Driedorf

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Driedorf
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Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 8 ° 11'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : to water
County : Lahn-Dill district
Height : 486 m above sea level NHN
Area : 47.55 km 2
Residents: 5045 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 106 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 35759
Area code : 02775
License plate : LDK, DIL
Community key : 06 5 32 007
LOCODE : DE DRF
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Wilhelmstrasse 16
35759 Driedorf
Website : www.driedorf.de
Mayor : Carsten Braun ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Driedorf in the Lahn-Dill district
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Driedorf is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Driedorf is located on a plateau in the high Westerwald at an altitude of 416 to 643 meters. With the Höllberg , the highest Hessian mountain in the Westerwald lies in the municipality.

The westernmost point of the Lahn-Dill district is on the border with the municipality of Willingen (which belongs to Rhineland-Palatinate ).

Neighboring communities

Driedorf borders in the north on the municipality Breitscheid , in the east on the city of Herborn , in the south on the municipality Greifenstein (all in the Lahn-Dill district) and in the west on the municipalities Oberrod , Rehe , Homberg , Waigandshain , Nister-Möhrendorf and Willingen (all in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate ).

Community structure

In addition to the eponymous Driedorf, the municipality also includes the district Mademühlen with the settlement An der Krombachtalsperre , as well as the districts Roth , Waldaubach , Münchhausen , Hohenroth , Heisterberg , Heiligenborn and Seilhofen .

history

Driedorf was first mentioned in a document in 1124. In 1305 the place received city rights. The Driedorfer had to give up their town charter at the end of the 19th century as part of the Prussian municipal code.

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the following were incorporated :

Local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were set up for all formerly independent communities .

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Driedorf: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 620
1840
  
 661
1846
  
 637
1852
  
 663
1858
  
 643
1864
  
 667
1871
  
 638
1875
  
 626
1885
  
 642
1895
  
 619
1905
  
 613
1910
  
 632
1925
  
 771
1939
  
 1.011
1946
  
 1,204
1950
  
 1,294
1956
  
 1,247
1961
  
 1.306
1967
  
 1,529
1970
  
 1,629
1972
  
 2,591
1976
  
 4,580
1984
  
 4,750
1992
  
 4,940
2000
  
 5,200
2004
  
 5,235
2010
  
 5,057
2015
  
 5,100
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000, 2015 :; 2004 :; 2010:
From 1972 including the towns incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 623 Protestant (= 97.04%), 10 Catholic (= 1.56%) and 9 Jewish (= 1.40%) residents
• 1961: 962 Protestant (= 73.66%), 329 Roman Catholic (= 25.19%) residents

politics

Town hall Driedorf

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
    
A total of 31 seats
  • SPD : 10
  • CDU : 13
  • FWG : 6
  • FBL : 2
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 43.7 13 38.8 12 40.3 13 40.2 12
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 31.3 10 33.5 10 43.2 13 41.8 13
FWG Free voters 19.0 6th 13.5 4th 16.4 5 17.9 6th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens - - 8.3 3 - - - -
FBL Free list of citizens 6.0 2 5.9 2 - - - -
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 56.9 49.3 51.5 54.3

mayor

After the Hessian municipal constitution is Mayor Chairman of the Municipal Board , the eight volunteers in the municipality Driedorf next to the Mayor Councilor belong. Carsten Braun (CDU) will become mayor on November 1, 2016. He was elected on July 10, 2016 with 50.79% of the vote. His predecessors were

  • Friedhelm Kessler, formerly mayor of the Driedorf sub-community, was the first mayor of the entire community and held this office from 1977 to 1995.
  • Wolfgang Schuster took over as mayor on January 1, 1996 and was re-elected in 2001 for a further six years.
  • Wolfgang Kühn was elected mayor on February 11, 2007.
  • On September 19, 2010, Dirk Hardt ( SPD ) was elected Kühn's successor. In the next mayoral election in 2016, he did not receive a majority, although he was the only candidate. A new election was scheduled, in which his challenger Carsten Braun (CDU) narrowly won on July 10, 2016.

Attractions

The Protestant Church

In Driedorf there are four lakes, a large one ( Driedorf reservoir ) and a small reservoir in the course of the Rehbach , the Heisterberger Weiher , which is also artificially dammed, and the Steinbruchsee im Winkel, a former basalt quarry that has filled with groundwater over the years and now half of the ASG Schönbach serves as fishing waters and the Hessian Diver Association as a diving area. The Krombachtalsperre lies between the municipalities of Driedorf and Rehe, the dam is in the area of ​​the municipality of Driedorf.

After a fire in 1819 had destroyed almost the entire place, Driedorf was rebuilt. The straight road layout is striking. In the construction phase, the hall of the new Protestant parish church was built from 1821–1827 based on a design by state master builder Friedrich Ludwig Schrumpf .

There are two castle ruins in Driedorf. The Junkernschloss is a freely accessible ruin. The ruins of the upper castle Driedorf also exist .

To the north-west of the core town is the Höllberg , also called Höllkopf, with 643 m the highest mountain in the Lahn-Dill district and the Hessian Westerwald .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 414 and the federal highway 255 run through the municipality .

From 1906 to 1984, Driedorf had a rail connection in both passenger and freight traffic through the Herborn – Montabaur (Westerwaldquerbahn) line, which has been shut down and largely dismantled.

education

In Driedorf there is the Westerwaldschule, a comprehensive school that is independent of the school type . Since 1966, this has been a central school for the entire community and individual districts of the community of Greifenstein (Hesse) . The Westerwaldschule has around 750 students who are taught by 61 teachers.

telecommunications

On the Höllberg there is a 108-meter high telecommunications tower made by Deutsche Telekom AG made of reinforced concrete. The Hit Radio FFH program is also broadcast from this tower on the FM frequency 106.8 MHz with an ERP of 30 kW .

Energy generation

Hydroelectric power station at the Driedorf reservoir

There are hydropower plants both at the reservoir near Driedorf and at the Krombach dam. The power plant near Driedorf was built in 1935 and generates around 350,000 kWh with a Francis turbine . The power plant at the Krombachtalsperre was built in 1985. It is generated with a cross- flow turbine .

There are currently 19 wind turbines in the area of ​​the municipality, which are mainly concentrated in two locations south-east of Waldaubach and south of Mademühlen. Six property owners had filed a lawsuit against the noise pollution from the nearby wind turbines at the Giessen Administrative Court, but were unsuccessful at the end of March 2012. The first wind turbine in Hessen was built in 1986 in the municipality. In 2012 these generated around 18.7 million kWh.

Personalities

  • August Ammann (1839–1910), poet, writer and grammar school teacher born in Driedorf
  • Egon Brandenburger (* 1928), Protestant theologian
  • Rudolf Godbersen (1882–1927), forest scientist, 1919/20 head of the Driedorf forestry department
  • August Hild (1894–1982), writer
  • Walter Klaas (1904–1961), Protestant pastor in Driedorf from 1932 to 1951, later professor in Wuppertal
  • Ferdinand Löber (1897–1981), visual artist and art teacher
  • Wolfgang Schuster (* 1958), district administrator of the Lahn-Dill district

Web links

Commons : Driedorf  - Collection of Images
Wikisource: Driedorf in Merians Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ 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. 356 .
  3. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , point 851 para. 10. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  4. ↑ 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 ., § 22 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 288. DNB 770396321
  6. ^ Main statute of the municipality of Driedorf. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, accessed February 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b c Driedorf, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 28, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching: D. Anton Friderich Büsching's new description of the earth. The German empire. tape 3 . JC Bohn, 1771, p. 840 ( google.com ).
  10. ^ Local elections 1972; Relevant population of the municipalities on August 4, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No.  33 , p. 1424 , point 1025 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  11. ↑ Local elections 1977; Relevant population figures for the municipalities as of December 15, 1976 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1976 No.  52 , p. 2283 , point 1668 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.3 MB ]).
  12. ^ Local elections 1985; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 30, 1984 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1984 No.  46 , p. 2175 , point 1104 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  13. ↑ local elections 1993; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 21, 1992 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1992 No.  44 , p. 2766 , point 935 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).
  14. ^ Community data sheet : Driedorf. (PDF; 222 kB) In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agency GmbH ;
  15. ↑ Hessian municipal statistics, Edition 2 2005. Hessian State Statistical Office
  16. ↑ The population of the Hessian communities on June 30, 2010. (PDF; 552 kB) Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, p. 11 , archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  17. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  18. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  19. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  20. ^ Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt: direct elections in Driedorf
  21. ↑ Municipality of Driedorf: Mayor election on July 10, 2016 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 4, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.driedorf.de
  22. ↑ Mittelhessen.de of March 6, 2016: Sensation. Dirk Hardt voted out of office in Driedorf ( Memento from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ^ Website of the Westerwald School
  24. ↑ Driedorf Windpark - main data
  25. ↑ Citizens fail with lawsuits against wind turbines. In: Spiegel Online. March 29, 2012, accessed December 2, 2014 .