Odenhausen (Lahn)

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Odenhausen (Lahn)
City of Lollar
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 24 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 181 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.49 km²
Residents : 1600  (2005)
Population density : 291 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35457
Area code : 06406
Entrance to the village - view from the Lahn bridge
Entrance to the village - view from the Lahn bridge
View from the other side of the Lahn near Kirchberg . Far right in the picture the church

Odenhausen (Lahn) is a district of the city of Lollar in the central Hessian district of Gießen . The hamlet Friedelhausen, in which the Friedelhausen Castle is located, belongs to the village .

geography

Odenhausen is located at the mouth of the salt flats in the Lahn .

history

Odenhausen was first mentioned in writing in 1255.

In 1906 the foundations of the residential tower of a former castle complex were exposed north of the church and then backfilled. The square tower had a side length of about 9 m, the walls were about 1.6 m thick. Further foundations were found later, but today there are no visible remains of the wall.

The builders of the residential tower built in the 11th or 12th century are unknown. The earliest owners of the complex were the Counts of Gleiberg . Later it came into the possession of the Merenberg family . In the middle of the 13th century, Wittekind von Merenberg's mother lived in the facility. After her death in 1255, Wittekind's brother Konrad was given the fortified farm by pledging. Konrad's son Hartrad donated half of the complex to the local parish in 1271. But since Konrad von Merenberg had bequeathed his goods to the branch of the Teutonic Order in Marburg at the time of the pledge around 1255 , there were inheritance disputes. In 1271 one sixth of the complex remained in the possession of the Grafschaft Isenburg , two sixths belonged to the Teutonic Order and the rest of the church. It is not known when the residential tower was abandoned and destroyed.

The community of Odenhausen, which belonged to the district of Wetzlar , was integrated on December 31, 1971 in the course of the regional reform in Hesse on a voluntary basis into the then community - since 1974 city - Lollar.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1834: 54 houses
Odenhausen: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
263
1840
  
279
1846
  
310
1852
  
321
1858
  
346
1864
  
358
1871
  
349
1875
  
340
1885
  
390
1895
  
418
1905
  
419
1910
  
456
1925
  
492
1939
  
565
1946
  
765
1950
  
809
1956
  
915
1961
  
959
1967
  
1,134
1970
  
1,217
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1834: 263 Protestant residents
• 1961: 687 Protestant (= 71.64%), 252 Catholic (= 26.28%) residents

In 2005 Odenhausen had over 1600 inhabitants.

Attractions

church

The Evangelical Church in Odenhausen , a Romanesque building from the 11th century, is worth seeing .

traffic

The Friedelhausen train stop, named after the castle of the same name on the opposite side of the Lahn, the Main-Weser-Bahn is within walking distance on the outskirts and is served every half hour on weekdays and hourly on weekends in the direction of Marburg / Kassel or Gießen / Frankfurt. There is a bus connection to Salzböden or Lollar (line 51).

State road 3093 runs through the village .

At Odenhausen the Lahntal cycle path changes , which here is identical to the stage Gießen - Marburg of the cycle path German Unity over two historical bridges from 1887/88 and 1895 the Lahn. In Odenhausen, the Salzböderadweg has a connection to the Lahntalradweg (→ Hesse cycle path network ).

Personalities

literature

  • A chronicle for the festival: from 1255 to 2005 - 750 years of Odenhausen / Lahn, ed. from the Odenhausen / Lahn association in 2005.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 294.
  • Literature about Odenhausen in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Odenhausen (Lahn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. "Current data" on the city of Lollar's website , accessed in July 2016.
  2. Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 305.
  3. a b c d Odenhausen, district of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ 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).
  5. Leaflet Small Chronicle of the Ev. Church in Odenhausen (PDF; 771 kB) ; Published by the Evangelical Church Community Odenhausen / Salzböden.