Dachsenhausen
Dachsenhausen is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Loreley. Dachsenhausen is a nationally recognized tourist.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 Structures
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geographical location
Dachsenhausen located in the western Hintertaunus, in the northeast of the Middle Rhine Taunus. Average about 2.7 km south-west rise the maximum of 456.6 m above sea level. NN high roof heads, at half the distance between the High Forest ( 441 m) and on the outskirts, the Heise trees (410 m) with good visibility over the Höchflächen and Kemeler back of the western Hintertaunus, to the Taunus main ridge of the eastern Upper Taunus the Great Feldberg.
Neighboring towns are Becheln ( north ), Kehlbach (northeast ), Niederbachheim ( east ), Oberbachheim ( south east ) and Winterwerb ( south ).
History
The first mention as Dossinhusin in a Braubacher deed dated 29 September 1277th In the 16th century, the spelling of the name of Dassin moved to Daxen.
The name Opel, ancestors of Adam Opel, founder of the Adam Opel GmbH, has already been documented for the year 1573. Since that time, numerous bearers of this name are detected in Dachsenhausen, mainly in the locally modified form Obel.
In the turmoil after he French Revolution by French troops occupied the office Braubach was the Duchy of Nassau connected with Dachsenhausen 1806, which were the princes of the House of Nassau - Usingen as compensation for loss of linksrheinschem area of the Hesse- Darmstadt. The Duchy of Nassau was annexed in 1866 by Prussia.
1901 Dachsenhausen was connected with the Nassau small train to the railway network. In the same year a water pipeline was laid.
Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate. The village belonged to from 1972 to 2012 the municipality Braubach.
Religion
In 1356 the church came in Dachsenhausen Parish Niederbachheim. With the passage of the Landgrave of Hesse Philip I to Protestantism in the early 16th century during the Reformation Dachsenhausen was Protestant.
Church assignment
The place is associated with Church of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau bzw.dem Catholic Diocese of Limburg.
Population Development
Due to the Angabene a count list in 1573, going from a population of 100 to 150 for this time off. 1822 there were 63 farms, 89 families and 410 inhabitants. Today the town has about 1,050 inhabitants.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Dachsenhausen consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Allocation of seats in the local council:
Coat of arms
The coat of arms description reads: "In gold, a green mountain, it standing close together a small stocky black, green leafy oak and left a big black burly, green-leaved beech, such that they form a common crown and have the appearance of a split tree. Bottom lateral three over the mountain edge addition monitored through this green and gold split ears of corn. "
Culture and sights
Structures
The construction of the Protestant Church took place in the years 1834-1835 in late classical style based and replaced an older church was consecrated on 10 October 1835. The 33 m high tower was built back in 1712.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Dachsenhausen