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City of Bad Camberg
Former municipal coat of arms of Würges
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 213  (200-413)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.8 km²
Residents : 2579  (Jun. 30, 2016)
Population density : 187 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 65520
Area code : 06434
Emsbach on Würgeser Kirchplatz

Würges forms the southernmost district of the city of Bad Camberg in the central Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg with over 2500 inhabitants and a district of 1380 hectares (628 hectares of which are forest) . Würges is the southernmost village in the Gießen administrative district and the third largest district of Bad Camberg after the core town and Erbach .

geography

location

Würges is located in the southern foothills of the Goldener Grund des Hintertaunus , north of the Taunushauptkamm , 18 kilometers southeast of Limburg an der Lahn . The nearest major cities are Wiesbaden (31 kilometers south by road), Frankfurt am Main (48 kilometers south-east by road, 59 kilometers via the motorway), Koblenz (72 kilometers west) and Siegen (90 kilometers north).

The district extends as an east-west tube around eight kilometers long and two kilometers wide from the Dombachtal over the Emsbach valley to the motorway. The federal autobahn 3 , the federal highway 8 as well as the federal railway line Frankfurt-Limburg and the ICE route Frankfurt-Cologne run through the Würgeser district . The eastern part of the district is covered by mixed forest, in the west there is agricultural land.

The center of the village is the church square at a height of 202 meters. The highest elevation in the Würgeser district is 413 meters in the forest district "Todtenkopf" in the east of the district, near Steinfischbach . Overall, the terrain rises significantly to the east and only slightly to the west over the Emsbach valley up to 250 meters.

geology

Geologically, the eastern half of the district is determined by slate- containing greywacke with small porphyry-like inclusions on the Todtenkopf and quartz veins . Quartz gravel camps connect to the north and south-east of the site. A small area northeast of the village and the entire western half of the district are defined by layers of loess .

history

Together with Erbach, Würges looks back on the oldest documented history among the Bad Camberg districts. In 768 Würges was first mentioned in a document. Back then, the Widergisa (Würges) farmstead and the Arilbach (Erbach) mark were given to the Lorsch Abbey. Donations from the "Widigiser Mark" are already recorded earlier, so that the settlement is probably also older. Finds from the Bandkeramikzeit from around 5000 BC to the west of the town center come from a settlement that is not a predecessor of today's town, but has been abandoned.

A new elementary school was built in 1962, the community center in 1974 and the parish center in 1985.

On 1 January 1974 Würges was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse powerful state law in the city Camberg incorporated .

Origin of name

The place name is derived from "Widergisa" (768), "Widergis" (1156) and "Wydergis" (1300). The origin of the name is unclear; if not already taken over from the Alemannic settlement, the name should come from the time of the Franconian occupation of this area around 520.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Würges: Population from 1650 to 2015
year     Residents
1650
  
 37
1834
  
 949
1840
  
 1,046
1846
  
 1,089
1852
  
 1,145
1858
  
 1,121
1864
  
 1,138
1871
  
 1,078
1875
  
 1,086
1885
  
 1.010
1895
  
 969
1905
  
 958
1910
  
 926
1925
  
 1,025
1939
  
 1,122
1946
  
 1,450
1950
  
 1,501
1956
  
 1,561
1961
  
 1,696
1967
  
 2,048
1970
  
 2,096
1987
  
 2.147
1998
  
 2,453
2005
  
 2,543
2010
  
 2,668
2015
  
 2,619
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 1970: City of Camberg

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 027 Protestant (= 2.67%), 963 Catholic (= 97.33%) residents
• 1961: 135 Protestant (= 7.96%), 1554 Roman Catholic (= 91.63%) residents

Infrastructure

The voluntary fire brigade Würges (founded in 1905, since January 2, 1970 with a youth fire brigade and since May 28, 2010 with a children's fire brigade ) provides defensive fire protection and general help.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

For the complete list of cultural monuments in Würges see: List of cultural monuments in Bad Camberg .

Catholic Church

Parish Church of St. Ferrutius
Wuerges Ferrutius2.jpg
Portal page
Wuerges Ferrutius1.jpg
Side view


The listed Catholic parish church of St. Ferrutius in Würges was built in Wiesbaden in the years 1836–38 according to a design by Joh. Lossen. It is a hall church with a retracted facade tower and a five-sided choir. The church was built from fragmentary quarry stone using clinker and ashlar. The style of the church is based on the Italian Romanesque and is a special feature in the circle.

The village tradition claims that the Würgeser church in the Dietrichswiesen stands on a pile grid. The area was so swampy that it was only possible to build the church there. But this does not correspond to the facts. When the foundations were being built, a hard layer of gravel was encountered into which sharpened irons could not be driven. The cost of building the church was 30,000 guilders and had to be covered by logging by the community. The most important piece of equipment in the church is the “Walsdorfer Madonna”, a figure of Mary from Hans Backoffen's circle (around 1525), which comes from the former Benedictine monastery in Walsdorf and was created in the 16th century. Four bells hang in the church tower, which were cast by the renowned Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen in 1921 and 1950.

school-building

The school, which is now a listed building, was built in 1829. The two-storey, seven-axis plaster frame structure was built outside of the older town center and is a typical larger country school according to the Nassau school edict of March 24, 1817. The roof is given a lively shape by the eaves and support hips.

Former post

Two buildings of the Thurn- und Taxisschen Post are from the years 1790 and 1825. The older building was the target of an attack by the robber captain Schinderhannes on January 10, 1801 . The first post office was built in 1602. Over the centuries, the function as a post office shaped the economic development of the place. The oldest surviving half-timbered house in Würges dates from 1568.

societies

  • The successful soccer club and long-time Hessen division team RSV Würges has been playing in the Wiesbaden group league since the 2017/18 season . In addition to the RSV, there is another football club in Würges, the FSV Würges, which plays in the regional league C Limburg-Weilburg.
  • The oldest existing association in Würges is the choral society "Eintracht 1852", which today includes a mixed choir as well as a children's and senior choir as well as the theater group "Junge Bühne Würges".
  • The Gymnastics Club Würges - with 820 members (2017) the largest Würges club - was founded in 1904. It consists of the sporting departments - general gymnastics, apparatus gymnastics, athletics, gymnastics, table tennis, recreational table football, folk dance, hiking and volleyball - and the music train - wind orchestra, youth wind orchestra and student wind orchestra. The club's own gym and gym as well as the community center serve as sports facilities.
  • RSV Würges has existed since 1920 and has its own sports field, the "Goldener Grund Stadium". The second sports field is used by the “FSV Würges 1975” football club.
  • Other clubs in the area are the fishing club AV (founded in 1974), the hunting horn blower group Goldener Grund (1979), the VdK local group, the Kyffhäuser Kameradschaft (1883), which also functions as a shooting club, the carrier pigeon club Fortuna (1953) and the kerbeinteressengemeinschaft (KIG) Würges 1998 eV The volunteer fire brigade Würges eV (1905, since January 2, 1970 with youth fire brigade and since May 28, 2010 with children's fire brigade) promotes fire fighting in the village.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Würges, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Statistical figures on the website of the city of Bad Camberg , accessed in January 2016.
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Limburg district and the Oberlahn district. (GVBl. II 330-25) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 5 , p. 101 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 369 .
  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. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Catholic Parish Church St. Ferrutius In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell-foundry dynasty Otto, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular D. 521, 546.
  8. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular pp. 484, 504.
  9. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Former. School In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen