Kraftsolms

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Kraftsolms
Municipality Waldsolms
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 22 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 203 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.53 km²
Residents : 855  (Jan 1, 2008)
Population density : 155 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35647
Area code : 06085
Solmser Strasse at the corner of Wehrstrasse

Kraftsolms 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 . Kraftsolms is also located in the Taunus Nature Park . The village is the northernmost part of Waldsolms and is surrounded by dense forests up to the east side. The highest point at Kraftsolms is the Buhlenberg at 363 meters above sea level.

Neighboring towns are Möttau (west), Niederquembach (north-west), Oberquembach (north), and Kröffelbach (south-east).

history

Protestant church

The origin of the name can be clearly derived from the Solmsbach, which is also the namesake of the Counts of Solms and several neighboring towns. The village is first mentioned in 1319 as a Craftsolmese . As early as 1395 Kraftsolms had its own church with a branch in Oberquembach and belonged to the Quembach court , which finally passed to the Solms counts in 1429 and 1462.

In 1440 a forest smithy near Kraftsolms is mentioned, which has existed for a long time, and later also a blast furnace hut (before 1586). The smelting of iron ore flourished for a long time, favored by the location on Hessenstrasse .

Kraftsolms belonged to the Solms office of Braunfels for a long time and later to the Prussian mayor's office of Braunfels . It was not until 1841 that the town became part of the Schöffengrund mayor's office .

Territorial reform

As a result of the Hessian regional reform , with effect from December 31, 1971, the independent municipality of Kraftsolms merged with another five municipalities to form the new large municipality of Waldsolms.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Kraftsolms: Population from 1834 to 1971
year     Residents
1834
  
 367
1840
  
 421
1846
  
 457
1852
  
 443
1858
  
 409
1864
  
 435
1871
  
 426
1875
  
 438
1885
  
 443
1895
  
 430
1905
  
 418
1910
  
 457
1925
  
 494
1939
  
 560
1946
  
 735
1950
  
 781
1956
  
 756
1961
  
 769
1967
  
 786
1971
  
 854
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: 367 Protestant residents, 10 Mennonites and 29 Jews
• 1961: 667 Protestant (= 86.74%), 83 Catholic (= 10.79%) residents

  • Historic bakery of the Schmiedenhof in Kraftsolms

  • Historical fair photo, villagers in front of the former restaurant zum Adler, Wehrstraße 2

  • Kraftsolms 1950

  • Old school in Kraftsolms 1952

Cultural monuments

Half-timbered individual monument, Wehrstraße 3, until 1991 Guterding village butcher's shop

Transport and infrastructure

The L 3053 runs through the village along the Solmsbach valley coming from Braunfels-Neukirchen via Brandoberndorf to Butzbach . In addition, the L 3054 runs from Möttau , where it branches off from the federal highway 456 , to Schöffengrund and Hüttenberg . From 1912 to 1985 Kraftsolms also had its own rail connection with a stop at the Solmsbachtalbahn from Grävenwiesbach to Wetzlar, which has since been dismantled.

Kraftsolms has a volunteer fire brigade , a local court and a village community center .

Web links

Commons : Kraftsolms  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Kraftsolms, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). 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 ).