Freiendiez
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Freiendiez
City of Diez
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| Incorporation : | April 1, 1938 | |
| Incorporated into: | Diez | |
| Postal code : | 65582 | |
| Area code : | 06432 | |
Location of Freiendiez in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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Freiendiez is the only district of the city of Diez in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is right on the border with Hesse .
Geographical location
The district of Freiendiez is located east of the center of Diez and three and a half kilometers southwest of Limburg an der Lahn . The river Aar flows in the southwest of the district .
history
The first traces of human settlement in the area around Freiendiez date from the Paleolithic Age (20,000–12,000 BC). They resulted from finds in the Wildweiberlei cave system (between Diez and Altendiez ).
A stool from the Neolithic Age was discovered in 1956 in what is now the area of the district. It was located in the clay at a depth of two meters and was estimated to be around 2000 BC.
In 1217 a church in Freiendiez is mentioned, which is dedicated to St. James. Until 1383 Freiendiez had its own court.
In 1727 a paper mill was built south of the municipality on the Aar ( 50 ° 21 ′ 42 ″ N , 8 ° 1 ′ 52 ″ E ).
In 1792 the construction of the Aartalstraße began and the current Aarbrücke was built.
On August 20, 1817, a fire destroyed most of the village and what was then St. James' Church. Today there is a listed church built from 1851 to 1853 at the same location, which is used by the Protestant community.
In 1907, construction began on the Freiendiez penitentiary, which is now a listed building, in the community's field .
In 1938, the chief president Philipp von Hessen of the former province of Hessen-Nassau ordered the incorporation of the financially strong municipality Freiendiez into the city of Diez. At that time Freiendiez had over 3000 inhabitants and covered more than 900 hectares of municipal area. The former independent municipality was called the Diez-Ost district. In 1988, a citizens' initiative was officially renamed "District Freiendiez".
traffic
The town is crossed from east to west by the Lahn Valley Railway , which connects the Diez and Limburg stations and disappears in the only 65 m long Freiendiezer tunnel. Today's Diez Ost stop on the Limburg – Altenkirchen railway line is located directly east of the Diez correctional facility and was formerly called Freiendiez; it is also served by the trains on the RB29, Unterwesterwaldbahn (Limburg-Montabaur-Siershahn) and the RB90, Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn (Limburg-Westerburg-Hachenburg-Altenkirchen-Au (Sieg) -Wissen-Siegen) trains. The Aartalbahn crosses the southern part of the village and is to receive a Freiendiez stop in the course of the possible reactivation .
Freiendiez is on federal road 417 , which connects Diez and Limburg. To the east of the village it joins the federal highway 54 , which leads south into the Aartal.
Personalities
- Erich Eichhoff (1909–1976), first president of the Federal Agency for Long-Distance Freight Transport, was born in Freiendiez
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Pfanzelter: Caves and cave research in the Rhein-Lahn district ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hubertus Seibert: The history of today's Rhein-Lahn district ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e freiendiez.de: Freiendiezer Ortsgeschichte ( Memento from June 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 7, 2011
- ^ History of the Catholic Church in Diez ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 7, 2011
- ↑ Stephan Walter: Notes on the genealogy of some paper manufacturers at the Freiendiezer paper mill , accessed on April 23, 2017
- ↑ a b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Lahn district. Mainz 2020, p. 31 f. (PDF; 6.2 MB).
- ↑ Evangelical Church on the Rhine and Lahn: Diez-Freiendiez (Jakobusgemeinde) ( Memento from August 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 7, 2011
- ^ Website of the city of Diez: Historisches über Diez ( Memento of October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 7, 2011
- ↑ Decision of December 5, 2008: reactivation of the Aartalbahn (PDF; 149 kB), accessed on July 6, 2011