Niederquembach

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Niederquembach
Community of Schöffengrund
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 30 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 215  (202-233)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.48 km²
Residents : 766  (Dec. 31, 2002)
Population density : 220 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35641
Area code : 06445

Niederquembach is a district of the municipality of Schöffengrund in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Niederquembach is located in the eastern Hintertaunus in the north of the Taunus Nature Park . The Quembach flows into the Solmsbach near the village . On the western edge of the village, the meeting state roads  3052 and 3283. The village is located on the former Solms Bach Valley Railway . The next larger city is Wetzlar . The highest point near Niederquembach is the pulpit at 326 meters above sea level.

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

history

Evangelical Church from 1603

The village was first mentioned in documents in 1314. After the Second World War , displaced Danube Swabians settled here . A village fire destroyed the whole place. In 1603 a new church was built.

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, the independent municipality of Niederquembach merged with five other municipalities in the course of the Hessian regional reform to form the unitary municipality of Schöffengrund.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Niederquembach: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 187
1840
  
 164
1846
  
 182
1852
  
 200
1858
  
 194
1864
  
 217
1871
  
 244
1875
  
 240
1885
  
 233
1895
  
 231
1905
  
 266
1910
  
 290
1925
  
 336
1939
  
 362
1946
  
 486
1950
  
 489
1956
  
 547
1961
  
 594
1967
  
 644
1970
  
 633
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: 187 Protestant residents
• 1961: 450 Protestant (= 75.76%), 140 Catholic (= 23.57%) residents

Cultural monuments

Infrastructure

There is a kindergarten in the village .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Niederquembach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Information sheet of the community of Schöffengrund from 2003, page 29 (PDF).
  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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 380 .
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ↑ 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 ).