Eschhofen
Eschhofen
City of Limburg an der Lahn
|
|
---|---|
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 |
Eschhofen as a district of Limburg
|
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Eschhofen_Norden.jpg/550px-Eschhofen_Norden.jpg)
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 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:
- before 1803: Holy Roman Empire , Electorate Trier , Lower Archbishopric, Limburg Office , Lindenholzhausen Court
- from 1803: Holy Roman Empire, Principality of Nassau-Weilburg (through Reichsdeputationshauptschluss ), Limburg Office
- from 1806: Duchy of Nassau , Limburg Office
- from 1816: German Confederation , Duchy of Nassau, Limburg Office
- from 1849: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Limburg District Office
- from 1854: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Limburg Office
- from 1867: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , Unterlahnkreis
- from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau, administrative district of Wiesbaden, Unterlahnkreis
- from 1886: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hesse-Nassau, District of Wiesbaden, District of Limburg
- from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Province of Hesse-Nassau, District of Wiesbaden, District of Limburg
- from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Limburg District
- from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Limburg district
- from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Limburg district
- from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , district Limburg
- On July 1, 1974, Eschhofen was incorporated into the city of Limburg as a district.
- from 1974: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt, district Limburg-Weilburg
- from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen district, Limburg-Weilburg district
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: | 27 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:
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
There are numerous cultural monuments in the area of the district of Eschhofen. These include in particular:
- Catholic parish church of St. Antonius Eremita
- Catholic Chapel of St. Anna
- Eschhofen train station
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
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
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
- Internet presence of the city of Limburg
- Eschhofen. Local history, information. In: www.eschhofen.de. Private website
- Eschhofen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Eschhofen in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Budget statute - budget year 2013. Limburg ad Lahn, accessed in December 2018 .
- ↑ Limburg in Numbers , accessed in January 2020.
- ↑ 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 ]).
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ a b c Eschhofen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 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. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Eschhofen local council on the website of the City of Limburg, accessed in January 2017.