Dauborn

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Dauborn
Municipality of Hünstelden
Dauborn coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 37 "  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 28"  E
Height : 154 m above sea level NHN
Area : 16.34 km²
Residents : 2714  (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 166 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 65597
Area code : 06438
Dauborn with the Goldener Grund and the Großer Feldberg in the background
Dauborn with the Goldener Grund and the Großer Feldberg in the background

Dauborn is the most populous district of the municipality of Hünstelden in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse . The Hofgut Gnadenthal , a former monastery , also belongs to the village further south .

geography

The Wörsbach in the town center

The following localities border the approximately rectangular Dauborn district running in a north-west-south-east direction from the north-west in a clockwise direction: Werschau , Oberbruch , Niederselters , Oberselters , Erbach , the core town of Bad Camberg , the district of Beuerbach von Hünstetten in the neighboring Rheingau-Taunus- Circle , ears , the administrative headquarters of Kirberg and Neesbach .

The district has larger mixed forest areas in the south and otherwise mainly consists of agricultural land. The A3 and the ICE route Frankfurt-Cologne run on the east side . The Wörsbach flows north-west through the district and through the village . The Spindelbach, which also flows through the village, is now mostly piped up. Apart from the clearly cut Wörsbach valley, the terrain rises to the east and especially to the south. The highest point is the Kuhborn on the border with ears with a height of 301 meters.

Dauborn is located in the southern Limburg basin , according to the natural spatial structure in the so-called Kirberg hill country .

history

The oldest archaeological finds in today's Dauborn district date from the Neolithic Age . A permanent settlement can be assumed from the time of the urn field culture . Later, the nearby old streets Hessenstraße , Hünerstraße and Hohe Straße were likely to have been significant for the settlement. The name in its oldest form Dabornaha probably goes back to the Celtic “Dab” for swamp and “aha” for flowing water. Dauborn originally had the layout of a small street village .

In 786 Dauborn was first mentioned in a deed of donation from Abbess Abba of Lorsch Monastery . The Cistercian monastery Gnadenthal (Vallis gratiae) was first mentioned in 1235, Eufingen, which is now merged with Dauborn, in 1271. Numerous possessions and rights in Dauborn and Eufingen were with the respective owners or bailiffs of the Gnadenthal monastery. In 1260 Gottfried von Bingen, Peter von Dehrn, Philipp von Virneburg and Gottfried von Eppstein donated the church of Dauborn to Gnadenthal Monastery. Dauborn has been mostly Protestant since the Reformation. In the Thirty Years' War Dauborn and Eufingen were almost completely destroyed. From 1670 Jews lived in the village.

On November 3, 1824, Eufingen, bordering the old Dauborn to the east, and the Neue Herberge to the north of it, which had emerged from an inn in the 16th century, were merged with Dauborn. Shortly afterwards, the closely spaced settlements grew together, so that today the transitions are barely recognizable. Most of the buildings that exist today in the three historic town centers date from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The creation of new building areas on a larger scale began in the 1960s. During this period, the areas “Am Fuchsschwanz” (northeast), “Am Berg” (southeast) and “In der Lyk” (west) were started, some of which continued until after the year 2000. During this period, industrial parks emerged in the north and northwest of the town and again in the east at the beginning of the 1990s.

From the 1960s onwards, new development areas emerged first in the north and south of the eastern district (Eufingen), and later also west of the old Dauborn town center.

Territorial reform

On October 1, 1971, Dauborn merged with six other communities in the course of the regional reform in Hesse to form the community of Hünstelden.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Dauborn: Population from 1834 to 2019
year     Residents
1834
  
 1,182
1840
  
 1,250
1846
  
 1,290
1852
  
 1,276
1858
  
 1,299
1864
  
 1,354
1871
  
 1,329
1875
  
 1,246
1885
  
 1,349
1895
  
 1.405
1905
  
 1,418
1910
  
 1,364
1925
  
 1,363
1939
  
 1,360
1946
  
 1,675
1950
  
 1,802
1956
  
 1,681
1961
  
 1,618
1967
  
 1,683
1970
  
 1,666
2008
  
 2,764
2011
  
 2,739
2016
  
 2,721
2019
  
 2.714
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: municipality of Hünstelden

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1885: 1320 Protestant (= 97.85%), 10 Catholic (= 0.74%) and 19 Jewish (= 1.41%) residents
  • 1961: 1368 Protestant (= 84.55%) and 227 (= 14.03%) Catholic residents

Culture and sights

societies

Despite its comparatively small size, Dauborn has three sports clubs: the RSV Viktoria 1913, in which football, for men and women, and table tennis are practiced, and the TV Dauborn, which offers gymnastics groups, tennis, basketball and a brass orchestra . The third motorsport-related club is the Auto Cross Team (ACT) Dauborn, which takes part in the German rallycross championship and operates the Daubornring as a cross track on federal motorway 3 .

In addition, there is the Dauborn volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1906 (with youth fire brigade since August 10, 1975 ), the association for the swimming pool, the scouts of the VCP Ansgar , the judo club in Huenelden, local groups of rural women and nature conservation association, a horticultural and beautification association, a poultry and rabbit breeding association.

Regular events

Every year on the first weekend in September, the “Dauborn Market” takes place from Thursday to Sunday. It still includes a cattle and junk market, in which its origins lie, which go back to the middle of the 18th century, but has since turned into a folk festival.

Buildings

  • Characteristic courtyard row in the center of Dauborn

  • Old post office in the former town of Eufingen

  • Fountain in the shape of a traditional “Dauborner” bottle

Economy and Infrastructure

Dauborn is well known for its centuries-old grain distillers tradition. Today there are six grain distilleries still in operation. The schnapps produced there is known in the region as "Dauborner".

The origin of the Dauborn distillery business lies in the neighboring Gnadenthal monastery . The Principality of Orange-Nassau set up a grain distillery in the monastery, which had already been secularized at that time . Dauborn residents were obliged to serve there and brought their knowledge of the distillation process with them to their home village. From the 18th century grain brandy was produced there on a large scale. After Dauborn and the rest of Nassau had become Prussian through the annexation of 1866 , there was temporarily a separate customs office in the village, which was responsible for controlling the distilleries and collecting the spirits tax . The highest number of distilleries in town was in 1918 with 99 companies. The annual output of all distilleries is estimated at 500,000 liters of pure alcohol in the middle of the 19th century , currently it is probably around 40,000 liters.

The prosperity associated with the distillery can still be seen in the town today. There are numerous, once unusually representative and large court rides for the region .

Since 1906, the Dauborn volunteer fire brigade (since August 10, 1975 with the youth fire brigade) has provided fire protection and general help in this area.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Dauborn  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dauborn, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Statistics - residents of the districts. In: Internet presence. Municipality of Hünstelden, accessed on July 13, 2020 .
  3. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Duchy of Nassau No. 12
  4. ^ 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. 369 .
  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. ↑ Citizens Brochure. (PDF; 15.7 MB) In: Website. Municipality of Hünstelden, 2012, p. 12 , archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .