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community Hohenahr
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 289  (279-352)  m
Area : 8.33 km²
Residents : 551  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Population density : 66 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 35644
Area code : 06446
Church to Groß-Altenstädten
Church to Groß-Altenstädten

Großaltenstädten is a part of the municipality of Hohenahr in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .

geography

Großaltenstädten is located in the Gladenbacher Bergland . The Stadterbach flows through the village, but it is mainly referred to as Krausebach - named after a piece of forest called Kräus located between Großaltenstädten and Mudersbach .

history

Historical council and bakery with village shop, café and local museum

The landscape of the upper Aartal around the very old places Ahrdt , Erda and Altenkirchen was an old imperial estate in Franconian times . In the High Middle Ages, the tithe belonged to the Speyer diocese . Of the places mentioned in the further carried colonization of the area. Large cities should be part of the next phase of state development. The oldest known written mention of large cities was in 1279 under the name Aldynstedin . That of the church is from 1310.

In the Middle Ages , the Speyr fiefs were gradually acquired by the House of Solms , which enabled them to gain sovereignty in the area mentioned , which they had to share with the Landgraves of Hesse from 1351 . Großaltenstädten was therefore within the common sphere of influence of Hesse and Solms for the next few centuries. When the jointly administered area was divided up in 1629, Großaltenstädten was completely assigned to the House of Solms-Hohensolms (from 1718 Solms-Hohensolms-Lich ) and assigned to the Office of Hohensolms . It was under serfdom and was initially the Hessian Landgrave and the Count of Solms, from 1629 then only the Count of Solms forced labor - and taxable until it came to Nassau in 1806 and Prussia in 1815 .

The Thirty Years War had consequences for the development of the place . In the wars of the French King Louis XIV , the Great Elector crossed the Solms region with an army of 40,000 men. On December 9, 1672, he stayed personally in large cities. In 1761 the French plundered the village during the Seven Years' War . The Revolutionary Wars , the Napoleonic Wars and the Wars of Liberation also brought billeting . So there were French in 1806 and Russians from 1813 to 1815.

The village was predominantly agricultural until the 20th century . The Carlsgrube mine was already delivering copper ore in 1736 . In the past, large cities were considered to be a wealthy village compared to neighboring towns. This was reflected in a remarkable number of high-quality half - timbered buildings from the 16th to 19th centuries. The most important building is the former town hall from 1579, which was expanded in 1925 by an extension in the same construction. It also served as a school at times. In 1763 it was given a community oven.

A bridge once crossed the Krausebach. It was made of strong oak beams and had a thatched roof towering overhead. Equipped with seating on both sides, it often served as a meeting place, for example for the local council. The fire escapes and fire hooks were stored on the floor joists, and under the roof the hurdles of the sheep pen . It offered the children a nice playground. The year 1601 in the entablature probably indicated the construction of this art-historically interesting building, of which there was only one comparable in the entire Prussian Rhine Province. In 1899 it was demolished because the supporting beams on the underside had become rotten and replaced by an inconspicuous new bridge. On the evening of August 23, 1798, a lightning strike triggered a major fire in the place, which at that time was still predominantly thatched with thatched roofs, in which 12 farms burned down. This particularly affected the southern area of ​​today's Heide- und Bachstraße. Up until the second half of the 20th century, a memorial day with church service was held every year on this occasion. During the Second World War , the area around the town hall was shelled in an air raid in the spring of 1944. In 1946 the billeting of 95 displaced persons from the Sudetenland led to a strong population growth. In 1958 the community built a new school. In 1961 an outdoor swimming pool was opened to the south-east of the village . In 1966 the school was closed and in 1971 a village community center was set up in the building. In 1972 Großaltenstädten became part of the newly formed large community of Hohenahr. In 1976 a Protestant parish hall was built. Until 1995 the place had an independent savings and loan fund. As part of the village renewal program carried out from 2001 to 2011, numerous buildings were renovated. In addition to a village shop and a village cafe, the museum of the Hohenahr Heritage and Culture Association was set up in the former town hall from 1579.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality of Großaltenstädten was incorporated into the municipality of Hohenahr on July 1, 1972 on a voluntary basis . For Großaltenstädten, as for the other districts, a local district with a local council and community leader was established. The district of Erda remained the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Großaltenstädten (formerly Altenstädten) were located or the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Population development

Großaltenstädten: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 460
1840
  
 418
1846
  
 436
1852
  
 425
1858
  
 399
1864
  
 411
1871
  
 393
1875
  
 390
1885
  
 389
1895
  
 380
1905
  
 370
1910
  
 359
1925
  
 375
1939
  
 376
1946
  
 532
1950
  
 514
1956
  
 403
1961
  
 408
1967
  
 424
1970
  
 451
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2004
  
 646
2011
  
 606
2013
  
 573
2018
  
 551
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: Hohenahr community :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1834: 458 Protestant residents
• 1961: 387 Protestant (= 94.85%), 16 Catholic (= 3.92%) residents

Cultural monuments

Infrastructure

The state roads  L 3053 and L 3376 run through the district . The village infrastructure includes the former threshing hall , which today is used to park agricultural equipment and host the fair . There is also a fire equipment house, a club house with tennis courts, a barbecue hut and a riding arena. Outside of the village are the hiking and recreation area "Großaltenstädter Heide", the natural monument "Hindenburgiche" and an ensemble of historical boundary stones called "Dreiherrensteine". The former watermill Pfeffermühle also belongs to the district .

literature

  • Hans Hermann Hagmann: History of the Evangelical Churches in Hohensolms (1964–1985), Großaltenstädten (1964–1971) and Blasbach (1971–1985), Hohenahr 2010.
  • Karsten Porezag: "... noble courses at Kupffer Ertz show themselves in abundance ..." Copper ore mining and copper ore smelting around Wetzlar 1607–1897, Wetzlar 2017.
  • Maria Wenzel: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II, published by the State Office for Monument Preservation, Wiesbaden 2003.
  • Timo Zimmermann: Hohensolms. Valley, town, municipality and district. Zimmermann, Hohenahr 2000.
  • Chronicle of the parish of Hohensolms-Großaltenstädten, Volume 2, 1920–1949.
  • 700 years of Groß-Altenstädten, published by the Heimat- und Kulturverein Hohenahr, Hohenahr 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Figures / data / facts. In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Großaltenstädten, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Timo Zimmermann: Hohensolms. Valley, town, municipality and district. Zimmermann, Hohenahr 2000.
  4. ↑ Timo Zimmermann: Hohensolms. Valley, town, municipality and district. Zimmermann, Hohenahr 2000, p. 81.
  5. ↑ Karsten Porezag: "... noble courses at Kupffer Ertz show themselves in abundance ..." Copper ore mining and copper ore smelting around Wetzlar 1607–1897, Wetzlar 2017.
  6. ^ Maria Wenzel: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II, published by the State Office for Monument Preservation, Wiesbaden 2003, p. 296.
  7. ↑ Chronicle of the parish of Hohensolms-Großaltenstädten, Volume 2, 1920–1949.
  8. ↑ Chronicle of the parish of Hohensolms-Großaltenstädten, Volume 2, 1920–1949.
  9. ↑ Chronicle of the parish of Hohensolms-Großaltenstädten, Volume 2, 1920–1949.
  10. ^ Maria Wenzel: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill-Kreis II, published by the State Office for Monument Preservation, Wiesbaden 2003, p. 297.
  11. ↑ Hans Hermann Hagmann: History of the Evangelical Churches in Hohensolms (1964-1985), Großaltenstädten (1964-1971) and Blasbach (1971-1985), Hohenahr 2010.
  12. ↑ 700 years of Groß-Altenstädten, published by the Heimat- und Kulturverein Hohenahr, Hohenahr 2011.
  13. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , item 851; 2. Para. 6. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  14. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 297. DNB 770396321
  15. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 38 kB) §; 8. In: Website. Hohenahr community, accessed February 2019 .
  16. ^ 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).
  17. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  18. ^ The affiliation of the Königsberg office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  19. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 point 1) ( online at google books ).
  20. ↑ Population figures . In: website. Hohenahr community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  21. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;