23, 1326 and fell to Count Gerlach of Nassau in November of the same year . He had Grebenhausen Castle , a moated castle, built near Möttau . It should serve as a border castle to the county of Solms . In 1405 the village came through an inheritance to Philip I of Nassau-Saarbrücken. At that time there was already a chapel in the village that belonged to the parish of Altenkirchen . In 1450 Möttau came to the Weilmünster manor and switched to the parish of the same name.

During the Thirty Years War the place was ravaged and partly devastated. The reason was the direct location on the trade routes, Hessenstrasse and Frankfurter Weg .

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the former market town of Weilmünster in the Oberlahnkreis merged voluntarily on December 31, 1970 with the previously independent communities Aulenhausen, Dietenhausen, Ernsthausen, Laimbach, Langenbach, Laubuseschbach, Lützendorf, Möttau, Rohnstadt and Wolfenhausen to form the new large community of Weilmünster. Essershausen was added on December 31, 1971. For all twelve formerly independent municipalities, local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were formed in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

• 1620: 12 households
Möttau: Population from 1825 to 2020
year     Residents
1825
  
 127
1834
  
 154
1840
  
 172
1846
  
 175
1852
  
 156
1858
  
 148
1864
  
 160
1871
  
 148
1875
  
 142
1885
  
 143
1895
  
 147
1905
  
 149
1910
  
 146
1925
  
 149
1939
  
 145
1946
  
 242
1950
  
 232
1956
  
 191
1961
  
 206
1967
  
 234
1970
  
 224
1987
  
 278
1993
  
 348
1996
  
 370
2001
  
 359
2005
  
 370
2010
  
 365
2011
  
 372
2015
  
 383
2020
  
 338
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 :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 142 Protestant (= 99.30%), one Catholic (= 0.70%) residents
• 1961: 171 Protestant (= 83.01%), 35 Catholic (= 16.99%) residents

Local advisory board

The local council consists of five members and was last elected in the local elections on March 6, 2016. The acting mayor is Horst Hardt. His deputy is Rolf Schliffer.

societies

Club life is mainly shaped by the fire brigade association of the Möttau volunteer fire brigade founded in 1934 , the SPD district, the interest group “Attractive Village Möttau” and the rural women’s association Möttau.

Web links

Commons : Möttau  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Möttau, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Development of the population in the market town of Weilmünster. In: website. Weilmünster community, accessed August 2020 .
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of communities to form the community "Weilmünster", Oberlahnkreis on January 6, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 141 , point 170 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 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. 373 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 51 kB) § 6. In: Website. Weilmünster community, accessed March 2020 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ^ The documents Konrad I, Heinrich I and Otto I , Berlin: Weidmann, 1956
  8. ↑ a b Möttau district. Population numbers. In: website. Weilmünster community, accessed August 2020 .
  9. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  10. ^ Local advisory board of Möttau