Wehrda (Marburg)

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Wehrda
City of Marburg
Wehrda coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 10 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 37"  E
Height : 185  (180–290)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.12 km²
Residents : 5718  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 704 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 35041
Area code : 06421
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Location of Wehrda in Marburg
Wehrda from the east
Wehrda from the east

Wehrda is a district of Marburg an der Lahn , the district town of the Central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf and has around 6500 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The district of Wehrda is located immediately north of the core town of Marburg between the western right bank of the Lahn and the edge of the forest below the Mosenberg (356 m) and the Burned Mountain (340 m), which line up with the Marburg Ridge . On the eastern left bank of the Lahn, below a loop of the Lahn on Mittelhäuser Berg, an extensive industrial area with the Messeplatz in the south also belongs to the district. The Wehrda district stretches from the ridge of the Marburger Ridge in the west to the foot of the Lahnberge in the east and covers 812 hectares, 318 hectares of which are forested.

history

Weißenstein castle ruins in the northern part of the village
Topographic map 1857
Soldier memorial next to the Martinskirche

The Wehrda district was first mentioned in 1238 as Werthe . The name of the place is derived from the term Werder , which describes a slightly elevated position on the bank. According to the oldest surviving Salbuch (hereditary register) of the Marburg office from 1374, Wehrda was, along with Cappel, Marbach and Ockershausen, a house village of the Landgraves of Hesse . This meant that the residents of these villages closest to the Marburg Castle were obliged to provide additional hand and tension services for the landgraves. The Protestant Martinskirche was built in its present form in 1769–74. Your tower dates from the 14th century. In the north of Wehrda, on a mountain spur above the Lahn, are the remains of the Weißenstein castle ruins , which were built around 1020 and abandoned before 1200. In the 16th century the Reformation was introduced and the population became Evangelical Lutheran.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on July 1, 1974, a total of 13 municipalities were incorporated into the city of Marburg by state law, including the municipality of Wehrda with almost 4,000 inhabitants at the time. In the 1970s and 80s, large new development areas were built in the north of the district. A shopping center was built on the east bank of the Lahn north of Bundesstraße 3 .

Territorial history and administration

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

Courts since 1821

With an edict of June 29, 1821, administration and justice were separated in Kurhessen. Now judicial offices were responsible for the first instance jurisdiction, the administration was taken over by the districts. In Marburg, the Marburg district was set up for the administration and the Marburg district court was the court of first instance responsible for Wehrda. In 1850 the regional court was renamed the Marburg Justice Office. The Supreme Court was the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel . The higher court of Marburg was subordinate to the province of Upper Hesse. It was the second instance for the judicial offices.

After the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia, the Marburg district court became the royal Prussian district court of Marburg in 1867 . In June 1867, a royal ordinance was issued that reorganized the court system in the areas that belonged to the former Electorate 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 judicial office was renamed the Marburg District Court. The courts of the higher authorities were the Marburg District Court and the Kassel Court of Appeal .

With the entry into force of the Courts Constitution Act of 1879, the district court continued to exist under his name. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the superordinate instances are the Marburg Regional Court , the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court and the Federal Court of Justice as the last instance.

population

Population development

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1577: 56 house seats
• 1604: 59 house seats
• 1630: 45 community men, plus 10 households run by widows. (2 four-in-hand, 1 three-in-hand, 8 two-in-hand, 6 single-horse farm workers, 23  single men )
• 1681: 35 home-based teams
• 1747: 84 house seats
• 1838: 458 residents, 56 of whom are authorized users, 22 local residents who are not authorized users, 14  residents
Wehrda: Population from 1793 to 2015
year     Residents
1793
  
 393
1834
  
 450
1840
  
 452
1846
  
 483
1852
  
 505
1858
  
 472
1864
  
 472
1871
  
 432
1875
  
 464
1885
  
 529
1895
  
 603
1905
  
 807
1910
  
 876
1925
  
 1,141
1939
  
 1,409
1946
  
 1,835
1950
  
 1,784
1956
  
 2,040
1961
  
 2,414
1967
  
 3,738
1987
  
 5,824
1991
  
 6,257
1995
  
 6,282
2000
  
 6.351
2003
  
 6.118
2005
  
 6.310
2007
  
 6,554
2010
  
 6,558
2011
  
 5,763
2015
  
 5,751
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1987-1998, 1999-2003; 2005-2010; 2011 census : 2011–2015

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1861: 433 Evangelical Lutheran, 2 Roman Catholic, 18 Jewish residents
• 1961: 2124 Protestant, 242 Roman Catholic residents
• 1987: 3688 Protestant (= 63.3%), 963 Catholic (= 16.5%) residents

Gainful employment

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1746: Employed workers: 32 farm workers, 2 blacksmiths, 2 wagons, 3 tailors, 8 linen weavers, 2 innkeepers, 2 bricklayers, 5 carpenters, 2 fishermen, 2 millers, 18 day laborers.
• 1838: Families: 39 agriculture, 43 trades, 10 day laborers.
• 1961: Labor force: 120 agriculture and forestry, 316 manufacturing, 191 trade and transport, 396 services and other.

religion

Wehrda was a Protestant place until the end of the Second World War. Even today, the majority of the residents belong to the two Protestant parishes. Due to the influx of displaced people after the end of the war and the continued strong population increase, the proportion of Catholics in the village rose. Immigrant Muslims also live in the north-western area of ​​the village.

Churches

Evangelical Martinskirche from the 17th century
Tower and wall of the Protestant St. Martin's Church
Catholic branch church St. Martin

There is a total of one Catholic and three Protestant churches in Wehrda. The oldest is the Martinskirche. The bell tower originally served as a protective and defensive tower, which was secured by the protective wall that still exists today. The former purpose can still be recognized today by the numerous loopholes. The church service room was added in the 17th century. In the 2000s, the church was completely renovated inside and outside and two clocks were attached to the bell tower that strike every hour.

Other Protestant churches are the new Trinity Church in the northern new building area and the Gospel Hall of the Deaconess Mother House in Hebron at the Diakoniekrankenhaus . Like the Catholic church at the cemetery, they were only built after the Second World War . Other church institutions are the Protestant community centers on Huteweg and in Wehrdaer Straße.

graveyards

There are two cemeteries in Wehrda. The main cemetery is divided into upper, middle and lower cemetery, the latter being the old deaconess cemetery. The upper one is the largest. The chapel is also there.

Another cemetery is located west of the Diakoniekrankenhaus. Only deaconesses from the neighboring mother house are buried there.

coat of arms

On August 26, 1965, the municipality of Wehrda in the then district of Marburg was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In a shield divided by gold and blue, a counter-tinned bar in mixed up colors.

meaning

The coat of arms is based on the coat of arms of the von Wehrda family called Nodung, who had a black wavy bar in the silver (white) shield . The colors should refer to the light sandstone on the Weißenstein and the water of the Lahn.

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Wehrda

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Street

Wehrda is connected to the trunk road network via the Autobahn 3 , which has been developed in a manner similar to that of the autobahn, with the “Wehrda / Cölbe” exit. In addition, the state roads 3381 and 3089 lead through the local area. The district road K 82 cuts off the Lahnschleife as Cölber Strasse and connects the district with the industrial area and the federal road via a Lahn bridge and with the nearby neighboring town of Cölbe via another Lahn bridge .

railroad

The Main-Weser-Bahn runs through the shopping center, a stop is planned.

Transportation

Local public transport is handled by lines 1 and 4, which end at Sachsenring and together form a 15-minute cycle. Line 3 runs to the shopping center every 30 minutes on weekends. Line 19 Ring Nord runs once a day and line 19 Ring Süd runs twice a day to the University Hospital on the Lahnberge . In addition, the overland lines 76 and 481 stop in Wehrda.

The southern part of the mall

Business

Wehrda consists of three districts: the town center, the shopping center and an industrial area. There is a diaconal hospital in the town center. The shopping center has around 40 shops on an area of ​​1 km². There is also a tennis hall with courts and a riding club. To the south of this there is an industrial area that merges south of the Messeplatz into the North industrial area of ​​Marburg.

  • Lahn weir at Wehrda 2013

  • Wind farm in the southeastern local area

  • View from the wind farm of the twelve-story high-rise buildings built in the 1970s

  • A field in the northern part of the village

literature

Web links

Commons : Wehrda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marburg figures from 2009-2010 on the website of the city of Marburg (PDF; p. 4)
  2. ↑ a b Population figures from 2011 to 2016. (PDF; 46 kB) In: Website. City of Marburg, p. 4 ff , accessed in January 2019 .
  3. ↑ 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 ]).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Wehrda, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 19, 2017). 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. ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . T. Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 370 ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  7. ^ The affiliation of the Marburg 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 .
  8. ^ Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender: 1818 . Publishing house d. Orphanage, Kassel 1818, p.  100 ( online at Google Books ).
  9. ↑ Ordinance of August 30th, 1821, concerning the new division of the area , Annex: Overview of the new division of the Electorate of Hesse according to provinces, districts and judicial districts. Collection of laws etc. for the Electoral Hesse states. Year 1821 - No. XV. - August., ( Kurhess GS 1821) pp. 223–224 .
  10. ↑ Latest news from Meklenburg / Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities, edited from the best sources. in the publishing house of the GHG privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptouts., Weimar 1823, p.  158 ff . ( online at HathiTrust's digital library ).
  11. ↑ Ordinance on the constitution of the courts in the former Electorate of Hesse and the formerly Royal Bavarian territories with the exclusion of the enclave Kaulsdorf from June 19, 1867. ( PrGS 1867, pp. 1085-1094 )
  12. ↑ Order of August 7, 1867, regarding the establishment of the according to the Most High Ordinance of June 19 of this year. J. in the former Electorate of Hesse and the formerly Royal Bavarian territorial parts with the exclusion of the enclave Kaulsdorf, courts to be formed ( Pr. JMBl. Pp. 221–224 )
  13. ↑ a b Population figures from 1995 to 1998. (PDF; 3.7 MB) In: Website. City of Marburg, p. 9 ff , accessed in January 2019 .
  14. ↑ Population figures from 1999 to 2003 (PDF; 7.75 MB) In: Website. City of Marburg, p. 8 ff , accessed in January 2019 .
  15. ↑ Population figures from 2005 to 2010. (PDF; 1.13 MB) In: Website. City of Marburg, p. 10 ff , accessed in January 2019 .
  16. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Wehrda in the district of Marburg, administrative district of Kassel from August 26, 1965 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1965 no. 37 , p. 1070 , point 869 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,9 MB ]).
  17. ↑ Google Maps. Retrieved February 24, 2019 (de-US).