Niederlauken

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Niederlauken
municipality Weilrod
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Niederlauken
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 58 ″  E
Height : 295 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.67 km²
Residents : 450  (Jan 2017)
Population density : 59 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 61276
Area code : 06083
map
Location of Niederlauken in Weilrod
Kammerforst youth campsite right next to the SG Niederlauken sports grounds
Sports home of the SG Niederlauken

Niederlauken is a district of the community of Weilrod in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis .

geography

Niederlauken is located in the eastern Hintertaunus in the Sattelbachtal. The immediate neighboring town is Oberlauken, one kilometer away . At a distance of three km each, Merzhausen and Neuweilnau are neighboring towns. The highest elevations near Niederlauken are the Hohlberg at 345 meters above sea ​​level and the Hühnerküppel at 400 meters above sea level.

The nearest towns are Usingen , Bad Camberg and Limburg an der Lahn .

history

The first traces of human settlement were found in the Neolithic period in the municipality. Niederlauken is first mentioned in a document from 1249. The Lauken at that time was owned by Count Gerhard von Diez . With the separation of the two lines of the County of Diez in 1326, Niederlauken became Nassau . In 1370 the name Niederlauken was first mentioned in a document.

In the 16th century Niederlauken belonged to the Stockheim court and came to Nassau-Usingen in 1659 .

The village had a chapel since around 1500. Until 1669 Niederlauken belonged to Altweilnau . Today the churches in Niederlauken and Oberlauken together form the Evangelical Church Community of Lauken. The local church was built in the middle of the 19th century.

Church of Niederlauken

Niederlauken as a district

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the community was Niederlauken in the district of Usingen on August 1, 1972 by virtue of state law with several other municipalities to the municipality Weilrod together . Linked to this was the change to the newly founded Hochtaunuskreis .

In 1999 Niederlauken celebrated its 750-year history.

Population development

In 1628 38 houses were counted. Due to the devastation of the Thirty Years War , the number of houses decreased to 4 houses by 1640. After that, however, the population quickly rose again.

Niederlauken: Population from 1696 to 1970
year     Residents
1696
  
 135
1834
  
 232
1840
  
 243
1846
  
 246
1852
  
 242
1858
  
 236
1864
  
 238
1871
  
 236
1875
  
 231
1885
  
 226
1895
  
 236
1905
  
 251
1910
  
 265
1925
  
 222
1939
  
 247
1946
  
 352
1950
  
 343
1956
  
 313
1961
  
 320
1970
  
 334
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1696

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1830: 226 Protestant (= 100.00%) residents
• 1961: 292 Protestant (= 91.25%), 26 Catholic (= 8.12%) residents

Culture and sights

The Laubmännchen is celebrated at Pentecost as a spring and fertility festival. It is a pre-Christian custom.

Economy and Infrastructure

The town's economy used to be very agricultural. Today, many residents commute to work in the Vordertaunus or the Rhine-Main area . Canton is the largest local employer . The savings and loan association Niederlauken merged with Raiffeisenbank Grävenwiesbach in 1972.

The village has a community center and a youth center . In order to ensure the local supply of daily necessities, the association “Unser Laden Niederlauken” runs a neighborhood shop , which, however, cannot be kept alive without subsidies.

As part of the village renewal, the old bakery was also renovated. Some restored half-timbered houses are gems of the place.

Web links

Commons : Niederlauken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Niederlauken, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Niederlauken on the website of the community of Weilrod, accessed on March 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ 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 and 13 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Niederlauken. Local history, info. In: www.niederlauken.de. Private website, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ A village shop is not a “cash cow”. ( Memento from May 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) FAZ from July 12, 2007