Werdorf

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Werdorf
City of Asslar
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 168 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.03 km²
Residents : 3091  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 257 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 35614
Area code : 06443

Werdorf is a district of the small town of Asslar in the Lahn-Dill district in central Hesse with around 3100 inhabitants.

geography

The dill near Werdorf

Werdorf is located in the Dill Valley , opposite Berghausen and between the Westerwald (west) and the Gladenbacher Bergland (east), in the middle of the Lahn-Dill area . To the west lies Ehringshausen , south Berghausen and in the east the core city of Asslar. In the north the place is surrounded by forest with the 333 m high larynx . The next larger city is Wetzlar .

history

In the Bronze Age people settled at the Schönbach, which flows through the place, because it was easier to cross (or safer during floods) than the Dill.

In 772 the village of Werdorf was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex . The name is derived from the old Germanic Wero , which means "man". It was in the 8th / 9th Century owned by the Lorsch Monastery and formed its own mark , which at times also belonged to the Speyer diocese . The Vogtei was sold to the Counts of Sponheim in 1255 in the course of the Munzenberg inheritance dispute . Count Johann I von Sponheim and his son Gottfried gave this property to Count Heinrich and Marquard von Solms-Königsberg as a fief . Center of the village was the solmsische bailiwick with a stately courtyard where in the 14th century in 1367 the last time mentioned festival house the present castle was built and then in the years 1686-1690.

In terms of church, Werdorf was assigned to the nearby Dillheim until, in connection with the construction of the castle, a separate parish was created in 1686, to which the nearby Berghausen was assigned as a branch. Furthermore, Jewish residents have been recorded since the 18th century. There was both a synagogue and a Jewish cemetery . A religious school and a mikveh were also built . Towards the end of the 19th century, the number of Jewish residents decreased, so that in 1908 the Jewish community, still consisting of 4 Jewish residents, was dissolved. The Jewish house of worship was demolished in 1979. The 1020 m² cemetery (Breitenbacher Straße) used between 1888 and 1941 has been preserved. Around 50 people were buried during this time, including Jews from Werdorf and Jewish residents from Ehringshausen and Kölschhausen .

Village square

Territorial reform

Werdorf was in the course of municipal reform in Hesse on 1 January 1977. virtue of state law in the community Asslar incorporated . The greater community received a year later, on 16 November 1978, the town charter .

The founding legend

There is a legend about the founding and naming of Werdorf, which is told roughly as follows: There were once two countesses who rode to a place on the Dill. They liked this place and had a castle built here. When the craftsmen lived here, one of them said: “It'll be a city!” The other contradicted: “No, it'll be a village!” And so “Werd-Dorf” became the name Werdorf.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Werdorf was mentioned under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Wertorph, in (772/3) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3119 = 3687b]
  • Werdorpher, in marca (772/3) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3119 = 3687b]
  • Wertorph, in villa (782) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3105 = 3704c]
  • Wertdorf (782) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3105 = 3704c]
  • Wertorph, in (790) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3185]
  • Wertorph, in villa (790) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3106 = 3714b]
  • Wertorpher, in marca (790) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3106 = 3714b]
  • Wertdorf, in (802/817) [XII century Codex Eberhardi 1 I, 156 ra [62], p. 271 = Dronke, Traditiones Capitulum 6 No. 62, p. 37]
  • Wertorph, in villa (817) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3103 = 3729c]
  • Werdorph, in villa (817) [2. Half of the XII century, Codex Laureshamensis III, No. 3103 = 3729c]
  • Werhtorf (1150) [Forgery Wyss, document book of the Deutschordens-Ballei 3, no. 1336, pp. 311-313]

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Werdorf: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 725
1840
  
 851
1846
  
 913
1852
  
 878
1858
  
 869
1864
  
 927
1871
  
 897
1875
  
 904
1885
  
 936
1895
  
 1,021
1905
  
 1,053
1910
  
 1,128
1925
  
 1,291
1939
  
 1,431
1946
  
 2.016
1950
  
 2.139
1956
  
 2,063
1961
  
 2.137
1967
  
 2.211
1970
  
 2,291
2014
  
 3,071
2018
  
 3,091
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: City of Asslar

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

1834: 680 Protestant, 4 Catholic and 21 Jewish residents
1961: 1779 Protestant (= 83.25%) and 333 (= 15.58%) Catholic residents

Politics and Jurisdiction

In the legislative period from 2006 to 2011, the SPD with 3 seats, the CDU with 2 seats, the FWG with 3 seats and the Greens with 1 seat were represented in the local advisory council . Mayor is Rainer Apfelstedt (SPD), his deputy Erich Hofmann (CDU).

There is a local court in the village, which is also responsible for the neighboring village of Berghausen. Werdorf is also within the jurisdiction of the Wetzlar District Court .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Werdorfer Castle

Werdorfer Castle

Between 1680 and 1700 the baroque palace was built by the Counts of Solms-Greifenstein . It served as a widow's and summer residence for the count's family. On September 14, 1701, the Hofkeller zu Braunfels, Johann Hyppolitus von Staden, married Maria Katharina Schweitzer from Werdorf in the castle of Werdorf. It was a Fideikommissgut in 1720 and has been used as a teaching institution several times since the end of the 19th century.

The three-storey main building has on the north side a gabled central projection and two hood-crowned corner towers with loopholes. On the south front there is an entrance building from 1914, which was designed by the architect Carl Seiler from Braunfels .

Today the prince's room is used by the registry office in Asslar as an official wedding room. The Museum für Heimatkunde has been housed in the other rooms since 1982.

Evangelical parish church

Evangelical parish church

The Evangelical Church of Werdorf forms the center of the village. Only when the castle was built is the church , first mentioned in 1253, elevated to a parish church . The church consists of a late Romanesque choir tower and a nave in hall style , which was only built between 1755 and 1757. The choir tower also has two defensive floors with a pointed helmet roof .

Transport and infrastructure

The federal road 277 runs through Werdorf and leads from Dillenburg to Wetzlar. North of the village runs the route of the Autobahn 45 , to which there is a connection in Ehringshausen. In the center of the village, the 385 district road branches off towards the south, to Berghausen. It is run in Werdorf as Bahnhofstrasse . In 1889 a stop was also set up on the newly built Dill route on the southern outskirts. It is used in local rail passenger transport.

The place has a primary school, a daycare center, a sports hall and five restaurants. Werdorf also has its own volunteer fire brigade and an office of the Volksbank Mittelhessen and two supermarkets.

Sons and daughters of the place

Web links

Commons : Werdorf  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Werdorf, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 5, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population of the city of Aßlar , accessed in February 2019.
  3. ^ History of the Jewish community in Werdorf
  4. ^ The Jewish cemetery in Werdorf
  5. ↑ Law on the restructuring of the Dill district, the districts of Gießen and Wetzlar and the city of Gießen (GVBl. II 330–28) of May 13, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 17 , p. 237 ff ., § 17 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 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. 383 .
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ↑ 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. 249 ( online at google books ).
  9. ↑ Population of the city of Asslar. In: website. City of Asslar, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .
  10. ↑ monuments Hessen: Werdorfer Castle
  11. ↑ Werdorfer Castle. In: website. City of Asslar, accessed May 2019 .
  12. ^ Association for Local History 1980 Werdorf: Museum / Castle - Local History Museum
  13. ^ Evangelical parish church in Werdorf