Rodenbach (Haiger)

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Rodenbach
City of Haiger
Rodenbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 284 m
Area : 6.21 km²
Residents : 809  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 130 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Postal code : 35708
Area code : 02773
View of Rodenbach
View of Rodenbach

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

geography

The place is on the 154.8 kilometer long Rothaarsteig , a long-distance hiking trail that leads from Brilon in the Sauerland to the Hessian town of Dillenburg . Rodenbach has a stop on the Siegen – Gießen railway line and can be used as an interface for hikers. It is located about three kilometers north of Haiger.

history

Rodenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1313 (May 2, 1313). The name is probably derived from Der Rodung am Bach or Roter Bach , which may be related to the occurrence of red iron in the region. The Celts used this iron deposit and smelted the ore in kilns. The area around Rodenbach was probably settled 2000 years ago, as some finds e.g. B. prove on the nearby cold ponds .

In 1451 the old Rodenbacher mill is mentioned.

In the 17th century, Rodenbach was hard hit by state taxes, war contribution payments, furage deliveries, billeting of troops and looting. First in the course of the Thirty Years' War (1618–48), in the second half of the 17th century by the French Reunion Wars.

The village was a pure farming village until the beginning of the 20th century. In addition, the mining of lead ore served as a source of income. In 1937, the Peterszeche III lead ore mine was finally closed after 50 years of mining. A tunnel in this pit served for several years from 1945 as a well for Rodenbach's water supply. Many people from Rodenbach, who did not have their own farm, drove to work in newly established industrial companies in Haiger, and the Haiger-Siegen railway line, which was inaugurated in 1915, enabled a better connection to the industrial locations in Siegerland with its mines and ironworks. The Rodenbach farmers were not particularly pleased with the construction of the railway, because the construction of the railway meant that the best agricultural areas in the village were built over.

Of 37 Rodenbachers who entered the First World War in 1914, only 20 returned. In 1919 Rodenbach received electrical light from the Siegerland electricity works and was the last municipality in the Dill district to be connected to the public water supply in 1941. Before the Second World War, the place had 437 inhabitants who lived in around 100 houses. After the Second World War (summer 1946) Rodenbach grew strongly due to the influx of displaced people. Of the first 120 mostly Sudeten Germans, 70 stayed permanently, the others moved to their place of work after a while. In 1949 the local electricity network was sold to EWS. From the 1950s, there were also commercial settlements in Rodenbach. In 1958, neon street lighting was installed. In 1961 a bypass was opened. By 1969, the federal motorway 45 , just under 3 kilometers away, was built and opened.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Rodenbach was incorporated into the city of Haiger on January 1, 1970 on a voluntary basis . A local district was not established for Rodenbach.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

  • 1447: 11 taxable households
  • 1497: 20 taxable households
  • 1542: 23 taxable households
  • 1628: 26 taxable households
  • 1688: 26 taxable households
  • 1740: 40 taxable households
Rodenbach: Population from 1809 to 2017
year     Residents
1809
  
 299
1810
  
 300
1821
  
 311
1834
  
 347
1840
  
 350
1846
  
 344
1852
  
 358
1858
  
 326
1864
  
 322
1871
  
 303
1875
  
 332
1885
  
 321
1895
  
 310
1905
  
 360
1910
  
 407
1925
  
 451
1939
  
 473
1946
  
 588
1950
  
 624
1956
  
 616
1961
  
 640
1967
  
 688
1970
  
 788
1985
  
 ?
2005
  
 868
2017
  
 809
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: 320 Protestant (= 99.69%), one Catholic (= 0.31%) residents
• 1961: 525 Protestant (= 82.03%) and 65 Catholic (= 10.16%) residents
• 2005: 334 Protestant (= 38.58%), 78 Catholic (= 8.99%) and 492 other (= 56.58%) residents

Former mines

See list of mines in Haiger

Culture and sights

Ev. Church in Rodenbach

Regular events

Since 2000, a Christmas market has been held in Rodenbach on the Saturday before the 1st Advent. All of the proceeds will be donated to a charitable organization. In the first ten years this resulted in a total of 34,569.82 euros. The amounts went to the Peiper cancer ward in Gießen, to the “Rainbow” children's home in Tinderet in Kenya, to the “Balthasar” children's hospice in Olpe, to the “Emmaus” house in Wetzlar, to the children's home in Burbach, to the Dillenburger Tafel , to the DRK children's clinic in Siegen, to the “Stiftung Familie Leben” in Herborn and to the Dillenburg community. In-house productions by the Rodenbach village population are sold, for example jams or knitting.

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Haiger-Rodenbach

Natural monuments

See the list of natural monuments in Haiger-Rodenbach

Personalities

The Christmas crib carver Hans Hahn was born here and has an exhibition on Fliederstrasse that is visited by many Rothaarsteig hikers.

literature

Web links

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. ↑ a b c d e f g h 650 years of Rodenbach - The history of the village of Rodenbach / Dillkreis, 1963
  4. ^ Historical working group Haiger and his space registered association: Haigerer Geschichtsblätter: drinking water supply in the city of Haiger. From 1890 to 2010. Issue 56 . Haiger November 2010.
  5. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 10 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 295. DNB 770396321
  7. ↑ a b c d Rodenbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ↑ HHStAW inventory 360/187: affiliation of Haiger  In: archive information system Hesse (Arcinsys Hessen).
  10. ↑ a b Population figures 2005. In: webauftritt. City of Haiger, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Rodenbacher help children , accessed on June 6, 2011