Cleeberg

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Cleeberg
community Langgöns
Cleeberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 291 m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.58 km²
Residents : 1033  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 76 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35428
Area code : 06085
Ev. Church , north elevation

Cleeberg is a part of the municipality of Langgöns in the central Hessian district of Gießen .

Geographical location

Cleeberg is located in the eastern Hintertaunus in the Taunus Nature Park . The elevations of the village surrounded by forest include Cleebaum ( 367.6  m ) in the northeast, Rostert ( Knottenberg ; 391.1  m ) in the southeast, Schorn (approx.  450  m ) in the south and Kuchenberg ( 391.6  m ) in the southwest . The village is from Kleebach traversed, in the there of the Schorn coming Aulbachsgrundbach flows.

Neighboring towns are Griedelbach (west), Oberkleen (north-east), Ebersgöns (east) and Espa (south-east).

history

The village was settled very early on, which is indicated by archaeological finds from the Celtic era . Cleeberg is mentioned for the first time in 1196 as Cleberc . The castle Cleeberg was built around the 915th Until 1810 Cleeberg was the administrative seat of the Cleeberg Office in the Duchy of Nassau for the surrounding villages and from 1866 it was part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau .

In 1939 the place had 549 inhabitants and belonged to the district of Wetzlar . In 1977 Cleeberg became a state-approved resort .

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the community Cleeberg were on 1 January 1977, four other municipalities by the law on the restructuring of Dill circle counties Giessen and Wetzlar and the city of casting the new greater community Langgöns together . For Cleeberg, as for all districts, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed. The district of Lang-Göns was set as the administrative seat .

Historical forms of names

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

  • Cleberg, de (1162) [Forgery; Wyss, Hessisches Urkundenbuch III, No. 1342, p. 319]
  • Cleberc, de (1196) [Wyss, Hessisches Urkundenbuch III § 46 No. 29 p. 474]
  • Cleberg, de (1214) [Wyss, Hessisches Urkundenbuch III § 46 No. 36 p. 475]
  • Cleberg, zu (1355) [Wenck, Document Book III, No. 372, p. 382]
  • Kleeberg (1787)

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1791: 331 inhabitants
• 1800: 408 inhabitants
Cleeberg: Population from 1791 to 2019
year     Residents
1791
  
331
1800
  
408
1834
  
519
1840
  
530
1846
  
559
1852
  
519
1858
  
508
1864
  
527
1871
  
496
1875
  
468
1885
  
474
1895
  
471
1905
  
475
1910
  
504
1925
  
541
1939
  
549
1946
  
677
1950
  
677
1956
  
663
1961
  
669
1967
  
659
1970
  
679
1976
  
735
1978
  
801
1982
  
885
1986
  
972
1990
  
1,132
1994
  
1,157
2000
  
1,113
2004
  
1,174
2006
  
1,145
2010
  
1,055
2011
  
1,053
2016
  
1,032
2019
  
1,033
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Langgöns community: until 1978, later; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1885: 457 Protestant (= 96.41%), 4 Catholic (= 0.84%), 13 Jewish (= 2.74%) residents
• 1961: 616 Protestant (= 92.08%), 52 Catholic (= 7.77%) residents

coat of arms

On January 31, 1968, the municipality of Cleeberg in what was then the district of Wetzlar was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In gold on a green mountain, a red pinnacle tower, on both sides a stemmed green shamrock.

Infrastructure and culture

The village has a daycare center , a community center , a sports court , five sports clubs , two music and choral societies and four other clubs.

On June 12, 2011 Cleeberg won first place in the Dolles Dorf competition organized by Hessischer Rundfunk .

Personalities

Born in Cleeberg

Associated with Cleeberg

  • Gian-Luca Itter (born January 5, 1999 in Giessen), plays for FC Cleeberg, soccer player
  • Lara Schmidt (born July 21, 2000 in Langgöns), plays at FC Cleeberg, soccer player

literature

  • Helga Block: That's how it used to be in Cleeberg: history and picture book . 1st edition, Geiger, Horb am Neckar, 1994, ISBN 3-89264-966-9 .
  • Wilhelm Schüler: A home book for Cleeberg's sake, a collection of poems and songs. Complete production: W. Bechstein GmbH Wetzlar, 112 pages, 135 x 210 mm (without ISBN, still available from the municipal administration)
  • Kurt Jäger: The field names of the Kleeberg district . Gießen, Univ., Diss. 1938. Also in: Hessisches Flurnamenbuch Heft 13, published on behalf of the Hessian Association for Folklore by Alfred Götze Gießen 1938, 167 x 247 mm (no longer available)
  • Otfried Hankel: Families of the 18th and early 19th centuries in Cleeberg (Hessen). An evaluation of the civil registry for the years 1817 to 1825 . 1st edition, Grin, Munich, 2011, 119 pages, ISBN 978-3-640-98884-6 .
  • Karl Christian von Leutsch : About the place name Kleeberg , in: Nassauische Annalen Vol. 4 (1850) P. 617ff.
  • Literature about Cleeberg in the Hessian Bibliography

To the Brothers Fabricius:

  • W [ilhelm] Germann: J [ohann] Ph [ilipp] Fabricius. His fifty years of activity in Tamulenland and the missionary life of the eighteenth century at home and outside, described from handwritten sources . Erlangen 1865 (on Cleeberg and Sebastian Andreas Fabricius see pp. 44–49).
  • Arno Lehmann: It all started in Tranquebar. The history of the first Protestant church in India . 2nd edition Berlin 1956, pp. 273–281. 338: "The Master of Tamil ".
  • Viktor Hantzsch : Fabrizius: Johann Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 48 (1904), pp. 478-483.
  • Christoffer Hinrich Grundmann: Fabricius, Johann Philipp . In: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart , 4th ed., Vol. 3 (2000), Col. 4–5.
  • Reinhard Breymayer: On the fate of August Hermann Francke's private library . About the recovered auction catalog [compiled by Sebastian Andreas Fabricius from Cleeberg] from the private library of his son Gotthilf August Francke . 3rd, improved edition. Tübingen: Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck 2002 (cf. esp. Pp. 11–12 on the Fabricius brothers), ISBN 3-924249-42-3 .

Web links

Commons : Cleeberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Cleeberg, Gießen district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. a b Population figures in the budget of the municipality of Langgöns 2020. (PDF; 9.9 MB) p. 43 , accessed in April 2020 .
  3. 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 ., § 12 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. Local councils of the Langgöns community. In: website. Langgöns municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  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. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  7. a b c Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 28 , § 41 ( online at google books ).
  8. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  193 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  9. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  208 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  10. Population figures in the budget of the municipality of Langgöns 2009. (PDF; 4.7 MB) p. 23 , archived from the original on February 4, 2019 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  11. Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  12. ^ Approval of a coat of arms for the Cleeberg community, Wetzlar district from January 31, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1968 No. 8 , p. 266 , item 236 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.4 MB ]).
  13. Dolles Village of the Year. "Hall of fame". Hessischer Rundfunk, archived from the original ; accessed on May 23, 2018 .
  14. s: ADB: Fabrizius, Johann Philipp