Langenhain (Taunus)

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Langenhain
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Langenhain
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 11 ″  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 341 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.12 km²
Residents : 3410  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 307 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 65719
Area code : 06192

Langenhain , known by post as Langenhain (Taunus) before the regional reform in Hesse , is a district of the district town of Hofheim am Taunus in the Main-Taunus district in southern Hesse in the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main conurbation. Langenhain is the highest district and is known nationwide as the location of the European House of Worship of the Baha'i .

Geographical location

Langenhain is approx. 340 m high in the center of a mountain range of the Vordertaunus in the western Main-Taunus district that extends far south . The district is almost completely surrounded by those of the other Hofheim districts. In the north it borders on Wildsachsen and Lorsbach , in the east on the core city and Marxheim , in the south and southwest on Diedenbergen and Wallau . Only in the southwest does the Langenhain district form the Hofheim city limit to the Wiesbaden district of Breckenheim for a short stretch .

Langenhain is located on three sides by forest on the upper reaches of the Kasernbach , which flows south towards Weilbach and takes the name Weilbach there . North of the local situation and the subsequent Domherrnwaldes located in the forest district tree forest with 403.7 meters the highest point of Long Grove. A radio control center with a radio mast that can be seen from afar is located in the forest southwest of Langenhain on the Kartaus (351.4 meters).

history

The oldest surviving documentary mention as Langenhayn dates back to 1309 in a long-term lease between Dean Conrad and the Liebfrauenstift in Mainz. Langenhain developed on an important Roman and early medieval road connection from north to south, the so-called Hohe Straße .

For centuries Langenhain part of the Protestant little country and belonged to the time of the Duchy of Nassau for office Hochheim .

Forests, livestock and agriculture were the main sources of income for the inhabitants. They earned additional income from charcoal burning and peeling the oaks. The oak bark found buyers as tanneries in tanneries and the leather industry , namely in the nearby Lorsbach.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Langenhain voluntarily joined the city of Hofheim am Taunus on December 31, 1971, making it the second oldest district of today's district town of the Main-Taunus district after Marxheim. As for other parts of the city, a local district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up for Langenhain .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Occupied population figures up to 1987 are:

• 1564: 0027 families
• 1592: 0024 families
• 1610: 0028 households
• 1630: 0019 men, 2 widows and 2 guardians
• 1637: 0005 households
• 1655: 0008 households
• 1704: 0027 households
• 1775: 0058 families with 240 people
• 1791: 0349 inhabitants
• 1800: 0402 inhabitants
Langenhain: Population from 1775 to 1987
year     Residents
1775
  
 240
1791
  
 349
1800
  
 402
1817
  
 527
1834
  
 475
1840
  
 474
1846
  
 469
1852
  
 505
1858
  
 510
1864
  
 505
1871
  
 517
1875
  
 498
1885
  
 505
1895
  
 572
1905
  
 663
1910
  
 739
1925
  
 741
1939
  
 788
1946
  
 1,065
1950
  
 1,098
1956
  
 1,078
1961
  
 1,164
1967
  
 1,702
1970
  
 1,959
1987
  
 2,502
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

• 1885: 488 Protestant (= 96.63%), 4 Catholic (= 0.79%), 13 Jewish (= 2.57%) residents
• 1961: 940 Protestant (= 80.76%), 190 Catholic (= 16.32%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

After the local elections in 2016, the nine seats in the Hofheim-Langenhain local council are distributed as follows:

Political party Seats Result
CDU 3 35.0%
Green 2 17.1%
SPD 1 16.4%
FWG 3 31.5%

Mayor: Armin Jakob (CDU)

coat of arms

On May 20, 1970, the municipality of Langenhain was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : three red rafters on a silver background , a gold heart in a blue heart shield.

Culture and sights

Bahai Temple in Langenhain

For the cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Langenhain .

The Protestant church, which was built in 1748 on the foundations of its predecessor, is particularly worth seeing. Together with the surrounding farmsteads, it is a listed building as a whole. The organ of the church was built in 1904 by the company Orgelbau Friedrich Weigle and after 35 years of silence it was restored in 2013 by the Christian Scheffler workshop in Sieversdorf in Brandenburg .

Of particular importance for the place is the hunting lodge built in 1736, which served as the seat of the forest administration of the Hessen-Darmstadt office of Wallau. The house later housed the town's local government and school.

In 1964, the House of Worship , built above Langenhain on the edge of the forest, was inaugurated. This domed structure is popularly known as the Bahai Temple . It can be seen well from the south of the Upper Rhine Plain through the cut of the Kassernbach . There is also a clear view of the dome from the direction of Frankfurt.

The Hofheimer Volkssternwarte is located behind the Bahai site directly on the edge of the forest .

  • Former head forester's office

  • Protestant church

  • Monument to the fallen 1870/71 and graves

  • Alt-Langenhain 34 and 32

traffic

Langenhain is crossed in an east-west direction by the L 3018, which leads from Wildsachsen to Hofheim and via a junction to Diedenbergen. In the north-south direction there is a road connection via the L 3368 to Lorsbach and Wallau with a branch to Breckenheim.

Langenhain is served by three bus routes, these are:

  • Line 403 (MTV): Hofheim-Wildsachsen - Hofheim-Langenhain - Hofheim train station every 30 minutes
  • Line 406 (MTV): Hofheim-Wildsachsen - Hofheim-Langenhain - Hofheim - Kriftel with individual trips (school transport)
  • Line 816 (MTV): Eppstein-Vockenhausen - Eppstein-Ehlhalten - Eppstein-Niederjosbach - Eppstein-Bremthal - Hofheim-Wildsachsen - Hofheim-Langenhain with individual trips (school traffic)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Langenhain, Main-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers, data, facts: Population figures (HW). In: Internet presence of the city of Hofheim. Accessed March 2019.
  3. ↑ names of the forest districts from the real estate cadastre in spatial data online taken
  4. ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000
  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. 370 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  8. ↑ The affiliation of the Homberg an der Ohm office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  9. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  135 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  10. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  141 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  11. ↑ Local election 2016 - final result - local councils. In: Hofheim am Taunus. Archived from the original on December 14, 2016 ; accessed on November 11, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Hofheim-Langenhain local council , accessed in March 2017.
  13. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Langenhain, Main-Taunus-Kreis, administrative district Darmstadt from May 20, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 23 , p. 1136 , point 991 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.9 MB ]).
  14. ^ First notes after 35 years in FAZ from October 5, 2013, page 55