Steinbach (Haiger)
Steinbach
City of Haiger
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 44 ″ N , 8 ° 11 ′ 9 ″ E
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Height : | 347 m |
Area : | 4.82 km² |
Residents : | 811 (December 31, 2017) |
Population density : | 168 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | January 1, 1977 |
Postal code : | 35708 |
Area code : | 02773 |
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Steinbach is a district of Haiger in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .
Steinbach is located north of Haiger am Steinbach, surrounded by forest. There are no main thoroughfares through the village.
history
The village was first mentioned in 1354. Ores were mined around the village as early as the 16th century. The last mine , the Freudenzeche mine , was closed in 1954. A cemetery was established in 1889, followed by a new one in 1939. This was completely expanded in 1971 with the construction of a cemetery hall and in 1989. In 1923 the Siegerland power station supplied the town with electricity. In 1926 the last school in the village was built, where teaching was carried out until 1975. In 1939 the place belonged to the Dill district and had 448 inhabitants. In 1957 a new church was built.
TSV Steinbach was founded in 1921 and has played in the Southwest Regional Football League since 2015 . The Steinbach volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1929 , and the ski club in 1970.
In the winter of 2014/2015 Steinbach became known nationwide because millions of mountain finches wintered there.
Territorial reform
As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipality of Steinbach was incorporated into the city of Haiger on January 1, 1977 by the law to reorganize the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen . A local district was not established for Steinbach.
Territorial history and administration
The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Steinbach was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:
- before 1739: Holy Roman Empire , County / Principality of Nassau-Dillenburg , Haiger Office
- from 1739: Holy Roman Empire, Principality of Nassau-Diez , Haiger Office
- 1806–1813: Grand Duchy of Berg , Department of Sieg , Canton of Dillenburg
- 1813–1815: Principality of Nassau-Orange , Haiger Office
- from 1816: German Confederation , Duchy of Nassau , Dillenburg office
- from 1849: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Herborn district office
- from 1854: German Confederation, Duchy of Nassau, Dillenburg Office
- from 1867: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , Dillkreis
- from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau, administrative district of Wiesbaden, Dillkreis
- from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Province of Hessen-Nassau, Administrative Region of Wiesbaden, Dillkreis
- from 1932: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hesse-Nassau, District of Wiesbaden, District of Dillenburg
- from 1933: German Reich, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau, Administrative Region of Wiesbaden, Dillkreis
- from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Dill District
- from 1945: American occupation zone , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Dillkreis
- from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Dillkreis
- from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , Dillkreis
- on January 1, 1977 Steinbach was incorporated into the city of Haiger as a district.
- from 1977: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt administrative district, Lahn-Dill district
- from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen administrative district , Lahn-Dill district
population
Population development
Steinbach: Population from 1834 to 2017 | ||||
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year | Residents | |||
1834 | 221 | |||
1840 | 239 | |||
1846 | 258 | |||
1852 | 251 | |||
1858 | 283 | |||
1864 | 264 | |||
1871 | 238 | |||
1875 | 255 | |||
1885 | 277 | |||
1895 | 296 | |||
1905 | 341 | |||
1910 | 350 | |||
1925 | 402 | |||
1939 | 432 | |||
1946 | 500 | |||
1950 | 506 | |||
1956 | 540 | |||
1961 | 589 | |||
1967 | 680 | |||
1970 | 696 | |||
1985 | ? | |||
2005 | 922 | |||
2008 | 931 | |||
2017 | 811 | |||
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 Haiger |
Religious affiliation
Source: Historical local dictionary
• 1885: | 244 Protestant (= 88.09%), 27 Catholic (= 9.75%) and 6 other (= 2.17%) Christians |
• 1961: | 551 Protestant (= 93.55%), 38 Catholic (= 6.45%) residents |
• 2005: | 590 Protestant (= 63.99%), 52 Catholic (= 5.64%) and 295 other (= 32.00%) residents |
Former mines
Culture and sights
Cultural monuments
See the list of cultural monuments in Haiger-Steinbach
Natural monuments
See the list of natural monuments in Haiger-Steinbach
literature
- Kurt Becker: Our fathers - the miners of the Bautenberg mine between Gilsbach and Wilden, Dill and Westerwald , Dillbrecht 1994
- Literature on Steinbach in the Hessian Bibliography
Web links
- Steinbach district. In: Internet presence. City of Haiger
- Steinbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Area by district. In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; accessed in March 2018 .
- ↑ Population statistics . (PDF) In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on March 25, 2018 ; accessed in March 2018 .
- ↑ Mittelhessen.de: Mountain finches are the stars , from January 10, 2015
- ↑ 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 ., § 25 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- ↑ a b c Steinbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ 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).
- ↑ HHStAW inventory 360/187: affiliation of Haiger In: archive information system Hesse (Arcinsys Hessen).
- ↑ a b Population figures 2005. In: Website. City of Haiger, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .