Dausenau

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Bad Ems-Nassau
Height :	94 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.83 km 2
Residents:	1208 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	123 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56132
Area code :	02603
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 025
Association administration address:	Bleichstrasse 1 ; 56130 Bad Ems
Website :	www.vgben.de
Mayoress :	Michelle Wittler
Location of the local community of Dausenau in the Rhein-Lahn district

Colored steel engraving, around 1844

Dausenau is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Ems-Nassau community . Dausenau is a state-approved resort .

geography

The place is right on the Lahn . The old town center, surrounded by a city wall, has developed on both sides of a small tributary of the Lahn, the Unterbach.

history

Dausenau was first mentioned in a document in 1234 as "Duzenowe" . Already at the Prima divisio in 1255 the place was divided between the Ottonian and the Walramic lines of the House of Nassau . This was followed by further splitting of the property rights under the many lines of the Nassauer and several pledges of the partial properties. This also led to the fact that the residents of the place were not seen as serfs, but as personally free bailiffs. It was not until the 17th century that parts of the population seem to have fallen into serfdom. From 1806 on, Dausenau was again under a single state rule with the establishment of the Duchy of Nassau . The Nassau-Idsteiner owned a permanent house at the church , but in 1663 only one free space was left at the church in Nassau-Idsteinian possession. At least one low-nobility family came from Dausenau, and they usually served in Nassau. However, it is only partially traceable between 1431 and the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The place received city rights in 1348, but these were later lost. A fortification is mentioned as early as 1324. A plan, which was created in 1776 after the north-western part of Dausenau was destroyed by fire, shows a ring wall, which is unusually strong for the size of the settlement, with four fortified gates, two of which were secured with towers, and four other towers. The well-preserved wall is still one of the local attractions today. A municipal hospital is mentioned in 1490 and existed until 1816 in the form of a hospital fund.

By the middle of the 14th century at the latest, Dausenau was the seat of a court, which in the 17th and early 18th centuries was also responsible for Kemmenau , Zimmigart and at least in the 17th century also for parts of Bad Ems . A mayor and a mayor are proven from 1413 on.

Ecclesiastically, Dausenau was initially assigned to the parish of Ems, which had probably existed since the 9th century. The church building in the village is first mentioned in 1319. Its west tower can be dendrochronologically dated to 1179 at the latest. Documents from the year 1321 prove the beginning of the separation of an independent parish in Dausenau from the mother church in Ems, which, however, only began in 1400 with the consent of Pope Boniface IX. officially and was completed in 1413 by the separation of all rights. The Reformation was introduced in the town by 1544 at the latest, and it remained Lutheran throughout. The last time a Catholic pastor was appointed in 1547, who probably no longer took up his service. Other components of the parish were Zimmigart and the Hofgut Mauch as well as parts of Kemmenau and Bad Ems until 1821. As a replacement for the older parsonage, which can no longer be located, a parsonage was built in 1604 in the east of the village and in 1828 a new building on the road to Nassau. A school, probably responsible for the entire parish, is mentioned for the first time in 1555. It was at the cemetery before a new schoolhouse was completed in 1833 on the outskirts of Nassau. Jews are first recorded in Dausenau in 1665.

In the short, late medieval heyday of the city, there were many handicraft businesses. In 1718 a guild covering almost all professional groups was mentioned, and in 1748 a special guild for bakers, cooperators, beer brewers and butchers. An unusually large number of mills operated in the local area. The first of them is mentioned for the first time in 1416, the last, the castor mill, was in operation until the early 20th century. From 1698 until the 19th century, copper was mined near Dausenau. By 1708 at the latest there was a copper smelter for processing the mined ore, which ceased operations shortly after 1720 due to the low income from mining. The Klöckner-Moeller switchgear factory, founded in 1937, has long been the most important industrial company in the area. It mainly produced thermostats for refrigerators. Today the site is part of Eaton Industries . Wine was grown in Dausenau until 1991 .

In 1651, a permanent ferry across the Lahn with a ferry house is mentioned. Dausenau only benefited from the Lahntalbahn , which was put into operation on the opposite side of the river in 1863, with the construction of a bridge over the Lahn in 1902. In 1903 a provisional train stop was set up, and in 1916 the regular station building. The bridge construction made it possible to expand the local development to the left side of the river. In 1949 the bridge was renewed.

The oldest survey of the population reports in 1629 of 36 marriages, three widowers and four widowers in the village. In 1643 there were 143 inhabitants, 1665 of 286 inhabitants, 1819 of 501, 1885 of 769, 1912 of 749, 1939 of 798 and 1950 of 997 inhabitants.

Historically, Hofgut Mauch, first mentioned in 1344, also belonged to Dausenau. Today it is assigned to the neighboring municipality of Misselberg .

Desolation

Dausenau on the left of the Lahn is mentioned in 1324. A district name indicates that there was a bridge over the river at that time. Apparently, the place went with the city rights for the settlement on the right of the Lahn and its subsequent rise. From 1902 on, a new left-leaning district was built in its place.

Dornhof , an estate or small village, which was first mentioned in 1563, is today probably in the area of the neighboring village of Hömberg. The settlement is recorded as uninhabited as early as 1606.

Bruchhausen was presumably located between Hömberg and Zimmigart. A document from 1398 mentions the place. In 1476 it seems to have been desolate. The demarcation was passed on to Zimmigart.

Ködingen was northeast of Hömberg. The place was mentioned for the first time in 1344 and designated as lost in 1643.

Ranzenstein was down the Lahn and thus southwest of Dausenau am Hasenberg. The place is only mentioned in the second half of the 14th century. Its right-leaning part belonged to Dausenau, the left-leaning part to Oberlahnstein.

The Neumark was an area between Kemmenau and Welschneudorf north of Dausenau. The three existing villages Embtenrod , Zweihausen and Neuhaus had probably already fallen in desolation between the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th century. Embtenrod was part of the Ems judicial district, the other two places of the Dausenau court. The demarcations of the earlier places between Ems and Dausenau were divided accordingly.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Dausenau 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	WGR	total
2019	7th	2	7th	16 seats
2014	6th	3	7th	16 seats
2009	7th	3	6th	16 seats
2004	7th	5	4th	16 seats

mayor

Michelle Wittler (SPD) is the local mayor of Dausenau. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she prevailed against the previous incumbent Jochen Schneider (FWG) with a share of 51.17% of the votes.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms has existed in its current form since 1937. This shows the lion of Nassau .

Culture and sights

The St. Kastor Church , whose Romanesque tower was built around 1179, is worth seeing . The early Gothic three-aisled staggered gallery hall church was built in the 2nd decade of the 14th century. In the church there are wall paintings from the 14th and 16th centuries, which were reconstructed in 1902, as well as a winged altar from around 1500 with figures of the patrons and panels from the life of the Virgin. Various graves were found in the church during restoration and renovation work in the early 1990s. In addition to various pieces of jewelry, a fragment of a scallop was also found. There are references to a pilgrims' hostel on the church granary.

The medieval curtain wall is still largely preserved. Of the towers of the city fortifications , the gate tower and the leaning tower still stand ; the latter inclined in the 19th and 20th centuries and was demolished by approx. 7.5 m in 1950. The stumps of 5 other towers have been preserved. Right next to the gate tower is the 1,100 year old court oak with a chest height of 8.10 m (2014).

The "Old Town Hall" built in the late Gothic style from 1434 is considered to be the second oldest half-timbered town hall in Germany.

A half-timbered house from 1650 houses Dausenau's traditional inn on the Lahn .

photos

View over the Lahn to the village, in the foreground the old court oak
The place is picturesquely located directly on the Lahn
Evangelical Church of St. Castor
Old town hall Dausenau
Tavern on the Lahn
Western gate tower
Lahnstrasse to the east; in the background the "Leaning Tower"

traffic

Dausenau has a stop on the Lahntalbahn , on which the trains of the regional train line RB 23 (Limburg (Lahn) - Diez- Bad Ems- Koblenz- Andernach- Mendig- Mayen Ost) of the Deutsche Bahn DB run every hour.

Personalities

Anna Dogonadze (born February 15, 1973) Olympic champion in 2004 in Athens in trampoline gymnastics, multiple world and European champion, multiple German trampoline gymnastics champion
Karl Waldemar Schütz (1913–1999), politician ( DRP , NPD ), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, publisher of right-wing extremist literature

literature

Hellmuth Gensicke : Parish and court of Dausenau. In: Nassau Annals . Volume 78, 1967, pp. 235-255.
JC Grötsch: Dausenau near Bad Ems , description of the place, legend and history, sights. Ems, 1907. ( dilibri )
Ortschronik Dausenau working group: Dausenau and its history: History and stories of a former Nassau city , a homeland book on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the award of city rights published by the Dausenau municipality in 1997. ( dilibri )

Web links

Commons : Dausenau - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Dausenau. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Ems-Nassau, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
↑ Jürgen Heyden: Dausenau has Irish local boss: Michelle Wittler mastered the first few weeks in office. Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung, August 7, 2019, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[regionaldaten-2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data