Hofen (Runkel)

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Hofen
City of Runkel
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 34 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 184  (160–220)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.95 km²
Residents : 410  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 83 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 65594
Area code : 06482

Hofen is a district of Runkel in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

geography

Hofen is located in the northeast of the Limburg Basin , around two kilometers north of the core town of Runkel and around eight kilometers northeast of the district town of Limburg an der Lahn . In a sharply cut valley, the Kerkerbach flows south about one hundred meters east of the town .

The Hofener district is slightly stretched in a west-east direction and borders in the north-west on the Beselich district of Niedertiefenbach , in the north on the also Runkel district of Eschenau , in the north-east on a forest that belongs to the core town of Runkel, in the south on Schadeck and in the south-west to Steeden (all of Runkel's districts). The western part of the district consists of agricultural land and a large limestone quarry that supplies the lime works in the neighboring village of Steeden. The east of the district is characterized by the floodplain of the Kerkerbach and by a large mixed forest area that is only partially within the Hofener district. The district is 495.5 hectares, of which 132 hectares are forest.

The place lies at an altitude of 180 to 190 meters and seeks the protection of a side valley depression to the Kerkerbach. The western part of the district consists of gently sloping terrain that reaches a height of just over 220 meters at the edge of the limestone quarry. To the east of the village, the terrain quickly drops down to 130 meters in the Kerkerbachtal, only to rise again to 230 meters further east in the forest.

history

Hofen was first mentioned in a document in the 13th century.

Hofen is an agricultural village. In the first half of the 20th century there were up to 35 farms. The Protestant church in the town center was built from 1737. The school building from the 19th century and an old cattle scale are other listed buildings in the village. A half-timbered mill that was built in 1710 and now houses a restaurant is located south of the village in the Kerkerbachtal.

A fire engine was stationed in the municipality of Hofen in the first half of the 19th century . If a fire broke out, the residents had to fetch them immediately. It was deployed in its own fire fighting district, but was also requested from the neighboring fire fighting district of Obertiefenbach for reinforcement.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Hofen and other communities voluntarily merged with the city of Runkel on December 31, 1970. This made Hofen a district of Runkel. In 2002 the place was included in the village renewal program, as part of which several historic buildings were restored.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Hofen: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 287
1840
  
 300
1846
  
 299
1852
  
 316
1858
  
 320
1864
  
 344
1871
  
 341
1875
  
 326
1885
  
 355
1895
  
 313
1905
  
 314
1910
  
 292
1925
  
 278
1939
  
 235
1946
  
 380
1950
  
 409
1956
  
 376
1961
  
 373
1967
  
 353
1970
  
 392
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: 313 Protestant (= 88.17%), 37 Catholic (= 10.42%) and 5 (= 1.41%) Jewish residents
• 1961: 292 Protestant (= 78.28%), 81 Roman Catholic (= 21.72%) residents

politics

Mayor is Andreas Dorn (CDU).

Culture and sights

societies

Hofen has the Hofen volunteer fire brigade founded in 1934 (with youth fire brigade since August 13, 1992 ) and the gymnastics and sports club in association with the neighboring town of Eschenau.

Cultural monuments

  • church

  • War memorial

  • Former town hall school

  • Großscheune Wiesenstrasse 2

  • Residential building Wiesenstrasse 4

  • Unterhofen mill

The characteristic feature of the village is the almost straight main street, which was presumably reorganized in the 19th century after a fire. The street was terraced with a central retaining wall and divided into an upper and lower course. The small baroque church and the stately, classical town hall school are centrally located on the widest section of Unterdorfstrasse. Across the way, where the slope required another retaining wall, earth cellars were set up for storage. In the 19th century Hofen was known as a "Nassau model village". Individual barns are evidence of this time. The large barn on Wiesenstrasse 2 dominates the entire townscape from the valley side. A small barn building at the lower end of the village (Kerkerbachtalstraße 23) is characterized by an artistic mansard roof. A similar construction (Unterdorfstraße 8) was in the 1984 Hesse Park translocated .

Protestant church

The Protestant church is a small chapel-like building from 1737/40. On the (later?) Hipped roof sits a bell tower in the form of a ridge turret with a tail hood and a bell consisting of three bells. The flat-roofed interior has been largely renewed. Individual remains of the popular baroque painting have been preserved. In the former churchyard there are still some simple gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century. The new cemetery is a facility from the middle of the 19th century, when the small churchyard was no longer sufficient with the increasing number of inhabitants and was moved in a larger form to the north side of the village. The strictly rectangular quarry stone enclosure has a portal with articulated marble pillars and a forged iron gate. Behind it, two trees that are set at the same time and are now huge form a symbolic second entrance.

War memorial

The small war memorial was erected in 1909 on the upper edge of the village and in the central axis of the main street. It is a simple, small monument made of a base and pylon. It was built partly from artificial stone and partly from ashlar. At the front there is a wreath of honor in chased metal. The name plaques remind of three main events, a rarity in terms of monument typology: the liberation wars of 1813, the revolution of 1848 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 . Later plaque to commemorate those who fell in the two world wars.

Former town hall school

The classical building was built in 1820. It is a plaster half-timbered building on the main street with a complete and finely drawn structure. The tracery of the thermal bath windows in the gables, friezes and profiles should be emphasized. On the outer door frame is written in pedagogical Latin script: “Youth education and advice for community welfare Sey the determination. Be united in this house purpose, noble and useful. AEDIFIC: IN ANNO MDCCCXX ".

Courtyard complex Wiesenstrasse 2

The large barn on the lower edge of the village is remarkable. It is an unusual building, the broad side of which stands dominantly and like a bolt over the meadow and the valley landscape. The compensating, 4 meter high quarry stone basement is followed by three half-timbered floors and a full-story half-hipped roof, which is covered with small caterpillars on the village side. The barn was probably built between 1750 and 1800. The barn is the largest of its kind in the Limburg-Weilburg district. The elaborate, cast-iron courtyard fence reinforced with columns underlines that the small estate was one of the wealthiest in the place. The entire complex gives the almost closed impression of a courtyard around 1850.

House Wiesenstrasse 4

A narrow and elongated half-timbered building at the end of the village leading down to the valley. An actual part of the barn is not recognizable, so that there was most likely a sub-farm or craftsman's dwelling, perhaps also a shepherd's house. The one-zone, closed section on the north side with a barn opening on the upper floor is the oldest.

Barn Kerkerbachtalstrasse 23

The small, free-standing barn structure towers over the valley at the lower end of the entire complex. The gable side looks very powerful due to the elevated position and does not initially suggest the relatively small volume of the barn due to its short length. Erected around 1830 as a structurally simple half-timbered building. A little later, the settlement-like shed was built on the northeast gable. The high and carefully formed mansard gable roof , double-sided and with slats, is remarkable .

Unterhofen mill

In addition to the Oberhofener Mühle, which is not under monument protection, but is still in extremely poor condition, located south of the town, the so-called Unterhofener Mühle has been preserved. It is an extensive mill yard that was expanded several times, especially in the 19th century. From the oldest part, a residential and business house enlarged on the eaves, the two gables show themselves with good half-timbered ornamental shapes. The builder's inscription and the year 1740 can be found on the lintel. In addition to an oil mill that is no longer intact , electricity was generated early on using water power. The technology still used today is based on turbine operation . Among the other buildings, the house on the northeast side with its structural exposed framework is remarkable. The fountain inserted into the house wall and marked with the year 1855 is made of Lahn marble with a good structure. The electricity produced was delivered to the Main power plants via the integrated transformer tower as early as the 1920s.

Infrastructure

The volunteer fire brigade Hofen, founded in 1934 (since August 13, 1992 with youth fire brigade), provides fire protection and general help.

Web links

Commons : Hofen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hofen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts. In: website. City of Runkel, accessed August 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 town of Runkel on January 25, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 139 , point 156 ( 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. 372 .
  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. ↑ Committees. In: website. City of Runkel, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  8. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Complete system Hofen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  9. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Unterdorfstrasse 2: Evang. Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
  10. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Eschenauer Straße o. No .: Friedhof In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  11. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Eschenauer Straße o. No .: Monument In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  12. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Unterdorfstrasse 1: Former town hall school In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  13. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Wiesenstrasse 2 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  14. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Wiesenstrasse 4 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  15. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Kerkerbachtalstrasse 23: Scheune In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  16. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Hofener Mühle o. No .: Hofener Mühle In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  17. ↑ Hofner Mill. In: Private website. Retrieved December 19, 2017 .