Frohnhausen (Dillenburg)

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Frohnhausen
City of Dillenburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 24 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 267 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.14 km²
Residents : 3866  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 423 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35684
Area code : 02771
Frohnhäuser Hauptstrasse
The town center from the air

With around 3900 inhabitants, Frohnhausen is the largest district of the city of Dillenburg after the core city . Until 1977 the village in the west of Central Hesse was an independent municipality.

geography

Frohnhausen is located in the Dietzhölze valley , Dilltal natural area , at the junction of the Struth (north-west) and Schelder Forest (south-east, part of the Gladenbacher Bergland ) mountain ranges , both of which are part of the Westerwald .


Frohnhausen, view from the southeast

history

The village of Frohnhausen was first mentioned in 1340. It is assumed, however, that there were already settlements here during the Carolingian era . In 1434, 34 house owners were named in documents.

The total fire of 1778 is mainly responsible for today's village appearance.

The village fire of 1778

Fires that destroyed entire towns were not uncommon in Nassau in the 18th century . Similar fires had already occurred in neighboring towns before 1778, for example in Manderbach , Nanzenbach , Wissenbach , Haigerseelbach and Dillenburg , and there were also major fires later, for example in Donsbach , Driedorf and Mensfelden . Seldom has a place been so completely destroyed by fire as Frohnhausen. On July 26th, 1778 a fire broke out here, which destroyed almost all houses, barns and stables. The exact cause is still unclear. The villagers and the bailiff from Dillenburg blamed a thunderstorm that had struck the town the previous evening and hit one of the last barns, but the state government in Dillenburg did not share this opinion; there one suspected "murder distillery" ( arson ), since similar things had happened in some neighboring villages.

Consisting of clay and wood built with straw -roofed houses were very close together, so that the fire could spread quickly. Frohnhausen had a simple fire sprayer (pressure sprayer), but it had to be constantly filled with buckets of water. Since it was summer, the village wells were quickly empty and the water had to be fetched from the streams with buckets. Every villager helped with the extinguishing work, and volunteers also came from the neighboring villages. After half an hour the fire engine was broken. A new one was brought from Dillenburg, but it arrived too late - 128 houses and 122 barns were burned within an hour. The heat was so great that even the church bells melted. Only a few buildings that stood a little apart were spared: the church, the Pade house and the "Weber'sche" house in today's main street, the barn in the Hohl (today Landhandel Weber) and a few other barns.

The aid of the princely state government in Dillenburg began with great precision - due to the earlier village fires in Nanzenbach , Wissenbach and Haigerseelbach , one had a little practice in organizing such disasters. The 129 families who were now homeless were distributed to the neighboring villages. Manderbach received 154 people and 101 head of cattle to be quartered, the remainder went to Wissenbach and other nearby places. There were no human lives to be complained about, but some sustained serious injuries while rescuing cattle and household items. Since nobody had money to buy a doctor, the state government sent a doctor to treat people for free.

Very soon the teams of the district battalion were on hand to take control of the scene of the fire. The government’s first action was to have the scene cleaned up. The inhabitants of the neighboring communities were used for this purpose. There were some disputes when a community did not show up or individual citizens or residents wanted to "avoid".

The building sites have now been re-measured and distributed. So that such a fire could not happen again, the whole village was planned very generously; all the houses were built in a row. The construction of emergency huts was prohibited from the outset.

The reconstruction cost a lot of money. Since there was no fire insurance at that time and the citizens were very poor, the state government approved a collection of money to which men were sent to many villages, as far as the Westerwald and Siegen . The merrymakers themselves were strictly forbidden to beg for support in the villages. The people from the nearby villages did not have a lot of money themselves, and since there were more village fires at this time, such collections were not uncommon.

The wood procurement was also difficult. The need could not be met from the forest alone; wood had to be purchased from other communities. For this, Dillenburg gave Frohnhausen a loan. Since the Frohnhäuser could not repay this, they had to leave the Heunstein area to the Dillenburgers. Furthermore, the princely state government commissioned the offices of Dillenburg , Haiger and Ebersbach to determine by means of a survey how many vacant buildings there were that could be suitable for demolition and reconstruction in Frohnhausen. On August 1, 1778, Bailiff Rühle sent in a list of the dispensable old buildings. On August 3, he received an order to ask the owners of these buildings to sell them to the victims of the fire. The houses were then torn down and rebuilt in Frohnhausen.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent community of Frohnhausen was incorporated into the city of Dillenburg on January 1, 1977 by the law to reorganize the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen . For the district of Frohnhausen, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Frohnhausen was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

population

Population development

Frohnhausen: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 976
1840
  
 930
1846
  
 933
1852
  
 915
1858
  
 909
1864
  
 947
1871
  
 972
1875
  
 1.008
1885
  
 1,088
1895
  
 1,141
1905
  
 1,362
1910
  
 1,500
1925
  
 1,718
1939
  
 2,083
1946
  
 2,493
1950
  
 2,689
1956
  
 2,817
1961
  
 3,035
1967
  
 3,584
1970
  
 3,551
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
1999
  
 3.815
2005
  
 3,765
2009
  
 3,804
2014
  
 3,848
2018
  
 3,866
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970 city of Dillenburg

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 0984 Protestant (= 90.44%), 15 Catholic (= 1.38%), 88 other (= 8.09%) Christians and one Jew (= 8.09%),
• 1961: 2590 Protestant (= 85.34%), 230 Catholic (= 7.58%) residents
• 2018: 1962 Protestant (= 50.75%), 286 Catholic (= 7.40%) and 1618 other residents

politics

Local advisory board

The Frohnhausen local advisory board consists of five members. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , it consists of three members of the CDU and two members of the SPD . The mayor is Matthias Schröder (CDU).

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Protestant church
  • Gabled half-timbered houses along the main street

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal road 253 ( Dillenburg - Frankenberg ) runs through Frohnhausen . This is used by around 17,000 vehicles every day. Due to the high traffic load, residents have wanted a bypass for many years. The distance to the Dillenburg junction on Autobahn 45 is around 4 km.

In addition, until 1987 Frohnhausen still had a rail connection via the Dietzhölztalbahn . The railway line has been closed since 2001. However, there are efforts and an initiative that is committed to maintaining and reactivating the route for passenger and freight traffic. The railway line between Dillenburg and Frohnhausen is currently being cut.

Public facilities

  • library
  • Bürgerhaus (former town hall)
  • Homeless dorm
  • Seniors' residence

education

There are two Protestant kindergartens in Frohnhausen, one in the family center at Am Scheideweg 49 and one in Oranienstrasse 6. There is also a primary school and the Goldbachschule secondary school .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Frohnhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b c Population figures for the city of Dillenburg from the web archive: 1999 , 2005 , 2009 , 2014 , 2018
  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 ., § 24 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 21; kB) §; 5. In: Website. City of Dillenburg, 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. ↑ Frohnhausen local advisory board on the city of Dillenburg's website, accessed in April 2019.
  7. ↑ Hessen Mobil : Traffic volume map for Hessen, excerpt from the Lahn-Dill district (2015 edition)