Rodenberg (Greifenstein)

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Rodenberg
Community Greifenstein
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 446  (432-462)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.52 km²
Residents : 212  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 84 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Incorporated into: Beilstein
Postal code : 35753
Area code : 02775

Rodenberg is the smallest district of the municipality of Greifenstein in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse on the edge of the Hessian Westerwald .

The original clustered village lies on the southern slope of the Wittgenberg (477 m above sea level) and naturally belongs to the High Westerwald .

history

Rodenberg was first mentioned in writing on June 4, 1315 in a document from Count Heinrich von Nassau . Archaeological finds in the area of ​​today's deserted Fudenhausen suggest a settlement around 800 AD. The first schoolhouse was built in 1743. In 1951 the Eva clay pit was opened. The village community center was inaugurated on September 4, 1965.

Territorial reform

In the course of the territorial reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality came to the municipality of Beilstein on July 1, 1972 on a voluntary basis , which on January 1, 1977 with Greifenstein and other previously independent municipalities by the law to reorganize the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of casting the new municipality Greifenstein together were. For Rodenberg, as for all formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was formed. The local part of Beilstein became the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Rodenberg: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 150
1840
  
 160
1846
  
 167
1852
  
 157
1858
  
 165
1864
  
 170
1871
  
 153
1875
  
 164
1885
  
 170
1895
  
 185
1905
  
 156
1910
  
 138
1925
  
 165
1939
  
 180
1946
  
 211
1950
  
 198
1956
  
 195
1961
  
 195
1967
  
 214
1970
  
 211
2011
  
 223
2014
  
 207
2017
  
 212
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: 170 Protestant (= 100.00%) residents
1961: 172 Protestant (= 88.21%) and 23 (= 11.79%) Catholic residents

Local advisory board

For the district of Rodenberg there is a five-person local advisory board with a local councilor . After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the mayor is Klaus Knetsch (BLR).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c data and facts. In: website. Greifenstein community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , point 851 para. 9. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 356 .
  4. ↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 19 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 293
  6. ↑ Main statute of the community of Greifenstein § 6. Accessed in February 2019.
  7. ↑ a b c Rodenberg, 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. ↑ Local advisory boards of the community of Greifenstein , accessed in March 2017.

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