Dautphetal

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '  N , 8 ° 33'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Marburg-Biedenkopf
Height :	297 m above sea level NHN
Area :	72.03 km 2
Residents:	11,407 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	158 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	35232
Primaries :	06466, 06468, 06420, 06461
License plate :	MR, BID
Community key :	06 5 34 007
Community structure:	12 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Hainstrasse 1 35232 Dautphetal
Website :	www.dautphetal.de
Mayor :	Bernd Schmidt ( FW )
Location of the community of Dautphetal in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district

Dautphetal is a municipality in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf with 11,407 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). The community is located in the foothills of the Rhenish Slate Mountains near the state border with North Rhine-Westphalia . It was created in 1974 through the amalgamation of twelve local communities and is named after the catchment area of ​​the small river Dautphe .

geography

The central Hessian community is located in the western part of the district, about 37 km east of Siegen and about 15 km west of Marburg , in the Upper Lahn valley on the rivers Lahn and Dautphe . Here the foothills of the natural Westerwald meet from the south and those of the Rothaargebirge from the north. Historically, Dautphetal belongs to the so-called " hinterland ".

The highest point of the community is the 540  m high Schloßberg west of Holzhausen, the lowest at 225  m is in the far east, where the Lahn leaves the community area.

geology

Geological map of the Dillmulde

Due to the location in the area of ​​the Rheinschen Schiefergebirge , to which both the Westerwald and Rothaargebirge belong, the municipality is characterized by rock types from the Paleozoic (ancient times). Greywacke , diabase , quartzite , clay (as a weathering product of slate and diabase), but also partly plate limestone , are particularly common .

The Dautphetal district is almost completely included in the geological structure of the so-called Dillmulde , which - in contrast to the course of the eponymous river - runs along the interface between the Rothaargebirge and Westerwald foothills from the Dill area near Dillenburg and Herborn in a northeastern direction to Biedenkopf and through strong ore deposits is marked. Besides copper ore , manganese and iron ores are mainly found .

Geologically, only a very small area of ​​the Dautphetal district south of Damshausen already belongs to the so-called Hörre zone , which adjoins the Dillmulde as a narrow strip to the south.

Natural space

The 533  m high Schwarzenberg offshoot Nimerich and Friedensdorf as well as Dautphe (left) and Wolfgruben (above Friedensdorf). On the right in the background Biedenkopf and the 631  m high bagpipe offshoot Hainpracht

View from Silberg to the peaks of Damshausen with the 498 m high Rimberg (in the middle, partly covered) in the extreme northeast of the Gladenbacher Bergland . The wide, 474 m high Wollenberg (left) is already a foothill of the Rothaargebirge

The valley of the Lahn, which runs to the east and also southeast within the municipality, forms the border between the Rothaargebirge foothills in the north and the Gladenbacher Bergland in the south.

The elevations in the north of the district belong to the bagpipe foreheads . As part of the so-called East Sauerland mountain range, they stretch from the direction of the 674 m high, eponymous mountain Sackpfeife (north of Biedenkopf , about 8 km from the municipality boundary) to the east to the 474 m high Wollenberg (between Lahntal and Wetter ), which extends further the (significantly flatter) Burgwald precursors are already connected to the east . As a typical low mountain foreland, the altitudes in the municipality reach 400 to 500 m, a little north of the district with the Arennest as much as 592 m. The mixed oak forest typical of the Hochsauerland and its foothills gives way to more and more reforestation of conifers.

In the shallow Upper Lahn valley , which also includes the Dautphe valley , is by far the largest part of the populated areas. Typical floodplain vegetation can be found here in a comparatively mild climate. In the east, near Elmshausen, is the lowest point in the community at 225 m.

The for the Gladenbacher Bergland with heights of up to 600 m in the south, west and south-east of the municipality is noticeable through a high proportion of natural beech forests. It is divided into three sectors within the municipal boundaries.

In Breidenbacher Grund (not to be confused with the historical court district of the same name !), Which occupies the west of the district, lies the 533 m high Nimerich northwest of the district of Dautphe, in the Schwarzenberg forest .

The extreme (western) south of the municipality near Holzhausen is already counted among the Bottenhorn plateaus . The highest point in the community is located here in the 540 m high Schloßberg . 3 km southeast, but already on Gladenbacher Grund, is the 552 m high Daubhaus , west of which the eponymous river of the community rises.

Separated from these plateaus by the valley of the Dautphe, the southeast of the municipality is characterized by the recognizable volcanic Damshausen peaks , which reach 498 m on the eastern border to the neighboring municipality of Lahntal am Rimberg .

Mountains according to absolute height

The most striking mountains in the municipality are:

• Schloßberg (a good 540 m) - Bottenhorn plateaus west of Holzhausen
• Nimerich (533 m) - Schwarzenberg forest in Breidenbacher Grund , northwest of Dautphe; north of Hommertshausen
• Bolzeberg (520 m) - Bottenhorn plateaus northwest of Holzhausen and southeast of Mornshausen
• Hünstein (504 m) - Bottenhorn plateaus south of Holzhausen, with an observation tower
• Rimberg (498 m) - Damshausen peaks northeast of Damshausen, with an observation tower
• Eisenköpf (498 m) - extreme northeast of the Bottenhorn plateau , south of Hommertshausen
• Cap (494 m) - Damshausen peaks southeast of Allendorf and northwest of Damshausen
• Schweinskopf (472 m) - Damshausen peaks northeast of Herzhausen
• Eichelhardt (465 m) - Damshäuser Kuppen southwest of Allendorf and southeast of Friedensdorf
• Beilstein (461 m) - Schwarzenberg / Breidenbacher Grund west of Wolfgruben
  • Roth (378 m) - southeastern pre-summit
• Homberg (460 m) - bagpipe foreshore east-northeast of Buchenau
• Dusenberg (457 m) - Damshauser peaks south-southeast of Herzhausen
• Hornberg (451 m) - Damshausen peaks southwest of Friedensdorf and east of Mornshausen
  • On the Breitenlohe (306 m) - Damshäuser Kuppen , offshoot of the Hornberg in the west of Friedensdorf, with a war memorial
• Treisberg (437 m) - Damshausen peaks east of Allendorf
• Ellenberg (432 m) - Sackpipe foreheads north-northwest of Buchenau
• Roßberg (425 m) - Damshausen peaks southeast of Elmshausen
• Hohenfels (402 m) - Damshauser peaks northeast of Allendorf and south of Buchenau
• Ochsenberg (391 m) - Sackpipe fore hills southwest of Buchenau and north-northeast of Friedensdorf

climate

General

The Dautphetals area is located in the warm, temperate rainy climate of the middle latitudes. The mean daily mean temperature is around 15–16 ° C in summer  (16–17 ° C in the Lahn valley area) and around –1 ° C to 1 ° C in winter. The mean amount of precipitation in Dautphetal is around 800–1000 mm, in the Buchenau and Elmshausen area 700–800 mm.

storm

The so-called Centennial Flood of 1984 caused the level of the Lahn to rise so much that not only were numerous houses under water, but the route of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway also had to be closed because the track bed was washed away in sections.

The hurricane Kyrill uprooted or destroyed Mid January 2007 areally many coniferous and beech woodlands in the community. The amount of damaged wood caused by Kyrill corresponded to four times the regular annual logging amount in the municipality.

Waters

The Lahn in Buchenau

The largest flowing water in Dautphetal is the Lahn . It flows through the municipality in the northern area from the west (city of Biedenkopf) to the east (municipality of Lahntal), partly towards the southeast. The Dautphe flows to it from the south ( Gladenbacher district) and flows into the center of the community (district Friedensdorf). All other streams within the Dautphetal are very short for geographical reasons and also feed the Lahn directly or indirectly.

Neighboring communities

The following cities and municipalities border the large municipality of Dautphetal (starting clockwise in the north): The cities of Biedenkopf and Wetter (Hesse) , the municipality of Lahntal , the cities of Marburg and Gladenbach , the municipalities of Bad Endbach and Steffenberg and the municipality of Breidenbach . All communities are in the western part of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district .

Land use

Status: December 31, 2005, figures in hectares

Land use	surface
	in hectares	in [%]
Building and open space	471	6.54
Operating area	22nd	0.31
Recreation area	37	0.51
traffic area	457	6.34
Agricultural area	2,607	36.19
Forest area	3,498	48.56
Water surface	66	0.91
Other use	46	0.64
total	7,203	100.00

history

The history of the large community of Dautphetal is still relatively young: It was not formed until July 1, 1974, when twelve formerly independent village communities were merged in the course of the regional reform in Hesse . The Hessian state parliament had enacted the reorganization of the communities by law . Since the large community of Dautphetal arose from small and very small communities and therefore lacked a distinct center, it received financial start-up support from the then Hessian Ministry of the Interior, as did the communities of Ebsdorfergrund and Lahntal.

Early history and the Middle Ages

Based on finds, it is likely that the area of ​​today's municipality of Dautphetal was settled in prehistory and early history . This is also indicated by various circular ramparts such as on the Rimberg or the Hünstein . The first documentary mention was the mention of the Dautphe area in 791 in the Lorsch Codex . This district is the oldest documented place in the municipality. It was the seat of the Central Court early on . The lowest court district comprised the villages of Allendorf, Buchenau, Damshausen, Dautphe, Elmshausen, Friedensdorf, Holzhausen, Hommertshausen, Mornshausen, Silberg and Wolfgruben (today Dautphetal) as well as Eckelshausen, Kombach, Katzenbach, Dexbach and Engelbach (today Biedenkopf).

At the time of Charlemagne (around 800) the area of ​​today's Dautphetal belonged to the Oberlahngau . After the Gisonens died out in 1122, the area fell to the Ludowingers of Thuringia. After the death of the last Ludowinger Landgrave Heinrich Raspe in 1247, his niece Sophie von Brabant , daughter of Ludwig IV. And Saint Elisabeth , succeeded in the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession (1247-1264), the Hessian territories of the Ludowingers as Landgrave Hesse for her To secure son Heinrich I. Important noblemen in the hinterland were the lords of Hohenfels , von Hollende, von Wittgenstein, von Breidenbach, Döring and von Buchenau . The Lords of Hohenfels had to forego their rights under Sophie's pressure in 1249, and the Hohenfels double castle was razed in 1293 under Landgrave Heinrich I.

Overview map of Dautphetal

Landgraviate until the territorial reform in 1974

After the death of Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous in 1567, the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided among his four sons, and the area became part of Hesse-Marburg . After this line had already died out in 1604, Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt argued , and the area came to Hessen-Darmstadt in 1627 as the so-called " hinterland ". It stayed there even after the bitter disputes during the Thirty Years' War .

Because of the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, the district of Biedenkopf , which was formed in 1832 and which is also where today's Dautphetal community lies, was annexed by Prussia . This district was united with the district of Dillenburg for a short time in 1932/33 , but the protests of the population of both districts again led to the separation of the two districts. During the Second World War , the iron processing industry as well as the transport infrastructure and its surroundings fell victim to air raids.

Since the Hessian regional reform in 1974 , the districts of Biedenkopf and Marburg have formed the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf, which has existed since then.

Church building

On July 1, 1974, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the municipality of Dautphetal was formed through the merger of the previous municipalities of Allendorf am Hohenfels, Damshausen, Dautphe, Elmshausen, Friedensdorf, Herzhausen, Holzhausen am Hünstein, Hommertshausen, Mornshausen a. D., Silberg and Wolfgruben newly formed. Most of the disbanded municipality of Buchenau (Lahn) also came to Dautphetal, while its Katzenbach district, which was incorporated on December 31, 1971, was reclassified to the town of Biedenkopf .

Community structure

The municipality of Dautphetal is divided into twelve districts according to the municipal statutes. Most of the districts except Damshausen, Hommertshausen and Silberg are located in the Upper Lahn Valley natural area ; Adjacent natural areas in the respective settlement area see p. u.

District	coat of arms	Aerial view	description	residents -number	First documentary mention
Dautphe			Dautphe hugs the foothills of the Breidenbacher Grund north of the geographic center of the municipality from the Lahn valley to the westand touches the B 453 to the east. As the district with the largest population, Dautphe is the seat of the municipal administration. The Wilhelmshütte (previously Kilianshütte ), a former ironworks , was built in 1832. In the meantime a place has grown out of this, which is partly on Dautpher and partly on Wolfgruben district.	2218	791
Holzhausen			Holzhausen is located in the upper Dautphe valley and 2 km west of the B 453 , directly on the northeast slope of the Bottenhorn plateau . The southernmost place in the municipality has half-timbered houses with particularly beautiful scratch plaster work.	1870	1251
Buchenau			Buchenau nestles in the northeast of the community of Lahntal and B 62 to the north on the bagpipe forecourt . Buchenau is now a kind of eastern secondary center of the community and a link to the large villages of the adjoining community of Lahntal . Along with Dautphe and Holzhausen, Buchenau is one of the three large districts of the community. Carlshütte, southwest of Buchenau, was built like Wilhelmshütte as an ironworks. About 40 people live there.	1853	1238
Peace Village			Friedensdorf is located at the confluence of the Dautphe in the Lahn, from where parts of the villagestretchsouth to the hilltops of Damshausen. Friedensdorf, together with the Dautphe district to the northwest, forms the center of the community.	1374	1220
Mornshausen			Mornshausen is located in the geographic center of the municipality on the middle to lower reaches of the Dautphe and is passed by the B 453 . The Amelose homestead group, part of the Mornshausen district, was first mentioned in 1515.	734	1291
Hommertshausen			Hommertshausen is located at the eastern interface of the Breidenbacher Grund and the Upper Lahn valley in the west of the community.	703	1325
Allendorf			Allendorf is located east of the center of the municipality and 2 km to the north of the Lahn and B 62 separated, on the outskirts of the Damshausen peaks . The first mention took place as Aldendorf in connection with the knights of Hohenfels . The ruins of the double castle on the Hohenfels and the Kleiner Hohenfels were uncovered and renewed by the local castle association in cooperation with other institutions such as the Philipps University of Marburg.	663	1307
Wolf pits			Wolfgruben is located in the north of the municipality in the Lahn valley and on the B 453 .	637	1257
Herzhausen			Herzhausen is located in a valley basin on the western slope of the Damshausen Kuppen in the southern part of the municipality, 1 km east of the B 453 and 2 km from the upper reaches of the Dautphe.	567	1333
Silberg			Silberg is located within the municipality in the far west, in the middle of the heights of the eastern Breidenbacher Grund .	444	1339
Elmshausen			Elmshausen is the most easterly place in the municipality on the northern slope of the Damshausen peaks , just 1 km south of Lahn and the B 62 . The first mention is not clearly clarified. It could have been 1200 or 1220.	324	1200
Damshausen			Damshausen is located far away from the important traffic routes in the southeast of the municipality on the western slope of the Rimberg , the most famous of the volcanic Damshausen peaks thatcan be found around, which owe their name to the place. The smallest village in the municipality, which is still strongly characterized by agriculture, was first mentioned under the name de Tagesmanneshusen .	197	1251

The districts of Dautphe with Wilhelmshütte and Friedensdorf form the center of the large community with over 4,000 inhabitants, which is supported by appropriate land-use planning .

View of the Friedensdorf district

It is noticeable that Dautphetal has developed significantly more economically than the neighboring municipality of Lahntal to the east, which was also founded in 1974 and according to similar geographical aspects (catchment area of ​​the Lahn) . This should come as no surprise, as the community of Dautphetal is almost on a par with the neighboring middle center of Biedenkopf in terms of area and population , while the smaller Lahn valley is clearly oriented towards the neighboring upper center of Marburg to the south .

So it is that the historical middle center Biedenkopf today largely shares its role with the neighboring Dautphetal.

Population development

Development of the number of inhabitants for the municipality of Dautphetal or before 1974 the sum from the previous municipalities:

In terms of population development, it is noticeable that the first smaller population surge occurred during the period of industrialization , before the end of the Second World War saw the population increase by almost 50% compared to 1939. This can be traced back to the fact that after the end of the war a great number of refugees and displaced persons , especially from Hungarian areas , settled in the municipality. Not least because of this, the sisterhood with the Hungarian town of Cikó came about.

Since 2000, the amounts population , according to calculations of the community ( primary residence and secondary residence ) 13,000 inhabitants , according to calculations by the State Statistical Office (main residence) almost 12,000 inhabitants.

religion

According to the Gesta Treverorum from the 12th century, Lubentius is said to have proselytized along the Lahn in the 4th century. Both the districts of Dautphe and Buchenau have churches that were consecrated to Saint Martin of Tours in the 11th and 13th centuries . In the 8th century Dautphe owned an early medieval baptistery. The parish of Dautphe is one of the oldest ecclesiastical forms of organization in Hesse.

In 1524, Philip the Magnanimous introduced the Lutheran faith in the Landgraviate of Hesse . In 1527 the parish of Buchenau received its first evangelical pastor, followed by the parish of Dautphe in 1529. Until the end of the Second World War, the population was almost without exception Protestant. In 1809 a follower of the Jewish faith is mentioned for the first time. Up to 1939 there were up to five Jewish families in the community who visited the synagogues in Gladenbach or Wetter. Many, like Michael Evenari , emigrated to America due to the persecution by the National Socialists , some did not manage to do so and were deported .

A New Apostolic Congregation was established in Dautphe as early as 1894 and a Free Evangelical Congregation in 1895 . After the Second World War, a noteworthy part of the Catholic faith was added by displaced persons . Turkish guest workers have brought with them the Muslim faith since the 1960s .

Like the vast majority of residents of virtually all places of the district (except the districts of the Catholic stronghold - To date, most residents are Dautphetals Amöneburg and west adjacent, east of Lahnberge lying Marburger districts) Protestant.

	Districts
Ev.-luth. Parishes	Buchenau with Elmshausen Dautphe with Mornshausen, Hommertshausen and Silberg Friedensdorf with Allendorf and Damshausen Holzhausen with Herzhausen Wolfgruben (to Eckelshausen )
Catholic parish	Dautphe (St. Hildegard - subsidiary community of St. Josef, Biedenkopf)
Free Evangelical Churches	Dautphe Friedensdorf with Herzhausen Holzhausen Hommertshausen with Silberg Mornshausen
New Apostolic Church	Dautphe (with fishing castle and kombach) Herzhausen
Christian assembly	Holzhausen Herzhausen Herzhausen (Herborn-Dillenburg plant)

politics

The traditionally stronger tendency to social-democratic voting behavior in the district (with the exception of the traditionally Catholic, Kurmainzerischen east with Amöneburg , Stadtallendorf and Neustadt as well as eastern Marburg and northern Kirchhain districts) is less pronounced among voters in Dautphetal than in the neighboring communities of Biedenkopf , Wetter or Lahn valley . In the meantime, in addition to the two big parties SPD and CDU, the Free Voters have established themselves as a further political force.

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016     A total of 31 seats SPD : 11 CDU : 11 FW : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	31.6	11	41.3	13	42.6	13	48.3	15th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	35.3	11	40.1	12	41.5	13	41.2	13
	FW	Free voters Dautphetal	28.6	9	18.6	6th	15.9	5	6.9	2
	BLD	Citizens' list Dautphetal	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.6	1
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		53.0		49.6		50.8		59.3

mayor

Town hall in Dautphe

→ Main article: List of mayors of Dautphetal

The first mayor of the large community was Hans Hauswirth ( CDU ) in 1974 . He directed the fate of the community for 30 years. On March 21, 2004, Bernd Schmidt was elected Mayor of Dautphetal by the Free Voting Association ( FW ).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Dautphetal is identical to the coat of arms of the district of Dautphe. On August 15, 1974, the coat of arms was approved for the municipality by the Ministry of the Interior in Wiesbaden. After the amalgamation of the twelve former municipalities to form the new large municipality, an attempt was first made to design a new coat of arms, which did not lead to a generally accepted solution. Therefore, the Dautphes coat of arms was chosen because of its importance as a historical center. The coat of arms itself comes from the Dautpher church and is of unknown origin.

Blazon : "In blue a gold-armored silver eagle, which holds two silver shields in its claws, each with a red lion facing."

Town twinning

The municipality of Dautphetal has had a town partnership with the municipality of Cikó in Hungary since 1997 . Furthermore, the Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Dautphe and Buchenau each maintain a parish partnership with the Protestant parish of Diesdorf in Saxony-Anhalt and with the Protestant community in Kazan in Tatarstan, Russia .

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

For a long time the economic basis in the area of ​​today's Dautphetal was agriculture . Since the income was often insufficient due to the soil conditions, there were many people who earned additional money as day laborers in the fields in the Wetterau or in Rheinhessen or in mining in the Siegerland or Ruhr area . With the emergence of mercantilism , there was also an increased search for mineral resources in the hinterland and thus in Dautphetal . The ores found were mostly processed in the surrounding mills, which led to the development of the iron processing industry. In the 19th century numerous ironworks were built, in the area of ​​today's Dautphetal these were the Wilhelmshütte and the Carlshütte.

The economic structure in Dautphetal is now divided into industry and trade , while the share of the service sector is somewhat smaller. Steel and mold construction have grown historically and are therefore particularly well represented in the industry . Dautphetal also offers great potential for relaxation and tourism with the Lahn valley and the extensive forests.

As of March 31, 2009, 227 businesses with 3,269 employees subject to social insurance were located in the community. In contrast, 4,249 employees subject to social insurance were living there at the time. On June 30, 2009 (survey date) there were 2,110 inbound commuters compared to 2,937 outbound commuters.

Companies

Reception building with atrium of the Roth company

The largest employer in the community is Roth Industries GmbH & Co. KG with around 520 employees in Buchenau and Wolfgruben. Since the atrium in the company's reception building is particularly suitable for this, art exhibitions and concerts are often held there.

The company Johnson Controls provides in Peace Village vehicle tanks and car seats ago. More than 700 employees are employed at this location. On June 30, 2016, the company announced its intention to close the site by March 2019 and relocate production to other locations.

The Bamberger company , formerly the third largest steel enamel bathtub manufacturer in Europe and one of the large companies in the municipality with over 200 employees, was taken over by the Kaldewei company and broken up in 2005.

Spatial planning classification

In the regional plan for Central Hesse 2001, Dautphetal is shown as a sub-center in rural areas. Dautphe and Friedensdorf are the central districts. The community is also part of the Marburg – Dautphetal – Biedenkopf– (Bad Laasphe) regional axis . The task of this axis is to develop the region, to enable an exchange of services between the medium-sized centers and to connect the region to the regional center of Marburg and the long-distance transport network. The expansion of public transport is of particular importance. Additionally, there is with the axis Dautphetal-Gladenbach a through local suburban and settlement axis regional connection function. Together with Biedenkopf and Breidenbach, Dautphetal is shown as a commercial focus.

traffic

The most important traffic connections of Dautphetal follow, as is usual in the hill country, the (already more populated) valleys of the rivers. Accordingly, the Lahn axis towards Marburg (east) or towards Biedenkopf and Siegen (west) has the highest priority, followed by the Dautphe axis , which leads south towards Gladenbach, while all other traffic routes are less important.

Federal highways

The main road in Dautphetal is federal road 62 , which passes through the northern municipal area from west to east and leads through Buchenau, among other places. This nationally important road leads from eastern North Rhine-Westphalia (Siegen) through Central Hesse (Dautphetal, Marburg) and East Hesse ( Alsfeld , Bad Hersfeld ) to Thuringia ( Bad Salzungen ) and fulfills the function of a national traffic axis. At Cölbe it meets 15 east of the B 3 , which leads as a north-south axis to Kassel or Gießen .

The only 15 km long federal road 453 branches off from the B 62 in the neighboring municipality of Biedenkopf and leads south over the districts Wolfgruben, Dautphe and Mornshausen, finally between Holzhausen and Herzhausen to Gladenbach .

Highways

The Ruhr area , but also Cologne or Aachen , can be reached via the A 45 in Dillenburg , about 30 km away in the west via the B 253 . Gießen or Frankfurt can also be controlled here, but this would involve a multiple route.

Frankfurt am Main , Stuttgart or Basel can be reached in the south-east via the motorway-like B 3 near Cölbe, which is 15 km away and which merges into the A 485 in the direction of Gießen .

There is a connection to the A 4 in the east ( Dresden ) or the A 7 in the south ( Munich ) in the (south) east via the A 5 at Alsfeld, 55 km away via the B 62 .

In the northeast, a good 50 km connection to the A 49 to Kassel, Hanover , Hamburg or Berlin is guaranteed via the B 3 . A further construction of the A 49 in the direction of Marburg is planned. However, there are traffic, economic and spatial planning aspects on the one hand, and ecological and nature conservation issues on the other, so that a satisfactory route has not yet been found.

Of the planned closure of the gap from Aachen to the Polish western border leading A 4 only the section between turns and is currently between turning and Kirchheim Kreuztal realized. In the meantime, a route along the B 508 , the B 62 and the B 454 via Hilchenbach , Erndtebrück , Bad Laasphe , Biedenkopf, Cölbe and Stadtallendorf was planned, which would have connected Dautphetal directly to the motorway network.

Rail transport

Friedensdorf station with modernized platform

Local rail passenger transport (SPNV) is covered by the Obere Lahntalbahn . The route, also known as RMV line 94 , connects Erndtebrück in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district and the city of Marburg via Bad Laasphe and Biedenkopf. The stations Wilhelmshütte (Lahn) , Friedensdorf (Lahn) and Buchenau (Lahn) are served in Dautphetal . The last two stations mentioned are very conveniently located on the Hessian long-distance cycle route R 2 . Monday to Friday, the range of services includes 17 journeys between 5 a.m. and 11 p.m., 14 journeys on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. and 7 journeys between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. on Sundays. You can take your bike with you on all trains. The trains are operated by the Kurhessenbahn .

In Marburg there is a connection to the Main-Weser-Bahn u. a. to the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn .

Bus transport

Local public transport (ÖPNV) is covered by the X40 express bus and the 481 regional bus as well as the MR-40, MR-41, MR-50, MR-51, MR-52, MR-53 and MR- 57. The lines ensure accessibility within the community as well as to neighboring communities and centers. In addition, there is a municipal citizens' bus

air traffic

The two special landing sites in Bad Endbach -Bottenhorn and Eschenburg -Hirzenhain as well as the transport landing site in Cölbe- Schönstadt are in the immediate vicinity . The Siegerlandflughafen 61 kilometers away. The nearest international airport is Frankfurt Airport, 116 kilometers away .

Network of cycle paths / hiking trails

View of Allendorf and the narrow Lahn valley in the center of the picture

Due to the favorable location in the low mountain range with large contiguous forest areas, there is an extensive network of trails throughout the region. This tourist potential was only gradually recognized and has been supported since the mid-1990s through membership in the Association Region Lahn-Dill-Bergland e. V. supported organizationally. In addition to smaller cycle paths, the Lahntal cycle path or the Hessian long-distance cycle path R2 leads through the municipality.

Dautphetal is located on the 245 km long Lahnhöhenweg ( Netphen - Lahnstein ) and the 86 km long premium hiking trail Lahn-Dill-Bergland-Path from Herborn to Marburg . Furthermore, the Hessenweg 10 ( Biedenkopf - Rasdorf ) as well as the extra tours Lahnhöhen extra tour , Steinperfer Runde, orchard route of the Lahn-Dill mountain trail cross the municipality.

energy

The Weißenberg wind farm has been in operation since December 2016 .

Public facilities

In the Friedensdorf district there is a substation that has existed since the 1950s . There, the electrical voltage from the distribution network is transformed at 110  kV to a medium voltage of 20 kV. In 1998, a new 20 kV switchgear and new power transformers were installed. The substation is operated by E.ON Mitte.

The gas supply for the districts of Daupthe, Friedensdorf and Wolfgruben is provided by E.ON Mitte AG.

In Buchenau and Damshausen there are two small libraries mainly with novels and children's books.

education

There is a kindergarten in every major town in the community ; only Damshausen, Elmshausen, Silberg and Wolfgruben have no such facility of their own. The Wolfgruben Kindergarten was closed in 2007. In Holzhausen and Buchenau there is one elementary school each , with Buchenau having a support level until 2006 .

In Friedensdorf, in addition to the Dautphetal School with elementary, secondary and secondary school with a special level, there is the Burgberg School , a school for learning and educational assistance. There is a school for the practically imaginable with a department for physically handicapped practically imaginable in Hommertshausen. In Wilhelmshütte there is a branch of the Julie-Spannagel-School for difficult to educate young people.

Secondary schools such as technical schools , technical colleges or the like or (vocational) high schools can be found in the surrounding towns of Marburg, Biedenkopf, Bad Laasphe and Gladenbach. The closest universities are the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (nearby locations in Biedenkopf, Wetzlar and others) and the universities of Marburg , Gießen , Kassel and Siegen .

For adults, the district offers two branches of the Community College Marburg-Biedenkopf.

Social facilities

In addition to many mostly Christian associations such as a branch of the Blue Cross, there are several social institutions in Dautphetal. On the one hand, the Dautphetal senior center , which serves as a nursing home and retirement home, and on the other, the Hinterland workshops , a recognized workshop for disabled people. The evangelical pastoral care facility help center e. V. has set itself the goal of helping young people in crisis situations on the basis of the Christian faith. In addition, the social-diaconal St. Elisabeth-Verein e. V. Marburg a residential group for young people in the district of Hommertshausen and a branch of the above-mentioned Julie-Spannagel-Schule in the district of Wilhelmshütte.

media

The daily newspapers in Dautphetal are the Oberhessische Presse (with a local section for the Altkreis Biedenkopf) and the Hinterländer Anzeiger , with the Hinterländer Anzeiger having the larger market share in Dautphetal. A kind of monopoly on the advertising market in the district (but also partly in the neighboring Vogelsberg and Lahn-Dill districts ) has the Mittelhessische Werbung newspaper (MAZ) , which appears free on Wednesdays and comes from a publishing house in Giessen.

In addition, there are a number of advertising papers such as Hinterland extra from the Oberhessische Presse or Der Gute Sonntag des Hinterländer Anzeiger. The Dautphetaler weekly newspaper (Mitteilungsblatt) comes from a publishing house in Herbstein , the Sonntag Morgenmagazin from a publishing house in Giessen.

Culture and sights

Museums

The old church in Friedensdorf

A weaving room, old photographs and a dialect archive can be viewed in the old church in the Friedensdorf district . This archive contains poems, songs and texts that are written in the local dialect. In addition, the characteristics of the dialects that sometimes differ from village to village are shown. In the old church, changing exhibitions are also offered from time to time.

The Altes Rathaus local history museum in Buchenau mainly shows exhibits on household and kitchen issues, especially from the 1920s to 1950s.

The small “Backes Stibbcher” museum in Dautphe is a middle-class three-room apartment from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Here you can see typical exhibits of the Dautpher local history and representations of the Dautpher costume and old documents (photos, maps, lists, family chronicles of the oldest Dautpher families etc.).

Club life

The community of Dautphetal is home to a large number of clubs. In addition to over 30 sports clubs, of football over tennis , table tennis , gymnastics , horse riding and motor sports to ballooning , there are in almost every place or every parish a trombone, male and / or female choirs. There are also other music associations such as a hunter's choir, a marching band or the big band “ Hinterland Jazz Orchestra ” as a registered association. The more than 12,000 inhabitants have a total of almost 50 dance and music clubs to choose from. In the area of ​​animal, breeding or protection associations, numerous poultry breeding associations as well as nature conservation and horticultural associations should be mentioned. There are also more than 40 cultural or homeland associations. In the web links section there is a link to the club overview in Dautphetal.

building

Old town center of Buchenau

View from Rimberg to the north

→ See also: List of cultural monuments in Dautphetal

The center of most of the villages are characterized by half-timbered houses . Some small half-timbered churches, for example in Hommertshausen and Silberg, have been preserved. In particular, the scratch-plastered half-timbered houses in Holzhausen are listed.

On the summit of the Rimberg stands the 24 m high Rimberg Tower , which was inaugurated on April 30, 1977; it is already the second observation tower on the mountain top (the first tower was destroyed by a storm). With good visibility there is a far-reaching view of the area.

The Carlshütte was built as an ironworks in 1844 and is also a listed building. It was created in the course of industrialization due to the favorable location between the Lahn as an energy supplier and the ore deposits existing there .

Other buildings:

• Historic church ( Martinskirche ) in Dautphe
• Fortified church in Buchenau
• Ruins of the Hohenfels double castle

leisure

In addition to numerous shelters that can be rented in the summer months, there are two indoor swimming pools run by associations in Buchenau and Friedensdorf. There are outdoor pools in Allendorf, Dautphe, Herzhausen and Holzhausen. The Holzhausen forest swimming pool is particularly noteworthy due to its size and the adjoining mini golf course . Riding and therapeutic riding is possible in Elmshausen and Friedensdorf. Bike and hiking trails are maintained and maintained by the Upper Hessian Mountain Association . In the outskirts of Buchenau and Holzhausen, fitness trails are signposted along which there are paddling pools .

In winter, cross- country trails are groomed in the vicinity of Holzhausen if the weather permits, and there is a smaller ski slope with a ski lift.

Cultural event

In addition to the numerous events organized by the local boys and girls , such as Easter bonfires , dancing in May , setting the maypole and other local, home and club festivals, the Advent market in Buchenau has become a fixture. A highlight is the border crossing festival in Buchenau every seven years , which returns in 2013.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The local history researcher Karl Huth became the first honorary citizen of the municipality on December 17, 1984. The former district administrator of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and citizen of Dautphetal Robert Fischbach was presented with this award on January 24, 2020 as part of the New Year's reception by Mayor Bernd Schmidt.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Albrecht Ohly (* 1829; † 1891), Mayor of Darmstadt (1874-1891)
• Johannes Debus X. (* 1879; † 1966), mayor and 1946 member of the state assembly in Hesse that advised the constitution .
• Karl Huth (* 1914; † 1989), civil servant and homeland researcher
• Michael Evenari (* 1904; † 1989), botanist
• Dieter Trautwein (* 1928; † 2002), Protestant theologian and songwriter
• Hartmut Nassauer (* 1942), former member of the Bundestag and former MEP
• Robert Fischbach (* 1944), District Administrator of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district from 1996 to 2014
• Manfred Roth , CEO of Roth Industries , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Horst Dieter Ernst Wetterau (* 1953; † 2009), German cook, holder of the Medal of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Silke Tesch (* 1958), former member of the state parliament
• Michael Cyriax (* 1969), District Administrator of the Main-Taunus-Kreis
• Jens Wetterau (* 1976), ecotrophologist

Other personalities

• Horst Falk (* 1970), Member of the State Parliament (CDU)

athlete

• Christopher Müller , 2009 bronze medalist at the Ju-Jutsu European Championships in Montenegro in the weight class up to 94 kg

literature

Local history

• Karl Huth : Herzhausen: A Hessian gem . Ed .: Parish council of the parish of Herzhausen. 1971, DNB  740837656 .

• Karl Huth: Wolfgruben: From the past and the present . Ed .: Community board of the community Wolfgruben. 1971, DNB  840288352 .

• Karl Huth: Buchenau: A walk through past and present . Ed .: Municipality board of the municipality of Buchenau. 1972, DNB  949106887 .

• Karl Huth: Dautphe: Heart of a historical cultural landscape . Ed .: Parish council of the parish of Dautphe. 1973, DNB  861041690 .

• Martin Nassauer: Dautphe as it was back then - A look back at Dautphes past days . Ed .: Festival committee “1200 years of Dautphe”. 1990.

• Peter Schneider: Cloud gap brought death. March 16, 1945: Air raid on Dautphe . In: Hinterländer Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Hinterländer Geschichtsblätter . 87th year, no. 1 . Biedenkopf 2008, DNB  951535781 .
• Literature on Dautphetal in the Hessian Bibliography

Cross-community literature

• Karl Huth: Administrative history of the district Biedenkopf . Ed .: District Committee of the Biedenkopf District. Biedenkopf 1957, DNB  452150736 .

• Ulrich Lennarz: The territorial history of the Hessian hinterland . Ed .: Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies in conjunction with the Hinterland History Association. Marburg 1973, DNB  740114093 .

• Ulrich Reuling : Historical local dictionary Biedenkopf, former District, issue 4 . Ed .: Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies. Marburg 1986, DNB  860336409 .

Web links

Commons : Dautphetal  - Collection of Images

Wikivoyage: Dautphetal  - travel guide

• Internet presence of the municipality of Dautphetal
• Dautphetal, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Link catalog on the subject of Dautphetal at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Association Wiki: Associations in Dautphetal

References and comments

1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ In many sources, the 533  m high Nimerich is wrongly regarded as the highest point, but according to the BfN map service ( memento from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), the Schloßberg is located on the Dautphetal boundary and is over 540 m high.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Environmental Atlas Hesse . In: Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology 2005, [1. February 2006]
4. ^ Preliminary report on the 1st supplementary budget of the municipality of Dautphetal for the financial year 2007
5. ↑ Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, Wiesbaden, 2008 (accessed on June 11, 2016)
6. ↑ 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 , § 20 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
7. ^ Karl Huth: The district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Administrative, economic and social history , Marburg: District Committee of the District (Ed.) 1979, p. 284
8. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3585, October 11, 721 - Reg. 2326. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 221 , accessed on April 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ 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 , § 20 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
10. ^ 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. 350 f .
11. ↑ "Population figures of the municipality of Dautphetal" on the website of the municipality of Dautphetal, accessed on March 28, 2018
12. ↑ Numbers before 1974 added up from the individual districts.
    Data source 1834 to 1967: Historical municipality directory for Hesse issue 1, The population of the municipalities 1834 to 1967, Hess. Stat. State Office
    data source from 1998: Statistics of the municipality of Dautphetal ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (HW + NW)
13. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
14. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
15. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
16. ↑ Page can no longer be called up , search in web archives: Key figures of the employment statistics - municipalities of the agency district Wetzlar (pdf - 29 kB) [27. January 2010]
17. ↑ Johnson Controls closes plant in Dautphetal ( Memento from July 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on hessenschau.de; accessed: July 2, 2016
18. ↑ Regional plan Central Hesse - text part (pdf file) ( Memento from September 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hessian Ministry for Economics, Transport and Regional Development 2006, [1. February 2006]
19. ↑ Regional local transport association. ( Memento from December 5, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) In: Marburg-Biedenkopf district 2006, [1. February 2006] (on the Internet Archive )
20. ^ Description of the Julie-Spannagel-Schule ( Memento from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), (accessed on March 17, 2011).

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