Neukirchen (Braunfels)

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Neukirchen
City of Braunfels
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 197 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.3 km²
Residents : 624  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 145 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35619
Area code : 06445
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Location of Neukirchen in Braunfels

Neukirchen is a district of Braunfels in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . It is the smallest of the city districts.

geography

The place is in the north of the eastern Hintertaunus , south of the core city of Braunfels and lies close together with the neighboring town Niederquembach . The Solmsbach flows through the village and the village is located on the western slope of the valley. The highest point is the Weipertgrundberg, popularly known as the pulpit , at 326 meters (above sea level).

Neighboring towns are Altenkirchen (southwest), Bonbaden (northwest), Schwalbach (north), Niederquembach (east), Oberquembach (east) and Kraftsolms (south).

history

Evangelical Church from 1956

Neukirchen is mentioned for the first time in 912, as Niunchiriha , in a deed of donation from King Konrad I to the Frauenberg monastery . In a document from Count Marquard von Solms , the place is named 1232 Nuwenkirgen . In 1474 Caspar Schlaun von Linden exchanged his property in the village for property and inclines in Dutenhofen with Count Otto von Solms-Braunfels .

The place was spared in the Thirty Years War . The village was not hit until 1673 and 1759.

In 1815, as a result of the restoration decided at the Congress of Vienna , Neukirchen became part of Prussia. During the German Revolution of 1848, the residents of Neukirchen also tried to gain more rights and moved to Braunfels Castle .

On December 28, 1956, the church in Neukirchen burned down completely. On October 6, 1957, the new Protestant church was built above the village.

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, Neukirchen was incorporated into the city of Braunfels as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Neukirchen: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 195
1840
  
 186
1846
  
 191
1852
  
 186
1858
  
 193
1864
  
 205
1871
  
 214
1875
  
 212
1885
  
 202
1895
  
 205
1905
  
 220
1910
  
 257
1925
  
 260
1939
  
 283
1946
  
 392
1950
  
 419
1956
  
 415
1961
  
 455
1967
  
 478
1970
  
 520
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

• 1834: 195 Protestant residents
• 1961: 360 Protestant, 95 Roman Catholic residents

politics

For Neukirchen there is a local advisory board with a local mayor . The local advisory council consists of five members, three of which are from the SPD and two from the CDU since the local elections in Hesse in 2016 . The mayor is Peter Schubert (SPD).

Culture and sights

Dolles village

On June 16, 2013 Neukirchen took part in the final of the Dollen Dorf , a competition of the Hessischer Rundfunk , in Kassel. The other finalists were Röhrenfurth , Walsdorf and Nonnenroth . Walsdorf was the winner of the competition. Due to the audience voting, Neukirchen came in third despite first place in the game.

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Braunfels-Neukirchen

traffic

Fire station

The L 3283 runs through the village, coming from the direction of Braunfels, which joins the L 3053 via Bonbaden bei Neukirchen , which continues south to Kraftsolms . The K 372 branches off to the south to Altenkirchen and joins the federal highway 456 west of Altenkirchen .

On November 1, 1912, the Solmsbach Valley Railway was opened. In Neukirchen there was a stop and thus a connection to the rail network of the Prussian State Railways . With the shutdown of passenger traffic on the route on May 31, 1985 and the dismantling of the tracks, the stop was also closed. Today, the final stop of the Taunusbahn is in Brandoberndorf, 5 kilometers away . For this purpose, a rail replacement service with buses has been set up, which provides a connection to the Taunusbahn for Neukirchen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical data Neukirchen. In: Internet presence. City of Braunfels, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ Entry on Neukirchen The Wetzlar district historically, statistically and topographically, first part: Political history of the Wetzlar district, Friedrich Kilian Abicht, Wetzlar 1836, p. 146
  3. ^ 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. 380 .
  4. ↑ a b c Neukirchen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 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. ↑ The documents Konrad I., Heinrich I. and Otto I. (=  Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Diplomata. 4; 1 ). Weidmann, Berlin 1956.
  7. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 250 ( online at google books ).
  8. ↑ Neukirchen local advisory board on the website of the city of Braunfels, accessed in February 2017.
  9. ↑ Walsdorf is a great village in 2013 , accessed on June 20, 2019