Munster (Selters)

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Muenster
Selters (Taunus) municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '14 "  N , 8 ° 15' 55"  E
Height : 228 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.15 km²
Residents : 1074  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 132 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 65618
Area code : 06483

Münster is part of the municipality of Selters in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Münster lies in the valley of the Laubusbach of the eastern Hintertaunus . Around a third of the municipal area is covered with forest. At the edge of the village there is a local recreation area with a small lake, which is named Lago Alfredo after the former mayor Alfred Schösser, who had it built .

Münster borders in the west and north on the market town of Villmar and on the two Villmar districts Weyer and Langhecke . Further clockwise, Wolfenhausen , Haintchen , Eisenbach and Oberbruch join. Forest areas, which are parts of adjoining, larger forests, are found mainly on the edge of the district, so that only around a third of the Münster district is forested. The place itself is at an altitude of 220 to 235 meters, while the terrain in the northeast of the district rises up to 330 meters.

history

The strategic location on the historical highways, the "Heerstraße" from Limburg to Wetterau and the "Hessenstraße" from the Rheingau to Marburg / Kassel was decisive for the development of Münster. As early as 910, the Franconian dukes (Konradines) built a fortified rest area on the "castle" halfway between their castle complexes in Limburg and Weilburg. The Lahngau counts elevated Münster (monastery) to the administration and church center in the Laubustal, to which another five villages belonged. With the decline of the Konradin family, their goods were donated by Emperor Otto III in 993. to the Reich Bishopric of Worms. In 1194, the canons of the Worms diocese transferred the rule of Münster to the Premonstratensian monastery at Arnstein an der Lahn . A forest smithy and a mine in the Münster area are guaranteed for the 15th century . In 1596, the Wied - Runkel acquired control of the municipality until 1806, until the County of Wied-Runkel finally became part of the Duchy of Nassau .

Witch hunt

Münster was put on record in the 17th century during the witch hunt : in 1652 Agnes Lang from Münster was accused of witchcraft together with four other women. Her husband, the master tailor Johannes Lang , moved up to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer, got his wife free and contributed to ending the witch trials in the Runkel rule. Today a local road is named after him.

19th and 20th centuries

Old school and former town hall. Left in the picture: ore cart from the “Lindenberg” pit.

In the 19th century there were several fires in the village, after which Neustraße was created as a new central axis in north-south direction. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, intensive mining was carried out in the Münster district and mainly iron stone and slate were extracted. Up to 28 pits were in operation at the same time. Gradually, larger mining companies took over the individual mining operations and built a cable car to transport materials to Aumenau . From 1906 to 1911 a tunnel about two kilometers long was built up to the neighboring village of Langhecke . The “Lindenberg” mine soon emerged as the most important. Their shaft was 250 meters deep. All told, their tunnels were 14 kilometers long. It is estimated that it supplied around two million tons of iron ore during its existence. The "Lindenberg" mine was also the last of the Münster mining sites to be closed in 1970. The boom in mining resulted in massive population growth. The population grew from around 700 to a good 1300 over the course of the century.

In 1867 Münster became part of the Oberlahnkreis in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . In 1910 the population was 977. During the Second World War , twelve barns and sheds burned down in an air raid. When the Americans marched in on March 27, 1945, some shots were fired because SS units had been lying in the neighboring forest until the night before, but had then withdrawn. The Americans were not informed about this and opened fire from armored vehicles.

In 1956 a new school building was built. After school lessons in Münster were discontinued in 1971, the kindergarten moved into the building in 1974.

On July 1, 1974, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the municipality of Münster in the former Oberlahnkreis was merged with Niederselters , Eisenbach and Haintchen (all formerly the Limburg district ) to form a new municipality called "Selters (Taunus)" in the new Limburg-Weilburg district .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

  • 1885: 1258 Protestant, 12 Catholic, 10 Jewish residents
Münster: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 931
1840
  
 1,069
1846
  
 1,124
1852
  
 1,176
1858
  
 1,131
1864
  
 1,252
1871
  
 1,263
1875
  
 1,265
1885
  
 1,280
1895
  
 1,121
1905
  
 980
1910
  
 977
1925
  
 961
1939
  
 818
1946
  
 1,144
1950
  
 1,158
1956
  
 1,024
1961
  
 1,048
1967
  
 1,046
1970
  
 1,021
2011
  
 1,065
2017
  
 1,056
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: Selters community ( Internet archive )

Deserted fields

A little to the west of the outskirts, between Stollen- and Petrimühle, south of today's connecting road to Weyer, was the now desolate settlement of Felden . Probably in the year 821 the place was first mentioned as Feldum in a document, but certainly in 1154 as Velde . 1412 was the last time that an independent district Velden was identified.

Culture and sights

societies

At the local level, there are the volunteer fire brigade Münster eV, founded in 1933 (with youth fire brigade since November 30, 1989), the BvD local group Münster, the support association “KiTa Münster”, the history association, the church choir 1928, the rural women Münster, the singers' association “Harmonie 1842 “, the sports club 1945, the tennis club 1991, the Turnverein Münster 1902 e. V., the VdK local group, the Förderverein Mehr Zweckhalle Selters-Münster eV and the cultural association Lago Alfredo - Club cultural necessity eV

Buildings

Protestant church

Evangelical church with war victims memorial in the foreground

The church of Münster goes back to a foundation of the Konradiner in the 10th century. Dendrochronological measurements of the entablature in the roof structure showed that trees that were felled around 1180 were used for this. The historic fortified church of Münster was built on the foundation walls of a Franconian baptistery in the Laubustal. During the Reformation the church experienced a radical removal from the Catholic inventory and became the center of the Reformed Evangelical Church in the Laubus Valley. Since then, the church has seen four major renovations and rebuilds.

Old school

A striking building in the center of the village is the old school, which was built in 1826/27 as a Nassau elementary school. From 1828 to 1956 it was used as a village school. It contained three classrooms and two teacher's apartments. From 1955 to 1974 the mayor's office of the municipality of Münster was located in the building, from 1974 the branch office of the administration of the municipality of Selters. In 1980 a senior citizen's room and finally in 1991 the local history museum of the Münster district was set up.

Infrastructure

Local recreation area Lago Alfredo

Facilities

The Münster volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1933 (with youth fire brigade since November 30, 1989 ), provides fire protection and general help. There is an Evangelical Day Care Center in Münster for small children.

Freetime activities

There is the multi-purpose hall in Münster, the sports field, a children's playground, a barbecue hut and hiking trails.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of Munster

literature

  • Egon Eichhorn: On the location of the desert areas of Velen and Felden (Velden), in: Nassauische Annalen , 72nd volume. Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research, 1961. pp. 206–213.

Web links

Commons : Münster  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Selters (Taunus) at a glance: Population figures HW , accessed on March 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ "The persecution of witches was a topic" in the Weilburger Tagblatt from April 8, 2015 ( Memento from November 16, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Limburg district and the Oberlahn district. (GVBl. II 330-25) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 5 , p. 101 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  4. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 370 .
  5. ↑ a b Münster, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 3, 2017). 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. ^ TV Münster 1902 eV
  8. ↑ Friends of the multi-purpose hall Selters-Münster eV
  9. ^ Kulturverein Lago Alfredo - Club of cultural necessity eV