Rückershausen (Merenberg)
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Rückershausen
community Merenberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 23 " N , 8 ° 9 ′ 44" E
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| Height : | 357 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 1.44 km² |
| Residents : | 210 approx. |
| Population density : | 146 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 1970 |
| Postal code : | 35799 |
| Area code : | 06476 |
Rückershausen is the smallest part of the municipality of Merenberg in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .
Geographical location
Rückershausen is four km northwest of Merenberg in Central Hesse . The county road 451 runs through the place. The Seeweiher Mengerskirchen , a 13 hectare reservoir with a campsite on the west bank, is northeast of the village .
history
Rückershausen is mentioned for the first time in a document from the years 1213 to 1215 and refers to the mill of the Seligenstatt monastery (municipality of Seck / Westerwald) in Rückershausen (Rukershusen), which is also documented later. Although this document is undated, it can be narrowed down to the years 1213 to 1215.
In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipalities of Rückershausen, Allendorf , Barig-Selbenhausen , Merenberg and Reichenborn merged voluntarily on December 31, 1970 to form the new large municipality of Merenberg .
Territorial history and administration
The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Rückershausen was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:
- before 1806: Holy Roman Empire , County / Principality of Nassau-Weilburg , Merenberg Office
- 1806–1813: Grand Duchy of Berg , Department of Sieg , Canton of Driedorf
- 1813–1815: Principality of Nassau-Orange , Merenberg Office
- from 1816: German Confederation , Duchy of Nassau , Rennerod Office
- from 1849: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Herborn district office
- from 1854: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Rennerod Office
- from 1867: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , Oberlahnkreis
- from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau, administrative district of Wiesbaden, Oberlahnkreis
- from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau, Administrative Region of Wiesbaden, Oberlahnkreis
- from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Oberlahnkreis
- from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Oberlahn district
- from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Oberlahnkreis
- from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , Oberlahnkreis
- on December 31, 1970, Rückershausen was incorporated as a district of the newly formed community of Merenberg.
- from 1974: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt, district Limburg-Weilburg
- from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen district, Limburg-Weilburg district
population
Population development
| Rückershausen: Population from 1834 to 1970 | ||||
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| year | Residents | |||
| 1834 | 110 | |||
| 1840 | 111 | |||
| 1846 | 109 | |||
| 1852 | 111 | |||
| 1858 | 103 | |||
| 1864 | 116 | |||
| 1871 | 106 | |||
| 1875 | 119 | |||
| 1885 | 106 | |||
| 1895 | 105 | |||
| 1905 | 96 | |||
| 1910 | 101 | |||
| 1925 | 119 | |||
| 1939 | 105 | |||
| 1946 | 165 | |||
| 1950 | 136 | |||
| 1956 | 115 | |||
| 1961 | 104 | |||
| 1967 | 118 | |||
| 1970 | 124 | |||
| 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: | 105 Protestant and one Catholic resident |
| • 1961: | 89 Protestant and 12 Catholic residents |
politics
There is currently no local advisory board in the Rückershausen district .
societies
Club life is shaped exclusively by the Rückershausen Volunteer Fire Brigade, founded in 1934 (with youth fire brigade since July 7, 1990).
Infrastructure
Since 1934 the Rückershausen volunteer fire brigade (since July 7, 1990 with the youth fire brigade ) has provided fire protection and general help in this area. There is a village community center with a youth room in the main street, a children's playground and hiking trails in the village .
literature
- Literature on Rückershausen in the Hessian Bibliography
- Search for Rückershausen (Merenberg) in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library
Web links
- District of Rückershausen. In: Website of the municipality of Merenberg.
- Rückershausen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Rückershausen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b District Rückershausen on the website of the municipality of Merenberg, accessed in February 2019
- ↑ Amalgamation of the communities of Allendorf, Barig-Selbenhausen, Merenberg, Reichenborn and Rückershausen in the Oberlahnkreis to form the community of "Merenberg" on January 5, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 3 , p. 111 , point 118 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
- ^ 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).
