Burgschwalbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 8 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Aar facility
Height :	170 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.21 km 2
Residents:	1053 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	114 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	65558
Area code :	06430
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 020
Association administration address:	Burgstrasse 1 56368 Katzenelnbogen
Website :	www.burgschwalbach.de
Local Mayor :	Ehrenfried Bastian ( SPD )
Location of the municipality Burgschwalbach in the Rhein-Lahn district

Burgschwalbach is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate , it belongs to the Aar-Einrich association. Above the town of Burgschwalbach is the late medieval castle of the same name Schwalbach .

geography

Burgschwalbach is located in the Taunus (western Hintertaunus ) on the Palmbach , eleven kilometers south of Limburg an der Lahn .

Neighboring communities

From the local communities of the Aar-Einrich community, Schiesheim in the west, Hahnstätten in the north and Kaltenholzhausen in the northeast border on Burgschwalbach. The state border with Hesse runs to the east and south of the town . There is a direct road connection to Panrod , which belongs to Aarbergen .

Community structure

Part of the village of Zollhaus belongs to Burgschwalbach . This place with 250 inhabitants is an administrative curiosity, because it belongs to a total of four local communities: In addition to parts that belong to the local community of Burgschwalbach, parts of Zollhaus belong to the local communities Hahnstätten , Mudershausen and Schiesheim .

history

Schwalbach Castle

On June 9, 790, Burgschwalbach was first mentioned in a deed of donation from Charlemagne as Squalbach .

The place received city ​​rights on January 30, 1368 from Emperor Charles IV . Associated with this was the right to build city fortifications. According to sources without sources, Schwalbach Castle was built between 1368 and 1371 under Count Eberhard V. von Katzenelnbogen . However, due to the technical requirements at the time, this short construction period is very unlikely. There is evidence of a forge at the site for 1473, from which the Counts of Katzenelnbogen received donations.

1536 Burgschwalbach was under Count Philipp III. reformed by Nassau-Weilburg .

In 1803 the offices of Katzenelnbogen and Burgschwalbach were formed with the Kettenbach court and the village of Schiesheim to form the new Katzenelnbogen office. From 1816 Burgschwalbach belonged to the Diez office in the newly formed Duchy of Nassau . In 1866 the place became part of Prussia and has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

The mining of iron ore in the Michelbacher Hütte has been documented since 1656 . Numerous iron ore and limestone mining companies were located in Zollhaus until the Second World War.

Except for the mill tower, nothing is left of the city wall built around 1380. As the last major section of the fortification, the gate tower was demolished in 1824 due to the risk of collapse.

The schoolhouse, which was built in 1713 and demolished at the end of the 19th century, is no longer there. In the early 1970s, the village mill was also leveled. In its place is the village square today.

The population developed as follows in the 19th and 20th centuries: 1843: 779 inhabitants, 1927: 969 inhabitants, 1964: 921 inhabitants.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Burgschwalbach consists of 16 council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	11	5	-	16 seats
2014	10	3	3	16 seats
2009	9	4th	3	16 seats
2004	9	3	4th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Community Burgschwalbach e. V.

mayor

The local mayor of Burgschwalbach is Ehrenfried Bastian (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 85.03% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms goes back to the town seal of Burgschwalbach from the 16th century. When the coat of arms was changed in the middle of the 20th century, the colors of the coat of arms were derived from the colors of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen .

Culture and sights

Protestant church

The Protestant church is located below the castle. The nave comes from the Romanesque fortified church built around 1100 on this site . In the second half of the 14th century, a Gothic choir was added to the east side of this rectangular hall building made of rubble . The bell tower in the west of the complex was built in the 16th century. A distinctive part of the furnishings is an early baroque pulpit .

Jewish Cemetery

There is a Jewish cemetery in Burgschwalbach, which was probably created at the beginning of the 19th century. There was no Jewish community in Burgschwalbach itself, the cemetery was used by several Jewish communities in the surrounding area. It has an area of ​​25.96 acres . 81 tombstones mainly from the first half of the 20th century are still preserved.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Burgschwalbach

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The B 54 runs from north to south west past Burgschwalbach.

Web links

Commons : Burgschwalbach  - Collection of images

• Website of the local community Burgschwalbach
• Local community Burgschwalbach on the website of the municipality of Aar-Einrich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ SWR broadcast here in Germany
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Aar-Einrich, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .