Schwalbach (Schöffengrund)

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Schwalbach
Community of Schöffengrund
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 276 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.91 km²
Residents : 1554  (Dec. 31, 2002)
Population density : 263 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35641
Area code : 06445
Evangelical village church from 1767
Bakehouse

Schwalbach is a district of the municipality of Schöffengrund in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . It is the main town and at the same time the administrative seat of the large community.

geography

Schwalbach lies on a plateau between the valleys of Solmsbach and Wetzbach. The Hainbach rises north of the village. The place is in the northern Taunus (eastern Hintertaunus ), the Wetzlarer Hintertaunus , as well as in the Taunus Nature Park . The next larger city is Wetzlar .

Neighboring towns are Bonbaden (west), Laufdorf (northwest), Reiskirchen (northeast), Niederwetz (east), Oberquembach (south), Niederquembach and Neukirchen (southwest).

history

In the year 795 the sualbacher marca , i.e. the Schwalbacher mark , is mentioned in the Lorsch Codex . A knight dynasty came from the place, the lords of Schwalbach, who also held the feudal patronage over the Quembach court, to which Schwalbach belonged. Only later did the village belong to the possessions of the Counts of Solms-Braunfels , before it belonged to the Prussian mayor's office of Braunfels . In 1841 the mayor's office of Schöffengrund was set up, and its seat was in Schwalbach.

Kirchlich was Parish of the village after the reformation according Bonbaden incorporated. After the Second World War , a Catholic church was built in the village for the displaced .

Territorial reform

On December 31, 1971, the independent community of Schwalbach merged with five other communities as part of the regional reform in Hesse to form the large community of Schöffengrund. Schwalbach became the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Schwalbach: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 405
1840
  
 453
1846
  
 506
1852
  
 480
1858
  
 483
1864
  
 516
1871
  
 548
1875
  
 587
1885
  
 608
1895
  
 612
1905
  
 660
1910
  
 717
1925
  
 717
1939
  
 699
1946
  
 1,058
1950
  
 1,115
1956
  
 1,089
1961
  
 1.107
1967
  
 1,175
1970
  
 1,284
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

• 1834: 405 Protestant residents
• 1961: 832 Protestant (= 75.16%), 268 Catholic (= 24.21%) residents

Worth seeing

Protestant church

The Protestant church of Schwalbach was built between 1763 and 1767. It is a hall church with a hipped roof. On the north side is the church tower with an onion dome .

Mineral fountain

There is a mineral well on the north-western edge of the village . It was mentioned in 1334 as Sure Born ( Sauerbrunnen ) and fortified in 1717 by Prince Wilhelm Moritz von Solms-Braunfels. The spring is still used economically and the mineral water is sold as Schwalbacher table water .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Schwalbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 30, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Information sheet of the community of Schöffengrund from 2003, page 29 (PDF).
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 380 .
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ↑ 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. 250 ( online at google books ).
  6. ^ Monument preservation Hessen: Evangelical Church Schwalbach
  7. ↑ History of the Schwalbach mineral spring (under construction)