Burbach (Siegerland)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Burbach
Burbach (Siegerland)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Burbach highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '  N , 8 ° 5'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Circle : Siegen-Wittgenstein
Height : 380 m above sea level NHN
Area : 79.72 km 2
Residents: 14,856 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 186 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 57299
Area code : 02736
License plate : SI, BLB
Community key : 05 9 70 008
LOCODE : DE BUH
Community structure: 9 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Eicher Weg 13
57299 Burbach
Website : www.burbach-siegerland.de
Mayor : Christoph Ewers ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Burbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district
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Burbach is a municipality in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

structure
Location of the place Burbach within the municipality of Burbach.

The municipality of Burbach is located in the Siegerland between the northeastern foothills of the Westerwald and the southeastern foothills of the Rothaargebirge. It lies west of the Höh in the valley of the Heller , which is an eastern tributary of the Sieg . The municipality of Burbach is the southernmost in Westphalia . For example, mountains belong

Neighboring communities

Community structure

The community of Burbach consists of the districts of the "Upper Free Ground" :

as well as from the villages of the Hickengrund :

history

Burbach seen from the northwest.

Approx. 500-400 BC Celtic - Germanic tribes discovered iron ore, built the first smelting furnaces and built the hill fort on the castle hill. From around 700 the Franconian settlement took place .

The region was first mentioned in the 11th century. On April 28, 1048, a written document describes the Burbach and Neunkirchen areas as “praedium virorum liberorum”, that is, the area of ​​free men, hence the name “Free reason”. In the 11th century one was church built and from the year 1219, the first written record dates of the name "Burbach". In 1367 the Snorrenburg was destroyed on the Römer in the center of Burbach. The dual power of Nassau and Sayn develops. The first mentioned Nassau Vogt in Burbach in 1467 was Gerhard Buckinck. Nassau and Sayn founded a joint court in Burbach in 1478, but it remained controversial. In 1530 the parish of Burbach became Lutheran and in 1568 William of Orange gathered his troops on the Ginsberger Heide. In 1584 the parish of Burbach was reformed. In 1607 Der Hickengrund, previously part of the Haiger court, was subordinated to the Burbach bailiwick.

In the Thirty Years' War , the Burbach Bailiwick had to provide workers to expand the Dillenburg castle fortifications. 1743–1806 Nassau government by the Orange Court in The Hague through the administration in Dillenburg. On July 4, 1758, more than 160 buildings fell to rubble in the great fire of Burbach, the old bailiwick remains standing. In 1760, numerous families emigrated to America. In 1774 the now dilapidated nave was demolished. Two years later the first service took place in the rebuilt but not yet completely finished church. In 1780 a new organ was purchased for the new church. In 1799 the dual rule in Freie Grund came to an end through marriage. In the same year on July 3, a fire destroyed 21 residential buildings and associated courtyards in Burbach. In 1806 the Freie Grund and the Hickengrund remained Nassau, while the rest of the Siegerland became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg .

On October 26, 1816, Prussia took possession of the Burbach area as a result of the Congress of Vienna for the reorganization of Europe after the Napoleonic era. A year later than the rest of the Siegerland, Burbach came to Prussia and was initially ruled from Koblenz . In 1817 the Siegen district was formed within Westphalia . In 1844, the Burbach office was created from the mayor offices of Dresselnorf , Neunkirchen and Burbach, which were formed 30 years earlier . In 1848 the district court and today's medical center was built on Jägerstrasse.

In 1860 a connection to today's B 277 was built. On July 1, 1861, the Betzdorf-Burbach railway line and on January 12, 1861, the Burbach-Dillenburg railway line were added. The Burbach Voluntary Fire Brigade was founded in 1876 and electricity came to Burbach from 1905. In the same year, today's town hall was occupied. In 1907 the Peterszeche , the largest mine in the municipality, stopped mining. During the Second World War, air raids took place in 1944 and on March 29, 1945, Burbach was captured by the Americans.

By the local government reform in the winning country of was due to the Second Law on the restructuring of the district wins the greater community of Burbach on 1 January 1969 by a summary of the previously independent and the Office Burbach member municipalities Burbach, Gilsbach, Holzhausen, Lippe, Lützeln, Niederdresselndorf, Oberdresselnorf, Wahlbach and Würgendorf. In 1976 the district court was closed. In 1982 the Alte Vogtei, the oldest half-timbered house in Burbach, was restored. From 1983 to 1989 the “Living and Working in Burbach” museum was set up and set up in the former tithe barn of the Bailiwick. In 1986 the Bürgerhaus Burbach was inaugurated.

Between 1994 and 1998 the Herbig house, which dates back to the 17th century, was acquired by the “Alte Vogtei” local history association. The building was restored in accordance with a listed building. In 1999 the bypass road through the Leimkaute, north of the center of Burbach, was built.

Population development

Official population of the municipality of Burbach since its foundation

year Residents
1969 13,044
1970 13,192
1971 13,456
1972 13,517
1973 13,561
1974 13,656
1975 13,617
1976 13,558
1977 13,370
1978 13,268
year Residents
1979 13,382
1980 13,515
1981 13,330
1982 13,178
1983 13,186
1984 13,186
1985 13,168
1986 13,243
1987 13,422
1988 13,516
year Residents
1989 13,780
1990 14,017
1991 14,299
1992 14,564
1993 14,674
1994 14,740
1995 14,807
1996 14,882
1997 14,799
1998 14,939
year Residents
1999 14,962
2000 15,064
2001 15,076
2002 15,036
2003 14,985
2004 14,947
2005 14,872
2006 14,770
2007 14,709
2008 14,641
year Residents
2009 14,486
2010 14,443
2011 14,317
2012 14,453
2013 14,418

Core town of Burbach

Population of the core town of Burbach

year Residents
1810 585
1818 574
1850 789
1885 888
1895 900
1900 1072
year Residents
1910 1124
1913 1145
1925 1306
1933 1403
1939 1456
1950 2164
year Residents
1961 2619
1967 3487
1985 3960
1994 4568

Numbers of houses in the core town of Burbach

year 1447 1548 1589 1698 1704 1706 1725 1788 1810 1846 1850 1867
Houses 20th 48 48 60 71 71 75 81 81 110 112 127

politics

Local election 2014
Turnout: 50.14% (2009: 51.95%)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
59.56%
31.17%
9.27%
n. k.
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
+ 6.56  % p
+0.62  % p.p.
+ 2.02  % p
-9.2  % p

Municipal council

After the local elections on May 25, 2014, the 32 seats of the municipal council are distributed as follows:

CDU SPD GREEN total
2014 19th 10 3 32

The FDP, which previously had three seats, has left the municipal council.

mayor

Mayor is Christoph Ewers (* 1962) (CDU). He was elected mayor in 2003 and re-elected in 2009 and 2014. His predecessors included Hermann-Josef Droege, Volkmar Klein and Hartmut Hering, who was elected on October 19, 1989 (all CDU).

Coat of arms and banner

  • coat of arms

  • banner

coat of arms

The municipality was granted the right to use a coat of arms and a flag (banner shape) with a certificate from the District President Arnsberg dated July 20, 1970.

Blazon : “Split by blue and gold; in front an upright, red-armored, golden lion accompanied by six golden clapboards, behind three stake-like, butting, upright black diamonds. "

The lion stands for the Princely House of Nassau-Siegen. The three diamonds come from the Lords of Seelbach, who controlled the community in the Middle Ages.

Description of the banner: "From yellow to blue striped lengthways with the municipal coat of arms in the shield in the upper half."

Town twinning

There has been an official twinning with the Czech city of Tanvald since 2007 , after a declaration of friendship between the two cities had already been made in 1995.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Natural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Station building

The A 45 motorway (Sauerland line) runs through the municipality in the northeast . In addition, the municipality in the east is opened up by the B 54 , which runs from Siegen in the direction of Limburg an der Lahn .

The community is connected to the Deutsche Bahn AG network via the Hellertalbahn (RB96) from Betzdorf to Haiger . In Haiger there are connections in the direction of Siegen and Gießen / Frankfurt am Main and in Betzdorf in the direction of Siegen and Cologne . The station is served by the RB 96 Betzdorf – Dillenburg line of the Hessian State Railway . Freight traffic is carried out through the Siegen-Wittgenstein circular railway .

There are bus connections through the VGWS to all neighboring communities, which are operated by the VWS . The central transfer point is the Burbach Post stop , which is linked to the Burbach train station (Kr Siegen) .

The Citizen Bus Burbach has been running since 2007.

Siegerland Airport is located in the south of the municipality .


Personalities

Sons and daughters of the community who were born or worked in Burbach

See also

literature

  • Kurt Becker: Our fathers - the miners of the Bautenberg mine between Gilsbach and Wilden, Dill and Westerwald , Dillbrecht 1994

Web links

Commons : Burbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Burbach (Siegerland)  - travel guide
Wikisource: Burbach in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ Siegen Document Book Volume I, Siegen , 1887, p. 8, no. 7.
  3. Jumped back ... , Siegener Zeitung of July 30, 2011, p. 43
  4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 69 .
  5. ↑ State database NRW
  6. ↑ 700 years of Neunkirchen , Otto Braun Verlag, Neunkirchen 1988
  7. ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
  8. ^ A b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 110/111
  10. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
  11. ↑ Heinrich Gamann: history of free reason , pressure of the West German publishing house, Neunkirchen 1925, p. 6
  12. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Burbach
  13. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 173 .
  14. ↑ Rolf Betz: Burbach ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwl.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.4 MB) , approx. 1995
  15. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l E. Weidenbach: History of the County of Sayn and the components of the same , print E. Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1874, p. 287.
  16. ^ Burbach, Council election
  17. ^ "Siegerland Chronicle from September 1, 1989 to August 31, 1990", Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1991, pp. 173, 174, 66th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V., publishing house for local literature
  18. ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Burbach, § 2. Accessed on January 31, 2013 .