Volpertshausen

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Volpertshausen
Community Hüttenberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 250  (243–275)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.12 km²
Residents : 1054  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 256 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35625
Area code : 06441
Hüttenberg local history museum / Goethehaus Volpertshausen
Old church

Volpertshausen is part of the municipality of Hüttenberg . The community is located in Central Hesse in the Lahn-Dill district south of Wetzlar .

Geographical location

Volpertshausen is located in the eastern Hintertaunus ( Wetzlarer Hintertaunus ) in the Taunus Nature Park . The Schwingbach flows through the village .

Adjacent villages are Weidenhausen (northeast), Vollnkirchen (southeast) and Reiskirchen (northwest).

history

A church was mentioned as early as 1349 , but the service no longer took place there, but in the new church. From 1816 to 1976 Volpertshausen belonged to the Wetzlar district and since January 1, 1977 to the Lahn-Dill district.

Volpertshausen became famous for the "Ball in the Country" held on June 9, 1772. Johann Wolfgang Goethe came to Volpertshausen with young people from Wetzlar, where he was an intern at the Imperial Court of Justice. He later described this ball in his epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse on 1 January 1977, the autonomous communities at this time Volpertshausen, Hüttenberg, were Schwingbach and Reiskirchen powerful state law to the new greater community Hüttenberg together . For Volpertshausen, as for the other districts, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was formed.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Volpertshausen: Population from 1834 to 2019
year     Residents
1834
  
 333
1840
  
 348
1846
  
 331
1852
  
 324
1858
  
 322
1864
  
 330
1871
  
 295
1875
  
 320
1885
  
 338
1895
  
 342
1905
  
 332
1910
  
 333
1925
  
 338
1939
  
 384
1946
  
 525
1950
  
 517
1956
  
 463
1961
  
 502
1967
  
 636
1970
  
 767
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 1,035
2015
  
 1,073
2017
  
 1,085
2019
  
 1,054
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

1834: 333 Protestant residents
1961: 442 Protestant (= 88.05%), 57 Catholic (= 11.35%) residents

Cultural monuments

Infrastructure

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Volpertshausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 21, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Figures, data, facts. In: Internet presence. Hüttenberg community, archived from the original ; accessed on June 16, 2020 . (Data from web archive)
  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 ., § 11 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Local Advisory Boards. In: website. Hüttenberg community, accessed 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. ↑ Office Gleiberg  (HHStAW inventory 166). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  7. ^ Establishment of the combined Gleiberg and  Hüttenberg and Stoppelbergs (HHStAW inventory 166 no. 17). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  8. ↑ Numbers, data, facts. In: Internet presence. Hüttenberg community, archived from the original ; accessed on June 22, 2018 . (Data from web archive)
  9. ↑ 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;