Schwickershausen (Bad Camberg)

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Schwickershausen
City of Bad Camberg
Former municipal coat of arms of Schwickershausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 48 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 43 ″  E
Height : 266  (242-520)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.76 km²
Residents : 565  (Jun 30, 2016)
Population density : 205 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 65520
Area code : 06434
Cow bed seen from the northeast
Parish church of St. George, in the foreground the cemetery

Schwickershausen is a district of Bad Camberg in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse . Schwickershausen has over 550 inhabitants, making it the second smallest district of Bad Camberg.

Geographical location

Schwickershausen is about three kilometers northeast of the center of Bad Camberg in the Dombachtal , a side valley of the Goldener Grund at the foot of the cow bed in the eastern Hintertaunus . The district town of Limburg an der Lahn is located around 18 kilometers northwest.

The district is stretched in a south-west-north-east direction. It borders in the north on Erbach and in the south on the core town Bad Camberg and on the Kuhbett in the northeast at a point on Hasselbach and thus on the Hochtaunuskreis . The district area is taken up by some forest and above all agricultural area. Close to the cow bed it reaches up to 520 meters, in the west of the district around 320 meters. The village of Schwickershausen itself is 266 meters above sea level. Geologically, the area is dominated by slate- containing greywacke with quartz veins.

history

The first written mention of the place took place in 1276 as "Swikirhusin". The mention was made in a document dated September 18, 1276 , in which Theoderich, the abbot of the Maria Laach monastery, stipulated that the village of Schwikirhusin had to deliver 30 Malter grain to the Seligenstatt monastery in the Westerwald . The former Hofgut is located in the center of the old town center. The mill and church on the opposite side of the Dombach represent a second core of the settlement.

In 1835 the place got its own school house , in which teaching was carried out until 1968. In 1840, Schwickershausen and Dombach formed an independent Catholic parish. On January 1, 2012, the double parish Dombach-Schwickershausen was integrated into the new parish of St. Peter and Paul, which includes all of today's Bad Camberg districts.

In 1891 the road leading into the village was extended to the through road into the Weiltal . In 1904 the village received a central water supply .

In the 1960s, two new development areas were built. The incorporation to Bad Camberg took place on July 1, 1974 as part of the regional reform in Hesse by virtue of state law. In 2001 the village community center was renovated and expanded.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Schwickershausen: Population from 1650 to 2016
year     Residents
1650
  
 11
1834
  
 301
1840
  
 304
1846
  
 323
1852
  
 390
1858
  
 464
1864
  
 384
1871
  
 326
1875
  
 370
1885
  
 363
1895
  
 331
1905
  
 324
1910
  
 332
1925
  
 330
1939
  
 313
1946
  
 509
1950
  
 468
1956
  
 376
1961
  
 369
1967
  
 435
1970
  
 465
1987
  
 536
1998
  
 553
2005
  
 585
2012
  
 576
2016
  
 565
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 1987: City of Camberg

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 03 (= 0.83%) Protestant, 360 (= 99.17%) Catholic residents
• 1961: 33 (= 8.94%) Protestant, 336 (= 91.06%) Roman Catholic residents

Religions

The Catholic parish church of St. Georg is located in Schwickershausen and belongs to the Limburg diocese .

politics

The head of the district of Schwickershausen is Burkhard Becker.

Culture and sights

societies

In addition to the Freiwilligen Feuerwehr eV, Schwickershausen has its own carnival club , the Carnevalsverein Schwickershausen, and also its own sports club, TuS Grün-Weiß Schwickershausen . The Schwicki Theater is located in the district. There is also the choral society "Liederkranz" 1885 "and the" Kulturkreis Schwickershausen ".

  • TuS Grün-Weiß Schwickershausen currently has three departments ( table tennis , women's gymnastics and soccer ). The club was founded in 1970 to continue the tradition of the Einigkeit gymnastics club founded in 1912 . The club has a sports field and a sports home built in 1978.
  • The Schwicki Theater has been showing comedies since 1991. It is an amateur theater which is a member of the State Association of Hessian Amateurbühnen eV.
  • Gesangverein Liederkranz 1885, founded in 1885, bearer of the Zelterplaquette, consisting of 3 choirs, namely a mixed choir dedicated to church music, a children's choir (founded in 1987) and a project choir that functions as a gospel choir and came together in early 2006. The association is the holder of the Bad Camberg Culture Prize for 2004/2005.
  • The Lebenskünstler Schwickershausen eV, founded in 2008, aims to record the history of the village and to maintain and document the local dialect. The maintenance and care of the orchards as well as the tasting of the products obtained from these stocks is one of the tasks. The association has its own area on the eastern edge of the village, on which various fruit varieties are planted.

Worth seeing

Mariengrotte on the Dombach

There is a former monastery in Schwickershausen.

Southwest of Schwickershausen, however, in the Bad Camberger district, is the Kreuzkapelle , an early baroque pilgrimage church , built in 1681/83 . Also worth seeing are the Schwickershausen mill , the field cross, the old school and the parish church of St. Georg. A chapel stood on the site of the church in 1337 at the latest . The Georgs patronage is guaranteed for 1526. In 1787 the current church was built in the baroque style. In 1965 an extension was made on the western side, and in 2001 it was renovated. The pilgrimage to the nearby Mariengrotte on the banks of the Dombach has been guaranteed since 1785.

Infrastructure

The defensive fire protection and general help of the place has been ensured since its establishment in 1957 by the Schwickershausen volunteer fire brigade , which has been running a youth fire brigade from November 10, 1973 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Schwickershausen, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Statistical figures on the website of the city of Bad Camberg , accessed in January 2016.
  3. ↑ The next step to a parish. Nassauische Neue Presse, December 22, 2011, accessed June 28, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Limburg district and the Oberlahn district. (GVBl. II 330-25) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 5 , p. 101 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 369 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ↑ Local Advisory Board of the Dombach district. City of Bad Camberg, accessed January 19, 2017 .