Erda (Hohenahr)

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Erda
community Hohenahr
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 27 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 297  (275-345)  m
Area : 11.56 km²
Residents : 1984  (Jun 30, 2018)
Population density : 172 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 35644
Area code : 06446
View of Erda from the west. On the left side you can see the commercial area with the supermarkets. On the right horizon you can see the Dünsberg, which is located in the district of Gießen.

Erda is the largest district of the Hohenahr community in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . The village is the seat of the municipal administration and has around 2000 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Erda is located within the Gladenbacher Bergland in the south of the Lahn-Dill-Bergland Nature Park . Neighboring towns are Wilsbach in the north, Frankenbach in the east, Königsberg and Hohensolms in the south, Großaltenstädten in the south-west, Mudersbach in the north-north-west and Roßbach in the north-west. The state road  L 3376 runs through the village, which is traversed by the eastern Dill tributary Aar ( Aarbach ) .

history

The fact that the area around today's Erda was settled at an early age can be seen from a ring wall to the northwest of the village near the source of the Aar .

In the year 771 the village is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from the Lorsch monastery . The name Erda is generally derived from Aarbach. In the old documents it appears as Erdahe or Ardahe. 1000 Erda belonged to Centgericht old churches , which the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer shelter. The first church was mentioned in 1246. It was built on the ruins of an old chapel as a fortified church . In 1294 and 1305, the Counts of Solms bought shares from the lords of Bicken and Calsmunt from the income of the court, so that from about this point on the Erda area gradually came under Solms rule.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality of Erda merged on April 1, 1972 on a voluntary basis with the municipalities of Hohensolms and Ahrdt to form the newly founded municipality of Hohenahr. For Erda, as for the other districts, a local district with a local advisory council and community leader was established. The district of Erda became the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Erda: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 677
1840
  
 702
1846
  
 711
1852
  
 680
1858
  
 697
1864
  
 739
1871
  
 711
1875
  
 741
1885
  
 671
1895
  
 717
1905
  
 778
1910
  
 864
1925
  
 937
1939
  
 1,097
1946
  
 1,380
1950
  
 1,322
1956
  
 1,299
1961
  
 1,407
1967
  
 1,654
1970
  
 1,702
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2004
  
 2,069
2011
  
 2,049
2013
  
 2.005
2018
  
 1,984
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: Hohenahr community :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1834: 670 Protestant, 7 Jewish residents
• 1961: 1235 Protestant (= 87.78%), 97 Catholic (= 6.89%) residents

coat of arms

On March 31, 1971, the municipality of Erda in what was then the district of Wetzlar was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : A leafy blue oak branch with three blue acorns growing out of a rising, curly red tip with a golden church tower .

Sights and cultural monuments

Hessenpark, barn from Erda

see the list of cultural monuments in Erda

A barn from Erda was dismantled and rebuilt in Hessenpark .

Web links

Commons : Erda (Hohenahr)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Figures / data / facts. In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 297 .
  3. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 38 kB) §; 8. In: Website. Hohenahr community, accessed February 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Erda, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of August 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  7. ↑ Karl Glöckner (Ed.): Codex Laureshamensis / edit. and new ed. tape 3 , no. 3183 . Hess. Hist. Commission, Darmstadt 1936.
  8. ^ The affiliation of the Königsberg office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  9. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 point 1) ( online at google books ).
  10. ↑ Population figures . In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  11. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  12. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Erda, Wetzlar district from March 31, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 16 , p. 680 , point 672 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).