Dornburg, Hesse

Thorn Castle is a municipality in the Westerwald in Limburg- Weilburg in Hesse.

• 3.1 Municipal Council
• 3.2 Parish Council
• 3.3 Mayor

• 4.1 Literature
• 4.2 Miscellaneous

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Education
• 5.3 Facilities

Geography

Dornburg bordered on the west and north by the municipalities Westerwald circle ( Rhineland -Palatinate ); the other neighboring communities also belong to the district of Limburg -Weilburg. The community area is 3321 hectares, of which 979 hectares of forest, of which 922 acres are owned by the municipality.

Structure

The community consists of five districts:

• Frickhofen ( council offices )
• Langendernbach
• Wilsenroth (state- recognized health resort )
• Dorndorf ( nationally recognized resort )
• Thalheim

History

The "Thorn Castle ", which in 1971 gave the church after the merger of her parent her name, is an approximately 396 -meter -high hill, on which the remains of a ring wall of the La Tène period ( 5th to 1st century BC ). located In her lay a city like Celtic settlement. On the Blasiusberg there was a place of pagan worship. The later built there Christian chapel served until 1734 as a parish church for eleven villages of the area.

The establishment of the five villages that make today the community is thorn castle, is back partly over 1200 years. Thus, the first recorded mention of Wilsenroth dated (then Welsenderode, ie the area that was cleared by Wille Are ) and Langendernbach donated to the year 879 when Count Gebhard in Lahngau her goods to the monastery of St. Severus in Gemünden.

The first mention of Dorndorf (then Torndorph ) dates from the year 772 The establishment of Frickhofen (of Fridechuba, about umfriedeter yard ) took place 802-812.

1636 the plague raged in Dornburg. In Dorndorf survived only one family.

The community thorn castle was founded on 1 February 1971 at the framework of municipal reform in Hesse through the voluntary merger of three previously independent municipalities Frickhofen, Dorndorf and Wilsenroth in Limburg. On December 31, 1971, Thalheim joined. Finally the town Langendernbach was incorporated on July 1, 1974 by operation of law.

Policy

Municipal council

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

Parish Council

The parish council consists of the mayor and aldermen 10. Here, too, is now making the CDU absolute majority.

Mayor

When choosing 1 February 2009 won Andreas Hofner (CDU ) with 68.9 % of votes cast in the first ballot against the incumbent since 1997, Mayor Dieter Hilbert ( SPD). The turnout was 62.4 %. The term of office of Andreas Hofner began on August 1, 2009.

Attractions

See also: List of cultural monuments in Dornburg (Hessen)

• The Blasius chapel, first recorded in 803, in the district Frickhofen to 1746 was the center of the parish Frickhofen. The chapel was dedicated to the Archangel Michael.
• The " parish church Frickhofen " was built in 1732. Of the original church, the tower and the choir are still preserved. These components have been complemented by a conversion 1955/56, to enlarge the church. The church has a large Baroque altar of Hadamar school.
• The neo-Romanesque " parish church of St. Matthias ' to Langendernbach with " 800 -year-old linden ".
• Parish church of " St. Margaret " Dorndorf on the foundations of a castle tower from the 10th century

• The " courtyard house " in Langendernbach
• The " Jewish cemetery " in the district Frickhofen
• The monument in Wilsenroth to commemorate the war dead of both World Wars
• The local museum in Wilsenroth

• The "Thorn Castle " as the remains of a Celtic oppidum with Ring Wall
• The " Eternal Ice" at the foot of spine castle in the district Wilsenroth, a Geotop of the National Geopark Westerwald- Lahn- Taunus. Here let air currents freeze in winter moisture to ice under the loose basalt boulders of the mountain. The air dries and heats up, rises to the top and keeps the surface of the scree snow. In summer, the air flow is reversed. Then warm air flows from the top of the heap, Slowing Significantly and occurs as a stream of cold air at the bottom again. The good insulation through the basalt boulders can be up to eight feet deep extending into the bottom layer of ice never completely defrost in the summer. This phenomenon is unique in Hesse. In 1839 it was discovered by workers at the basalt mining and today can be viewed through two artificial tunnels. These were applied to the cool storage of beer from a brewery that had been erected in the immediate vicinity because of this natural cooling facility in 1869.

St. Matthias Church in Langendernbach with the "800 -year-old linden "

Remains of the Rödchensmauer, the ring wall of the castle Thorn