Kröffelbach

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Kröffelbach
Municipality Waldsolms
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 44 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 226 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.65 km²
Residents : 779  (Jan 1, 2008)
Population density : 117 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35647
Area code : 06085

Kröffelbach is a district of the central Hessian community Waldsolms in the southern Lahn-Dill district .

geography

The place is in the Solmsbachtal of the eastern Hintertaunus . At the same time, Kröffelbach is located in the Taunus Nature Park . In the village, the Mühlbach flows from the northeast into the Solmsbach. The village is bordered by dense forest on the west side.

history

The year 777 is assumed to be the first mention of Kröffelbach. A documented first mention of the property bears witness to an Arnoldus de Cruftelbach , who on March 28, 1300 undertook to pay the Wetzlar monastery with other tenants . The place belonged to the Quembach court . In 1348 the Kröffelbach castle is said to have been inhabited. The residents of the castle belonged to the noble family von Cröftel , who probably perished in the following years from the plague . The castle then fell into disrepair and the village came under the rule of the Counts of Solms in the Braunfels office .

The village church is first mentioned in 1397. After the Reformation , which reached the village in 1558, the community and Kraftsolms formed a parish, with the seat remaining in Kröffelbach. In the meantime Niederquembach was a branch church of the parish.

At the beginning of the 19th century Kröffelbach was assigned to the mayor's office Schöffengrund in the Prussian district of Braunfels . From 1876 the Jewish community had its own synagogue in a converted half-timbered house in Kröffelbach. In 1938 the building was badly damaged and had to be demolished.

After the Second World War , the village became a new home for many expellees from Hungary and the Sudetenland . In 1950 they made up more than a quarter of the town's total population.

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse , the independent municipality of Kröffelbach merged with five other municipalities to form the new large municipality of Waldsolms.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Kröffelbach: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 342
1840
  
 357
1846
  
 382
1852
  
 373
1858
  
 363
1864
  
 387
1871
  
 388
1875
  
 390
1885
  
 354
1895
  
 367
1905
  
 401
1910
  
 416
1925
  
 422
1939
  
 531
1946
  
 597
1950
  
 672
1956
  
 670
1961
  
 679
1967
  
 636
1970
  
 717
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: 330 evangelical 13 Jewish residents
• 1961: 520 Protestant (= 76.58%), 155 Catholic (= 22.83%) residents

Cultural monuments

Half-timbered house in Kirchstrasse from 1666

Transport and infrastructure

On the western edge of the village, the L 3053 runs from Braunfels to Brandoberndorf and on to Butzbach . In the village, the L 3284 branches off in the direction of Schöffengrund .

Kröffelbach is served in local transport by the overland bus routes 160, 171, 174 and 177. In the neighboring town of Brandoberndorf is the end point of the Taunusbahn and thus connection to the local rail transport in the Rhine-Main area .

There is a kindergarten and a volunteer fire brigade in the village . In addition, the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Saint Anthony with an attached theology college is located on the northern outskirts .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Kröffelbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 24, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 380 .
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ↑ 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. 250 ( online at google books ).