Hirschberg (Herborn)

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Hirschberg
City of Herborn
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 350  (326–388)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 250  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35745
Area code : 02772
Hirschberg (with the Koppe (left)) • View from the northeast from the Schildberg
Hirschberg (with the Koppe (left)) • View from the northeast from the Schildberg

Hirschberg is a district of Herborn in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Hirschberg is located south of the center of Herborn. It is the highest district.

history

The place name is derived from the Hirschberg forest in which the place is located. A stone church for the village is already recorded in the Middle Ages . Hirschberg is first mentioned in connection with the chaplain at this chapel in 1351.

Up to 1641 there was a domain property in the place, which as a large agricultural enterprise occupied 46% of the usable area. Then it was combined to form a Nassau-Dillenburg estate.

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse on 1 January 1977, the previously independent municipality Hirschberg were, the city Herborn and other previously independent municipalities by the law on the restructuring of Dill circle counties Giessen and Wetzlar and the city of casting the new city Herborn together . For the district of Hirschberg, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was set up.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Hirschberg: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 135
1840
  
 138
1846
  
 151
1852
  
 157
1858
  
 142
1864
  
 153
1871
  
 157
1875
  
 175
1885
  
 167
1895
  
 185
1905
  
 207
1910
  
 216
1925
  
 217
1939
  
 217
1946
  
 284
1950
  
 278
1956
  
 252
1961
  
 227
1967
  
 223
1970
  
 225
1983
  
 ?
1997
  
 297
1999
  
 296
2001
  
 309
2003
  
 316
2008
  
 338
2011
  
 268
2013
  
 269
2018
  
 250
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 Herborn: population figures

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 167 Protestant (= 99.40%), one Catholic (= 0.60%) residents
• 1961: 219 Protestant (= 96.48%) and 8 Catholic (= 3.52%) residents

politics

There is a local advisory council with a local mayor for Hirschberg . The local advisory board consists of five members. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Matthias Schönling is the mayor.

Culture and sights

Evangelical Church in Hirschberg
Backhaus and fountain in Hirschberg

The community forge and the old bakery are well worth seeing .

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Hirschberg .

Infrastructure

Personalities

  • Alfred Adam (1899–1975), Protestant theologian and university professor

Web links

Commons : Hirschberg (Herborn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers, data, facts. In: website. City of Herborn, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ↑ 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 ., § 21 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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. 357 .
  4. ↑ Main statute § 5. (PDF; 160 kB) In: Website. City of Herborn, accessed February 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c Hirschberg, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ↑ Population of the city of Herborn in the web archive: 1997, 1999 ; 2001, 2003 ; 2008-2010 ; 2014 ; 2018
  8. ^ Local advisory board Hirschberg on the website of the city of Herborn, accessed in February 2017.
  9. ↑ Der FriedWald Herborn In: Internet site of the city of Herborn. Accessed August 2018.