Seelbach (Haiger)

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Seelbach
City of Haiger
Haigerseelbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 321  (290-540)  m
Area : 7.9 km²
Residents : 1157  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 147 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 35708
Area code : 02773
Haiger-Seelbach from above
Haiger-Seelbach from above

Seelbach or Haigerseelbach is a district of Haiger in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .

geography

The place is in the border triangle of Hesse / North Rhine-Westphalia / Rhineland-Palatinate .

The Seelbach district has an area of ​​789.52 hectares. The high proportion of forest is characteristic of the surrounding area. Particularly noteworthy is the "State Forest Kalteiche", which is located on the Kalteiche (579.3 m). The following message can be found in the village and house book: “In 1901, the community forest of Seelbach was around 145 hectares in size. The state forest Kalteiche lies at an altitude of 430 to 579.3 m with around 283 ha = 23.5% in the community of Seelbach. ”The Treisbach flows through the village .

history

Seelbach was first mentioned historically in a document dated May 2, 1313. In 1327 Heinrich I, Count of Nassau, acquired control of Seelbach by buying it. In 1769 there was a major fire in which the entire village but three houses burned down.

In 1908 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. Before that there was already a compulsory fire brigade. A modern school was inaugurated in 1914, but since 1982 all school children have had to go to Haiger. In 1921 electricity came to Seelbach. In 1971 a new community center was completed after the old multi-purpose church was demolished because of its dilapidation.

In 1957, Seelbach was the state winner in " Our village should be more beautiful ", and in 1981 Seelbach received the bronze plaque in Berlin .

Territorial reform

Until the regional reform in Hesse , the place was a politically independent municipality, which was named Haigerseelbach to distinguish it from other places called Seelbach and in particular Herbornseelbach, which is about 14 km away . The incorporation through the law for the reorganization of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen to Haiger took place on January 1st, 1977. A local district was not established for Seelbach.

Territorial history and administration

Haiger-Seelbach from the Hattenberg

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

population

Population development

Haigerseelbach: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 394
1840
  
 418
1846
  
 411
1852
  
 399
1858
  
 400
1864
  
 390
1871
  
 362
1875
  
 360
1885
  
 330
1895
  
 364
1905
  
 383
1910
  
 388
1925
  
 438
1939
  
 469
1946
  
 623
1950
  
 640
1956
  
 633
1961
  
 669
1967
  
 747
1970
  
 836
1985
  
 ?
2005
  
 1,270
2008
  
 1,248
2017
  
 1,157
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: City of Haiger

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 260 Protestant (= 78.79%), no Catholic and 70 other (= 21.21%) Christians
• 1961: 586 Protestant (= 87.59%) and 76 Catholic (= 11.36%) residents
• 2005: 752 Protestant (= 59.21%), 112 Catholic (= 8.82%) and 442 other (= 34.80%) residents

Former mines

See list of mines in Haiger

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Seelbach shows the bloodroot plant . This symbol can be found on a New Year's iron from 1711. The coat of arms was approved in March 1974 and published in the State Gazette of March 8, 1974: "In blue a golden ring, inside a golden flower."

Culture and sights

The painting "Haigerseelbach" by Arnold Franz. Exhibited in the village community center in Haigerseelbach.

Sports club

  • SSV 1920 Haigerseelbach eV

The linen museum

The old town hall of the village houses a complete collection on the subject of linen on the first floor . The path from sowing the flax to the finished sewn and ironed piece of laundry is shown. In the attic, the elegant side of the flax is shown, the finest lace made of linen, silk and cotton yarn, handcrafted.

The cheek

The last bakery that was in operation is on the ground floor of the old town hall in the center of the village. Today it is used once a year by the association for village and landscape maintenance at the big Backesfest. There are two ovens here. In the past, the large one was used regularly, while the small one was only used on festive days.

Bronze plaque "Our village should be more beautiful"

In 1982 Seelbach was presented with the bronze plaque for the national competition " Our village should be more beautiful ". Of the 5082 originally participating municipalities in the Federal Republic of Germany, Seelbach was one of the 32 selected winners. In addition, the State Secretary and later Hessian State Development Minister Jörg Jordan awarded the village a large bronze plaque for long-term, successful participation in the village beautification competition. This bronze plaque can still be seen today on Wilhelmsplatz, where it was mounted on a boulder.

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Haiger-Seelbach

Natural monuments

See the list of natural monuments in Haiger-Seelbach

traffic

The easiest way to get to Seelbach is via the BAB 45 (Sauerland line) exit Haiger / Burbach .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Area by district. In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; accessed in March 2018 .
  2. ↑ Population statistics . (PDF) In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on March 25, 2018 ; accessed in March 2018 .
  3. ↑ 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 ., § 25 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ↑ a b c Haigerseelbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ↑ HHStAW inventory 360/187: affiliation of Haiger  In: archive information system Hesse (Arcinsys Hessen).
  7. ↑ a b Population figures 2005. In: Website. City of Haiger, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .

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