Wallau (Lahn)

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Wallau
City of Biedenkopf
Wallau's coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 27"  E
Height : 295 m above sea level NHN
Area : 14.82 km²
Residents : 3600  (Jun 30, 2009)
Population density : 243 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 35216
Area code : 06461
View from the east
View from the east
Protestant church

After the core city, Wallau is the largest district of the city of Biedenkopf in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf with around 3600 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Located on the border with North Rhine-Westphalia , Wallau is the first place in Hesse in the course of the Lahn and lies in the southeastern foothills of the Rothaar Mountains .

history

The oldest known documentary mention under the name Walloha comes from the year 1289. The 725th anniversary of this mention was celebrated in 2014.

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

"Wallau (L. Bez. Battenberg) evangel. Parish village; is on the Lahn, 4 St. von Battenberg, and belongs to the Baron von Breidenstein. The place, which is located on the Chaussee that leads from Giessen via Biedenkopf into Prussian, has 100 houses and 701 inhabitants, who are Protestant apart from 3 Catholics, as well as 1 church, 1 courtyard and 1 paper mill, which is also a beautiful vellum-like one Paper supplies. Nearby is the Buchholz mountain, the 2495 Hess. (1919 par.) Is raised feet above the surface of the sea. - The village belonged to the church area of ​​Breidenbach. In 1395 Gerlach and Johann von Breidenbach gave a part of the place to Landgrave Hermann as a fief. "

Territorial reform

On July 1, 1974 were part of the municipal reform in Hesse , the city Biedenkopf with the city Breidenstein, the municipality Wallau (Lahn) and the village of Katzenbach the community Buchenau (Lahn) by state law to the new city Biedenkopf together .

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1577: 036 house seats
• 1630: 046 house seats (1 three-horse, 13 two-horse, 15 single-horse farm workers, 20 one-  man walkers ).
• 1677: 036 men, 4 widows, 9 young teams, 21 single teams
• 1742: 083 households
• 1791: 576 inhabitants
• 1800: 582 inhabitants
• 1806: 609 inhabitants, 88 houses
• 1829: 701 inhabitants, 100 houses
Wallau: Population from 1791 to 2011
year     Residents
1791
  
 576
1800
  
 582
1806
  
 609
1829
  
 701
1834
  
 748
1840
  
 773
1846
  
 798
1852
  
 880
1858
  
 842
1864
  
 891
1871
  
 929
1875
  
 1.011
1885
  
 1,202
1895
  
 1,291
1905
  
 1,607
1910
  
 1,733
1925
  
 1,883
1939
  
 2,315
1946
  
 3.126
1950
  
 3.165
1956
  
 3,229
1961
  
 3,424
1967
  
 3,624
1971
  
 3,658
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 3,294
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; City of Biedenkopf: 1971 ; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1829: 0698 Protestant and 3 Roman Catholic residents
• 1885: 1189 Protestant, 7 Catholic and 6 other Christians
• 1961: 2803 Protestant (= 81.86%), 444 Roman Catholic (= 12.97%) residents

Gainful employment

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1867: Residents. Labor force: 105 agriculture, 2 forestry, 30 mining and metallurgy, 23 trade and industry, 11 transport, 3 church and worship, 4 community administration.
• 1961: Labor force: 120 agriculture and forestry, 316 manufacturing, 191 trade and transport, 396 services and other.

politics

The coat of arms and the flag were approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on October 29, 1955.

coat of arms
Wallau coat of arms
 Blazon : "In silver over a green three-mountain, a red, striding fox with white-hot eyes."
Justification for the coat of arms: The coat of arms shows a red fox over three green mountains. The so-called "Heckelches Fuchs" is taken from an old tradition. The green mountains symbolize Wallau's location in a wooded area.
flag

Flag description: "In a flag field divided by green and white, the coat of arms of the municipality of Wallau, which shows a red, striding fox with white-hot eyes in silver over a green three-mountain."

Sights and culture

Buildings

The local Evangelical Church is a cultural monument, see list of cultural monuments in Wallau .

societies

  • Backhausgemeinschaft Hinterland , which operates one of the two formerly cooperatively built and maintained Wallauer bakeries on Weifenbacher Weg
  • Burschenschaft Eintracht 1895 , organized a. a. annual fair
  • CVJM Wallau , offshoot of the Christian CVJM founded in 1910 with approx. 100 members
  • Fishing club Surbach e. V. - The association, founded in 1975, operates an artificially created fish pond system on the B 253 from 1987 to 1988 , located "On the dry meadow" next to the sewage treatment plant. The fish pond is also called "Surbachsee" after the association.
  • Wallau volunteer fire brigade , founded on March 15, 1933
  • FV 1913 , a sports club founded in 1913 with 650 members today and football, athletics and tennis departments
  • Wallau local history museum , presents the history of the village between tradition and progress, often with special exhibitions
  • Fruit and horticultural association Wallau / Lahn , a horticultural association founded in 1906
  • TV 04 Wallau , a gymnastics club founded in 1904
  • Verkehrs- und Gewerbeverein Wallau , a trade association founded in 1965 by Wallau business people

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

For many years now, the Wallau model and mechanical engineering companies with a high export share, such as Müller Modell- und Formenbau GmbH & Co. KG, founded by Georg Müller in 1922, have achieved national recognition for many years.

traffic

Wallau has a rail connection with the Wallau (Lahn) train station. This is located on the section of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway, which was opened in 1883 . With the integration of the Schelden Valley Railway in 1911, the station became a separation station .

In 1987, passenger traffic on the Schelden Valley Railway was discontinued, and since then only a few sections of the Schelden Valley Railway have been used for freight traffic. Of the original three platform tracks, only one remains. The station building , which was damaged in an air raid in 1944 , was replaced by a partially new building in the 1950s. In 2010 the station building was demolished. Today the Wallau (Lahn) stop is served every hour from Monday to Saturday to Marburg and Bad Laasphe . Every two hours the trains are tied through Bad Laasphe to Erndtebrück , there is a connection to the Rothaarbahn to Bad Berleburg and Siegen . On Sundays and public holidays there is a two-hour cycle all day long on the entire route from Erndtebrück to Marburg. Wallau (Lahn) station is part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) area.

Personalities

  • The parents of Fritz Henkel (1848–1930), the founder of the Düsseldorf-based Henkel Group , came from Wallau; he himself was born in Vöhl ( Waldeck-Frankenberg district ) and grew up there. The Fritz-Henkel-Straße (main street of the village) and the local event hall ( Fritz-Henkel-Halle ) were named after him .
  • His grandson Konrad Henkel (1915–1999) was made an honorary citizen of Wallau in 1990.
  • The film director Rudolf Thome (* 1939) was born and raised in Wallau.
  • The singer-songwriter Ulla Meinecke (* 1953) grew up in Wallau - even if she wasn't born .
  • Elsa Blöcher (1900–1995) was a German teacher, historian and author. After the Second World War, she became involved in researching the history of the Hessian hinterland .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Until 1823 the patrimonial court of Grund Breidenbach; 1923: Separation of the judiciary ( Biedenkopf Regional Court ) and administration.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Wallau, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ 725 years Wallau / Lahn - our website for the anniversary. (No longer available online.) 725 years Wallau / Lahn e. V., archived from the original on November 8, 2014 ; Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b c 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 f . ( Online at google books ).
  4. ↑ 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 , § 14 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. = 350-351 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ^ 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 ).
  8. ^ The affiliation of the office Blankenstein 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 .
  9. ↑ 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. 7, 430 ( online at google books ).
  10. ↑ 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 point 6c) ( online at google books ).
  11. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  246 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 416 ( online at Google Books ).
  13. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  190 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  203 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ↑ 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;
  16. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag for the municipality of Wallau, Biedenkopf district, Wiesbaden administrative district from October 29, 1955 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 46 , p. 1137 , item 1185 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
  17. ^ Adolf Menges: History and culture of the village of Wallau an der Lahn , Volume 1. Wallau community, Wallau 1936, p. 111. ( Online on the website of the Hinterländer Backhaus.)
  18. ^ Website of the Burschenschaft Eintracht 1895
  19. ↑ About us on the website of the CVJM Wallau.
  20. ^ Website of the fishing club Surbach e. V.
  21. ↑ Geographical location of the fish pond: 50 ° 55 ′ 37.5 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 47.9 ″  E
  22. ↑ Chronicle of the fishing club. Fishing club Surbach e. V., accessed November 20, 2014 .
  23. ^ Website of the FV 1913 eV
  24. ^ Website of the local history museum on the homepage of the Museum Association of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district
  25. ^ History of the fruit and horticultural association on the association's website.
  26. ↑ TV 04 Wallau - historical overview ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on the club website
  27. ↑ History of the Wallau Transport and Trade Association on the association's website
  28. ↑ Schelltalbahn: Section Breidenbach – Wallau - rostendeschienen.de ( Memento from September 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  29. ↑ Introduction to ober-lahntalbahn.de ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on July 6, 2011)
  30. ^ The end of the Wallau train station - October 1st , 2010 ( Memento from December 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) The end of the Wallau train station (accessed on July 7, 2011)
  31. ^ Mourning for Dr. Konrad Henkel , Henkel Corporate Communications press release of April 25, 1999