Blessenbach

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Blessenbach
Community Weinbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 242 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.66 km²
Residents : 571  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 86 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 35796
Area code : 06474

Blessenbach is a district of the municipality of Weinbach in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Blessenbach is located in the eastern Hintertaunus in the Taunus Nature Park .
Neighboring towns are Elkerhausen (northwest), Laubuseschbach (southeast) and the hamlet of Klein-Weinbach (south).

history

Blessenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1267 and was under the rule of the Counts of Diez , whose inheritance came from the Lords of Runkel . The place belongs to the lordship of the monastery St. Maximin zu Trier with its center in Laubuseschbach. Remarkably, Laubuseschbach was a branch of the Blessenbach church. The Kleinweinbach, already mentioned as Minore Wynbach in 1325, belongs to Blessenbach. As bailiffs of the monastery, the lords of Molsberg owned the manor and enfeoffed Hiltwin von Elkerhausen in 1332 with the church set, court, courtyards, large and small tithe and the Laubus forest. After the decline of the Molsbergers, the Hiltwin heirs took over these possessions and rights as an Electorate of Trier fiefdom . By 1517 at the latest, the gentlemen of Schönborn became the sole owners. At the end of the 17th century, they sold their rights to the Danish von Friesensee family, who in turn ceded them to the Count von Wied-Runkel in 1709.

As early as 1495, a mine that was initially in runic possession was in operation here. As early as 1502 there was slate mining in Blessenbach , which developed into an important source of income, especially in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 18th century, a small slate cottage settlement was established. A silver melt that fell into disrepair around 1780 experienced a certain boom in the middle of the 18th century in connection with the brief flourishing of the Weilburg mint. The Hörderhof, which belongs to Blessenbach and was first mentioned in 1334, was leased by the Count Wied-Runkel at the beginning of the 19th century to the Mennonite families Nafziger and Schwarztraub, who stayed on the farm until 1840. In 1806 Blessenbach came to the Duchy of Nassau and after its dissolution in 1867 to the Prussian Oberlahnkreis .

Territorial reform

The municipality of Blessenbach in the former Oberlahnkreis merged voluntarily as part of the regional reform in Hesse on December 1, 1970 with the independent municipalities of Weinbach , Freienfels and Gräveneck to form the new municipality of Weinbach. Weinbach was designated as the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Blessenbach: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 412
1840
  
 436
1846
  
 463
1852
  
 481
1858
  
 524
1864
  
 570
1871
  
 592
1875
  
 530
1885
  
 583
1895
  
 600
1905
  
 593
1910
  
 550
1925
  
 523
1939
  
 455
1946
  
 639
1950
  
 643
1956
  
 611
1961
  
 629
1967
  
 612
1970
  
 627
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: 559 Protestant (= 95.88%), 6 Catholic (= 1.03%), 5 other Christian (= 0.86%), 13 Jewish (= 2.23%) residents
• 1961: 494 Protestant (= 78.54%), 126 Catholic (= 20.03%) residents

societies

  • Sports community (SG) 1908 eV Blessenbach
  • Rabbit Breeding Association Blessenbach
  • Blessenbach women's choir
  • Mixed choir Blessenbach
  • Voluntary fire brigade Blessenbach founded in 1932 (since December 1, 1985 including youth fire brigade )
  • Social association VdK local group Blessenbach
Blessenbach parish hall

Facilities

Since 1932, the Blessenbach volunteer fire brigade (from December 1, 1985 with youth fire brigade) has provided fire protection and general help in this area. In Blessenbach there is a village community center in the Grund, a lawn sports field in the Grund, children's playgrounds and hiking trails.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Blessenbach, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 14, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers, data - facts . In: Internet presence. Weinbach municipality, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Merger of the communities Weinbach, Blessenbach, Freienfels and Gräveneck in the Oberlahnkreis to form the new community "Weinbach" on November 30, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 50 , p. 2338 , item 2336 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 372 .
  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. ↑ Blessenbach on the website of the community of Weinbach, accessed in February 2017.