Mademühlen

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Mademühlen
Driedorf municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '24 "  N , 8 ° 9' 55"  E
Height : 596 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.58 km²
Residents : 876  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 102 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35759
Area code : 02775

Mademühlen is a district of the municipality of Driedorf in the Westerwald in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Mademühlen is located in the Hessischer Westerwald landscape protection area and in the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas .

Located on the upper reaches of the Rehbach, between two dams, the place owes its name to a series of mills that have existed along the upper reaches of the Rehbach over the centuries. Around 1800 it is mentioned in a description as a rich farming village. A typical Westerwald farmhouse from Mademühlen is on display in the Hessenpark open-air museum.

history

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality of Mademühlen was incorporated into Driedorf on January 1, 1977 by the law to reorganize the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen . For maggot mills, as for the other formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was set up.

From 1906 to 1984, Mademühlen had a direct rail connection in passenger and freight traffic through the Herborn – Montabaur line ( Westerwaldquerbahn ), which has since been closed and largely dismantled. In the meantime, there is a cycle path on the old embankment.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Mademühlen: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 446
1840
  
 444
1846
  
 442
1852
  
 458
1858
  
 434
1864
  
 461
1871
  
 435
1875
  
 420
1885
  
 421
1895
  
 388
1905
  
 347
1910
  
 382
1925
  
 420
1939
  
 438
1946
  
 591
1950
  
 598
1956
  
 609
1961
  
 598
1967
  
 692
1970
  
 686
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2003
  
 921
2006
  
 935
2010
  
 876
2014
  
 866
2017
  
 876
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: 415 Protestant (= 98.57%), none Catholic, 6 other Christians (= 1.43%)
• 1961: 482 Protestant (= 80.60%), 111 Catholic (= 18.56%) residents

politics

Mayor

After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Susanne Stunz is the mayor .

Local advisory board

(Result of the March 2006 election)

  • SPD: 3 seats
  • CDU: 2 seats
  • FWG: 2 seats

(Result of the March 2011 election)

  • SPD: 4 seats
  • FWG: 3 seats

(Result of the March 2016 election)

  • SPD: 3 seats
  • FWG: 2 seats

Culture and sights

Home poet

Adolf Weiß (1861–1938), local poet, whose memorial is on the Hahrehausen (knot area). He invented the greeting "Hui Wäller, allemol" for the Westerwald Association . He explains in verse how he came up with it:

The "Hui", the storm wind taught me
when he drives wild over our heathen,
and we are "Wäller"
we defy the rain, the storm and the wind.

Buildings

The 11th century Evangelical Church on Rehbach is a defining feature of the site. It is also the oldest building in the Driedorf community. A Mademühlen Einhaus from 1709 is now in the Hessenpark near Neu-Anspach .

  • Protestant church

  • Einhaus from Mademühlen in Hessenpark

  • Cenotaph for those who fell in the world wars

Economy and Infrastructure

Wind energy

For several years the Westerwald wind has been used to generate electricity. 6 of the 17 Driedorf wind turbines are located in Mademühlen. In the districts of Waldaubach , Hohenroth , Mademühlen and Münchhausen, around 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity are generated by wind energy, which arithmetically covers around 40% of the municipality's total energy needs.

Krombach dam

The Krombachtalsperre recreation area is also located in the Mademühlen district . Camping holidays or year-round camping are just as possible here as sailing, surfing, boating and swimming. The Krombachtalsperre can be reached with the "Blue Line" (bus with bicycle transport) from Herborn . A second dam nearby is the Driedorf reservoir .

free time activities

Hiking on the Wäller tour "Greifenstein loop", which opened in May 2010, is ideal in Mademühlen. The Greifenstein loop is a tour that is part of the Westerwaldsteig .

Web links

Commons : Mademühlen  - Collection of images

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 archive)
  2. ↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 22 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ^ Main statute of the municipality of Driedorf. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, accessed February 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Mademühlen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ 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 ).
  7. ↑ Statistics 2003. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  8. ↑ Statistics 2006. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  9. ↑ Local advisory boards of the municipality of Driedorf , accessed in February 2017.