Seelenberg

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Seelenberg
commune Schmitten
Seelenberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 43 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 584  (543-605)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.41 km²
Residents : 570  (2006)
Population density : 167 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 61389
Area code : 06082
Seelenberg from the Feldberg
Seelenberg from the Feldberg
View from the tower of Reifenberg Castle to Seelenberg
The Sauwiesental below Seelenberg in spring

Seelenberg is a district of Schmitten in the Hochtaunuskreis in southern Hesse .

geography

Seelenberg is located in the eastern Hintertaunus in the Taunus Nature Park . The village is the second highest place in the Taunus after Oberreifenberg . Seelenberg is located on a high floe, the so-called horse's head floe , which runs across the Taunus main ridge . The main part of the village is on the slope side, which slopes steeply to the south into the Weiltal . A brook also rises on this side and flows into the Weil above Schmittens. There are only a few houses on the northern side of the mountain. The stream, which rises in the Sauwiesen on this side, flows north towards Finsternthal . The Schmitten region has an extensive and sometimes well-maintained network of trails, which allows you to experience the impressive nature.

The place is in the west of the large community Schmitten. It lies exactly on the border between the Hochtaunuskreis and the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis . In the south of the village are the villages of Nieder- and Oberreifenberg. In the southwest, Seelenberg borders on Oberems , in the west on Wüstems , which belongs to the Rheingau-Taunus district. In the northeast, Seelenberg borders on Reichenbach and in the north on Mauloff .

Seelenberg is characterized by a straight, steep main road leading through the village. Most of the houses are in the north of this street. The Cambergerstraße runs through Seelenberg and connects the community of Schmitten with the western Taunus communities of Idstein and Bad Camberg .

history

From the foundation to the desert

The place Seelenberg was first mentioned in 1272 as Selderberg. In 1441 Gottfried von Eppstein is named as the owner of Seelenberg. With the extinction of the Lords of Eppstein in 1529, Seelenberg came to Königstein, and in 1535 to the Lords of Stolberg. The last documentary mention comes from 1561. From 1595 at the latest, the church was considered completely dilapidated and the place as a desert .

Start-up

With the Amt of Reifenberg , the desert went to Kurmainz as pledge until around 1725 . On September 12, 1695, the Kurmainzer Rentmeister presented a 15-point plan for the re-establishment of Seelenberg. Ten settler families from the Taunus, the Bergisches Land and the area around Liège were settled in 1696 and chose the Walloon Gerlach Barchon as their first mayor . The newly built St. Casimirkirche was consecrated on October 5, 1711. In 1722 the Seelenberger Markt was relocated to Esch .

With the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806, Seelenberg became part of Nassau-Usingen and thus later of the Duchy of Nassau . With the dissolution of the office of Reifenberg in 1810, the place was assigned to the office of Usingen . In 1866, Seelenberg came to Prussia.

Until the voluntary amalgamation within the framework of the regional reform in Hesse on April 1, 1972, Seelenberg was independent with Schmitten and other previously independent communities and has since been part of the community of Schmitten.

religion

Seelenberg Church

The Mainz canon Count Casimir Ferdinand Waldbott von Bassenheim had the Holy Blood Church built. The church was consecrated on October 5, 1711. Later it was rededicated to the St. Casimir Church. Later excavations uncovered the foundations of two former St. Otmar chapels; the second Otmar chapel is most likely mentioned for the first time in 1272.

In 1847 the organ built by the Igstadt master organ builder Voigt was installed. The organ was last overhauled in 1998. The Walldürner Kreuz has been a destination for pilgrimages for centuries. Today the pilgrimages are limited to the nearby Feldberg area. The coat of arms of the Bassenheim family is shown above the church portal.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

For the listed buildings see the list of cultural monuments in Seelenberg .

dialect

The language of the Seelenbergs and the surrounding villages is very similar, but there are exceptions. The cause of this phenomenon is likely to be the influence of the Westerwälder or Wetterau dialect in the villages downstream, while the Lower Main idiom has shaped the language in the upper villages through various connections since ancient times .

Personalities

The theologian Anton Abt was born in Seelenberg in 1841 and his nephew, the oil drilling pioneer Anton Raky, was born in 1868 .

literature

  • Ludwig Abbot: Seelenberg 1696–1896; Festschrift to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the community. Self-published, Limburg 1896
  • Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt: Five village communities on the Hohe Taunus: a social statistical study of small-scale farming, domestic industry and popular life, Leipzig 1883.

Web links

Commons : Seelenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Municipality of Schmitten: districts ( Memento from May 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Berger: Seelenberg, a newly founded Electoral Mainz , in: Ingrid Berg (Ed.): Heimat Hochtaunus , Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pages 182-186
  3. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 272
  4. ↑ Church guide Hochtaunus ( Online p. 64 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 4.8 MB, accessed January 14, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hochtaunuskreis.de