Adolfseck

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Adolfseck
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Adolfseck
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 46"  E
Height : 280 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 237  (1970)
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 65307
Area code : 06124

Adolfseck , formerly Adolphseck , is a district of the city of Bad Schwalbach in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse . It is the smallest district in terms of population.

geography

Adolfseck with the dammed up former river loop (left) and waterfall (right) in an engraving by Merian

The former castle and the town center of Adolfseck are located north of the core town of Bad Schwalbach, in the western Hintertaunus , on an artificial mountain of the Aar that originally flowed around this mountain in a loop from the south, east and north. The Aar has been flowing west of Adolfseck through an artificial breakthrough since 1355 in the late Middle Ages , the gradient of which was used to operate a mill. For this purpose, a pond was dammed behind the Mühlendamm , which existed until 1820. Its fine clastic sediments could still be clearly proven in 2007 by means of boreholes. Today the Aar is channeled underground over a length of around 60 meters at this point, and electrical energy is generated at a weir using a turbine. Thus, the location of the town center can neither be clearly assigned to the east bank nor the west bank of the Aar. The largest waterfall in the Taunus , which was created with the breakthrough, can only be viewed when the water in the Aar is high.

The district of Adolfseck is mainly to the east of the Aar, in stark contrast to the other Bad Schwalbacher districts. Only about 20 hectares lie like a bridgehead on the west bank. The Rensfelden desert ( 50 ° 9 ′ 55.7 ″  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 39.7 ″  E ) and the Franzensberger Mühle ( 50 ° 10 ′ 10.3 ″  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 23 , 5 "  O ).

The most attractive route in the Aartal begins at Adolfseck. Up to Michelbach it is narrow, partly cut like a gorge into the Taunus , very winding, very wooded and sparsely populated.

history

Protestant church

Adolfseck was first mentioned in a document as Adolfsekke in a fiefdom letter from Archbishop Gerlach of Nassau in favor of his brother on February 18, 1356. It mentions that Count Adolf I of Nassau was just about to build Adolfseck Castle and that he received it as a fief from the archbishop. The place belonged to the county of Nassau because its area was largely east of the Aar. The county of Katzenelnbogen began west of the Aar .

The residents of the nearby town of Rensfelden soon settled around the castle . Up until the Thirty Years' War, the wool weaving profession was very well represented in Adolfseck, aided by the fulling mills on the Aar.

In 1363 the name Adolfiseyke was proven. In 1367, Adolfseck was granted Frankfurt city rights by Emperor Karl IV, along with Steckenroth and Heftrich .

During the Thirty Years War , Adolfseck was destroyed by Kurmainz . The Adolfseck ski jump still bears witness to the battles of that time .

At the time of the Duchy of Nassau , Adolfseck belonged to the Langen-Schwalbach office . After the annexation by Prussia, it was assigned to the Untertaunuskreis in the Wiesbaden administrative district in 1867 .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Adolfseck was incorporated into the city of Bad Schwalbach on December 31, 1971, together with five neighboring municipalities on a voluntary basis . As for every district outside the core city, the main statute established a local district for Adolfseck with a local advisory board and local councilor .

coat of arms

On June 14, 1967, the municipality of Adolfseck in the then Untertaunuskreis , administrative district Wiesbaden , was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In a blue field sprinkled with golden shingles a seated, red-crowned, -zungter and -armored golden lion.

Attractions

The Aar waterfall in the center of the village; on the left the pressure pipe of the hydropower plant

The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes crosses the Aar valley 500 meters north of Adolfseck . The small fort Adolfseck was built on the east bank in the valley to secure the border, but no visible traces have been preserved.

Only the remains of walls and a well have survived from the castle . The former Valentine's Chapel is now a listed building and is used as a church by the Protestant parish.

The Aar waterfall is mostly dry due to the hydroelectric use, but is worth seeing when the water level is high. There are similarly created waterfalls in Sommerau (Hunsrück), at Elzbach near Burg Pyrmont (Eifel) and in Coo (Belgium). The dam mill at the site of the dam that dammed the Aar to the castle pond was first mentioned in 1710 and is now a listed building.

In addition, the former elementary school built in 1912 and the entire Taunusstrasse complex are cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Economy and Infrastructure

tourism

Like the whole region, Adolfseck is part of the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park , which aims to enable people to relax in a natural environment. The scenic Aar valley and the spa town of Bad Schwalbach invite you to go on excursions.

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . This follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

traffic

Adolfseck is on the federal highway 54 , which runs as the Aarstrasse from Diez an der Lahn to Taunusstein in the Aartal. In this way, Adolfseck is conveniently located near the district town of Bad Schwalbach. Wiesbaden and the Rhine-Main area can be reached quickly. Adolfseck used to have a stop on the Aartalbahn , which pierces the Umlaufberg in the 150 m long Adolfseck tunnel. The listed south portal is clad with rubble stones and has a square arch opening.

The Rheingau-Taunus-Verkehrsgesellschaft (RTV) is the local public transport company in the Rheingau-Taunus district . She is a partner in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund .

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolfseck  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Stolz, J. Grunert: Floodplain sediments of some streams in the Taunus and Westerwald MTs., Western Germany, as evidence of historical land use. Journal of Geomorphology, 52, p. 349-373.
  2. ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt dated September 24, 2004: Aarschleife is about to be reactivated. Citizens are still skeptical despite the advantages. As part of an information event, the plans to reactivate the Aarschleife near Adolfseck were presented to the citizens of the Bad Schwalbach district for the first time.
  3. ↑ a b Topographic map 1: 25,000
  4. ↑ a b Hessian Land Surveying Office: District map 1: 50,000 Wiesbaden Rheingaukreis Untertaunuskreis, edition 1969
  5. ^ "Rensfelden, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ↑ Adolfseck at www.dilibri.de (PDF file 2.4 MB)
  7. ^ 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. 377 .
  8. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 85 kB) § 6. In: Website. City of Bad Schwalbach, accessed February 2019 .
  9. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Adolfseck, district of Untertaunuskreis, administrative district of Wiesbaden from June 14, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 27 , p. 7798 , item 649 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  10. ↑ German Limes Road: Limes near Adolfseck  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.limesstrasse.de  
  11. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Chapel In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  12. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Former Damm-Mühle In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  13. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Former elementary school In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  14. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Entire site Taunusstrasse In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  15. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Adolfecker Tunnel In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse