Allendorf (Greifenstein)

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Allendorf
Community Greifenstein
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 24 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 34 ″  E
Height : 198 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.8 km²
Residents : 1314  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 168 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Incorporated into: Ulmtal
Postal code : 35753
Area code : 06478

Allendorf ( pronunciation ? / I ) is a district of the municipality of Greifenstein in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . Audio file / audio sample

geography

location

The place is located on the lower Ulmbach , on the southern edge of the Westerwald , around 17 kilometers west of the district town of Wetzlar and around ten kilometers east of the city of Weilburg .

Other cities in the area are Braunfels (around 10 kilometers south), Herborn (around 20 kilometers north) and Limburg an der Lahn (around 30 km southwest). It is around 80 kilometers to Frankfurt am Main .

The place is between about 200- 411  m above sea level. NN .

Neighboring communities

Allendorf borders in the north on Rodenroth and Holzhausen , in the northeast on Ulm (all municipality of Greifenstein), in the south on the Leuner districts of Bissenberg and Biskirchen , and in the west on the villages Obershausen and Niedershausen of the municipality Löhnberg in the Limburg-Weilburg district

history

Allendorf (Greifenstein) - Protestant chapel and village fountain

It is assumed that people already settled the area around Allendorf in pre-Christian times, especially the Germans and Celts .

The plague also came to Allendorf in the 14th century . The population of the surrounding settlements fell rapidly, it was decided to give up the settlements and move to the village. Hence the name Allendorf , derived from Alle ein Dorf . As a result of the Thirty Years' War, the population had to accept the Catholic faith again in 1626, after the gospel was only professed on January 3, 1549. In 1631 Allendorf and the surrounding communities became Protestant again and finally as a result of the Swedish occupation.

Due to the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , Allendorf became Prussian in 1815 , and the border with Nassau ran right next to the village . Allendorf was Prussian until the Prussian exclave of the Wetzlar district was dissolved on September 30, 1932.

At the beginning of the 1920s, the Ulmtalbahn from Stockhausen to Beilstein via Allendorf was built in order to transport the raw materials from the Ulmtal. After regular freight traffic ended in 1988, the Ulmtalbahn was shut down and dismantled shortly thereafter. Today a cycle path is being built on the route. However, as early as 1916 - construction had already been successful in previous years - an approximately 5-kilometer-long narrow-gauge railway from Allendorf directly along the Ulmbach to Stockhausen was used to transport the iron ore from some pits to the Lahn Valley Railway.

In 1934 Allendorf became an independent municipality in the Wetzlar district .

In the Second World War, 75 young men did not return home (with a population of less than 500). A memorial wall at the cemetery in Allendorf is to commemorate them today. In the post-war period, families from East Prussia , Pomerania and Silesia found a new home in the village. After the end of the Soviet Union, many Russian Germans came to Allendorf. Since many Russian Germans knew that their ancestors came from Allendorf, it was easy for them to get used to. In addition, many ethnic German repatriates were tied to their homeland, which is why many still spoke the Allendorf dialect.

In the mid-1970s, Allendorf was a state-approved resort and mainly attracted tourists from the Ruhr area . This title had to be given up again at the end of the 1970s due to the falling number of overnight stays.

Territorial reform

On February 1, 1971 , the previously independent community of Allendorf merged voluntarily with the communities of Ulm and Holzhausen to form the community of Ulmtal in the Wetzlar district as part of the regional reform in Hesse . This community was on 1 January 1977. by the law on the restructuring of Dill circle counties Giessen and Wetzlar and the town of Giessen with Greifenstein and communities Arborn , Beilstein , Nenderoth and Oderberg for new large village Greifenstein together - despite the protests of citizens before the State Parliament in Wiesbaden. The municipality of Ulmtal and thus Allendorf was originally intended to be incorporated into the city of Leun , but the state parliament of Hesse decided against it in its last session before the regional reform. The consequence was that many members of the SPD felt betrayed by their party and lost almost 30 members in Allendorf (seven of them from the local council at the time). For Allendorf one as for all formerly independent municipalities local district with the town council and mayor formed. The local part of Beilstein became the seat of the municipal administration.

Allendorf as a district of Greifenstein

In 2002 a nature-loving leisure park, the "Outdoor Center Lahntal", was opened, which is visited by numerous families from all over Hesse.

In 2006, under the direction of MGV Harmonie Allendorf, the location hosted the 15th Allendorf Choir Meeting, where choirs from all over Germany came together. The event took place in Allendorf in 1999 and was repeated in 2011.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Allendorf: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 468
1840
  
 498
1846
  
 568
1852
  
 561
1858
  
 588
1864
  
 618
1871
  
 602
1875
  
 618
1885
  
 625
1895
  
 677
1905
  
 666
1910
  
 701
1925
  
 853
1939
  
 880
1946
  
 1,087
1950
  
 1,061
1956
  
 1,068
1961
  
 1,117
1967
  
 1,203
1970
  
 1,228
2011
  
 1,294
2015
  
 1,389
2017
  
 1.314
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: 0466 Protestant and 2 Catholic residents
1961: 1013 Protestant (= 90.69%) and 98 Catholic (= 8.77%) residents

Local advisory board

For the district of Allendorf there is a five-member local advisory board with a local councilor . After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the mayor is Markus Thor.

Culture and sights

For its relatively small size, Allendorf has several noteworthy sights. On the one hand, there is the OutdoorCenter Lahntal , a nature-loving leisure park , south of Allendorf . On the other hand, there is the fourth largest bat nursery in Hesse in Allendorf . With grants from the state of Hesse and the Lahn-Dill district, the district was secured and a bat information center is being built here in the bat house .

South of Allendorf there has been a sculpture park by the artist Siegfried Fietz since 2015. In addition to various works of art, there is also an open-air stage on the spacious area.

The Ulmtralrundwanderweg passes Allendorf at the western and eastern ends; a hiking trail "Art & Nature" leads through Allendorf's fields and forests.

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Greifenstein-Allendorf

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

For about 10 years the population of Allendorf has stabilized at around 1,200. Together with the Greifenstein districts of Holzhausen and Ulm, Allendorf forms the Ulmtal region , the economic focus of the municipality of Greifenstein. Allendorf, together with Holzhausen, has the lowest rate of commuters in Greifenstein, which is generally changing into a workers' community. This is due to the fact that in Allendorf, in contrast to the other districts, there are still metal processing companies, craft and trading companies, a clay opencast mine and a music and recording studio.

Shops for daily needs and medical care are available.

Public facilities

There has been a kindergarten in Allendorf since the 1970s - the municipality of Greifenstein is responsible for it.

Allendorf has been the location of a school since the century before last, and only the primary school since the 1960s. Secondary schools are located in Ehringshausen, Weilburg and Wetzlar.

Furthermore, there is an Evangelical and an Evangelical Lutheran church community in Allendorf, as well as an Evangelical community. There is also a lively club life, B. a women's choir, a German Teckelclub, a homeland and history club, a VdK, a tennis club and a sports club.

In 1974 the Ulmtalhalle was inaugurated, a multi-purpose hall that can accommodate up to 600 people and is therefore one of the largest multi-purpose halls in the region. The old town hall in the center of the village was extensively renovated in the 1990s and now houses a common room, several individual club rooms and the youth room.

There has been a volunteer fire brigade in Allendorf since 1928 .

traffic

Local public transport (ÖPNV)

Allendorf is connected to local transport in Wetzlar by bus line 125 and linked to Herborn by line 530 . There is also a bus connection to Solms (line 120) and Ehringshausen (line 204).

There are currently 3 stops in the Allendorf area:

  • Allendorf an der Ulm - Location 120 - Individual buses | 125 - Mon. to Fri. every hour, Saturdays every 3 hours
  • Allendorf - OutdoorCenter 120 - Individual buses | 125 - Mon. to Fri. every hour, Saturdays every 3 hours
  • Allendorf - School 120 - Individual buses | 204 Mon. - Fri. largely every hour | 530 Mon. - Fri. every 2 hours, 2 trips on Saturdays

The Allendorf-Kindergarten stop has not been used by public transport since the end of 2008.

Bike path

Allendorf is located on the Ulmtal cycle path, which connects the R7 cycle path near Biskirchen with the R8 cycle path near the knot summit.

Streets

Allendorf can be reached in a short time via the BAB 45 via the Ehringshausen and Wetzlar-Ost junctions and via the BAB 480 with the Aßlar junction. Approx. 4 km south of Allendorf is the federal highway 49 , which is a fast connection to Wetzlar , Gießen , Limburg an der Lahn and Weilburg .

Traffic planning

The plans for the expansion of the BAB 480 include the Ulmtal-Allendorf junction about 2 kilometers south of Allendorf, or today Greifenstein-Allendorf or Biskirchen / Allendorf. A bypass road around the center of the village has been an issue again and again since the 1970s, as heavy traffic in Allendorf is increasing. So far, however, only a part of it has been implemented.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c data and facts. In: website. Greifenstein community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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. 380 .
  4. ↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 19 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 293. DNB 770396321
  6. ↑ Main statute of the community of Greifenstein § 6. Accessed in February 2019.
  7. ↑ a b c Allendorf, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of August 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 250 ( online at google books ).
  10. ↑ Local advisory boards of the community of Greifenstein , accessed in March 2017.
  11. ↑ Hessian Nature Conservation Foundation, as of January 12, 2010
  12. ↑ detail. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .