Munchhausen (Driedorf)

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Munchausen
Driedorf municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 10 ″  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 454 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.43 km²
Residents : 322  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 50 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 35759
Area code : 02775

Münchhausen is one of the nine districts of the municipality of Driedorf in the Hessian Lahn-Dill district . The place in the eastern Westerwald has about 330 inhabitants.

geography

The place is located on the eastern edge of the Hohen Westerwald, about 10 km southwest of Herborn and 34 km northeast of Montabaur . The distance to Siegen is about 42 km and to Wetzlar 30 km. Münchhausen lies on the Hessian border with Rhineland-Palatinate . The distance to the border triangle Hesse - Rhineland-Palatinate - North Rhine-Westphalia is around 9 km. The district of the place has a size of 6.43 km². In the southwest, in the area of ​​the Knot Mountains , it is heavily forested.

The neighboring places are, from the west, on the state border, starting clockwise: Mademühlen , Driedorf, Seilhofen (all municipality of Driedorf), Beilstein , Odersberg , Nenderoth , Arborn (all municipality of Greifenstein ). After the state border follows: Oberrod ( Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod in the Westerwaldkreis ).

The place is on the upper reaches of the Ulmbach , a tributary of the Lahn . The Buschhorn (534.7 m above sea level) and the Wolfsberg (522.7 m above sea level) rise north of the village . To the south, in the direction of Arborn, the village is the Rödern (560.4 m above sea level). From here the district extends in a narrow strip to the state border at the Oberroder junction (586.2 m above sea level)

history

The name Münchhausen suggests that it was once founded by monks . It was first mentioned in documents in 1447 as Monichhusen . The local name -hausen (near the houses) indicates a continuous settlement of the place since the Merovingian settlement period around the 6th / 7th. Century on.

Up until the beginning of the last century it consisted of two parts, at least from an ecclesiastical point of view, which were separated from each other by the Ulmbach. At times the area around Münchhausen was divided between the Driedorf and Beilstein offices.

Münchhausen has extensive forest areas, especially in the node area, which were the basis of considerable prosperity for the place in earlier times. The village could afford some things that the neighboring villages had to wait a long time for, e.g. B. the new school, which was built in 1906 and is now used as a village community center. The schoolhouse, built in 1721, was demolished in 1980 and rebuilt as a house from Münchhausen in Hessenpark near Neu-Anspach .

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the then independent municipality of Münchhausen voluntarily joined the municipality of Driedorf on July 1, 1972, which until that date consisted of the towns of Driedorf, Heisterberg, Hohenroth and Heiligenborn. For Münchhausen, as for the other formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was set up.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Münchhausen: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 269
1840
  
 293
1846
  
 285
1852
  
 304
1858
  
 306
1864
  
 314
1871
  
 302
1875
  
 312
1885
  
 296
1895
  
 278
1905
  
 249
1910
  
 275
1925
  
 319
1939
  
 322
1946
  
 444
1950
  
 445
1956
  
 408
1961
  
 411
1967
  
 403
1970
  
 396
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2003
  
 363
2006
  
 376
2010
  
 345
2014
  
 330
2017
  
 322
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: 296 Protestant (= 100.00%) residents
• 1961: 364 Protestant (= 88.56%), 43 Catholic (= 10.46%) residents

politics

For elections to the German Bundestag, the place belongs to the constituency “173 Lahn-Dill ”, for elections to the Hessian state parliament it belongs to the constituency “21 Lahn-Dill I ”.

With the regional reform, the municipal administration was transferred to the municipality of Driedorf. The last mayor was Otto Bastian. A local advisory board consists of five members. The town council has told the local council proposal and right to be heard in matters that affect the town. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Manfred Mauer (UL) is the mayor .

Hessenpark, house from Münchhausen

Cultural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

The place has a village community center, a fire station and a gas station.

traffic

The place is near the B 255 from Herborn via Driedorf to Montabaur. The next train station is in Herborn and offers a connection to the Dill route . There are bus connections to Driedorf, Mengerskirchen and Herborn. The distance to Frankfurt airport is 108 km, to Cologne / Bonn approx. 107 km.

education

There is no kindergarten in Münchhausen. The place belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Westerwaldschule Driedorf, a primary , secondary and secondary school . Secondary schools can be attended in Herborn or Dillenburg .

literature

  • Hermann-Josef Hucke (Ed.): Great Westerwaldführer . 3. Edition. Westerwald-Verein eV, Montabaur 1991. ISBN 3-921548-04-7
  • Hellmuth Gensicke: State history of the Westerwald . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999. ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  • Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau . Wilhelm Beyerle, Wiesbaden 1844.
  • Heinz Wionski: monuments in Hesse Lahn-Dill I . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. 1986, ISBN 3-528-06234-7 (Former Dillkreis).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Driedorf in numbers - municipal statistics. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original ; accessed on February 18, 2017 . (Data from web archive)
  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 para. 10. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  3. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 289. DNB 770396321
  4. ^ Main statute of the municipality of Driedorf. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, accessed February 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c Münchhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching: D. Anton Friderich Büsching's new description of the earth. The German empire. tape 3 . JC Bohn, 1771, p. 840 ( on google books ).
  8. ↑ Statistics 2003. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  9. ↑ Statistics 2006. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  10. ↑ Local advisory boards of the municipality of Driedorf , accessed in February 2017.