Seelbach (Herborn)

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Seelbach
City of Herborn
Seelbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 230  (222-276)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.27 km²
Residents : 3595  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Population density : 271 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 35745
Area code : 02772
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View of Seelbach from Ballersbach

After the core town, Seelbach is the largest district of Herborn in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . Before its incorporation, the place was called Herbornseelbach .

geography

The village is northeast of the core city. The federal highway 255 runs through the southern local area . To the east of Seelbach are the villages of Ballersbach and Bicken ; both belong to the Mittenaar community . To the west are Herborn and its Burg district .

The old clustered village has meanwhile expanded to several surrounding hills. The hills or mountains are the Bitzen, the Hardt and the Horch. The highest mountain in the district is the Wassenberg with a height of 459  m above sea level. NN . Other mountains are the Volpertsberg (426 m) in the north and the Hain (339 m) in the south of the village.

Two streams flow directly through Seelbach: the Hirtenborn, which flows underground through the village center, and the Essenbach at the foot of the Horches. In addition, the Dernbach, the Monzenbach and the Seelbach can be found in the district .

history

The area was already settled in the time of the Merovingians . In the 13th century (1290?) Seelbach is first mentioned in a document. “Sylbach”, as it was called back then, is undoubtedly much older. There are clear indications for this. It is believed that people lived here, at least temporarily, as early as the Middle Stone Age .

Today's village was built around the first church on Hohe Straße. Before that, people lived in individual farmsteads in what is now the Seelbach district, in the Monzenbachtal ( Monzenbach desert ), in the Seelbachtal, in (old) Dernbach and at the Nesselhofsweiher in the Schelderwald . In the south of the village, where the Dernbach flows into the Aar , stood the small moated castle or moth of the Lords of Dernbach, the Alt-Dernbach Castle . The castle was on the Hohe Strasse , which led from the Schelderwald to Herborn. When the Counts of Nassau invaded the Herborner Mark in the 13th century , conflicts arose between the Dernbachers and Nassauern; This is how the Dernbach feud began and lasted over 100 years. In 1306 and 1326 Dernbach Castle was destroyed. In 1333 the Dernbachers finally left the Herborn mark. The Lords of Monzenbach , who were resident in the Monzenbachtal and were related to the Dernbachers, also disappeared from the area soon after the Dernbacher feud ended.

In 1580 a new church was built on the site of the old one. In 1602 the old school was built; it was used as a town hall and school. Today it houses the local museum .

In the Thirty Years' War on May 3, 1635 soldiers invaded Seelbach and set the village on fire; about 90 houses and the church fell victim to the flames. In 1647 a new church was built on the site of the one destroyed in the war.

In 1777 the forester Johann Georg Georg came to Seelbach. He began growing peas, spinach and beans and showed the villagers how to use the soil in the Aar valley and on the slopes correctly. He regulated the Aar, drained the valley and removed the ruins of the moated castle except for a small hill, the "Butschel", so that cultivation could also be done there. He also laid out the first gardens. His most impressive work was the first well in the village by the church. He brought water into the village through pipes from the woods. This water supply existed for 150 years. He also built Seelbach's first stone house, the Jägerhaus, in 1790, which is still standing today. He died in 1833.

In 1895 a new school building was built, which had to give way to an indoor swimming pool in the early 1970s . In 1926/1927 the gymnastics club built a gym on "der Hardt". Today the building is owned by the city of Herborn.

In 1961 the new school building, under the Bitzen, on Hohen Strasse, was inaugurated as a primary and secondary school . The Dernbach School, a primary school, is still located there today .

Company building in the former Aartal barracks

In 1966 soldiers and Americans moved into the Aartal barracks , which was disbanded in 1993 as part of the troop reduction. Among other things, a transport battalion and the tele-spying company 300 were stationed

The Aar-Salzböde Railway , which had a stop in Seelbach, was shut down in 2001. This breakpoint had the old place name Herbornseelbach until the end of operations . For many years of operation it had the status of a train station and had two platform tracks, so that there were also scheduled passenger train crossings here.

In 2006 the construction of the bypass, which has been desired for over 30 years, began. On April 2, 2009, the bypass and the Seelbach-Ost exit were opened to traffic. The Seelbach-West exit was opened to traffic on April 17, 2009 on the occasion of the official opening of the bypass.

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse on 1 January 1977, the previously independent municipality Seelbach were, the city Herborn and other previously independent municipalities by the law on the restructuring of Dill circle counties Giessen and Wetzlar and the city of casting the new city Herborn together . For the district of Seelbach, as for the other incorporated, formerly independent communities, 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 Seelbach was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

population

Population development

Herbornseelbach: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 712
1840
  
 741
1846
  
 775
1852
  
 826
1858
  
 844
1864
  
 884
1871
  
 926
1875
  
 934
1885
  
 1,033
1895
  
 1,122
1905
  
 1,415
1910
  
 1,529
1925
  
 1,681
1939
  
 2.003
1946
  
 2,425
1950
  
 2,467
1956
  
 2,487
1961
  
 2,601
1967
  
 3,077
1970
  
 3,384
1983
  
 ?
1997
  
 3,745
1999
  
 3,756
2001
  
 3.714
2003
  
 3,785
2008
  
 3,690
2011
  
 3,601
2013
  
 3,575
2018
  
 3,595
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: City of Herborn: population figures

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 1024 Protestant (= 99.13%), 8 Catholic (= 0.77%) and one Jewish (= 0.10%) residents
• 1961: 2246 Protestant (= 86.35%) and 240 (= 9.23%) Catholic residents

politics

The crest

Local advisory board

There is a local advisory board with a local mayor for Seelbach . The local advisory board consists of nine members. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Eckhardt Simon is the mayor.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Seelbach shows in a blue field above a golden (yellow) wave bar a golden shield with three black sea leaves in a three-pass. The corrugated bar in the base of the shield embodies the part of the name Bach, while the shield with the sea leaves depicts the coat of arms of the Lords of Dernbach , whose ancestral castle was in the area of ​​today's municipality. The colors blue and yellow of the coat of arms are the Nassau colors and show the sovereign affiliation of the place since the late Middle Ages.

Seelbacher Katzen (coat of arms of the fair)

Culture and sights

Cat fair

Herborn-Seelbach is known beyond the borders of the former Dillkreis for the "Katzenkirmes" held annually on the third weekend in September on the gymnasium. The highlight is the fair garden, which has been taking place on fair Monday since 1988, a show program by the local clubs.

museum

Museum of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein: Old School
Protestant church

The local history and history association Herborn Seelbach operates a local history museum , which can be visited on selected Sundays of the year.

Sports

In Seelbach there are many clubs where sport comes first:

  • the gymnastics club 1897 Herborn-Seelbach,
  • the rifle club, the sports club (SKH 1920),
  • the table tennis club TTC 1958 and
  • the tennis club.

music

Seelbach is considered the most musical village in the Aartal, which is due to the fact that there are many music-related clubs here. These include the music club, the gymnastics club's TV orchestra, the Aargesangverein and the accordion club.

Churches and parishes

  • Evangelical parish of Herbornseelbach
  • Evangelical Community / EC Herbornseelbach e. V.
  • Calvary Chapel Herborn
  • Mission Church e. V. Herborn-Seelbach

Cultural monuments

For the cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Seelbach .

Infrastructure

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Seelbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers, data, facts. In: website. City of Herborn, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  3. ↑ So z. B. in the 1978 summer timetable between trains 7265 and 7272, s. Course book summer 1978, Mainz 1978, part 4, p. 83.
  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 ff ., § 21 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  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. 357 .
  6. ↑ Main statute § 5. (PDF; 160 kB) In: Website. City of Herborn, accessed February 2019 .
  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. ↑ Population of the city of Herborn in the web archive: 1997, 1999 ; 2001, 2003 ; 2008-2010 ; 2014 ; 2018
  9. ↑ Seelbach local advisory board on the website of the city of Herborn, accessed in February 2017.
  10. ↑ Katzenkirmes Herborn-Seelbach , accessed in March 2018.