Oberroßbach (Haiger)

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Oberroßbach
City of Haiger
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 38 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 31"  E
Height : 331  (327-549)  m
Area : 9.39 km²
Residents : 557  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 59 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Incorporated into: Rossbachtal
Postal code : 35708
Area code : 02773

Oberroßbach is a district of Haiger in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

geography

Oberroßbach is eight kilometers northeast of Haiger at the confluence of the Roßbach and Rombach rivers. State road 3044 runs through the village .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1355. In 1594 the first school was built, and in 1768 today's church was added.
Roßbach possibly comes from Celtic times. In older documents the place is also called Raspe or Rospe and is still called that in the local dialect.

From the 16th to the 19th century, lead, copper and silver were mined in the Isabelle mine east of the town. These ores, as well as cobalt, were extracted by the Goldbach mine west of the town towards the end of the 18th century.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipalities of Oberroßbach and Niederroßbach voluntarily merged on October 1, 1971 to form the municipality of Roßbachtal , which was incorporated into the city of Haiger on January 1, 1977 by state law . Niederroßbach and Oberroßbach became districts of Haiger. Local districts were not formed. In the same year, the previously independent Dill district , to which Oberroßbach had belonged since 1866, was merged into the newly formed Lahn-Dill district.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Oberroßbach: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 369
1840
  
 382
1846
  
 392
1852
  
 383
1858
  
 370
1864
  
 349
1871
  
 282
1875
  
 323
1885
  
 348
1895
  
 359
1905
  
 319
1910
  
 310
1925
  
 366
1939
  
 352
1946
  
 500
1950
  
 504
1956
  
 458
1961
  
 461
1967
  
 506
1970
  
 513
1985
  
 ?
2005
  
 608
2017
  
 557
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 Haiger

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 343 Protestant (= 98.56%), no Catholic and 5 other (= 1.44%) Christians
• 1961: 389 Protestant (= 84.38%) and 60 Catholic (= 13.02%) residents
• 2005: 414 Protestant (= 68.09%), 75 Catholic (= 9.87%) and 138 other (= 23.70%) residents

Former mines

See list of mines in Haiger

Culture and sights

Regular events

  • The football club has been organizing the "Backesfest" since 1981, where bread from the "Backes" is also sold.
  • The Maimann and the Whitsun bride go through the village on Whitsun
  • Hauberg is made annually in Oberroßbach . As in the other villages in the Roßbachtal, there is a Haubergsgenossenschaft. In Oberroßbach there is a garden furniture manufacturer that processes the wood from the Hauberg.

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Haiger-Oberroßbach

Natural monuments

See the list of natural monuments in Haiger-Oberroßbach

education

The "Grundschule Roßbachtal" is located between Niederbach and Oberroßbach. Children from Oberbach and Niederroßbach, from Rodenbach and Weidelbach go to school here. The school is two-class.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Area by district. In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; accessed in March 2018 .
  2. ↑ Population statistics . (PDF) In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on March 25, 2018 ; accessed in March 2018 .
  3. ↑ 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 ., § 25 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 295. DNB 770396321
  5. ↑ a b c Oberroßbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ↑ HHStAW inventory 360/187: affiliation of Haiger  In: archive information system Hesse (Arcinsys Hessen).
  8. ↑ a b Population figures 2005. In: Website. City of Haiger, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  9. ↑ Haiger  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on June 10, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.haiger.de

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