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Dark valley
municipality Weilrod
Coat of arms of the former community Finsternthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 388 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.8 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 199  (Jan 2019)
Population density : 52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Incorporated into: Weilnau
Postal code : 61276
Area code : 06084
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Location of Finsternthal in Weilrod

Finsternthal is a district of the community of Weilrod in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis .

geography

Finsternthal is located in the eastern Hintertaunus north of Königstein im Taunus between Treisberg , Schmitten , Seelenberg , Mauloff , Riedelbach , Neuweilnau and Altweilnau in Usinger Land . There are hiking trails from Finsternthal to Mauloff, Treisberg, Altweilnau, Neuweilnau. Furthermore, a small stream flows through the small and harmonious village.

Finsternthal is 401 m high and with its 190 inhabitants is the third smallest district in Weilrod.

history

Finsternthal was mentioned in 1230/31 as "Vinstrindale" in a deed of donation from the Count of Nassau, Heinrich II . In it, the Count Finsternthal and other villages donated to the Teutonic Order . Later Finsterthal came under the rule of the Lords of Eppstein , then went back to the Walram lines of the House of Nassau, first to Nassau-Weilburg , then Nassau-Usingen . In 1895 the Deutsche Hof was built.

In 1937 Finsternthal converted the extinguishing water pond into an outdoor pool. Today there are no more remains of the small basin.

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the communities Finsterthal and other communities on 1 December 1970 to a voluntary basis to the municipality joined Weilnau together before this church on August 1, 1972, several previously independent municipalities powerful state law the new municipality Weilrod together was. Although Finsternthal belongs to the community of Weilrod, which has the area code 06083, Finsternthal has the area code of the neighboring community of Schmitten (06084).

School history

Originally the children from Finsternthal were educated in Altweilnau, to whose parish Finsternthal belonged. In 1691 it was unusually approved that a woman should teach in Finsternthal: Anna Maria Lehr, the wife of mayor Johannes Lehr. The name of the teacher Georg Philipp Fischer has been passed down from 1749. In 1817 Mauloff, Treisberg and Finsternthal formed a school association and built a joint school in Finsternthal in 1822/23. In 1846 Treisberg built a school and, like Mauloff, left the school association. In 1939 the school in Finsterntal was closed and in 1943 the school association was renewed due to the low number of pupils. After the war, the school in Finsternthal was reopened. The school reform of 1964 ended the school history in Finsternthal. Now the children visited the central elementary school in Rod an der Weil and the secondary schools in Riedelbach, Usingen and Neu-Anspach. The school building in the street Am Borngarten was used from 1977 as a restaurant "Zur alten Schule" and is now a residential building.

Culture and sights

Regular events

The annual "Backesfest" of the "Backesleut" in June is the most famous folk festival in town. In addition, the fire brigade festival of the volunteer fire brigade founded in 1932 is held every year . Alternating with Altweilnau , every two years a cozy Christmas market attracts visitors to Finsternthal.

Cultural monuments

See cultural monuments in Finsternthal

Old Town Hall

The old town hall dates from 1790. The last renovation took place in 1993/94. The decorative half-timbered building also contains the back house or dialect backes.

traffic

Finsterthal is from the west ( Idstein , Bad Camberg , Niedernhausen , Bundesautobahn 3 ), East ( Usingen , Bad Nauheim , National Highway 5 ) and the South ( Frankfurt , Bad Homburg , Oberursel , Federal Highway 661 ) through the federal highway 275 to reach, which runs through the neighboring Riedelbach . From the main town of Weilrod, the Weiltalstrasse (here Landstrasse 3025) leads past Finsternthal. Finsternthal itself is not on any major traffic artery and therefore has little through traffic.

Coming from the southwest, the Hochtaunusstraße runs on the B 275. At Altweilnau- Landstein, about two kilometers northeast of Finsternthal, the federal road meets the Deutsche Alleenstraße , which now follows the course of the B 275, but the Hochtaunusstraße continues from this point on Highway 3041 eastwards.

Bus 82 runs from Riedelbach via Finsternthal every two hours to the train station [Neu-Anspach] Monday to Friday. In the evenings and on weekends, the place can only be reached with a collective taxi (AST82).

Web links

Commons : Finsternthal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finsternthal on the website of the community of Weilrod, accessed on March 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ Alexander Schneider: Who once splashed around in the eight bathing establishments; in: Taunuszeitung from June 19, 2018, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of the communities Altweilnau, Finsternthal, Mauloff, Neuweilnau and Riedelbach in the Usingen district to form the new community "Weilnau" on November 30, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 50 , p. 2339 , item 2337 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II 330-18) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 227 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 276 .
  6. ^ Corinna Appel: How children used to learn; in: Taunuszeitung, August 8, 2018, p. 15.