Katzenelnbogen

Katzenelenbogen is a town in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Katzenelenbogen, who also belongs. Katzenelenbogen is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

• 5.1 City Council
• 5.2 twinning

• 6.1 Structures
• 6.2 Regular events

• 7.1 traffic

• 8.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Location and geography

The city Katzenelenbogen located in the northeast of Rhineland- Palatinate in institutions, one between 250 and 450 meters high, the northwestern part of the Taunus. By Katzenelenbogen runs south-eastern limits of the Natural Park Nassau.

The old nucleus is located in the valley of Dörsbaches to 280 meters above sea level. NN and runs up to 300 meters above sea level. NN the Katzenelnbogen castle hill. Newer buildings from the second half of the 20th century extending to the immediately surrounding heights, it is close to agricultural land and forest. The surrounding area rises in the south to 400 meters above sea level. NN, while the landscape in the north with 300 to 350 meters above sea level. NN forms a plateau with valleys.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 697 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 39% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 1.6 times more precipitation than in February. Precipitation varies only slightly and are distributed extremely evenly throughout the year. At only 3% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

Neighboring communities

The city is bordered to the north directly to the place Klingelbach. Another neighboring community is Allendorf, which is about one kilometer to the east. The nearest regional center is the city northeast located Diez.

History

The Katzenelenbogen castle was built around 1095 Bleidenstädter Vogteigut. In the same year also dates the documentary first mention of the place. After the castle named since about 1138 a Counts, which was with the Swabians at the time in kinship connection. During the interregnum, it acquired considerable estates. Around 1260 the brothers Diether and Eberhard divided the county among themselves who controlled himself only in 1402 reunited and then an area from the Odenwald to the lower Lahn, but separated into two parts, the so-called lower county to Katzenelenbogen and St. Goar and the so-called Obergrafschaft in the Rhine -Main- triangle around Darmstadt. To the former belonged to places like Braubach and St. Goar, the latter Rüsselsheim, wholesale Gerau, Darmstadt and forcing mountain.

A significant source of revenue to gave the house through tariffs on ships that sailed the Rhine, and in the which he founded in Darmstadt, on the mountain road, a trade route that led from Heidelberg to Frankfurt am Main. This made ​​it one of the richest counties of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

The counts of Katzenelenbogen played an important role and should have has one of the largest silver hoards in Germany, the politically adept used to forgive loans to other generations and thus secured their influence. The house presented, inter alia, Bishops of Münster and Osnabrück, with Diether von Katzenelenbogen towards the end of the 12th century a Chancellor of the kingdom, and a mother of King Adolf of Nassau. Diether VI. of Katzenelenbogen was awarded city rights for Katzenelenbogen for his services on July 19, 1312 Emperor Henry VII. After 1330 Darmstadt was elevated to a city, the Counts of Katzenelenbogen moved their permanent seat of power there. The further development of the city Katzenelenbogen stagnated thereafter.

1479 died, the counts from the male line. His tenure was, after major inheritance disputes with Nassau, 1557 final to the country county of Hesse. Here again raided the southern parts later to the Hesse- Darmstadt, the north of Hesse-Kassel. From 1798 to 1814, the west of the Rhine -lying parts of the county Katzenelenbogen (Rhein rock, St. Goar and Pfalzfeld ) belonged to the First French Republic. The Hessian part in 1815 in the Duchy of Nassau. After the German war Katzenelenbogen came 1866 to the Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau. As part of the Prussian government reform Katzenelenbogen lost its city rights.

The incipient industrialization of Germany after 1850 brought a gradual improvement of the living conditions for the residents Katzenelsohn arc. However, the place was dominated by agriculture until the Second World War. This changed in the 1950s with the creation of new jobs, particularly in the neighboring metropolitan centers in the context of the economic miracle.

1946, the state of Rhineland -Palatinate was formed. For the 650 - year celebration of the city status in 1962 Katzenelenbogen was again awarded city rights. 1972 came in the wake of the Rhineland-Palatinate " functional and territorial reform " to form the municipality Katzenelenbogen whose administrative seat is the city Katzenelenbogen.

Coat of arms

The lion is the heraldic animal of the Counts of Katzenelenbogen. The Lion of Katzenelnbogen is also in the coats of arms of Darmstadt, Auerbach ( Bensheim -Auerbach ), Zwingenberg ADB, Pfungstadt, clean (Odenwald ) and see St. Goar.

Etymology

The origin of the name " Katzenelenbogen " is not finally resolved. He could go back to the Latin name Cattimelibocus. Catti or Chatti goes back to the Germanic people of the Chatti, today's Hesse, while Melibocus mountain or mountain range means. In the immediate vicinity there are several tumuli fields. This reflects a very early settlement. The term Katzenelenbogen first appears below the count.

Another interpretation says that Cattimelibocus is not of Roman origin but a learned education of the late medieval and early modern period. The 1102 yielded as Cazenelebogen name, according to this reading mean nothing other than cats elbows, perhaps by the curvature of the Dörsbachs.

Policy

City ​​council

The council Katzenelenbogen consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

Allocation of seats in the elected City Council:

Twinning

Katzenelenbogen has since 1990 been twinned with the French town of Serres ( Hautes- Alpes).

Culture and sights

Structures

The Katzenelenbogen castle dates from the 11th century. Get the wall, a gate tower and built in the 16th century main house.

The Catholic Church of St. Peter was built in 1874 /75 Neo-Gothic style. Striking feature is the high altar made ​​in 1906.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Katzenelenbogen

Regular events

On the penultimate weekend in August, hosted by the home club Einricher Bartholomew market takes place. It goes back to an inserted after the city's founding in 1312 market, which was transformed over time from the weekly market to the fair.

Since 2007, the Katzenelnbogen jousting place on the first weekend in June, inspired by the historic rings stinging, which can be seen on an old view Katzenelsohn arc.

Economy and infrastructure

The city Katzenelenbogen is as a center of the central shopping facilities for the surrounding villages in the institutions. Other sources of income of the city are tourism, two nursing homes and a specialized clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy. This clinic is in with their regional catchment area and its approximately 3,000 patients (approximately 750 inpatient and 2,300 outpatient) per year, the largest employer in the city.

Traffic

Katzenelenbogen located away from busy roads. Connected is the place on the B274 to St. Goar and the Aar and the B54 at the Customs House. The national road 318 via Diez for B54 to Limburg. Bus lines of the Rheingau -Taunus- transport company connect Katzenelenbogen several times a day with Wiesbaden, Limburg and St. Goar. Until the 1950s Katzenelenbogen was connected via Nassauische small train to the rail network.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Meir Katzenellenbogen (1482-1565), Talmudic scholar, Rabbi of Padua and Venice
• Stefan Römer, (* 1960), German artist, art historian and professor
• Armin Scholl (born 1966 ), economist, Professor of Managerial Decision Analysis