Bischoffen

Bischoffen is a municipality in the Lahn- Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.

• 3.1 Municipal Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms 3.2.1 district coat of arms Bischoffen

• 4.1 Cultural Monuments in Bischoffen

Geography

Geographical Location

Bischoffen located in Niederweidbacher pool at the Aartal lock. This is the Aar, dammed a left tributary of the dill to a 57 -acre lake, the main flood protection is used, but is now also used for recreational activities.

Neighboring communities

Bischoffen bordered to the north by the municipality of Bad Endbach and the city Glad stream, in the east on the community Lohra (all three in Marburg- Biedenkopf ), in the southeast on the community Biebertal ( Gießen district ), in the south on the community Hohenahr, in the southwest to the community Mittenaar and in the west on the community of Siegbach (all three in the Lahn -Dill -Kreis).

Structure

The municipality consists of the villages Bischoffen Bischoffen, Niederweidbach ( council offices ), Oberweidbach, Rossbach and Wilsbach.

History

Low and Oberweidbach have been first mentioned around the year 800 in the Codex Eberhardi the monastery of Fulda. The first mention of the other locations were the late 13th to the early 14th century. The villages belonging to different religious and secular lords, over time, the county acquired Solms, however, associated with property divisions, pledges and feuds large parts of today's municipal area.

Between the dominions of the Landgrave of Hesse, the Elector of Mainz, the Free Imperial City of Wetzlar and the Count of Nassau, the political situation was always restless. In the Thirty Years' War the inhabitants distress, tribulation and destruction suffered. Of these, the locations are only slowly recovered.

The present town Bischoffen was divided in the middle ages in the two villages of Upper and Lower Bischoffen. Military actions and the plague 1356-1432 was top Bischoffen due to famine, desolate. Lower Bischoffen was only mentioned in later documents Bischoffen. After the decline of the old Cologne - Leipzig - trade route to the Dernbacher feud that over the long watersheds ( Glad Bach, Rachel Hausen, Hülshof, Angelburg, Lixfeld ) proceeded, won the new route of the younger Cologne - Leipzig - trade route in Aartal important. It ran from Dillenburg / Herborn coming over Offenbach, Bischoffen, Niederweidbach, Rossbach, Altenvers to Marburg. An appendix to the Hessian Außenheege (Central Hessian Landheegen ) blocked the road at Bischoffen with a hessian inch of stroke. The successor of the ancient trade route is today's B 255, but from Niederweidbach differs from the old lines.

The solmsische Office Königsberg, including Bischoffen formerly belonged, Hesse and Solms managed equally. On October 30, 1628 Hesse- Darmstadt and the County of Solms contract concluded that the Office Königsberg finally entered the country county. Since that time the villages of the church today Bischoffen belonged until 1866 to Hesse -Darmstadt. Thereafter, they were until 1945 the Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau, County Biedenkopf, slammed.

In the course of municipal reform in Hesse communities Bischoffen, Niederweidbach, Oberweidbach and Wilsbach joined on a voluntary basis on 1 July 1974 Bischoffen community together. The community Rossbach was incorporated into the municipality Niederweidbach on April 1, 1972.

Due to its geographical location and economic orientation, the community Bischoffen was assigned to the district of Wetzlar on July 1, 1974, went with this on 1 January 1977 in the Lahn- Dill-Kreis on.

Policy

Municipal council

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

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on December 18, 1987 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon: "With a silver wave beams diagonally left divided shield in blue above the einwärtsgekehrte golden crook of a bishop's staff, down in a green golden shell. "

The diagonally left shaft bar symbolizes the flowing through the municipality Aar, while the crookedness of the bishop rod is the name of the community. The scallop shell is the symbol of one of the figures, which is at the altar of the Evangelical Marienkirche Niederweidbach, Saint James. Niederweidbach was on a St. James since 1357.

District coat of arms Bischoffen

The coat of arms was approved on April 26, 1957 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon: ". Azure, a rising rotbewehrter silver lion with a golden crosier in his right fore-paw "

Attractions

Cultural monuments in Bischoffen

See list of cultural monuments in Bischoffen