Philippstein

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Philippstein
City of Braunfels
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 53"  E
Height : 201  (201-238)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.4 km²
Residents : 1001  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 119 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 35619
Area code : 06442
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Location of Philippstein in Braunfels
Center around the Evangelical Church
Center around the Evangelical Church

Philippstein is a district of Braunfels in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

geography

Philippstein is located in the northern Taunus , south of the Braunfels core town and directly on the border with the Limburg-Weilburg district . The Möttbach, which comes from the south and rises near Möttau , flows through the village to Braunfels.

history

Philippstein castle ruins

The origin of the place is the Philippstein Castle , which was built in 1390 by the Landgrave Philip I of Nassau-Weilburg and Saarbrücken on a mountain cone as a border castle to the Solms county . At the same time, Philip I is the namesake for the castle and the resulting settlement.

In 1610 the citizens built a Protestant church and a rectory. During the Thirty Years War , Spanish soldiers occupied the village for ten years. This was followed by the Swedish troops who drove the Spaniards out.

The Wilhelmstollen opencast mine (1937) and the Eisenfeld mine (1838) were built around Philippstein with the start of industrialization . Seven more iron ore mines were built in the following decades. Philippstein became a mining village with up to 400 miners at the top. In 1962 the last two mines were closed. Today a monument commemorates the local mining tradition.

From 1876, the Ernstbahn, a narrow-gauge railway, ran from the Lahnbahnhof to Philippstein. At first it was only used for freight transport to remove ore from the pits. Passenger traffic from Philippstein began on May 1, 1913. Passenger and general cargo traffic was stopped as early as 1930 and the transport of iron ore was also ended in 1962 when the pits were closed. The railway systems were then largely dismantled.

Politically, the independent municipality of Philippstein belonged to the Prussian Oberlahnkreis in the Duchy of Nassau since July 1, 1867 .

Territorial reform

With the unification of the Oberlahnkreis and the Limburg district on July 1, 1974 as part of the regional reform in Hesse , Philippstein, like the nearby Altenkirchen, was incorporated into the city of Braunfels and from then on belonged to the Wetzlar district until it was dissolved and on 1. January 1977 the Lahn-Dill-Kreis was established.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Philippstein: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
380
1840
  
416
1846
  
422
1852
  
443
1858
  
488
1864
  
542
1871
  
541
1875
  
538
1885
  
636
1895
  
676
1905
  
564
1910
  
577
1925
  
627
1939
  
601
1946
  
804
1950
  
828
1956
  
843
1961
  
854
1967
  
854
1970
  
854
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

• 1885: 612 Protestant, 10 Catholic residents
• 1961: 720 Protestant, 131 Roman Catholic residents

politics

There is a local advisory board with a local mayor for Philippstein . The local advisory council consists of five members, three of which are from the CDU and two from the SPD since the local elections in Hesse in 2016 .

Worth seeing

Philippstein is on the German half-timbered road .

Protestant church

The local evangelical church is a new building built between 1913 and 1914 by the architect Ludwig Hofmann from Herborn . It is one of the typical “Hofmann churches” with influence from the homeland security movement . At the site of today's church there was already a baroque predecessor building, from which Hofmann took over some features, such as the one-sided hipped roof with ridge turret. The baroque pulpit probably also comes from the previous church. The glass window, which was made around 1914, was made by Ferdinand Müller from Quedlinburg .

Jewish Cemetery

There is a small Jewish cemetery on the western outskirts of Philippstein . It was used exclusively by the Jewish citizens of Philippstein from 1850 to 1927. Today the small cemetery is surrounded by hedges and closed with a gate.

traffic

The federal highway 456 , which can be reached via the L 3451, runs about 4 kilometers southwest of the village . The K 428 leads through the village to Bermbach and the K 379 , which comes from Braunfels, runs to Altenkirchen .

Web links

Commons : Philippstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Statistical data Philippstein. In: Internet presence. City of Braunfels, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  2. Law on the reorganization of the Limburg district and the Oberlahn district. (GVBl. II 330-25) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 5 , p. 101 , § 14 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 380 .
  4. a b c Philippstein, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ Local advisory board Philippstein on the website of the city of Braunfels, accessed in February 2017.
  7. ^ Evangelical Church Philippstein at the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , accessed on February 13, 2009
  8. ^ Jewish cemetery Philippstein at the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , accessed on February 13, 2009