Ulm (Greifenstein)

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Ulm
Community Greifenstein
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 215 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.59 km²
Residents : 671  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 78 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Incorporated into: Ulmtal
Postal code : 35753
Area code : 06478

Ulm is a district of the municipality of Greifenstein in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

history

The first written mention of the place dates back to the year 1325. Until 1791 there was a regional court in the place. From 1877 to 1934, Ulm was the seat of an official mayor's office that administered ten communities.

On October 7, 2010 Ulm was drawn as Dolles Dorf in the hessenschau .

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse joined the hitherto independent community of Ulm on 1 February 1971, the neighboring communities of Allendorf and Holzhausen voluntarily community Ulmtal together. Ulmtal was on 1 January 1977. by the law on the restructuring of Dill circle counties Giessen and Wetzlar and the town of Giessen with the community Greifenstein, Arborn , Beilstein , Nenderoth and Oderberg for new large village Greifenstein together . For Ulm, as for all formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was formed. The local part of Beilstein became the seat of the municipal administration.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Ulm: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
265
1840
  
291
1846
  
331
1852
  
330
1858
  
342
1864
  
365
1871
  
362
1875
  
385
1885
  
403
1895
  
381
1905
  
347
1910
  
347
1925
  
412
1939
  
495
1946
  
607
1950
  
617
1956
  
569
1961
  
523
1967
  
597
1970
  
577
2011
  
716
2014
  
679
2015
  
729
2017
  
671
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: 263 Protestant residents, 2 Mennonites
1961: 490 Protestant (= 93.69%), 27 (= 5.16%) Catholic residents

Local advisory board

For the district of Ulm there is a five-member local advisory board with a local councilor . After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the mayor is Brigitte Marczik-Bovermann.

Attractions

Cultural monuments

see list of cultural monuments in Ulm

Dianaburg

The Dianaburg is a former hunting lodge on the 412 meters above sea level. high wooded basalt hilltop Kesselberg. The model for the castle, which was built in the spirit of Romanticism, was a tower on Charles Bridge in Prague . The enthusiastic hunter Ferdinand zu Solms-Braunfels had the Dianaburg built in 1842/43 near his Braunfels Castle . After the prince's death in 1873, the castle served as the home of the district forester and had been a tourist restaurant since 1898. After 1969 the outbuildings were demolished; only the tower remained. After a roof renovation in 2008, the Dianaburg has been the property of Johannes Graf von Oppersdorf Solms-Braunfels since 2011. The tower is open to visitors on the first Sunday of the month from April to November.

traffic

Ulmtalbahn

In 1922 the Ulmtalbahn from Stockhausen to Beilstein was completed. This made it possible to transport raw materials from the Ulmtal and to move people. After the end of passenger traffic in 1976 and freight traffic in 1988, the Ulmtalbahn was shut down and dismantled shortly afterwards. In 2013 a cycle path was built on the former route.

Personalities

  • Erwin Piscator (born December 17, 1893 in Greifenstein, † March 30, 1966 in Starnberg), theater director, director, theater pedagogue and honorary citizen of Ulm
  • Wilhelm Adam (born April 23, 1906 in Ulm, † April 17, 1989), politician and district administrator

literature

  • Willi Würz, Otto Schäfer: Ulm. Chronicle of a village . Vereinring Ulm, Greifenstein 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c data and facts. In: website. Greifenstein community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  2. ^ Willi Würz, Otto Schäfer: Ulm. Chronicle of a village . Vereinsring Ulm, Greifenstein 1996, p. 5
  3. ^ Willi Würz, Otto Schäfer: Ulm. Chronicle of a village . Vereinsring Ulm, Greifenstein 1996, pp. 10, 13, 21
  4. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 380 .
  6. 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 ., § 19 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  7. Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 293
  8. Main statute of the community of Greifenstein § 6. Accessed in February 2019.
  9. a b c Ulm, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  10. ^ 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).
  11. 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 f . ( Online at google books ).
  12. Local advisory boards of the community of Greifenstein , accessed in March 2017.
  13. ^ Willi Würz, Otto Schäfer: Ulm. Chronicle of a village . Vereinsring Ulm, Greifenstein 1996, p. 11
  14. Dianaburg, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of January 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  15. ^ Willi Würz, Otto Schäfer: Ulm. Chronicle of a village . Vereinsring Ulm, Greifenstein 1996, p. 18