Steinbach (Haiger)

Steinbach City of Haiger Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 44 ″ N , 8 ° 11 ′ 9 ″ E
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
	Aerial view

Steinbach is a district of Haiger in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .

Haiger-Steinbach village coat of arms: A stream with stones, the "Steinbacher Gickel", hammer and mallet as a mining symbol and grain as an agriculture symbol

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.

Mountain finches approaching their winter rest in the evening

In the winter of 2014/2015 Steinbach became known nationwide because millions of mountain finches wintered there.

Territorial reform

View of Steinbach with the Upper Dill Valley in the background

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
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

See list of mines in Haiger

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; accessed in August 2018
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. Accessed September 2018(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 .

[1] Area by district. In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; accessed in March 2018 .

[2] Population statistics . (PDF) In: Internet presence. City of Haiger, archived from the original on March 25, 2018 ; accessed in March 2018 .

[3] Mittelhessen.de: Mountain finches are the stars , from January 10, 2015

[4] 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 ]).

[lagis-5] Steinbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[6] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[7] HHStAW inventory 360/187: affiliation of Haiger In: archive information system Hesse (Arcinsys Hessen).

[EW2005-8] Population figures 2005. In: Website. City of Haiger, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .