Holzhausen (Burbach)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holzhausen
municipality Burbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 6 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 343  (320-410)  m
Area : 10.59 km²
Residents : 2311  (2015)
Population density : 218 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 57299
Area code : 02736
map
Location of the place Holzhausen within the municipality of Burbach.
Holzhausen train station

Holzhausen is a district of the municipality of Burbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia . With around 2311 inhabitants, the place is the second largest in the municipality after Burbach.

geography

Holzhausen is located in Hickengrund in the southern Siegerland directly on the Westphalian-Hessian border. The place is located in the valley between the mountain ridge Die Höh (up to 598 m) in the north and the foothills of the Westerwald in the south at an altitude of approx. 380 m above sea level. NN. Holzhausen is about 7 km south-east of Burbach, 25 km south-east of Siegen and 12 km north-west of Dillenburg . There is a connection to the federal motorway 45 and the B 54 . There is also a stop on the Betzdorf – Haiger railway line .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are Würgendorf in the north, Allendorf in the northeast, Haiger and Flammersbach in the east, Niederdresselnorf in the south, Lützeln in the southwest and Burbach (Siegerland) in the west.

history

In 1326 the place Holzhausen was first mentioned in a document. The wooden houses chapel was completed around 1450. In 1607 Holzhausen was repared from Haiger to the parish of Niederdresselnorf and the Hickengrund was moved by Georg von Beilstein to the Burbach district bailiff. The assignment of the Hickengrund was then changed in 1739 to the Nassau-Dietz line based in Dillenburg. In 1550 the place had a Latin school and in 1584 a German school was added. In 1634 the Swedes attacked the place. From 1806 to 1812 the Hickengrund was part of the Duchy of Nassau, which was newly established under Napoleon , and in 1816 Holzhausen became part of the Prussian district of Siegen. In 1820 Holzhausen was the second largest municipality in Siegerland with 800 inhabitants after Weidenau . The Gießen – Cologne railway line runs through the Hickengrund and was opened in 1861. In 1900 there were 900 inhabitants in the place. In 1903 paths were laid in all corridors. Water pipes were laid in 1904, and the first electricity came in 1913.

The first victim of the Nazis in Siegerland was a village boy from Holzhausen. He was shot dead in his parents' house on July 7, 1932. The Americans liberated the place on March 27, 1945.

In 1966 Holzhausen won the competition " Our village should be more beautiful ". This was repeated in 2002. In 1968 a bypass road was built. On January 1, 1969, the Burbach office was dissolved and the place was incorporated into the new larger municipality of Burbach as part of the municipal reorganization . In 2001 the 675th anniversary of the town took place.

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents
1818 773
1885 883
1895 809
1905 903
year Residents
1910 902
1925 1001
1933 1021
1939 998
year Residents
1950 1252
1961 1392
1967 1737
1994 2377

Former mayor

  • 1956–1969: Erich Krumm († August 3, 2000)

Infrastructure and traffic

Road traffic

  • Holzhausen is located northwest of the 730 highway and south of the 54 federal highway .
  • There is no major road through the town. At the eastern end of the L 730, the L 911 branches off towards Allendorf.
  • The next slip road to the A 45 is "Haiger-Burbach" and is 3 km north of the village.

Rail transport

Holzhausen has a stop on the Hellertalbahn , here the line RB96 (Betzdorf (Sieg) - Herdorf - Neunkirchen - Haiger - Dillenburg) of the Hessische Landesbahn , operating area Dreiländerbahn, runs every hour.

Industrial settlement

A small industrial area is at the western end of the village.

Attractions

The place has a large number of historical buildings. The wooden houses church, whose building history dates back to the 13th century, is particularly worth seeing. In the bell tower there are two bells from 1450 and 1459. Furthermore, the half-timbered house with the name “Fiesterhannes” (in German “Fensterhannes”) from 1691 and the more than 250-year-old Backes are worth seeing.

School and free time

In 1560 there was the first Latin school in the village, 21 years later, in 1581, the reformed teaching was introduced. In 1998 the "old school" was restored.

Between 1877 and 1879, various associations were founded in the village, a political one was added in 1919, and the first local SPD association was founded in Siegerland. In addition to the above, there is a men's choir and a volunteer fire brigade in town.

In the south of the village is the sports field of the Sportgemeinschaft Hickengrund eV, which was founded in 1919.

Personalities

literature

  • Kurt Becker: Our fathers - the miners of the Bautenberg mine between Gilsbach and Wilden, Dill and Westerwald , Dillbrecht 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 69 .
  2. ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
  3. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 110/111
  4. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 112/113
  5. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
  6. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Burbach
  7. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 203 .
  9. ↑ Rolf Betz: Burbach ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwl.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.4 MB) , approx. 1995
  10. ^ " Honoring the dead", Siegerländer Heimatkalender 2001, p. 45, 76th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, Verlag für Heimatliteratur