Wüstems

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Wüstems
municipality Waldems
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Wüstems
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 339 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.4 km²
Residents : 426  (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 97 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 65529
Area code : 06082
Wüstems seen from the north-west, framed by the mountains of the Hohe Taunus. On the horizon from the left: Großer and Kleiner Feldberg and in the middle, below the Kleiner Feldberg, Weilsberg with the Hühnerberg hillside ; on the right the glass head above the houses in Glashütten (right) and the neighboring town of Oberems .
The wind grove over the roofs of Wüstems is 629.3 meters, the highest point in the Rheingau-Taunus district

Wüstems is a district of the municipality of Waldems in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Wüstems is located in the eastern Hintertaunus of the Rhine-Taunus nature park in a valley of the Emsbach . In the east to northeast of the village, the wooded Windhain rises as part of the Feldberg-Langhals-Pferdskopf-Scholle . With a height of 629.3 m, it is the highest mountain in the Rheingau-Taunus district. At its foot, at around 400 m above sea level, the Hasselbach rises , which flows into the Emsbach near the center of the village at Langgasse. In the west of the village is the grassy, ​​394.1 m high plateau of the Isberg , a side knoll of the 465.2 m high mountain Hot Head in turn south-southwest of the place. In the northwest, the mountain Burg of the Waldems ring wall rises to 459.1 m, surrounded by the Reichenbach in the west and the Furtwiesenbach on the other side, which also flow into the Emsbach.

Neighboring communities

In the north-north-west of Wüstems is Reichenbach , in the west Niederems and the associated settlement Reinborn , all of which are districts of Waldems. In the east, already beyond the Windhain , lies Seelenberg , in the southeast Oberems and Nieder-Oberrod in the southwest, beyond the Heißen Kopf .

history

Historical place names

The village is first mentioned in writing as Woostenemese in 1274, later sources name the place Wosten Emsse (1435), Wustenembß (1566) and Wustenembs (around 1650). The nearby ramparts suggest that there was a settlement in the early Middle Ages. The place name consists of two parts, namely Wüst von Wüstung and Ems from the eponymous brook that flows through the valley.

Population development

While there were 19 households left in 1566, their number fell to 5 in 1648 after the end of the Thirty Years War . In 1821 103 people lived again in Wüstems, at that time part of the Duchy of Nassau . In the course of industrialization , the number of inhabitants in Wüstem grew rapidly. In 1885, 183 people, all of them Protestants, lived in the now Prussian village. Of the 440 hectares recorded at the time , a fifth was in fields, seven and a half percent in meadows and almost 70 percent in logging.

In 1905 Wüstems already had 193 inhabitants, a size that was to last even after the First World War . After 177 people lived in Wüstems when the Second World War broke out , there were suddenly 258 in 1946. Of the 246 citizens recorded in 1961, 11 percent belonged to the Catholic and 86 percent to the Protestant faith.

Incorporation

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Wüstems was merged by law on August 1, 1972 with five neighboring municipalities from the Untertaunus district and the district of Usingen to form the new municipality of Waldems. As for every district, the main statute also established a local district with a local advisory board and mayor for Wüstems .

Cultural monuments

Cast iron fountain in Langgasse

In the Langgasse, which crosses the town as the main street, there is a cast-iron fountain, similar to many other communities in the Hintertaunus .

The old school house is no longer used for lessons. Elementary school children from the catchment area of ​​Wüstems (as well as the neighboring districts of Steinfischbach, Reichenbach and Niederems) attend the elementary school on Sommerberg in Riedelbach .

Sports and clubs

The voluntary fire brigade Wüstems association was founded in 1935 , one year after the fire brigade in the neighboring town of Niederems . In 1973 Kurt Diehl from Wüstems was elected the first local fire supervisor in the newly founded large community of Waldems. In autumn 2019, the state of Hesse decided to subsidize the 300,000 euro new building of the fire station with 76,500 euros. The fire fighters currently have a portable pump vehicle with water . A subdivision of the volunteer fire brigade is the Carneval Club Wüstems, which organizes carnival meetings in the Emstalhalle every year .

The judo , jiu jitsu and gymnastics club Bushido Wüstems has existed since 1982 . In 2019 Lea Körber, a youth from Bushido Wüstems, won the world championship title in Crete in the U16 age group in the weight class up to 48 kilograms.

Transport and infrastructure

The state road 3450 runs through the village, the condition of which is criticized by the SPD member of the state parliament, Marius Weiß, as "in a partially disastrous condition" ".

Wüstems is located in the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Main transport association . There are buses on HLB line 81 (to Rod an der Weil or Königstein ) and RTV line 231 (to and from Idstein ), and there are shared taxis .

Wüstems Emstalhalle

The Emstalhalle at the western exit of the town serves for events in the village, but also as a polling station . With regular seating, it offers almost 200 seats.

There are no regular shops in Wüstems, but a bakery vehicle from Esch delivers twice a week , and lamb and dairy products are sold directly on Fridays .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wüstems, Rheingau-Taunus district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 28, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Wüstems district in: Website of the Waldems community, accessed on August 4, 2020.
  3. ↑ https://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/idrec/sn/ol?id=439016060
  4. ↑ https://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/idrec/sn/ol?id=439016060
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II No. 330-18) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 227 , § 12 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  6. ↑ https://www.gemeinde-waldems.de/index.php?pid=31&109_id=1&109_action=mehr
  7. ↑ https://www.feuerwehr-wuestems.de/?page_id=96
  8. ↑ http://www.niederems.de/html/ffhistorisch.html
  9. ↑ http://www.niederems.de/html/ffhistorisch.html
  10. ↑ https://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/untertaunus/waldems/unterstutzen-vom-land-fur-feuerwehr-wustems_20544570
  11. ↑ https://www.feuerwehr-wuestems.de/?page_id=13
  12. ↑ https://www.usinger-anzeiger.de/lokales/hochtaunus-und-region/waldems/wustems-hat-mit-dem-dreigestirn-eine-neue-spitze_17710256
  13. ↑ https://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/sport/weiter-sportarten/wiesbaden/bushido-wustems-feiert-wm-titel-fur-lea-korber_20600699
  14. ↑ http://www.spd-engenhahn.de/marius-weiss-kuemmert-sich-um-den-status-der-strassen-im-untertaunus/
  15. ↑ https://www.gemeinde-waldems.de/index.php?pid=32&108_id=5&108_action=mehr
  16. ↑ https://www.usinger-anzeiger.de/lokales/hochtaunus-und-region/waldems/jeder-hilft-hier-jedem_17224651

Web links

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