Greifenthal

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Greifenthal
Community Ehringhausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 235 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.12 km²
Residents : 245  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 116 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35630
Area code : 06449
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Location of Greifenthal in Ehringshausen

Greifenthal is a district of Ehringshausen in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

geography

location

The village is located in the Gladenbacher Bergland , the eastern foothills of the Westerwald , in the valley of the Erfbach , a right tributary of the Dill . Greifenthal is the westernmost part of the Ehringshausen community.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities of the Greifenthal district are clockwise: in the northeast the district Katzenfurt , in the east the district Daubhausen and in the west the community Greifenstein .

history

After King Louis XIV's repeal of the Edict of Nantes , Count Wilhelm Moritz von Solms-Greifenstein took in 190 Huguenots expelled from France in 1685 and had them settle in Daubhausen. For these newcomers, the branch village Greifenthal was created in the same year, which together with Daubhausen formed a community.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Greifenthal was incorporated into Ehringshausen on December 31, 1971 . For Greifenthal, as for all formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was set up. Ehringshausen remained the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Greifenthal: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 97
1840
  
 110
1846
  
 123
1852
  
 117
1858
  
 120
1864
  
 122
1871
  
 101
1875
  
 103
1885
  
 105
1895
  
 112
1905
  
 120
1910
  
 114
1925
  
 132
1939
  
 150
1946
  
 213
1950
  
 221
1956
  
 214
1961
  
 211
1967
  
 286
1970
  
 274
2014
  
 307
2017
  
 246
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1834: 297 Protestant residents (together with Daubhausen)
• 1961: 169 Protestant (= 80.09%), 36 Catholic (= 17.06%) residents

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

  • A half-timbered house with a solidly bricked ground floor and entablature. Above it is a three-zone half-timbered structure with partially curved man figures, perhaps from the 17th century; possibly remnants of a count's Meierhof, which is said to have existed here before the Huguenot settlement was founded.
  • School and prayer house, built in 1891 in place of the 18th century chapel that had been demolished the year before due to dilapidation.

  • Half-timbered house

  • Former school and prayer house

literature

  • Wilhelm Arabin: Huguenot settlement Daubhausen-Greifenthal since 1685: origin and development; Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the settlement . Evangelical parish Daubhausen, Ehringshausen 1985.
  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The Wetzlar district, presented historically, statistically and topographically, volumes 1–2 . Wetzlar 1836.
  • Literature about Greifenthal in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Search for Greifenthal in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Commons : Greifenthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ehringshausen community and districts. In: website. Ehringshausen community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 290. DNB 770396321
  3. ↑ a b c Greifenthal, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 249 ( online at google books ).