Dreisbach (Ehringshausen)

Dreisbach Community Ehringhausen Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 31 ″ E
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.46 km²
Residents :	280 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	81 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Postal code :	35630
Area code :	06440
	Location of Dreisbach in Ehringshausen
	Town center

Dreisbach is a district of Ehringshausen in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . Today the village has almost 300 inhabitants on an area of 346 ha.

Geographical location

The village is located in the Gladenbacher Bergland , the eastern foothills of the Westerwald , in the Amstelbach valley , a right tributary of the Lemp . It flows into the Lemp about a kilometer south of the village. Dreisbach is the northernmost part of the Ehringshausen community. In relation to the Lahn-Dill district, it is almost in its geographical center, just under 15 km northwest of the district town of Wetzlar .

history

In 1299, Dreispach was first mentioned in a document by the Altenberg monastery . The village was parish to Dillheim and also belongs to the local cent court . The Counts of Solms ruled over the place in the Lemptal, which was assigned to the office of Greifenstein . With the Reformation , Dreisbach became a branch of the newly established parish of Kölschhausen .

At the beginning of the 19th century the place became Prussian and belonged to the mayor's office in Asslar in the district of Wetzlar . When the district mayor's offices dissolved in 1932, Dreisbach became an independent municipality.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the community of Dreisbach was incorporated into Ehringshausen on December 31, 1971 on a voluntary basis . For Dreisbach, as for all formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was set up. Ehringshausen remained the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

before 1806: Holy Roman Empire , Principality of Solms-Braunfels , part of the County of Solms , Greifenstein office
from 1806: Duchy of Nassau , Greifenstein office
1816: Kingdom of Prussia , Rhine Province , Region of Koblenz , county Braunfels
from 1822: Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
from 1866: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
from 1932: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , District of Wetzlar
from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Wetzlar District
from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district
from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district
from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , district of Wetzlar.
On December 1, 1971 Dreisbach was incorporated as a district of the newly formed Ehringshausen community.
from 1977: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt administrative district, Lahn-Dill district
from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen administrative district , Lahn-Dill district

population

Population development

Dreisbach: Population from 1834 to 2017
year		Residents
1834	153
1840	182
1846	195
1852	192
1858	168
1864	154
1871	163
1875	162
1885	158
1895	162
1905	175
1910	183
1925	193
1939	192
1946	295
1950	308
1956	284
1961	267
1967	284
1970	276
2014	287
2017	280
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources:

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1834:	153 Protestant residents
• 1961:	249 Protestant (= 93.26%), 18 Catholic (= 6.74%) residents

Cultural monuments

see list of cultural monuments in Dreisbach

Protestant church
Former community and bakery
Running fountain

Web links

Commons : Dreisbach - Collection of Images

Ehringshausen community and districts. In: Internet presence. Ehringshausen community; accessed in August 2018
Dreisbach, my little village in the Lahn-Dill-Bergland nature park. Local history, information. In: www.dreisbach.info. Private website; accessed on May 29, 2018
Dreisbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Dreisbach in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Ehringshausen community and districts. In: website. Ehringshausen community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 290. DNB 770396321
↑ ^a ^b ^c Dreisbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 249 ( online at google books ).

[DF-1] Ehringshausen community and districts. In: website. Ehringshausen community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .

[2] Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 290. DNB 770396321

[lagis-3] Dreisbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[4] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[PR-5] Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 249 ( online at google books ).