Burgsolms

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Burgsolms
City of Solms
Burgsolms coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 19 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 150 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.86 km²
Residents : 4565  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 665 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Postal code : 35606
Area code : 06442
map
Location of Burgsolms in Solms
Aerial photograph 2007
Aerial photograph 2007
Local museum
Industrial museum

With around 4500 inhabitants, Burgsolms is the largest district of the central Hessian town of Solms in the Lahn-Dill district .

Geographical location

It is located on the lower Solmsbach just before its confluence with the Lahn . Burgsolms is located on the edge of the eastern Hintertaunus , ( Wetzlarer Hintertaunus ) and the Taunus Nature Park .

history

The oldest finds suggest that the area of ​​today's Burgsolm has been inhabited since the La Tène period .

The Lorsch Codex mentions the donation of a church on the Sulmissa river, today's Solmsbach, for the year 788 . The question of whether Burgsolms or the neighboring town of Oberndorf, also called Obersolms in documentary sources, is the oldest part of Solms, is still a dispute that separates the two towns, even though they have already grown together.

The Oberndorfer Church is said to have been the church mentioned in 788, since in the documentary tradition the church in Burgsolms is always referred to as a subsidiary church. Finds suggest Burgsolms rather than the older part. A sign of this is e.g. B. a crypt of a Carolingian church that was found during construction work on the Evangelical parish hall in the 1950s, as well as a Carolingian ring wall , the "Free Stone". It was not until 1129 that the two Solms appear separately in documents.

Around the year 1100 Burgsolms became the seat of the nobles of Solms . The Solms people, who had been counts since 1223, expanded a fortified courtyard they lived in into a moated castle , which eventually became the namesake of the Solms district. In 1384 the heavily fortified castle was besieged by the Wetterau Association of Cities at the instigation of the imperial city of Wetzlar . Count Johann von Solms-Burgsolms fled to the neighboring castle Greifenstein , and the complex was destroyed by the association of towns and not rebuilt. The last remnants of the castle, the approximately 14 meter high “stork wall”, was removed from 1952–54 due to falling rocks.

Burgsolms was heavily fortified in the Middle Ages. A city wall with four drop gates is occupied, of which there are no remains today either.

Even if in the 1960s half-timbered houses had to give way to the construction of a larger street through the town and were partly replaced by flat roof buildings, some of the historical building fabric has been preserved. In particular in Lindenstrasse and adjacent streets there is a listed complex that encompasses the north-western area of ​​the old town center. Here you can find an unusually dense historical substance consisting of numerous individual monuments and other important buildings.

Territorial reform

On July 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent communities of Burgsolms and Oberndorf merged on a voluntary basis to form the new community of Solms . On January 1, 1977, by virtue of state law, the merger with the communities of Bielhausen and Niederbiel to form the newly created large community of Solms .

Historical forms of names

Burgsolms was mentioned in documents under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Solmisse (1300) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 2, No. 192]
  • Burgsolmße, zue (1332) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, No. 1196]
  • Borgsolmesze, before (1361) [Document book of the city Friedberg 1, No. 845 B, p. 588]
  • Solmsz Castle (1385) [Document book of the city of Friedberg 1, No. 654, p. 348]
  • burg Solms (1386) [Document book of the city Friedberg 1, no. 665, p. 358]

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Burgsolms: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 512
1840
  
 634
1846
  
 716
1852
  
 760
1858
  
 781
1864
  
 863
1871
  
 918
1875
  
 1,125
1885
  
 1,341
1895
  
 1,464
1905
  
 1,615
1910
  
 1,748
1925
  
 1,889
1939
  
 2,087
1946
  
 2,667
1950
  
 2.983
1956
  
 3,054
1961
  
 3,518
1967
  
 3,998
1970
  
 4.181
1987
  
 4,072
2010
  
 4,616
2013
  
 4,565
2015
  
 4,622
2017
  
 4,686
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources: (2010, 2015, 2017 with secondary residences)

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1834: 504 Protestant, 2 Catholic, 6 Jewish residents
• 1961: 2589 Protestant (= 73.59%), 856 Catholic (= 24.33%) residents

politics

coat of arms

In 1960 the Hessian Minister of the Interior awarded the town a coat of arms and a community flag. The coat of arms shows a red square shield with a golden diagonal bar. On it a blue, red-armored lion.

flag

The flag was approved on September 30, 1969 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

"Split by yellow and blue, confused in the upper quarter, covered with the municipal coat of arms."

Cultural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The village has a junction on the motorway-like federal road 49 . From there the L 3283 continues through Burgsolms to Bonbaden and Neukirchen . In the village, the K 378 branches off to Leun - Lahnbahnhof .

On the northern outskirts of Burgsolms has a stop on the Lahn Valley Railway . From 1912 to 1985 Burgsolms also had a stop at the Solmstalbahn, which ran through the village and has since been dismantled.

Industry and Commerce

Burgsolms was the headquarters of Leica Camera AG from 1986 to spring 2014 . In addition, the Solms industrial park is a large industrial and commercial area in the northeast of the district.

In the past, however, the iron industry was important for the place since the 1870s. As a result of the good economic situation on the raw materials market, the Fürstlich-Braunfelsische Haus decided to smelt the iron ore from its pits itself. Therefore, in the area of ​​today's industrial park, directly on the Lahntalbahn, a steelworks was built in 1873 and 1874 : the Georgshütte. It was built by Prince Ernst zu Solms-Braunfels and his brothers Albrecht and Georg, after whom the historicist-style hut was named. The cost of building the hut was 2.75 million. The ovens were 18.8 m high, held 259 cubic meters and had a throughput of 60–65 tons per day. The first blast furnace was blown on January 26, 1875. The lime required for smelting was mined nearby, and the puddle pig iron produced was sold on the Dill, in Westphalia and Düsseldorf. On July 16, 1883, the Buderus brothers bought the factory for 1.8 million. They modernized it, added a third blast furnace in 1888 and enlarged the old furnaces. At times, more than 200 people worked in the Georgshütte. The slag produced there was used to produce building sand. The last ore chunks were melted in 1927 and the Georgshütte was demolished in 1930. Only a warehouse and the workers' houses still bear witness to iron processing.

Personalities

  • Bernd Rupp (* 1942), former soccer player, born in Burgsolms.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Burgsolms, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ The city districts on the website of the city of Solms , accessed in August 2016.
  3. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 26. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Biedenkopf and Marburg districts and the city of Marburg (Lahn) (GVBl. II 330-27) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 154 , § 14 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 380-381 .
  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 ).
  8. ^ Budget 2012, preliminary report. (PDF; 629 kB) City of Solms, p. 38 , archived from the original ; accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Districts. In: Internet presence. City of Solms, accessed February 2019 .
  10. ↑ 2017 budget, preliminary report. (PDF; 629 kB) City of Solms, p. 45 , archived from the original ; accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Budget 2019, preliminary report, statistical information. (PDF; 8.7 MB) City of Solms, p. 78 of the pdf-doc , archived from the original ; accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag for the municipality of Burgsolms, Wetzlar district from September 30, 1969 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1969 No. 41 , p. 1702 , point 1416 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).