Hadamar

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Hadamar
Map of Germany, position of the city of Hadamar highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '  N , 8 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : to water
County : Limburg-Weilburg
Height : 129 m above sea level NHN
Area : 40.99 km 2
Residents: 12,528 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 306 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 65589
Area code : 06433
License plate : LM, WEL
Community key : 06 5 33 007
LOCODE : DE HAD
City structure: 6 districts

City administration address : 		Untermarkt 1
65589 Hadamar
Website : www.hadamar.de
Mayor : Michael Ruoff ( CDU )
Location of the town of Hadamar in the Limburg-Weilburg district
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Hadamar is a town in the Limburg-Weilburg district in central Hesse .

It borders on the district town of Limburg an der Lahn and lies between Cologne and Frankfurt am Main on the southern edge of the Westerwald am Elbbach at an altitude of 120 to 390  m above sea level. NN .

Hadamar is also known for the Vitos Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Hadamar , located on the outskirts, with the Hadamar Memorial in the outbuildings . It commemorates the murder of people with disabilities and mental illnesses during the Nazi era in the Hadamar Sanatorium, which was used as a killing facility .

geography

View of the city center from Mönchberg to the east

Neighboring communities

Hadamar borders in the north on the communities Dornburg , Elbtal and Waldbrunn , in the east on the community Beselich , in the south on the city Limburg and the community Elz (all in the district Limburg-Weilburg), and in the west on the community Hundsangen (in the Westerwald district in Rhineland-Palatinate ).

geology

The lower soil layers in the Hadamar area consist of weathered basalt, scarf stone, diabase and slate. They are covered with thick layers of loess .

climate

The annual precipitation is 739 mm and is therefore comparatively normal, as it falls in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 49% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in December. In December there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in February. The precipitation hardly varies and is very evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only six percent of the measuring stations.

Precipitation diagram

Forest

Aerial view of the forest between Hadamar-Niederhadamar, Elz-Malmeneich and Hundsangen

Hadamar City has 612 hectares of forest holdings. The largest part of this area is located in the area of ​​the Niederhadamar district with almost 206 hectares, followed by Niederzeuzheim with 179 hectares, Steinbach with almost 91, Oberzeuzheim with 72, Oberweyer with 35 and the city center with almost 30 hectares. The forest in the Hadamar district belongs to the "Northern Limburg Basin" growth area. The tree species in urban forests are divided into 38 percent beech, 26 percent spruce, 17 percent oak, 13 percent other hardwood species, three percent pine, two percent Douglas fir and one percent larch.

City structure

The city consists of six official districts.

district Inhabitants
1910		 Residents
today		 Area
in km²		 Population density
inhabitants / km²
Hadamar (core city) 2,735 3,649 7.54 483.9
Niederhadamar (to the core city) 1,193 3,959 8.5 465.7
Faulbach (to the city center) 138 148 * *
Niederweyer 132 203 1.36 149.3
Niederzeuzheim 877 1,456 7.65 190.3
Oberzeuzheim 673 1,267 6.61 191.7
Steinbach 641 1,257 6.15 204.4
Oberweyer 560 859 4.16 206.5
Hadamar city as a whole 6,811 12,798 40.99 312.2

* The information on the area and population density of Faulbach are contained in those of the core city.

  • Wendelin Bridge in Niederhadamar

  • Brunnenplatz in Niederzeuzheim

  • Pilgrimage site Seven Pains - Seven Wounds in Oberzeuzheim

  • Emergency Chapel in Steinbach

  • Parish church St. Leonhard in Oberweyer

  • Chapel in Niederweyer

  • Chapel in Faulbach

  • Hadamar Castle

history

Hadamar Town Hall, built in 1639

The name of the city itself was first mentioned as Hatimer in 832 in a Carolingian barter. The city first became more important in 1320, when Count Emich founded the older line of the House of Nassau-Hadamar and had a moated castle built on the basis of a former Cistercian monastery . In 1324 Hadamar received city ​​rights and shortly thereafter a city ​​wall . After the older Nassau-Hadamar line died out in 1394, inheritance disputes and division of the city between the House of Nassau and other noble houses followed. On March 14, 1540 there was a devastating fire disaster. The entire city burned down except for three houses.

Hadamar Memorial Memorial
South wing of the castle

A comprehensive urban redevelopment followed under the count, later prince, Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar (1590-1653), who founded the younger line of the house of Nassau-Hadamar and made Hadamar his residence. Above all, the old moated castle was expanded into a baroque palace and several Catholic orders were settled. Among them was the Jesuit order , which laid the foundation for the supra-local importance of Hadamar as a school location with its monastery and grammar school. With the "Hadamar Baroque" a variant of this cultural epoch developed in the residential city that was significant beyond the local area.

With Johann Ludwig's grandson Franz Alexander, the younger Nassau-Hadamar line died out in 1711. A dispute over the legacy ensued between the numerous branches of the House of Nassau, from which Nassau-Diez emerged victorious. Hadamar remained the center for the administration of several municipalities in the surrounding area. In 1815 the city became part of the Duchy of Nassau and in 1866 of Prussia. In 1870 the city was connected to the railroad.

The psychiatric hospital founded in 1883 became the Nazi extermination center Hadamar from 1941 , in which an estimated at least 14,494 handicapped, mentally ill, so-called “half-Jews” and “Eastern workers” were murdered. Today a memorial commemorates these crimes.

Aided by the settlement of some German-speaking refugee families from the Sudetenland after the Second World War , the nationally known Erwin Stein Glass School was established.

Incorporations

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent communities Niederweyer, Niederzeuzheim, Oberweyer, Oberzeuzheim and Steinbach were incorporated.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1566: 0055 houses
• 1644: 0075 citizens and 44 sojourners
• 1793: 0272 houses
• 1950: 6003 inhabitants (of which 1207 refugees)
Hadamar: Population from 1810 to 2015
year     Residents
1810
  
 1,481
1817
  
 1,486
1819
  
 1,374
1829
  
 1,878
1834
  
 3,072
1840
  
 3,312
1846
  
 3,486
1852
  
 3,538
1858
  
 3,524
1864
  
 3,627
1871
  
 3,371
1875
  
 3,340
1885
  
 3,595
1895
  
 3,497
1905
  
 3,723
1910
  
 4,067
1925
  
 4,397
1939
  
 4,375
1946
  
 5,426
1950
  
 6.003
1956
  
 6.007
1961
  
 5,905
1967
  
 6.319
1970
  
 6,419
1972
  
 10,867
1976
  
 10,428
1984
  
 10,746
1992
  
 11,037
2000
  
 12,300
2010
  
 12,210
2015
  
 12,400
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, 2015 :; 2010:
The figures from 1972 also include the incorporated places after the regional reform in Hesse .

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 448 Protestant (= 19.01%), 1803 Catholic (= 76.50%) and 106 Jewish (= 4.50%) residents
• 1961: 984 Protestant (= 16.66%), 4858 Roman Catholic (= 82.05%) residents

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
8th
15th
8th
6th
8th 15th 8th 6th 
A total of 37 seats
  • SPD : 8
  • CDU : 15
  • FW : 8
  • WfH : 6
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 40.7 15th 42.9 16 37.0 14th 50.6 19th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 20.5 8th 21.0 8th 17.3 6th 29.7 11
FWG Hadamar Free Community of Voters 22.5 8th 20.1 7th 23.6 9 19.7 7th
WfH We for Hadamar 16.3 6th 12.5 5 22.1 8th - -
FDP Free Democratic Party - - 2.1 1 - - - -
THE LEFT The left - - 1.3 0 - - - -
total 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 44.9% 43.4% 44.5% 48.0%
Portal of the town hall

mayor

Michael Ruoff (CDU) was re-elected in June 2015.

City arms

Blazon : In blue two crossed silver swords with gold hilt and gold quillons accompanied by four floating silver crosses.

Reason : The Hadamar city coat of arms comes from a seal that was used in the city of Hadamar and the Hadamar region as early as the end of the 15th century. The crosses in the coat of arms are to be interpreted as symbols of peace and the crossing swords as symbols of power.

Sculpture on Bellerive Square

Town twinning

In October 1973 the twinning with the French city of Bellerive-sur-Allier was sealed by signing and presenting the sisterhood certificate. They solemnly vowed to maintain the permanent ties between the city administrations of both cities, to support the exchange of their inhabitants in all areas and to promote the vigilant feeling of European fraternity and to contribute to European unity through better mutual understanding.

Since 1991 there has been a partnership with the Italian city of Impruneta near Florence.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Numerous half-timbered buildings have been preserved in the old town , including the town hall (built in 1639) and the Jesuit boarding school (early 17th century) at the Limburg gate.

Several churches were built in Hadamar. The Gothic Church of Our Lady on the Elbbach was built before 1376 as a Gothic hall church and served as the town church until 1818. It was also the destination of a lively pilgrimage to Mary . The Gothic interior was destroyed or sold during the Reformation. In 1738 today's main altar was created in the baroque sculpture school of the princely city. The "Marienglocke", which rings out in the tower of the Liebfrauenkirche, dates from 1451 and is one of the oldest bells in Germany that is still in use. The current baroque town church of St. Johannes Nepomuk is part of the Jesuit residence (built in 1756/58). The castle church in the east wing of the castle has been the church of the Evangelical parish of Hadamar since 1791.

The Aegidienkirche on the Mönchsberg was part of the Franciscan monastery from 1632 to 1816. 31 members of the Nassau-Hadamar family are buried there. Above the old town is the baroque Herzenberg chapel (built around 1676), in which the hearts of the Hadamar princes are buried. All churches are elaborately designed in the Hadamar Baroque style.

The synagogue building has also been preserved. Today the building houses a permanent exhibition on Jewish life.

On the edge of the old town, directly on the Elbbach, is the former Nassau residence, Hadamar Castle , in whose stables the city museum is housed. Two old bridges, the Stone Bridge and the St. Wendelin Bridge, have been preserved in the Hadamar area .

The imposing Konvikt building, visible from afar, towers over the city .

  • Liebfrauenkirche, portal side

  • Aegidia Church

  • Former synagogue

  • The Herzenberg Chapel

Parks

A rose garden was laid out at the Herzenberg chapel. Around 2,000 rose bushes of over 160 different varieties are planted on an area of ​​around 3,000 m².

Economy and Infrastructure

Aerial view of the city center from the west. In the upper left corner of the picture a part of the Galgenberg can be seen, in the middle of the upper picture edge Faulbach, in the left front picture corner the psychiatric clinic.

Hadamar is shaped by its history as an administrative center. There are no larger industrial companies. The largest employer in the city is the Center for Social Psychiatry, a psychiatric hospital of the State Welfare Association of Hesse on the Mönchberg.

traffic

The city of Hadamar is located on the federal highway 54 from Siegen to Wiesbaden .

Hadamar is located on the Oberwesterwaldbahn with the stations Niederhadamar, Hadamar and Niederzeuzheim, which are served by the trains of the regional train line RB 90 ("Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn") of the Hessian State Railway. Of Limburg an der Lahn cities are Koblenz , Frankfurt and Wiesbaden can be reached directly from Au from Cologne .

education

Portal of the musical boarding school of the Limburger Domsingknaben

There are five primary schools in the city of Hadamar: One each in Hadamar, Niederhadamar, Niederzeuzheim, Oberzeuzheim and Steinbach.

The further Fürst-Johann-Ludwig-Schule functions as a cooperative comprehensive school with main , secondary and high school branches . The catchment area of ​​the Fürst-Johann-Ludwig-Schule extends far beyond the city of Hadamar, as it is one of the largest cooperative schools in Hesse.

Hadamar is also a center for glazier training . The Federal Technical School of the Glazier Trade and the Erwin-Stein School (State Glass Technical School) are located here. The Erwin Stein School is named after Erwin Stein , one of the fathers of the Hessian state constitution. Since 2010, the St. Anna Health Center has housed a vocational school for nursing professions.

Hadamar is the seat of the musical boarding school, the educational establishment of the Limburg Cathedral Boys' Choir .

The educational institutes Wetzlar-Lahn-Dill-Eder and Limburg, based in Hadamar, are two of the nine district educational institutes of the Limburg diocesan educational institute .

Facilities

  • Catholic day care center Marienfried Hadamar
  • Catholic daycare / family center St. Ursula Niederhadamar
  • Ev. Theodor Fliedner Niederhadamar daycare center
  • Catholic day care center St. Petrus Niederzeuzheim
  • Catholic day care center St. Antonius Oberzeuzheim
  • Catholic day care center Maria Heimsuchung Steinbach
  • Catholic day care center St. Leonhard Oberweyer
  • Crèche Krabbelstube Bimsalasim Niederhadamar
  • Intercommunal day care center Villa Musica Hadamar
  • Hadamar volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1869 (with youth fire brigade since February 28, 1978 )
  • Niederhadamar volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1902 (with youth fire brigade since March 1, 1973)
  • Niederzeuzheim volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1921 (since January 1, 1970 with youth fire brigade and since April 4, 2009 with children's fire brigade )
  • Oberweyer volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1928 (since May 1, 1975 with youth fire brigade)
  • Voluntary fire brigade Oberzeuzheim, founded in 1929 (since 1970 with music department and since September 1, 1975 with youth fire brigade)
  • Steinbach volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1913 (with youth fire brigade since June 14, 1980)
  • Social center of the workers' welfare
  • St. Anna health center with retirement home, nursing school and various medical practices in the building of the former hospital

societies

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Prince Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar
Bishop Joseph Weyland
Claudia Salman-Rath

Personalities who worked in Hadamar

  • Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar (1590–1653), regent, imperial plenipotentiary and signatory of the peace treaty for the Peace of Westphalia
  • Carl Wirth (1810–1880), President of the Nassau state parliament and bailiff in Hadamar
  • Ernst Moritz Engert (1892–1986), silhouette artist and painter
  • Erhard Theodor Astler (1914–1998), painter, graphic artist and draftsman; Lecturer at Hadamar School of Glass
  • Ludwig Wollenheit (* 1915), German painter and draftsman; Lecturer at Hadamar School of Glass
  • Josef Welzel (1927–2014), German experimental archaeologist and glass artist
  • Hermann Bellinger (* 1926), honorary citizen and honorary mayor

Other personalities

  • Anke Olschewski (* 1962), table tennis player, lives in Hadamar
  • Rea Garvey (* 1973), Irish singer and guitarist, lives next to Berlin with his wife in their home town Hadamar

See also

  • Hadamar Higher Appeal Court , between 1804 and 1806 the joint Higher Appeal Court of the Nassau principalities with its seat in Hadamar

literature

  • Karl Josef Stahl: Hadamar town and castle. A home story. Hadamar City Council, 1974.
  • Jürgen Lanio: Hadamar residence city of the princes of Nassau-Hadamar. Horb am Neckar, Geiger, 2011.
  • Literature about Hadamar in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Hadamar  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Hadamar in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Hadamar  - travel guide

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. ^ Website of the memorial .
  3. ↑ Matthias Meusch: Hadamar. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 521.
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 369 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Hadamar, Limburg-Weilburg district. 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. ^ 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 ]).
  8. ↑ 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 ]).
  9. ^ 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 ]).
  10. ↑ 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 ]).
  11. ^ Parish data sheet : Hadamar. (PDF; 222 kB) In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agentur GmbH , accessed on February 20, 2018 .
  12. ↑ 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 5, 2018 .
  13. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  14. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  15. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  16. ↑ "Michael Ruoff gets 70 percent in Hadamar" in "Nassauische Neue Presse" from May 10, 2015.