Ernsthausen (Weilmünster)

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Ernsthausen
Community Weilmünster
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 183 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.98 km²
Residents : 571  (Jun 30, 2020)
Population density : 82 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35789
Area code : 06472
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Ernsthausen is part of the community of Weilmünster . The place is in the central Hessian district Limburg-Weilburg , north of Frankfurt am Main and near Weilburg . Since Ernsthausen was in what was then the Oberlahnkreis until the creation of the Limburg-Weilburg district in 1974 , it was also referred to as Ernsthausen (Oberlahnkreis) .

Geographical location

Ernsthausen, located in the eastern Hintertaunus and thus in the Taunus Nature Park , is traversed by the Weil , a tributary of the Lahn .

history

Cast iron sign on the village community center from 1835

The oldest known documentary mention dates back to 1308. However, it can be assumed that Ernsthausen existed a few centuries earlier. According to tradition, the old Ernsthausen was built to protect against the bad floods of the Weil in the higher Urschlag.

It is not certain whether this settlement was completely destroyed by a major fire in the Middle Ages or by devastation during the Thirty Years War , so that no traces of it remain. The place was rebuilt further downstream and expanded on both sides of the Weil. The town center was probably located in the area of ​​today's bridge. A single homestead is said to have been there earlier to the right of the Weil.

In the first few years Ernsthausen, like the entire lower Weiltal, belonged to the County of Diez , to the Tenth Seiters and to the dean's office in Kirberg. Then the county was divided and Ernsthausen came to the county of Diez-Weilburg and the new manorial court and later office of Weilmünster. According to a document from 1310, the Weilburg monastery received the right to receive the grain gradient (taxes) from Ernsthausen. In 1391, Bishop Ekkard zu Worms enfeoffed the knight Konrad von Essershausen with the tithe of Ernsthausen. In 1724, Count Karl August von Nassau-Weilburg bought these rights, so that from now on the Ernsthäuser were taxable in Weilburg.

In August 2008 Ernsthausen celebrated its 700th anniversary with a historic market. This was organized by the Ernsthausen 2000 eV association founded for this purpose .

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the former market town of Weilmünster in the Oberlahnkreis merged voluntarily on December 31, 1970 with the previously independent communities Aulenhausen, Dietenhausen, Ernsthausen, Laimbach, Langenbach, Laubuseschbach, Lützendorf, Möttau, Rohnstadt and Wolfenhausen to form the new large community of Weilmünster. Essershausen was added on December 31, 1971. For all 12 formerly independent municipalities, local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

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

Historical forms of names

Ernsthausen was mentioned in documents that have survived under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Ernistishusen (1308)
  • Ernsthusen (1330)
  • Erneshusen (1391)
  • Ernshusen (1540)

church

Ernsthausen Church

In the 20s of the 19th century, the church built in 1766 burned down and had to be completely demolished. The new church was consecrated in 1832. A branch school was established in Ernsthausen around 1615. Until then, the Ernsthausen students had attended the school in Weilmünster.

economy

Small farmers with sideline business

As in the neighboring communities, the residents of Ernsthausen were mostly small farmers. Since their income was low, they tried to improve their income as charcoal burners or iron farmers who worked in hand or treadmills to extract iron . Until the Thirty Years War Ernsthausen only had about 30 households.

Boom in mining

At the end of the 17th century, when local mining experienced a great boom, the population of Ernsthausen also rose. In the Weilmünster office, Ernsthausen gradually took the most important place alongside Weilmünster.

Former railway line

Ernsthausen used to have a train station on the Weiltalbahn . The railway line was built in 1889 and dismantled in 1990 after passenger traffic had ceased in 1969 and freight traffic became unprofitable. A planned reactivation in connection with the upgrading of the Grävenwiesbach-Bad Homburg railway line in the early 1990s failed. Today the Weiltal Cycle Path runs along large parts of the dismantled railway line.

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

• 1630: 33 households
Ernsthausen: Population from 1825 to 2020
year     Residents
1825
  
 356
1834
  
 416
1840
  
 432
1846
  
 426
1852
  
 444
1858
  
 444
1864
  
 439
1871
  
 450
1875
  
 434
1885
  
 487
1895
  
 500
1905
  
 493
1910
  
 489
1925
  
 490
1939
  
 485
1946
  
 688
1950
  
 713
1956
  
 639
1961
  
 629
1967
  
 628
1970
  
 603
1987
  
 592
1993
  
 683
1996
  
 651
2001
  
 652
2005
  
 634
2010
  
 603
2011
  
 561
2015
  
 570
2020
  
 571
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 484 Protestant (= 99.38%), 3 Catholic (= 0.62%) residents
• 1961: 506 Protestant (= 80.45%), 119 Catholic (= 18.92%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

The Ernsthausen local advisory council consists of five voting members. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the mayor is Oliver Schneider (SPD).

societies

  • Sports club SG 1970 Weiltal
  • Choral society Concordia Ernsthausen
  • Ernsthausen volunteer fire brigade (founded 1924)
  • Ernsthausen youth fire brigade in association with Weilmünster youth fire brigade (founded July 8, 1990, operations suspended from December 31, 2014)
  • Country women’s association Ernsthausen
  • VdK local association Ernsthausen
  • Moped Club Ernsthausen
  • Interest group Ernsthausen ( IG Ernsthausen )

Facilities and recreational opportunities

Village community center, formerly a school
  • Since 1924, the Ernsthausen volunteer fire brigade (from July 8, 1990 with youth fire brigade ) has provided fire protection and general help in this area.
  • Village community center
  • Protestant church
  • Kindergarten "Auf der Weisburg"
  • Sports field, operated by the SG 1970 Weiltal on "Laimbacher Berg"
  • Children's playground on the "Laimbacher Berg"
  • direct connection to the Weiltal bike and hiking trail
  • Children's playground at the Bürgerhaus and Weiltal cycle path since 2017

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Ernsthausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernsthausen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Development of the population in the market town of Weilmünster. In: website. Weilmünster community, accessed August 2020 .
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of communities to form the community "Weilmünster", Oberlahnkreis on January 6, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 141 , point 170 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  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. 373 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 51 kB) § 6. In: Website. Weilmünster community, accessed March 2020 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ↑ a b c district Ernsthausen. Population numbers. In: website. Weilmünster community, accessed August 2020 .
  8. ↑ 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;
  9. ^ Community Weilmünster: Ernsthausen local advisory board , accessed in January 2017.