Selters (Taunus)

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Limburg-Weilburg
Height :	249 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.47 km 2
Residents:	7946 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	196 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	65618
Primaries :	06483 (Haintchen 06475)
License plate :	LM, WEL
Community key :	06 5 33 014
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Brunnenstrasse 46 ; 65618 Selters (Taunus)
Website :	www.selters-taunus.de
Mayor :	Bernd Hartmann ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Selters (Taunus) in the Limburg-Weilburg district

Selters (Taunus) is a municipality in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

The larger part of the Selterser municipality area with the districts of Niederselters , Eisenbach , Münster and Haintchen lies in the area of the eastern Hintertaunus north of the Taunus main ridge , at an altitude of 170 to 500 meters. In terms of nature, the main town of Niederselters is still part of the southeastern part of the Limburg basin and thus has a connection to the Lahn valley landscape . The rift valley of the Idsteiner Senke , which flows into the basin from the south, is associated with the popular name Goldener Grund along the Emsbach , which drains into the Lahn , which refers to the favorable climate and fertile soil (loess loam). The northern part of the municipality around the town of Münster belongs to the geological Lahnmulde , which is known for its wealth of natural resources from the Middle Devon . Iron ore mining was of particular importance here.

Neighboring communities

Selters borders in the north on the municipalities of Villmar and Weilmünster (both districts Limburg-Weilburg), in the east on the municipality Weilrod ( Hochtaunuskreis ), in the south on the city of Bad Camberg , in the southwest on the municipality of Hünstelden , and in the west on the municipality of Brechen (all three in the Limburg-Weilburg district).

structure

The community has four districts (here with population).

District	1910	2002	2008	2017	comment
Niederselters	1455	3146	3228	3147	Administrative seat of the municipality, place of origin of the Selterswasser , stop of the Main-Lahn-Bahn
Eisenbach	1208	3040	3090	2888	spa
Muenster	977	1072	1108	1056	Resort
Haintchen	567	890	922	868	Relaxation place, worth seeing baroque church

Parish church of St. Christophorus in Niederselters
Old school and former town hall in Münster
Classicist school in Haintchen
Church of St. Petrus in Eisenbach

history

The municipality of Selters was created in the course of the regional reform in Hesse on July 1, 1974 through the amalgamation of four previously independent municipalities and received the official name "Selters (Taunus)".

religion

Main building in the Central Europe branch

The Central Europe branch of Jehovah's Witnesses is located in the community of Selters im Taunus. From there, the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in German-speaking countries are coordinated. Since 1979, around 1050 members of the religious community have lived and worked in Niederselters, among other things in the printing works, translation offices, organization and logistics departments, as well as in the workshops in an order-like community. In Selters, literature is printed for over 25,000 congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses in almost 100 countries and sent from there.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

	Voter turnout in%		53.0		34.1		43.0		46.1
Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016 6th 14th 5 6th 6th 14th 5 6th A total of 31 seats SPD : 6 CDU : 14 UWE : 5 FWS : 6	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	43.6	14th	49.5	15th	47.7	15th	49.8	15th
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	20.4	6th	26.4	8th	28.5	9	34.0	11
	UWE	Independent voters Eisenbach	16.4	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
	FWS	Free voters Selters (Taunus)	19.6	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-
	BLN	Citizen List of Lower Elder	-	-	11.9	4th	11.4	3	10.4	3
	FWH	Free voter community Haintchen	-	-	7.1	2	6.2	2	5.8	2
	FWM	Free voters Münster	-	-	5.1	2	6.2	2	-	-
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31

mayor

After the Hessian municipal constitution is Mayor Chairman of the Municipal Board , the eight volunteers in the community seltzer next to the Mayor Councilor belong. Bernd Hartmann, a non-party member, has been the mayor since August 1, 2010. His predecessors were

1974 to 1986 Josef Wältmann (CDU)
1986 to 2010 Norbert Zabel (CDU)
since 2010 Bernd Hartmann (independent)

coat of arms

The municipality of Selters (Taunus) was granted permission by the Hessian Minister of the Interior on July 30, 1980 to use the coat of arms described below.

Description of coat of arms: "Fourth shield; Field 1 in red is an inclined silver jug with outflowing silver water interspersed with blue; Field 2 in silver the red upper part of a crook crossed diagonally with the red upper part of a cross staff; Field 3 in silver a red mallet and iron ; Field 4 in red on a blue and silver wave base a swimming silver swan. "

Culture and sights

Buildings

Town hall of the municipality of Selters in Niederselters, former barracks of the Electorate of Trier

Eisenbach

Catholic parish church of St. Petrus from 1896–1898
Hof zu Hausen , first mentioned in 1275, near Eisenbach
Two-story, eaves-standing houses with decorative facades made of stucco ornaments , built around 1900

Haintchen

Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas from 1749–1750
Classical school building from 1843–1844
Holy houses and wayside shrines in the locality and municipal area from the middle of the 18th century

Muenster

Protestant fortified church from the 12th century
old school from 1826–1827
Former ore mine Lindenberg from the 19th and 20th centuries

Niederselters

Old church from 1717, today an event and cultural center
Catholic parish church of St. Christophorus from 1908–1909
Town hall (formerly Electorate of Trier barracks) from 1787–1789
Selters mineral fountain
Gasthof Zum Römischen Kaiser from the 18th century

Museums

Local history museum in Münster
Selters water museum in Niederselters

Economy and Infrastructure

Seltzer water

Restored well temple in Niederselters with former bottling facilities

In the district of Niederselters there is a rich mineral fountain that gave the Selters water its name. The Selters spring was first mentioned in 772. In 1581, the city doctor of Worms , Jakob Theodor Tabernaemontanus , dedicated ten pages to the Niederselterser Sauerbrunnen in his fountain chronicle Neuw Wasserschatz , thus laying the foundation for the fountain's fame. A modest health resort soon developed.

In addition to the rather insignificant drinking cure, Kurtrier operated a rapidly expanding water dispatch in stone jugs from the Kannenbäckerland to Scandinavia, Russia, North America, Africa and even, as it is documented for the year 1791, to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies . The place name Selters imprinted on the vessels soon created the name Selters-Wasser as a brand name for mineral water of world renown. The Duchy of Nassau took over Niederselters in 1803 as a welcome source of income and expanded the export business. After the annexation of Nassau by Prussia in 1866, the water even became Royal Selters and after the end of the monarchy it became the state source of Niederselters . The state of Hesse, as the legal successor to Prussia, sold the Selters-Quelle in 1970. After that, the owners changed faster and faster. In 1999 the bottling at the well in Niederselters was stopped. The municipality of Selters has owned the spring since 2001.

On June 26, 2011, the restored Selters mineral fountain , consisting of the historical well temple, the Selters water museum , the house drink facility , the park, the event rooms and the day nursery, was inaugurated. The mineral fountain is part of the overall Geopark Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus concept .

traffic

Selters has developed into a popular residential community, as it is well connected to the trunk road network with the Bad Camberg junction of the federal motorway 3 about five kilometers away . Federal highway 8 also runs through Niederselters .

The district of Niederselters has a train station on the Main-Lahn-Bahn . The closest long-distance train station is Limburg Süd train station .

education

For the community seltzer consisting Mittelpunktschule Golden reason in Niederselters. This has a primary , secondary and secondary school branch . As a secondary school which is Taunus school in Bad Camberg visited. In addition, students from Selters attend schools in Limburg.

Public facilities

Catholic kindergarten Eisenbach
Community kindergarten Haintchen
Evangelical Kindergarten Münster
Catholic kindergarten in Niederselters

Eisenbach volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1905 (including youth fire brigade since June 2, 1973 )

Haintchen volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1932 (since November 14, 1973 including youth fire brigade)

Münster volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1933 (including youth fire brigade since November 30, 1989)

Lower Elder Volunteer Fire Brigade, founded in 1884 (since January 1, 1971 including youth fire brigade)

Personalities

Karl Caesar (1874–1942), born in Münster, architect and university professor
Otti Geschka (* 1939), born in Haintchen, politician (CDU) and former state secretary. D.

Web links

Commons : Selters - collection of images

Website of the municipality of Selters
Selters, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Selters in the Hessian Bibliography
Link catalog on the topic of seltzer at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
↑ Selters (Taunus) at a glance: Population figures HW , accessed on March 21, 2018.
↑ 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 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
↑ Jehovah's Witnesses in Selters: Offices and Visits
^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006

^ Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt: direct elections in Selters

↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Selters (Taunus), district Limburg-Weilburg, administrative district Darmstadt from July 30, 1980 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1980 No. 33 , p. 1463 , point 916 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).

↑ Theodorus Tabernaemontanus : "New water treasure: this is all heylsaman metallic mineral baths and water [...]" , Frankfurt am Main 1581 ( online )

↑ NNP of June 27, 2011: "Monument for a World Water"

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-HE-1] Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).

[DF-2] Selters (Taunus) at a glance: Population figures HW , accessed on March 21, 2018.

[3] 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 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).

[4] Jehovah's Witnesses in Selters: Offices and Visits

[5] Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

[6] Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011

[7] Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006

[8] Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt: direct elections in Selters

[StAnz-1980-00033-9] Approval of a coat of arms of the community Selters (Taunus), district Limburg-Weilburg, administrative district Darmstadt from July 30, 1980 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1980 No. 33 , p. 1463 , point 916 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).

[10] Theodorus Tabernaemontanus : "New water treasure: this is all heylsaman metallic mineral baths and water [...]" , Frankfurt am Main 1581 ( online )

[11] NNP of June 27, 2011: "Monument for a World Water"