Geilnau

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Diez
Height :	98 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.24 km 2
Residents:	367 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	164 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56379
Area code :	06439
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 045
Association administration address:	Louise-Seher-Strasse 1 65582 Diez
Website :	www.geilnau.de
Local Mayor :	Friedhelm Rücker ( SPD )
Location of the local community Geilnau in the Rhein-Lahn district

Geilnau is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Diez .

geography

Geilnau is located east of the Lahn on the "Cramberger Bogen" about 9 km southwest of Limburg an der Lahn and about 12 km southeast of Montabaur .

history

Geilnau was first mentioned in 1284. The original name Geilenowe is derived from geil = fertile, lush and owe = Au . Accordingly, the name means "fertile Au". The chapel in Geilnau was first mentioned in 1544. At the time of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the place belonged to the imperial county of Holzappel . From 1806 the place belonged to the Duchy of Nassau , which was annexed by Prussia in 1866 . Around 1885 Geilnau belonged to the Unterlahn district in the Prussian administrative district of Wiesbaden and had 297 inhabitants. Since 1946 the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Geilnau received its first elementary school in 1828. It was closed in 1969, and since then Geilnau has belonged to the catchment area of ​​the "Esterauschule" in Holzappel .

In 1790 a mineral spring that was buried by the population during the Thirty Years' War was recast. The so-called "Geilnauer Sauerwasser" was sold in large quantities between 1790 and 1894. The "Geilnau Mineral Spring" attained its greatest importance in the 1830s, afterwards the amount sold decreased, and in 1894 sales were stopped. The “Geilnauer Sauerwasser” emerged from the slate at a temperature of 10.5 ° C from springs below the Lahn bed . It had a carbonic acid content of 2.6751 g / l, a sodium carbonate content of 1.0178 g / l, an iron (II) carbonate content of 0.0011 g / l and a salt content of 0.0347 g / l. The "Geilnauer Sauerwasser" was included in the class of the so-called "iron-containing acid".

Between 1900 and 1937 and again from 1980, columnar basalt was mined in the area of ​​the local community of Geilnau . In the first half of the 20th century, up to 230 workers were temporarily employed in basalt mining.

Population development

The development of the population of Geilnau, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 141 1835 249 1871 334 1905 382 1939 326

year Residents 1950 406 1961 424 1970 384 1987 351 2005 390

religion

On the Protestant side, the place is since about 1700 the parish Langenscheid - Hirschberg in the deanery Diez the provost South Nassau in the Evangelical Church in Hessen and Nassau belong (EKHN), previously owned the place for Protestant parish in Holzappel .

On the Catholic side, Geilnau is assigned to the Roman Catholic parish St. Bonifatius in Holzappel and belongs with it to the pastoral area Diez , which in turn is incorporated into the Limburg district in the Limburg diocese .

In the middle of the place is the monk's kite St. Spiridon of the Serbian Orthodox Church .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Geilnau consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

The local mayor of Geilnau is Friedhelm Rücker (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 82.44% of the vote.

Culture and sights

• Long-distance cycle path Lahntal cycle path : it leads from Laurenburg to Hausen along the Lahn through the local community of Geilnau.
• Waldeck's hunting lodge

See also: List of cultural monuments in Geilnau

traffic

Geilnau is located on Kreisstraße  25, which runs from east to west and joins Landesstraße  318 near Birlenbach east of Geilnau and the B 417 in Holzappel west of Geilnau .

The closest long-distance train stations are the ICE train stations Montabaur and Limburg Süd .

Web links

Commons : Geilnau  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Geilnau
• Local community Geilnau on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Diez
• Brief portrait of Geilnau on SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Geilnau . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 24.
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Diez, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .