Langenaubach

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Langenaubach
City of Haiger
The coat of arms of Langenaubach
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 360  (320-580)  m
Area : 9.87 km²
Residents : 1631  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 165 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Incorporated into: Haiger
Postal code : 35708
Area code : 02773
Langenaubach from a bird's eye view
Langenaubach from a bird's eye view

Langenaubach is a district of the town of Haiger in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .

On December 31, 2017, Langenaubach had a total of 1631 inhabitants, of which approx. 65% were Protestant and approx. 10% were Catholic. East of the village is the former iron ore mine “Constanze” . Langenaubach is located on the Rothaarsteig .

geography

location

Langenaubach is located in the northeastern foothills of the Westerwald at the interface with the Rothaargebirge on the Aubach , which is adjacent to the north and is primarily responsible for the name of the place. Langenaubach borders on the following districts: Flammersbach in the north, Oberdresselnorf in the northwest, Niederdresselnorf in the northwest, Rabenscheid in the southwest, Breitscheid in the south, Medenbach in the southeast, Donsbach in the east, and Haiger in the northeast. Due to the rare plants, fossils and archaeological finds, parts of the district are under nature protection.

Streets

The place is about three kilometers southwest of Haiger on the L3044 to Rabenscheid . The county road 41 branches from the village center to the south off after Breitscheid . An asphalt farm road connects Langenaubach with Donsbach .

Hiking trails

The Rothaarsteig long-distance hiking trail , which leads through the wooded low mountain range to Brilon in North Rhine-Westphalia , touches the district on its south side. The log cabin above the village is a popular resting point on weekends.

Waters

There are several streams and rather small, stagnant bodies of water in the municipal area.

Lakes

  • Bomb crater (filled with water) near the log cabin
  • Settling basin of the clay pit "Iphigenie" (right side of the valley, Goerg & Schneider GmbH)
  • Basalt quarry "Am Hohenbühl" (natural monument not far from the forest path south of the Aubach to Rabenscheid)
  • "Haupts Bruch" (water-filled) (basalt quarry in the forest area south of the village; In den Große Raupern, corridor 15, piece 307)
  • (various) fish ponds above the village towards Rabenscheid
  • (various) fish ponds below the mill ditch between the old mill and Backes

Streams

history

Settlement sites

Settlements from around 4500 BC are in the area. Proven. In the Raupern, Grauborn, Rechelsborn and Gewenn rests of these settlements can still be found today.

Other old settlement areas within the district are:

  • House Marianne
  • In Rombach
  • Lime hedge
  • Mill
  • Wild woman's house

Historical key points

Langenaubach, or a citizen of Aubach, was first mentioned in a document on January 17, 1281. In a dispute between the Teutonic Order and the Knights of Haiger in 1281, 'Hartmannus von Ubach' was held captive for a short time in the Marburg region. At that time the place was called Ubach , like the stream flowing through it . Later it was renamed Langenaubach to better distinguish it from the Waldaubach, also called Ubach . It is documented that Ubach was used as a place name around 1500. Based on the name, it can be assumed that the place could have been built before 500 AD.

Langenaubach already owned a chapel on April 30, 1452 with Nassau-Dillenburg patronage. Langenaubach had its own mill around 1495. In 1590 Langenaubach belonged to the parish of Haiger.

The introduction of the Reformation in the county of Nassau-Dillenburg from 1533 also led to a change of confession in the village. Around 1575 there was another change to the reformed creed.

The place burned down for the first time in 1718.

The former municipal office and today's chapel from 1749 form the old town center. This building survived the second village fire together with a few others (mill, Dellner-Dreisbachs-Haus). The bell of the chapel is much older than the chapel itself. It shows the year 1400 and is probably the oldest bell in the former Dill district with an exact indication of the year.

On June 24th, 1813 the second big village fire occurred in which 57 houses, 56 barns and 30 stables and sheds fell victim to the fire. However, not a single resident lost his life. The damage caused was estimated at 28,950 guilders. The reconstruction of the already elongated place took place as a street village in its present form. On the night of July 8th to 9th, 1832, another major fire broke out.

In 1908 electricity came to the village. Electricity was supplied by a mill, which made life easier for the residents. The neighboring town of Flammersbach, however, had to wait many years for electric light. For many years, the independent municipality of Langenaubach was so prosperous due to the mining of natural resources and the income from forestry that no municipal taxes were levied.

The place used to have a train station ( Rabenscheid train station ) on the Haiger – Breitscheid railway line opened in 1926 . The route was closed in 1997. After 2010, the tracks and ballast were dismantled and various underpasses demolished.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Langenaubach and other municipalities were incorporated into the city of Haiger on January 1, 1977 by virtue of state law . A local district was not established for Langenaubach.

school

There is a school chronicle that began in 1819 and gives a detailed account of the Langenaubach school. Since 1660 teachers in Langenaubach have been explicitly named by name. The first teacher, Johann Reiffenberger, taught several generations of the villagers for more than fifty years. Even before that, vicarious chaplains or talented farmers were active as teachers. Classes were held in the various houses. The reward was i. d. Usually instead of in kind. The first school building was built in 1817. It consisted of a single classroom and a one-room apartment for the teacher. Since then, teachers in the village have been 'permanently assigned'. They were referred to as 'school vicars' or school assistants. After an increase in the population and with it the number of students, they became full-fledged teachers of the place. On November 16, 1911, the inauguration of the new elementary school in Langenaubach was celebrated. It became necessary at the beginning of the 19th century. a new school building due to the number of students of almost 60. At times a class had to be taught in the town hall. Since 1973, students from neighboring Flammersbach and Langenaubach have been taught together in a new primary school building.

post Office

For many years , all postal service tasks for the town and, in the meantime, for the neighboring Flammersbach were carried out in the Langenaubacher post building, the listed old school . The pension for both places was paid out here. In addition, a notice box informed the residents about official announcements and the expected weather. Apart from the town hall, only the post office had a telephone connection, so many personal messages were passed on and received from here. For a long time, post office owner Louis Becker owned the only bicycle in town. It often happened that he had to drive to Haiger to get medicine or to do other important things for the villagers there.

Mills

The Aubach drove at least nine grinding mills in the past. Two of them were still in operation in 1961. In 1972 'Röders Mühle', the 'last of its kind', finally stopped work.

Pits and quarries

Langenaubach's special geological location is due to the large number of natural resources and different types of rock. Already around 1600 there were lime burners in Langenaubach. Mortar lime was burned in simple ovens for the foundation walls of houses, but also for fortifications, e.g. B. Dillenburg Castle. Lime was also delivered to a distillery in Haiger. At the beginning of the 19th century there were still several limestone quarries in the Langenaubach district: in 'Innersch Loch', in 'Aljerschhaa', in 'Rommuch', in 'Schleißberg', in front of 'Hirzeberg' and in 'Kalkhecke'.

Various basalt quarries (e.g. "Haupts Bruch", a basalt quarry not far from the Rabenscheider tunnel of the company Wilhelm Haupt + Söhne at the time and the basalt quarry "Am Hohenbühl") supplied raw material for paving stones.

The Marianne , Trieschberg and Hasenstollen mines (just on the Rabenscheid district) supplied lignite. In Haiger, not far from the Lembach, was the Gesegnete Hoffnung mine , in which copper was mined. In the Donsbach area in the upper Selmbach valley there was the old hope mine, through which copper was also extracted. In addition to basalt, limestone, red slate, black slate and clay, iron ore was also mined in the Langenaubach district. From 1836 to 1963 the Constanze mine supplied Fluß- or Roteisenstein. Today, the mine is integrated into the water supply of the city of Haiger as the most important first-class water supplier.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Langenaubach: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 420
1840
  
 466
1846
  
 464
1852
  
 508
1858
  
 531
1864
  
 575
1871
  
 616
1875
  
 640
1885
  
 727
1895
  
 726
1905
  
 784
1910
  
 841
1925
  
 1,031
1939
  
 1,243
1946
  
 1,532
1950
  
 1,596
1956
  
 1,655
1961
  
 1,753
1967
  
 1,877
1970
  
 1,958
1985
  
 ?
2005
  
 1,873
2008
  
 1,807
2011
  
 1,798
2013
  
 1,655
2017
  
 1,631
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: City of Haiger

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 0723 Protestant (= 99.45%), 3 Catholic (= 0.41%) and one other (= 0.14%) Christian.
• 1961: 1564 Protestant (= 89.22%) and 164 Catholic (= 9.36%) residents
• 2005: 1385 Protestant (= 73.95%), 188 Catholic (= 10.04%) and 374 other (= 19.97%) residents

coat of arms

On October 9, 1968, the municipality of Langenaubach in what was then Dillkreis was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : A black tip growing out of a green U-shaped shield edge on a gold background.

Culture and sights

societies

There is a lively club life in the village:

  • Aubachtaler musicians e. V.
  • Mining friends "Constanze"
  • Carl Gustav Friends Langenaubach e. V.
  • YMCA Langenaubach
  • Evangelical parish of Langenaubach
  • Langenaubach volunteer fire brigade V.
  • Choral society "Sängerkranz" Langenaubach
  • Heimat- und Wanderfreunde Langenaubach e. V.
  • Small animal breeding association Langenaubach e. V.
  • SSV Langenaubach 1920 eV
  • Shooting Club Constanze e. V. Langenaubach
  • Tennis club "Constanze" Langenaubach e. V.
  • VdK local group Langenaubach

Jokes

Locally proverbial, special but generally related characteristics of the inhabitants produced a lot of, mostly well-intentioned, jokes that characterize them as "East Frisians of the Westerwald".

Aubacher quarter

An “Aubacher Viertel” - half a meat sausage - is locally famous. Two master butchers in the village, Manfred and Christian Schneider, even patented the term in 2015. The brand name “Aubacher Viertel” is registered under the German brand number DE302014067942. The fact that the Langenaubach sausage is well known a few decades ago could even be bought in Frankfurt am Main.

Buildings

Natural monuments

Wild woman's house

A striking landmark of Langenaubach is the Wildweiberhäuschen, not far from the L3044 state road. The rock protrudes from the forest at around 30 meters. The area around the Wildweiberhäuschen is a popular destination for geologists and excursions, as a large number of fossils can be found here. There are many legends about this natural monument that are told in the village. There is the legend of the "wild women" and a legend about a lost treasure. In 1953, a silver treasure consisting of 87 coins was actually discovered in a cave below the rock. The coins found date from between 1150 and 1300 AD and are of very different geographical origin.

Personalities

literature

  • Kurt-W. Schultz, 700 years of Langenaubach: 1281–1981; Contributions to the older and more recent history of our village; published for the festival week from 22. – 30. August 1981 on the occasion of the first documentary mention of Langenaubach on January 17, 1281 , Haiger, 1981.
  • Karl Löber: Langenaubach: a home book , Langenaubach, Weidenbach 1961
  • Literature on Langenaubach in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Search for Langenaubach in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Area by district. In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; accessed in March 2018 .
  2. ↑ Population statistics . (PDF) In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on March 25, 2018 ; accessed in March 2018 .
  3. ↑ Population statistics on the community website www.haiger.de. (PDF; 8 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 25, 2018 ; Retrieved January 23, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Langenaubach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ a b Langenaubach on the community website. Accessed April 2019 .
  6. ↑ Karl Löber: Festschrift to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Haiger church consecration . Ed .: joint publishing house of Ev. Parish and municipality of Haiger. Haiger 1948.
  7. ↑ Presentation of Ortwin Issfeid from Herborn to the pastor in Langenaubach , document in the Hessian State Archives
  8. ^ Certificate in the Hessian State Archives
  9. ↑ Thomas Spohn (ed.): Building according to regulations, authority exerting influence on building and living in north-west Germany (14th to 20th centuries) . Waxmann, Münster 1983, ISBN 3-8309-1147-5 , pp. 329 .
  10. ↑ Old cadastral map "saved". Retrieved April 6, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b c d e f Hubert Georg Quarta (ed.): Langenaubach in old views . European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands, Langenaubach 1985, ISBN 90-288-2978-4 , p. 80 .
  12. ^ Files in the Hessian State Archives
  13. ↑ 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 ., § 25 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  14. ^ 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).
  15. ↑ HHStAW inventory 360/187: affiliation of Haiger  In: archive information system Hesse (Arcinsys Hessen).
  16. ↑ a b Population figures 2005. In: Website. City of Haiger, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  17. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag for the municipality of Langenaubach in the Dill district on October 9, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1968 No. 44 , p. 1629 , point 1251 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,9 MB ]).
  18. ^ Associations in Haiger. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 6, 2017 ; Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Regional articles from February 17, 1915: Aubacher Viertel is patented
  20. ↑ TMDB - Easy Trademark Search and Filing: Aubacher Viertel, Marke (2014), accessed on April 6, 2017 ( Memento from April 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive )