Weiperfelden

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Weiperfelden
Municipality Waldsolms
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 329 m above sea level NHN
Area : 58 ha
Residents : 283  (Jan. 1, 2006)
Population density : 488 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35647
Area code : 06085

Weiperfelden is a district of the municipality of Waldsolms in the south of the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse .

Geographical location

Weiperfelden is located in the eastern Hintertaunus (Bodenroder Kuppen) , within the Taunus Nature Park in the forest-lined upper Solmsbach valley. In the southeast are the 491.1  m above sea level. NN high Hinterster Kopf and the 492.3  m high Hainbuchenkopf , in the south-southeast lie the 505.1  m high Gickel and the approximately 518  m high Hesselberg . The district area is extremely small with 58 hectares, of which five hectares are woodland (status: 1885). It essentially only includes the valley floodplains on the Solmsbach and some cleared areas that extend northwards from the location on the slope of the 421.2  m high Altenwald forest. The largest part of the district boundary is also the municipality boundary, namely to Langgöns in the north and Butzbach in the south.

Neighboring towns are Bodenrod (south), Hasselborn (south-west), Brandoberndorf (north-west) and Espa (east).

history

In the spelling Walpurgeuelde , the place can be traced back to the year 1207. This early mention of Weiperfelden is one of the first in the upper Solmsbachtal.

To the east of the village, copper, silver, lead and gold were mined over several centuries - in the Silbersegen mine .

On December 31, 1971, the independent community of Weiperfelden merged with another five communities to form the new large community of Waldsolms as part of the Hessian regional reform .

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Weiperfelden: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 170
1840
  
 179
1846
  
 192
1852
  
 179
1858
  
 172
1864
  
 136
1871
  
 124
1875
  
 116
1885
  
 112
1895
  
 90
1905
  
 96
1910
  
 101
1925
  
 106
1939
  
 93
1946
  
 154
1950
  
 155
1956
  
 141
1961
  
 124
1967
  
 151
1970
  
 148
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: 112 Protestant (= 100.00%), no Catholic residents
• 1961: 105 Protestant (= 84.68%), 13 Catholic (= 10.48%) residents

coat of arms

On April 30, 1968, the community of Weiperfelden in what was then the district of Wetzlar was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In black on a green floor, a silver church with a red door and red windows.

Culture and sights

societies

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Waldsolms-Weiperfelden

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Weiperfelden, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 25, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ 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. 380 .
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ↑ 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. 8 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Weiperfelden, district Wetzlar, administrative district Wiesbaden dated April 30, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1968 No. 21 , p. 826 , point 594 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).