Breitenbach (Ehringshausen)

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Breitenbach
Community Ehringhausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 222 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.85 km²
Residents : 258  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 67 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35630
Area code : 06440
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Location of Breitenbach in Ehringshausen

Breitenbach is the smallest district of the Ehringshausen community in the Hessian Lahn-Dill district .

geography

The village is located in a small side valley of the Lemp , in the Gladenbacher Bergland , the eastern foothills of the Westerwald . Kölschhausen is to the west and Bechlingen to the east . The next larger city is Wetzlar .

history

On March 13, 778, Breitenbach was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in a deed of donation to the Lorsch Monastery . The village was within the county of Solms and was assigned to the office of Greifenstein . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the Dillheimer parish, but after the Reformation it belonged to the parish of Kölschhausen.

In 1815 the place became part of Prussia and was administered by the mayor's office in Asslar . As early as 1816, the residents of Breitenbach demanded their own school, which was completed in 1820. From then on, the school was also used as a house of prayer by the parish.

On October 11, 1850, the “Schöne Anfang” mine was awarded to Prince Ferdinand von Solms-Braunfels to mine iron ore. The mine field was located 500 meters south of the village and was initially operated in open-cast mining. The minerals hematite and magnetite were later mined after the construction of three tunnels underground. In addition to the upper gallery and the middle gallery , the lower Marien gallery was completed in 1908 . The mine had already been sold to Friedrich Krupp AG on December 1, 1906 . On June 30, 1943, dismantling in the “Schöne Anfang” mine ended.

After the mayor's offices in the district of Wetzlar were abolished in 1934, Breitenbach became an independent municipality.

In 1978 the place celebrated its 1200th anniversary and received the Freiherr-vom-Stein plaque .

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Breitenbach was mentioned under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Breitenbach, in villa super Fluvio Lemphia (778) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3058 = 3696a]
  • Breitenbach, in (781) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3047 = 3700]
  • Breitenbach, de (781) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3047 = 3700]
  • Breitenbach, in (781) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3132 = 3704b]
  • Breitenbach, in (781) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3175 = 3701b]
  • Breitenbach, in (around 800) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3661a]

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse on January 1, 1977, the communities Ehringshausen, Breitenbach, Daubhausen, Katzenfurt, Kölsch Hausen and Niederlemp were powerful state law to the new greater community Ehringhausen together . For Breitenbach, as for all formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was set up. Ehringshausen remained the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Breitenbach: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
110
1840
  
121
1846
  
119
1852
  
120
1858
  
123
1864
  
124
1871
  
122
1875
  
123
1885
  
121
1895
  
131
1905
  
123
1910
  
123
1925
  
144
1939
  
145
1946
  
195
1950
  
197
1956
  
201
1961
  
171
1967
  
180
1970
  
196
2014
  
251
2017
  
258
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

• 1834: 110 Protestant residents
• 1961: 158 Protestant (= 89.27%), 19 Catholic (= 10.73%) residents

Attractions

Hessenpark, outbuilding from Breitenbach

Cultural monuments

see list of cultural monuments in Breitenbach The " Hofanlage aus Breitenbach " was dismantled in Breitenbach and rebuilt in Hessenpark .

Web links

Commons : Breitenbach (Ehringshausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ehringshausen community and districts. In: website. Ehringshausen community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3058, March 13, 778 - Reg. 1375. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 72 , accessed on May 8, 2019 .
  3. a b c d Breitenbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 29, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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 ., § 18 ( 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. 290. DNB 770396321
  6. ^ 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).
  7. 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 ).