Balduinstein

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Diez
Height :	160 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.17 km 2
Residents:	596 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	115 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	65558
Area code :	06432
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 503
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Louise-Seher-Strasse 1 65582 Diez
Website :	www.gemeinde-balduinstein.de
Mayoress :	Maria-Theresia Schmidt
Location of the local community of Balduinstein in the Rhein-Lahn district

Balduinstein is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Diez .

geography

Balduinstein is located on the Lower Lahn in the Nassau Nature Park .

Balduinstein's neighboring communities are Birlenbach , Cramberg , Dörnberg , Fachingen , Geilnau , Holzheim , Laurenburg and Wasenbach .

The community consists of the districts Balduinstein, Schaumburg and Hausen over Balduinstein.

Balduinstein also includes the Am Stollen and Talhof residential areas .

history

Balduinstein

The place name goes back to Archbishop Balduin von Trier , who began building Balduinstein Castle below the Schaumburg in 1319 . The town charter was granted in 1321 by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian . The granting of city rights went hand in hand with the founding of the city by Baldwin, a city ​​wall was built in 1429. Baldwin raised the settlement to office and handed it over to the knight Dietrich von Staffel in 1335 .

Balduinstein - castle ruins

Balduinstein on the Lahn

After several phases of expansion of the castle in the 14th and 15th centuries under the staff, it began to decline in the middle of the 17th century. After the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, the Elector of Trier issued the demolition permit in 1665, and in 1680 only the walls were left. Hunger and plague reduced Balduinstein's population from 40 to 8 families. From 1806 the town was part of the Duchy of Nassau , which in September 1866 by Prussia annexed was. Balduinstein has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since August 1946 .

Around 1660, the mining of brown iron stone deposits began in Balduinstein , and later the extraction of Lahn marble . Iron ore mining ended in 1875 and marble mining ended in 1927.

Since 1974 the villa from the 19th century on the grounds of the castle and its outbuildings have been used as the " Balduinstein Youth Castle ".

The population developed in the 19th and 20th centuries as follows: 1843: 466 inhabitants, 1927: 493 inhabitants, 1964: 667 inhabitants.

Schaumburg

The Schaumburg dates back to around 915. Archduke Stefan of Austria made the Schaumburg his residence in 1848, the castle became a meeting place for the nobility and later a popular excursion destination. Wittekind zu Waldeck and Pyrmont had to sell the castle in 1985. In 1990 the municipality of Schaumburg was the smallest municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate with seven inhabitants. On July 1, 1991, the community of Schaumburg, which at that time had just two residents, merged with the community of Balduinstein.

The population of the town of Schaumburg developed as follows in the 19th and 20th centuries: 1843: 69 inhabitants, 1927: 44 inhabitants, 1964: 52 inhabitants.

Hausen

The district of Hausen was first mentioned in a document in 1446.

religion

The Roman Catholic parish of St. Bartholomew in Balduinstein part of the pastoral space Diez, who in turn the district Limburg in the diocese of Limburg is incorporated. The Catholics of Balduinstein have been making pilgrimages to the pilgrimage chapel Maria Hilf Beselich for many decades , where they announce their faith.

On the Protestant side, the place belongs to the parish of Cramberg-Habenscheid in the Deanery Diez of the Provostei Süd-Nassau in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN).

There were Jewish residents in Balduinstein since the Middle Ages, in 1319 Jews were settled by Archbishop Balduin von Trier .

A Jewish cemetery is mentioned for the first time in 1721. The Jewish cemetery is on the outskirts of the Hausen district.

From around 1830 the Jewish residents belong to the religious community in Diez. In 1843, the maximum number of Jewish believers in Balduinstein was reached with 20 people.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Balduinstein consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairwoman.

Mayoress

The local mayor of Balduinstein is Maria-Theresia Schmidt. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was re-elected with 82.78% of the vote.

Culture and sights

Balduinstein and Schloss Schaumburg, 1917

The Schaumburg Castle , located further up, probably dates back to 915. The first document dates back to 1197. The ownership of the castle passed from the Einicho von Leiningen family to the Counts of Westerburg-Leiningen and in 1656 to the widow of Count Peter Melander von Holzappel . By marriage in 1812 she went to the House of Habsburg-Lothringen . Archduke Stephan of Austria made it his residence in 1848 and expanded the palace complex in 1850 in the English neo-Gothic style .

The octagonal port tower near the Lahn is a striking building in Balduinstein.

The Lahn Bridge in Balduinstein was the first prestressed concrete bridge to be erected using a cantilever . In 1951 it replaced a bridge over the Lahn that was destroyed in World War II.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Balduinstein
• List of natural monuments in Balduinstein

traffic

In 1862 Balduinstein received the station of the same name on the Lahn Valley Railway . The signal box east is being renovated by the association "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mechanische Stellwerke eV" and should be preserved. Balduinstein is served by the regional trains on the RB 23 line (Limburg-Diez-Bad Ems-Koblenz-Andernach-Mendig-Mayen Ost), which run by Deutsche Bahn under the name Lahn-Eifel-Bahn , following the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle served daily in the hourly rhyhmus. The VRM tariff applies .

fruit

With the Balduinstein children's pear, a type of fruit was also named after the place. It was first described by the pomologist Adrian Diel (1756-1839) from neighboring Diez in 1806. In the 19th century it found supra-regional distribution. Today this variety is lost.

Personalities

• Mother Meera (* 1960), Indian avatar

literature

• Willi Bode: Balduinstein. Lahnbrück-Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812777-6-0 .
• Günther Damm: Our home Balduinstein. Local community Balduinstein, Balduinstein 1992.
• Friedrich Michel: History of Balduinstein and Hausen. In: Annals of the Society for Nassau antiquity and historical research. 41. (1910/1911), pp. 133-181.
• Literature about Balduinstein in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Balduinstein  - Collection of Images

• Verbandsgemeinde Diez - local parish Balduinstein
• Internet presence of the Balduinstein community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 42 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 170 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
4. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : 250 years pilgrimage chapel Maria Hilf Beselich . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2017 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2016, ISBN 3-927006-54-8 , p. 137-141 .
5. ↑ Information on www.alemannia-judaica.de
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Diez, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .