Espa (Langgöns)

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Espa
community Langgöns
Espa Coat of Arms
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
Image by Espa

Espa is a district of the municipality of Langgöns in the central Hessian district of Gießen .

Geographical location

Partial view of Espa from the observation tower on the local mountain

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:

Population development

Espa: Population from 1834 to 2019
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures in the budget of the municipality of Langgöns 2020. (PDF; 9.9 MB) p. 43 , accessed in June 2020 .
  3. ↑ 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 ]).
  4. ↑ Local councils of the Langgöns community. In: website. Langgöns municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  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. ↑ 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 .
  7. ↑ 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;
  8. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt and Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 187.