Vetzberg

Vetzberg community Biebertal Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 15 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 37 ″ E
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
	The Vetzberg between Dünsberg and Gleiberg

Ev. Vetzberg Church - not a cultural monument, but definitely worth seeing due to its modern architecture

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
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

Jewish cemetery (Vetzberg)

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. Retrieved March 4, 2018
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. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[lagis-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Vetzberg, Gießen district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 5, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[2] Vetzberg district. In: website. Biebertal community, archived from the original on September 19, 2015 ; accessed in September 2015 .

[3] 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 ]).

[4] 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 .

[5] Main statute of the municipality of Biebertal. (PDF; 22 kB) p. §5 , accessed in February 2019 .

[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).