Garbenheim

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Garbenheim
City of Wetzlar
Garbenheim coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 165 m above sea level NN
Area : 7.76 km²
Residents : 2208  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 285 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Incorporated into: Lahn
Postal code : 35583
Area code : 06441
map
Location of Garbenheim in Wetzlar

Garbenheim is a district of the central Hessian district town Wetzlar with approx. 2200 inhabitants. The district is located near the Wetzlar core city south of the Lahn .

To the southwest of the village is the Wetzlarer Bismarck Tower , which was called Garbenheimer Warte until it was rebuilt.

history

The place was first mentioned in 776 in a deed of donation to the Lorsch Monastery .

The knights of Garbenheim , a noble family, provided the castle men of the imperial castle Kalsmunt . The village formed together with Atzbach and Dorlar a judicial district that belonged to the possessions of the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg .

When Wetzlar was the seat of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce in the 18th century , the rural idyll of Garbenheim was recognized by Goethe , who liked to take long walks here. He immortalized the village under the literary name Wahlheim in his work The Sorrows of Young Werther .

As a result of the Congress of Vienna , the mayor's office of Atzbach, to which Garbenheim belonged, became Prussian in 1816. In 1866 a major fire destroyed large parts of the village. The church, the rectory, 40 houses, several barns and stables burned out completely. But a new church was completed in Garbenheim as early as 1883.

On January 1, 1977, the previously independent community was in the course of municipal reform in Hesse powerful state law in the newly founded city of Lahn incorporated . There it became part of the Wetzlar district. Garbenheim has belonged to the city of Wetzlar since Lahn was dissolved on August 1, 1979.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

Garbenheim: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 391
1840
  
 440
1846
  
 468
1852
  
 507
1858
  
 490
1864
  
 516
1871
  
 563
1875
  
 587
1885
  
 636
1895
  
 717
1905
  
 846
1910
  
 952
1925
  
 1.101
1939
  
 1,400
1946
  
 1,792
1950
  
 1,889
1956
  
 1.939
1961
  
 1,972
1967
  
 2,080
1970
  
 2,054
1990
  
 2,193
1998
  
 2,259
2005
  
 2,198
2009
  
 2.157
2012
  
 2,073
2015
  
 2.113
2017
  
 2,208
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1977: Population figures in the city of Wetzlar

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: 1494 Protestant (= 75.76%) and 419 (= 21.25%) Catholic residents
• 2017: 958 Protestant (= 43.4%), 363 (= 16.4%) Catholic, 887 non-denominational and other (= 40.2%) residents

nationality

 Source: City of Wetzlar

• 2005: 1998 Germans, 151 non-Germans (7.0%) thereof 74 women and 77 men
• 2012: 1941 Germans, 156 non-Germans (7.4%) thereof 75 women and 80 men
• 2015: 1906 Germans, 207 non-Germans (9.8%) thereof 102 women and 105 men
• 2017: 1,884 Germans, 324 non-Germans (14.7%) thereof 153 women and 161 men

politics

Local advisory board

In the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the Garbenheim local council received the following results. For comparison, the election results of the previous election periods.

Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 51.5 4th 50.3 4th 40.4 3
FW Free voters 30.6 2 37.5 2 39.4 3
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 17.9 1 12.2 1 14.9 1
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens - 0 - 0 5.3 0
total 100.0 7th 100.0 7th 100.0 7th
Voter turnout in% 48.3 49.5
Municipal election in
Garbenheim 2011
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
50.3%
37.5%
12.2%
n. k.
Gains and losses
compared to 2006
 % p
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+ 9.9  % p
-1.9  % p
-2.7  % p
-5.3  % p

Mayor

The mayor is Waldemar Dross (SPD). His deputy is Ingeborg Koster (SPD).

coat of arms

Garbenheim coat of arms
 Blazon : "A golden sheaf in red, with three narrow black bars in the middle."

The coat of arms, officially approved on June 19, 1953, refers “ speaking ” to the place name, but at the same time to the old local nobility, the long-extinct Lords of Garbenheim, who in the 14th century carried a shield with sheaves divided by three bars. The place, which was jointly owned by Hessian-Nassau until 1585 and then entirely Nassau, had no image seals.

Buildings

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Garbenheim has a junction with the four-lane federal highway 49 .

The district is served by the city bus line 17 of the Wetzlarer Verkehrsbetriebe . The former train station is in the west of the village. It was closed to passenger traffic with the closure of the Lollar – Wetzlar railway ; DB Cargo has been putting together freight trains for Central Hesse there since February 2007.

To the north of the district is the Garbenheimer Wiesen glider airfield run by the Wetzlar Aviation Association .

Public facilities

The local volunteer fire brigade , a primary school and a kindergarten are located in Garbenheim . A district office has also been set up.

In the Kreisstr. has been a shared accommodation of the Lahn-Dill district since the end of 2016.

The Protestant village church is located on Goetheplatz in the historic town center. There also cath. Services take place.

Industry and Commerce

There are several small and medium-sized businesses in the village. There is also a post office in the Süt Market grocery store.

Directly opposite is an EC cash machine from cardpoint in cooperation with Sparkasse Wetzlar.

In the past, iron ore mining in the Philippswonne mine was characteristic of Garbenheim. The mine existed from 1833 to 1925.

literature

Web links

Commons : Garbenheim  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ District area ( memento of March 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 111 kB) In: Website of the city of Wetzlar, accessed in March 2018.
  2. ↑ Population figures on December 31, 2017. ( Memento from March 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Website of the city of Wetzlar, accessed in March 2018. (PDF 118 kB)
  3. ↑ a b City of Wetzlar: History of Garbenheim ( Memento from July 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization 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 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,3 MB ]).
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 346 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Garbenheim, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ↑ a b website of the city of Wetzlar (from web archive): 2005 (PDF); 2006 (PDF); 2009 (PDF); 2012 (PDF); 2015 (PDF); 2017 (PDF) Retrieved January 2019.
  9. ↑ Resident population by religious affiliation 2017. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Website. City of Wetzlar, archived from the original ; accessed in January 2019 .
  10. ^ A b Garbenheim Local Advisory Board , City of Wetzlar . Retrieved February 14, 2017.
  11. ^ Result of local council election Garbenheim 2016
  12. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt , Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 190.
  13. ↑ Approval to carry a coat of arms to the municipality of Garbenheim in the district of Wetzlar, Reg.-Bez. Wiesbaden from June 19, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1953 No. 27 , p. 591 , point 740 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.2 MB ]).