Waldgirmes

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Waldgirmes
community Lahnau
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 14 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 170  (151-348)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.97 km²
Residents : 3272  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 328 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Incorporated into: Lahn
Postal code : 35633
Area code : 06441
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Waldgirmes is a district of the municipality of Lahnau in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . The population is slightly more than 3200. The first mention is around 771 in the Lorsch Codex, so Waldgirmes has a history of over 1200 years. Traces of much earlier settlement can already be found in the Forum , a planned Roman city foundation in Germania Magna , which was abandoned after a few years. Between the traces of Roman buildings from the time of Emperor Augustus , parts of a gilded bronze equestrian statue of the emperor were found (" horse head of Waldgirmes ").

history

Finds from the time of band ceramics (4600-3800 BC) and the time of string ceramics (around 2500 BC) are known from the area around Waldgirmes . Furthermore, from the time around 300 BC Also known as a Celtic burial ground.

At Waldgirmes a Roman city ​​was in the founding phase , which was probably abandoned after the battle in the Teutoburg Forest . The official name of the Roman settlement is unknown. ( → Main article Roman Forum Lahnau-Waldgirmes )

  • The horse head from Waldgirmes after the restoration (2018)

  • Reconstructed equestrian monument on the former Roman forum

The oldest known written mention of Waldgirmes was on June 17, 771 under the name Germitzer in the Lorsch Codex .

In the 8th, 9th and 10th centuries Waldgirmes belonged to the county of the Middle Lahn, and a certain Heimo in the 8th century is documented as the first count.

In 1104 Waldgirmes and the western half of the County of Gleiberg fell to Count Otto von Gleiberg, after his marriage to the heiress of the County of Solms , he called himself Otto von Solms and united his previous possessions with the County of Solms. When the county was divided between the brothers Heinrich and Marquard in 1255, Waldgirmes fell to Marquard, who named himself Count von Solms-Königsberg after his new headquarters. In 1310 a road was built south of Waldgirmes from Wetzlar via Niedergirmes through Naunheim to the Dorlar Lahn crossing, which was supposed to connect the Altenberg and Dorlar monasteries . In 1350 the last representative of the Solms-Königsberg line sold his property to Landgrave Heinrich II of Hesse , known as "the Iron". Only in 1629/1631 was this contract approved by Emperor Ferdinand II . In the meantime the residents were obliged to pay tithe to two gentlemen .

Before 1585, the "Rodheimer Mark" was divided, to which Waldgirmes also belonged. This also affected a marrow forest on the Königstuhl , which was called Spitzenberg, Hämuskopf or Himberg. This resulted in a dispute between the villages of Heuchelheim, Kinzenbach, Atzbach, Dorlar and Waldgirmes, which lasted until the conclusion of a partition agreement on August 11, 1773.

Historic church

During the Thirty Years' War the Protestant Waldgirmes as well as the neighboring towns were badly hit. Among other things, Waldgirmes was looted by Swedish troops at the end of the war and the church was set on fire.

Since 1816 Waldgirmes belonged to the Gießen district in the Grand Duchy of Hesse (-Darmstadt). 1866 Waldgirmes was after the Austrian side (which also includes the Grand Duchy of Hesse counted) lost Austro-Prussian War Prussian and in 1867 county Biedenkopf incorporated, then it belonged to the formation of the city Lahn 1977 Kreis Wetzlar .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Waldgirmes in 1830:

"Waldgirmes (L. Bez. Giessen) evangel. Parish village; is 2 St. from Giessen, and has 142 houses and 754 inhabitants, who are Protestant apart from 16 Jews, as well as 2 mills. - A village of Germenz , Girmes , and a Mark named afterwards, occurs early on. The church at Waldgirmes was given to the Schiffenberg monastery in 1141, at which time it was consecrated . By the main settlement of October 30, 1629, the joint offices of Königsberg and Hohensolms were divided between Hesse and Solms, and Waldgirmes was given the office of Königsberg and came to Hesse with other places. "

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Waldgirmes became a district of the newly created city of Lahn on January 1, 1977 by virtue of state law . After their dissolution as a result of violent protests by the population, the three districts of the previous district of Lahntal , namely Waldgirmes, Dorlar and Atzbach, were combined on August 1, 1979 in the municipality of Lahnau.

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1803

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Gießen” was set up as a court of second instance for the province of Upper Hesse . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or landlords and thus the "Koenigsberg Office" was responsible for Waldgirmes. The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate .

With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806, this function was retained, while the tasks of the first instance were transferred to the newly created regional and city courts in 1821 as part of the separation of jurisdiction and administration. " Stadtgericht Gießen " was therefore the name of the court of first instance that was responsible for Waldgirmes from 1821 to 1866.

After the cession of the northwestern part of the district of Gießen and with it Waldgirmes to Prussia, as a result of the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 between the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Kingdom of Prussia , Waldgirmes was separated from the City Court of Gießen. In June 1867 a royal decree was issued that reorganized the court system in the former Duchy of Nassau and the parts of the area that had previously belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The previous judicial authorities were to be repealed and replaced by local courts in the first, district courts in the second and an appeal court in the third instance. In the course of this, on September 1, 1867, the previous regional court was renamed the District Court of Gladenbach and Waldgirmes was added to this court. The courts of the higher instances were the District Court of Dillenburg and the Court of Appeal in Wiesbaden . Due to the Courts Constitution Act of 1877, the district court changed to the district of the newly established Marburg Regional Court with effect from October 1, 1879 . With effect from October 1, 1902, Naunheim was separated from the Gladenbach District Court and added to the Wetzlar District Court . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the higher-level instances are the Limburg Regional Court , the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

Population development

• 1791: 602 inhabitants
• 1800: 604 inhabitants
• 1806: 683 inhabitants, 143 houses
• 1829: 754 inhabitants, 142 houses
Waldgirmes: Population from 1791 to 2016
year     Residents
1791
  
 602
1800
  
 604
1806
  
 683
1829
  
 754
1834
  
 785
1840
  
 804
1846
  
 801
1852
  
 834
1858
  
 809
1864
  
 874
1871
  
 906
1875
  
 955
1885
  
 927
1895
  
 1,081
1905
  
 1,297
1910
  
 1,360
1925
  
 1,528
1939
  
 1,829
1946
  
 2,323
1950
  
 2.405
1956
  
 2,495
1961
  
 2,720
1967
  
 2,940
1970
  
 3.129
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 3,318
2016
  
 3,272
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

  • 1885: 883 Protestant, no Catholic, 12 Christians of other denominations and 32 Jews
  • 1961: 2244 Protestant (= 82.50%), 457 Catholic (= 16.80%) residents

coat of arms

On June 12, 1970, the municipality of Waldgirmes in what was then the district of Wetzlar was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : In red a silver oak, covered with a blue shield, inside a silver hammer and mallet.

Culture and sights

Museums

Waldgirmes has a local history museum with 470 m² of exhibition space in the buildings and a courtyard area of ​​400 m². 3,700 exhibits can be seen there. The classical main building was built in 1840/1841 as a school house with a teacher's apartment. The museum also has two barns. It was founded in 1971 on the initiative of Hedwig Schmidt (* December 8, 1914, † May 25, 1980). In 1977 the museum was initially given the premises of the former teacher's apartment. It is supported by an association that was also founded by Hedwig Schmidt in 1977 and currently has 230 members. The association also publishes yearbooks.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

The primary school on the Lahnaue (formerly Waldgirmes primary school) for primary school students from the Waldgirmes, Dorlar and Atzbach districts is located in the district. In the primary school building, training courses and courses for the Lahn-Dill-Kreis community college in Wetzlar take place.

literature

Web links

Commons : Waldgirmes  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location data In: Website of the municipality of Lahnau, accessed in August 2020.
  2. ↑ Lahnau-Nachrichten - Official announcement organ of the municipality of Lahnau - No. 3-2017 from January 19, 2017
  3. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3142, June 17, 771 - Reg. 651. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 98 , accessed on February 14, 2016 .
  4. ^ A b Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 309 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Biedenkopf and Marburg districts and the city of Marburg (Lahn) (GVBl. II 330-27) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 154 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  6. ^ 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. 346 and 383 .
  7. ↑ a b Waldgirmes, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 14, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  8. ^ 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).
  9. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  10. ^ The affiliation of the Königsberg office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567–1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604–1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567–1866 .
  11. ↑ a b Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 27 ff ., § 40 points 1 & 1 # 41; and 6b & 1 # 41; ( Online at google books ).
  12. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  202 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 8th f., 428 ( online at google books ).
  14. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  266 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 420 ( online at Google Books ).
  16. ↑ Art. 14 of the peace treaty between the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Kingdom of Prussia of September 3, 1866 ( Hess. Reg.Bl. pp. 406-407 )
  17. ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories excluding the Meisenheim district of June 26, 1867. ( PrGS 1867, pp. 1094–1103 )
  18. ↑ Order of August 7, 1867, regarding the establishment of the according to the Most High Ordinance of June 26th J. in the former Duchy of Nassau and the former Grand Ducal Hessian territories, with the exclusion of the Oberamtsbezirks Meisenheim, courts to be formed ( Pr. JMBl. Pp. 218-220 )
  19. ↑ Ordinance regarding the establishment of local courts of July 26, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 275–283 )
  20. ^ Law on the amendment of district courts of June 22, 1902 ( PrGS 1902, pp. 227–228 )
  21. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  220 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  22. ↑ 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;
  23. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the community of Waldgirmes, Wetzlar district from June 12, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 26 , p. 1300 , point 1230 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.6 MB ]).