Holzhausen (Greifenstein)

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Holzhausen
Community Greifenstein
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 43 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 242 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.55 km²
Residents : 818  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 125 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Incorporated into: Ulmtal
Postal code : 35753
Area code : 06478

Holzhausen is a district of the municipality of Greifenstein in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

geography

The place is on the lower Ulmbach , on the southern edge of the Westerwald , about 17 km west of the district town of Wetzlar and about 10 km east of the city of Weilburg .

Other cities in the area are Braunfels (approx. 10 km south), Herborn (approx. 20 km north) and Limburg an der Lahn (approx. 30 km south-west). It is about 70 km to Frankfurt am Main .

Holzhausen, Allendorf and Ulm (all Greifensteiner districts) together form the Ulmtal region , in which the economic focus of the municipality of Greifenstein is located.

Holzhausen currently has a designated 655 hectare area, which is made up of 206 hectares of agricultural land, 355 hectares of forest, 10 hectares of water and 84 hectares of building and traffic area. The Ulmbach flows through the village in an open stream. Its grounds, the beautiful half-timbered houses and the 700-year-old church significantly shape the villagescape of Holzhausen.

history

The history of the place begins with the documentary mention of a donation on May 28, 774 AD to the Lorsch Monastery. The transferred Holzhusen was a fairly large, not exactly insignificant agricultural property for that time, so that it can be assumed that the roots of the place go much further into the past than is mentioned in a document.

At Holzhausen there are still remnants of the Lichtenstein Castle, which was probably built around 1225, on the "Lichtenstein Castle Hill" .

In 1974 the Ulmtal parts of the community celebrated the 1200th anniversary of their localities.

In 1981 Holzhausen was the regional and district winner in the competition “Our village should be more beautiful”. In 1973 the wooden houses managed to get 2nd place in the state of Hesse (see list of winners in the national competition Our village has a future ).

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , on February 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Holzhausen merged voluntarily with the neighboring municipalities of Allendorf and Ulm to form the municipality of Ulmtal . Ulmtal was on 1 January 1977. by the law on the restructuring of Dill circle counties Giessen and Wetzlar and the town of Giessen with the community Greifenstein, Arborn , Beilstein , Nenderoth and Oderberg for new large village Greifenstein together - despite loud and strong protests especially Allendorf Citizens at the Hessian Parliament in Wiesbaden. The municipality of Ulmtal and thus also Holzhausen was originally intended to be incorporated into the city of Leun , but the Hessian state parliament decided against it in its last session before the regional reform. For Holzhausen, as for all formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was formed. The local part of Beilstein became the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Holzhausen: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 436
1840
  
 445
1846
  
 478
1852
  
 486
1858
  
 478
1864
  
 454
1871
  
 442
1875
  
 463
1885
  
 478
1895
  
 467
1905
  
 451
1910
  
 463
1925
  
 543
1939
  
 580
1946
  
 775
1950
  
 801
1956
  
 789
1961
  
 765
1967
  
 847
1970
  
 806
2011
  
 872
2014
  
 868
2017
  
 818
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: 435 Protestant and one Catholic resident
1961: 631 Protestant (= 82.48%), 116 Catholic (= 15.16%) residents

Local advisory board

For the district of Holzhausen there is a five-person local advisory board with a local councilor . After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the mayor is Alexander Ott.

Culture and sights

museum

In the "Old House", the wooden houses citizens have set up a local museum over many years, in which the wooden houses living culture around 1900 is shown under expert guidance.

Regular events

Annual events take place which, taking into account historical customs, are particularly worth seeing, such as the setting up of the maypole in traditional costume and the "May Day" on May 1st.

Traditionally, since 1986, on the first Saturday in December, under festive lighting, the “Nikolausmarkt” takes place in the center of Holzhausen, the net proceeds of which are used by the participants for charitable purposes in Holzhausen.

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Holzhausen-Holzhausen

Economy and Infrastructure

Facilities

Holzhausen has maintained the volunteer fire brigade since the 1920s . In 1920 the gymnastics and sports club TuSpo 1920 was also founded with its own premises. There is also a riding and driving club with its own hall, which is also used by the Vaulting and Horse Friends Holzhausen eV. Women's choir, choir, local history and tourist association, the VdK, the Association of German Shepherd Dogs and the Naturschutzbund complete a wide range of club programs. In May 2010, a DRK rescue station was set up.

Recreational facilities

Between 1963 and 1965 the Ulmtalsperre was built about 1.5 km above Holzhausen, which dams the Ulmbach in order to avoid flood damage in the village and which today serves as a bathing and leisure center in the Ulmtal region with the associated campsite.

traffic

In 1922 the Ulmtalbahn (popularly also known as the Balkan Express) from Stockhausen (connection to the Lahntalbahn) to Beilstein (an extension to the Westerwaldquerbahn was not possible due to the Second World War ) was completed, on the one hand to transport raw materials from the Ulmtal and on the other Enable passenger traffic. After the end of passenger traffic in 1976 and freight traffic in 1988, the Ulmtalbahn was shut down and dismantled shortly afterwards. Today a cycle path is to be built on the former route.

After the end of rail traffic on the Ulmtalbahn , the line was dismantled in the 1990s.

Road traffic

With the state road 3282 Holzhausen is connected to the classified road network. Since 1974 there have been demands for a bypass of the state road 3282. This bypass road was opened to traffic in December 2009. Holzhausen can be reached via the BAB 45 via the Ehringshausen and Wetzlar-Ost junctions and via the BAB 480 with the Aßlar junction . About 6 kilometers south of Holzhausen is the federal highway 49 , which is a fast connection to Wetzlar, Gießen , Limburg an der Lahn and Weilburg.

Transportation

Holzhausen is connected to local transport in Wetzlar by a bus line . There are also irregular connections to Solms , Ehringshausen , Stockhausen and the other Greifensteiner districts. As of December 9, 2007, the line concept in Greifensteiner Land will be completely changed. From this point on, the bus routes in the Ulmtal region will be operated and regularly served by a company from Weilburg.

Picture gallery

  • Evangelical Church (2011)

  • War Memorial (2009)

  • War Memorial (2009)

  • Fountain (2009)

  • Fountain (2009)

  • Half-timbered house (2011)

Web links

Commons : Holzhausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c data and facts. In: website. Greifenstein community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 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. 380 .
  4. ↑ 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 ., § 19 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 293
  6. ↑ Main statute of the community of Greifenstein § 6. Accessed in February 2019.
  7. ↑ a b c Holzhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ↑ 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. 249 ( online at google books ).
  10. ↑ Local advisory boards of the community of Greifenstein , accessed in March 2017.