Hintermeilingen

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Hintermeilingen
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 48 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 51 ″  E
Height : 242  (242–329.8)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.81 km²
Residents : 1250  (Jan 2012)
Population density : 260 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Incorporated into: Ellar
Postal code : 65620
Area code : 06479
Aerial view from the west
Aerial view from the west

Hintermeilingen is a district of the municipality of Waldbrunn (Westerwald) in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse . The Schlagmühle settlement also belongs to this district . Over 1200 people live in the Westerwalddorf . The name Lahrmeilingen is also historically passed down for the place .

geography

Hintermeilingen is located in the south-eastern Westerwald , about 15 kilometers north of Limburg an der Lahn , 12 kilometers west of Weilburg and 14 kilometers east of Westerburg . The place is in Hessen , near the border with Rhineland-Palatinate .

The neighboring towns are, starting from the north and clockwise: Lahr , Heckholzhausen , Steinbach , Ellar . About 3 kilometers to the west, but separated by the Heidenhäuschen ridge , is the village of Hangenmeilingen ( Elbtal municipality ).

The Kerkerbach in the area of ​​the hammer mill

The place is located in the basin of the Hintermeilinger raft at about 243 m above sea level and is surrounded by wooded ridges. The forests are predominantly mixed beech and coniferous forests . The district belongs to the receiving water area of the Hintermeilinger Floß and the Kerkerbach. The Hintermeilinger raft flows into the Kerkerbach at the hammer mill .

North of Hintermeilingen there is a ridge from the mountains Oberholz (331.0 m above sea level), Bühl (303.3 m above sea level), Steinkopf (329.8 m above sea level), Honigberg (311, 5 m above sea level). The spring trough continues in the west into the Ellarer district, the area of ​​the Oberndorf desert, and closes with the ridge Heidenhäuschen from the mountains Burg (350 m above sea level), Remelsberg (397.8 m above sea level), Spitzberg (335 m above sea level). To the south and southeast, the basin is closed by the Gackenberg (301.3 m above sea level) and the Gleisenberg (308.1 m above sea level) mountains .

geology

Basalt block sea at the Heidenhäuschen approx. 3 kilometers from Hintermeilingen

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 . The ridges in the north and west consist mainly of olivine basalts . The two mountains to the south consist predominantly of quartzites . These layers are about 300 million years old.

There are pronounced clay deposits in the area . These clay deposits are about 12 meters thick. They were formed about 52–40 million years ago during the Oligocene Period. The top soil layer, about 3–15 meters, and the topsoil are heavily loess . These layers have during the Würm formed about 115 to 10 thousand years ago.

climate

The annual mean temperature is 7.2 ° C. The mean annual rainfall is around 750–760 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 about 40 foggy days per year.

history

Emergence

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 . Found. At Heckholzhausen there are barrows from the late Hallstatt period. Finds of the Dornburg and the Heidenhäuschen are known that prove a Celtic settlement during the La Tène period.

As with nearby Fussingen , the origin of the place name is controversial. According to Prof. Dr. Heinrich Richter (formerly prehistoric at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen ) is a "fake name" that was used during the pre-Roman settlement period up to 39 BC. Was created. The name refers to the Matronae Mahalinehae of the Ubier . Richter suspects a sacred court on Remelsberg, consecrated to the Mahalinehae, from which the names Hintermeilingen, Hangenmeilingen and Remelsberg are derived. According to the historian Hellmuth Gensicke , it is a "real name [s]". This shows the origin of the place during the Great Migration between 375 and 600 AD. The name refers to the founder of the place, Megilo.

The first clear documentary mention took place in 1301 as Meylingen in the parish of Lahr . It is documented that the place was first referred to as Hinder Maylingen in 1328. The addition Hinter- was introduced to distinguish it from Hangenmeilingen. Both places were previously only called Mailingen, which means that it is not possible to assign the older documents unequivocally. From 1585 the name Lahrmeilingen was used for Hintermeilingen at times .

Early Middle Ages

Hintermeilingen belonged to the district court Lahr in the area of ​​Mark Ellar ("Allanaher Marka"). Towards the end of the Carolingian era, the Mark Ellar was in the Niederlahngau of the Duchy of Franconia . In the 13th century, the mark was owned by the County of Diez as Amt Ellar . From 1315 the Lahr district court was pledged to the Merenberg rulership . 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.

The seat of the original parish was Lahr , from which Hintermeilingen had never broken away. The church patronage lay with the House of Runkel / Westerburg as the governors of the Gemünden Monastery . The place had a Gothic chapel (mentioned since 1524) which was dedicated to St. Peter . The chapel was consecrated to St. Mary by 1726 at the latest .

The one from Mylingen

In Hintermeilingen, the noble family "von Mylingen / von Meilinchin" were wealthy and probably came from this place. The members of the family were in the service of the noble families Molsberg and Runkel / Westerburg. Tested members of the family were: Amshelm von Mylingen (1244) / von Meilinchin (1253) and his sister Hildegard. Albrecht von Mylingen (around 1270) Conrad the Black of Mylingen (around 1300) Jutta von Mylingen and her sons Heinrich and Kunz (between 1352/58).

County Katzenelnbogen

In 1367 the county of Diez ceded the office of Ellar with the district court of 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 , the rest remained with the County of Katzenelnbogen.

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 . For the place there was a ban on the Gadelheimer Mühle and the Ellarer Mühle . As a result of the division of real estate , smaller and smaller farms emerged, which meant that the population tried to develop further sources of income.

A Hohe Strasse ran from Frankfurt via Limburg to Siegen close to the town. The road followed the watershed between the Kerkerbach and the Lasterbach, a side stream of the Elbbach . Presumably, this road was laid out as a royal road during the Carolingian period. The street is still marked on maps of Hintermeilingen from the early 18th century. At the latest with the construction of the new Mainzer Landstrasse (today B 54 ) around 1780, this old high road lost its importance.

Nassau-Dillenburg

Memorial plaque for the local chapel built in 1524

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. Since then, the Ellar office has belonged entirely to Nassau-Dillenburg.

The Saint Peter Chapel was built in the village in 1524. 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.

The central person of the Reformation in the parish of Lahr was the pastor Eberhard Artopaeus , who was introduced on April 1, 1576 . Initially Lutheran, he later became a staunch Calvinist. 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 Hintermeilingen this meant a trip to school of about 30 minutes.

On January 29, 1590, the population wrote to the sovereign in Dillenburg. They accused their fellow citizen Anna of witchcraft and demanded that she be tried in Dillenburg.

Nassau-Hadamar

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 Salbuch laid out for the county in 1612 shows that the tithe was owned by the von Wied (formerly von Runkel) and von Riedesel families at that time . In 1614 the village was hit by a plague epidemic .

With the beginning of the Thirty Years War in 1618 a devastating phase began for the place. The various warring parties had to be billeted almost every year , and the population also had to pay considerable special taxes and raise bribes. The cause of the war burden was the proximity to the important Lahn crossings and the initial neutrality of the county of Nassau Hadamar, which meant that no warring party spared the area. A resident of Hintermeilingen joined the Swedish troops.

As early as 1619 a Bavarian army marched through the county. In the winter of 1622/23 troops of the League General Tilly moved into winter camps in the county, after their summer campaign they returned in the winter of 1623/24. In 1626 troops of the Catholic League crossed the place again. On June 23, 1627, Wallenstein's troops under General Görzenichs occupied the Upper Westerwald. Only with joint action by several counties was it possible to drive out the pillaging troops.

In the winter of 1628 troops from Sachsen-Lauenburg an der Lahn were quartered . The main camp was near Seelbach . On December 20, 1628, the riders of the Sachsen-Lauenburg regiment attacked the Ellar sheep herd, threatened the shepherd at gunpoint and took five sheep with them. The shepherd immediately triggered the alarm. Several citizens from Hintermeilingen and Ellar pursued the riders. Since the sheep could no longer be found in the Seelbach camp, a farmer took a horse out of the stable there to keep himself harmless. The soldier Isack Preuner wanted to prevent this at gunpoint. In a scuffle, the farmer Josef Krauch stole his pistol and shot him, whereupon the peasants fled the camp. One day later, Corporal Dietrich Schirme complained in writing to Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar about the incident, which resulted in a lengthy exchange of correspondence between the Count and the Imperial General Commissioner Peter Kunig. On January 12, 1629, eleven farmers from Hintermeilingen and two from Ellar were imprisoned in Ellar prison. Because of the numerous petitions from families, most of the farmers were released after ten to twenty days of imprisonment. Only Jost Krauch remained in custody. He was charged with murder in Hadamar. His further fate is not known.

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 . The Jesuits were commissioned to carry out the re-Catholicization in his county. Eberhard Artopaeus took this as an opportunity to retire at the age of eighty-eight after 54 years of service as pastor of Lahr.

In 1632/33 there was severe devastation by Swedish troops. The soldiers robbed all of the horses and all of the cattle. In September 1634, Hessian / Swedish troops under Peter Melander crossed the region, which were replaced by Spanish troops at the beginning of October of the same year . In 1636 it was Swedish and imperial troops, in 1638 it was again imperial troops . In 1640 the Swedish troops took up quarters in the Amt Ellar. There were two soldiers for every inhabitant. In 1646 there was a march of Bavarian troops.

At the time of the Peace of Westphalia , the place and the surrounding area were completely destroyed. In 1679 the place had not yet reached the number of inhabitants of 1612. In 1650, Nassau Hadamar County became a principality.

Orange Nassau

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. Hintermeilingen fell to the House of Nassau-Dillenburg in 1717, from 1739 to House Nassau-Diez , 1742/43 to the House of Nassau-Siegen (Catholic), in 1743 again Nassau-Diez ( Orange- Nassau) as the last Ottonian line.

The Catholic inhabitants were now subjects of the predominantly Calvinist princes from various branches of the Nassau family. 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. The Catholic pastor circumvented the ban on baptism by baptizing the children in nearby countries.

There was a period of slow economic growth. In 1713 the hammer mill was built on the Kerkerbach. However, it was not active for long as it was shut down again before 1770. At about the same time, the peddling began. The trade routes of the “ things-goers ” reached 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”. Potato cultivation in the region is also documented from 1730 .

In 1736 the farmers from Hintermeilingen took part in the "Klöppelstreit", an uprising against the 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 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.

In 1726 the Gothic chapel was rebuilt in Baroque style and equipped with an altar in the Hadamar Baroque style. Between 1760 and 1775 a school was founded in the village.

In 1780 a land consolidation was carried out. The remains of the old highway disappeared from the district. At this point in time the place had 42 neighbors who lived as full farmers mainly from the yield of their farm and 13 Hepenhauer , half farmers who were doing a handicraft in addition to agriculture. As a result of the land consolidation , the improved three-field economy was introduced. In 1789 a comprehensive description of the parish of Lahr was made. Hintermeilingen had 325 inhabitants and 57 buildings with a fire cadastre value of 20,520 guilders . The size of the district was 800 acres.

During the First Coalition War , from 1792 onwards, troop marches and billeting took place again. In 1795 French troops looted the places in the Amt Ellar. According to a list by the bailiff Creutzer, the damage caused in Hintermeilingen from 1795 to 1800 amounted to 56,148 guilders 8 Albus .

Grand Duchy of Berg

In 1806 Hintermeilingen 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 . Five people from Hintermeilingen were in French military service. A lime kiln at the hammer mill is documented for 1809 .

Numerous new legal systems came into being during the affiliation to the Grand Duchy of Berg. 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 introduction of chimney sweeps also served as fire protection . 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. On September 13, 1811, the mill ban was lifted.

After Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the sovereignty of the Orange-Nassau region was briefly restored. In November 1813 a Cossack detachment under General Czernitcheff crossed the parish of Lahr. Hintermeilingen had to be billeted again.

Duchy of Nassau

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

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 reorganized in 1816, Hintermeilingen was added to the Hadamar office. The school chronicles, which have been kept since 1819, provide an overview of the events during the membership in the Duchy of Nassau.

In the ducal Nassau epoch, the population grew rapidly and agriculture could no longer adequately support the families. Many residents continued to be peddlers. The people from Hintermeilingen were particularly well known for trading in umbrellas . In 1825 a new school building was built at the parish baking house. With the Nassau Fire Police Ordinance of 1826, a compulsory fire brigade was set up, the villages of Ellar, Hausen, Fussingen, Waldernbach, Lahr and Hintermeilingen form a syringe association . The fire engine was stored in Fussingen, the highest place.

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. On February 5, 1849, there were extensive riots in the Hadamar office, in which citizens from Hintermeilingen probably also took part. When the tithe was replaced in Nassau at Christmas 1848, there was a noticeable improvement in economic conditions. A total of eleven families immigrated to the United States between 1854 and 1869 .

Kingdom of Prussia

After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau, Hintermeilingen again belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia in September 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. Hintermeilingen belonged to the Oberlahnkreis and from 1886 to the newly founded Limburg district .

The locomotive, built in 1901, was erected as a memorial for the Kerkerbach Railway in Heckholzhausen.

With the transition to the Kingdom of Prussia, economic conditions changed only slowly. An economic upswing began around 1900, which accelerated with the connection to the Kerkerbachbahn . Hintermeilingen station was opened on October 1, 1905, and the line to Mengerskirchen was completed by April 15, 1908 . Tourism started to a lesser extent. The oldest surviving picture postcard from Hintermeilingen dates from 1905 . A post office was opened at this time. In 1911, the “ Maria Tongrube ” started work. A second pit " Bawir II " was built around the same time.

The Hintermeilingen choir was founded in 1891 and is one of the oldest clubs in town. In 1900 a new school building was built. During the First World War , Russian and French prisoners of war were used as miners in the clay pits. In the hostilities of the First World War, 27 residents died or were reported missing.

Weimar Republic

After the First World War, Hintermeilingen was on the border of the demilitarized strip of the Rhineland according to the Treaty of Versailles . Troops of the German Reichswehr were stationed here from 1919 to 1924 . In Hundsangen that American troops were in Diez and Limburg to French troops were located.

In addition to the dungeon brook course, was with the stop of the 1926 Kraftpost line Mengerskirchen - Hadamar set up a second connection to public transport. In the 1920s, more and more residents used the better transport connections and commuted to the Rhineland and the Ruhr area as construction workers . Also the continued tourism amplifies as a source of income, with the beginning of the Second World War , however, he came to a halt.

Around 1920 a separate cemetery was set up in the village. Up to this point the burial took place in the cemetery in Lahr. Several numerous associations from the Catholic environment were founded, such as the DJK in 1928 or the Catholic youth in 1930 . In 1932 the residents of Hintermeilingen built the Church of the Annunciation.

time of the nationalsocialism

The takeover of power by National Socialism led from 1933 to a profound change in club life. The existing secular associations were integrated into the Nazi organizations ( synchronization ). On June 1, 1934, the Hintermeilingen volunteer fire brigade was founded. The church associations were banned on November 25, 1937.

The war preparations were noticeable in Hintermeilingen. In September 1936 the place was in an extensive maneuver area . From November 30, 1939 to January 29, 1940 soldiers of the 10th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht were housed in the village in preparation for the western campaign . Further troop marches followed until May 10, 1945.

On December 22, 1943, a British Halifax II-A bomber was shot down over the Heidenhäuschen in an aerial battle . The fuselage of the plane crashed in the immediate vicinity of the village. Neville Short, a member of the crew, was able to parachute himself and return to England after the war.

On March 27, 1945 soldiers of the 1st US Army occupied the place, thus ending the Second World War in Hintermeilingen. The place was assigned to the American zone of occupation and thus part of Hesse . A total of 40 residents were killed and 20 residents were reported missing.

Federal Republic of Germany

Locomotive of the Maria mine (delivered in 1942)

Until 1968 the place belonged to the district Limburg in the administrative district Wiesbaden . After that he became part of the administrative district of Darmstadt . The advancing technical development led to a gradual departure from agriculture. In the 1950s and 1960s the place was heavily modernized. In 1954, a water supply for households was installed, regular garbage disposal was established in October 1962, the parish home with a kindergarten was built in 1964, a new building was built in 1968 for school lessons and in 1971 the thoroughfare was expanded. Here the Gothic chapel was demolished. A sports home was built in 1974.

Former loading ramps of the Kerkerbachbahn in the Hintermeilingen area

The Kerkerbach Railway finally ceased operations in Hintermeilingen on December 20, 1960, and the operating facilities were dismantled. The transport of goods in the clay pits shifted to the streets. The proportion of the population displaced was 16% in 1961 and was roughly the same as in the Limburg district as a whole (19%). Most of the expellees came from what was then Czechoslovakia .

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1970, the places Ellar and Hintermeilingen merged to form the municipality of Ellar . On July 1, 1974, the municipality of Ellar was merged with the municipality of Waldbrunn with the towns of Lahr, Hausen and Fussingen to form the new municipality of Waldbrunn . The Limburg-Weilburg district was founded on the same date. Since 1981 the place belongs to the newly created administrative district Gießen .

With the general economic boom , tourism also picked up from the 1960s. On July 20, 1977, the place was given the title of resort . In 1980 he joined the Ferienland Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus initiative . On October 24, 1984, all parts of the community of Waldbrunn (Westerwald) were awarded the title of state-approved climatic health resort .

In the late 1970s, the extensive renaturation of the disused parts of the clay pits began. The post office closed on September 30, 2002. The commuter movement increasingly shifted to the Rhine-Main area.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Hintermeilingen: Population from 1603 to 2005
year     Residents
1603
  
 88
1751
  
 216
1789
  
 325
1810
  
 332
1834
  
 422
1840
  
 447
1846
  
 487
1852
  
 533
1858
  
 513
1864
  
 555
1871
  
 562
1875
  
 577
1885
  
 568
1895
  
 555
1905
  
 557
1910
  
 545
1925
  
 710
1939
  
 615
1946
  
 781
1950
  
 761
1956
  
 760
1961
  
 781
1967
  
 926
1970
  
 985
1986
  
 1,099
2005
  
 1.313
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

 Source:

year households
1574 24
1612 20th
1620 18th
1637 9
1666 8th
1679 12
year households
1751 38
1804 61
1820 92
1840 109
1851 145
1866 144

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: No Protestant, 568 Catholic (= 100.00%) residents
• 1961: 48 Protestant (= 6.15%), 733 Catholic (= 93.85%) residents

Religions

Wayside shrine on the road towards Lahr

The predominant denomination is Roman Catholic . About 64% of the population belong to this Christian faith. With actions like the carol singers, the community in the village has an impact beyond the church. Numerous wayside shrines and crosses characterize the townscape and the district.

The place is in the diocese of Limburg . On September 1, 2005, the Catholic parishes of Lahr / Hintermeilingen, Hausen / Fussingen and Ellar were merged to form the “Pastoral Room 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.

About 17% of the population belong to the Protestant church. The next Protestant church is the parish church of Heckholzhausen. About 19% of the population belong to other religious groups or are non-denominational.

politics

For elections to the German Bundestag, the place belongs to the constituency “ 178  Rheingau-Taunus - Limburg ”, for elections to the Hessian state parliament it belongs to the constituency “ 21  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. Head of the local advisory board is the mayor Helmut Knapp. The local advisory board has the right to make suggestions and to be heard vis-à-vis the municipal council in matters affecting the locality.

The election of the local council is based on the Hessian municipal electoral law. This provides for cumulation and variegation. The last local elections produced the following results for the local council:

Parties and constituencies Seats
2016 		Seats
2011 		Seats
2006 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 3 3 3 3
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 2 2 2 2
total 5 5 5 5

The proportion of foreigners is 7.8%. The largest foreign population group has Turkish citizenship.

Monument to the "Malinger Roawe"

The place did not have its own coat of arms until the regional reform in the 1970s. In the course of the regional reform, the municipality of Waldbrunn (Westerwald) took over the coat of arms of the village of Ellar as the municipality's coat of arms . A raven , known as the Malinger Roawe , serves as the unofficial heraldic animal in the Hintermeilingen district .

Culture and sights

societies

The cultural life of the village is carried out by the associations. Club life is shaped by the traditional Catholic milieu. There are associations such as the "DJK SV Schwarz-Weiß" (founded in 1928), the "kath. Frauengemeinschaft “(founded in 1930) in the village. The "Catholic Workers Movement" founded in 1969 was dissolved shortly after the turn of the millennium. A church choir has existed since 1984.

Fire station of the Hintermeilingen volunteer fire brigade

The Hintermeilingen volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1934. Since May 19, 1982 she has been working with the youth fire department in youth work. A branch of the social association VdK Germany has existed since 1949 . The VdK local association Steinbach-Hintermeilingen has merged with the VdK local association Waldbrunn with effect from January 1, 2009. The Naturschutzbund ( NABU ) local group Hintermeilingen (founded in 1980) is active in environmental and nature conservation.

Sports

The place has a soccer field. Several clubs such as the DJK SV Schwarz-Weiß eV , the table tennis club (founded in 1976) and the 1. Fischerei- und Angelsportverein Waldbrunn eV (founded 1978) organize a sporting program. The club DJK Schwarz-Weiß eV, together with the sports club 1920 eV Ellar, is the sponsor of the SG Ellar / Hintermeilingen football team. Several Nordic walking routes are signposted from the village. The starting point is the multi-purpose hall in Hintermeilingen.

Natural monuments

The mining of clay in opencast mining began in 1911 in Hintermeilingen in the “Maria” mine. A second pit existed at about the same time as the “Barwir II” pit located nearby. In the 1970s, the nature conservation association began with the renaturation of the areas set aside by the operator Gailschen Tonwerke AG, Giessen. The efforts to restore the natural environment were awarded the only gold plaque of the “Federal Industry and Landscape Competition” in 1981.

In the area of ​​the clay pits, a 10.3 hectare nature reserve has been designated. The biotope essentially consists of a tiered area of ​​hedges. This is in front of the high forest. Numerous ponds and pools have been created in this area. The biotope serves as a retreat for numerous bird and other animal and plant species.

A former locomotive with a lorry, gauge 600 millimeters, from the clay pit has stood as a memorial in front of the Hintermeilingen village community center since 1983. Remnants of the loading ramps can still be found in the forest towards Heckholzhausen.

Regular events

The main festival of the village is the fair , which is celebrated on the weekend after August 15th. The event "Waldbrunn on the Road" (popularly: "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, and is eaten with Äppelmok ( apple sauce ) as a side dish . 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

Hintermeilingen Church

The Catholic Church of the Annunciation was built in 1932 by the population. Basalt, which was extracted on site at the Honigberg, served as the building material. The height of the church tower is 18 meters. The foundation stone was laid on May 1, 1932. In the same year, on December 15, 1932, the blessing by Dean Weidenfeller from Langendernbach took place. The church took over the patronage of the “Annunciation” from the Gothic chapel. The church is not on the site of the Gothic chapel. This was on the corner of Schieferstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse. There is a well there today. Inside the church there is a plaster statue of the Virgin Mary (around 1900), which was probably made in a Cologne workshop. There is also a statue of St. Theresa of Lisieux (around 1930) in the church . The organ of the church was built in 1972/73 and has 1072 pipes.

Economy and Infrastructure

The village community center in Hintermeilingen

The local craft and service businesses exist. Most of the employed commute to Limburg and the Rhine-Main area . The place has a village community center.

traffic

Signpost of the Kerkerbachbahn bike and walkway

There are no highways through the town. The next connection points to the federal highway 49 are in Obertiefenbach . Since the closure of the Kerkerbach Railway, there is no longer a railway line. There are regular bus routes to Limburg an der Lahn. The distance to Frankfurt Airport is around 80 km. Hintermeilingen is on the “IV” hiking trail of the Westerwald Association and the Kerkerbachtal cycle path . The place has an extensive network of signposted hiking and Nordic walking trails.

education

In Hintermeilingen there is the Catholic day-care center “Maria Annunciation”. The place has a primary school . As a secondary school serve as a main and secondary school the Westerwald school in Waldersbach. The next grammar school is in Hadamar, and secondary schools in Limburg an der Lahn are also attended.

Public facilities

In Hintermeilingen, the Hintermeilingen volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1934 (since May 19, 1982 with its youth fire brigade), provides fire protection and general help.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hintermeilingen  - Collection of images

Single receipts

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  7. ↑ Amalgamation of the communities Ellar and Hintermeilingen in the Limburg district to form the community "Ellar" on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 110 , point 109 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
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  12. ↑ Rules of Procedure of the Local Advisory Board (as of September 21, 2007; PDF; 60 kB)
  13. ^ The Waldbrunn local councils. Waldbrunn Westerwald, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Population statistics for the community of Waldbrunn (Westerwald) (as of January 2005)
  15. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch 1956
  16. ↑ History Association Hintermeilingen: Uzname of the Hintermeilinger "Malinger Roawe" (accessed February 23, 2015)