Lembach (Homberg)

Lembach City of Homberg (Efze) Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 31 ″ N , 9 ° 20 ′ 56 ″ E
Height :	195 (192-216) m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.73 km²
Residents :	175
Population density :	64 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Postal code :	34576
Primaries :	05681, 05682

Lembach is a district of Homberg (Efze) in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

The village is located 4 km northwest of Homberg on the northern foothills of the Knüllgebirge am Lembach , a tributary of the Schwalm . The state road 3148 runs through the place.

Lembach was first mentioned in a document in 1209 in the Fulda Abbey register of properties . In 1279 the Lembach moated castle was first mentioned in a document.

In the past there was also a Rittmeister a. Who lived on the nearby Gilserhof at the turn of the 20th century in the small village . D. and landowner Ernst August Ludwig Ferdinand Deichmann (1856–1921) founded brickworks and a schnapps distillery that he also set up , which annually processed around 1390 t of potatoes, 146 t of corn, 113 t of rye, 6 t of oats and 3 t of wheat at the turn of the century . The Lembach mansion, built in 1606 on the site of the former moated castle , was demolished in 1945.

At 31 December 1971 Lembach was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis in the town of Homberg, today Homberg (Efze) , incorporated .

Individual evidence

↑ Lembach, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ Lembach. In: website. City of Homberg (Efze), accessed May 2019 .
↑ The spelling of the place name changed over the centuries, depending on how the writer tried to reproduce what he had heard in writing: Limbach (1209), Leymbach (1279), Lempbach (1287), Lympach (1300), Lempach (1338, around 1350), Lentbach (1476), Limpach (1511), Lembach (1575/85) and Leimbach (1780).
^ Tonindustrie-Zeitung , Volume 27, 1903, No. 71, p. 1134
↑ Carl Heßler (Hrsg.): Hessische Landes- und Volkskunde: The former Kurhessen and the hinterland at the end of the 19th century. Geography Association in Kassel, Elwert, Marburg, 1907, p. 398
^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 391-392 .

Web links

Lembach. In: website. City of Homberg (Efze); accessed in May 2019
Lembach, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Lembach in the Hessian Bibliography
Search for Lembach (Homberg) in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

[lagis-1] Lembach, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[DF-2] Lembach. In: website. City of Homberg (Efze), accessed May 2019 .

[3] The spelling of the place name changed over the centuries, depending on how the writer tried to reproduce what he had heard in writing: Limbach (1209), Leymbach (1279), Lempbach (1287), Lympach (1300), Lempach (1338, around 1350), Lentbach (1476), Limpach (1511), Lembach (1575/85) and Leimbach (1780).

[4] Tonindustrie-Zeitung , Volume 27, 1903, No. 71, p. 1134

[5] Carl Heßler (Hrsg.): Hessische Landes- und Volkskunde: The former Kurhessen and the hinterland at the end of the 19th century. Geography Association in Kassel, Elwert, Marburg, 1907, p. 398

[6] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 391-392 .