Heckholzhausen

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Heckholzhausen
Beselich municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 6 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 208  (206-294)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.7 km²
Residents : 996  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 175 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 65614
Area code : 06484

Heckholzhausen is one of four districts in the municipality of Beselich in the Limburg-Weilburg district in central Hesse . The place has over 900 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

Heckholzhausen is located on the northeastern edge of the Limburg basin , on the edge of the Lahn valley and on the southeast slope of the Westerwald in central Hesse . The Beselicher Kopf (296 m above sea level), which is located in a southerly direction, is visible from afar. Heckholzhausen is centrally located in the valley of the Kerkerbach in the Limburg-Weilburg district (Hesse).

Neighboring places

In the north: Merenberg and Allendorf

In the south: Obertiefenbach and Schupbach

In the west: Lahr and Hintermeilingen (both places in the municipality of Waldbrunn ).

history

Reconstructed cross-section through a barrow near Heckholzhausen
The locomotive manufactured by the Borsig company in 1901 is a memorial for the Kerkerbach Railway in Heckholzhausen.

Several barrows were discovered near the Heckholzhäuser sports field in the direction of Merenberg, which can be assigned to the transition from the Hallstatt period to the La Tène period . Due to the part of the name -hausen (at the houses) there is a continuous settlement of the place since the Merovingian settlement period around the 6./7. Century.

Heckholzhausen was first mentioned in a document in 879 as Holzhausen . The reason for the mention was a donation of three Mansus Lands with which Count Gebhard im Lahngau endowed the St. Severus Abbey in Gemünden in the Westerwald, which he had founded . To distinguish it from other places with the same name, the name was later prefixed with "Heck–".

In the 13th century was in Heckholzhausen the castle Heckholzhausen the noble family contactor von Holzhausen built. This castle was already in ruins by the 16th century. In the 14th century, the Counts of Nassau-Hadamar had a farm in Heckholzhausen. From 1709 a fair is guaranteed, but it went out shortly afterwards.

In the first half of the 19th century, the six communities Heckholzhausen, Obertiefenbach, Gaudernbach , Wirbelau , Eschenau and Schupbach formed a fire fighting district. When a fire broke out, certain residents with four harnessed horses had to fetch the fire engine stationed in Schupbach immediately .

From 1906 to 1958 the place was connected to the railway network via the Kerkerbachbahn .

The Carl-Heinz tunnel at the end of the village in the direction of Lahr was one of the most productive German manganese mines .

Territorial reform

The municipality of Heckholzhausen merged on December 31, 1970 as part of the regional reform in Hesse with the previously independent municipalities of Obertiefenbach , Niedertiefenbach and Schupbach (all in the former Oberlahnkreis ) to form the municipality of Beselich . It was named after the Beselich monastery . Local districts according to the Hessian municipal code were not established.

The contactor from Holzhausen

The Freiherr von Holzhausen contactor come from a Burgmann family of Burg Merenberg . Originally they were called Schütz von Merenberg. They belonged to the families that Hartrad IV. (1182-1215) expelled from Merenberg. The family built a defensive house in Heckholzhausen and took the name Schütz von Holzhausen. The Schütz had free float in neighboring Lahr and Elsoff , which they gradually expanded. In 1424, a castle man's seat of the family at Runkel Castle was first mentioned. In 1430 they had the right to tithe in what is now the desert of Mechtelndorf near Merenberg. As heirs of the related Räuber von Kaan family , the Schütz von Holzhausen were able to acquire a bailiwick over the hamlet of Panau and other free float near Neustadt from 1535 onwards . For the year 1599 it is documented that the family held a third of the tithe of the village of Lahr as a fief of the Westerburg .

With Giselbrecht Schütz von Holzhausen, a member of this family was named for the first time in 1315. In the centuries that followed, members of the family repeatedly held office positions. In 1406 Heinrich Schütz von Holzhausen was bailiff of the County of Katzenelnbogen in the Driedorf district, and in 1431 he was in the service of the Landgraviate of Hesse . Antonius Schütz von Holzhausen (1435–1515) was the first bailiff of the Nassau Merenberg office. The grave slab of Gilbrecht Schütz von Holzhausen, Vogt zu Panau, who died in 1539, can be seen today at the parish church in Neustadt . In 1618 Philipp Cuno Schütz von Holzhausen was court master of Dierdorf in the county of Wied.

Former mayor

  • Braun, Johann Jakob (1848–1879)
  • Braun, Karl I (1879–1884)
  • Seelbach, Wilhelm (1884–1889)
  • Braun, Karl I (1889–1916)
  • Hief, Wilhelm Ludwig (1916–1923)
  • Müller, Karl (1923–1934)
  • Hemming, Jakob (1934–1945)
  • Müller, Karl (1945)
  • Schäfer, Karl Friedrich (1945–1957)
  • Kegel, Hermann I. (1957-1965)
  • Balzer, Johann (1965–1970)

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Heckholzhausen: Population from 1834 to 2019
year     Residents
1834
  
 439
1840
  
 470
1846
  
 503
1852
  
 525
1858
  
 527
1864
  
 519
1871
  
 550
1875
  
 631
1885
  
 610
1895
  
 542
1905
  
 502
1910
  
 481
1925
  
 517
1939
  
 501
1946
  
 762
1950
  
 746
1956
  
 686
1961
  
 690
1967
  
 697
1970
  
 730
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 1,017
2004
  
 1,066
2010
  
 1,065
2011
  
 1,047
2015
  
 1,053
2019
  
 996
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:, from 2000 :; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 571 Protestant, 28 Catholic and 11 Jewish residents
• 1961: 529 Protestant and 59 Catholic residents

Culture and sights

Former town hall
The Protestant Church in Heckholzhausen

societies

At the local level, there are the clubs Cross Country Riders Beselich eV, Freiwillige Feuerwehr Heckholzhausen eV since 1925 (since August 2, 1981 including youth fire brigade and since August 21, 2010 with children's fire brigade), Musikzug 1959 Heckholzhausen eV, sports club SV Heckholzhausen 1928 eV and the club for beautification and nature protection 1968 eV Heckholzhausen. In the Association for Beautification and Nature Conservation 1968 eV Heckholzhausen there are the subgroups Heckholzhausen history group and Heckholzhausen senior group.

Buildings

See also: List of cultural monuments in Beselich-Heckholzhausen

Former town hall (current town hall)

The building was built as a town hall in 1929. After the merger with the municipality of Beselich, the building was used as a village community center. After a thorough renovation, it stands as the population since September 2007 town house available.

Evangelical parish church

Today's parish church was built on the foundation walls of a castle built in the 13th century and dilapidated in the 16th century with its chapel , the foundation stone of which was laid in 1898.

Economy and Infrastructure

Viaduct of the former B 49 over the Kerkerbachtal

Facilities

The “Sternenland” kindergarten exists in Heckholzhausen . The Beselich-Heckholzhausen volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1925, provides defensive fire protection and general assistance. It was supplemented by the youth fire brigade on August 2, 1981 and the children's fire brigade on August 21, 2010 .

For events that extended in 2019 is community center in the town center are available. The residents have the opportunity to sports grounds and recreational facility to use "Over the birches". In addition, in Heckholzhausen there is the playground in Buchenweg and several hiking trails in the woods and fields.

traffic

Heckholzhausen is located on the federal highway 49 from Limburg an der Lahn to Wetzlar , which crosses the Kerkerbachtal with a viaduct that was completed in 2018.

education

The central elementary school in Obertiefenbach serves as the primary school . As a secondary school serves as a main and secondary school the Westerwald school in Waldersbach.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heckholzhausen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Heckholzhausen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b c facts and figures . In: Internet presence. Municipality of Beselich, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  3. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : The fire extinguishing system in Obertiefenbach from earlier times . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 1994 . The district committee of the Limburg-Weilburg district, Limburg-Weilburg 1993, p. 151-153 .
  4. ↑ Amalgamation of municipalities to form the municipality "Beselich", Oberlahnkreis on January 6, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 141 , point 169 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 373 .
  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. ↑ 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;