Bicken (Mittenaar)

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Mittenaar municipality
Bicken Coat of Arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 53"  E
Height : 239  (237-252)  m
Area : 11.26 km²
Residents : 1726  (June 30, 2012)
Population density : 153 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35756
Area code : 02772
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Location of Bicken in Mittenaar

Bicken is a district and the administrative seat of the municipality Mittenaar in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

geography

location

State road 3050 runs through the village and meets federal road 255 in the village . The river Aar divides the place into two halves, Klein- and Groß-Bicken. The Weibach brooks , coming from Groß-Bicken, and the Gettenbach, coming from Klein-Bicken, flow into this river .

climate

  • Average annual temperature: 7–8 ° C depending on the altitude
  • Average annual fluctuations in air temperature: approx. 16.5 ° C
  • Average precipitation Annual precipitation totals: approx. 800 mm

history

In 1990 traces of settlement from the La Tène period (400–300 BC) were found in the local area . Older traces of settlement and places of worship in the high areas date from around 2000 BC. Chr.

The noble family of Lords von Bicken sat in Bicken , one of whom Anselm von Bicken was first mentioned in a Cologne document in 1218. The ancestral seat of the von Bicken family was Bicken Castle , of which nothing has survived. The place itself was first mentioned in Codex Zwettel from 1232. The village is probably even older, as a fortified house with stables surrounded by a moat stood in Bicken from the Franconian period.

A document from 1237 mentions an atonement between Counts Heinrich and Marquartt von Solms and Rudolf von Greifenstein on the one hand and Konrad and Gumpert von Bicken on the other. This atonement was the result of an attack on the imperial city of Wetzlar by the two Bickeners. These were subject to after the Counts of Solms had come to the imperial city's aid.

In the Dernbach feud, which lasted from 1230 to 1333, the Lords of Bicken and the Lords of Dernbach were subject to the Counts of Nassau in the struggle for supremacy in the Herborner Mark and had to cede or sell their rights and property there. Whether the lost Dernbacher feud contributed to the fact that the Lords of Bicken gradually withdrew from the town cannot be proven. In the first half of the 13th century at the latest, the family split into two lines, the Wolkersdorfer and the Haincher lines.

After the end of the Dernbach feud, a contract was signed on May 21, 1336 between the Lords of Bicken and the House of Nassau, in which the Lords of Bicken owned their Hainchen Castle with most of the associated property (except for their farms and Gülten in Bicken and Herbornseelbach and the patronage rights there ) for 800 marks to Count Heinrich III. sold by Nassau-Dillenburg . After Count Heinrich had proven that he had bought the suzerainty over it from the Lords of Molsberg, they were to take the Ebersbach court as a fief from the Counts of Nassau.

The favorable traffic situation of Bicken (with connection to several trunk roads) also led to disadvantages in the past. During the Thirty Years' War, for example, the place repeatedly suffered from uninvited visits from soldiers and mercenaries, which ended with loss of human life and property.

In the Napoleonic era , Bicken was the center of the villages of Ballersbach , Bicken, Offenbach and Herbornseelbach.

During the two world wars, Bicken suffered great losses among its residents. In the First World War 27 and in the Second World War 78 soldiers died.

The former town hall of Bicken, built around 1700, gave way to Bundesstraße 255 in 1977/78 in the course of its expansion. The half-timbered house was dismantled and rebuilt at its new location in the historic old town of Wetzlar .

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the communities of Bicken, Ballersbach and Offenbach voluntarily merged on December 31, 1971 to form the community of Mittenaar.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Bicken: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 582
1840
  
 594
1846
  
 593
1852
  
 539
1858
  
 507
1864
  
 516
1871
  
 509
1875
  
 527
1885
  
 543
1895
  
 592
1905
  
 669
1910
  
 713
1925
  
 845
1939
  
 993
1946
  
 1,342
1950
  
 1,371
1956
  
 1,376
1961
  
 1,407
1967
  
 1,587
1970
  
 1,741
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: 0536 Protestant (= 98.71%), 3 Catholic (= 0.55%), 4 other Christians (= 0.74%)
• 1961: 1176 Protestant (= 83.58%), 203 Catholic (= 14.43%) residents

coat of arms

In March 1952, the Hessian State Ministry granted the municipality of Bicken the right to use a coat of arms. After the incorporation, it became part of the municipal coat of arms of Mittenaar.

Bicken Coat of Arms
 Blazon : "In black, two silver bars."
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the coat of arms of the former noble family, the lords of Bicken , who owned the village as feudal men of the Counts of Nassau from 1327 to 1732.

Sights and culture

Architectural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Mittenaar-Bicken

societies

A choral society is located in Bicken, the 1860 Bicken Singers' Association . The association consists of a male choir, a female choir and a mixed choir. There is also a small choir “sing-for-fun” within the association, a choir for young and old. With over 150 years, the club is one of the oldest in the region.

Infrastructure

The Protestant Church
  • In the village there is the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit, the Protestant Church and a Protestant kindergarten .
  • In Bicken there is the Johann-Heinrich-Alsted-Schule (elementary, secondary and secondary school with support level).
  • There is a village community center.

traffic

Bicken has the following stops: Rathaus, Alte Schmiede, Aarbrücke and Leipziger Straße (from 2009). You are approached by the RMV with lines 403, 404 and 407.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Facts and Figures". Mittenaar community, archived from the original on October 6, 2015 ; accessed on September 21, 2015 .
  2. ^ Dietzhölztal local and tourist office: Dernbacher feud
  3. ^ Karl-Heinz Gerstenmeier: Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen 1977, p. 306.
  4. ↑ a b c Bicken, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 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. ↑ Granting of the right to use a coat of arms to the municipality of Bicken, Dillkreis, Wiesbaden administrative district on March 31, 1952 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1952 No. 15 , p. 280 , point 250 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.7 MB ]).
  7. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden (HHStAW), Dept. 503, No. 3509.