Hohenroth (Driedorf)

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Hohenroth
Driedorf municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 36 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 596  (588-643)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.54 km²
Residents : 191  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 54 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 35759
Area code : 02775

Hohenroth is one of the nine districts of the municipality of Driedorf in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse . The place in the eastern Westerwald has about 190 inhabitants. With the Höllberg , the highest Hessian mountain in the Westerwald is located here.

geography

The place is located in the eastern Hohen Westerwald about 12 km southwest of Herborn and 38 km northeast of Montabaur . The distance to Siegen is about 38 km and to Wetzlar 33 km. Hohenroth on the Hessian border with Rhineland-Palatinate . The distance to the border triangle Hesse - Rhineland-Palatinate - North Rhine-Westphalia is around 5 km. The district of the place has a size of 3.55 km².

The neighboring places are, from the north, on the state border, starting in clockwise direction: Waldaubach , Heisterberg , Driedorf , Mademühlen (all the municipality of Driedorf in the Lahn-Dill district). After the state border follow: Rehe and Homberg in the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod of the Westerwaldkreis .

The district is mainly in a side valley of the Rehbach , a tributary of the Dill . The Höllberg ( 642.8  m ) rises to the north-east of the village . To the northwest is the Großefeld mountain ( 619.4  m ). Southwest of the village, already in Rhineland-Palatinate, is the Krimberg ( 596.2  m ).

history

The place was probably built in the 9th / 10th. Century, when extensive clearing became necessary for new locations in the Westerwald .

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

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 Hohenroth was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Population development

Hohenroth: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 171
1840
  
 148
1846
  
 142
1852
  
 162
1858
  
 150
1864
  
 152
1871
  
 129
1875
  
 147
1885
  
 136
1895
  
 132
1905
  
 131
1910
  
 130
1925
  
 148
1939
  
 167
1946
  
 204
1950
  
 209
1956
  
 193
1961
  
 189
1967
  
 197
1970
  
 186
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2003
  
 202
2006
  
 206
2010
  
 183
2014
  
 187
2017
  
 191
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: 136 Protestant (= 100.00%) residents
• 1961: 157 Protestant (= 83.07%), 32 Catholic (= 16.93%) 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 Kurt Göbel. A local advisory board consists of five members. The town council has told the local council proposal and right to be heard in matters that affect the town. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Ann-Christin Nickel is the mayor .

Culture and sights

In the center of Hohenroth is the former school house with a prayer room on the upper floor. The building was erected in 1757. The half-timbered house has a gable roof with a turret .

Economy and Infrastructure

The place has a village community center.

traffic

The place is near the B 255 from Herborn via Driedorf to Montabaur. The next train station is in Herborn and offers a connection to the Dill route . There are bus connections to Driedorf, Rehe and Herborn. The distance to Frankfurt airport is 108 km, to Cologne / Bonn approx. 107 km.

education

There is no kindergarten in Hohenroth. This 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 Hohenroth, 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.