Oberlahnstein

Oberlahnstein City of Lahnstein
	Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 2 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 26 ″ E
Height :	75 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	56112
Area code :	02621
Location of Oberlahnstein in Rhineland-Palatinate

Oberlahnstein is a district of Lahnstein in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until 1969 the place was an independent city belonging to the district.

location

Oberlahnstein is on the right side of the Rhine and on the left side of the Lahn, at the mouth of the Lahn into the Rhine .

history

Oberlahnstein and Lahneck Castle formed the northernmost exclave of the Electorate of Mainz . Ecclesiastically, Oberlahnstein belonged to the Archdiocese of Trier until it was dissolved in 1803 .

View of Oberlahnstein around 1840 (steel engraving by William Tombleson )

In the 19th century, during the Nassau period, it became an important railway junction as the end point of the Nassau Rhine Railway from Wiesbaden and the Lahn Valley Railway from Wetzlar . With the takeover of the Nassauische Staatsbahn by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, this function was largely transferred to the Niederlahnstein and Koblenz Hbf train stations.

Today the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Oberlahnstein belong to the Limburg diocese , the Protestant inhabitants to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

On June 7, 1969, Oberlahnstein was combined with the neighboring town of Niederlahnstein to form the large district town of Lahnstein .

badges and flags

	Blazon : "In red two six-spoke silver wheels, connected by a silver cross with paws."
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms was awarded in 1908 by the Prussian State Ministry . The double wheel with the connecting paw cross is a variation of the old Mainz coat of arms and symbolizes the centuries-long affiliation to Kurmainz .

00Hoisted flag: "The flag has red and white stripes with the coat of arms in the middle."

traffic

The Oberlahnstein station is located on the East Rhine Railway . Originally it was also on the Lahn Valley Railway .

A road bridge has been connecting the two districts of Nieder- and Oberlahnstein since 1873, and the bridge, which was renewed in 1997, was named Rudi-Geil-Brücke in 2008 .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Hermann Beckby (1890–1980), philologist and local historian
Thorsten Becker (* 1958), writer
Hans Bohn (1891–1980), graphic artist
Heinrich Fisch (1925–2008), educator and social scientist
Franz Josef Geil (1907–1948), politician (CDU), MdL
Rudi Geil (1937-2006), politician (CDU), MdL
Axel Heibel (* 1943), object artist
Peter Huttenlocher (1931–2013), neuropaediatrist and neuroscientist
Wilhelm Lanz (1829–1882), First Mayor of Wiesbaden from 1868 to 1882

Roger Lewentz (* 1963), politician (SPD)

Julius Liebrecht (1891–1974), entrepreneur at Boehringer Ingelheim

Otto Mandt (1858–1919), Rear Admiral and Privy Councilor

Heribert Meffert (* 1937), German economist ( Westphalian Wilhelms University )

Bernhard Plettner (1914–1997), engineer, CEO of Siemens AG

Gottfried Pott (* 1939), professor of calligraphy

Hugo Rheinhold (1853–1900), German sculptor

Otto Rheinhold (1855–1937), manufacturer, founder and patron

Otto Stadelmann (1874–1952), lawyer

Herbert Walther (1922–2003), non-fiction author, painter and graphic artist

Jürgen Wöhler (* 1950), lawyer

Nikolaus Weinbach († 1658), 1633–1642 abbot at Eberbach Monastery

Walther Karl Zülch (1883–1966), art historian

People associated with the city

Anton Abt (1841–1895), theologian and writer, founded the Higher Citizens School in Oberlahnstein in 1873, from which the grammar school emerged
Nikolai von Astudin (1847–1925), Russian landscape painter, lived and died in Oberlahnstein in the 1920s.
Robert Bodewig (1857–1923), history teacher in Lahnstein, historian, local researcher, archaeological autodidact and route commissioner for the Reich Limes Commission
Idilia Dubb , the English tourist is said to have starved to death in the keep of Lahneck Castle in 1851.
Ernst Fuhrmann (1886–1956), writer, founded Folkwang-Auriga Verlag in 1928 in Jungfried's house
Johann Philipp Holzmann (1805–1870), building contractor and founding father of Philipp Holzmann AG , built the port in Oberlahnstein in 1860
Franz Molitor (1857–1929), painter, worked in Oberlahnstein from 1898 to 1927/28, among other things on the design of the Bodewig Museum
Anton Schütz (1861–1919), politician, former mayor
Walter Weber (1886–1966), Mayor of Oberlahnstein (1920–1934) and District Administrator of the Main-Taunus District (1945–1946)
Georg Zülch (1851–1890), local history researcher, founder of the Lahnsteiner Altertumsverein

Honorary citizen

Anton Lessing (1840–1915), industrialist, founded numerous companies in Russia, since 1872 he has lived in Oberlahnstein
Walter Lessing (1881–1967), politician, born in Oberlahnstein, in 1968 Dr.-Walter-Lessing-Strasse was named after him
Fritz Michel (1877–1966), doctor and historian, awarded in 1961
Walter Weber (1886–1966), local mayor (1920–1934) and district administrator of the Main-Taunus district (1945–1946), made an honorary citizen in 1962, and in 1963 Dr.-Weber-Strasse was named after him

Documents

Web links

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

Wikisource: Oberlahnstein - Sources and full texts

Historical information about Oberlahnstein at regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 183 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
↑ Entry on Ernst Fuhrmann in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 7, 2017 .
^ Entry on Franz Molitor in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 7, 2017 .
^ Clemens Lessing: Lessing, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 349 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ Entry on Walter Lessing in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 7, 2017 .
↑ 50 years ago the doctor and scientist Dr. Dr. hc Fritz Michel, accessed on July 10, 2018
↑ Entry on Walter Weber in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 7, 2017 .

[1] Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 183 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.

[2] Entry on Ernst Fuhrmann in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 7, 2017 .

[3] Entry on Franz Molitor in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 7, 2017 .

[4] Clemens Lessing: Lessing, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 349 f. ( Digitized version ).

[5] Entry on Walter Lessing in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 7, 2017 .

[6] 50 years ago the doctor and scientist Dr. Dr. hc Fritz Michel, accessed on July 10, 2018

[7] Entry on Walter Weber in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 7, 2017 .