Vetzberg
Vetzberg
community Biebertal
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 15 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 37 ″ E
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Height : | 235 m above sea level NHN |
Area : | 66 ha |
Residents : | 700 |
Population density : | 1,061 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | 1st December 1970 |
Postal code : | 35444 |
Area code : | 06409 |
Vetzberg is a district of the municipality of Biebertal in the central Hessian district of Gießen .
history
Vetzberg Castle , built around 1100 or in the first half of the 12th century, is visible from afar . It is located on the top of the extinct volcano of the same name, Vetzberg . In the local area there is a castle gate, which connects the upper village with the lower village.
Approx. 3 km away is the Dünsberg with rich remains of a Celtic oppidum .
Around Vetzberg there are numerous remains of military installations from the Seven Years' War , e.g. B. in the neighboring village of Rodheim-Bieber the Sternschanze . However, the ski jump built in Vetzberg is no longer visible.
Vetzberg was first mentioned in a document in 1226.
Historical forms of names
Vetzberg was mentioned under the following place names in documents that have survived (the year of mention in brackets):
- de Vogdisberch (1226) [Document book of the city of Wetzlar 2, p. 4 no. 7]
Territorial reform
As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the independent municipality of Vetzberg voluntarily merged on December 1, 1970 with the municipalities of Fellingshausen , Königsberg , Krumbach and Rodheim-Bieber, the new large municipality of Biebertal. For Vetzberg, as for all formerly independent municipalities, local districts with a local advisory board and local council were set up. The seat of the municipal administration was Rodheim-Bieber.
Territorial history and administration
The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Vetzberg was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:
- before 1787: Holy Roman Empire , Principality of Nassau-Weilburg , Gleiberg Office
- from 1787: Holy Roman Empire, Principality of Nassau-Weilburg, Oberamt Atzbach , Amt Gleiberg
- from 1806: Duchy of Nassau , Amt Gleiberg
- 1816: Kingdom of Prussia , Rhine Province , Region of Koblenz , Kreis Wetzlar
- from 1867: 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 1, 1970, Vetzberg was incorporated as a district of the newly formed municipality of Biebertal.
- from 1977: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt administrative district, Lahn-Dill district
- from 1979: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt district, Gießen district
- from 1981: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Gießen district, Gießen district
Population development
Source: Historical local dictionary
- 1834: 41 houses, 229 inhabitants
Vetzberg: Population from 1834 to 1970 | ||||
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year | Residents | |||
1834 | 229 | |||
1840 | 242 | |||
1846 | 255 | |||
1852 | 254 | |||
1858 | 279 | |||
1864 | 276 | |||
1871 | 292 | |||
1875 | 290 | |||
1885 | 291 | |||
1895 | 323 | |||
1905 | 363 | |||
1910 | 405 | |||
1925 | 477 | |||
1939 | 489 | |||
1946 | 604 | |||
1950 | 639 | |||
1956 | 622 | |||
1961 | 615 | |||
1967 | 736 | |||
1970 | 798 | |||
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: | 205 Protestant residents, 10 Mennonites , 14 Jews |
• 1961: | 558 Protestant (= 90.73%), 47 Catholic (= 7.64%) residents |
Cultural monuments
literature
- Jürgen Leib: Burg and "Thal" Gleiberg. Images from a thousand-year history . Krofdorf-Gleiberg 1978.
- Literature on Vetzberg in the Hessian Bibliography
- Search for Vetzberg in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library
Web links
- History of Vetzberg. In: Internet presence of the municipality of Biebertal.
- Vetzberg, district of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Vetzberg, Gießen district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 5, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Vetzberg district. In: website. Biebertal community, archived from the original on September 19, 2015 ; accessed in September 2015 .
- ↑ Amalgamation of the communities Fellingshausen, Königsberg, Krumbach, Rodheim-Bieber and Vetzberg in the district of Wetzlar to form the new community "Biebertal" on November 13, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2254 , point 2253 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).
- ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB 770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 282 .
- ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Biebertal. (PDF; 22 kB) p. §5 , accessed in February 2019 .
- ^ 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).