Lorsbach

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Lorsbach
Coat of arms of Lorsbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 59 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 160 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.5 km² [LAGIS]
Residents : 2823  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 376 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 65719
Area code : 06192
Former Lorsbach town hall
Former Lorsbach town hall

Lorsbach has been part of today's district town of the Main-Taunus district of Hofheim am Taunus in southern Hesse since July 1, 1972 and has around 2800 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Lorsbach is located in the southern foothills of the Taunus , north of Hofheim am Taunus . It is located there in the narrow Lorsbachtal, which connects Eppstein with Hofheim. The Schwarzbach , formerly called Goldbach, flows through the Lorsbachtal . The street name Goldbachweg is a reminder of this. In the west of the Lorsbacher district lies the 410 meter high Judenkopf, the highest elevation in Hofheim's urban area.

history

Lorsbach was first mentioned in a document in the loan register of the city of Eppstein im Taunus from 1280. There Lorsbach is described as the settlement of several farms .

Nevertheless, there was probably a settlement in the Lorsbachtal before that, as can be seen in the Alteburg , a ring wall system from the early Middle Ages .

The settlement increased especially when the railway line between Frankfurt am Main and Limburg an der Lahn through Lorsbach was built in the middle of the 19th century . In addition, the foundation stone for the main branch of industry for the next hundred years was laid with the establishment of Lorsbach's first leather factory in 1881. After the Second World War , Lorsbach's population rose to over 2000 for the first time.

On July 1, 1972, the municipality Lorsbach was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis in the town of Hofheim am Taunus incorporated . For Lorsbach, as for the other parts of the city and the core city, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was formed.

politics

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

Political party Seats Result
BfH 2 25.6%
CDU 2 25.2%
Green 2 19.8%
SPD 1 11.7%
FDP 1 7.9%
The left 1 9.7%

Mayor: Dieter Kugelmann (CDU)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Lorsbach, actually just a court seal, is a blue vine knife (not a sickle ) on a golden background. From the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 19th century, wine was still grown in Lorsbach.

Culture and sights

church

In addition to a Protestant church and a Catholic church, there is an Evangelical Methodist congregation.

Cultural monuments

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

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

After the closure of the large leather factories in Lorsbach, the main employers are small and medium-sized craft businesses.

traffic

Lorsbach is on the Main-Lahn-Bahn and is connected to the Rhein-Main S-Bahn network. From the train station in the center of the village, trains on the S2 line in the direction of Niedernhausen , or Frankfurt (Main) and Offenbach (Main) to Dietzenbach . The travel time to Frankfurt Central Station is 23 minutes. The S2 runs every 15 minutes during rush hour.

Two state roads lead through Lorsbach . The L3011 leads from Hattersheim in the south with connection to the A66 via the core town of Hofheim further north towards Eppstein . In the through-town of Lorsbach, the L3368 branches off from here to the western districts of Langenhain and Wallau with a connection to the federal highway 66 and the federal highway 3 .

View of Lorsbach
Ev. Church and former village linden of Lorsbach

schools

There is a primary school in Lorsbach, which was expanded to include an extension in the 1990s.

In 2012, the private, state-recognized vocational school, Schule für Clowns, moved from Mainz to Lorsbach and has since been located in the building complex of a former inn.

kindergarten

The place has a kindergarten, which is supported by the Protestant church.

Sports & leisure facilities

Lorsbach has a sports field, a gym, a municipal community center, a community center of the Protestant church, several playgrounds and a model airfield.

The gym was completely rebuilt a few years ago. Lorsbach has several clubs:

  • 1. FC Lorsbach (soccer)
  • TV Lorsbach (gymnastics & sports club)
  • Local history and history association Lorsbach
  • Taunus Club Lorsbach
  • Winter sports club (WSV) Lorsbach
  • Lorsbach volunteer fire brigade
  • German Red Cross , local association Lorsbach / Ts.
  • Lorsbach women's choir
  • Score society Lorsbach

Lorsbach is the starting point for hikes in Nassau Switzerland .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers, data, facts: Population figures (HW). In: Internet presence of the city of Hofheim. Accessed November 2017.
  2. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , point 851, paragraph 2. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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. 370 .
  4. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 20 kB) §; 3. In: website. City of Hofheim am Taunus, accessed February 2019 .
  5. ↑ Local council election 2016. (No longer available online.) City of Hofheim am Taunus, archived from the original on December 6, 2016 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  6. ↑ The community is important to the new mayor Dieter Kugelmann . In: https://www.fnp.de/ . November 3, 2018 ( fnp.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).
  7. ↑ The Lorsbach court seal at the Heimat - und Geschichtsverein Lorsbach e. V.
  8. ^ Website of the Lorsbach Local History Association