Selters (Löhnberg)

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Selters
community Löhnberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 147 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.85 km²
Residents : 344  (Jun. 1, 2019)
Population density : 71 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 35792
Area code : 06471
Selters seen from the opposite side of the Lahn.
Selters seen from the opposite side of the Lahn.

Selters (also Selters an der Lahn ) is a district of the municipality of Löhnberg in the central Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg . Here the mineral waters of the Selters brand (see also: Selterswasser ) are bottled. The village has around 350 inhabitants and is 145 meters above sea level.

Geographical location

Löhnberg-Selters is located on the Taunus side of the Lahn between Wetzlar and the district town of Limburg an der Lahn in the state of Hesse .

history

Prehistory and early history

Franconians settled in the Lahn valley as early as 500 AD. 800 years later, Selters an der Lahn was officially mentioned for the first time. The reason for this late mention is that the names are identical with Selters (Westerwald) and Selters (Taunus) , so that a clear identification of Selters on the Lahn from documents of the time is only possible for the year 1317.

middle Ages

Between 1321 and 1324 the landmark of the community Löhnberg, the Laneburg , was built by Count Johann von Nassau-Dillenburg . It was a protective castle on the rock above the Lahn. In the summer of 1382 the community of Selters announced the building of a chapel in writing . If this chapel was built, it will probably have fallen victim to a fire that raged in Selters 150 years later. Around 1560, the Laneburg was converted into a castle, which also involved enlargements of the entire complex.

Modern times

In the summer of 1614 Selters received its own parish, Filial Drommershausen , with a small wooden church and its first pastor: Johann Bosen . Until then, Selters was given pastoral care by the Weilburg Abbey . In 1630 27 households belonged to Selters. 76 years later, most of the village burned down. The half-timbered church was so badly damaged that a new church including rectory was inaugurated in 1732 under the direction of Pastor Johann Gottfried Haybach.

The constant differences of opinion between the owners in Weilburg and Dillenburg - the Laneburg was divided among them - only came to an end when Löhnberg passed entirely into Weilburg ownership in 1773. With that the dream of a flourishing castle town or even a residence was over, because Weilburg remained the seat of the nobility. The Löhnberg Castle was only used as a tithe barn until it burned out in 1900.

From 1815 the eastern boundary of Selters was the state border between the Duchy of Nassau and the Kingdom of Prussia . The neighboring district of Wetzlar was created by the merger of the Prussian districts of Wetzlar and Braunfels and belonged to the Prussian Rhine province as an exclave until September 30, 1932 . It was not until October 1, 1932 that the Wetzlar district changed to the Hesse-Nassau province. Therefore, the road from Ahausen to Selters was never continued east or north-east and the place remained free of through traffic.

In 1824 Selters had 136 inhabitants. The first school in the center of the village (Kirchgasse 2) was built in 1863, 43 years later a two-class school ("dwarf school") on the edge of the village, which served its purpose until 1973 and is now part of the village community center.

In 1880 Selters bought a used organ from Niederschelden near Siegen for 330 marks, which had been built in 1852 by Daniel Raßmann . It was demolished by master organ builder Eichhorn from Weilmünster, renovated for 1,069.38 marks and placed on a new organ stage in Selters and inaugurated one day before St. Nicholas in 1880. At that time Selters had 235 inhabitants.

The economic use of mineral water springs began in the late nineteenth century. In the settlement area of ​​Selters there are several mineral and healing springs, u. a. Selters . At that time the place got a water pipe network and every house got its own high pressure water pipe.

20th century

Village fountain

In 1917 the pit footbridge to Löhnberg was inaugurated, a steel chain bridge. Before that, ferries drove across the river on a rope stretched over the Lahn. After the Second World War, the population increased by 33% due to the influx of refugees. After that, the population had pretty much stabilized.

In 1974 the church got an electric bell. At that time Selters had 342 inhabitants, had a grocery store and two restaurants: "Vierjahreszeiten" with the old blacksmith's shop on the corner of Am Lahnberg / Neugasse and "Lahnblick" in the southern part of the street "Am Lahnberg" opposite the old former cemetery. The restored Selters organ was returned to its intended use two weeks after Easter 1989, after it could no longer be played for a few years due to age-related wear. In 2011 the organ building workshop Mebold carried out another cleaning and overhaul of the organ. At the beginning of 2008, the topping-out ceremony for a Protestant parish hall in Selters. The sheet metal roof planned at the beginning was finally given way to a roof conventionally covered with dark panes.

Selters has been participating in a village renewal program since 2011. Over a period of nine years, the village has the opportunity to implement private and public village renewal projects and to receive grants from funds from the European Union, the federal government and the state of Hesse. As part of this program, the village fountain was restored.

Territorial reform

On July 1, 1974, the municipality of Selters was incorporated into the municipality of Löhnberg by state law as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Selters: Population from 1824 to 2018
year     Residents
1824
  
 136
1834
  
 152
1840
  
 174
1846
  
 192
1852
  
 239
1858
  
 277
1864
  
 235
1871
  
 237
1875
  
 229
1885
  
 236
1895
  
 250
1905
  
 280
1910
  
 289
1925
  
 261
1939
  
 295
1946
  
 393
1950
  
 372
1956
  
 364
1961
  
 338
1967
  
 345
1970
  
 381
2010
  
 361
2015
  
 358
2018
  
 353
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Website of the community of Löhnberg

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 232 Protestant (= 98.31%), 4 Catholic (= 1.69%) residents
• 1961: 276 Protestant (= 81.66%), 61 Catholic (= 18.05%) residents

Culture and sights

Regular events

The local associations (Protestant parish, the Selters volunteer fire brigade founded in 1934 , youth and leisure club, Kyffhauser Kameradschaft, table tennis club, hiking birds, water ski club, paintball sports club and quad club) take turns organizing the annual festivals. The round starts with the Rose Monday parade in February, followed by the Easter bonfire in March / April, the annual barbecue on May 1st, the wine festival in June / July, the fair in August, the lantern parade and the potato festival in November. The day ends with St. Nicholas, who comes in his carriage to bring presents to the children.

church

The foundation stone of the church was laid on May 21, 1731. It has a rectangular floor plan, a stately hipped roof and a sloped roof turret. The master builder was the master carpenter JA Klöckner. The gable tower, which is built very harmoniously in three stages, is typical of his work. Inside the church has a grooved, wooden mirrored ceiling with various ornaments, fruit pendants, vases with flowers and putti. A community gallery runs from the west wall to the north side. The pulpit has a crown with a small cross at the end. The benches were redone in the 1950s based on the old model. The barred barriers and the benches in the altar area, on the other hand, are original. In the 18th and 19th centuries, every parishioner had a permanent bank place that had to be paid for. That's why you can still find the old seat numbers on the gallery and the back rows of seats. There are three bells hanging in the church tower: one from 1921 with the inscription “Glory to God in the highest” and two more from 1951 with the inscriptions “Your dead will live” and “Stop praying”. The offering box at the entrance bears the text “For the Armenian orphans”. It commemorates the genocide of the Armenians in Turkey from 1915 onwards. During this time, funds were collected from surviving Armenians in Europe for humanitarian projects.

Village community center and volunteer fire brigade

Cultural monuments

Infrastructure

Since 1934, the Selters volunteer fire brigade has provided fire protection and general help in this area. In Selters there is a village community center with an attached bakery in Talhofstrasse, a cemetery, a bus station, a sports field with a grill hut on the road to Drommershausen, a children's playground, hiking trails, an evangelical parish hall and an evangelical church.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Löhnberg from A – Z. In: website. Community of Löhnberg, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 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 , § 11 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 373 .
  4. ↑ a b c Selters, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ↑ Ev. Parish of Löhnberg (ed.): The Protestant Church in Selters .