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Upper clover
community Langgöns
Coat of arms of Oberkleen
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 235 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.57 km²
Residents : 1122  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 148 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Kleenheim
Postal code : 35428
Area code : 06447
Fortified church of St. Michaelis
Old Town Hall

Oberkleen is a district of the municipality of Langgöns in the central Hessian district of Gießen . The village has about 1200 inhabitants. It is 6 km west of the city of Butzbach and about 15 km southwest of the university town of Giessen . Oberkleen mainly serves as a residential community for people who work in the Gießen area or in the Rhine-Main area .

Geographical location

Oberkleen is located on the northeastern foothills of the Taunus , Wetzlarer Hintertaunus , in the valley of the Kleebach , the wooded area lies entirely in the Taunus Nature Park . Towards the east, the valley opens up to the Wetterau , which is only characterized by gentle hills and is much more densely populated . There, a few kilometers west of the village, run important traffic axes such as the Main-Weser-Bahn , the Bundesstrasse 3 and the Autobahn A5 , which connect Frankfurt am Main with the Gießen area.

Neighboring Oberkleens are the villages of Niederkleen , which also belong to Langgöns , 2 km northeast (downstream), and Cleeberg , 3 km southwest or upstream. The Reussbach flows into the Kleebach, where the Butzbach district of Ebersgöns lies 1 km southeast of Oberkleen . To the south of the village lies the Kümmelberg (356 m above sea level), southwest of the Cleebaum (368 m), west of the Heßler (322 m), north of the Schalsberg (353 m).

history

On Schalberg there are several groups of burial mounds , one short, which suggests a very early settlement of Kleebachtals above the village. The first documentary mention of "Cleheim" comes from the Franconian times , it was made in 774 in the Lorsch Codex . A distinction between the villages of Ober- and Niederkleen is only attested in a document from 1197. As a result, Oberkleen with its fortified church was important as the parish responsible for the Counts of Cleeberg, who lived in the neighboring village. In the early 17th century the neighboring village of Gebertshausen went desolate , the local Vogteigericht was relocated to Oberkleen and remained there until 1809.

In 1836 a stalactite cave was discovered near the village . The following geological investigations resulted in the discovery of large limestone deposits . Limestone quarrying later became the village's main industry, with the first quarry opened in 1910. In order to be able to better reach him and a newly built record factory, the Butzbach-Licher Eisenbahn AG extended its railway line to Oberkleen, which was initially planned only to the then Hessian-Prussian border before Ebersgöns. The operation, which also included passenger trains, opened on June 1, 1910. An extension to Wetzlar, which was considered at the time, did not materialize. Passenger traffic ended on September 30, 1956, freight traffic at the end of 1968.

After the Second World War, the village grew, like many other Hessian towns, by accepting over 200 displaced persons .

Territorial reform

Oberkleen and Niederkleen merged voluntarily as part of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971 to form the community of Kleenheim . The municipality Clover Home was on 1 January 1977, four other municipalities by the law on the restructuring of Dill circle counties Giessen and Wetzlar and the city of casting the new greater community Langgöns together . For Niederkleen, as for all districts, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was formed. The district of Lang-Göns was set as the administrative seat . After the city of Lahn was dissolved in 1979, the Lahn-Dill district was also divided again, with the Langgöns community becoming part of the Gießen district.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Oberkleen was mentioned under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Obernclên, in (1197 and 1203) [Wyss, document book of the Deutschordens-Ballei, no. 1344, p. 320]
  • Oberincleen (1328) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 458 No. 1131]
  • superiori Clen (1334) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 511 no. 1251]
  • Abernclen (1335) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 1, p. 515 No. 1264]
  • Obercleen [map of the Wetzlar district]

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Occupied population figures:

• 1791: 309 inhabitants
• 1800: 309 inhabitants
• 1834: 428 inhabitants, 77 houses
Oberkleen: Population from 1781 to 2019
year     Residents
1781
  
 390
1800
  
 309
1834
  
 428
1840
  
 428
1846
  
 453
1852
  
 474
1858
  
 445
1864
  
 452
1871
  
 435
1875
  
 414
1885
  
 451
1895
  
 435
1905
  
 456
1910
  
 530
1925
  
 538
1939
  
 534
1946
  
 750
1950
  
 773
1956
  
 805
1961
  
 790
1967
  
 804
1970
  
 779
1978
  
 904
1982
  
 959
1986
  
 970
1990
  
 995
1994
  
 1,140
1998
  
 1,129
2000
  
 1,142
2006
  
 1,145
2010
  
 1,193
2011
  
 1,176
2016
  
 1,149
2019
  
 1,122
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Langgöns community: until 1978, later; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

  • 1834: 425 Protestant and 3 Jewish residents
  • 1961: 594 Protestant (= 75.19%), 176 Catholic (= 22.28%) inhabitants

Buildings

The most remarkable building in the village is the fortified church of St. Michaelis . The fortified tower dates from the 15th century, the nave from the 18th century. The largely preserved single-manual organ was made from 1790 to 1800 by master organ builder Johann Conrad Bürgy & Sons. From here a so-called escape tunnel will lead to the neighboring town of Cleeberg in a tower cellar right next to what was then the “Solmser Schlösschen”.

Infrastructure

Oberkleen has two churches, a large sports hall, a primary school, a kindergarten, a festival area, two sports fields, a small lake (former quarry) on the southern outskirts and a small industrial area. Next to the Evangelical Church of St. Michaelis there is a parish hall, in the basement of which there is a youth room for teenagers over fourteen. The Bachaue of Klee Bach is largely undeveloped in the local area. Below the place, at the confluence of the Reussbach, is the cellar mill.

The village is connected to the network of buses operated by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund . The next train stations ( regional railways and regional express ) are in Butzbach and Lang-Göns. In Butzbach there is also a motorway connection to the A 5 (at the nearby Gambacher Kreuz this meets the A 45 ), in Lang-Göns there is a motorway connection to the A 485 ( Gießener Ring ).

Oberkleen has two grocery stores, a gas station and a butcher's shop. DSL is available throughout the town.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Erwin Glaum: Oberkleener Heimathefte, Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Oberkleen eV
    • Issue 3, Evangelical St. Michaelis Church , 2012
    • Issue 2, The former mills in Oberkleen , 2011
    • Issue 1, limestone quarries, iron-manganese ores and horse cumin , 2010
  • Hankel, Otfried: Family book of the Protestant parish Oberkleen (Hessen) 1810–1874 . Monsenstein and Vannerdat , Münster 2009, 466 pp. ISBN 978-3-86582-820-0
  • Historic Cleeberg circular route; Cleeberg - Picturesque village in the Taunus , Langgöns community, 2009, 21 pages
  • Ernst Knorz, Karl-Heinz Glaum: Oberkleen - Niederkleen: two villages (the former Kleenheim) on the upper course of the Kleebach . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1994, illustrated book, ISBN 3-89264-969-3
  • Bernhard Reuter: Heimatbuch. A hike through Oberkleen and its corridors , Working Group Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Oberkleen, 1974 (reprint 2009), excerpt (PDF file; 1023 kB)
  • Karl H. Glaum: Kleenheim in the Hüttenberger Land. Kleenheim community, Wetzlardruck, 1974
  • Literature on Oberkleen in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Oberkleen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Oberkleen, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population figures in the budget of the municipality of Langgöns 2020. (PDF; 9.9 MB) p. 43 , accessed in April 2020 .
  3. ^ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3097, September 11, 774 - Reg. 1084. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 85 , accessed on April 19, 2016 .
  4. ^ 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 .
  5. ↑ 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 ., § 12 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Local councils of the Langgöns community. In: website. Langgöns municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  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).
  8. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  9. ↑ a b c Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 28 , § 41 ( online at google books ).
  10. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  194 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  11. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  205 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Population figures in the budget of the municipality of Langgöns 2009. (PDF; 4.7 MB) p. 23 , archived from the original on February 4, 2019 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  13. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;