Neuweilnau

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Neuweilnau
municipality Weilrod
Neuweilnau coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 347 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.44 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 179  (Jan 2017)
Population density : 52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Incorporated into: Weilnau
Postal code : 61276
Area code : 06083
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Location of Neuweilnau in Weilrod
View of Neuweilnau from Altweilnau
View of Neuweilnau from Altweilnau

Neuweilnau is a part of the community of Weilrod in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis .

geography

Neuweilnau is located in the eastern Hintertaunus above the Weiltal , in the Taunus Nature Park . The district is located at an altitude of 320 meters to 500 meters above sea ​​level .
Neighboring towns are Cratzenbach (northwest), Altweilnau (east) and Riedelbach (southwest).

history

Neuweilnau can show an exact date of origin. The place owes this to its founder: Heinrich von Weilnau . Because through inheritance disputes in the family of the Counts von Diez in 1302, he got the promise to get a new castle like the old Weilnau castle on the Rödelnberg beyond the Weil by summer 1303 at the latest. Back then, the castle had to be built by his relative, Count Gerhard von Diez . In return, Heinrich von Weilnau renounced his share in the Altweilnau castle. It was thus that the former rule Weilnau the places Altweilnau and Neuweilnau. As early as 1326, the castle and rule of Neuweilnau came to the Counts of Nassau. Little has been preserved of the old castle complex, whose keep was demolished in 1709. At the beginning of the 16th century, the lords of the castle ensured that it was continuously expanded into a Renaissance castle. From his times as the residence of Count Philip III. Some outstanding half-timbered buildings still come from Nassau, such as the Prevenius house from 1650. Half-timbered house no. 24 has Franconian bay windows and carvings. Today the castle, which towers over the village, is the official seat of the Weilrod Forestry Office and a sought-after location for dreamy civil weddings in a courtly atmosphere.

Neuweilnau, town and castle

In 1930 an outdoor pool was built in the Schnepfenbachtal. Today there are no remains of the 40 by 14 meter pool.

The plans for a Weiltalsperre in the 1950s and 1960s would have meant that the place would have been located directly on this reservoir . The planning was stopped in 1969.

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the communities Neuweilnau and other communities on 1 December 1970 to a voluntary basis to the municipality joined Weilnau together before this church on August 1, 1972, several previously independent municipalities powerful state law to the new greater community Weilrod together was.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is based on a seal from 1774. The red leopard (looking, striding lion) is from the coat of arms of the Counts of Weilnau . The rose and the wall are from an older seal of the city from 1507, which showed a city wall with gate and towers under two roses and the coat of arms of the Counts of Nassau . The wall indicates that Neuweilnau had had city rights since the late 13th century, but it never developed into a real city. The rose is either a local symbol or from the Rose von Weilnau family , who ruled the city. The coat of arms of Nassau indicates that the city came into the possession of Nassau in 1326.

Attractions

Parish church

The Protestant parish church as a small baroque hall building with simple furnishings dates from the 18th century.

Neuweilnau Castle

From the castle, built in 1302, only parts of the curtain wall and a round tower stump are preserved. Today's Neuweilnau Castle was built in 1506–1513 by Ludwig I von Nassau-Weilburg, and expanded in 1564–1566 by Count Albrecht von Nassau-Weilburg. The simple, typical Nassau renaissance building has a picturesque gate building from 1565/66 with dwelling houses and a half-timbered gallery on the courtyard side. The cellar vault in the castle is well preserved.

Park Dreieich

If you reach Neuweilnau from the upper Weiltal, you will notice a medieval-looking tower on the left at the entrance to the village. This tower is part of the privately owned Dreieich Park. Even if the appearance suggests otherwise, the tower was only built at the end of the 19th century. The owner at the time, the Frankfurt industrialist Paul Fevre (later Paul Faber) had the tower built as a ruin in the romanticizing style of the time . An 80-meter-long tunnel was created underneath the tower, which widens in the middle to form a small grotto with seating. A “chapel”, which was never intended as a place of worship, but only as a vantage point, and the actual manor house complement the 15,000 square meter park, which is not open to the public

Web links

Commons : Neuweilnau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Neuweilnau on the website of the community of Weilrod, accessed on March 25, 2018.
  2. Alexander Schneider: Who once splashed around in the eight bathing establishments; in: Taunuszeitung from June 19, 2018, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of the communities Altweilnau, Finsternthal, Mauloff, Neuweilnau and Riedelbach in the Usingen district to form the new community "Weilnau" on November 30, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 50 , p. 2339 , item 2337 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
  4. Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II 330-18) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 227 , & 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 276 .
  6. Taunus Zeitung of August 12, 2009, page 16