Diethardt
The municipality is located in Diethardt Blue Country in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Nastaetten.
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Geography
Diethardt is located in the Blue Country between Wiesbaden and Koblenz in western Hintertaunus. The municipality is divided into the districts Diethardt and Munich Roth.
History
The oldest mention of the parish Diethardt dates back to 1260th The counts of Katzenelenbogen to 1479 were lords of the county Katzenelenbogen and thus mountain Stockhausen. Landgraf Ernst of Hessen- Rhein rock made in 1666 for resettlement in the field of completely devastated during the Thirty Years' War the place. Since 1806, the village belonged to the Duchy of Nassau, from 1866 to Prussia. Since 1946 Diethardt is part of Rhineland- Palatinate.
On June 10, 1979, until then independent municipality of Munich Roth was incorporated with a population of over 60 Diethardt.
The development of the population on the territory of the present municipality Diethardt; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Religion
The parish church is associated with the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and the Catholic Diocese of Limburg.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Diethardt consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Culture and sights
Among the attractions in Diethardt include the Protestant village church from the 18th century, by the Rev. Gerhard Helfrich Preuschen as a priest in Diethardt 1722-1746, ( cf. Latin inscription inside the church ) was built on the spot where formerly a earlier, before the Reformation, the Holy Diethardt consecrated, church stood. In ancient Backes home today the library of the municipality is located.
Once a year, the traditional hard Backes is aligned, is baked at the Backes in the old house again breads and cakes; also there for a few years a well hard.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Diethardt
Economy and infrastructure
The former health resort was known until the 1980s, and developed for tourism ( hotel, two restaurants). As a result of demographic change, however, worsened the economic situation in the community, and in 2002 closed the last restaurant.
Since the winter of 2003 was located on the site of the last restaurant a pony farm, the farm pastures reason of the large number of mostly young, female visitors attracted during the holiday season and so that the tourism in the village easily revived. After 2006, the pony moved away, the area is inhabited by a family.
Public institutions
The center of the village life represents Built in the early 1970s the village community center, in the village celebrations are held regularly and each inhabitant is available for use.
Diethardt has a volunteer fire department, which had to move out in 2004 for the first time since the 1960s in a fire use in the district of Munich Roth.
Personalities
From 1998 to 2008 the writer Bjørn Jagnow not able to present numerous literary and professional publications lived in Diethardt. He has received a variety of literary and cultural awards and was nominated for it.
Others
1999 turned the ZDF parts of " A Case for Two " production " from nail to nail ." In the meadows outside the town ransom was dropped for kidnapped paintings. The choice of filming location is due to the Besier family, Wiesbaden merchants who had purchased the former rectory in the 1980s.