Espa (Langgöns)
Espa
community Langgöns
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Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 17 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 38" E | |
Height : | 407 (383-440) m above sea level NHN |
Area : | 2.17 km² |
Residents : | 689 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
Population density : | 318 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | January 1, 1977 |
Postal code : | 35428 |
Area code : | 06033 |
Espa is a district of the municipality of Langgöns in the central Hessian district of Gießen .
Geographical location
Espa is located in the northeast of the Eastern Hintertaunus . The village is surrounded by forest in the Taunus Nature Park at the sources of the Lahn tributaries Kleebach and Solmsbach . The highest elevation in the district is the Gaulskopf at 474 m above sea level. NN ; In the neighboring Butzbach area, the Hinterste Kopf ( 491.1 m ) rise in the southwest and the Hausberg ( 485.7 m ) in the southeast. Landesstraße 3053 ( Weiperfelden –Espa– Hausen ) runs south-east around the village . Neighboring towns are Weiperfelden (west) and Hausen-Oes (east).
history
The Waldhufendorf was first mentioned in a document on February 14, 1347. In 1939 Espa had 174 inhabitants and belonged to the district of Wetzlar .
Espa forms a parish with the parish Cleeberg .
Territorial reform
In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the community Espa was on 1 January 1977, four other municipalities by the law on the restructuring of Dill circle counties Giessen and Wetzlar and the city of casting the new municipality Langgoens together . For Espa, as for all districts, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed. The district of Lang-Göns was set as the administrative seat .
Historical forms of names
In surviving documents, Espa was mentioned under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):
- Esphe, zu (1347) [HStAD Best. A 3 No. 61/11, transcription by D. Wolf in: Stubenrauch, Espa, pp. 20-22]
- Espe, de (1369) [Cop. XIV century, addendum to the document book of the city of Wetzlar 3]
Territorial history and administration
The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Espa was located or the administrative units to which it was subordinate:
- Before 1803 Holy Roman Empire , Landgraviate Hessen-Homburg , Amt Homburg vor der Höhe
- from 1803 Holy Roman Empire, County Nassau-Usingen , Office Usingen
- from 1806: Duchy of Nassau , Usingen office
- from 1815: German Confederation , Duchy of Nassau, Usingen office
- from 1849: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Idstein district office
- from 1854: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Usingen office
- from 1867: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , Obertaunuskreis
- from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau, administrative district of Wiesbaden, Obertaunuskreis
- from 1886: German Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, province of Hessen-Nassau, administrative district of Wiesbaden, district of Usingen
- from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau, Administrative Region of Wiesbaden, District of Usingen
- from 1932: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , District of Wetzlar
- from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Wetzlar District
- from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district
- from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district
- from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , district of Wetzlar
- on January 1, 1977 incorporated into the municipality of Langgöns.
- from 1977: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt administrative district, Lahn-Dill district
- from 1979: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt district, Gießen district
- from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen district, Gießen district
Population development
Espa: Population from 1834 to 2019 | ||||
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year | Residents | |||
1834 | 306 | |||
1840 | 343 | |||
1846 | 349 | |||
1852 | 283 | |||
1858 | 261 | |||
1864 | 266 | |||
1871 | 170 | |||
1875 | 214 | |||
1885 | 148 | |||
1895 | 165 | |||
1905 | 169 | |||
1910 | 159 | |||
1925 | 163 | |||
1939 | 174 | |||
1946 | 213 | |||
1950 | 210 | |||
1956 | 185 | |||
1961 | 179 | |||
1967 | 169 | |||
1970 | 248 | |||
1976 | 248 | |||
1978 | 311 | |||
1982 | 400 | |||
1986 | 489 | |||
1990 | 522 | |||
1994 | 521 | |||
1998 | 593 | |||
2000 | 614 | |||
2004 | 664 | |||
2006 | 689 | |||
2011 | 681 | |||
2016 | 672 | |||
2019 | 689 | |||
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: | 116 Protestant (= 78.38%), 21 Catholic (= 14.19%), 11 Jewish (= 7.43%) residents |
• 1961: | 138 Protestant (= 77.09%), 41 Catholic (= 22.91%) residents |
coat of arms
Blazon : "In a shield split by gold and red, a stalked clover leaf in mixed up colors."
The community requested a clover leaf for its first seal in 1816, and since then the community seals have included the clover leaf shield. This coat of arms probably refers to the nobles of Cleen, whose red clover leaf in a golden shield is sessile. The place belonged to the von Cleen as a knightly possession, after whose extinction (1520) it fell to the von Heusenstamm-Frankenstein family, who sold it to Hessen-Homburg in 1783. Before it came to Nassau by swap in 1803, it did not have its own seal. The colors were taken from the noble coat of arms, but used confused to distinguish it due to the split.
Culture and infrastructure
The village has a community center , the Protestant church Espa and a sports ground and four clubs.
literature
- Holde Stubenrauch: Espa: History and pictures of a village in the upper Kleebach valley . 1st edition, Geiger, Horb am Neckar, 1994, ISBN 3-89264-979-0 .
- Dieter Wolf : Hurdy-Gurdy. In: Atelier-Galerie Holde Stubenrauch. Emerching Artists for Contemporary Styles (Ed.): Hurdy-Gurdy-Girls from Espa to the whole world - also a piece of Hessian history of the 19th century. Langgöns-Espa 1992, pp. 6-9.
- Literature on Espa in the Hessian Bibliography
Web links
- District Espa. In: Internet presence. Langgöns community
- Espa, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Espa, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b Population figures in the budget of the municipality of Langgöns 2020. (PDF; 9.9 MB) p. 43 , accessed in June 2020 .
- ↑ 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 ., § 12 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- ↑ Local councils of the Langgöns community. In: website. Langgöns municipality, accessed February 2019 .
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Population figures in the budget of the municipality of Langgöns 2009. (PDF; 4.7 MB) p. 23 , archived from the original on February 4, 2019 ; accessed in February 2019 .
- ↑ 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
- ^ Karl Ernst Demandt and Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 187.