Reichenborn

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Reichenborn
community Merenberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '52 "  N , 8 ° 10' 34"  E
Height : 349  (332-361)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.19 km²
Residents : 400 approx.
Population density : 125 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35799
Area code : 06476
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Place view

Reichenborn is a district of the municipality of Merenberg in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Reichenborn is three km northwest of Merenberg in Central Hesse . The county road 451 runs through the place.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1325.

A Jewish cemetery has been located near the communal cemetery since 1900.

On December 31, 1970 , the municipality of Reichenborn merged voluntarily as part of the regional reform in Hesse with the previously independent municipalities of Allendorf , Barig-Selbenhausen , Merenberg and Rückershausen to form the new large municipality of Merenberg .

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Reichenborn: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 325
1840
  
 325
1846
  
 347
1852
  
 353
1858
  
 370
1864
  
 380
1871
  
 360
1875
  
 302
1885
  
 288
1895
  
 258
1905
  
 285
1910
  
 270
1925
  
 261
1939
  
 241
1946
  
 334
1950
  
 325
1956
  
 302
1961
  
 287
1967
  
 306
1970
  
 305
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: 260 Protestant, 10 Catholic and 3 other Christians, as well as 15 Jews.
• 1961: 241 Protestant and 41 Catholic residents

politics

Armin Beck will be the mayor after the local elections in March 2016.

societies

Club life is mainly shaped by the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Reichenborn eV founded in 1925 (since July 7, 1990 with the youth fire brigade), the mixed choir Concordia Reichenborn and the Sportfreunde Reichenborn.

Infrastructure

Since 1925, the Reichenborn volunteer fire brigade (from July 7, 1990 with youth fire brigade ) has provided fire protection and general help in this area. There is a village community center with a youth room in the bee garden, a sports field, a children's playground and hiking trails in the village .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reichenborn district. In: Website of the municipality of Merenberg, accessed in February 2019
  2. ↑ Information on the Jewish cemetery at www.alemannia-judaica.de
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of the communities of Allendorf, Barig-Selbenhausen, Merenberg, Reichenborn and Rückershausen in the Oberlahnkreis to form the community of "Merenberg" on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 111 , point 118 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  4. ↑ a b c Reichenborn, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 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. ↑ Local Advisory Boards. (No longer available online.) Merenberg community, archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 .

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