Diethardt

This article deals with the local church in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the saint of the same name, see Theodard von Maastricht .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 52 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Nasta
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.42 km 2
Residents:	247 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56355
Area code :	06772
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 502
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 1 56355 Nastätten
Website :	www.diethardt.de
Mayoress :	Kerstin Reek-Berghäuser
Location of the local community Diethardt in the Rhein-Lahn district

The local community Diethardt is located in the Blauer Ländchen in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the association of Nastaetten .

geography

Diethardt is located in the Blauer Ländchen between Wiesbaden and Koblenz in the western Hintertaunus . The community is divided into the districts Diethardt and Münchenroth.

history

The oldest mention of the Diethardt parish comes from the year 1260. The Counts of Katzenelnbogen were rulers of the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen until 1479, and Diethardt's Landgrave Ernst I of Hesse-Rheinfels ensured resettlement in 1666 in the area that was completely devastated in the Thirty Years War Place. Since 1816 the place belonged to the Duchy of Nassau , from 1866 to the Kingdom of Prussia . Diethardt has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

On June 10, 1979, the previously independent municipality Münchenroth with 60 inhabitants was incorporated into Diethardt.

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in the area of ​​today's municipality Diethardt; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 280 1835 329 1871 313 1905 260 1939 246 1950 299 1961 262

year Residents 1970 246 1987 254 1997 278 2005 297 2011 238 2017 232

religion

The church is ecclesiastically assigned to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and the Catholic Diocese of Limburg .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Diethardt consists of six council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Local Mayor of Diethardt is Kerstin Reek-Berghäuser. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected with a share of the vote of 75.38% and is thus the successor to Dieter Schlemann, who after 15 years in office had no longer run for this position.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red a continuous golden cross, in each of the corners three (2: 1) golden crosses."

Justification of the coat of arms: So the shield in the SIGIL (V) M DITHART ET WEIDENBACH of the 16th century. This is the family coat of arms of the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg, the feudal lords of the place, who took it over in 1569 after the lords of Geroldstein died out and ceded it to Hessen-Rheinfels in 1578. The Weidenbach mentioned in the inscription, also owned by Geroldstein, belonged to Diethardt judicially and ecclesiastically.

Culture and sights

Sights in Diethardt include the Protestant village church from the 18th century, which was built by Pastor Gerhard Helfrich Preuschen as pastor in Diethardt from 1722 to 1746 (see Latin inscription inside the church) on the place where one was before older church that was consecrated to Saint Diethardt before the Reformation . The community library is housed in the old bakery today.

The traditional baking festival is held once a year, when bread and cakes are baked again in the old bakery ; there has also been a fountain festival for a few years.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Diethardt  and List of natural monuments in Diethardt

Economy and Infrastructure

The former climatic health resort was known and developed for tourists until the 1980s (one hotel, two restaurants). As a result of demographic change , however, the economic situation in the community deteriorated, and in 2002 the last restaurant initially closed. It was not until the summer of 2013 that a restaurant opened again in the Münchenroth district.

Since the winter of 2003 there was a pony farm on the site of the last restaurant, Hof Weidengrund , which attracted numerous, mostly young, female visitors during the holiday season and thus slightly stimulated tourism in the village. After the pony farm moved in 2006, the area is inhabited by a family. The center of village life is the village community center built in the early 1970s, in which village festivities are regularly held and which is available to all residents.

Diethardt has a volunteer fire brigade , which in 2004 had to deploy for the first time since the 1960s for a fire operation in the district of Münchenroth.

Personalities

From 1998 to 2008 the writer Bjørn Jagnow (* 1972), who can show numerous fiction and technical publications, lived in Diethardt. He has received or was nominated for various literary and cultural awards.

Others

In 1999, ZDF filmed parts of the “ One Case for Two ” production “From Nail to Nail”. Ransom money for stolen paintings was dropped in the meadows in front of the site. The selection of the location is thanks to the Besier family, Wiesbaden merchants who bought the former rectory in the 1980s.

Web links

Commons : Diethardt  - Collection of Images

• Official homepage of the Diethardt parish
• Local community Diethardt on the website of the association community Nastätten
• In this country: main street in Diethardt. State show , SWR television, July 13, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 68 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 174 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019
6. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Naststätten: Mayor Diethardt 2019
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Nastätten, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved November 7, 2019 . 
8. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt and Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 178.