Niedershausen

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Niedershausen
community Löhnberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 17 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 37 ″  E
Height : 174 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.07 km²
Residents : 1002  (Jun. 1, 2019)
Population density : 124 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35792
Area code : 06471

Niedershausen is a district of the municipality of Löhnberg in the central Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg with around 1000 inhabitants.

geography

Niedershausen is located in the southern Westerwald am Kallenbach , about 21 kilometers northeast of Limburg an der Lahn , seven kilometers northwest of Weilburg and three kilometers north of the core town of Löhnberg on state road 3044.

The neighboring towns are, starting from the north, clockwise: Obershausen , core town Löhnberg (both community Löhnberg) and Probbach (community Mengerskirchen ).

history

The map of the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1819, on which Niedershausen is recorded

The official first documentary mention dates back to the year 1296. Niedershausen belonged to the county of Solms until 1492 , then came to Nassau-Beilstein and in 1621 to Nassau-Diez .

In the 17th century, the development of the village was repeatedly set back by disasters . In 1613 more than 100 people died of the plague in Niedershausen . During the Thirty Years War (1624) the settlement burned out almost completely. Up to this time it consisted of 51 houses in which 173 people lived, 45 barns and 6 stables. After the devastating fire, only five houses are said to have survived from the once stately village. In 1686 another fire destroyed 22 properties.

In the period from the early Middle Ages to the Thirty Years' War, viticulture was practiced in Niedershausen . The field name "Weingarten" still reminds us of this time. In the 17th and 18th centuries the place was a border settlement. The areas of the three principalities of Nassau-Dillenburg , whose Vogt sat at Beilstein Castle , Nassau-Weilburg and the Principality of Nassau-Hadamar collided near the place. Niedershausen belonged to Nassau-Dillenburg, the neighboring Löhnberg to Nassau-Weilburg and the neighboring town of Dillhausen to the Principality of Nassau-Hadamar. The Hadamar land was re-Catholicized during the Counter Reformation , unlike the other two areas . At that time, the Lower Houses remained exclusively Protestant reformed .

The oldest settlement was probably below the current parish church. An expansion along the Kallenbach is assumed from the middle of the 16th century. The old town center lay in a wedge shape in the valley between the Kallenbach, which was inevitably regulated early on, and the Löhnberger Strasse on the eastern ridge. In the north, Backhausstrasse and in the south, Hofstrasse, complete this town center. Due to the cramped location between the stream and the eastern slope, a compact arrangement of parcels was created that was further split up in the 19th century. This did not allow any alleys, but only a complicated system of walking and driving rights to get to the municipal roads via the adjacent properties. Nothing significant has changed in these walking and driving rights to this day. In the 17th century at the latest, the western bank of the brook was also settled. The oldest preserved half-timbered house in Lower Saxony is also located here (building Bachstrasse No. 1).

At the end of the 18th century, the banks of the stream at the level of today's Elbertalstrasse and the Löhnberger Strasse that runs alongside the stream and parts of the Neue Strasse were also settled. From 1830 onwards the village was expanded to the north by creating what is now Bitzstrasse. In the western part of this street, the buildings with their characteristic half-hip roofs have at least largely been preserved to this day. In 1868, the only industrial company in Lower Saxony, the Heinrich Göbel brewery , which was closed in 2013 , settled south and at that time still outside the town . These buildings mark the southern entrance to the town today.

In 1901 the Niedershausen volunteer fire brigade was founded . In this way, she and other already existing volunteer fire brigades formed the Oberlahn extinguishing district in the fire service association for the Wiesbaden administrative region , within which she entered the district assembly in Obertiefenbach on September 3, 1906 with a strength of 49 members.

Between 1930 and 1960, a new district was built north of the old village center, and a new school was completed in 1952. At the end of the 1950s, land consolidation resulted in several Aussiedlerhöfe in the north and south of the village. In the phase from 1960 to 1970 three new development areas were created: in the direction of Löhnberg the extension of the "Wilhelmstrasse", in the direction of Dillhausen the extension of the "Elbertalstrasse" and in the direction of Obershausen the extension of the "Neue Strasse". At the end of the 1970s, the development of the residential area "Am Käuzerain" began in a hillside location southeast of the town center, which is exposed to the view and has not yet been completed.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , on December 31, 1970, the previously independent communities of the former Oberlahnkreis Löhnberg, Niedershausen and Obershausen merged voluntarily to form the new large community of Löhnberg. Selters was added by state law on July 1, 1974.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Niedershausen: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 720
1840
  
 748
1846
  
 823
1852
  
 818
1858
  
 801
1864
  
 863
1871
  
 749
1875
  
 822
1885
  
 808
1895
  
 788
1905
  
 773
1910
  
 784
1925
  
 829
1939
  
 826
1946
  
 1,157
1950
  
 1,152
1956
  
 1,080
1961
  
 1,148
1967
  
 1,157
1970
  
 1,149
2010
  
 1,058
2015
  
 994
2018
  
 1.012
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Website of the community of Löhnberg

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 796 Protestant (= 98.51%), 11 Catholic (= 1.36%), one Jewish (= 0.12%) residents
• 1961: 942 Protestant (= 82.06%), 184 Catholic (= 16.03%) residents

Culture and sights

societies

At the local level there are the associations Evangelische Frauenhilfe Niedershausen, the Evangelische Kirchenchor Niedershausen, the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Niedershausen eV since 1901 (including the youth fire brigade since October 22, 1977), the singing club Liederkranz Niedershausen, the Naturfreunde Niedershausen, the Nirrerschäuser Dreschflejel e. V., the breed poultry breeding association Niedershausen, the TC 1984 e. V. Niedershausen, the TuS 1910 Niedershausen e. V., the VdK local group Niedershausen / Obershausen, the Vereinsring Niedershausen and the Westerwald Wanderfreunde.

Buildings

Infrastructure

Since 1901, the Niedershausen volunteer fire brigade (from October 22, 1977 with the youth fire brigade ) has provided fire protection and general help in this area. The Evangelical Community Library is located in the Theodor Fliedner House.

There is the sports hall and the “Kleine Strolche” kindergarten on Neue Straße, the sports field, a children's playground, and cycling and hiking trails.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Löhnberg from A – Z. In: website. Community of Löhnberg, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Franz-Josef Sehr : Fire Department District Days around the turn of the century . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2000 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 1999, ISBN 3-927006-29-7 , p. 187-189 .
  3. ↑ Amalgamation of the communities of Löhnberg, Niedershausen and Obershausen in the Oberlahnkreis to form the community of "Löhnberg" on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 111 , 119 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Limburg district and the Oberlahn district. (GVBl. II 330-25) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 5 , p. 101 , § 11 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  5. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 373 .
  6. ↑ a b c Niedershausen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 3, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ^ 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).