Niedereld

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Niedereld
City of Dillenburg
Niedereld coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 30 ″  E
Height : 217 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.29 km²
Residents : 1962  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 211 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35687
Area code : 02771

Niederscheld is a district of Dillenburg in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse with around 2000 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The village is located in the Dill Valley , which is part of the Westerwald . It is located south of the Dillenburg core town of Niederscheld and is surrounded by the Hohes Rad , Horst and Gleichen elevations on the western edge of the Scheldt Forest . The eponymous Scheldt and Dill flow through the village , as well as numerous small streams such as Lützelbach and Hustenbach.

View of Niederscheld from the west

history

Evangelical Church in Niederscheld

The village is first mentioned on October 22, 1274 as a scourge . Heydenreich von Dernbach sold properties in the village to the Keppel monastery . Between 1470 and 1490, the plague ruled village life. In 1472 an infirmary was built. The Reformation reached the place around 1530 .

In 1604 the Scheldt hammer was built , which was used for iron smelting. During the Thirty Years War , Niederscheld was attacked and plundered several times by troops who besieged the Dillenburg Castle. Niedereld was persecuted by witches from 1629 to 1630 . Three women got into witch trials and were executed.

After a major fire in the village in 1756, Niederscheld came to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 and belonged to the Sieg department , which meant that the place became French. The Frank brothers bought the Schelder Hammer in 1839 and renamed it Adolfshütte . With the construction of the Dill route (1862) and the Schelden Valley Railway (1882), iron smelting increased in the Adolfshütte .

During the Second World War , Niederscheld with its extensive railway and industrial facilities was bombed several times. The village was largely destroyed in an air raid on February 25, 1945. At the end of the war only 80 people lived in Niederscheld.

Niedereld became known nationwide in the media due to the 2006 Scheldt flood, which hit the place hard.

On June 28, 2019, a 250-kg aerial bomb was found above the Adolfshütte industrial park. For this purpose, around 5,700 people were evacuated. This is divided as follows: Niederscheld with around 2000 inhabitants and around 3700 citizens in the south of the core city .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the community of Niederscheld was incorporated into the city of Dillenburg at the same time as other communities on January 1, 1977 by the law on the reorganization of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen . For the district of Niederscheld, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was formed.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Niedereld: Population from 1834 to 2019
year     Residents
1834
  
 622
1840
  
 663
1846
  
 708
1852
  
 796
1858
  
 837
1864
  
 955
1871
  
 1,031
1875
  
 1,036
1885
  
 1.110
1895
  
 1,190
1905
  
 1,507
1910
  
 1,640
1925
  
 1,595
1939
  
 1,726
1946
  
 1,676
1950
  
 2,067
1956
  
 2,096
1961
  
 2,195
1967
  
 2,356
1970
  
 2,559
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
1999
  
 2,237
2005
  
 2.149
2009
  
 2,036
2014
  
 1,989
2018
  
 1,962
2019
  
 1,945
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970 city of Dillenburg

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 1027 Protestant (= 92.52%), 79 Catholic (= 7.12%) and 4 other (= 0.36%) Christians
• 1961: 1814 Protestant (= 82.64%) and 329 (= 14.99%) Catholic residents
• 2018: 1031 Protestant (= 52.55%), 208 Catholic (= 10.60%) and 723 other residents

politics

Local advisory board

The Niedereld local council consists of five members. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , it consists of three members of the CDU and two members of the SPD . The mayor is Frank Müller (CDU).

coat of arms

On July 6, 1967, the community of Niederscheld in what was then Dillkreis , Wiesbaden administrative district , was awarded a coat of arms by the Hessian Minister of the Interior .

Blazon : "In blue three golden diamonds at an angle, above a slanted golden hammer."

At the end of the thirteenth century the name of the family "von Schelt" appears for the first time, which, like many other Nassau families, had three diagonally placed diamonds in the coat of arms. The memory of this clan is kept alive with the use of the von Schelt coat of arms. For the hitherto inexplicable mark, a hammer was used for Niederscheld, which refers to the once flourishing trade of nail smiths here.

Culture and sights

Regular events

According to tradition, the Scheldt fair takes place every two years in Niederscheld . It consists of three pageants and is one of the most important events in every Niederschelder's calendar. The fair is first mentioned in 1488.

societies

LSG 1959 Niederscheld

  • As early as the 20s and 30s, amateur play in Niederscheld was at a high level. There were three choral societies in which several members loved not only singing but also amateur play. So the water of the amateur play splashed along until some Niederschelders took heart on May 27, 1959 and founded the "amateur play group 1959 Niederscheld".

Buildings

Match house
Former hunting lodge - Neuhaus

Well-known buildings in Niederscheld are u. a. the match house and the Neuhaus, a hunting lodge of Count Ludwig Heinrich von Nassau-Dillenburg, completed in July 1640 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Niedereld railway viaduct

traffic

The four-lane federal road 277 with a junction runs on the western edge of the town . This is where the L 3042 flows , which is the main road in the village and leads to Oberscheld . In the east, the K 52 branches off towards Eibach .

Niederscheld has a stop on the Dill route and is served by the Mittelhessen-Express . The Schelden Valley Railway to Wallau used to branch off near the village . The Adolfshütte train station and the Niederscheld (Dillkr) Nord stop existed in the village . Passenger traffic ceased on May 30, 1987.

Facilities

There is a kindergarten , a primary school (Schelden Valley School), a village community center and a community hall in the village . The volunteer fire brigade has a fire fighting group vehicle 10/6 , a logistics equipment vehicle and a team transport vehicle .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Niederscheld, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b c Population figures for the city of Dillenburg from the web archive: 1999 , 2005 , 2009 , 2014 , 2018 , 2020
  3. ↑ Siegener Document Book Volume I, Siegen , 1887, pp. 28–29, no. 43.
  4. ^ Victims of the witch madness from Niederscheld on www.niederscheld.de
  5. ↑ Mittelhessen.de accessed on June 29, 2019
  6. ↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 24 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  7. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 21; kB) §; 5. In: Website. City of Dillenburg, accessed February 2019 .
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ↑ Niedereld local advisory board on the city of Dillenburg's website, accessed in April 2019.
  10. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community of Niederscheld, Dillkreis, Wiesbaden administrative district of July 6, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 30 , p. 896 , point 744 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).

Web links

Commons : Niederscheld  - collection of images