Katzenfurt

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Location of Katzenfurt in Ehringhausen

Katzenfurt is a district of the municipality Ehringhausen in central Hesse Lahn- Dill-Kreis.

Geography

The village is situated in the eastern part of the Westerwald, more precisely in the Lower Dilltal. In the south and west borders Daubhausen Greifenthal to Katzenfurt. In the north, the village is surrounded by forest. Nearest large town is the county town of Wetzlar.

History

The place name derives not from the cat, but on the Chatti, a Germanic tribe. The ford had the dill early importance as part of a trade route to the castle Greifenstein.

By Henry of Kaczenfurt the place in the year 1233 is first documented in 1255 was followed by a mention of Mark Kaczenfurt itself

Katzenfurt was assigned to the penny meal from a nearby home Dill, also belonged to it as a branch to the parish. After in 1390 the line of Solms- gripping stone, whose possessions also Katzenfurt heard extinct, the city fell to the Counts of Solms- Burgsolms and finally in 1436 to the Count of Solms- Braunfels.

In the Thirty Years' War, the village was repeatedly attacked and looted. Therefore, some residents from Katzenfurt fled to grasping stone.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the town of the mayor in Aßlar. 1932, the Office mayors were dissolved in a circle Wetzlar, Katzenfurt became an autonomous municipality. In the course of municipal reform in Hesse, until then independent municipality Katzenfurt came on 1 January 1977 by the merger by state law with Ehringhausen and four other municipalities to the new community Ehringhausen.

Transport and Infrastructure

Through the village leads the federal highway 277 in the village branches off from the main road in the direction of the L 3282 Greifenstein -Holzhausen from. In addition, the K 64 of Sinn Enghien coming via Katzenfurt and Daubhausen by Dill home.

The settlement has further a breakpoint on the line dill and served in rail passenger transport.

The place is next to a bakery, village hall and a gymnasium. Katzenfurt also has a volunteer fire department, a kindergarten and a primary school. In the village of the addition, the arbitration board and the local court are located. In Katzenfurt there is one branch of the Sparkasse and Volksbank means Wetzlar Hesse.

Economy

Important and large employers in Katzenfurt are the family HEDRICH Group as an engineering company in the electrical industry and the Luetticke drinks GmbH.

Attractions

Cultural monuments in Katzenfurt

See list of cultural monuments in Katzenfurt