Dombach (Bad Camberg)

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Dombach
City of Bad Camberg
Former municipal coat of arms of Dombach
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 297 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.26 km²
Residents : 336  (Jun 30, 2016)
Population density : 103 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 65520
Area code : 06434
View of Dombach, behind the Stückelberg
View of Dombach, behind the Stückelberg

Dombach is the smallest district of Bad Camberg in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Dombach is located in the eastern Hintertaunus , at an altitude of 300 meters above sea ​​level , around four kilometers east of the core town of Bad Camberg. The district town of Limburg an der Lahn is located around 20 kilometers to the north-west.

The highest elevations in the district are the Stückelberg northeast of the place with 510 meters above sea level and the Salzlackerkopf with 465 meters above sea level. The Dombach flows through the village, which rises above the village between the Taunus heights and flows down through the Dombachtal towards Schwickershausen and flows into the Emsbach in Erbach .

Dombach lies in a zone of agricultural land stretching from northwest to southeast. At the edges of the district the terrain rises and is covered with forest. The district is enclosed in the west and north by the core town of Bad Camberg, borders in the east on Riedelbach and thus on the Hochtaunuskreis and in the south on Würges .
Geologically, the area is dominated by slate- containing greywacke with quartz veins.

history

Dombach was first mentioned in a document in 1281. This involved a sale of goods by Hermann von Duninbach together with a Trutmann von Erbach to the Gnadenthal monastery . The name of the place is also passed down as "Dodenbach", which probably goes back to an elevation called "Totenkopf", from which the Dombach rises.

In addition to the church, the old town hall is the defining building of the place. It was first mentioned in 1757, and in 1762 the clock tower was added. The half-timbered building initially served as a school house with a teacher's apartment and is therefore also called "old school". From 1897, when a new school building was completed, until 1970 it was the place of work for the mayor of Dombach. In 1980 the old town hall was renovated.

The older church of St. Wendelin was built in 1477. Since 1840 Dombach has formed a parish together with Schwickershausen. From 1873 to 1876 a new church was built on the site of the old church. On February 13, 1940, this parish church burned down to the outer walls. The rebuilt church was consecrated at Easter 1941.

Another historic building is the rectory opposite the church , which was built between 1865 and 1866 . The pastor and poet Franz Alfred Muth lived there from 1871 until his death on November 3rd, 1890 , whose grave is on the church wall.

In 1908 the village got its first water pipe , a year later the first telephone connection. In the Middle Ages, Dombach was located on an overland route from Bad Camberg into the Weiltal . Later, the connection to the Weil was no longer used and the spur road was only expanded back to Rod an der Weil in 1951.

Territorial reform

As part of the Hessian regional reform , the previously independent municipality of Dombach was incorporated into Bad Camberg on July 1, 1974 by state law .

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Dombach: Population from 1650 to 2015
year     Residents
1650
  
29
1834
  
328
1840
  
350
1846
  
349
1852
  
343
1858
  
346
1864
  
313
1871
  
312
1875
  
342
1885
  
315
1895
  
272
1905
  
250
1910
  
238
1925
  
240
1939
  
197
1946
  
314
1950
  
300
1956
  
247
1961
  
214
1967
  
226
1970
  
233
1987
  
307
1998
  
366
2005
  
382
2011
  
392
2015
  
350
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 1970: City of Camberg

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 315 Catholic (= 100.00%) residents
• 1961: 009 Protestant (= 4.21%), 205 Roman Catholic (= 95.79%) residents

politics

The mayor of the Dombach district is Herbert Uhrig.

Culture and sights

societies

The oldest club in Dombach is the Eintracht Choral Society , which was founded in 1885. In 1960 the Dombach sports club was founded, which mainly operates soccer games . The Dombach volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1975 and the youth fire brigade has been part of it since December 22, 1995 . In August 2009 the association Dombacher Geschichte (n) was founded, which has set itself the task of publishing information about the history of Dombach and issuing a chronicle.

Buildings

For the listed cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Dombach .

Infrastructure

Since 1975 the Dombach volunteer fire brigade (from December 22, 1995 with the youth fire brigade) has provided fire protection and general help in this area.

literature

  • Josef Hörle: Dombach in Camberger Grund. Chronicle of a Taunus village. Dombach 1960.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Dombach, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. a b Statistical figures on the city of Bad Camberg's website , accessed in September 2015.
  3. Law on the reorganization of the Limburg district and the Oberlahn district. (GVBl. II 330-25) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 5 , p. 101 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 369 .
  5. ^ 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).
  6. Local Advisory Board of the Dombach district. City of Bad Camberg, accessed on January 17, 2017 .