Hausen (Westerwald)

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Hausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 27 ″  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 287  (280-380)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.78 km²
Residents : 1290  (Jan 2012)
Population density : 223 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 65620
Area code : 06436
Aerial view from the east
Aerial view from the east

Hausen ( listen ? / I ) is a district of the municipality of Waldbrunn (Westerwald) in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse . About 1300 inhabitants live in the place. Audio file / audio sample

geography

View of Hausen from the west, with the Heidersberg in the background

Hausen is located in the southern Westerwald , about 19 kilometers north of Limburg an der Lahn , 14 kilometers west of Weilburg and twelve kilometers east of Westerburg . The place is in Hesse on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate .

The adjoining places are, starting from the north in a clockwise direction: Neunkirchen ( Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod ), Fussingen , Lahr , Ellar (Waldbrunn Westerwald municipality), Elbgrund ( Elbtal municipality ), Langendernbach ( Dornburg municipality ). Neunkirchen belongs to the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, the other places to the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse.

The Lasterbach in Hausen

Hausen is located in the Lasterbachtal, above 280 m. ü. NN , surrounded by partially wooded basalt ridges. The Lasterbach flows from Neunkirchen through the village towards Ellar. Below Ellar the stream is called Steinbach and flows into the Elbbach . The highest mountains near Hausen are the Lattendel (413 m above sea level, towards Langendernbach), the Heidersberg (388 m above sea level , towards Fussingen) and the Stöcken (374 m above sea level in the Neunkirchen district). Approx. 3.6 km² of the 5.78 km² area are forested.

geology

The place is in the transition area between the Oberwesterwald and the Limburg Basin in the Oberwesterwald hill country . Geologically, the subsoil consists of Upper Devonian slate , which, however, does not emerge. This layer is about 300 million years old. Tertiary deposits formed over this layer, especially during the Miocene period around 20 million years ago. These essentially consist of basalts and clays , but also lignite , phosphorite , copper ores , pyrite , iron ores and manganese ores . The topsoil is rich in loess .

climate

The annual mean temperature is 7.2 ° C. The mean annual rainfall is around 755 millimeters, which is slightly less than in the Oberwesterwald and significantly higher than in the Limburg Basin . Due to the medium altitude between the Lahn valley and the high Oberwesterwald, there are only a few approx. 40 days of fog.

history

The place lies in a probably pre-Germanic settlement area. During construction work on the Kerkerbachbahn in Fussingen, an urn from around 1000 BC was found. Found. Ceramic shards from the Hallstatt period (level C) around 700 BC were found on Lindenberg near Hausen . Christ found. Finds of the Dornburg and the Heidenhäuschen are known that prove a Celtic settlement during the La Tène period .

Due to the place name Hausen (at the houses) there is a continuous settlement of the place since the Merovingian settlement period around the 6/7. Century.

The first documentary mention comes from March 11, 1278. A Merenberg Hubengericht in Hausen is mentioned in an arbitration award between the County of Diez and the Lordship of Merenberg .

Territorial history and administration

Map from 1828 of the Hadamar Office in the Duchy of Nassau

Hausen belonged to the Cent Lahr of the Office Ellar . Towards the end of the Carolingian era, the office of Ellar belonged to the Niederlahngau of the Duchy of Franconia . The seat of the Central Court of the Lords of Molsberg was Lahr. The court went to the County of Diez as early as the 13th century . The Counts of Diez moved the court to Ellar. This step was directed against the lordship of Westerburg , who, as bailiffs of the Gemünden Monastery, also had bailiwick rights over the parish of Lahr.

From the year 1315 which was centering Lahr pledged to the rule Merenberg. The redemption took place before 1333. In 1337, the County of Diez mortgaged the areas again, this time to the House of Nassau-Hadamar . The redemption took place between 1356 and 1362.

In 1367 the County of Diez ceded the office of Ellar with the Zent Lahr as a dowry to the County of Katzenelnbogen . After the end of the dispute over the succession of the County of Nassau-Hadamar, the Nassau-Dillenburg house received a third of the Ellar office on July 28, 1408 with the arbitration award in Bacharach , the rest remained with the County of Katzenelnbogen.

With the death of Philipp von Katzenelnbogen in 1479, the counts of Katzenelnbogen died out in the male line. There was a long-running dispute between the Counts of Nassau-Dillenburg and the Landgraviate of Hesse . As the closest relative of Philip, Heinrich III. of Hessen-Marburg possession of the Katzenelnbogen inheritance. In 1534 the Hessian landgraves sold half of their share to Kurtrier . The "Frankfurt Treaty" led to a settlement in the Katzenelnbogen succession dispute in 1555. The Office Ellar belonged completely to Nassau-Dillenburg since then.

When the Nassau-Dillenburg estate was divided in 1607, the Ellar office was assigned to the newly founded county of Nassau-Hadamar under Count Johann Ludwig . The Oran-Nassau rulers remained in possession of their lands despite the edict of restitution after Johann Ludwig converted to Catholicism in Vienna in 1630 . In 1650 the county was elevated to a principality. After the extinction of the House of Nassau-Hadamar in 1711, the principality was divided several times between the other Ottonian lines of the House of Nassau. Hausen fell to the House of Nassau-Dillenburg in 1717, from 1739 to House Nassau-Diez , 1742/1743 to the House of Nassau-Siegen (Catholic), and again Nassau-Diez ( Orange-Nassau ) in 1743 as the last Ottonian line.

In 1806 Hausen was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Berg . The place belonged to the Mairie Lahr in the canton Hadamar . This belongs to the arrondissement of Dillenburg and thus to the department of Sieg . After the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the Orange-Nassau sovereignty is restored. The House of Orange-Nassau exchanged its property in the Westerwald with the Kingdom of Prussia for Luxembourg at the Congress of Vienna . The Kingdom of Prussia handed over the territory to the Duchy of Nassau on the same day .

When the offices in the Duchy of Nassau were restructured in 1816, Hausen was added to the Hadamar office. After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau , it belonged again to the Kingdom of Prussia on October 1, 1866. There it belonged to the province of Hessen-Nassau and the administrative district of Wiesbaden . In 1866, the Prussian district and provincial order abolished the Nassau office. Hausen belonged to the Oberlahnkreis and from 1886 to the newly founded Limburg district .

In 1945 the place was assigned to the US-American zone of occupation and thus became part of Hesse. The place belonged to the administrative district Wiesbaden . When it was dissolved in 1968, it became part of the Darmstadt administrative district and in 1981 it became part of Gießen . In 1974 the place became part of the newly created district of Limburg-Weilburg .

On April 1, 1972, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the towns of Lahr, Fussingen and Hausen merged to form the community of Waldbrunn . The name was a compromise of the places involved. On July 1, 1974, the old municipality of Waldbrunn was merged with the municipality of Ellar to form the new municipality of Waldbrunn.

In a letter dated February 28, 1973, the Hessian Interior Minister spoke out against the name Waldbrunn as colorless and unfamiliar. To distinguish it from Waldbrunn (Lower Franconia) , he suggested the name Waldbrunn (Hesse) . The community advocated the name Waldbrunn (Westerwald) . It was finally given this name on January 1, 1977.

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

Church history

Wayside shrine in the center of the village

The place belonged to the center and parish Lahr . The place had a chapel, probably Gothic chapel, which was dedicated to St. Lawrence of Rome .

The Reformation began in the county of Nassau-Dillenburg in 1536. The Counts of Dillenburg prescribed the Lutheran faith. Around 1557, the sovereign Johann VI. from Nassau-Dillenburg to Calvinism , which led to another change of religion.

On April 1, 1576, Eberhard Artopaeus became pastor in Lahr. Initially Lutheran, he later became a staunch Calvinist and the central figure of the Reformation in the parish of Lahr. As a school inspector he worked beyond the boundaries of his parish. Artopaeus founded the parish school in Lahr in 1582. In the building near the church, lessons were held for all children from the parish during the winter months. For the children from Hausen, this meant a journey to school of around 45 minutes.

With the introduction of Calvinism , the celebration of the fair was banned. The population ignored the ban and adhered to traditional customs. The pastor Eberhard Artopaeus noted several times in the chronicle that the residents celebrated and danced despite the ecclesiastical and sovereign ban.

When Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar returned to Catholicism in 1630, Eberhard Artopaeus retired at the age of eighty-eight, after 54 years of service. The Jesuits were charged with carrying out the re-Catholicization .

After the princes of Nassau-Hadamar died out, the residents of Hausen became subjects of the Calvinist princes from other Nassau family branches. Prince Wilhelm IV of Nassau-Diez in particular wanted to promote Calvinism more intensively from 1743 onwards. The residents refuse to change their religion again. They circumvented the baptism ban by baptizing the children in nearby countries.

In 1747 a school was set up in Hausen. Like the school in Lahr, it was a pure winter school, which was also under the supervision of the pastor in Lahr. In the first few years the school was temporarily housed in the teacher's apartment. By 1778 the community had collected enough money to add a classroom to the community bakery. With the school reform in the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1810, the school was handed over to the civil parish and a year-round school was set up.

From the year 1833, the step-by-step separation of the Hauser community from the parish of Lahr began. At the beginning a joint branch with Ellar was established. Ellar became the seat of the chaplain. In 1838 a separate cemetery was designated for Hausen. In 1839 the Expositur was raised to an independent parish. Until the completion of the St. Maximinus Church in Ellar in 1844, services were celebrated in the Hauser Chapel. After the completion, the services were relocated to Ellar. Because of this relocation, the residents of Hausen increasingly called for the separation from Ellar in the late 19th century.

The Sankt Laurentiuskirche

In 1874 the construction of the Laurentiuskirche began in Hausen . On April 24, 1973, the German Emperor Wilhelm I gave the community ten hundredweights of gun bronze for casting church bells. The bronze came from cannons that were captured in the Franco-German War . The consecration of the church was made on September 5, 1900 by Bishop Dominikus Willi . In 1911 the Dernbach sisters founded a branch in Ellar. In the year it was founded, the order established a kindergarten in Hausen on May 15, 1911 , which was attended by 60 children. During the First World War, the church bells were picked up in order to melt them into guns.

The former rectory of the parish Hausen-Fussingen

In 1919 the parish Ellar-Hausen was dissolved and a branch office in Hausen-Fussingen was set up. This was raised to an independent parish with parish seat Hausen on April 1, 1921. In 1921, construction of the rectory next to the Laurentius Church began in Hausen.

On November 1, 1935, Pastor Emil Hurm was transferred from Bad Camberg to the parish of Hausen-Fussingen. He had already been banned from teaching in Bad Camberg because of his position on National Socialism. In Hausen and Fussingen, Hurm was primarily concerned with Catholic youth work. On December 2, 1939, Hurm was arrested by the Secret State Police for his "continually hidden attacks on the party and the movement" and first imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , and from 1940 in Dachau concentration camp . After the Second World War, Hurm was able to return to his parish in Hausen / Fussingen.

A new cemetery was set up in 1968/1969 and is still in use today.

On September 1, 2005, the Catholic parishes of Lahr / Hintermeilingen, Hausen / Fussingen and Ellar were merged to form the pastoral area of ​​Waldbrunn . The pastor's office is the rectory in Lahr. Due to the lack of priests, these three parishes had already been looked after by a pastor.

Economic history

In the Middle Ages, Hausen was between two high streets . In the Middle Ages, the Hohe Straße ran east of the town from Mainz via Limburg to Siegen . The road followed the watershed between the Kerkerbach and the Lasterbach. Presumably, this road was laid out as a royal road during the Carolingian period. To the west of the town, the Alte Landstrasse ran through the forest , one of the connections between Frankfurt and Cologne . With the construction of the new Mainzer Landstrasse (today Bundesstrasse 54) from 1780, these old roads lost their importance.

The population lived mainly from the low yield of agriculture on the rather poor soils. Sheep breeding played an important role for a long time . Agriculture had been organized in the three-field economy since the Middle Ages . The three fields were the "Niederfeld" or "Mühlfeld" towards Ellar, the "Forstfeld" and the "Beilsteiner Feld" towards Fussingen. The location on the Lasterbach made it possible to build numerous mills. The Fruchtmühle Damm-Mühle (also Damenmühle) was first mentioned in a document in 1491. It served as a ban mill for the towns of Hausen, Fussingen and Lahr. An oil mill and two grinding mills are mentioned for the first time in 1612 . In the early 17th century, more than half of the population worked as wool weavers and farmers to improve their earnings.

In the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) economic life came to a standstill. Soldiers marching through caused considerable damage to the population with their looting. The poor supply led to the spread of epidemics. In 1679 Hausen had not yet reached the number of inhabitants who lived there before the war began.

It wasn't until the late 17th century that the economy began to boom. Further fruit mills were built: the birch mill (1691) and the fig mill / Neumühle (1699). A little later, the peddling began. The trade routes stretched from the Rhineland to Saxony and Switzerland . Pottery, linen and clothing were mainly traded. From 1730 the authorities tried to steer this trade in an orderly manner with the “shopkeeping rules for the parishes of Frickhofen and Lahr”.

The real estate division posed a problem for agriculture . With each generation the agricultural land was distributed among all children. On July 22nd, 1780, the Nassau bailiff Muzelius from Ellar reported to the government in Dillenburg: “The fields and meadows have become so fragmented and so small that some of them can no longer find their little property; ... “As a result, extensive land consolidation was carried out in 1781/87 . Following this land consolidation, agriculture switched to the improved three-field economy. Root crops such as beets and potatoes were increasingly grown in the fallow field.

In a census in the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1809, 82 families were counted in Hausen. Of these, 43 were neighbors who lived as full farmers on the yield of their farm, 21 Hawener , half farmers who pursued a craft in addition to agriculture, and 16 families who lived from the craft. The remaining families lived as traders, day laborers and migrant workers.

In the ducal Nassau epoch there was a significant increase in population. Many residents were peddlers . Agriculture could not feed the families. However, with the centennial separation at Christmas 1848, there was a noticeable improvement. In 1854 the Legner and Schäfer families emigrated to America, followed by the Simon family in 1857. With the transition to the Kingdom of Prussia, economic conditions did not change significantly. In 1888, 120 residents were still making a living as peddlers.

A modest economic boom began in 1900 with the opening of the first basalt quarry. This existed until 1925/26. After an interruption due to the First World War , a second quarry was opened in 1924, which only existed until 1928. In the 1920s, more and more residents used the better transport connections and commuted to the Rhineland and the Ruhr area as construction workers . At times there were bus connections to Cologne and Düsseldorf . Also the continued tourism one as a source of income, however, came with the beginning of World War II again to a standstill.

In the years 1957–63 there was a land consolidation and extensive drainage work in the fields. The practiced three-field economy was replaced by the crop rotation economy .

The general economic upswing was combined with a renewed revival of tourism. A traffic and beautification association started its activity in 1958. On October 30, 1968, Hausen was the first place in the later municipality of Waldbrunn to be awarded the title of a state-recognized resort . In 1980 he joined the Ferienland Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus initiative . On October 24, 1984, all parts of the community of Waldbrunn were given the title of state-recognized health resort . The advancing technical development led to a gradual departure from agriculture. The commuter movement increasingly shifted to the Rhine-Main area .

Local history

Little is known about the events in the village from before the 17th century.

When the dynasty died out, the Hubengericht, mentioned in 1278, went to the House of Nassau-Weilburg, who only sold it to the House of Orange-Nassau in 1773.

The comparison between Nassau-Dillenburg and the County of Katzenelnbogen on October 2, 1408 determined the boundaries of the castle peace of Ellar Castle . This area extended to the corridor "Hauser Struth" an area on the boundary of Hausen, Ellar and Fussingen.

In the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) the village was almost destroyed. Other places in the neighborhood disappeared from the map. In 1619 Bavarian and Habsburg soldiers looted the place. In 1622/23 the troops took Imperial General Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly winter quarters in the Westerwald. Holstein troops were housed in the office of Ellar . In 1624 the place was sacked again by imperial troops . In 1627 the plague raged among the starving population. In 1628/29 soldiers of the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , whose headquarters were in Runkel, plundered the locations of the Office Ellar. In 1632/33 there was severe devastation by Swedish troops. The soldiers robbed all of the horses and all of the cattle. As a result, the plague broke out again in 1636 among the suffering population. During the years 1633-1636, a hospice for plague victims was in the "Hauser Struth" Zent Lahr built. In 1640 the Swedish troops took up quarters in the Amt Ellar. There were two soldiers for every inhabitant. In 1646 the place was sacked again by imperial troops.

In 1736 the Hauser farmers took part in the "lace dispute", an uprising against the new sovereign in Dillenburg. The cause was the war tax that Prince Christian von Nassau-Dillenburg had imposed on the villages. The farmers chased the seizure officers out of the villages. About 1,600 farmers gathered for an army camp at the Seeweiher near Mengerskirchen. The peasants brought the Franciscan Cornelius from Hadamar as field preacher. The peasants had brought cattle and movable property to other rulers across the nearby borders. There were isolated clashes between the farmers and soldiers from Dillenburg as well as soldiers from Weilburg who had rushed to reinforce them. At the same time, the farmers called the Reich Chamber of Commerce . On June 13, 1736, however, the court confirmed Prince Christian von Nassau-Dillenburg's rights and sentenced the farmers to a fine. Prince Christian von Nassau-Dillenburg had to ask the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg for help to enforce the sentence.

During the coalition wars, from 1794 on, troops marched and billeted again. In 1795 French troops looted the places in the Amt Ellar. Two people from Hausen were doing French military service. During the affiliation to the Grand Duchy of Berg, numerous new legal systems came into being. The ban on thatched roofs in 1810 had the greatest impact on the townscape. This regulation should prevent the fire from spreading to other buildings in the event of a fire.

The school chronicle, which has been kept since 1819, provides an overview of the events during the membership in the Duchy of Nassau. In 1824 the place was hit by a flood of the Lasterbach which caused considerable damage. In 1826 a new bakery and school house was built after the previous one had become very dilapidated. In 1844 the church choir St. Cäcilia was mentioned for the first time. On June 14, 1848, several buildings burned down as a result of a lightning strike.

In October 1848 the German Revolution reached the Westerwald. After initial tumult and tax refusals, open resistance broke out when the military tried to seize the taxes. In the widespread riots on February 5, 1849 in Hadamar, citizens from Hausen probably also took part.

The stately building of the Müllersmühle is one of the most striking preserved buildings of the 19th century in the village

With the construction of a 1900 gulden water pipe from the gold fountain to the village in 1859, the water supply was decisively improved. In 1861 the community used 1,100 guilders to build a new syringe house and purchase a fire engine . In 1866 the municipality of Hausen acquired a building in which a new teacher's apartment was furnished until 1874. The building was demolished in 1963 during road works.

In 1902 the stone Lasterbach Bridge was built. In 1904 a post office opened in Hausen. In the same year the community installed three street lamps in the center of the village . With the opening of the Fussing station of the Kerkerbachbahn in 1908, residents had access to the railway network. On February 3, 1909, a flood of the Lasterbach caused considerable damage. In 1911 a nationwide water supply was established for most of the houses. The kindergarten opened in the same year.

During the First World War, eleven French prisoners of war were used as harvest workers in Hausen. In the hostilities of the First World War, 27 residents died in combat operations. After the First World War, according to the Versailles Peace Treaty , Hausen was right on the border of the demilitarized strip of the Rhineland. Troops of the German Reichswehr were stationed here from 1919 to 1924. In Hundsangen to American troops was in Diez and Limburg to French troops were located.

In 1923 the power grid was built in Hausen . In the same year construction work began to raise the steeples of the Hauser Church. The work took place during the peak of hyperinflation . The community spent 30 million marks on the work of the masons . She was able to sell the wood of the scaffolding for 250 million marks after the construction work was completed. 400 million marks were spent on the two new bells and the Reichsbahn finally charged 2.5 billion marks for the return of transport boxes.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 the district administration put the district Limburg Gerhard von Breitenbach from the Hauser Mayor Pistor, although he deliberately so that violated applicable Prussian law. The last free Reichstag elections in Hausen brought the following result:

Parties and constituencies %
November 6, 1932 		Voices
November 6, 1932 		%
March 5, 1933 		Seats
March 5, 1933
center German Center Party 79.9 346 83.9 386
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 2.8 12 3.5 16
NSDAP National-socialist German Workers' Party 4.6 20th 4.2 19th
KPD Communist Party of Germany 12.7 55 8.0 37
Otherwise. Other parties 0.0 - 0.4 2
total 100.0 274 100.0 275
Cenotaph for those who fell in the world wars next to the church

During the time of National Socialist rule, the associations in the village were either aligned or stopped working. In September 1936 Hausen was in an extensive maneuver area . During the Second World War , British bombers dropped 7 high-explosive bombs over Ellar on August 29, 1941, some of which fell in the Hauser district. A total of 49 residents were killed in World War II and 13 residents were reported missing.

After the Second World War, numerous construction works were carried out by the community of Hausen. As early as 1946, the regulation of the Lasterbach began. The work dragged on until 1958. In 1954 a new school building was built. Between 1959 and 1961 the sewer system was built . Up until this point in time, the sewage was drained openly through the streets. Until 1963, most of the streets in the village had an asphalt surface layer .

The proportion of the population displaced was 10% in 1961 and was lower than in the Limburg district as a whole (19%). Most of the expellees came from what was then Czechoslovakia .

The most important public construction works since it became part of the Waldbrunn Westerwald community were the multi-purpose hall (inauguration on July 15, 1978), the kindergarten (1991), the new fire station (1992) and the central sewage treatment plant for Hausen and Ellar (1994).

population

Population development

 Source:

year households
1489 12
1512 9
1608 18th
1612 27
1624 23
1679 23
year households
1751 46
1804 70
1820 102
1840 133
1851 155
1866 178
Hausen: Population from 1603 to 2005
year     Residents
1603
  
 128
1751
  
 285
1789
  
 336
1810
  
 410
1830
  
 465
1834
  
 495
1840
  
 503
1846
  
 559
1852
  
 588
1858
  
 616
1864
  
 653
1871
  
 658
1875
  
 659
1885
  
 704
1895
  
 606
1905
  
 619
1910
  
 645
1925
  
 737
1939
  
 703
1946
  
 919
1950
  
 903
1956
  
 820
1961
  
 906
1967
  
 974
1970
  
 1.102
1986
  
 1,173
2005
  
 1,409
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 3 Protestant (= 0.43%), 691 Catholic (= 98.15%), 10 Jewish (= 1.42%) residents
• 1961: 40 Protestant (= 4.42%), 855 Catholic (= 94.37%) residents

religion

The predominant religion is Roman Catholic. About 68% of the population belong to this belief. With the carol singers and the Corpus Christi procession, the community in the village has an impact beyond the church. Numerous wayside shrines and crosses characterize the townscape and the district.

About 18% of the population belong to the Protestant church . The next Protestant church is in Neunkirchen. Around 14% of the population belong to other religious groups or are non-denominational.

politics

In elections to the German Bundestag, the place belongs to the Bundestag constituency Rheingau-Taunus - Limburg . For elections to the parliament of Hesse for Limburg-Weilburg I .

Local advisory board

With the territorial reform, the municipal administration was transferred to the municipality of Waldbrunn (Westerwald). A local advisory board consists of five members. At the head of the local advisory board is the mayor Rüdiger Zeiler (2007). The local advisory board has the right to make suggestions and to be heard vis-à-vis the municipal council in matters relating to the locality.

The election of the local advisory board is based on the Hessian municipal electoral law . This provides for cumulation and variegation . The next local election will take place in 2016. The local elections on March 27, 2011 produced the following results for the local council:

Parties and constituencies Seats
2011 		Seats
2006 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 2 2 2
FOAG Waldbrunn Citizens List 3 2 2
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 0 1 1
total 5 5 5

The proportion of foreigners is five percent. The largest foreign population group comes from Turkey .

Culture and sights

societies

Fire station of the volunteer fire brigade

The cultural life of the village is carried out by the associations. Club life is shaped by the traditional Catholic milieu. There are clubs like the " DJK Sportgemeinschaft " (founded in 1914), the " Kath. Frauengemeinschaft "(founded in 1935) or the" Catholic Workers Movement "(founded in 1947), or those in town. The church choir "St. Cäcilia" has been active since 1844. The men's choir "Eintracht" was founded in 1930.

The Hausen Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded in 1913. The Hausen youth fire brigade has existed since September 1, 1972 .

Sports

The place has an artificial football pitch. Several clubs like TuS DJK Blau-Weiß e. V. (founded April 29, 1914) and the table tennis club (founded 1975) organize a sporting program. In 1966 the TuS footballers founded a game community together with the Rot Weiß Fussingen sports club. In 2003 the Turn und Sportverein e. V. Lahr joined the syndicate called SG Hausen / Fussingen / Lahr . In April 2006 she joined the newly founded FC Waldbrunn 2016 e. V. on. Their first soccer team currently plays in the soccer association league Hessen Mitte.

Natural monuments

The Basaltblockmeer Wildweiber Church is a striking rock formation in the forest west of Hausen.

Regular events

The most important festival in the village is the fair on the 2nd weekend in August.

The event Waldbrunn on the Road / Waldbrunn uf de Baa has been held annually since 2002 . The streets in Waldbrunn and the neighboring towns are closed to motor vehicle traffic for cycling, hiking and skating days. The event is accompanied by an extensive supporting program.

Culinary specialties

The local dishes include: B. the pan . These are baked eggs with bacon, blood and liver sausage. The dip cake made from grated potatoes with diced ham and fried eggs is also a traditional dish, as a side dish it is consumed with Äppelmok ( apple sauce ). Another traditional dish is egg cheese , a dessert made from cracked eggs with milk and sugar, which requires special dishes to be prepared with the egg cheese strainer.

Traditional drinks are cider and corn brandy . Meanwhile, however, beer has the predominant importance. As in other places, brocksel was prepared on New Year's Eve . A dish made from gingerbread, brown rock candy and Dauborn corn brandy.

Buildings

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Waldbrunn-Hausen

Laurentiuskirche

The Laurentius Church in Hausen (built 1871/72)

The Catholic Laurentiuskirche was built in the neo-Romanesque style in 1871/72 . The consecration of the church took place on September 5, 1900. The towers of the church were raised in 1923. The location of the church does not correspond to the location of the Gothic Laurentius Chapel.

What is striking about the church is the double tower facade, which is rather rare in village churches in the region . The nave of the church has a central nave with two aisles. The nave has a length of 18.00 meters and a clear width of 13.00 meters. The central nave has a clear height of 10.30 meters. The aisles have a height of 5.50 meters. After extensive renovation, the interior of the church was redesigned in 1958 by the artist Paul Grimm . Inside the church are the side altars “Last Supper” and “Assumption of Mary”, which were made in 1780 for Limburg Cathedral .

Economy and Infrastructure

The village community center in the center of the village
The building of today's primary school

The local craft and service businesses exist. Most of the employed commute to Limburg and the Rhine-Main area . Since 1913, the Hausen volunteer fire brigade (from September 1, 1972 with the youth fire brigade) has been providing defensive fire protection and general help in this area.

There is a village community center in Langstrasse and children's playgrounds.

traffic

There are no highways through the town. The connection points to the federal highway 49 are in Obertiefenbach and near Merenberg. The next connection point to the federal highway 54 is in Langendernbach.

There are regular bus routes to Limburg an der Lahn, Hadamar and Mengerskirchen. The distance to Frankfurt Airport is around 80 km.

The place has an extensive network of signposted hiking trails.

education

There is a Catholic kindergarten in Hausen. The place has a primary school , which is also attended by students from Fussingen. The Westerwaldschule in Waldernbach serves as the secondary and secondary school . The next grammar school is in Hadamar, and secondary schools in Limburg an der Lahn are also attended.

Personalities

literature

  • Hermann-Josef Hucke (Ed.): Great Westerwaldführer . 3. Edition. Westerwald-Verein e. V., Montabaur 1991, ISBN 3-921548-04-7 .
  • Hellmuth Gensicke: State history of the Westerwald . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 .
  • Walter Rudersdorf : In the shadow of Ellar Castle . Ed .: Municipality of Ellar / Westerwald. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • Walter Rudersdorf: Waldbrunn / Westerwald - From farming village to climatic health resort . Ed .: Community of Waldbrunn Westerwald. Geiger-Verlag, Horb 1986, ISBN 3-89264-015-7 .

Web links

Commons : Hausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inhabitants of Waldbrunn Westerwald HW ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 20 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 369, 370 and 384 .
  3. ↑ a b c Hausen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 23, 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. ^ Armin M. Kuhnigk: The 1848 Revolution in the Province . 2nd Edition. Camberger Verlag Lange, Camberg 1980, ISBN 3-87460-028-9 .
  6. ^ A b Walter Rudersdorf: Waldbrunn / Westerwald. From farming village to climatic health resort . Ed .: Community of Waldbrunn Westerwald. 1st edition. Geiger-Verlag, Horb 1986, ISBN 3-89264-015-7 .
  7. ↑ Rules of Procedure of the local advisory board (accessed September 21, 2007; PDF; 60 kB)
  8. ↑ Population statistics ( memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 20 kB) of the community of Waldbrunn (Westerwald) (as of January 2012)