Roth (Eschenburg)

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Roth
community Eschenburg
Roth coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 446 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.83 km²
Residents : 602  (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 77 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 35713
Area code : 02774
Roth
Roth

Roth is the smallest part of the municipality of Eschenburg in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Roth can be reached via a junction on federal road 253 , approx. 17 kilometers east of Dillenburg . The place borders directly on the villages of Steinbrücken , Almonds , Achenbach , Oberdieten , Oberhörlen , Simmersbach and Eibelshausen . The village is about 450  m above sea level. NN , the highest mountain Stiete has a height of 545  m above sea level. NN .

history

Roth is mentioned in history for the first time in 1232 in connection with the miraculous healings around the grave of St. Elisabeth in Marburg . At the beginning of the 14th century, Hessenwalt Castle was built in the vicinity of the Holy Mountain ( 518  m above sea level ) . It served in the Dernbach feud to defend the Breidenbacher Grund, to which Roth belonged until the 1974 territorial reform. The castle was destroyed in the same war. Historically, Roth acquired town charter (documented in 1758) and owned its own court. Roth is also known for its silver deposits (discovered at the end of the 17th century), which led to the minting of a silver thaler (1696). Silver was mined in the pit of God's gift well into the 20th century .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Roth in 1830:

"Roth (L. Bez. Gladenbach) evangel. Branch village; is 4 St. from Gladenbach, and belongs to the Baron von Breidenstein, has 50 houses and 305 inhabitants, who are Protestant apart from 2 Catholics. You will find 1 church built of wood, 1 grinding and oil mill, and in the area an abandoned copper mine. - The place used to appear under the name Roden . The mine was discovered in 1695. In 1773 the village was given permission to hold a market on Bartholomew's, and if it turned out well, the privilege should be issued. There was a special dish here that only included this single place. "

Territorial reform

Roth was independent until the regional reform in Hesse and belonged to the Biedenkopf district . In the course of the regional reform, the Eschenburg community was founded on October 1, 1971 through the voluntary amalgamation of the communities Eibelshausen, Eiershausen and Wissenbach. Force state law were the communities Eschenburg Hirzenhain and Simmersbach and Roth of the former district Biedenkopf to advanced large village Eschenburg together . The entry into force took place on July 1, 1974 by the district president in Darmstadt. Local districts with local advisory boards and local councilors were established for all six districts .

Historical forms of names

In documents that have been preserved, Roth was mentioned under the following place names (the year of mention in brackets):

  • Roden, in [Document Book Hanau II No. 10]
  • Rodgyn, to whom (1386)
  • Roede, to (1413)
  • Roda (1577)
  • Roith (1630)
  • Rodt (1677)

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

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1577: 028 house seats
• 1630: 024 house seats (22 single-horse farmland, 2), 2 single-run
• 1677: 027 men, 2 widows, 1 young team, 13 single teams.
• 1742: 036 households
• 1791: 257 inhabitants
• 1800: 261 inhabitants
• 1806: 272 inhabitants, 48 ​​houses
• 1829: 305 inhabitants, 50 houses
Roth: Population from 1791 to 2019
year     Residents
1791
  
257
1800
  
261
1806
  
272
1829
  
305
1834
  
319
1840
  
331
1846
  
335
1852
  
313
1858
  
305
1864
  
280
1871
  
268
1875
  
304
1885
  
336
1895
  
331
1905
  
372
1910
  
387
1925
  
412
1939
  
394
1946
  
575
1950
  
524
1956
  
467
1961
  
447
1967
  
450
1970
  
482
1974
  
504
1980
  
499
1990
  
530
2000
  
588
2011
  
558
2015
  
587
2019
  
602
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: Eschenburg municipality; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1829: 303 Protestant 2 Catholic residents.
• 1885: 334 Protestant and 2 Catholic residents
• 1961: 426 Protestant (= 95.30%), 21 Roman Catholic (= 4.67%) residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1867: Labor force: 172 agriculture, 2 forestry, 3 mining and metallurgy, 14 trade and industry, 3 transport, 1 health care, 1 local government.
• 1838: Families: 39 agriculture, 43 trades, 10 day laborers.
• 1961: Labor force: 157 agriculture and forestry, 116 manufacturing, 17 trade and transport, 7 services and others.

politics

Local advisory board

There is currently no local council for Roth .

coat of arms

The Roth coat of arms was designed by Albert Wagner. In the upper part it contains a rising sun and in the lower part a scales as a symbol for the jurisdiction. The scales indicate a separate dish that Roth owned in the past. The rising sun can also be found as a motif on the Rother Silbertaler and is intended to remind of it.

societies

The cultural life in Roth is mainly shaped by the local associations.

Belong to the clubs

  • the men's choir 1856 Harmonie Roth
  • the volunteer fire brigade (founded in 1907)
  • the nature conservation and heritage association (founded in 1969)
  • the football club FC Roth (since 1976)
  • the amateur play group “Die Herrjelshinkelcher” (since 1980); Herrjelshinkelcher is a term in the Roth dialect and means "ladybug".
  • the youth club (since 1997).

There is also the forest management association, which takes care of the interests of private forest owners, and the forest of interested parties, which operates the Hauberg economy , which is widespread in the Siegerland and northern Lahn-Dill district . While agriculture shaped village life until well after the Second World War , there are now almost exclusively part-time businesses. There was its own Rothkäppchen kindergarten and school on site, both of which no longer exist. The children attend primary school in neighboring Simmersbach and secondary schools in Eibelshausen, Dillenburg and Bad Laasphe .

literature

  • The three Roth village chronicles of the nature conservation and homeland association.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Statistical data. In: website. Eschenburg community, accessed March 2020 .
  2. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 147 ( online at google books ).
  3. a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 356-357 .
  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 , § 27 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. Designation of parts of the community in the Dill district from November 21, 1974 . In: The government president (ed.): State gazette for the state of Hesse. 1974 No. 49 , p. 2257 , point 1663 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.7 MB ]).
  6. a b c d e f Roth, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of January 22, 2020). 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. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  9. ^ The affiliation of the office Blankenstein based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567-1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  10. a b Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 point 6c) ( online at google books ).
  11. Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 7, 430 ( online at google books ).
  12. a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  247 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. Latest countries and ethnology, Volume 22 , p. 416 , Weimar 1821
  14. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  190 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  204 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  16. Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  17. Local councils of the Eschenburg community , accessed in April 2019.