Marienfels

This article deals with the community of Marienfels im Taunus. For the castle of the same name near Remagen see Marienfels Castle , for the mountain of the same name in Bohemian Switzerland see Mariina skála , for the natural monument of the same name on the Swabian Alb see Marienfels with Wilhelmshöhle

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 7 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Nasta
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.84 km 2
Residents:	302 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	79 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56357
Area code :	06772
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 084
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 1 56355 Nastätten
Website :	www.marienfels.de
Local Mayor :	Daniel Kupp
Location of the local community Marienfels in the Rhein-Lahn district

Marienfels is a local community in the Taunus in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate on the former Upper German Limes . A small Roman fort with bathing facilities was located here. Marienfels is a member of the Nastaeten community .

geography

Marienfels is located in the Miehlener Grund in the western Hintertaunus in the valley of the Mühlbach . Marienfels also includes the Fasanenhof, Haus im Seien, Käsmühle and Kaltenbornermühle residential areas .

Neighboring towns are Hunzel (northeast), Miehlen (south), Ehr (west), Geisig (northwest) and Berg (north).

history

• For the Roman past of the place see the separate article Kastell Marienfels .

The place was first mentioned in 915 as comitatus Marvels (County Marienfels). At that time the place consisted of the Niederdorf, called Denighofen, and the Oberdorf, whose name Marienfels was later carried over to the entire settlement. Presumably the place was the seat of the counts of the Einrichgau and thus a central place for the surrounding area. In 1052 the count's seat was relocated to Arnstein Castle near Nassau. In the course of the disintegration of the district of Einrich in the 12th century and several area shifts in the 13th century, Marienfels became part of the Vierherrengebiet , whose place of execution the place was. In the 16th century, the judicial district began to be reduced in size with a view to lower jurisdiction. Until the 17th century, Marienfels seems to have remained the seat of high jurisdiction in the quadrilateral. With the division of the quadrilateral at the end of the 18th century, the judicial function ceased.

From an ecclesiastical point of view, the Martinskirche, which was located directly next to the court and was a separate church of the counts of the Einrichgau, also had a central function early on as the seat of a deanery and country chapter. In addition, it was the seat of a small parish to which Miehlen , Berg , Hunzel , Bachheim and Dachsenhausen belonged, at times also Dornholzhausen , Dessighofen and Geisig . The church tower probably dates from the 12th century, but a house of worship stood here much earlier. The patronage right passed from the counts first to the Isenburg house , then to the Stein zu Nassau . In 1538 the Reformation was introduced in the Vierherrischen, whereby the deanery and land chapter were dissolved. A separate school building was built in 1596 for the entire parish.

In Denighofen, at the end of the 12th and 13th centuries, a nobility family from the Nassau ministry is mentioned. By the 17th century at the latest, Denighofen was considered part of Marienfels.

When clashes between Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt broke out in 1626 as part of the Thirty Years' War, Marienfels was also affected, as did when the Swedes marched through the facility in the 1630s and besieged the Ehrenbreitstein near Koblenz. Marienfels came to the "Dreiherrischen", ie to Nassau, in the Second Nastatter Trial of December 9, 1775. During the first coalition war, French, Austrian and Prussian troops alternately quartered themselves in Marienfels, which also resulted in looting. Marienfels was taken over by the Duchy of Nassau in the course of the Napoleonic reorganization through the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806 and incorporated into the newly created office of Nastätten. After the annexation by Prussia , the place was part of the Prussian province Hesse-Nassau from 1866 until the end of the Second World War . In 1885 Marienfels came to the St. Goarshausen district. As a result of the First World War , French troops occupied the place in 1918/1919. On March 27, 1945, the place was liberated by American troops. He came to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 .

The construction of a mill in Marienfels can be documented for the first time in 1672, a second mill construction in 1693. Both mills are called "Käßmühle". Later there were reports of other mill buildings, although it is difficult to differentiate between the individual plants and thus quantify the total number of mills today.

Population development

The development of the population of Marienfels, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

Population development of Marienfels from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

year Residents 1526 16 fireplaces 1583 21 house seats 1634 9 residents hearths 1681 78 1771 34 house seats 1815 263 1835 287 1871 311 1905 304

year Residents 1939 304 1950 325 1961 310 1970 294 1987 304 1997 368 2005 352 2011 309 2017 301

A Jewish resident was first guaranteed in 1695.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Marienfels consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

The local mayor of Marienfels is Daniel Kupp. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 78.21% of the vote.

Buildings

The village church stands on a rock that rises next to the Mühlbach. In the small, formerly Catholic and now Protestant church, there are numerous medieval wooden panel paintings and the well-known Maria with the porcini mushroom , which she carries in her hand and which was considered a symbol of fertility.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Marienfels

Infrastructure

Marienfels is located on the L 335 Lahnstein - Nastätten - Hessen .

The Rhein-Lahn district is a member of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM), whose public transport tariff area covers a large part of northern Rhineland-Palatinate.

The German Limes Cycle Path runs through Marienfels . It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

Others

In Marienfels there was a monument to the Waffen SS , erected in 1971 and destroyed by unknown persons in 2004 , which has been the target of several right-wing extremist rallies and marches since 2003 . At the beginning of 2006 the stored memorial hit the headlines again when a planned reconstruction on the private property of the neo-Nazi Thorsten Heise in Fretterode became known.

literature

• Richard Heimann: Marienfels - the myth of a place: from ancient times to our days . Marienfels 2006.
• Richard Heimann: Marienfels, the Roman town behind the Limes . In: Rhein-Lahn-Kreis (Ed.): Heimatjahrbuch 2005 . Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Bad Ems 2005, p. 56 ff.
• Robert Menche, Richard Heimann: Marienfels - history of the village. Marienfels 1990, ed. Marienfels parish.
• Hellmuth Gensicke : On the local history of Nassau: The parish of Marienfels. In: Nassauische Annalen 1980 , pp. 284-297.

Web links

Commons : Marienfels  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Marienfels
• Local community Marienfels on the website of the association community Nastätten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 67 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Johann Martin Cremer: Origines Nassoicae . II, Schirmer, Wiesbaden 1779, p. 56.
4. ^ ^{A b} Alfred Menche, Richard Heimann: Marienfels history of the village . Ed .: Local community Marienfels. 1st edition. Marienfels 1990, p. 210 .
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Marienfels. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Nastätten, Verbandsgemeinde, 16th row of results. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .