Waldaubach

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Waldaubach
Driedorf municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 29 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 38 ″  E
Height : 583  (580-620)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.6 km²
Residents : 398  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 71 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35759
Area code : 02775

Waldaubach is a district of the municipality of Driedorf in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . The place in the High Westerwald has about 400 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The place in the High Westerwald is about 15 km west of Herborn and 39 km northeast of Montabaur . The distance to Siegen is about 40 km and Wetzlar 45 km. Waldaubach is located on the Hessian border with Rhineland-Palatinate near the border triangle Hesse - Rhineland-Palatinate - North Rhine-Westphalia . The district has a size of 5.59 km². Most of the district extends north of the built-up area.

The neighboring places are, from the north, on the state border, starting clockwise: Rabenscheid (municipality Breitscheid ), Heisterberg , Hohenroth (both municipality Driedorf). All Hessian towns belong to the Lahn-Dill district. After the state border follow: Homberg , Nister-Möhrendorf and Willingen . All places in Rhineland-Palatinate belong to the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod of the Westerwaldkreis .

Waldaubach is located in the source area of ​​the Aubach , which flows into the Dill in Haiger, about twelve kilometers to the northeast . In the immediate vicinity of Waldaubach there are some of the highest mountains in the Westerwald, none of which are in the Waldaubach district. To the west of the village rises the Fuchskaute ( 657.3  m above sea  level ), the highest mountain in the entire Westerwald, to the southwest, still in Rhineland-Palatinate, the Altenberg ( 651  m above sea level ). To the south-east of the village are the Höllberg ( 642.8  m above sea level ) and to the east the mountain Auf der Baar ( 615  m above sea level ).

history

The original name of the place was like Langenaubach Ubach . The place was first clearly mentioned in 1447 as Waltubach .

Waldaubach has belonged to the Driedorf office and parish since the Middle Ages, and it shared its history. In the vicinity of the place the long-distance trade route ran from Cologne to Leipzig via Altenkirchen and Herborn.

Territorial reform

With the law on the restructuring of Dill circle of counties Giessen and Wetzlar and Giessen of 13 May 1974 , the township Waldaubach in the course of administrative reform in Hesse on January 1, 1977 in the municipality Driedorf incorporated . For Waldaubach, as for the other formerly independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was set up.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Waldaubach: Population from 1834 to 2017
year     Residents
1834
  
 265
1840
  
 287
1846
  
 278
1852
  
 262
1858
  
 251
1864
  
 249
1871
  
 224
1875
  
 229
1885
  
 239
1895
  
 235
1905
  
 234
1910
  
 223
1925
  
 276
1939
  
 321
1946
  
 394
1950
  
 396
1956
  
 390
1961
  
 411
1967
  
 441
1970
  
 441
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2003
  
 445
2006
  
 428
2010
  
 407
2014
  
 400
2017
  
 398
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

• 1885: 236 Protestant (= 98.74%), 2 Catholic (= 0.84%), one Jewish (= 0.42%) residents
• 1961: 379 Protestant (= 92.21%), 31 Catholic (= 7.54%) residents

politics

For elections to the German Bundestag, the place belongs to the constituency “173 Lahn-Dill ”, for elections to the Hessian state parliament it belongs to the constituency “21 Lahn-Dill I ”.

With the regional reform, the municipal administration was transferred to the municipality of Driedorf. The last mayor was Helmut Sahm. A local advisory board consists of five members. The town council has told the local council proposal and right to be heard in matters that affect the town. After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , Christoph Etz (UL) is the mayor .

Cultural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Waldaubach has the usual local craft and service companies. The heights surrounding the place are used to generate wind energy . The place has a village community center.

traffic

The place is close to the B 255 from Herborn via Driedorf to Montabaur and the B 414 from Driedorf to Hachenburg . The next train station on the Dill route is in Herborn. There are bus connections to Driedorf, Rehe and Herborn. The distance to Frankfurt airport is 110 km, to Cologne / Bonn approx. 126 km. The Westerwaldsteig , a long-distance hiking trail from Herborn to Bad Hönningen, runs through Waldaubach .

education

There is no kindergarten in town. This is in Driedorf. The place belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Westerwaldschule Driedorf, a primary , secondary and secondary school . Secondary schools can be attended in Herborn or Dillenburg .

literature

  • Hermann-Josef Hucke (Ed.): Great Westerwaldführer . 3. Edition. Westerwald-Verein eV, Montabaur 1991. ISBN 3-921548-04-7
  • Hellmuth Gensicke: State history of the Westerwald . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999. ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  • Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau . Wilhelm Beyerle, Wiesbaden 1844.
  • Heinz Wionski: monuments in Hesse Lahn-Dill I . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. 1986, ISBN 3-528-06234-7 (Former Dillkreis).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Driedorf in numbers - municipal statistics. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original ; accessed on February 18, 2017 . (Data from web archive)
  2. ↑ 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 ., § 22 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ^ Main statute of the municipality of Driedorf. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, accessed February 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Waldaubach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 28, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  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. ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching: D. Anton Friderich Büsching's new description of the earth. The German empire. tape 3 . JC Bohn, 1771, p. 840 ( on google books ).
  7. ↑ Statistics 2003. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  8. ↑ Statistics 2006. In: Website. Municipality of Driedorf, archived from the original on February 10, 2004 ; accessed in February 2019 .
  9. ↑ Local advisory boards of the municipality of Driedorf , accessed in February 2017.