Katzenfurt

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Katzenfurt
Community Ehringhausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 186 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.17 km²
Residents : 1910  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 266 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35630
Area code : 06449
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Location of Katzenfurt in Ehringshausen
Katzenfurt
Katzenfurt

Katzenfurt is a district of the Ehringshausen community in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .

geography

The village is located in the eastern part of the Westerwald , more precisely in the Lower Dill Valley . Daubhausen borders on Katzenfurt in the south and Greifenthal in the west . In the north the village is surrounded by forest. The next larger city is the district town of Wetzlar .

history

The place name is not derived from the cat, but from the Chatten , a Germanic tribe. The ford through the Dill was important as part of a trade route to Greifenstein Castle early on .

By Heinrich von Kaczenfurt the place in 1233 first mentioned, 1255 was followed by a mention of Mark Kaczenfurt itself.

Katzenfurt was assigned to the Centgericht in nearby Dillheim , and it also belonged to its parish as a branch. After the line to Solms-Greifenstein , whose possessions also included Katzenfurt, died out in 1390 , the place fell to the Counts of Solms-Burgsolms and in 1436 finally to the Counts of Solms-Braunfels .

During the Thirty Years War the village was raided and plundered several times. Therefore, some residents from Katzenfurt fled to Greifenstein .

At the beginning of the 19th century, the village became part of the mayor's office in Aßlar . In 1932 the mayor's offices in the Wetzlar district were dissolved, and Katzenfurt became an independent municipality.

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse on January 1, 1977, the communities Ehringshausen, Breitenbach, Daubhausen, Katzenfurt, Kölsch Hausen and Niederlemp were powerful state law to the new greater community Ehringhausen together . For Katzenfurt, as for all formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was set up. Ehringshausen remained the seat of the municipal administration.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Katzenfurt was mentioned under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Kaczenfurt, de (1233) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 6-7 No. 19]
  • Kazenvůrt, de (1239) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 9 No. 29]
  • Caczevort, de (1245) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 11 No. 7]
  • Kazzynvort, de (1245) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 12 No. 41]
  • Caczenfurt, de (1248) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 14 No. 47]
  • Kaczenfurt (1255) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 25 No. 75 (incomplete regest)]

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Katzenfurtwidth = 450: Population figures from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 554
1840
  
 656
1846
  
 697
1852
  
 661
1858
  
 691
1864
  
 738
1871
  
 714
1875
  
 736
1885
  
 708
1895
  
 763
1905
  
 938
1910
  
 978
1925
  
 1,025
1939
  
 1,208
1946
  
 1,577
1950
  
 1,691
1956
  
 1,688
1961
  
 1,809
1967
  
 1.919
1970
  
 1,988
2014
  
 1,900
2017
  
 1.910
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

• 1834: 508 Protestant residents, 12 Catholics, 36 Jews
• 1961: 1487 Protestant (= 82.20%), 304 Catholic (= 16.80%) inhabitants

Cultural monuments

see list of cultural monuments in Katzenfurt

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

Important and large employers in Katzenfurt are the family company HEDRICH Group, a mechanical engineering company in the electrical industry, and GIM & Lütticke Getränke GmbH.

Facilities

In addition to a bakery and village community center, there is also a gym. Katzenfurt also has a volunteer fire brigade , a kindergarten and a primary school. The arbitration office and the local court are also located in the village . There is a branch of the Volksbank Mittelhessen in Katzenfurt .

traffic

The federal road 277 runs through the village . In the village, the L 3282 branches off from the main road in the direction of Greifenstein-Holzhausen . The K 64 also runs from Sinn-Edingen via Katzenfurt and Daubhausen to Dillheim .

The village also has a stop on the Dill route and is served by local rail transport.

Web links

Commons : Katzenfurt  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ehringshausen community and districts. In: website. Ehringshausen community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ↑ 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 ., § 18 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 290. DNB 770396321
  4. ↑ a b c d Katzenfurt, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 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. ↑ 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 ).