Heisterberg (Driedorf)

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Heisterberg
Driedorf municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 571 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.55 km²
Residents : 329  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 93 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 35759
Area code : 02775

Heisterberg is a district of the municipality of Driedorf in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . The place in the High Westerwald has about 300 inhabitants.

geography

The place in the High Westerwald is about 14 km west of Herborn and 40 km northeast of Montabaur . The distance to Siegen is about 40 km and Wetzlar 43 km. Heisterberg is located near the Hessian border with Rhineland-Palatinate near the border triangle Hesse - Rhineland-Palatinate - North Rhine-Westphalia . The district of the place has a size of 3.55 km².

The neighboring places are, from the north, on the national border, starting clockwise: Rabenscheid , Gusternhain (both community Breitscheid ), Driedorf, Hohenroth , Waldaubach (both community Driedorf). All places belong to the Lahn-Dill district.

Heisterberg is located in the source area of ​​the Amdorfbach , which flows into the Dill in the castle (city of Herborn) about nine kilometers to the east . The brook to the Heisterberger Weiher is dammed in the southeast of the Heisterberger district . To the west of the village rises the mountain Auf der Baar (618 m above sea ​​level) as the highest point in the district. To the south of the village, already on the Hohenrother district, lies the Höllberg (643 m above sea level).

history

In the vicinity of the place there are several references to settlement in prehistoric times.

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1315 as Heisterberg. The name is probably derived from the Middle High German heister (young beech trunk ).

Since the Middle Ages, Heisterberg has belonged to the Driedorf office and parish, whose history it shared. The long-distance trade route ran from Cologne to Leipzig via Altenkirchen and Herborn near the town .

In the years 1707–1711, the Heisterberger Weiher was dammed up as a fish pond by order of Prince Wilhelm V of Nassau-Dillenburg. Some of the work was carried out by labor . The pond belonged to the lordly court of the princes in Heisterberg.

Territorial reform

The municipalities Heiligenborn, Heisterberg and Hohenroth were on 1 October 1971 at the course of municipal reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis in the community Driedorf incorporated . Local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were set up for all formerly independent communities .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Heisterberg: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 147
1840
  
 162
1846
  
 146
1852
  
 143
1858
  
 126
1864
  
 136
1871
  
 128
1875
  
 129
1885
  
 119
1895
  
 115
1905
  
 123
1910
  
 122
1925
  
 121
1939
  
 147
1946
  
 186
1950
  
 182
1956
  
 170
1961
  
 162
1967
  
 192
1970
  
 204
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2003
  
 318
2006
  
 357
2014
  
 335
2017
  
 329
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 118 Protestant (= 99.16%), one Catholic (= 0.84%) residents
• 1961: 149 Protestant (= 91.98%), 12 Catholic (= 7.41%) residents

politics

For elections to the German Bundestag, the place belongs to the constituency “173 Lahn-Dill ”, for elections to the Hessian state parliament it belongs to the constituency “21 Lahn-Dill I ”.

With the regional reform, the municipal administration was transferred to the municipality of Driedorf. The last mayor was Erich Stahl. The main statute of the municipality of Driedorf provides for the formation of a local advisory council of five members. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Jan Koch is the mayor .

Cultural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

The heights surrounding the place are used to generate wind energy . The Heisterberger Weiher is used for tourism. Here is a campsite and the district youth home of the Lahn-Dill district. The place has a village community center.

traffic

The place is on the B 255 from Herborn via Driedorf to Montabaur and the B 414 from Driedorf to Hachenburg . The next train station on the Dill route is in Herborn. There are bus connections to Driedorf, Rehe and Herborn. The distance to Frankfurt airport is 107 km, to Cologne / Bonn approx. 126 km. The Westerwaldsteig, a long-distance hiking trail from Herborn to Bad Hönningen, runs through Heisterberg .

education

There are no kindergartens in the village. The next one is in Driedorf. The place belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Westerwaldschule Driedorf, a primary , secondary and secondary school . Secondary schools can be attended in Herborn or Dillenburg .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Driedorf in numbers - municipal statistics. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original ; accessed on February 18, 2017 . (Data from web archive)
  2. ^ 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. 356 .
  3. ^ Main statute of the municipality of Driedorf. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, accessed February 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Heisterberg, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 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. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching: D. Anton Friderich Büsching's new description of the earth. The German empire. tape 3 . JC Bohn, 1771, p. 840 ( on google books ).
  7. ↑ Statistics 2003. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  8. ↑ Statistics 2006. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  9. ↑ Local advisory boards of the municipality of Driedorf , accessed in February 2017.