Rabenscheid

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Rabenscheid
community Breitscheid
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 50 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 553 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.7 km²
Residents : 447  (March 2015)
Population density : 67 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35767
Area code : 02777
Image by Rabenscheid

Rabenscheid is a district of the large community Breitscheid with about 500 inhabitants. The place is located in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse, not far from the state border between Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Rabenscheid is located at an altitude of 560 m above sea ​​level and is crossed by the Westerwald hiking trail " Rothaarsteig ". Outside the town center is the historic church, which goes back to a defensive defensive tower . The tower was enlarged by adding the nave .

history

In 1398 Rabenscheid was first mentioned in a document under the name Rabinscheid . In 1812 the citizens of Rabenscheid bought the Beilstein Castle for 800 guilders.

The town used to have a train station on the Haiger – Breitscheid railway line , but it was 4 km away in the Aubach Valley .

The municipality Rabenscheid was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse at 31 December 1971 on a voluntary basis in the community Breitscheid incorporated . For Rabenscheid, as for the other formerly independent communities, a local district with a local advisory council and local councilor was formed.

Origin of name

The name Rabenscheid is said to be derived from the large ravens , the clever birds of Wotan , which once filled the densely wooded heights with their sonorous calls, and “Scheid” (“Grenzwald” or “forest” in general).

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Rabenscheid: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 255
1840
  
 279
1846
  
 261
1852
  
 261
1858
  
 243
1864
  
 272
1871
  
 274
1875
  
 261
1885
  
 258
1895
  
 268
1905
  
 277
1910
  
 266
1925
  
 292
1939
  
 292
1946
  
 408
1950
  
 422
1956
  
 391
1961
  
 410
1967
  
 431
1970
  
 447
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2010
  
 446
2015
  
 447
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: Breitscheid municipality ( see web archive; several values )

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 257 Protestant and one Catholic resident
• 1961: 333 Protestant and 74 Roman Catholic residents

Local advisory board

Rabenscheid has a five-person local council with a local councilor . After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the mayor is Christof Feldmann.

Culture and sights

The running fountain in Rabenscheid

Regular events

Every year in the center of the village there is a wine festival (in September) and a Christmas market (on the last Saturday before the first Advent), which are organized by the local associations ( rural women , bird protection association, VdK , volunteer fire brigade , Protestant parish and sports club). There is also an annual Mallorca party on the edge of the village in the threshing hall. In addition, from April to September, on the last Friday of the month, a farmers' market is organized by the local associations.

Cultural monuments

For the cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Rabenscheid .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Figures, Data, Facts” on the Breitscheid municipality's website , accessed in September 2015.
  2. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 285. DNB 770396321
  3. ↑ Main statute § 6. (PDF; 44 kB) In: Website. Breitscheid municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Rabenscheid, 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. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching: D. Anton Friderich Büsching's new description of the earth. The German empire. tape 3 . JC Bohn, 1771, 1771, pp. 840 ( google.de ).
  7. ↑ Local councils of the Breitscheid community on the community's website, accessed in February 2017.