Wissenbach

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Wissenbach
community Eschenburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 31"  E
Height : 286 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.75 km²
Residents : 1875  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 214 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Postal code : 35713
Area code : 02774
Wissenbach
Wissenbach

Wissenbach is a district of the municipality of Eschenburg in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

Wissenbach is located in the Dietzhölze valley in the northern Lahn-Dill district.

The place is framed by the Bomberg (508 m above sea level) in the west and the Eschenburg (589 m above sea level), which is sometimes also referred to as Eschenberg , in the east. The Eschenburg also serves as the namesake for the entire community, although it is already in the area of ​​the city of Dillenburg . Wissenbach is the Eschenburg district with the largest proportion of forest.

The neighboring towns, starting from the north in a clockwise direction, are Eibelshausen , Eiershausen (both municipality of Eschenburg), Nanzenbach , Frohnhausen (both town of Dillenburg), Weidelbach (town of Haiger ) and Ewersbach (town of Dietzhölztal ).

Wissenbach, view from the southeast

history

Wissenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1290 under the name Wysenbach .

In 1768 the mining of slate began in the Batzbach mine . This mine was not completely shut down until 1997.

On December 20, 1773, a large part of the village burned down.

With the construction of the Dillenburg – Ewersbach railway line , Wissenbach received a rail connection in 1892. The line was closed in 1987 for passenger traffic and in 2000 for freight traffic.

The company " Manderbach Fahrzeugbau ", founded in 1899, manufactured trucks in Wissenbach from 1949 to 1956 .

In 1936 the Eschenburg Tower was opened on the Eschenburg . The 43 m high wooden observation tower was destroyed by American fighter-bombers on March 23, 1945 .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the Eschenburg community was founded on October 1, 1971 through the voluntary amalgamation of the communities Eibelshausen, Eiershausen and Wissenbach. Force state law were the communities Eschenburg Hirzenhain and Simmersbach and Roth of the former district Biedenkopf to advanced large village Eschenburg together . The entry into force took place on July 1, 1974 by the district president in Darmstadt. Local districts with local advisory boards and local councilors were established for all six districts .

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

Wissenbach: Population from 1834 to 2018
year     Residents
1834
  
 486
1840
  
 498
1846
  
 510
1852
  
 506
1858
  
 480
1864
  
 532
1871
  
 522
1875
  
 468
1885
  
 528
1895
  
 531
1905
  
 658
1910
  
 718
1925
  
 870
1939
  
 927
1946
  
 1,290
1950
  
 1,325
1956
  
 1,353
1961
  
 1,384
1967
  
 1,510
1970
  
 1,521
1974
  
 1,596
1980
  
 1,676
1990
  
 1,883
2000
  
 1,892
2011
  
 1,893
2015
  
 1,901
2018
  
 1,875
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: Eschenburg municipality

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 0439 Protestant (= 83.14%), no Catholic and 84 other (= 16.86%) Christians
• 1961: 1097 Protestant (= 79.26%) and 142 Catholic (= 10.26%) residents

Culture and sights

societies

The Wissenbacher Schützenverein can be found in the southern part of the village.

Buildings

The Protestant church was built in 1880/81 by church builder Ludwig Hofmann together with his brother Karl Hofmann.

museum

A small museum for mining and telecommunications technology is housed in a former transformer station .

Economy and Infrastructure

Facilities

  • Multipurpose hall

  • Eschenburg Clinic

traffic

The federal road 253 ( Dillenburg - Frankenberg ) leads directly through the village. Because of the high traffic load, the people of Wissenbach have wanted a bypass for many years. The distance to the Dillenburg junction on Autobahn 45 is about 7 km.

In addition, Wissenbach still had a rail connection via the Dietzhölztalbahn until 1987 . The railway line has been closed since 2001. However, there are efforts and an initiative that is committed to maintaining and reactivating the route for local rail and freight transport. The railway line is currently being cut on the southern section to Frohnhausen.

education

There is a primary school and a kindergarten in Wissenbach .

Secondary schools can be attended in Eibelshausen ( cooperative comprehensive school ), Frohnhausen ( secondary and secondary school ) and in Dillenburg ( grammar school ).

Companies

There are two business parks in the village. Several hundred people are employed in the companies located there. The largest industrial companies are Rittal and Giebeler .

  • primary school

  • Evangelical kindergarten

  • Rittal company

  • Giebeler company

Personalities

  • The violinist, violist, concert director and radical pietist religious founder (Johann) Daniel Müller alias Elias / Elias Artista, born in the district of Wissenbach, comes from the district of Wissenbach . Wissenbach February 10, 1716, died not before 1786 (in Riga?).
  • The NSDAP politician Richard Manderbach (1889–1962) was born in Wissenbach .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical data. In: website. Eschenburg community, accessed March 2020 .
  2. ^ The story of Wissenbach , accessed in August 2018.
  3. ^ Dillenburg Intelligence News of the year 1784
  4. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 356-357 .
  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 , § 27 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Designation of parts of the community in the Dill district from November 21, 1974 . In: The government president (ed.): State gazette for the state of Hesse. 1974 No. 49 , p. 2257 , point 1663 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.7 MB ]).
  7. ↑ a b c Wissenbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). 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. ↑ Statistical data. In: website. Eschenburg community, archived from the original ; accessed in February 2019 .