Aarbergen

Aarbergen is a Untertaunus community in the Rheingau -Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse. The seat of the municipality is located in the district of chain Bach.

• 3.1 Municipal Council
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 community partnerships

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Regular events
• 4.3 freeman
• 4.4 Sons and daughters of the town
• 4.5 Specialty

Geographical location

Aarbergen located north of the town of Bad Schwalbach and south of Limburg an der Lahn in western Hintertaunus which forms emanating from the Northern Slope of the Taunus Taunus main ridge.

The area of ​​the municipality is dominated scenically by the average Aartal with its side valleys that have greatly zertalt the pronounced hull and trough surfaces of the Taunus in the Quaternary. The Aubach as the largest tributary of the Aar flows in the municipality, as well as the bed creek. Oligocene surf cobbles ( Vallendar facies ) are the old surfaces with chain Bach and Hausen über Aar. Known in the art are the gullies ( gullies ). Throughout much of the community who come from historical times

The vast majority of the municipal area is forested. Main use in open areas is agriculture. In the valleys there are permanent grassland, partly with valuable landscape orchards.

Neighboring communities

Aarbergen bordered to the north by the municipalities Mudershausen, Schiesheim, Burgschwalbach and Kaltenholzhausen (all Rhein- Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland -Palatinate ) and Hünfelden ( Limburg- Weilburg ), to the east by the municipality Hünstetten, to the south by the municipality of Hohenstein, in southwest on the community Heidenrod (all Rheingau- Taunus-Kreis ) and to the west by the municipalities Reckenroth, Eisighofen, Dörsdorf and Bergshausen (all Rhein- Lahn-Kreis ).

Structure

The municipality is divided into the following districts Aarbergen ( population figures without secondary residence, as of December 31, 2009):

History

At the municipal reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipalities Daisbach, Hausen über Aar closed, chain Bach, Michel Bach, Panrod and Rückershausen voluntarily on 31 December 1970 on the new community Aarbergen together. For each district a district with local town council and mayor was set up by the main statute.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:

Chairman of the municipal council is Holger Andrée.

Mayor

The last mayor elections gave the following results:

( 1) runoff

In the last election on 11 March 2007 won Udo Scheliga (CDU ) with almost 50.5 % compared until then acting Mayor Hartmut Bopp (SPD ), which reached 49.5 %. Other parties nominated no candidates and non-party candidates did not occur to. The turnout was 69.7 %.

Community partnerships

• Berga / Elster, Germany

Culture and sights

Structures

Chain Bach

• Ev. Church - 1752 The Baroque organ ( " Scholer organ " ) of 1763 is a historical monument, last complete renovation 1969/1970.

Michel Bach

• Fortified church in the cemetery - 11th century or earlier (High Medieval choir tower, vaulted ceiling, octagonal spire, round chancel arch ). 1908 profaned because of new church building. Since 1958, the church is used as probably the oldest building Aarbergens as a mourning hall.
• Late founder Temporal Protestant church of 1908.
• Permanently protected approximately 450 year old lime tree in the cemetery ( "apostle Linde" )
• " Rahnstätter yard" (former Hofgut ), again ( first mentioned in 1194-98, 1870, the farm was released for resolution) be walled wells with a blackboard on which the story can be seen in brief, below the gliding airfield.

Rückershausen

• Ev. Church - built in 1326, remodeled in the 18th century organ of 1755
• Sauerbrunnen " Anthony bubble ", known since 1779 carbonated soda sorrel, Table and medicinal water (gout, diabetes, gastric and intestinal catarrh, kidney flushing, metabolic disease)

Hausen über Aar

• Picturesque Aarbrücke of rubble masonry with cast- iron railings of 1863.
• Monumental memorial in 1926 with the names of the fallen of both world wars.

Panrod

• Ev. Church - to 1321 ( late Romanesque choir tower, good baroque crucifix )
• Ring Wall Altschloss - ring wall, probably the 8th to 10th century

Daisbach

• Catholic Church - built in 1690 - 1709 ( Foundation of Freiherr von Galen, Erbkämmerei ). The church is used by Catholics and Protestants alike.

Michel Bach, Bach chain, Hausen über Aar, Rückershausen

• By the municipality in 1894 and opened a listed Aartalbahn that is Hesse's longest architectural monument and is an outstanding example of a complex designed German branch line runs. During the summer months find trolley rides on the tracks of the transnational " Aarbeitskreis Aartalbahn " instead.

Regular events

• Every year in autumn in all districts of the traditional notch place that is usually organized for several generations of young people. In Michel Bach called the festival " mutton notch " in Daisbach " Klaa Frankfurt notch " in Hausen über Aar "houses notch " in Panrod " Panröder notch " and in chain Bach since 1927 " Schulweihkerb ".
• In Rückershausen takes place annually on the last Tuesday in October since 1532 " Rückershäuser market " instead. He is one of the oldest festivals throughout the region.
• The Gebirgstrachten - Erhaltungsverein Huiberg White-Blue eV ( GTEV ) held annually on the second weekend in June his great Bavarian festival in the tent Michel Bacher Brühl.
• While the big event "Go to Aar " the Aarstraße (main road 54) from Taunusstein to Diez is completely blocked in the summer every year for car traffic.
• Michel Bacher Christmas market every year on the second Advent. He has been held since 2006 in Brühl (formerly on the main road) instead.
• Each year also finds the motocross Hessencup in Aarbergen chain Bach held at the Michel Hütte.

Freeman

• Wolf Schrader, a former mayor.
• Karl Löhr (deceased), home to historians.
• Gerhard break, lawyer and notary, also honorary chairman of the municipal council

Sons and daughters of the town

• Adolph Samuel Passavant (1841-1926), industrialist ( founder of Passavant -Werke ).
• William Passavant (7 April 1886-31. March 1959 ), industrialist.
• Melchior Christian ( 1564-1595 pastor in Michel Bach), a pupil of the famous Wittenberg reformer Philipp Melanchthon.

Specialty

• Rücker Hausener cider press house specialties of vultures.
• Chain Bacher spirits distillery Hohler.

Educational institutions

• Astrid Lindgren School ( primary school chain Bach).
• Aartal school Aarbergen ( cooperative comprehensive school Aarbergen -Michel Bach)
• Free School Untertaunus ( Aarbergen chain Bach)