Wilhelmsdorf (Usingen)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilhelmsdorf
City of Usingen
Wilhelmsdorf coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 386 m above sea level NN
Residents : 386  (Jun 30, 2011)
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 61250
Area code : 06081
map
Location of Wilhelmsdorf in Usingen
Wilhelmsdorf aerial view

Wilhelmsdorf is a district of Usingen in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis .

geography

Wilhelmsdorf lies at an altitude of 360 to 400 meters. The highest elevations near Wilhelmsdorf are the Galgenkopf at 409 meters above sea ​​level and the Hirschsteinlai at 430 meters above sea level.

Neighboring towns are Niederlauken (west), Hundstadt (north), Usingen (east) and Merzhausen (south-west).

history

Old Town Hall

In the area of ​​today's Wilhelmsdorf a place "Hunengesesse" is mentioned in 1280. In 1685, Count Walrad von Nassau-Usingen had a hunting farm built.

On June 24, 1707, the founding deed for the community Wilhelmsdorf was signed by the founder, Prince Wilhelm Heinrich von Nassau-Usingen. The core of the new place was the 400-acre estate "the new court" owned by the prince. According to the will of the prince, 7 selected families were settled here, who, in addition to the land, should also receive free timber for the construction of the settlement. In order to avoid a fragmentation of the land through real division , the indivisibility of the property was determined by edict on February 18, 1716.

Since the Wilhelmsdorfers neither had their own church nor a school, these buildings in the neighboring town of Merzhausen were also used. A common church community still exists today.

With the integration of the expellees in 1946, the population of Wilhelmsdorf doubled (from 133 in 1939). The town hall was also occupied with homeless displaced persons.

A school was built in 1950. After a central elementary school was established in Usingen at the end of the 1960s, the school was converted into today's village community center.

On August 1, 1972, the municipality of Wilhelmsdorf was incorporated into Usingen by means of state law as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Attractions

The listed historic town hall is an eye-catcher of the place. Next to the town hall is the former bakery (Backes)

Infrastructure

Facilities

The village has a community center with sports hall and a fire station for the volunteer fire department .

traffic

Despite its rural location, Wilhelmsdorf is connected to the Usinger Land and the Rhine-Main area via the Taunus Railway . The Wilhelmsdorf station at km 22.87 is at 399.45 meters above sea level, the highest station on the Taunusbahn.

Usingen is 5 km away by car.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration office statistics. (PDF) City of Usingen, archived from the original on February 20, 2014 ; accessed in August 2018 .
  2. ↑ Gisela Ute Freisinge on Wilhelmsdorf Online
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II 330-18) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 227 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 379 .