Munchhausen (Driedorf)
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:
- before 1739: Holy Roman Empire , County / Principality of Nassau-Dillenburg , Driedorf office
- from 1739: Holy Roman Empire, Principality of Nassau-Diez , Driedorf office
- 1806–1813: Grand Duchy of Berg , Department of Sieg , Canton of Driedorf
- 1813–1815: Principality of Nassau-Orange , Driedorf office
- from 1816: German Confederation , Duchy of Nassau , Herborn office
- from 1849: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Herborn district office
- from 1854: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Herborn Office
- from 1867: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , Dillkreis
- from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau, administrative district of Wiesbaden, Dillkreis
- from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau, Administrative Region of Wiesbaden, Dillkreis
- from 1932: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hesse-Nassau, District of Wiesbaden, District of Dillenburg
- from 1933: German Reich, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau, Administrative Region of Wiesbaden, Dillkreis
- from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Dill District
- from 1945: American occupation zone , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Dillkreis
- from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Dillkreis
- from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , Dillkreis
- On July 1, 1972, Münchhausen was incorporated as a district of the newly formed municipality of Driedorf.
- from 1977: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt administrative district, Lahn-Dill district
- from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen administrative district , Lahn-Dill district
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 .
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
- Münchhausen on the website of the municipality of Driedorf
- Münchhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Münchhausen in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Driedorf in numbers - municipal statistics. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original ; accessed on February 18, 2017 . (Data from web archive)
- ^ 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 ]).
- ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 289. DNB 770396321
- ^ Main statute of the municipality of Driedorf. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, accessed February 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Münchhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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 ).
- ↑ Statistics 2003. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
- ↑ Statistics 2006. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
- ↑ Local advisory boards of the municipality of Driedorf , accessed in February 2017.