Horresses

Horresses City of Montabaur Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	281  (267-298)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.82 km²
Residents :	1759  (Aug 1, 2018)
Population density :	624 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 22, 1972
Postal code :	56410
Area code :	02602
Location of Horressen in Rhineland-Palatinate
View to Horressen at the foot of the Montabaurer Höhe with the Köppel (left; observation tower) and the alarm pole (right; telecommunications towers),

Horressen (dialect "Horse") is a district and a local district of Montabaur in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The place used to be dominated by agriculture, today it is a place of residence in the sense of a commuter community . Until 1972 Horressen was an independent municipality in what was then the Unterwesterwaldkreis .

geography

The village of Horressen is located on the edge of the Montabaurer Höhe in the northern part of the Western Forest part of the Nassau Nature Park, about three kilometers southwest of downtown Montabaur. In the north lies the Montabaur district of Elgendorf , in the south the local community Niederelbert . The state forest of Montabaur extends west of Horressen .

history

Middle Ages and Electoral Trier times

Horressen lies in the area of ​​the Bannes and parish of Humbach (later called Montabaur), which was first described between 930 and 959 . The place was first mentioned under the name "Orusin" in the 1220 inventory of the Archdiocese of Trier " Liber annalium iurium ". Every year 300 earthen  (?) Bowls were to be delivered to the sovereign. In 1498 the place was called "Hoyrhuszen", in the middle of the 16th century "Horhusen" and "Horhausen", in the 18th century "Horresen" and "Horressen". The place name means: a settlement on swampy ground (Hor = swamp).

Another derivation of the place name also refers to this swampy ground. However, on the fact that initially no permanent settlement was possible there, only isolated hordes lived. From this, today's place name developed from the original "Hordenhausen".

Unlike the other villages in the Electorate of Montabaur , Horhausen (Horressen) did not belong to a "colliery" (administrative district) and also had no Heimburger (local chief), but was listed under the suburbs of Montabaur. The inhabitants of Horhausen / Horressen were not serfs, but essentially equal to the citizens of the city. In 1548 the place had eleven fire places, which corresponds to about 60 inhabitants.

In 1786 Horressen had 191 inhabitants.

Nassau and Prussian times

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Horressen belonged to the right bank of the Rhine from Kurtrier , which was assigned to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg in 1803 as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . After the formation of the Rhine Confederation , Horressen belonged to the Duchy of Nassau from 1806 . Under the Nassau administration, Horressen was assigned to the Nassau Office of Montabaur and until 1815 to the administrative district of Ehrenbreitstein, then to the administrative district of Wiesbaden .

At the beginning of the Nassau period, Horressen was no longer assigned to the suburbs of Montabaur, but gained its independence as an independent municipality. According to statistics from the Duchy of Nassau from 1843, the municipality of Horressen had 419 inhabitants who lived with 94 families in 60 houses. The residents were without exception Catholic.

The local tradition that men wore so-called "horserboxes" all year round also came from this Nassau period. These were more than knee-length trousers, comparable to today's capri trousers. The tradition was maintained until the 1980s and such trousers are still called "horserbox" in the lower Westerwald district .

In 1866 the Duchy of Nassau was annexed by Prussia . The municipality of Horressen became part of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau in 1867 and belonged to the then newly formed Unterwesterwaldkreis . In 1946 the Horressen community became part of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

emigration

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As part of the wave of emigration from the then Duchy of Nassau , especially in the years 1817 to 1854, several residents from Horressen (4 families occupied) decided to settle in Texas in order to find a better life there.

They were involved in the founding of Fredericksburg in 1846 and acquired land in the area.

In memory of their old hometown - dialect "Horse" - they called this "Horse-Ranch". The name has remained to this day.

Incorporation

Fountain

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform that had begun in the mid-1960s , the previously independent municipality of Horressen was incorporated into the city of Montabaur on April 22, 1972 with 1,298 inhabitants.

church

Horressen always belonged to the parish of Humbach / Montabaur in the Archdiocese of Trier , which in 1827 was assigned to the then newly established diocese of Limburg . It was not until 1870 that a separate chapel was built in the village. The construction of today's parish church of St. John the Baptist began in 1949 and was consecrated on April 14, 1952 by Limburg Bishop Wilhelm Kempf . At the same time Horressen was raised to a separate parish with Elgendorf . The parish vicarie of St. John the Baptist in Horressen is now part of the pastoral area of ​​Montabaur.

school

In 1834 a school house was built in Horressen. Before that, the children of Horressen went to school in Montabaur and later in Elgendorf (schoolhouse since 1823). The children of the village also went to school in Montabaur until the middle of the 18th century and later in Elgendorf. In 1834 a school house was built in the village. In 1922 two teachers and one teacher worked in Horressen. Today the primary school students from Horressen and Elgendorf go to the "forest school", which was built in 1967 on the border between Horressen and Elgendorf. In addition, the "Heinrich Roth Realschule plus" in Horressen has a branch.

District

The Horressen district includes the Horressen district with the exception of the “Horresser Berg” and “Lindchen” industrial areas and the “Christches Weiher” residential building area. The interests of the local district are represented by a local council and a local councilor.

The local advisory council consists of nine members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Guido Fuchs became the mayor of Horressen in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of 91.98% of the votes.

Infrastructure

For the cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Horressen .

• The Horressen Voluntary Fire Brigade was founded in 1928. Today's fire fighting group Horressen is part of the Montabaur base fire brigade.
• The sports hall of the "Forest School" in Horressen has a multi-purpose area and offers space for around 360 people.
• The kindergarten “St. Johannes ”in Horressen is sponsored by the Catholic parish of St. Johannes.

traffic

• Horressen is connected to  downtown Montabaur via Landesstraße 327. In a southerly direction the L 327 leads to the federal highway 49 and into the local community Niederelbert .
• Horressen is served by the regional buses on line 460 (Koblenz-Neuhäusel-Montabaur) operated by the Rhein-Mosel-Bus company every day, approximately every hour.

See also

• Horressen special ammunition depot

Web links

Commons : Horressen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• District Horressen on the sides of the city of Montabaur
• Horressen in this country

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics of the Montabaur municipal authority administration
2. ↑ Josef Hörle: Die westerwälder deadlines, the tenth district of the church in Montabaur , archive for Middle Rhine church history, 5th year 1953, p. 363 ff ( online edition at dilibri )
3. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Volume 2, Hölscher, Coblenz 1865, p. 424 ( online edition at dilibri )
4. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau , 1843, p. 673 ( online edition at Google Books )
5. ^ Paul Vogt: Die Ortnames im Engersgau , Neuwied: Strüder, 1890, p. 25 ( online edition at dilibri )
6. ↑ ^{a b} Melchior Thamm: Directory of the villages and fireplaces as well as the pensions and validities of foreign masters in the city and under the spell of Monthabaur, anno domini 1548 , Montabaur: Sauerborn, 1906, p. 37 ff. ( Online edition at dilibri )
7. ↑ Melchior Thamm: The Montabaur official description of the Trier court councilor Damian Linz from the year 1786, Montabaur: Sauerborn, 1909, p. 9 ( online edition at dilibri )
8. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel: Description of the Duchy of Nassau , Beyerle, 1843, p. 669 ( online edition at Google Books )
9. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 187 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
10. ↑ Pastoral area Montabaur
11. ^ Westerwald address book, 1922, p. 168
12. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Montabaur (PDF; 121 kB) from July 15, 2004, as of April 15, 2010
13. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Board Election 2019 Horressen. Retrieved June 22, 2020 . 
14. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate - election of the local councilor ( memento from June 16, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
15. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Montabaur, Verbandsgemeinde, 19th line of results. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .