Stockhausen (Leun)
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Stockhausen
City of Leun
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 36 ″ N , 8 ° 19 ′ 24 ″ E
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| Height : | 145 m |
| Area : | 7.2 km² |
| Residents : | 979 (Jun. 30, 2016) |
| Population density : | 136 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | December 31, 1971 |
| Postal code : | 35638 |
| Area code : | 06473 |
Stockhausen is a district of Leun in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .
geography
Stockhausen is about 15 km west of Wetzlar and 10 km east of Weilburg an der Lahn and thus on the southern border of the Westerwald .
history
In 1245 the village is first mentioned as Stochusin . Stockhausen later belonged to the office of Greifenstein in the county of Solms . After the Congress of Vienna it was assigned to the Prussian mayor's office in Greifenstein .
The town's chapel was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and only replaced by a new building in the 20th century. (Groundbreaking ceremony: May 31, 1955. Inauguration: October 21, 1956) After the Second World War , people lived and worked in the Solmser Hof directly across from the small train station in the village. a. the painter and graphic artist Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen and the sculptor Giselher Neuhaus.
Territorial reform
As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the communities of Stockhausen, Bissenberg , Biskirchen and the city of Leun merged on December 31, 1971 on a voluntary basis to form the new city of Leun. Thanks to its central location in the newly created urban area of Leun through the merger, the place received the seat of the city administration and the town hall .
Territorial history and administration
The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Stockhausen was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:
- before 1806: Holy Roman Empire , Principality of Solms-Braunfels , part of the County of Solms , Greifenstein office
- from 1806: Duchy of Nassau , Greifenstein office
- 1816: Kingdom of Prussia , Rhine Province , Region of Koblenz , county Braunfels
- from 1822: Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
- from 1866: North German Confederation , Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
- from 1871: German Empire , Kingdom of Prussia, Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
- from 1918: German Empire, Free State of Prussia , Rhine Province, Koblenz District, Wetzlar District
- from 1932: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Province of Hessen-Nassau , Administrative Region of Wiesbaden , District of Wetzlar
- from 1944: German Empire, Free State of Prussia, Nassau Province , Wetzlar District
- from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district
- from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Wiesbaden district, Wetzlar district
- from 1968: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt , district of Wetzlar.
- On December 31, 1971, Stockhausen was incorporated into the newly formed municipality of Leun.
- 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
| Stockhausen: Population from 1834 to 1970 | ||||
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| year | Residents | |||
| 1834 | 232 | |||
| 1840 | 256 | |||
| 1846 | 308 | |||
| 1852 | 330 | |||
| 1858 | 311 | |||
| 1864 | 334 | |||
| 1871 | 308 | |||
| 1875 | 350 | |||
| 1885 | 342 | |||
| 1895 | 321 | |||
| 1905 | 329 | |||
| 1910 | 355 | |||
| 1925 | 414 | |||
| 1939 | 461 | |||
| 1946 | 671 | |||
| 1950 | 662 | |||
| 1956 | 633 | |||
| 1961 | 645 | |||
| 1967 | 772 | |||
| 1970 | 756 | |||
| Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources: | ||||
Religious affiliation
Source: Historical local dictionary
| • 1834: | 232 Protestant residents |
| • 1961: | 554 Protestant (= 85.89%), 79 Catholic (= 12.25%) residents |
Buildings
Fountain sculpture by Ruth Schmidt Stockhausen: girl with jug, concrete, created for the 750th anniversary of the village, 1976.
Cultural monuments
traffic
The place owns one of the two Leuner train stations on the Lahntalbahn (the second is in Lahnbahnhof ), the line Giessen - Limburg . This was formerly the starting point for a branch line to Beilstein , which is now closed and largely dismantled.
Web links
- Internet presence of the city of Leun
- Stockhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature about Stockhausen in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Facts + Figures" on the city of Leun's website , accessed in February 2017.
- ↑ Heimatkundlicher Arbeitskreis Biskirchen eV, Biskirchener Heimatkalender 2008, Leun 2007, page 95f
- ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 302
- ↑ a b c Stockhausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 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).
- ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 249 ( online at google books ).
