Roth (Driedorf)

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Roth
Driedorf municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 480  (475-572)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.63 km²
Residents : 680  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 147 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35759
Area code : 02775
Church in Roth

Roth is the easternmost part of the municipality of Driedorf in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse . The place in the eastern Westerwald has about 670 inhabitants.

geography

The place is on the eastern edge of the Hohen Westerwald, about 8 km west of Herborn and 45 km northeast of Montabaur . The distance to Siegen is about 43 km, to Wetzlar 37 km. Roth is close to the Hessian border with Rhineland-Palatinate . The distance to the border triangle Hesse - Rhineland-Palatinate - North Rhine-Westphalia is about 8 km. The district of the place has a size of 4.64 km².

The neighboring places are, starting from the north clockwise, the places: Schönbach , Hörbach , Guntersdorf (all town of Herborn), Driedorf, Heiligenborn (both municipality of Driedorf). All places belong to the Lahn-Dill district.

Roth lies in the source area of ​​the Taufenbach , which flows into the Rehbach, a tributary of the Dill , near Guntersdorf . To the west of the village rises the Oberster Berg (560 m above sea ​​level), to the northeast the Vorderstein (487 m above sea ​​level). The highest point of the district is the Rother Berg (572 m above sea level) between the uppermost mountain and the district boundary. To the north of the village, in the former basalt quarry Winkel , an extensive pond has formed.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1324 as Royde . The place was probably built in the 9th / 10th. Century, when extensive clearing became necessary for new locations in the Westerwald . The spelling Rod has also been handed down for the place .

The long-distance trade route ran from Cologne to Leipzig via Altenkirchen and Herborn near the town .

In the Middle Ages, Roth belonged to the Herborn parish. With the beginning of the Reformation the place was looked after by the parish of Schönbach, in 1630 the official change to this parish followed.

With the construction of the first section of the Westerwaldquerbahn from Herborn to Driedorf, the place was connected to the railway network on May 1, 1906. By 1910, the line was extended via Westerburg to Montabaur. On May 31, 1966, the section of the Westerwaldquerbahn was finally shut down and partially dismantled.

Territorial reform

With the law on the reorganization of the Dill district of the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen from May 13, 1974 , the municipality of Roth was incorporated into the municipality of Driedorf on January 1, 1977 as part of the regional reform in Hesse . For Roth, as for the other formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was set up.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Roth: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 283
1840
  
 313
1846
  
 275
1852
  
 270
1858
  
 250
1864
  
 263
1871
  
 286
1875
  
 280
1885
  
 269
1895
  
 277
1905
  
 268
1910
  
 288
1925
  
 341
1939
  
 359
1946
  
 547
1950
  
 545
1956
  
 547
1961
  
 571
1967
  
 649
1970
  
 726
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2003
  
 753
2006
  
 711
2010
  
 673
2014
  
 675
2017
  
 680
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:


politics

For elections to the German Bundestag, the place belongs to the constituency “173 Lahn-Dill ”, for elections to the Hessian state parliament it belongs to the constituency “21 Lahn-Dill I ”.

With the regional reform, the municipal administration was transferred to the municipality of Driedorf. The last mayor was Walter Michel. A local advisory board consists of seven members. The town council has told the local council proposal and right to be heard in matters that affect the town. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Danica Michel (URL) is the mayor .

Culture and sights

In the center of Roth is a small chapel in the framework construction . This is based on the chapel mentioned for the first time in 1490. In the years 1753/54 the extension to a small rectangular hall building with a gable roof and canopy roof turrets took place . During the restoration in 1978/79 the original coloring was restored.

Economy and Infrastructure

The place has a village community center.

traffic

The place is on the B 255 from Herborn via Driedorf to Montabaur. The next train station on the Dill route is in Herborn. There are bus connections to Driedorf, Rehe and Herborn. The distance to Frankfurt airport is 101 km, to Cologne / Bonn approx. 102 km.

education

There is a communal kindergarten in Roth. The place belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Westerwaldschule Driedorf, a primary , secondary and secondary school . Secondary schools can be attended in Herborn or Dillenburg .

literature

  • Hermann-Josef Hucke (Ed.): Great Westerwaldführer . 3. Edition. Westerwald-Verein eV, Montabaur 1991. ISBN 3-921548-04-7
  • Hellmuth Gensicke: State history of the Westerwald . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999. ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  • Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau . Wilhelm Beyerle, Wiesbaden 1844.
  • Heinz Wionski: monuments in Hesse Lahn-Dill I . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. 1986, ISBN 3-528-06234-7 (Former Dillkreis).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Driedorf in numbers - municipal statistics. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original ; accessed on February 18, 2017 . (Data from web archive)
  2. ↑ 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 ., § 22 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ^ Main statute of the municipality of Driedorf. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, accessed February 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Roth, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 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, p. 840 ( on google books ).
  7. ↑ Statistics 2003. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  8. ↑ Statistics 2006. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  9. ↑ Local advisory boards of the municipality of Driedorf , accessed in February 2017.