Siegbach

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	to water
County :	Lahn-Dill district
Height :	398 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.08 km 2
Residents:	2549 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	88 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	35768
Primaries :	02778, 02776
License plate :	LDK, DIL
Community key :	06 5 32 019
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Austraße 23 ; 35768 Siegbach
Website :	www.siegbach.de
Mayor :	Berndt Happel ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Siegbach in the Lahn-Dill district

Siegbach is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Schelderwald with Angelburg from the east, in the foreground fields in the Wallenfels district

Former border between Hessen (right) and Nassau (left), since 1352, until today the district and municipality border between Siegbach-Wallenfels (left) and Bad Endbach-Schlierbach (right); The border runs at the edge of the forest, on the right at the edge of the picture old boundary stone

The municipality of Siegbach is located in the Gladenbacher Bergland in the valley of the eponymous Siegbach , which rises very close to the east side of the Angelburg , flows through the parts of the municipality one after the other in a north-south direction and finally flows into the Aar at Bischoffen .

More than half of the community area is forested. The highest point in the municipality is the Schmittgrund at 590 m above sea level. NN , the second highest mountain in the Gladenbacher Bergland after the Angelburg .

Wallenfels is located on the Bottenhorn plateaus , which flow west of the village of Angelburg and Schmittgrund into the Scheldt Forest ; all other districts are in the west of the Zollbuche natural area .

Neighboring communities

Siegbach borders in the north on the communities Eschenburg ( Lahn-Dill-Kreis ) and Angelburg , in the east on the community Bad Endbach (both in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf ), in the south on the communities Bischoffen and Mittenaar , in the south-west on the city of Herborn and in the west to the city of Dillenburg (all in the Lahn-Dill district).

structure

The community consists of the five districts Eisemroth (seat of the community administration), Oberndorf , Tringenstein , Überthal and Wallenfels .

history

On December 1, 1970, the previously independent municipality of Oberndorf was incorporated into the municipality of Eisemroth. As part of the regional reform in Hesse , this merged with Tringenstein, Überthal and Wallenfels on December 31, 1971 to form the new municipality of Siegbach.

There were once three castles in the municipality, namely in Eisemroth (location of today's Protestant church), in Wallenfels and in Tringenstein. They were built during or shortly after the end of the 100-year-old Dernbach feud (1230 to 1333), the Eisemroth and Wallenfels castles by the Landgraves of Hesse, and Tringenstein Castle by the Counts of Nassau . It was about the supremacy in this area between the up-and-coming county of Nassau and the Landgraviate of Hesse .

politics

Community representation

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

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016 A total of 15 seats SPD : 8 Greens : 2 CDU : 5th	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	51.3	8th	41.9	6th	46.4	7th	47.3	11
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	31.9	5	31.4	5	32.3	5	23.0	5
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	16.8	2	26.6	4th	-	-	-	-
	FWG	Free community of voters Siegbach	-	-	-	-	21.3	3	16.0	4th
	BL	Siegbach Citizens List	-	-	-	-	-	-	13.7	3
	total		100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	15th	100.0	23
	Voter turnout in%		49.2		42.0		37.1		43.1

mayor

After the Hessian municipal constitution is the Mayor Chairman of the Municipal Board , the six volunteers in the community Siegbach next to the Mayor Councilor belong. Berndt Happel, a non-party member, has been the mayor since June 1, 2010.

The former mayor Eckehard Förster (SPD) has been the state commissioner for the office of the mayor of the community since March 16, after the incumbent mayor became permanently ill, in order to ensure the functionality of the community.

The directly elected predecessors of Berndt Happel were

1998 to 2010 Eckehard Förster (SPD)
1996 to 1998 Erich Dietrich (FWG)

coat of arms

The coat of arms and the flag were officially awarded on October 16, 1975 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

	Blazon : "In green on a golden ground, a black tunnel mouth hole with golden beams, covered with a silver hammer and mallet crossed at an angle."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms stands for the former mining industry in the municipality.

Attractions

The Wilhelmsteine , located between the districts of Tringenstein and Wallenfels, are a group of up to 15 m high iron pebbles in the middle of the Schelder Forest . Every year on Ascension Day , a forest service has been celebrated between them for decades.

The Wilhelmsteine, named after Duke Wilhelm von Nassau , were formerly called book stones . They were probably a central pre-Christian shrine. From the early to the high Middle Ages there was an important junction of old long-distance trade routes that ran along the longer and shorter watersheds near the Angelburg. The "Hohe Straße / Herborner Straße" coming from the northeast crossed the important east-west trade route (Leipzig-Kölner-Messestraße also called " Brabanter Straße "), which comes from Leipzig via Marburg to Cologne and into the province of Brabant , ( today in Belgium ). In the closer region it was also called "Schelderwald-Weg", in old documents "strada publica" (public road). This is also where the Westfalen-Weg converged, coming from Gießen on the Aar-Salzböde watershed, following about today's state road 3047 to the Zollbuche , via Günterod and Salzbödesattel west past Hartenrod and Schlierbach towards the Angelburg. It was possible to get to Bremen via Paderborn via its northern continuation .

An important prehistoric settlement was found at the Angelburg (mountain) .

Castle ruins : Tringenstein Castle in Tringenstein and Wallenfels Castle in Wallenfels .

Natural monuments in Siegbach

energy

The end of 2011 has Wiesbaden project developer ABO Wind a wind farm with three wind turbines of the type Nordex N100 / 2500 put into operation. The turbines have a hub height of 140 m, a rotor diameter of 100 m and a nominal output of 2.5 MW each. The operator is Mainova . They should produce around 16 million kWh of electrical energy per year, corresponding to the electricity consumption of 6,400 households.

Personalities

Bernd Nickel (* 1949), football player
Michael Heck (* 1964), pop singer

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 ).
^ 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. 356 .
^ 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

^ Hessian State Statistical Office: direct elections in Siegbach

^ Announcement for the direct election of the mayor on October 29, 2015

↑ Granting the right to carry a coat of arms and a flag to the community of Siegbach, Dillkreis, Reg.-Bezirk Darmstadt on November 3, 1975 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1975 No. 44 , p. 2004 , point 1471 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.4 MB ]).

↑ ABO Wind: Siegbach wind farm. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .

↑ Siegbach wind farm. (PDF; 6.8 MB) In: Profile. ABO Wind AG, accessed in May 2019 .

Web links

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

Website of the community
Siegbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Siegbach in the Hessian Bibliography
Link catalog on Siegbach at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

[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 ).

[2] 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. 356 .

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

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

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

[6] Hessian State Statistical Office: direct elections in Siegbach

[7] Announcement for the direct election of the mayor on October 29, 2015

[Wappen-8] Granting the right to carry a coat of arms and a flag to the community of Siegbach, Dillkreis, Reg.-Bezirk Darmstadt on November 3, 1975 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1975 No. 44 , p. 2004 , point 1471 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.4 MB ]).

[9] ABO Wind: Siegbach wind farm. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .

[10] Siegbach wind farm. (PDF; 6.8 MB) In: Profile. ABO Wind AG, accessed in May 2019 .