Hoch-Weisel

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Hoch-Weisel
City of Butzbach
Coat of arms of Hoch-Weisel
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 246 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.22 km²
Residents : 1393  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 136 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35510
Area code : 06033
Former town hall and church
Former town hall and church

Hoch-Weisel is a district of Butzbach in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .

Geographical location

Aerial view of Hoch-Weisel, seen from the local mountain

Hoch-Weisel lies on the border between the eastern Hintertaunus in the west and the Wetterau in the east. On the eastern border of the Taunus Nature Park , it is 4.4 km southwest of the center of Butzbach, southeast below the local mountain ( 485.7  m ). The upper reaches of the Wetter tributary Riedgraben near the source flows through Hoch-Weisel , and its tributary Lattwiesengraben rises a little north of the village. State road  3056 (Butzbach – Hoch-Weisel– Fauerbach ) leads through it . The district area is 1022 hectares, 519 hectares of which are forested (as of 1961). The forest areas are west of the village and extend in a narrowing wedge to the Gickel ( 505.1  m ) just before Bodenrod .

history

The place was already settled in the early Middle Ages . In 1231 the village was first mentioned as Hovewisele , which means "Hof Weisel". In the late Middle Ages , the village was surrounded by a wide moat and hedge. The place could only be reached through gates. Next to the Evangelical Church with its fortified tower and the Romanesque baptismal font (around 1200) is the monastery-like sister house, the Klause, founded in 1366. Here lived earlier beguines .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Hoch-Weisel was incorporated into the city of Butzbach on December 31, 1970 on a voluntary basis . A local district with a local advisory board and mayor was formed for the district .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 853 Protestant (= 83.71%), 155 Catholic (= 15.21%) residents
Hoch-Weisel: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 681
1840
  
 695
1846
  
 768
1852
  
 757
1858
  
 762
1864
  
 661
1871
  
 690
1875
  
 688
1885
  
 676
1895
  
 619
1905
  
 665
1910
  
 696
1925
  
 728
1939
  
 746
1946
  
 1,162
1950
  
 1,167
1956
  
 1,045
1961
  
 1,019
1967
  
 1,147
1970
  
 1,203
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2008
  
 1,379
2010
  
 1,394
2015
  
 1,380
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 Butzbach

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Hausberg tower, observation tower on the Hausberg ( 485.7  m ) with a view of, among other things, Hoch-Weisel, Wetterau and Taunus .
  • Half-timbered houses , some from the 16th century

Regular events

  • The parish fair (Hoyer) on the second Sunday after Pentecost , which has been celebrated since 1572.

Natural spaces

Economy and Infrastructure

Sons and daughters of Hoch-Weisel

  • August Becker (born August 17, 1812 in Hoch-Weisel; † March 26, 1871 in Cincinnati), Hessian journalist and politician as well as former member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • Konrad Philipp Diehl (born November 15, 1873 in Hoch-Weisel; † August 30, 1959 ibid), mayor of Hoch-Weisel and member of the state parliament

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hoch-Weisel, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 7, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population of the individual city districts. In: Internet presence. City of Butzbach, archived from the original ; accessed on May 22, 2018 . (archived numbers)
  3. ^ Incorporation of the communities Hoch-Weisel, Nieder-Weisel, Ostheim and Pohl-Göns into the town of Butzbach in the Friedberg district on December 10, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 52 , p. 2447 , point 2466 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 360 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 103 kB) § 5. In: Website. City of Butzbach, accessed February 2019 .
  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. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  8. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 8 ( online at google books ).
  9. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 418 ( online at Google Books ).

Web links

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