Dillingen (Friedrichsdorf)

Dillingen City of Friedrichsdorf Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 48 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 52 ″ E
Height :	266 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	April 1, 1916
Postal code :	61381
Area code :	06172
	Dillinger Straße (across the intersection) and Taunusstraße (downhill)

Dillingen is a district of Friedrichsdorf in the Hochtaunuskreis in Hesse with its own district . Dillingen, together with the core city, forms the Friedrichsdorf district and is within the Friedrichsdorf district.

Geographical location

Dillingen is the highest and most western part of Friedrichsdorf. Due to the altitude, there is a distant view of the Wetterau in a south-easterly direction .

The small district of Dillingen is largely built up and framed on two sides by the district of Friedrichsdorf. The streets Hoher Weg and Grenzstraße form the border to Friedrichsdorf in the southeast. Here the district has grown together structurally with the core city. In the northwest, Dillingen ends on Lochmühlenweg . The Friedrichsdorf forest markings begin there. However, the course of the district boundary leaves out the Bornberg forest district on Lochmühlenweg , whose forests are part of the Burgholzhausen district in front of the height . The community forest of Dillingen consists of a single parcel of around 12 hectares behind the Bornberg at the forest hospital of Köppern . The Dillingen field markings are located between the Bornberg and Köpperner Straße .

history

Dillingen was founded in 1804 by Landgrave Friedrich V von Hessen-Homburg . In the name he referred to the earlier site Tulingen , which was the first time in 1192 and 1229 documented, but in the 16th century desolate had fallen.

The area of the future location was that part of the spit forest that fell to the landgrave when the Seulberger Mark was dissolved in 1802. Originally, Frederick V planned to take in Swiss families who wanted to emigrate for religious reasons. The settlement was then carried out by families from the Vogelsberg , especially from Metzlos-Gehaag near Grebenhain . These had lost their livestock in a cattle disease. In addition, farmers from neighboring towns such as Ober-Moos , Fischborn , Dirlammen and Stockhausen as well as colonists from the Hintertaunus such as Grävenwiesbach , Wehrheim or Lauken settled .

After the March Revolution was instead used by the Landgrave mayor a first mayor elected by the citizens. In 1866 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg and thus Dillingen became Prussian.

In 1915 a contract for the incorporation of Dillingen into Friedrichsdorf was concluded and implemented in 1916. In the 1920s the schools were then merged.

The Brendelburg is believed to be between Dillingen and Friedrichsdorf . It probably stood on the grounds of the Garnier Institute .

The water supply of Dillingen

Originally, the houses in Dillingen had individual wells. However, this was not a reliable water supply, especially in dry seasons, and led to the productivity of the Schnepfenborn spring below the village on the Schnepfenburg , from which Friedrichsdorf was supplied, decreased. Therefore, with the support of the Landgrave, a wooden water pipe was laid from the Fahrborn spring below the Gickelsburg and inaugurated on November 27, 1827.

Due to their design, these wooden pipes were not very durable. After they fell into disrepair, the water supply consisted of only two community pumps. In 1912 a pressure line was laid from Köppern and thus connected Dillingen to a modern water supply.

Attractions

School and prayer house

In 1820, Landgrave Friedrich VI. of Hessen-Homburg the residents of Dillinger Strasse 32 as a school and prayer house . The Gothic window was added later, and the building was also raised. Ecclesiastically it was a branch church to the Lutheran parish of Köppern . Despite the small size, the local patriots speak of the "Dillinger Dom" . The roof turret houses two bells of different ages from the Rincker foundry .

Alt-Dillingen

The so-called "Dillinger Dom" is the center of the old village center, which is a listed building as a whole . This overall complex includes the houses Dillinger Strasse 29 to 50. The houses Dillinger Strasse 32, 33/35, 36, 37 and 38/40 are also protected as individual monuments.

Fountain

In 2004, for the 200th anniversary, the fountain was set up in front of the school and prayer house. The octagonal fountain basin made of red Main sandstone was designed based on the model of the fountain in Merzhausen . The invisible inner basin made of stainless steel protects the sandstone from damage. The fountain, whose total cost of € 30,000 was raised by the city and a group of citizens, has a pillar in the middle that bears the coat of arms of Dillingen with the beehive.

literature

Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 112-115 .
Gabriele Calvo Henning: At the fountain in front of the dome; in: Taunus-Zeitung of January 13, 2014, p. 15

Individual evidence

^ Dillingen, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 25, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Web links

Commons : Dillingen (Friedrichsdorf) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Dillingen on the website of the city of Friedrichsdorf.
Dillingen, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Alt-Dillingen, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Dillingen in the Hessian Bibliography

[lagis-1] Dillingen, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 25, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).