Leun

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Leun
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Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '  N , 8 ° 22'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : to water
County : Lahn-Dill district
Height : 155 m above sea level NHN
Area : 28.66 km 2
Residents: 5749 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 201 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 35638
Primaries : 06473, 06442
License plate : LDK, DIL
Community key : 06 5 32 016
LOCODE : DE EQS
City structure: 5 districts

City administration address : 		Bahnhofstrasse 25
35638 Leun
Website : www.exp.de
Mayor : Björn Hartmann ( CDU )
Location of the city of Leun in the Lahn-Dill district
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Leun is a small town in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Leun is about 10 km west of Wetzlar between the foothills of the northern Taunus and the Westerwald in the Lahn valley , at 150 to 330 m above sea level.

Neighboring communities

Leun borders in the north on the communities Greifenstein and Ehringshausen , in the east on the city of Solms , in the south on the city of Braunfels (all in the Lahn-Dill district ) and in the west on the community Löhnberg ( district Limburg-Weilburg ).

Greifenstein
16 km 		Ehringshausen
7 km
Löhnberg
10 km 		Neighboring communities Solms
6 km
Braunfels
7 km

structure

The city consists of the five districts of Biskirchen , Bissenberg , Lahnbahnhof , Leun and Stockhausen .

Historic town center (Limburger Strasse)

history

Leun was first mentioned in a document as Liuun in 771. A copy of the original document can be found in the Lorsch Codex . In 1469 the small town received from Emperor Friedrich III. the right to hold market (especially wool market). This and the stone bridge built over the Lahn in 1481 led to an economic boom, which culminated in 1664 when the Counts of Solms granted city rights .

In 1816 the city of Leun became part of the Braunfels district , which in turn was subordinate to the Prussian province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine , which in 1822 became part of the Prussian Rhine province. In 1822 this circle was assigned to the Wetzlar district . Leun therefore belonged to the Prussian exclave that the Wetzlar district formed until 1932 before it was assigned to the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . The exclusion position can still be seen today in membership of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

In the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century there was intensive iron ore mining on the territory of Leun, see: List of mines in the Lahn-Dill area .

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the new city of Leun was created on December 31, 1971 through the voluntary amalgamation of the city of Leun and the communities of Biskirchen, Bissenberg and Stockhausen. Today's town hall is located in the Stockhausen district.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Leun was mentioned under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Liuun, in (771) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3646]
  • Liûna (912) [MGH DD Konrad I, No. 8]
  • Liuni (912) [MGH DD Konrad I, No. 8]

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Leun: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 834
1840
  
 906
1846
  
 983
1852
  
 1.009
1858
  
 1,064
1864
  
 1,154
1871
  
 1,206
1875
  
 1,192
1885
  
 1,169
1895
  
 1,094
1905
  
 1,059
1910
  
 1,032
1925
  
 1,240
1939
  
 1,255
1946
  
 1,998
1950
  
 2.005
1956
  
 1,858
1961
  
 1,845
1967
  
 1,841
1970
  
 1.913
1972
  
 4,482
1976
  
 4,535
1984
  
 4,945
1992
  
 5,422
2000
  
 6,000
2004
  
 6,035
2010
  
 5,848
2015
  
 5,900
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000, 2015 :; 2004 :; 2010:
From 1972 including the towns incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1834: 807 Protestant, 2 Catholic, 23 Jewish residents
  • 1961: 1460 Protestant (= 79.13%), 357 Catholic (= 19.35%) inhabitants

Religions

There is evidence of a parish for Leun even before the Reformation . Since the Reformation, the majority of the population in the city of Leun has been Protestant. In 1582 , Count Konrad zu Solms-Braunfels introduced the Evangelical Reformed Confession . The Leun Protestants developed a strong bond with the Reformed faith, which can still be seen today in the interior design of the church buildings in Leun and Biskirchen. The pastor of Leun, Robert Steiner, took part in the Barmer Confessing Synod in 1934 and became a member of the Confessing Church , which resisted the National Socialists for religious reasons. In the same year he held a congregation day with more than 80 pastors and elders who supported the Confessing Church in the Leun rectory.

A Jewish community with its own synagogue has been handed down since the 17th century. The latter was probably dilapidated at the end of the 19th century and was not rebuilt. At that time, the Jewish population had its main focus in Biskirchen. Nevertheless, several Hebrew inscriptions on Leun half-timbered houses testify to this time.

In 1949 the Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary was built in the Leun district .

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
     
A total of 25 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 33.3 8th 34.3 9 33.9 8th 28.8 7th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 30.6 8th 30.4 8th 34.0 8th 39.7 10
FWG Free community of voters 13.7 3 16.4 4th 18.5 5 11.4 3
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 11.2 3 13.7 3 7.4 2 6.6 2
NPD National Democratic Party of Germany 11.2 3 5.2 1 6.2 2 8.9 2
FDP Free Democratic Party - - - - - - 4.6 1
total 100.0 25th 100.0 25th 100.0 25th 100.0 25th
Voter turnout in% 47.9 42.9 46.4 56.9

mayor

Mayor of Leun in since March 1, 2018 Björn Hartmann (CDU).

Period Surname Political party comment
01/01/1972–31/03/2001 Karl-Heinz Straßheim SPD
April 1, 2001– March 31, 2007 Peter Kaufmann SPD
April 1, 2007– March 31, 2013 Birgit Sturm independent
04/01/2013 - 05/08/2017 Joachim Heller independent
05/09/2017 - 02/28/2018 Ralf Schweitzer CDU 1. City Council
since March 1st, 2018 Bjorn Hartmann CDU

Election 2012

Source:

A mayoral election was held on November 4, 2012. The following candidates stood for election:

Applicants Political party % be right
Heller, Joachim independent 33.0 830
Sturm, Birgit independent 26.1 658
Höllering, Jörg independent 23.6 595
Schäfer, Christoph CDU 17.2 434

Turnout: 56.1%

Since no candidate could prevail with an absolute majority, there was a runoff election on November 18, 2012.

Applicants Political party % be right
Heller, Joachim independent 56.3 1260
Sturm, Birgit independent 43.7 979

Turnout: 50.1%

Joachim Heller emerged victorious from the election and took up his post as mayor on April 1, 2013.

Election 2017

Candidates for mayoral election on September 24, 2017

Surname Party / supporter
Silke Interthal SPD
Bjorn Hartmann CDU
Andreas Voigtländer-Tetzner FWG (supported)
Thomas Hantusch NPD

Result of the mayoral election 2017

Surname number percent
Eligible voters 4477 100%
Voters 3393 75.8%
Bjorn Hartmann 1545 46.1%
Silke Interthal 1370 40.9%
Andreas Voigtländer-Tetzner 278 8.3%
Thomas Hantusch 155 4.6%

Since no candidate achieved an absolute majority, a runoff election was necessary. This took place on October 8, 2017.

Result of the mayor's runoff election 2017

Surname number percent
Eligible voters 4483 100%
Voters 2569 57.3%
Bjorn Hartmann 1394 55.6%
Silke Interthal 1160 45.4%

Björn Hartmann has thus been elected mayor.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue a silver, three-arched railing bridge growing from the upper three silver wavy bars in the base of the shield, at the front raised by a golden, sighted crescent moon , at the back by four golden, six-pointed stars (1/2/1)."

Declaration of coat of arms: The coat of arms goes back to the old town seal from 1664. At that time it was thought that the name Leun was derived from the Latin word for moon "luna", meaning that Leun must have been founded by the Romans. The water that it shines symbolizes the Leun basin, which is often flooded like a lake during high tide. Today it is assumed, however, that the name Leun comes from the Celtic name of the Lahn "Loyne". Later, the bridge was added as a symbol of Leun's economic upswing, the originally existing duck was removed.

Partnerships

The city of Leun has had partnership relationships with the French community of Feytiat in the Haute-Vienne department since 1980 and with Rastenberg in Thuringia since 1990 .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Martinskirche

Near Lahnbahnhof on the parcels "Martinskirch" and "Martinsfeld", the remains of a medieval church were uncovered during a teaching excavation by the Philipps University of Marburg . Since the church is classified between the 2nd half of the 8th century and the 15th century, one can speak of one of the oldest church buildings in the Lahn-Dill area.

Protestant church

Evangelical Church in Leun from Dollberg

Above the historic center of Leun stands the Protestant church , the exact date of which it was built is unclear. The mighty fortified tower and the main nave can be assigned to the Romanesque , while the choir and transept are of early or late Gothic origin. The large southern sandstone window in the transept is particularly worth seeing. The exit from the former men's gallery in the north, built on from the outside, dates back to 1907. In the same year, the interior of the church was given a new coat of paint. Inside the church there is an old and art-historically significant wooden pulpit with paneling showing motifs from the Near East. In front of it is a font from the 21st century on which the centuries-old baptismal bowl is placed. In the transept is the Bürgy organ , built in 1808 by the brothers Philipp Heinrich and Johann Georg Bürgy . It has 13 registers on a manual and pedal. It was completely renovated in 2008 and returned to its historical state as much as possible. There are three bells hanging in the tower, none of which, however, comes from the bell foundry originally located in Leun. Today two paintings "The Birth of Christ" and "The Resurrection of Christ" are lost

Above the church is the cemetery, where there are still remains of the old city wall and the old upper gate.

House of the Hofkeller Johann Hyppolitus von Staden and his wife Maria Katharina Schweitzer from Werdorf. Erected in 1708 by Johann Heinrich Almenröder from Ulm.
Bay house

Historic town center

The center of the town still has some splendid half-timbered houses that testify to the town's former wealth. Numerous half-timbered houses, including the old courthouse, fell victim to the road widening in the 1970s. The city museum is located in the former town hall and school building from 1818. The most splendid half-timbered street is Limburger Strasse, where the town's landmark, known far beyond the borders of Leun, is located: the oriel house . The mighty, broad half-timbered building at Limburger Straße 19 was built by Johann Heinrich Almenröder from Ulm for the Hofkeller Johann Hyppolitus von Staden and his wife Maria Katharina Schweizer from Werdorf in 1708. The three storeys above a vaulted cellar parallel to the street are emphasized in the central axis by man figures and a small dwelling on the mansard roof. In addition to the richly profiled wooden floors with block-adorned filler wood, there are lavishly decorated parapets. The side gate access opens up the so-called tithe barn at the rear, which was built on the city wall and converted for residential purposes. The decoration and the shape of the roof reflect a high standard that is hardly surpassed in Leun. The rest of the former Junkernhof, seat of the Mohr family, with the manor house that has been preserved can be seen on the large baroque courtyard portal. Also worth seeing is the old mill in Leun, which the last miller, Heinrich Staaden from Leun, operated as the owner of this mill until the 1950s. Today the Leuner Mühle is in an excellent restored condition. Also worth seeing is the old Latin school.

Catholic Church

Due to the high influx of refugees after the end of the Second World War, after the Protestant church had been used as a simultaneous church for a while (the still preserved tabernacle wings give evidence of this), a separate Catholic church was built in Adalbert-Stifter-Straße. It was the first new church in the old district of Wetzlar since the war. The church is located on the 1st floor above an apartment below and is illuminated by large dormer windows.

Leun / Braunfels train station

The station with its stately reception building is located in the Lahnbahnhof district . The building, which today appears to be completely oversized due to the character of the station as a stop, was completed in 1863 and, with its two towers, is one of the largest on the Lahn Valley Railway . It owes its special decoration to the princely family in Braunfels , who named the station accordingly after their ancestral seat, although it was on Leuner Grund. It was not until the 1990s that the station was renamed “Leun / Braunfels”.

Biskirchen

In the district of Biskirchen you can find the remains of the old cemetery wall and the monument, consecrated in 1884, in memory of the old bishop's church (built around 900, demolished in 1871), which gave the place its name. Her successor, who dominates the townscape, is also worth seeing. The local mineral fountain industry is a specialty (“Westerwaldquelle”, “Heilquelle Karlssprudel” and the former wells “St. Georgsquelle” and “Gertrudisbrunnen”). The landmark of the Leun district is the well house of the state-recognized Gertrudisbrunnen, which is a geotope of the National Geopark Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus . In 1990, a spa center, Gertrudis-Klinik Biskirchen, was built on the well site, which has been converted into a special clinic for Parkinson's patients since 1995.

Museums

The city museum of the city of Leun with adjoining spinning room is located in the old school in Limburger Strasse.

Natural monuments

see list of natural monuments in Leun

Sports

Leun was the venue for the regular Leun Open tennis tournament. In 1995 the "Quellenhof Sports and Health Center" opened its doors. At this facility, tennis and badminton are recreational options, as is indoor soccer. However, these sports facilities have been closed since 2010. The REHA-SPORT GmbH studio has remained. The medical center, which is also home to physiotherapy and rehab sports, largely ensures medical care for the Biskirchen district and the surrounding areas.

Quotes

  • "Leun, Streit und Zank, your life long" inscription that a potter in the town put on his wares at the end of the 18th century.
  • Excerpt from the Leuner Heimatlied:

Whoever stood on the Küppel and looked down into the valley
probably to the beautiful homeland, which is happy to return.

Greetings you beautiful Leun, we carry you in our hearts,
greetings you beautiful Leun, you dear homeland mine

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Leun is on federal highway 49 . To the north there is a connection to the Bundesautobahn 45 via Ehringshausen . The two train stations “Leun / Braunfels” (in the district of Lahnbahnhof) and “Stockhausen” are on the Lahntalbahn Gießen - Limburg an der Lahn - Koblenz in the Leun area .

The Ernstbahn to Philippstein began earlier at today's Leun / Braunfels train station, and the Ulmtalbahn to Beilstein ran from Stockhausen . Both branch lines were dismantled in 1962 and 1991 respectively.

tourism

There is a small holiday home area on the Dollberg. There are moorings for canoe tours on the Lahn, and bicycle tourists are served by special trains. The Leun youth tent site offers all boat hikers a paid overnight stay. Hiking tourism is also enjoying increasing popularity, especially along the Hohe Straße .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Mohr von Leun (around 1445–1519), Nassau-Dillenburg statesman and court judge of the Electorate of Mainz
  • Georg Zipp (1866–1929), veterinarian and politician (DVP), member of the state parliament
  • Harald Turner (1891–1947), lawyer, Prussian State Councilor, executed as a war criminal
  • Erika Lotz (* 1943), politician

Personalities who have worked in this city

  • Philipp Heinrich Bürgy (1759–1824), organ builder, built the organ of the Protestant church in Leun in 1808
  • Johann Georg Bürgy (1771–1841), organ builder, built the organ of the Protestant church with his brother Philipp Heinrich in 1808

literature

  • Magistrate of the city of Leun (ed.): The history of the parish Biskirchen, Bissenberg and Stockhausen. 1994.
  • Local history working group Biskirchen (Ed.): Biskirchener Heimatkalender (from 1988)
  • Literature on Leun in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Robin Dürr / Felix Teichner: "The bell calls to the church ..." - An early medieval sacred building near Leun (Lahn-Dill district) In: HessenArchäologie 2016. 2017, pp. 145–148 ( online )
  • Robin Dürr / Felix Teichner: The Martinskirche von Leun Investigations into the Franconian regional development in the area of ​​today's Hesse ( online )
  • Felix Teichner: The Martinskirche von Leun - Investigations into the Franconian regional development in the area of ​​today's Hesse ( online )

Web links

Commons : Leun  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Leun, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ City of Leun: An overview of the chronicles of the Leun districts , accessed in February 2017.
  4. ↑ Wetzlar district at www.territorial.de/nassau.
  5. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 302
  6. ^ The documents Konrad I, Heinrich I and Otto I , Weidmann, Berlin 1956
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ↑ 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 ).
  9. ^ Local elections 1972; Relevant population of the municipalities on August 4, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No.  33 , p. 1424 , point 1025 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  10. ↑ Local elections 1977; Relevant population figures for the municipalities as of December 15, 1976 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1976 No.  52 , p. 2283 , point 1668 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.3 MB ]).
  11. ^ Local elections 1985; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 30, 1984 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1984 No.  46 , p. 2175 , point 1104 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  12. ↑ local elections 1993; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 21, 1992 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1992 No.  44 , p. 2766 , point 935 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).
  13. ^ Community data sheet : Leun. (PDF; 222 kB) In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agency GmbH ;
  14. ↑ Hessian municipal statistics, Edition 2 2005. Hessian State Statistical Office
  15. ↑ The population of the Hessian communities on June 30, 2010. (PDF; 552 kB) Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, p. 11 , archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  16. ↑ https://evangelisch-an-lahn-und-dill.de/evangelischer-kirchenkreis-braunfels-blickt-auf-436-jaehrige-geschichte-zurueck/
  17. ↑ https://evangelisch-an-lahn-und-dill.de/evangelischer-kirchenkreis-braunfels-blickt-auf-436-jaehrige-geschichte-zurueck/
  18. ^ The synagogues in Leun and Biskirchen (Lahn-Dill district). In: www.alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved June 11, 2016 .
  19. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  20. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  21. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  22. ↑ Leun's mayor resigns (Mittelhessen.de)
  23. ↑ Mayoral election in Leun, city. Hessian State Statistical Office , accessed in April 2019 .
  24. ↑ a b Mayoral election in Leun, city on September 24, 2017. Hessian State Statistical Office;
  25. ↑ a b Mayoral election in Leun, Stadt (runoff election) on October 8, 2017. Hessian State Statistical Office;
  26. ↑ Himmelreich, LH, Leuner Chronik, chap. 1
  27. ↑ Felix Teichner: The Martinskirche von Leun - Investigations into the Franconian regional development in the area of ​​today's Hesse. University. Marburg, Pre- and Protohistoric Archeology, accessed in August 2018 .
  28. ↑ compare the list in Abicht, Der Kreis Wetzlar Volume 2, 1836.
  29. ↑ attested in Abicht, Der Kreis Wetzlar, Volume 2, 1836, p. 111
  30. ↑ DenkXweb - start page. Retrieved October 6, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Church register Werdorf 09/13/1701 page 94.
  32. ↑ Parkinson's Center