Georgenborn

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Georgenborn
Community of Schlangenbad
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 19 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 377 m above sea level NHN
Area : 1.27 km²
Residents : 1699  (Jun. 30, 2013)
Population density : 1,338 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1928
Incorporated into: Wiesbaden
Postal code : 65388
Area code : 06129
Former school on the through road, donated by Baron Ferdinand von Krauskopf

Georgenborn is a district of the community Schlangenbad in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse with around 2000 inhabitants. In the district, there is a local district with the town council .

geography

Georgenborn is located east of the main town, Schlangenbad in the Hohe Taunus, at an altitude of 380 meters on the southern slope of the Rotekreuzkopf (510 meters) and the Hohe Wurzel (618 meters) with a wide view to the south of the Upper Rhine Plain . Coming from the east in the direction of Wiesbaden-Chausseehaus , the L 3038 leads west through Georgenborn and via an intersection-free junction to the federal highway 260 down to the main town of Schlangenbad in Walluftal . To the southeast of the village lies the nature reserve Rechtebachtal near Georgenborn , to the east the Weilburger Bach rises, which flows into the Upper Rhine as Mosbach at Schloss Biebrich .

history

Georgenborn was created at a forest spring where the sovereign Prince Georg August Samuel von Nassau-Idstein used to rest on hunting trips. With an edict of October 8, 1694 - during the War of the Palatinate Succession - he decided to settle twelve refugee families from the Electoral Palatinate here and determined that the newly founded place should be named after him and the source Georgenborn . The settlers cleared forest and created fields and meadows. For thirty years there were armed conflicts over Georgenborn because of quarrels with the farmers from the neighboring Kurmainzischen Frauenstein over pasture and clearing justice. These quarrels almost led to the destruction of the place. Although Count Friedrich Ludwig von Nassau-Ottweiler initially considered abandoning the settlement as the prince's successor, the existence of Georgenborn was finally secured in 1727 by a comparison with Kurmainz.

At the time of the Duchy of Nassau , Georgenborn was part of the Wiesbaden office . After the annexation of the Duchy of Prussia , the town was the 1867 Main Circle and 1886 the district Wiesbaden in the administrative district of Wiesbaden assigned.

In the middle of the 19th century, wealthy citizens of Wiesbaden and the surrounding area began to build villas and country houses in Georgenborn. The population remained at one to two hundred inhabitants during this period. After all, the Russian industrialist Baron Ferdinand von Krauskopf had Hohenbuchau Castle built at great expense in 1895 and 1896 and an extensive park laid out for it. In the heyday of the castle, a large part of the Georgenborn population worked for the baron. When he lost his fortune in the First World War, he had to sell the castle. After an eventful fate, it fell into disrepair and the park became overgrown.

With the dissolution of the Wiesbaden district in 1928, Georgenborn was incorporated into the city of Wiesbaden , but this was short-lived. In 1939 the place was spun off again and reclassified to Schlangenbad in the Untertaunus district .

In 1961 Hohenbuchau Castle was demolished and a new residential area was built in the park.

Web links

Commons : Georgenborn  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Figures, Data, Facts” on the website of the community in Schlangenbad , accessed in April 2016.
  2. ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000