Audenschmiede

Audenschmiede Community Weilmünster Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 36 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 27 ″ E
Height :	196 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	117 (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1950

KMDC plant

Buderus factory building from 1910

Buderus Street

Half-timbered house

Audenschmiede is a settlement in the hamlet of Weilmünster in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse . It belongs to the district of the core town of Weilmünster.

geography

The place is in the Weiltal of the eastern Hintertaunus , south of the center of Weilmünster. Langenbach is located about 1 kilometer southwest .

history

The origin of the settlement is the forest smithy of Weilmünster, which was first mentioned in a document in 1421, when Count Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg and Saarbrücken gave the blacksmith Otto the forest smithy. In 1588 the facility was significantly modernized: it received a blast furnace and an iron hammer . During the Thirty Years War , the ironworks went out and the buildings were damaged. In 1646/47 the hammer operation started up again, in 1652 the blast furnace too. In 1716 a new shutdown took place, which was ended in 1763.

After the restart of operations, Johann Trieb from Weilburg was the tenant of the smelter. Effective April 1, 1798, the Bergrat Johann Wilhelm Buderus II acquired the Audenschmiede (he had married the two daughters of Johann Trieb) from the Nassau-Weilburg government and left it (as part of the Buderus company from the town of Wetzlar, 20 km away ) expand. The blast furnace ran at full speed in the years of industrialization, before it was shut down in 1877. On May 3, 1930, the foundry was also closed. In 1936, after extensive renovations, operations were resumed by a new owner and mainly gray cast iron was produced here before the plant closed again. But the settlement remained. Today the company premises are used by the automotive supplier KM Decorative Components GmbH. The chimney , one of the oldest parts of the plant, was built in 1858 and renovated in 1911 and 1983.

On April 1, 1950 Audenschmiede was incorporated into Weilmünster. The incorporated community has the official local name "Weilmünster-Audenschmiede".

Former rail connection

In order to be able to better transport the rich raw material deposits in the remote region, the construction of a branch line from Weilburg to Weilmünster, branching off the already existing Lahntalbahn , began in 1889 , the Weiltalbahn , which was officially opened on November 1st, 1890. In 1892 the extension from Weilmünster to Laubuseschbach was opened. In 1909 the connection between Weilmünster and Grävenwiesbach went into operation, so that Audenschmiede also had a connection to Frankfurt am Main .

Decline and shutdown

From the winter timetable in 1955, passenger traffic on the short Weilmünster – Laubuseschbach branch line was completely discontinued, but freight traffic was only discontinued in 1968. In the 1960s, operations on the Weilburg – Grävenwiesbach section were deliberately reduced, so that in 1969 people were finally hired - and goods traffic between Weilburg and Grävenwiesbach took place. The lines were completely shut down and dismantled a year later, and the Mönstädter Viaduct was laid down in 1974. On the remainder of the stretch between Weilmünster and Weilburg, goods traffic was operated in the transfer procedure until the end of the 1980s, and passenger traffic only returned temporarily after a few special trips. Today there are partly bike and footpaths on the railway lines.

societies

Club life is mainly shaped by the fire brigade association of the Audenschmiede volunteer fire brigade, which was founded in 1934 .

literature

Fritz Geisthardt: Sovereign iron industry in the Taunus. In: Nassau Annals . Vol. 68, 1957, pp. 156-174.

Web links

Commons : Audenschmiede - collection of images

The place on the website of the community of Weilmünster
Audenschmiede, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ Development of the population in the market town of Weilmünster on the website of the community of Weilmünster , accessed in March 2020
↑ The name of the district Weilmünster-Audenschmiede of the community of Audenschmiede, which was incorporated into the community of Weilmünster, Oberlahn district, Wiesbaden district, from November 2, 1950 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1950 No. 46 , p. 471 , point 875 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).

[1] Development of the population in the market town of Weilmünster on the website of the community of Weilmünster , accessed in March 2020

[2] The name of the district Weilmünster-Audenschmiede of the community of Audenschmiede, which was incorporated into the community of Weilmünster, Oberlahn district, Wiesbaden district, from November 2, 1950 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1950 No. 46 , p. 471 , point 875 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).