Mudershausen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 8 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Aar facility
Height :	265 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.72 km 2
Residents:	432 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	92 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	65623
Area code :	06430
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 089
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Burgstrasse 1 56368 Katzenelnbogen
Website :	www.mudershausen.de
Local Mayor :	Klaus Harbach
Location of the local community Mudershausen in the Rhein-Lahn district

Mudershausen is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the municipality of Aar-Einrich .

geography

Geographical location

Mudershausen is located in the Taunus , eleven kilometers southwest of Limburg an der Lahn, not far from the Aar , which flows through the neighboring town of Zollhaus . Part of Zollhaus belongs to Mudershausen.

geology

360 million years ago in the Devonian Age , the area of ​​today's Mudershausen was located in the area of ​​a shallow tropical sea, in which coral reefs and subsequently reef limestone formed. Such a former coral reef is characteristic of the landscape around Mudershausen. The area has been dry since mountain formation began between 325 and 305 million years ago . Due to tectonic processes, the rock layers broke into clods and in some cases were thrown up vertically into rock layers several hundred meters thick.

Karst phenomena can be found in the limestone layers , a specialty in the Rhein-Lahn district is the phreatic karstification called leaching of the limestone rocks by standing groundwater. Caving is a concise process, a total of over 70 caves are known in the Rhein-Lahn district, some of them around Mudershausen.

Fog cave

The Nebelhöhle was discovered in 1999 by the Speleological Working Group - Hessen (HAGH) and measured in 2000. With a length of 650 m and a vertical depth of 80 m, it is both the longest and deepest cave in Rhineland-Palatinate. The cave contains crystal formations and large-area pearl and button sintered . It is not open to the public.

Community structure

The town of Bonscheuer and part of the 250-inhabitant town of Zollhaus belong to the central town of Mudershausen and - administratively a rarity - belongs to a total of four local communities. In addition to Mudershausen, parts of the village belong to the municipalities of Burgschwalbach , Hahnstätten and Schiesheim . The residential areas Hohlenfels and Ziegelhütte also belong to Mudershausen.

history

The place Mudershausen was first mentioned in 1416 as Mudershußen . On the basis of burial mounds, it is assumed that the area of ​​today's Bonscheuer district was inhabited earlier.

The part of the name "Muders-" goes back to a Franconian nobleman named "Mothar", "-hausen" indicates a pre-medieval forest settlement.

In the 15th century, the residents of the village had to provide security guards for Katzenelnbogen Castle .

The mining of red and brown iron stone began as early as the 13th century, and later of ocher , magnetite and phosphorite . In 1960 mining was stopped. The 3,156 meter long Barbara tunnel and other relics from the Zollhaus mine are a reminder of this chapter in history. In addition, were marble and limestone broken. A brick factory was used for further processing. A lime works is still in operation near Zollhaus.

Around 1700 the first school was set up on the upper floor of the bakery. In March 1773 the place was destroyed by fire that broke out in a barn. After the village fire and in 1831 new school buildings were erected.

Muderhausen belonged to the Duchy of Nassau from 1806 to 1866 . In 1868 Mudershausen came to the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and was part of the French occupation zone after World War II .

The population developed as follows in the 19th and 20th centuries: 1843: 320 inhabitants, 1927: 317 inhabitants, 1964: 345 inhabitants.

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

The local mayor of Mudershausen is Klaus Harbach. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with a vote of 86.49%.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Golden lance and golden sword crossed diagonally in red."

Founding of the coat of arms: The Katzenelnbogische place, which came to Hessen in 1479, has belonged to Nassau since 1536. The Mudershausen court seal was created during the Nassau period; it was documented in 1634 but was no longer available in 1636. It shows the church patron St. Ferrutius with a lance and sword growing over a wall in the seal field . It was followed by a seal with a similar image that Mudershausen had together with his church village Dörsdorf and the two subsidiary branches Berghausen and Eisighofen. In the extremely roughly cut seal with the inscription S (ANCTVS) VARRVCIVS G (ERICHT) S (IGEL) Z (V) MVDERSHAVSSEN, which was created in 1781, the image of the first seal was then repeated. The proposed coat of arms is limited to the heraldic elements of the seal, the attributes of the church patron, with which this is symbolized.

Buildings

Hohlenfels Castle

→ Main article : Hohlenfels Castle

The castle, located on a limestone cliff rising up to 60 meters above the Hohlenfelsbach valley and built in the middle of the 14th century by order of the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg-Saarbrücken , was initially owned by the noble von Langenau family and was one in the 15th century due to numerous inheritance divisions Ganerbeburg . Until around 1600 the lords of Mudersbach were able to bring the castle fiefdom into their sole possession, which was followed by the lords of Kronberg and Waldecker von Kempt. With a new building added at the beginning of the 18th century, the listed castle is now privately owned after a turbulent history of ownership, but has been open to the public a few days a year since 2005.

At the foot of the castle rock there was a village called Hohlenfels in the late Middle Ages, which had developed from an estate, but was abandoned during the Thirty Years' War. The still existing manor was used from 1973 to 2012 as a youth meeting place at the Hohlenfels domain ; today it is privately owned.

town hall

The town hall in Mudershausen was designed in 1913 and built from 1914 to 1915. The building combined the town hall and prayer hall, which has been a tradition in Hesse and the Westerwald since the 18th century. Furthermore, club rooms, the fire station and a prison cell were set up. The building is dominated by a bell tower. The town hall has been a listed building since 1983 .

See also: List of cultural monuments in Mudershausen

traffic

Mudershausen is connected to the neighboring towns of Zollhaus and Berghausen by a county road . Between 1901 and 1953 the place had two train stations (Mudershausen and Hohlenfels) on the route of the Nassau small railway from Zollhaus to Nastätten .

Web links

Commons : Mudershausen  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Mudershausen
• Local community Mudershausen on the website of the municipality of Aar-Einrich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Rhein-Lahn-Info - Caves and cave research in the Rhein-Lahn district ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Description of the fog cave with pictures on "68erClimbers.de"
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 42 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Aar-Einrich, Verbandsgemeinde, 22nd line of results. Retrieved November 22, 2019 . 
7. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt and Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 224.
8. ^ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden : Collection Horst Heep .