Linden (Hesse)

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Linden (Hesse)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 40'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : to water
County : to water
Height : 165 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.77 km 2
Residents: 13.091 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 575 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 35440
Area code : 06403
License plate : GI
Community key : 06 5 31 012
City structure: 2 districts

City administration address : 		Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 25
35440 Linden
Website : www.linden.de
Mayor : Jörg König ( CDU )
Location of the city of Linden in the district of Giessen
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Linden is a small town in the central Hessian district of Gießen .

geography

Geographical location

Linden is about 6 km south of Giessen . In the north, Linden borders the district town of Gießen, in the east on the city of Pohlheim , in the south on the municipality of Langgöns , and in the west on the municipality of Hüttenberg ( Lahn-Dill district ).

City structure

The city consists of the districts Grossen-Linden and Leihgestern . The settlements Forst and Oberhof belong to Großen-Linden; loan yesterday include Mühlberg and Gut Neuhof .

history

Great Linden

Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum in the old town center from loan yesterday
St. Peters Church (Großen-Linden), Romanesque west portal, around 1230

The first written mention comes from the Lorsch Codex . Thereafter the Villa Lindun was donated to the Lorsch Monastery on February 27, 790 . The name Letkestre (loan yesterday) was mentioned for the first time in the Lorsch Codex through a further donation on June 11, 805 to the Lorsch Abbey. In the early Middle Ages, Linden was part of the Niederlahngau and was owned by various counts before the place finally came into the possession of the Counts of Gleiberg in the 10th century at the time of Otto the Great . In 1265 Linden came to the Landgraviate of Hesse when Landgrave Heinrich I acquired parts of the former County of Gleiberg with Gießen from the Count Palatine of Tübingen . In 1347, the name Linden is the first time that in a document of great prefixed to the place from neighboring Lützellinden to distinguish (now part of casting).

From 1396 to 1585 the judicial district of Hüttenberg , like the common land on the Lahn , was a condominium of the Landgraves of Hesse and the Counts of Nassau . At that time, Großen-Linden was the capital of a judicial district and there were two mayors in Großen-Linden. Due to disagreements, the judicial district was divided between the two count houses in 1585. The Reformation was carried out by the Landgraves of Hesse in their territories from 1527, the first Protestant pastor in Großen-Linden is documented in 1546.

Grossen-Linden either received city ​​rights from Ludwig IV of Hessen-Marburg on February 19, 1605, or between 1561 and 1577. Documentary evidence shows that the citizens of Grossen-Linden, in contrast to the other places on Hüttenberg, did not pay any taxes in 1577 had to pay more.

During the Thirty Years' War , the place surrounded by ramparts and ditches, like all other places in the area, was badly affected. At the end of the war, about 40 out of 130 houses in the city were uninhabited and about 400 inhabitants were counted.

In the 18th century, the rural village gradually began to expand beyond the medieval town limits, and more handicrafts and trades also settled here. In 1712 the town was granted market rights , in 1716 the first of several restaurants on site is occupied, there were soon several dye works, a lime distillery and, towards the end of the 18th century, hosiery weavers, wig makers and trouser cutters.

After the Napoleonic Wars around 1800 with extensive billeting of troops initially hampered the further development of the place, a dynamic development occurred in the middle of the 19th century as a result of the onset of industrialization and the construction of the Main-Weser Railway .

The statistical, topographical and historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Großenlinden in 1830:

“Großenlinden (L. Bez. Giessen) city; lies 2 hours from Giessen, on the Kleebach, as well as on the Chaussee that runs from Giessen to Frankfurt, and is partly surrounded by a moat. The place has 144 houses and 900 inhabitants who are Protestant except for 4 Catholics and 40 Jews, as well as 1 church, 1 schoolhouse, 1 town hall and 3 grinding mills, with which 1 oil mill is connected. Among the trades there are several dye works that give the linen wall the most permanent blue color and which were already famous at the end of the last century. There is very excellent peat in the district. - The name of the Linder Mark goes back to the times of Carl the Great, and sometimes the village of Linden is called instead of the Mark, which is undisputedly the Great Linden afterwards. The place is said to have been provided with fortifications and a citadel, and such were destroyed in 1248 by Landgravine Sophie, when the estate of Großenlinden, her son, Heinrich the child, refused to pay homage, along with the castle houses. This news would like to refer to Hohenlinden between Biedenkopf and Wetter. The legend has also survived up to now that the temples had a seat here and lived in the town hall. In 1396, Landgrave Hermann exchanged half of the village for half of the Kirchberg court with his brother-in-law, Count Philipp von Nassau. This community lasted until 1585, when a division was made and Hesse was given, among other things, the area of ​​Großenlinden. The chapels zu Leihgestern, Kleinlinden, Dornholzhausen, Hochelheim, Hörnsheim and Allendorf belonged to Großenlinden until the 16th century. "

The construction of the railway brought many workers to Großen-Linden around 1848; the brown stone mine built in 1841 , a lime works and several cigar factories offered additional jobs . Between 1817 and 1900 the population doubled to over 1700, the old thatched houses were tiled and the place grew in all directions. In the late 19th century, the railway line was the determining economic factor in the region. While the places off the train had to accept a population loss due to emigration and emigration, Grossen-Linden and also loan yesterday benefited from the influx from the surrounding area.

After the Second World War, the population continued to grow due to the influx of around 1,400 refugees and displaced persons, bringing the city to almost 4,000 inhabitants in 1949. As a result of the predominantly Catholic refugees, a Catholic community of almost 1,000 people was created in the almost entirely Protestant town until the Second World War. In order to accommodate the refugees permanently, new building areas had to be designated.

Linden trees

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse were on 1 January 1977. by the districts of Giessen and Wetzlar and Giessen law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the city Grand-Linden and the community Leihgestern the new city Linden together . Local districts were not formed.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population structure

According to the 2011 census , there were 12063 inhabitants in Linden on May 9, 2011. 805 (6.7%) of them were foreigners, of whom 268 came from outside the EU , 321 from other European countries and 216 from other countries. Of the German residents, 18.4% had a migration background . The inhabitants lived in 5691 households. Of these, 2211 were single households , 1413 couples without children and 1486 couples with children, as well as 433 single parents and 148 shared apartments .

Population development

The population of Großen-Linden and from 1977 the city of Linden

• 1502: 052 men
• 1577: 114 house seats
• 1648: 077 men
• 1669: 434 souls
• 1742: 004 clergymen / officials, 110 subjects, 31 young men, 12  inmates / Jews
• 1791: 614 inhabitants
• 1800: 662 inhabitants
• 1806: 716 inhabitants, 136 houses
• 1829: 900 inhabitants, 144 houses
• 1867: 1195 inhabitants, 187 houses
(Großen-) Linden: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 614
1800
  
 662
1806
  
 716
1834
  
 968
1840
  
 1.002
1846
  
 1,131
1852
  
 1,251
1858
  
 1,174
1864
  
 1,168
1871
  
 1,216
1875
  
 1,177
1885
  
 1,269
1895
  
 1,562
1905
  
 1.916
1910
  
 2,033
1925
  
 2,407
1939
  
 2,487
1946
  
 3,682
1950
  
 3.831
1956
  
 4.010
1961
  
 4.145
1967
  
 4,479
1972
  
 4,823
1976
  
 9,774
1984
  
 10,814
1992
  
 11,493
2000
  
 12,200
2004
  
 12,339
2010
  
 12,190
2015
  
 12,700
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000 :; 2004 :; 2010:
From 1976 including the towns incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

Religious affiliation

• 1830: 856 Protestant, 4 Roman Catholic residents, 40 Jews
• 1961: 3191 Protestant, 832 Roman Catholic residents
• 2011: 5960 Protestant (= 49.6%), 1980 Catholic (= 16.5%), 170 free church (= 1.5%), 750 Orthodox (= 6.3%), 330 non-believers (= 2.7%), 2,820 other (= 23.5%) residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: Labor force: 196 agriculture and forestry, 935 prod. Trade, 434 trade, traffic and communication, 345 services and other.

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
     
A total of 37 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 39.5 15th 46.3 17th 47.1 17th 48.8 18th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 26.0 10 26.2 10 31.8 12 33.5 12
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 12.1 4th 17.2 6th 10.1 4th 6.7 3
FW Free voters 16.1 6th 8.5 3 8.1 3 10.0 4th
FDP Free Democratic Party 6.2 2 1.8 1 2.9 1 1.0 0
total 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 52.3 49.5 47.1 53.2

mayor

from Grossen-Linden:

  • 1945–1948: Philipp Stengel (SPD)
  • 1948–1954: Friedrich Matheis (SPD)
  • 1954–1967: Albert Weigand (SPD)
  • 1967–1976: Reinhard Lang (SPD)

from loan yesterday:

  • 1842–1871 Johannes Heß (father)
  • 1871–1904 Johannes Hess (son)
  • 1904–1933 Johannes Heß (grandson)
  • 1934–1937 Hans Will
  • 1938–1945 Wilhelm Damm
  • 1945–1948 Wilhelm Funk (SPD)
  • 1948–1952 Karl Textor (SPD)
  • 1952–1956 Wilhelm Seipp (SPD)
  • 1956–1969 Karl Pfeffer (SPD)
  • 1969–1976 Helmut Jung (SPD)

City of Linden:

  • January to May 1977: Reinhard Lang (SPD) - state commissioner
  • 1977–2013: Ulrich Lenz (CDU)
  • from June 2013: Jörg König (CDU)

magistrate

  • Mayor Jörg König (CDU),
  • First City Councilor Norbert Arnold (CDU),
  • Thomas Altenheimer (CDU),
  • Gerhard Trinklein (CDU),
  • Reinhold Krapf (SPD),
  • Wolfgang Gath (SPD),
  • Petra Braun (FW),
  • Michael Wolter (Alliance 90 / The Greens),
  • Sven Deeg (FDP)

 Source:

coat of arms

Linden Coat of Arms
 Blazon : "In red a silver, double-headed crane with golden beaks, applied a silver coat of arms with a green linden tree on a green ground."

The coat of arms is characterized by two features that have district-specific expressiveness: The green linden tree stands for the Große-Linden district and the double-headed crane represents the Leihgestern district. Together, these landmarks make up the current coat of arms of the city of Linden, which has been officially allowed to be used since 1980.

The coat of arms of the city of Großen-Linden (coat of arms description: "A green linden tree in a silver shield on green ground.") Was approved on March 31, 1955 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior.

Youth representation of the city of Linden

The youth representation (JVL for short) in Linden is made up of young people from the city who are delegated by various associations and organizations from Linden and are intended to represent the entire youth of the city of Linden. If the youth representative body makes a valid decision, it can be presented to the Linden municipal authorities and put to the vote again there.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments in Linden

see list of cultural monuments in Linden (Hessen)

Buildings

Romanesque church in Großen-Linden
Ev. Church in loan yesterday
  • The Evangelical Church (St. Peter) in Großen-Linden was probably built in the 10th or 11th century and its current form dates back to the 12th or 13th century. The church has a Romanesque portal richly decorated with figure reliefs from around 1170, which is one of the few Romanesque figure portals in Germany. The church, the churchyard and the town hall are enclosed by a common wall, which has its origins in a medieval fortification.
  • The town hall was built around 1230 and has been rebuilt many times. According to a building inscription, a major renovation took place in 1611, the half-timbered structure of the building probably dates from that year.
  • The Protestant rectory in Großen-Linden was built in 1452 and is considered to be the oldest rectory in Upper Hesse.
  • The Catholic Christkönig Church in Großen-Linden was consecrated in 1954. Its construction became necessary after the influx of Catholic refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War resulted in a large Catholic community in the area.
  • The schoolhouse was built in 1929 and fell victim to a major fire in 1957, after which it was restored with a simplified roof structure.
  • In Grossen-Linden there are also several renovated historic half-timbered buildings from different eras.
  • The Evangelical Church on loan yesterday was inaugurated on August 9, 1908. The late Gothic tower dates from the 15th or 16th century
  • The historic water house Leihgestern (elevated water tank) was built in 1907 and restored in 2010.

Museums

music

  • The Große-Linden Music Corps is at home in the Großen-Linden district . The club's greatest success was winning in the two disciplines march and show at the Wereld Muziek Concours 1974 in Kerkrade . In 2005 a gold medal with distinction could be won there. In 2007, the Grossen-Linden Music Corps achieved the highest number of points in the march classification of brass bands at the International German Cup in Alsfeld and won the German Cup. In the concert evaluation, the 2nd place was taken, followed by their own offspring, the youth music corps Grossen-Linden , which achieved 3rd place in the concert evaluation.

Sports

The club TV-Grossen-Linden played in the 1985/86 season with a women's team in the table tennis Bundesliga . TSG 1893 played on loan yesterday in the 2004/2005 season in the second women's handball league. The gymnastics team of TV Großen-Linden has been competing in the 2nd Bundesliga of the German Gymnastics League (DTL) since 2014. The city also has an outdoor swimming pool.

Other clubs

  • Fraternity "Unity" Grossen-Linden
  • Carnival Association Harmonies (KVH)
  • TSG 1893 loan yesterday, with 2,200 members the largest club in town
  • TSV Grossen-Linden, plays with the first soccer team in the regional league
  • MSG Linden, plays with the 1st men's handball team in the Landesliga Hessen

Regular events

  • Marienmarkt, every year in March (in the old town area of ​​Großen-Linden)
  • City festival, always on the second weekend in August around the town hall
  • Nikolausmarkt, always on the first weekend of Advent in the old town center of Leihgestern
  • Fair in Großen-Linden, on the second weekend in July
  • New Year's concert by the Grossen-Linden Music Corps, every two years in January in the Linden Town Hall
  • Easter beat / dance, every year on Easter Sunday, by the "Burschenschaft Einigkeit" Grossen-Linden

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The A 45 and A 485 pass through the urban area and cross at the “Gießener Südkreuz”. There is also a train station on the Main-Weser Railway . Linden belongs to the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

Established businesses

  • A wholesale store of the Metro Cash & Carry Group was opened in 1980 as the first company in the Lückebachtal industrial park .
  • Alternate , the largest German hardware shipping company, is one of the city's largest employers .
  • The Uvensys GmbH, a medium-sized ISP
  • Active rental park , a construction machine rental
  • Klarna branch , a payment service provider

education

The Anne Frank School is a comprehensive school based on the type of school with a support level and grammar school entry grades 5 and 6, a main and secondary school branch and a grammar school branch. In addition, there is a primary school in both parts of the city: On loan yesterday, primary school students were admitted to the Wiesengrundschule , and in Großen-Linden to the Burgschule .

Youth rooms of the city of Linden

The city of Linden has set up new youth rooms in the building of the former central disaster control workshop of the State of Hesse. The complex is divided into children's and youth areas.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

literature

Web links

Commons : Linden  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Schulte: The story of Grossen-Linden. 1990, pp. 7-8.
  3. ^ A b Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 103 f . ( Online at google books ).
  4. ↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 10 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Großen-Linden, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ↑ The affiliation of the Gießen office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hesse : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  8. ↑ 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. 6 ( online at google books ).
  9. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 413 ( online at Google Books ).
  10. ^ Population by nationality group: Linden, Stadt. In: Zensus2011. Bavarian State Office for Statistics , accessed in January 2020 .
  11. ↑ Migration background in%: Linden, city. In: Zensus2011. Bavarian State Office for Statistics , accessed in January 2020 .
  12. ^ Households by family: Linden, city. In: Zensus2011. Bavarian State Office for Statistics , accessed in January 2020 .
  13. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  170 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  179 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  218 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  16. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 32 ( online at google books ).
  17. ^ Local elections 1972; Relevant population of the municipalities on August 4, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No.  33 , p. 1424 , point 1025 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  18. ↑ Local elections 1977; Relevant population figures for the municipalities as of December 15, 1976 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1976 No.  52 , p. 2283 , point 1668 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.3 MB ]).
  19. ^ Local elections 1985; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 30, 1984 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1984 No.  46 , p. 2175 , point 1104 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  20. ↑ local elections 1993; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 21, 1992 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1992 No.  44 , p. 2766 , point 935 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).
  21. ^ Community data sheet : Linden. (PDF; 222 kB) In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agency GmbH ;
  22. ↑ Hessian municipal statistics, Edition 2 2005. Hessian State Statistical Office
  23. ↑ The population of the Hessian communities on June 30, 2010. (PDF; 552 kB) Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, p. 11 , archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  24. ^ Religious affiliation : Linden, city. In: Zensus2011. Bavarian State Office for Statistics , accessed in January 2020 .
  25. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  26. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  27. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  28. ^ City of Linden: Announcement of the final election results. Mayoral election 2012. URL (as of 25 Feb 2012)
  29. ↑ Magistrate of the City of Linden. In: Internet presence of the city of Linden. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  30. ^ Linden on the website of the district of Giessen
  31. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the city of Großen-Linden, district of Gießen from August 4, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 16 , p. 1388 , point 426 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 395 kB ]).
  32. ↑ Historic water house in loan yesterday
  33. ↑ Journal DTS , 1985/10 pp. 14-15