Waldbrunn (Westerwald)

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Coat of arms of the community of Waldbrunn (Westerwald)
Waldbrunn (Westerwald)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Waldbrunn (Westerwald) highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '  N , 8 ° 7'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : to water
County : Limburg-Weilburg
Height : 331 m above sea level NHN
Area : 29.77 km 2
Residents: 5706 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 192 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 65620
Primaries : 06479
06436 ( Ellar , Hausen )Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : LM, WEL
Community key : 06 5 33 016
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauser Kirchweg
65620 Waldbrunn (Westerwald)
Website : www.waldbrunn.de
Mayor : Peter Blum (independent)
Location of the municipality of Waldbrunn (Westerwald) in the Limburg-Weilburg district
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View from Ellar to the church and castle
Panorama view of Fussingen
Panorama view of Lahr

Waldbrunn (Westerwald) is a municipality in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

geography

location

Waldbrunn is located in the southern Westerwald . The lowest point in the community is 240  m above sea level. NN , the highest at 425. The Kerkerbach rises in the municipality and flows through the towns of Fussingen and Lahr. The Lasterbach flows through the villages of Ellar and Hausen and rises from the nearby junction . 1023 hectares of the municipal area are covered by forest, of which 725 hectares are owned by the municipality.

Neighboring communities

Neunkirchen in the Westerwaldkreis (Rhineland-Palatinate), Mengerskirchen , Merenberg , Beselich , Hadamar , Elbe Valley (Hesse) , and Dornburg (all in the Limburg-Weilburg district) are (starting clockwise in the north ).

structure

The community consists of five districts. The numbering was laid out in such a way that the district with the main post office of the municipality was assigned the number 1. The others were then assigned their location numbers in clockwise order:

No. District Ew.
1961		 Ew.
1969		 Ew.
1986		 Ew.
2006		 Ew.
2012
1 Ellar 881 933 1130 1489 1384
2 Hausen 906 1010 1173 1419 1290
3 Fussingen 544 575 705 809 741
4th Lahr 1074 1179 1333 1438 1273
5 Hintermeilingen 781 981 1099 1313 1218

The municipal administration is based in Fussingen. The Schlagmühle settlement is shown on individual maps and belongs to Hintermeilingen.

history

The community of Waldbrunn is largely congruent with the former parish (Cente) Lahr. This was one of the four parishes of the former Amt Ellar. The Office Castellar included next to the parish Lahr nor the Zente Frickhofen, Elsoff and Niederzeuzheim ( Four Centen ). Parish Lahr nor the place Waldersbach belonged to 1815 (today municipality Mengerskirchen) and the deserted villages Wehnaue / Winnau , few-Reynderroytchen, Brotelbach, Brechtelbach, Gralshofen and Oberhof.

The oldest trace of human settlement is a grave of the urn field culture from the late Bronze Age near Fussingen. After the emigration of the Ubier in 38 BC. The area is settled by Usipeters .

In the Frankish times, the office of Ellar with the four cents belonged to the Niederlahngau with the Counts of Diez . In 1337 the Counts of Diez sold the office of Ellar to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen . In 1401 Gerhard Kelner is the first occupied cellar in County Katzenelnbogen in Ellar.

The oldest surviving impression of the seal of the Ellar district court, the forerunner of today's municipal coat of arms, dates from 1491. The district court was dedicated to St. Maximinus. The office of Ellar came to Nassau-Dillenburg in 1557 .

Through an inheritance agreement, the office of Ellar came to Nassau-Hadamar in 1607 . In 1609 the "Greden, Rörichs Johanns Weib" from Ellar in Hadamar was executed as a convicted witch. A plague epidemic raged in Hintermeilingen, Ellar and Lahr in 1614.

The villages of Amt Ellar became Catholic again in 1630. For this purpose, Prince Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar commissioned the Jesuits. A plague epidemic raged 1636–1637 in the office of Ellar. The village of Obersdorf is dying out completely. Many villages are losing most of their inhabitants. The Jesuit priest Rutger Hesselmann makes a contribution to nursing the sick. He dies of the plague on April 30, 1637. The turmoil of the Thirty Years' War caused considerable damage to the towns. In addition to looting soldiers passing through, the population suffered from a lack of food and multiple epidemics.

In 1736 the villages of Dillhausen , Dorchheim , Dorndorf, Ellar, Fussingen, Frickhofen, Hausen, Hintermeilingen, Mühlbach, Lahr, Langendernbach, Probbach, Waldernbach, Wilsenroth and Winkels rebelled against the war tax imposed on the villages by Prince Christian von Nassau Dillenburg . The uprising, which was put down by soldiers from Dillenburg and Weilburg, went down in the chronicles as the “lace dispute”.

The new office Ellar is founded in 1790 through the reorganization in Orange-Nassau. It included the parishes of Lahr and Frickhofen.

In 1806 the office of Ellar was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Berg . All today's districts of Waldbrunn belong to the Mairie Lahr in the canton of Hadamar . This belongs to the arrondissement of Dillenburg and thus to the department of Sieg . In 1815 the Grand Duchy of Berg is assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . However, Prussia exchanged the Mairie Lahr for places around Wetzlar with the Duchy of Nassau .

By reorganizing the Duchy of Nassau in 1816, the Office Ellar is combined with the Office Hadamar. After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau, the places belong to the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1886 the Prussian district and provincial order abolished the Nassau office. The Waldbrunn districts now belong to the Limburg district; Waldernbach is assigned to the Oberlahnkreis .

British bombers dropped seven high explosive bombs on Ellar on August 29, 1941 during World War II. American troops occupied the place on March 27, 1945. The place has been part of the State of Hesse since 1947 . The Catholics of Waldbrunn have been making pilgrimages to the Maria Hilf Beselich pilgrimage chapel for many decades , where they proclaim their faith.

In 1964, the Ellar municipal coat of arms was introduced. As part of the regional reform in Hesse , on December 31, 1970, Ellar and Hintermeilingen merged to form the new municipality of Ellar, and on April 1, 1972, Fussingen, Hausen and Lahr to form the municipality of Waldbrunn. On July 1, 1974, Ellar and Waldbrunn are merged by state law to form today's municipality of Waldbrunn. On January 1, 1977 the place name is officially changed to Waldbrunn (Westerwald).

religion

The population is predominantly Roman Catholic.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
7th
14th
10
7th 14th 10 
A total of 31 seats
  • SPD : 7
  • CDU : 14
  • FOAG : 10
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 45.8 14th 48.75 15th 57.2 18th 56.5 17th
FOAG Waldbrunn Citizens List 33.0 10 29.97 9 23.6 7th 22.1 7th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 21.2 7th 21.28 7th 19.2 6th 21.4 7th
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 49.0 48.8 47.5 59.2

mayor

After the Hessian municipal constitution is the Mayor Chairman of the Municipal Board , the nine volunteers in the municipality Waldbrunn next to the Mayor Councilor belong. Peter Blum has been the mayor since August 15, 2014. His directly elected predecessor in office was Lothar Blättel (from 1990 to 2014).

coat of arms

Blazon : split of gold and blue, on the right a red lion, tongued blue and armored in blue, on the left a golden lion, tongued red and armored in red in the field strewn with upright golden shingles.

Reason: The coat of arms shows the lion of the County of Katzenelnbogen in red on gold on the right and the lion of the House of Nassau in gold on blue on the left. It has been run by the municipality of Ellar since 1964 and was adopted for the entire municipality by resolution in 1977. It symbolizes the historical affiliation of the old office of Ellar to the County of Katzenelnbogen and to the House of Nassau.

Community partnerships

The Waldbrunn community itself has no partner community. The district of Ellar maintains a partnership with Oststeinbek near Hamburg.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Waldbrunn has some sights to offer:

  • Ellar
    • the castle of Ellar
    • the old forge (part of the local history museum)
    • the Ludwig-Bös-Haus (local history museum)
    • the cath. Church " St. Maximinus " (built 1843)
    • the remains of the city wall with hunger tower (14th century)
    • the former Jewish cemetery
  • Hausen:
    • the cath. Church “St. Laurentius "
  • Fussingen
    • the cath. Church “St. Leonhard "
  • Lahr
    • the Romanesque pillar basilica " Johannes Beheading " (13th century)
    • the octagonal new church "Johannes Beheadung"
    • the historical cemetery
    • the historic rectory (16th century)
    • the bakery in the old town hall
  • Hintermeilingen:
    • the cath. Church of the Annunciation
  • Sights in Waldbrunn

  • Old forge Ellar

  • Ellar: castle and church

  • Ellar Castle

  • Remains of the city wall of Ellar

  • Hausen cath. church

  • Romanesque pillar basilica in Lahr

  • New church in Lahr

  • Kerkerbach at the hammer mill

Museums

A local museum has been set up in Ellar. It includes the collection in the Ludwig-Bös-Haus, the still functional old forge and the remains of the old city wall. The Hintermeilinger History and Museum Association was founded in Hintermeilingen on July 16, 2006. He has set himself the goal of expanding the old town hall in Hintermeilingen into a local museum.

music

One of the oldest Westerwald choral societies has existed in Lahr since 1839 . There are also choral societies in the other districts. In addition, there is the original Waldbrunn brass band of the Fussingen Music Association. In Ellar there is the brass orchestra of the Ellar Volunteer Fire Brigade , which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2007.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In the municipalities of Merenberg and Beselich there is a connection to the four-lane federal highway 49 , in the municipality of Elbtal to the federal highway 54 . Since the closure of the Kerkerbach Railway in 1958, there has been no railway line. The nearest long-distance train station is in Limburg with the regional lines to Koblenz , Gießen , Frankfurt am Main and Au (Sieg) . The Limburg Süd ICE train station is also located there on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line . The distance to Frankfurt Airport is around 80 km.

Companies

In 2007, 385 businesses were registered in Waldbrunn, offering 550 jobs.

education

There are elementary schools in the districts of Ellar, Hausen, Lahr and Hintermeilingen. The children from Fussingen attend the Hausen primary school.

Waldbrunn (except Ellar) belongs to the catchment area of ​​the secondary and secondary school Westerwaldschule . Castellar belongs to the catchment area of the center school of St. Blaise in Frickhofen .

The next grammar school is in Hadamar , and secondary schools can also be attended in Limburg an der Lahn .

Fire brigades

  • Volunteer fire brigade Ellar, founded in 1929 (since 1931 with brass orchestra, since February 10, 1968 with youth fire department and since January 2017 with children's fire department )
  • Fussingen volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1933 (with youth fire brigade since May 13, 1977)
  • Hausen volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1913 (with youth fire brigade since September 1, 1972)
  • Hintermeilingen volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1934 (with youth fire brigade since May 19, 1982)
  • Lahr volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1907 (since October 26, 1977 with youth fire brigade and since May 2, 2009 with children's fire brigade )

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities associated with the community

Web links

Commons : Waldbrunn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Information about residents of Waldbrunn Westerwald (as of January 2012). Archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; accessed on September 7, 2016 .
  3. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : 250 years pilgrimage chapel Maria Hilf Beselich . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2017 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2016, ISBN 3-927006-54-8 , p. 137-141 .
  4. ↑ 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 , § 3 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  5. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 369, 370 and 384 .
  6. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  7. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  8. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  9. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Direct elections in Waldbrunn
  10. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse of July 26, 2014: Blum instead of Blättel, accessed on September 17, 2016