Mittenaar

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 8 ° 23 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Lahn-Dill district
Height :	342 m above sea level NHN
Area :	35.18 km 2
Residents:	4791 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	136 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	35756
Primaries :	02772 (Bicken, Ballersbach) and 02778 (Offenbach) and 06444 (Bellersdorf)
License plate :	LDK, DIL
Community key :	06 5 32 017
Address of the municipal administration:	Leipziger Strasse 1 35756 Mittenaar
Website :	www.mittenaar.de
Mayor :	Markus Deusing ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Mittenaar in the Lahn-Dill district

Mittenaar is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .

geography

location

Mittenaar is located in the Hörre , a heavily wooded and up to 445 m high mountain range and sub- natural area of the Gladenbacher Bergland .

Expansion of the area

Over 5000 people live on 3518 hectares. Around 45 km of roads connect the districts. The proportion of forest in the district is over 50%.

Districts of Mittenaar

Neighboring communities

Mittenaar borders the municipality of Siegbach in the north, the municipality of Bischoffen in the northeast, the municipality of Hohenahr in the east, the city of Asslar in the southeast, the municipality of Ehringshausen in the south, the municipality of Sinn in the southwest and the city of Herborn in the west (all in the Lahn-Dill district).

structure

The community consists of the districts Ballersbach , Bellersdorf , Bicken (seat of the municipal administration) and Offenbach .

history

The municipality of Mittenaar was created on December 31, 1971 in the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Ballersbach, Bicken and Offenbach. Bellersdorf was incorporated on April 1, 1972.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016       A total of 23 seats SPD : 11 Greens : 2 FDP : 2 CDU : 6 FW : 2	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	47.9	11	40.0	9	51.1	12	58.3	14th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	25.2	6th	30.1	7th	34.9	8th	27.2	6th
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	9.1	2	18.4	4th	-	-	-	-
	FWG	Free community of voters	9.3	2	7.6	2	11.7	3	14.5	3
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	8.5	2	3.9	1	-	-	-	-
	WASG	Work & Social Justice - The Alternative Choice	-	-	-	-	2.3	0	-	-
	total		100.0	23	100.0	23	100.0	23	100.0	23
	Voter turnout in%		48.4		47.7		46.4		51.8

mayor

The mayoral election took place on September 22, 2013, in which Markus Deusing (SPD) prevailed from a total of 7 candidates with 52.1% of the votes. On October 22nd, he succeeded Gerrit Klingelhöfer, who had resigned his mayor's post after only four weeks in office due to allegations of infidelity.

Since the introduction of direct elections, the municipality of Mittenaar has had the following mayors:

• 1995 - March 30, 2013: Hermann Steubing (SPD)
• April 1 - October 21, 2013: vacant time
• since October 22, 2013: Markus Deusing (SPD)

coat of arms

Description : In black a golden (yellow) oblique left wave bar above accompanied by a golden (yellow) clover leaf. Two silver bars below. In addition to the wavy bar as a symbol for the Aar flowing through the municipality, the coat of arms shows two coat of arms symbols of former noble families who were wealthy in the municipality: the clover leaf for the Lords of Dernbach (Alt-Dernbach = Herborn-Seelbach) and the two bars of the Lords of Bicken (see above).

Culture

music

On December 9, 1950, the Bicken Spielmannszug was founded and has been known as the Bicken Musikzug since 1967. The repertoire is determined by Bohemian-Moravian brass music.

The youth choir “Young Voices Mittenaar” was brought into being in January 2000 through an initiative of three choirs, MGV 1861 Ballersbach, GV Sängervereinigung 1860 Bicken and GV Eintracht Offenbach. The repertoire includes spirituals, gospels, evergreens and more modern pieces.

Regular events

• Haahepper (Friday and Saturday on the last weekend in July)
• Maypole Festival (April 30, Offenbach, Bicken and Bellersdorf)
• Aartal group concert by the Aartal choirs (every 2 years)
• Christmas market in Bicken (Saturday before the 1st Advent)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Heinrich Alsted (* mid-March 1588 in Ballersbach, † November 9, 1638 in Weißenburg (today Alba Iulia), Romania ) was a Reformed theologian and polyhistor.

literature

• Helmut Groos (ed.): Mittenaar - A home book. Mittenaar 1988
• Helmut Groos (Ed.): Home and History. Mittenaar - Ein Heimatbuch, Volume II. Mittenaar 2004
• Erco von Dietze: Archive of the Evangelical Church Community Ballersbach with the former Herbornseelbach branch 1345–1982. Finding aid. 1989
• Literature about Mittenaar in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Mittenaar  - collection of images

• Mittenaar, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Information on the community of Mittenaar. In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agentur GmbH , 2016. 
• Link catalog on Mittenaar at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 306
3. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
4. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Direct elections in Mittenaar