Donsbach

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Donsbach
City of Dillenburg
Coat of arms of Donsbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 331 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.48 km²
Residents : 1447  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 153 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35686
Area code : 02771
View of Donsbach
View of Donsbach

Donsbach is a district of the Orange city ​​of Dillenburg in the Lahn-Dill district of Central Hesse with around 1450 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Donsbach is located in the north-western part of the Lahn-Dill district , on the edge of the Westerwald and is about four kilometers southwest of the core town of Dillenburg. Larger cities are in the immediate vicinity, besides Dillenburg, Herborn and Haiger .

Donsbach from the west

The village is located in the conservation area "Hessian Westerwald". There are also three nature reserves in the district : Alteberg and Sauernberg, An der alten Rheinstraße and Hasel bei Donsbach.

history

The 1100-year-old Donsbach is the oldest of the seven districts, including the core city. This is evidenced by the deed of gift dated April 28, 1048 on the occasion of the dedication of the St. Mary's Church in Haiger by Archbishop Eberhard von Trier. On the same day, the aforementioned Archbishop Eberhard, by virtue of his episcopal power, publicly confirmed the boundaries of that church as King Conrad I (911-918) had established in a document on April 24, 914: This is the boundary of the church in Heigerin, which the aforementioned King Konrad handed over to Saint Mary and Saint Walburgis in Willanaburg (Weilburg), which begins between Donesbach (Donsbach) and Heigere (Haiger), where Marc Herbore (Herborn) and the land of free men border each other.

Share certificate of the copper ore mine union Haus Nassau and Colonia I from Donsbach from April 15, 1902

The terrain of the circumscribed Heigeromarca therefore begins at the height between Haiger and Donsbach, the border town that belongs to the Herborner Mark. Both documents are copied in the 12th century Worms manuscript. Fortunately, important certificates and documents were saved in so-called copial books as early as the Middle Ages. From 1342 to 1485 the village was divided into Ober - and Niederdonsbach. From here, the two districts merged again. In 1959, the 1000 year anniversary of the village, which was missed in 1914, was duly celebrated.

As early as 1603, copper and iron ore were successfully mined in more than twelve pits in the village. Some of these mining operations existed until the first half of the 20th century.

In 1791 Donsbach fell victim to a large village fire, which led to great losses among the population. Bailiff Rühle von Lilienstern, whose name the elementary school bears, campaigned for the reconstruction and attached great importance to the half-timbered construction.

Territorial reform

Until 1976 Donsbach was an independent municipality in the former Dill district . On January 1, 1977, it became part of the regional reform in Hesse by the law for the reorganization of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen to Dillenburg Nanzenbach. For the district of Donsbach, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Donsbach: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
422
1840
  
447
1846
  
458
1852
  
503
1858
  
563
1864
  
662
1871
  
669
1875
  
632
1885
  
720
1895
  
802
1905
  
867
1910
  
927
1925
  
1,127
1939
  
1,207
1946
  
1,498
1950
  
1,546
1956
  
1,500
1961
  
1,585
1967
  
1,680
1970
  
1,736
1980
  
?
1990
  
?
1999
  
1,695
2005
  
1,580
2009
  
1,543
2014
  
1,479
2018
  
1,447
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970 city of Dillenburg

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 0688 Protestant (= 95.56%), 10 Catholic (= 1.39%) and 22 (= 3.06%) other Christians
• 1961: 1,354 Protestant (= 85.43%) and 143 (= 9.02%) Catholic residents
• 2018: 0912 Protestant (= 63.03%), 115 Catholic (= 7.95%) and 420 other residents

politics

Local advisory board

The local advisory board of Donsbach consists of five members. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , it consists of three members of the SPD and two members of the CDU . Mayor is Klaus Wagner (SPD).

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on June 25, 1959 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon : "In a shield divided by black and green obliquely to the left, a golden stream running obliquely to the left."

Culture sights

societies

  • KTZV Donsbach 59 eV
  • Working group "Old Forge"
  • Donsbach carrier pigeon club
  • DRK readiness Donsbach
  • Friends of Lilienstern Children eV
  • Free youth work Dillenburg
  • Donsbach volunteer fire department
  • Home and beautification association Donsbach
  • Lahn-Dill snowboarders
  • Modellflugsportverein MSV-Kornberg eV - dissolved -
  • Naturschutzbund, local group Donsbach eV
  • Singers' Association 1890 Donsbach
  • Schützengemeinschaft 1963 Donsbach eV
  • SSV 1921 Donsbach eV
  • Tennis club Donsbach eV
  • THW-Dillenburg Förderverein eV
  • VdK, local group Donsbach
  • Association of Free Youth Work Dillenburg eV
  • CVJM Donsbach eV

Source:

Buildings

The Evangelical Church in Donsbach is a remarkable building .

wildlife Park

Overview of the Donsbach zoo

The Donsbach Wildlife Park is located at the entrance to the village from the direction of Herborn-Burg . It stands in the tradition of the historic zoo where Count Ludwig Henrich von Nassau-Dillenburg kept fallow deer in the 17th century . The Katharinenbronn hunting lodge at the confluence of the Donsbach and the Ambach with the name Neues Haus has been preserved . It replaced the original Ludwigsbronn hunting lodge, of which a field of ruins in the Donsbachtal still testifies.

traffic

The place can be reached from Dillenburg with the bus route 101 (Donsbach).

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Donsbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. a b c Population figures for the city of Dillenburg from the web archive: 1999 , 2005 , 2009 , 2014 , 2018
  3. Aktiensammler 01/04, p. 5, ISSN  1611-8006
  4. HEIMATJAHRBUCH for the land on the Dill in the Lahn-Dill district 2014
  5. Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 24 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  6. main statute. (PDF; 21; kB) §; 5. In: Website. City of Dillenburg, accessed February 2019 .
  7. ^ 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).
  8. Donsbach local advisory board. In: website. City of Dillenburg, accessed April 2019 .
  9. Approval of a coat of arms for the community of Densbach im Dillkreis . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1959 no. 28 , p. 714 , point 620 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF]).
  10. ^ Dillenburg associations. In: www.vereinsverzeichnis.eu. Accessed April 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Donsbach  - Collection of Images