Diedenbergen

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Diedenbergen
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Diedenbergen
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 42 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 12"  E
Height : 189 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.17 km²
Residents : 4139  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 577 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 65719
Area code : 06192

Diedenbergen is a district of the district town Hofheim am Taunus and is located in the southwest of the Main-Taunus district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

View of Diedenbergen from the southwest from the A3 . The A 66 with the Hofheim am Taunus junction can be seen in the foreground .

Diedenbergen is located on a southern roof of the Vordertaunus directly below the edge of the forest and with a height of 190 meters high above the Upper Rhine Plain . Because of this exposed hillside location, Diedenbergen can be seen from afar.

Diedenbergen is located where an old Roman road on the dead straight path from Mainz-Kastel to the Wetterau has to overcome a foothills of the Taunus and reaches its peak. In the Middle Ages this stone street was known as Elisabethenstraße . In Diedenbergen it bears the name Casteller Straße and is still the most important main road in the town.

Diedenbergen is surrounded to the west, north and east by the Hofheim districts of Wallau , Langenhain and Marxheim . In the south, the district borders on the Hochheim district of Massenheim and the Flörsheim district of Weilbach .

history

The first mention of Diedenbergen, which has been handed down to this day, happened in 1366 in a description of the property of properties that u. a. were on Dydenberger Weg . The neighboring, older places Hartbach and Oberweilbach fell in the 15th and 16th centuries and became part of the district of Diedenbergen.

For centuries Diedenbergen part of the Protestant little country and belonged to the time of the Duchy of Nassau for office Hochheim .

The center of the village is the Protestant church . A church in Diedenbergen was first mentioned in 1591 as a branch church of Marxheim. From 1754 to 1756, Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt had a new church built. Allegedly, its tower is visible from Darmstadt in good weather .

The Franz Grube mine on Marxheimer Strasse was operated between 1882 and 1950 .

Territorial reform

On April 1, 1972, Diedenbergen was incorporated into the city of Hofheim am Taunus as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Occupied population figures up to 1987 are:

• 1457: 23 houses
• 1492: 32 houses
• 1564: 54 families
• 1592: 51 house seats
• 1610: 64 households
• 1630: 39 men, 4 widows and 4 guardians (1618 to 1648: Thirty Years War )
• 1636: 19 households
• 1637: 11 households
• 1656: 26 taxpayers
• 1699: 235 residents with no unconfirmed children
• 1758: 92 farm owners
• 1791: 410 inhabitants
• 1800: 414 inhabitants
Diedenbergen: Population from 1775 to 1987
year     Residents
1775
  
 437
1791
  
 410
1800
  
 414
1817
  
 551
1834
  
 586
1840
  
 643
1846
  
 677
1852
  
 690
1858
  
 644
1864
  
 671
1871
  
 666
1875
  
 707
1885
  
 811
1895
  
 809
1905
  
 930
1910
  
 975
1925
  
 1,066
1939
  
 1,127
1946
  
 1,424
1950
  
 1,542
1956
  
 1,658
1961
  
 1,780
1967
  
 2,171
1970
  
 2,504
1987
  
 3,026
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

In December 2002, 3,916 residents had their primary residence in Diedenbergen, and 4,159 with a secondary residence.

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 0758 Protestant (= 93.46%), 35 Catholic (= 4.32%), 18 Jewish (= 2.22%) residents
• 1961: 1305 Protestant (= 73.31%), 457 Catholic (= 25.67%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

View from Weilbacher Strasse to the old town hall

After the local elections in Hesse in 2016, the nine seats in the Hofheim-Diedenbergen local council are distributed as follows:

Political party Seats Result
CDU 3 32.7%
SPD 3 28.2%
Green 1 13.2%
FWG 2 25.9%

Mayor: Klaus Ernst (SPD)

coat of arms

On July 21, 1971, the municipality of Diedenbergen was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In the shield, which is divided obliquely to the left by blue and silver, a growing lion divided six times by red and silver, and a blue wolf tang at the bottom.

Culture and sights

Evangelical Church Diedenbergen

Buildings

  • The urban vineyard on Wickerer Berg ties in with the old wine-growing tradition of Diedenbergen. You can learn more about this tradition on a year-round wine trail.
  • The rococo organ made by the renowned organ builder Johann Conrad Bürgy (1721–1792), which can be found in the Protestant church, is also worth seeing .
  • At Philipp-Keim-Straße 7 is the house where the blind singer Philipp Keim (1804-1884) lived and died, who traveled through the Nassau region with his barrel organ and accompanied by his wife Lisbeth and passed on news to the people in song form.

societies

  • Turnverein Diedenbergen 1886 e. V.
  • MGV cheerfulness
  • German Gymnastics Association DGymB eV
  • SG Nassau Diedenbergen 1921 e. V.
  • Diedenbergen volunteer fire department
  • MSC Diedenbergen
  • SV 1958 Diedenbergen e. V.
  • Tennis club Diedenbergen 71 e. V.
  • Diedenberg local history association
  • Frankfurt Aviation Association from 1908 e. V. - Model aircraft division
  • Equestrian group Roßhof
  • NABU local group Diedenbergen
  • German Red Cross
  • Association for German Shepherds
  • Women's choir Viva La Musica
  • Cultural association Diedenbergen
  • Mary Popins e. V.
  • Historic agricultural machinery Diedenbergen
  • Magic Dragon Dancers
  • Rifle Club 1958 e. V. Diedenbergen
  • Narrengilde Diedenbergen 2011 eV

traffic

Diedenbergen is conveniently located near the Wiesbadener Kreuz and is connected to the federal highway 66 ( Wiesbaden - Frankfurt am Main ) with the junction Diedenbergen and thus also to the federal highway 3 ( Cologne - Frankfurter Kreuz ).

Landstrasse 3264 leads from the Diedenbergen junction of the A 66 in a north-easterly direction on the route of the old Roman road up to Diedenbergen and from here downhill again to Marxheim where it joins the federal road 519 . The district road 785 branches off west of Diedenbergen from the L 3264 to the west in the direction of Wallau and is a main feeder for the industrial area Wallau Ost to the motorway. The district road 787 branches off from the L 3264 in the center to the north and leads uphill to Langenhain.

Public transport within the RMV consists of bus routes to Hofheim and Wiesbaden.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Diedenbergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Diedenbergen, Main-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers, data, facts: Population figures (HW). In: Internet presence of the city of Hofheim. Accessed November 2017.
  3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 370 .
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ^ 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 ).
  6. ^ The affiliation of the Eppstein office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  7. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  134 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  8. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  140 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  9. ↑ Private website for the place
  10. ↑ Local council election 2016. (No longer available online.) City of Hofheim am Taunus, archived from the original on December 6, 2016 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Local Advisory Board Hofheim-Diedenbergen. City of Hofheim am Taunus, accessed on March 28, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Diedenbergen, Main-Taunus-Kreis dated July 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 32 , p. 1293 , item 1110 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).