Langenhain-Ziegenberg

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Langenhain-Ziegenberg
Ober-Mörlen municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 218  (207–250)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.19 km²
Residents : 1391
Population density : 137 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 61239
Area code : 06002

Langenhain-Ziegenberg is a district of the municipality of Ober-Mörlen in the Wetterau district of Hesse .

geography

Langenhain-Ziegenberg is located in the east of the eastern Hintertaunus , on the edge of the western Wetterau in the Taunus Nature Park on the edge of the forest west of Ober-Mörlen. To the south of the village the federal highway 275 and the state highway L 3056 meet .

history

Evangelical Church of Langenhain-Ziegenberg
Engraving by Merian 1655

Langenhain-Ziegenberg was created around 1820 from the merger of the previously independently managed villages of Langenhain and Ziegenberg. The name form Hayn was first documented in 1280, there is a mention of Langenhayn from 1341, and the place name of the Czigenberge has been handed down from 1388. The area was settled much earlier. a. the Limes with the Roman fort Langenhain . To the south of this there is a reconstructed Roman watchtower on the Gaulskopf .

The parish church was built in 1630.

Until 1806 the two places belonged to the barons Löw von und zu Steinfurth . Then Langenhain and Ziegenberg came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the course of mediatization . The lower jurisdiction remained with the landlords and was exercised from 1820 by the Ziegenberg Patrimonial Court. In 1822 the “Grand Ducal Hessian District Court of the Barons of Löw” belonging to the district of Butzbach was founded in Friedberg in which the patrimonial court was incorporated. It was only as a result of the March Revolution of 1848 that the special civil rights were finally abolished with the “Law on the Relationships of Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848.

On February 1, 1971, the municipality of Langenhain was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Ober-Mörlen as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Castle

The former tower castle in Ziegenberg was built in the middle of the 14th century by the Lords of Falkenstein. After several changes of ownership and partial destruction in the Thirty Years War , the complex was expanded by Eitel von Diede into a baroque palace with a simple facade in 1747 . Only the round keep of the original castle remained. During the Second World War (March 1945) the castle was almost completely destroyed in an air raid, as it had become a military target of the Allies as part of the Fuehrer's headquarters in Adlerhorst . The castle was rebuilt after the war. Today there are condominiums in the complex.

Cultural monuments

see list of cultural monuments in Langenhain-Ziegenberg

traffic

In the local public transport the place is part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and can be reached with the assigned bus line FB-35 of the Verkehrsgesellschaft Oberhessen .

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . This follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube . In addition, the Limesweg runs through Langenhain-Ziegenberg as a section of the German Limes hiking trail .

Web links

Commons : Langenhain-Ziegenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ziegenberg in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Langenhain, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 21, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Ziegenberg, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ The merger of the two previous Löwischen patrimonial courts in one district court on November 13, 1822 . In: Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior and Justice (Ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1822 no.  36 , p. 520 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 36.6 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 360 .
  6. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).