Oberbiel

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Oberbiel
City of Solms
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 149 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.44 km²
Residents : 2694  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 495 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Incorporated into: Bielhausen
Postal code : 35606
Area code : 06441
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Location of Oberbiel in Solms

Oberbiel is a district of the city of Solms in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . It is on the right of the Lahn and was the seat of the knights of Biel .

Geographical location

Oberbiel is located in the Lahn-Dill area in Central Hesse on the Lahn , shortly after the mouth of the Dill . The place is on the southeastern edge of the Westerwald . The eastern half of Oberbiel is divided by a narrow, partly wooded ridge. The main street of the village is Wetzlarer Straße, which turns into Altenberger Straße in the direction of Wetzlar. On the western edge of the village of Oberbiel, a new residential area has been moving up the hill since the 1990s . Neighboring towns of Oberbiel are Niederbiel (downstream), Albshausen southeast and Wetzlar (upstream).

The district of the district extends to 545 hectares, of which 222 hectares are forest. The Altenberg monastery forms its own area with 561 hectares, 389 hectares of which are forested.

history

Protestant church
Local court

The so-called Bieler Mark , on whose territory the Solms districts Oberbiel and Niederbiel lie, was mentioned for the first time in 802 in a property register and in the Lorsch Codex .

In 1803 the Altenberg monastery was subjected to secularization and given to the princes of Solms-Braunfels as compensation for lost possessions in Alsace-Lorraine . From now on, the monastery church was used under princely patronage by the Evangelical parish of Oberbiel.

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the previously independent community Albshausen and Oberbiel joined voluntarily merged to Biel Hausen together . On January 1, 1977, the merger with Niederbiel and Solms to form the newly created large community of Solms , which was granted city rights on April 11, 1978, followed by state law .

Knights of Biel

In today's Burgweg, there used to be the Biel Castle , the ancestral seat of the knightly family of Biel, who ruled over the villages of Ober-, Mittel- and Niederbiel before the heiress of the last knight moved to the Altenberg monastery in the 13th century and the knightly family died out . The village of Mittelbiel perished from the plague in the Middle Ages . Since the inhabitants of Niederbiel took in the last inhabitants of Mittelbiel, the land around Mittelbiel was assigned to the village of Niederbiel. Mittelbiel is believed to have been located between the Am Küppel development area in Oberbiel and today's village of Niederbiel.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Oberbiel: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 582
1840
  
 633
1846
  
 653
1852
  
 687
1858
  
 715
1864
  
 766
1871
  
 760
1875
  
 731
1885
  
 804
1895
  
 897
1905
  
 1,024
1910
  
 1,081
1925
  
 1,178
1939
  
 1,260
1946
  
 1,691
1950
  
 1,656
1956
  
 1,874
1961
  
 2,209
1967
  
 2,559
1970
  
 2,616
1987
  
 2,525
2010
  
 2,767
2013
  
 2,694
2015
  
 2,348
2017
  
 2,284
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources: (2010, 2015, 2017 with secondary residences)

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1934: 460 Protestant and 14 Catholic residents
• 1961: 1735 Protestant (= 78.54%), 429 Catholic (= 19.42%) residents

Culture and sights

societies

Club life plays a major role in Oberbiel. The sports community SG 08 Oberbiel is the club with the most members in town. In addition, there is a men's choir, a rifle club, the Kloster Altenberg eV association, the “Germania” fraternity and numerous non-profit associations.

Buildings

Church of the Altenberg Monastery

Cultural monuments

Altenberg Monastery

Somewhat out of the way is the former Premonstratensian monastery of Altenberg , today the seat of the Königsberg Mother House of Mercy , property of the Counts of Solms-Braunfels and venue for concerts.

Fortuna pit

The Fortuna iron ore mine , which was closed in 1983, has been open to visitors since 1987 . The Fortuna Field and Mine Railway Museum (FGF) is connected to the visitor mine in the forest area north of Oberbiel .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Oberbiel is located directly on the federal road 49 (E 44). The place can also be reached via the L 3020 (in Oberbiel as Wetzlarer Straße and Altenberger Straße) from the direction of Wetzlar, which continues through Oberbiel to Leun . In addition, a road with only moderate traffic leads to the visitor mine Grube Fortuna and on to Aßlar-Berghausen in the Dill Valley. Solmser Straße also runs through the village . Oberbiel is served by the overland lines 120/125 and 185 of the Lahn-Dill transport association with three stops. The nearest train station is in neighboring Albshausen . Another stop exists in Burgsolms . Both are on the Lahn Valley Railway . Wetzlar and Giessen have larger train stations . Oberbiel is also connected to the cycle path network from the west, east and south. The village is located directly on the Lahntal cycle path and the Hessian long-distance cycle path R7 .

Public facilities

Oberbiel has a primary school and a volunteer fire brigade . There is also a day-care center called “Kindergarten Li-La-Launeburg”.

The majority of the residents belong to the Protestant denomination ( Evangelical Church in the Rhineland ), so the place has a Protestant church in the historic center and two parish houses (Schulgartenstrasse and Kirchstrasse).

For years there was a branch of the Solms city ​​administration in Oberbiel . Today the building (Wetzlarer Straße) is used as a local court and youth club.

Industry and Commerce

Oberbiel has an industrial park in the immediate vicinity of the B 49, in which, among other things, TransPak AG , which is active in the packaging material sector, has its headquarters with 290 employees across Europe.

Another industrial area, which is located on a river island of the Lahn, was built in the early 20th century and is therefore the oldest in Oberbiel. At that time, a wire pin factory , a wire drawing factory and a precision and ball bearing factory were established .

There is also a branch of the Sparkasse Wetzlar and a post office in the village .

At the end of the village a small industrial area was created with a Lidl store, a KiK store and a beverage store run by Heurich GmbH & Co. KG .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Oberbiel, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b The city districts on the website of the city of Solms , accessed in August 2016.
  3. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Para. 27. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Biedenkopf and Marburg districts and the city of Marburg (Lahn) (GVBl. II 330-27) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 154 , § 14 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  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. 380-381 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ^ Budget 2012, preliminary report. (PDF; 629 kB) City of Solms, p. 38 , archived from the original ; accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Districts. In: Internet presence. City of Solms, accessed February 2019 .
  9. ↑ 2017 budget, preliminary report. (PDF; 629 kB) City of Solms, p. 45 , archived from the original ; accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Budget 2019, preliminary report, statistical information. (PDF; 8.7 MB) City of Solms, p. 78 of the pdf-doc , archived from the original ; accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Transpak AG website