Giesenhausen

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Hachenburg
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.88 km 2
Residents:	322 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	66 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57612
Area code :	02688
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 225
Association administration address:	Gartenstrasse 11 ; 57627 Hachenburg
Website :	giesenhausen.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Meier
Location of the local community Giesenhausen in the Westerwaldkreis

View of Giesenhausen

House Alhäuser, built in 1704

View of Giesenhausen

Giesenhausen is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The agriculturally structured residential community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg .

Geographical location

The at 310 m above sea level. NHN- located community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen , on the edge of Kroppacher Schweiz . The 488 hectare area borders on Stein-Wingert in the north, Kroppach in the southeast, Ingelbach in the south, Sörth in the west and Eichelhardt in the northwest ; the last three places are already in the Altenkirchen district . The federal road 414 and the Limburg – Altenkirchen railway line run along the southern edge of the district . The highest point in the district is the Giesenhauser Höhe ( 348 m above sea level ) on the connecting road to Kroppach, marked by a wind turbine . The place is largely surrounded by forest areas in the west to northeast ( little pastures ) and arable and meadow areas.

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Giesenhausen

history

In 1311 Giesenhausen was first mentioned in a document as Geysinhusen . Via Geysinhuysen 1525, Geisenhausen 1579, the place name is consolidated in the 18th century to become today's Giesenhausen . The name is derived from Gieße , a channel or a side rivulet of a stream, and therefore points to the description to the houses on the small stream . Agriculture was economically predominant, and a roof slate pit was in operation in 1810.

Giesenhausen belonged to the parish of Kroppach and until the middle of the 17th century it belonged to the county of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed. After the division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Giesenhausen belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg . In 1799 the county was inherited by the princes of Nassau-Weilburg . In connection with the formation of the Rhine Confederation , the region and with it Giesenhausen came to the newly established Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . Under the Nassau administration, Giesenhausen was assigned to the Hachenburg office. After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau, the place came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 and from 1868 belonged to the province of Hessen-Nassau and the Oberwesterwaldkreis . Giesenhausen has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year	Residents
1579	15 houses
1624	12 fireplaces
1653	7 smokes
1760	74
1815	149
1835	191
1871	199

year	Residents
1905	230
1939	260
1950	280
1961	268
1970	287
1987	297
2005	337

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Giesenhausen 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

Michael Meier was confirmed in his office for another five years in the direct election on May 26, 2019 with 88.89% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Late Gothic round shield dividedobliquely to the leftby a gold-blue bar , above a silver ploughshare in red, below in gold a green branch with three green beech leaves."

Culture and sights

In the town center there are still a number of old farmhouses from the 18th century, some of which are covered with plaster and slate. There are also individual half-timbered barns. The village community center Haus Alhäuser in Hauptstraße 17 is located in a large half-timbered house that was built in 1704. In addition to the community office, it also houses the youth room and a lounge.

The natural monuments include the group of trees on the western outskirts, consisting of two linden trees and a red oak , a pedunculate oak 100 meters south of the intersection at Giesenhauser Höhe and an old chestnut tree on Kastanienweg .

In the district approx. 1.5 kilometers northwest of the village there is an old, approx. 500 meters long and one meter high border wall on the border between Giesenhausen and Eichelhardt . This district boundary, which is also the district boundary, used to be the border between the counties Sayn-Altenkirchen and Sayn-Hachenburg , later between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Duchy of Nassau .

Regular events

The May Festival at the barbecue hut, which takes place annually on April 30th and is organized by the May Youth, is one of the highlights of community life.

The Hobby Club Giesenhausen organizes a football tournament on a Saturday in summer. Sunday is then organized as a village and children's festival together with the volunteer fire brigade.

The volunteer fire brigade organizes the fire brigade festival at regular intervals on Father's Day with games and fun for young and old.

During the Advent season, the clubs alternately organize the St. Nicholas celebration, where St. Nicholas is searched for and picked up in the village at dusk. So far he always had a surprise for the children with him.

traffic

The B 414 runs south of the village and leads from Altenkirchen (Westerwald) to Herborn .
The next motorway junctions are in Siegen , Wilnsdorf or Herborn on the A 45 Dortmund - Aschaffenburg , about 25 kilometers away.
The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

literature

Hellmuth Gensicke : The parish of Kroppach. In: Nassauische Annalen 83. 1972, pp. 209-231.
Dieter Trautmann: Pictures, stories and news from over 700 years in Giesenhausen. Altenkirchen 2001.
Dieter Trautmann: New findings on the early history of Giesenhausen. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 56th , 2013, pp. 220–224.

Web links

Commons : Giesenhausen - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ ^a ^b Landscape Museum Westerwald Hachenburg: Westerwald Articles 1 - Natural and cultural-historical monuments in the Westerwald: Kroppacher Switzerland and Hachenburg . Hachenburg 1981, p. 45 f.

^ Topographical map, Altenkirchen.

↑ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58. 2015, pp. 74–80.

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .

↑ WW-Kurier: The Westerwaldkreis has voted. MVV Medienverlag Westerwald-Sieg UG & Co. KG, Wissen, May 25, 2014, accessed on June 6, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).