Rodenroth

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Rodenroth
Community Greifenstein
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 22 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 440  (438-466)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.61 km²
Residents : 407  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 62 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Beilstein
Postal code : 35753
Area code : 02779

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

geography

The village naturally belongs to the High Westerwald . State road 3046 runs in the northwest .

history

Rodenroth was first mentioned in a document in 1255. Archaeological finds suggest that it was settled in the Stone Age . The first school was built in 1751 and renewed in 1951. The first bakery followed in 1893.

In the course of the territorial reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality came to the municipality of Beilstein on December 31, 1971 , 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 casting the new municipality Greifenstein together was. For Rodenroth, 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 Rodenroth was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

population

Population development

Rodenroth: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 300
1840
  
 336
1846
  
 342
1852
  
 349
1858
  
 346
1864
  
 363
1871
  
 322
1875
  
 366
1885
  
 361
1895
  
 329
1905
  
 305
1910
  
 321
1925
  
 341
1939
  
 362
1946
  
 419
1950
  
 416
1956
  
 364
1961
  
 386
1967
  
 399
2011
  
 408
2014
  
 389
2015
  
 430
2017
  
 407
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: 360 Protestant (= 99.72%) residents. Another Christian, not a Catholic
• 1961: 338 Protestant (= 87.56%), 47 Catholic (= 12.18%) residents

Local advisory board

For the district of Rodenroth there is a five-person local advisory board with a local councilor . After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the mayor is Dirk Goritzka.

Culture and infrastructure

There is a village community center , a leisure center run by the CVJM district association Wetzlar / Gießen eV, two bakeries, a Protestant community center , an almost 1000 year old linden tree and a forest nature trail .

  • The Evangelical parish hall

  • The bakery

  • The village fountain

  • The war memorial

  • Border stone between the Duchy of Nassau and the Kingdom of Prussia near Rodenroth

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c data and facts. In: website. Greifenstein community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ^ 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 .
  3. ↑ 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 ]).
  4. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 293. DNB 770396321
  5. ↑ Main statute of the community of Greifenstein § 6. Accessed in February 2019.
  6. ↑ a b c Rodenroth, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ↑ Local advisory boards of the community of Greifenstein , accessed in March 2017.
  9. ^ Website of the CVJM leisure center in Rodenroth

Web links

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