Villingen (Hungen)

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Villingen
City of Hungen
Coat of arms of Villingen
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 15 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 162  (147–167)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.02 km²
Residents : 1339  (June 30, 2018)
Population density : 103 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35410
Area code : 06402
Dorfplatz an der Linde, July 2012
Dorfplatz an der Linde, July 2012

Villingen is a district of Hungen in the central Hessian district of Gießen .

Geographical location

Villingen is northeast of the core city of Hungen. The center of the village was created on a low terrace, which here pushes itself up to the right western bank of the Horloff . To the west of the village lies the Oberweidgraben . The district area is 1302 hectares , of which 604 hectares are forested, especially in the higher areas (as of 1961). The highest point is the Diethersberg ( 246  m ) in the east of the district. The Borgelberg ( 211  m ) rises beyond the Horloff as a wooded knoll above the village.

history

A first documentary mention of the place can no longer be ascertained today, but the church with its Gothic choir tower was built around 1300 . From 1423 the Counts of Solms were the lords of Villingen.

The residents had it particularly difficult in this area and during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) the place was at times downright depopulated. In 1806 Villingen also came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The parish church with its Gothic choir tower was built around 1300.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Villingen and three other municipalities were incorporated into the city of Hungen on January 1, 1977 by virtue of state law. Villingen one as for each district local district with the town council and mayor set up. The boundaries of the local districts follow the previous district boundaries.

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or landlords and thus from 1806 the "Patrimonial Court of the Princes Solms-Braunfels" in Hungen was responsible for Villingen. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The second instance for the patrimonial courts were the civil law firms. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the founding of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance 1821–1822 were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. From 1822, the princes of Solms-Braunfels let the Grand Duchy of Hesse exercise their court rights on their behalf. “ Landgericht Hungen ” was therefore the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Villingen. The prince also waived his right to the second instance, which was exercised by the law firm in Hungen. It was only as a result of the March Revolution in 1848 that the special rights of the civil servants became final with the “Law on the Relationships of Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848 canceled.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to "Hungen Local Court" and allocation to the district of the regional court of Giessen . With effect from January 1, 1882, Villingen was assigned to the Laubach District Court . On July 1, 1968, the "Laubach District Court" was dissolved and Villingen was added to the district of the Giessen District Court . The superordinate instances are now, the regional court Gießen , the higher regional court Frankfurt am Main and the federal court as last instance.

population

Population development

Villingen: Population from 1830 to 2015
year     Residents
1830
  
 884
1834
  
 893
1840
  
 983
1846
  
 1.002
1852
  
 935
1858
  
 878
1864
  
 830
1871
  
 866
1875
  
 899
1885
  
 900
1895
  
 894
1905
  
 989
1910
  
 1,053
1925
  
 1,042
1939
  
 1,083
1946
  
 1,523
1950
  
 1,557
1956
  
 1,399
1961
  
 1,497
1967
  
 1,561
1971
  
 1,540
1987
  
 1,485
1991
  
 1,628
1999
  
 1,503
2005
  
 1,417
2011
  
 1,371
2015
  
 1,308
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970 city of Hungen; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1830: 866 Protestant, one Catholic and 17 Jewish residents
• 1961: 1272 Protestant, 886 Roman Catholic inhabitants

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: Labor force: 231 agriculture and forestry, 326 prod. Trade, 82 trade, transport and communication, 77 services and other.

coat of arms

On March 14, 1964, the municipality of Villingen in the district of Gießen was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : Under a red shield head in gold, a right-turning, red-tongued and armored, winged blue lion with a silver nimbus.

Culture and sights

Transport and infrastructure

The state road 3137 leads from the core town of Hungen through the village and on to Ruppertsburg and Laubach . In the center of the village, the district road 147 branches off to Nonnenroth . The Vogelsberger Westbahn used to run here from Hungen to Mücke . The tracks have now been dismantled. On the former railway line, a cycle path now leads from Hungen to the boundary of the district with Ruppertsburg and from there on to Nonnenroth.

There is a primary school and a municipal kindergarten as well as a butcher's and a bakery in the village .

Web links

Commons : Villingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Villingen, District of Giessen. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 15, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population figures including secondary residences. In: Internet presence. City of Hungen, archived from the original ; accessed in March 2019 .
  3. ↑ 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 ., § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ^ Main statute of the city of Hungen. P. 3, § 6 , accessed in February 2019 .
  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. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  7. ↑ 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. 21, 438 ( online at google books ).
  8. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 424 ( online at Google Books ).
  9. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 135 ( online at Google Books ).
  10. ↑ Theodor Hartleben (Ed.): General German Justice, Camera and Police Fama, Volume 2, Part 1 . Johann Andreas Kranzbühler, 1832, p. 271 ( online at Google Books ).
  11. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  12. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  13. ↑ Announcement concerning the formation of the district court districts of Hungen, Lich, Laubach, Grünberg, Homberg, Alsfeld, Vilbel and Friedberg on December 24, 1881 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. pp. 203-204 )
  14. ↑ Second law amending the Court Organization Act (Amends GVBl. II 210–16) of February 12, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of Justice (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1968 No. 4 , p. 41–44 , Article 1, Paragraph 2 c) and Article 2, Paragraph 4 d) ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 298 kB ]).
  15. ↑ Population: 1999–2007 ; 1971–2015 with secondary apartments (HWS corrected by 50 or 20)
  16. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  17. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Villingen, district of Gießen, administrative district of Darmstadt from March 14, 1964 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1964 No. 13 , p. 438 , point 365 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.5 MB ]).