Daubhausen

Daubhausen Community Ehringhausen Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 20 ″ N , 8 ° 21 ′ 3 ″ E
Height :	224 (224-247) m
Area :	4.58 km²
Residents :	457 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	100 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1977
Postal code :	35630
Area code :	06443
	Location of Daubhausen in the municipality of Ehringhausen

Daubhausen is a district of the Ehringshausen community in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

The village is to the right of the Dill on the southeastern foothills of the Westerwald .

history

Archaeological finds point to a settlement in the period between 800 and 450 BC. Close. The village is mentioned for the first time in May 1255. In 1685, around 150 Huguenots from France who fled the faith were settled in the village by Wilhelm Moritz Graf zu Solms-Greifenstein . The German residents had previously been resettled. At the beginning of the 19th century, preaching was still in French in the church of Daubhausen . In 1935, a memorial plaque was placed in the church with the names of the 37 Huguenot families who had settled there. Today there are only descendants of two families.

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 Daubhausen, 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 Daubhausen was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

before 1806: Holy Roman Empire , Principality of Solms-Braunfels , part of the County of Solms , Greifenstein office
from 1806: Duchy of Nassau , Greifenstein office
1816: Kingdom of Prussia , Rhine Province , Region of Koblenz , county Braunfels
from 1822: Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
from 1866: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
from 1932: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , District of Wetzlar
from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Wetzlar District
from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district
from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district
from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , district of Wetzlar.
on January 1, 1977 Daubhausen was incorporated as a district of the newly formed Ehringshausen community.
from 1977: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt administrative district, Lahn-Dill district
from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen administrative district , Lahn-Dill district

population

Population development

Daubhausen: Population from 1834 to 2017
year		Residents
1834	200
1840	239
1846	273
1852	257
1858	270
1864	282
1871	247
1875	232
1885	247
1895	254
1905	253
1910	269
1925	257
1939	269
1946	438
1950	434
1956	385
1961	360
1967	369
1970	373
2014	481
2017	457
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:	297 Protestant residents (together with Greifenthal)
• 1961:	285 Protestant (= 79.17%), 73 Catholic (= 20.28%) residents

Culture and sights

The baroque Huguenot church from 1710 has a fortified choir tower from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century. The old school from 1838 has served as the Huguenot Museum since 2008.

A sight in Daubhausen is today's Löschwasserteich , which was formerly an open-air swimming pool. The outdoor pool has not existed since 1975.

Protestant church
Former rectory
Old school in Daubhausen

literature

Literature on Daubhausen in the Hessian Bibliography
Search for Daubhausen in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Commons : Daubhausen - Collection of Images

Ehringshausen community and districts. In: Internet presence. Ehringshausen community; accessed in August 2018
Location portrait as PDF file
Daubhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Ehringshausen community and districts. In: website. Ehringshausen community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
^ Michael Lausberg: Huguenots in Germany. The immigration of French religious refugees. Marburg 2007, p. 158.
↑ 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 ]).
↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 290. DNB 770396321
↑ ^a ^b ^c Daubhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ 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. 249 ( online at google books ).

[DF-1] Ehringshausen community and districts. In: website. Ehringshausen community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .

[2] Michael Lausberg: Huguenots in Germany. The immigration of French religious refugees. Marburg 2007, p. 158.

[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 ., § 18 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).

[4] Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 290. DNB 770396321

[lagis-5] Daubhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[6] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[PR-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. 249 ( online at google books ).