Medenbach (Breitscheid)

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Medenbach
community Breitscheid
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 59 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 304 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.74 km²
Residents : 1179  (March 2015)
Population density : 175 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35767
Area code : 02777
View over Medenbach
View over Medenbach

Medenbach is one of the five districts of the Breitscheid community in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse . The place is in the eastern Westerwald .

geography

The place is located on the eastern edge of the High Westerwald about 5 km northwest of Herborn and 6 km southwest of Dillenburg . The distance to Siegen is about 25 km as the crow flies and to Wetzlar 25 km. Medenbach is close to the Hessian border with North Rhine-Westphalia . The distance to the border triangle Hesse - Rhineland-Palatinate - North Rhine-Westphalia is 5.3 km. The district of the place has a size of 6.74 km². In the northwest it is heavily forested. The highest point of Medenbach is the Alte Feld (popularly: Gatte ) and is 492.5 m. above sea level

The neighboring towns are, starting from the north in a clockwise direction: Donsbach (town of Dillenburg), Uckersdorf (town of Herborn), Erdbach , Breitscheid (both town of Breitscheid) and Langenaubach (town of Haiger).

The place is located on the Medenbach, which joins the Amdorfbach at Uckersdorf and flows into the Dill . The Otterich (463 m above sea level) rises north of the village, and the Lauberg (492 m above sea level) to the northwest . South of the village, in the direction of Erbach, is the Mühlberg (376 m above sea level).

history

The name Medenbach indicates a continuous settlement of the place since the Merovingian settlement period around the 6/7. Century. Medenbach belonged to the Herborn Mark , which came under the influence of the House of Nassau from the 12th century . The oldest written reference before 1353 in a goods description of the chapel to Ballersbach . Until 1588 the place belonged to the parish of Herborn, since then to the parish of Breitscheid. For a long time, the economic basis of the place was the mining and processing of mineral resources. In the 19th century the place was praised for its good Roteisenstein.

The previously independent municipality was attached to the Breitscheid municipality on January 1, 1977 as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Medenbach: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 298
1840
  
 305
1846
  
 291
1852
  
 278
1858
  
 297
1864
  
 351
1871
  
 334
1875
  
 332
1885
  
 318
1895
  
 367
1905
  
 378
1910
  
 396
1925
  
 443
1939
  
 457
1946
  
 637
1950
  
 676
1956
  
 731
1961
  
 786
1967
  
 887
1970
  
 965
2008
  
 1,253
2010
  
 1,225
2015
  
 1,179
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources :, after 1970: Breitscheid municipality ( see web archive; several values. )

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 272 Protestant, no Catholic and 46 Christians of other denominations
• 1961: 644 Protestant, 89 Roman Catholic 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 Breitscheid municipality. 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. The current mayor is Yannick Konrad (SPD), since 2016.

Attractions

Medieval choir tower in Medenbach

Medenbach has a church that is essentially medieval . This Protestant church has a choir tower in the early Gothic style with a pyramid-shaped roof. Remnants of a medieval wall painting have been preserved inside the tower . This picture shows the scene of Christ before Pilate . The tower was extensively restored in 1966. A modern nave is attached to the tower.

The development of the place follows the narrow course of the Medenbach valley. Some half-timbered buildings from the 18th century have been preserved in the village . The place also has four cast-iron fountains from the 19th century, which are of monumental value.

For the other cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Medenbach .

Economy and Infrastructure

Medenbach has a village community center , an outdoor swimming pool and a nursing home .

There is a limestone quarry southwest of the village. These limestone deposits originated from a coral stock from the Devonian period .

traffic

The place has no direct access to the federal trunk road network. The next access to the B 255 (Herborn - Montabaur) is near Amdorf (approx. 5 km). The next access to the B 277 (Herborn - Dillenburg) is at Burg. The next motorway exit is the Herborn-West exit on the A 45, approx. 6 kilometers away .

The place used to have a stop on the Haiger – Breitscheid railway line . Today the nearest train station is in Herborn (Dillkr) on the Dill route .

There are bus connections to Breitscheid and Herborn. The distance to Frankfurt airport is 106 km, to Cologne / Bonn approx. 109 km.

The Westerwaldsteig , a long-distance hiking trail from Herborn to Bad Hönningen , the Rothaarsteig , a long-distance hiking trail from Dillenburg to Brilon , and the Hessian R8 cycle path from Frankenberg (Eder) to Heppenheim run near Medenbach .

education

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in Medenbach . Secondary schools can be attended in Breitscheid ( secondary and secondary school ) as well as in Herborn or Dillenburg ( grammar school ).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Figures, Data, Facts” on the Breitscheid municipality's website , accessed in September 2015.
  2. ^ 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. 357 .
  3. ↑ a b c Medenbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching: D. Anton Friderich Büsching's new description of the earth. The German empire. tape 3 . JC Bohn, 1771, 1771, pp. 840 ( google.de ).
  6. ↑ Local Advisory Boards. In: www.gemeinde-breitscheid.de. Retrieved October 21, 2016 .