Eschhofen

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Eschhofen
Coat of arms of Eschhofen
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 134  (110-185)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.67 km²
Residents : 2856  (Sep. 2019)
Population density : 504 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 65552
Area code : 06431
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Eschhofen as a district of Limburg
Eschhofen, seen from Dietkirchen (north). In the background the Taunus ( Eastern Hintertaunus ) with the Feldberg-Langhals-Pferdskopf-Scholle

Eschhofen is a district of the district town of Limburg an der Lahn in the central Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg . It is located two kilometers east of the core city of Limburg.

geography

The Lahn flows west of Eschhofen and forms the boundary there. The A3 (over the Lahntalbrücke Limburg ), the federal road 8 and the ICE route Frankfurt-Cologne (over the Lahntalbrücke ) run to the south and west of the town .

The place itself lies at about 110 meters above sea level on the edge of the valley where the Emsbach flows into the Lahn. All around, the terrain rises up to 137 meters in the northern part and 185 meters in the southern part of the district. A smaller part of the Ennerich forest lies in the north on the Eschhofen district, the entire Linter forest in the south.

The Eschhofen district runs in a tubular shape from southwest to northeast. In the north it borders on Dehrn and, further clockwise, on Ennerich , Lindenholzhausen , Linter , the core city of Limburg and Dietkirchen .

history

The former town hall, now a temporary branch of the city administration
Anna Chapel in the former Mühlen district

The oldest finds from the ceramic band culture near Eschhofen date back to 2500 BC. Dated.

Today's Eschhofen consists of the old town of the same name and the formerly neighboring mill to the north, which is located directly in the valley of the Emstal estuary. In 1938 Mühlen was incorporated and can no longer be recognized as an independent settlement in the townscape. There is the St. Anna Chapel, which is still used from time to time. Earlier settlements in the district were mail city and Eppenau, both in the Middle Ages waste have fallen. Today only Mailstädter Straße and the field name Eppenau remind of them.

Eschhofen and Mühlen were first mentioned in 1279. The year 500 is assumed to be the origin of Eschhofen. A Franconian military road, which crossed the Lahn by a ford near Dietkirchen, probably played a role . The nucleus of the place was a castle-like complex, of which only the street name "Burgstrasse" remains today. After the Limburg Lahn Bridge was built in the 13th century , the ford and thus the route via Eschhofen and the town itself lost importance. Mills formed around a mill of the Marienstatt monastery .

Around 1700 a community building was built that served as a school, bakery and the mayor's official residence. For a long time Eschhofen belonged to the parish Dietkirchen. It was not until 1840 that it became an independent parish. After the railway line Gießen – Koblenz and 1875 Limburg – Frankfurt was laid out in 1862, Eschhofen got a train station.

When the motorway bridge over the Lahn was blown up in the last days of the Second World War and the rubble dammed up the river, parts of the village, especially the former mill, were under water for several weeks.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Eschhofen was incorporated into the district town of Limburg on July 1, 1974 by state law .

The sports hall was inaugurated in 1982 and the open-air sports facility in 1994.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Eschhofen: Population from 1834 to 2014
year     Residents
1834
  
 489
1840
  
 551
1846
  
 599
1852
  
 680
1858
  
 717
1864
  
 838
1871
  
 862
1875
  
 860
1885
  
 865
1895
  
 879
1905
  
 1,097
1910
  
 1,223
1925
  
 1,309
1939
  
 1,479
1946
  
 1,745
1950
  
 1,891
1956
  
 1,945
1961
  
 2,103
1967
  
 2,337
1970
  
 2,350
1974
  
 2,356
1987
  
 2,531
1994
  
 2,753
2014
  
 2,788
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

• 1885: 027 Protestant (= 4.15%), 624 Catholic (= 95.85%) residents
• 1961: 202 Protestant (= 9.61%), 18,890 Roman Catholic (= 89.82%) residents

politics

The local elections on March 6, 2011 produced the following results for the Eschhofen local council:

Local election 2016
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
38.5%
(-6.7  % p )
46.6%
(+ 14.0  % p )
14.9%
(-5.0  % p )
2011

2016

Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 38.5 4th 45.2 4th 53.5 5
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 46.6 4th 32.6 3 14.5 1
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens - - - - 10.0 1
LEFT The left - - 2.2 0 - -
FWG Free community of voters 14.9 1 19.9 2 22.0 2
total 100.0 9 100.0 9 100.0 9
Voter turnout in% 59.7 50.7 47.2

Mayor

After the local elections in 2016, Daniel Stenger (SPD) was elected as the new mayor. The deputy mayor is Valentin Bleul (FWG).

coat of arms

You can see an ash tree , many of which were in the adjacent Lahn floodplains at that time, which is why the blue background of the coat of arms also symbolizes the Lahn. Even if many people believe that the trees gave the place its name, the origin lies elsewhere. Around 500 AD, the Free Ascilo, also known as Eschilo, built his farm in what is now the local area. Over time, Eschilishoven became Eschhofen.

Culture and sights

Railway keeper's house, Mühlener Strasse 41

There are numerous cultural monuments in the area of ​​the district of Eschhofen. These include in particular:

societies

  • VfL Eschhofen eV 01/20 (football, table tennis)
  • TV Eschhofen 1904 eV (gymnastics, bounce ball, handball, fistball, athletics, gymnastics)
  • FCE - Eschhofen Carnival Club
  • Eschhofen volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1901, and with a youth fire brigade since October 13, 1975
  • Beautification club
  • Home Care Working Group
  • Bird and nature conservation group
  • Nature and hiking enthusiasts
  • Harmonica group
  • Pedigree Poultry Breeding Association
  • VdK local association
  • KAB local group
  • Catholic women's community
  • Senior club
  • Catholic church choir “St. Cecilia "
  • Male choir "Fidelio"

Parishes

  • Catholic parish “St. Antonius "
  • Evangelical parish

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

railway station

The Eschhofen station , where the Main-Lahn-Bahn and the Lahntalbahn stop, is a regionally important station, especially for commuters with the destination Rhine-Main area. Around 300 parking spaces are available at the train station. Due to the busy train traffic, the two level crossings in Eschhofen are closed for around eight hours a day.

The ICE city of Limburg with the Limburg Süd train station is located in the south of the Eschhofen district.

Public facilities

Parish church

In Eschhofen, the Eschhofen Volunteer Fire Brigade , founded in 1901 (with its youth fire brigade since October 13, 1975), provides fire protection and general help.

Churches

  • Parish Church (consecrated in 1891)
  • St. Anne's Chapel

Kindergartens

  • Catholic kindergarten
  • Ecumenical kindergarten

schools

Primary school (up to 4th grade) with gifted support as a pilot project of the Hessian Ministry of Culture

sport Center

Two sports fields (hard and grass field), fistball field and sports hall.

Personalities

  • Georg Jung (politician, 1870) (1870–1922), member of the Hessian state parliament
  • Georg Paul Brötz (1889–1959), main teacher, honorary citizen of the Eschhofen community and holder of the papal order “Pro Ecclesia et pontifice” since 1954
  • Michael Köberle (* 1965), German politician (CDU), since 2019 District Administrator of the Limburg-Weilburg district
  • Ikke Hüftgold (* 1976), pop singer

Web links

Commons : Limburg-Eschhofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Budget statute - budget year 2013. Limburg ad Lahn, accessed in December 2018 .
  2. ↑ Limburg in Numbers , accessed in January 2020.
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Limburg district and the Oberlahn district. (GVBl. II 330-25) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 5 , p. 101 , § 5 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  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. 369-370 .
  5. ↑ a b c Eschhofen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ↑ Eschhofen local council on the website of the City of Limburg, accessed in January 2017.