Tiefenbach (Braunfels)

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Tiefenbach
City of Braunfels
Tiefenbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 56 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 151 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.2 km²
Residents : 1081  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 150 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35619
Area code : 06473
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Location of Tiefenbach in Braunfels

Tiefenbach is a district of Braunfels in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

The place is located in the northern foothills of the Taunus , northwest of the core city of Braunfels and not far from the Lahn . Tiefenbach lies in a valley that is partially surrounded by forest. The Lindelbach rises in the Tiefenbach district and flows through the village in pipes and flows northwest into the Lahn not far from the settlement boundary . The next larger city is Wetzlar , which is about 14 kilometers away.

history

1920s postcard

Tiefenbach was first mentioned as Difenbach in 1245 , when Count Heinrich I von Solms bought his property in the village from the noble Volpert von Gemünden. This first mention is also that of the city of Braunfels, as the name Brunenvelß was also mentioned for the first time in the negotiation .

During the Thirty Years War the place was invaded by Spanish (1621) and imperial (1622), as well as (1634) by Swedish troops, the residents were robbed. Towards the end of the Thirty Years' War, the village was finally no longer inhabited because the inhabitants had fled to Braunfels.

Territorial reform

The independent municipality of Tiefenbach was incorporated into the city of Braunfels on December 31, 1971 as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Tiefenbach was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

population

Population development

Tiefenbach: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 426
1840
  
 503
1846
  
 567
1852
  
 579
1858
  
 560
1864
  
 609
1871
  
 616
1875
  
 625
1885
  
 639
1895
  
 695
1905
  
 703
1910
  
 724
1925
  
 805
1939
  
 837
1946
  
 1,099
1950
  
 1,041
1956
  
 1.006
1961
  
 977
1967
  
 1,033
1970
  
 1,039
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: 409 Protestant and 17 Jewish residents
• 1961: 899 Protestant (= 92.02%), 65 Roman Catholic (= 6.65%) residents

politics

For Tiefenbach there is a local advisory board with a local mayor . The local advisory council consists of five members, two of which are from the SPD and two from the CDU since the local elections in Hesse in 2016 . The mayor is Ute Dietrich (non-party).

Culture and sights

Viticulture

Wine has been grown again in Tiefenbach since 1994. The vineyard is located in south-facing slope on the outskirts and belongs to Großlage Lahntal in wine region Middle Rhine .

Buildings

traffic

The place is near the federal highway 49 and has its own exit. It can be reached via the K 380 , which is also the main road from Tiefenbach and is there as the Neue Kreisstraße and Am Hühnerberg . It continues to the southeast and after about 5 kilometers leads to the L 3451 on the western edge of the core town of Braunfels. The closest train station is in neighboring Leun-Stockhausen .

Personalities

  • Gerhard Bökel (* 1946) lived in Tiefenbach as Hessian interior minister and Hessian SPD parliamentary group and state chairman
  • Manuel Possible (* 1979), journalist and documentary filmmaker, grew up in Tiefenbach

Web links

Commons : Tiefenbach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical data Tiefenbach. In: Internet presence. City of Braunfels, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Cop. XV. Jh. Lich, Red Book fol. 202 v, cf. on this Solms documents 1 p. XII. Illustration in: Tiefenbacher Chronik p. 13
  3. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 380 .
  4. ↑ a b c Tiefenbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of August 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ↑ 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. 250 ( online at google books ).
  7. ↑ Tiefenbach local advisory board on the website of the city of Braunfels, accessed in February 2017.