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Coin mountain is a city in the Wetterau district, in Hesse.

3.1 City Council
3.2 twinning

5.1 street
5.2 Railway
5.3 bus

Geography

Coin mountain lies on the northern edge of the Wetterau region at an altitude of 202 m above sea level. NN, 7.5 miles north-east of Butzbach, and is traversed by the river weather. Coin mountain consists of the districts Gambach, coins, Upper - Hörgern and Trai.

Coin mountain borders in the north on the town Pohl home, on the east by the cities of Lich and Hungen (all three in Gießen district ), in the southeast on the community Woelfersheim, in the south on the community of Rocky Mount and to the west by the city of Butzbach ( all three in the Wetterau ).

History

Middle Ages

The village coins Hill was built as a settlement around the castle coins mountain that was built in the second half of the 12th century for Kuno I von Hagen- Arnsburg who called himself since at least 1156 after the castle Kuno I of coins mountain. 1245 settlement town rights.

Coin mountain was in 1255 as allodium to Münzenberger inheritance, the estate of Ulrich II of coins mountain. The Münzenberger inheritance was divided between six of his sisters, but continues to be managed as Kondominat together. So initially each received a share:

Adelheid married to Reinhard I of Hanau
Isengard, married to Count Philip I of Falkenstein
Mechtild, married with Engelhard Weinberg
Irmengard, married to Conrad of Weinsberg
Hedwig, married to Heinrich von Pappenheim
Agnes, married to Conrad of Schöneberg

The rights to the shares - and thus the right to rule over coins mountain - were inherited and partly sold, so that always made different owners' associations. The individual owners integrated their respective share in the administrative structures of their own dominion, in the reign and later county of Hanau, the proportion was, for example, associated with the local office Coins mountain, in the County of Stolberg- Roßla the local office Ortenberg. The allocation of shares to individual owners developed as follows:

15/48

As early as 1183 clerics mentioned in the place, but not until 1376 separates the local church of the Mother Church in Trai's and becomes an independent parish. The patronage of the church is pro rata for the Ganerbschaft, the successors of Münzenberger inheritance. The village belonged to the diocese of Mainz. Church Safety Authority was the Archdeacon of St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz, Office of the Dean Friedberg.

Several monasteries were talking in coins Bergwirtschaft yards, so the convent Arnsburg, the Dominican monastery in Frankfurt and the Antonite in Grünberg.

Modern Times

The share owned on the Kondominat, which also includes coins mountain belonged, were mostly members of the Wetterau Count association or were close to him. Therefore, sat here in the second half of the 16th century, the Reformation, ultimately in its Reformed expression.

With the dissolution of the old territorial structures in the Napoleonic era coins Mountain was added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. However, it was until the administrative reform of 1821 further to partially unable magnificent region to 18/48 the grand-ducal office Butzbach to 15/48 the civil gorgeous - Solms- Braunfelsischen Office Spins, to 10/48 the civil gorgeous - Stolberg- Ortenberg Office Ortenberg and belonged to 5/48 the civil gorgeous - Solms- Laubachischen Office Utphe. 1821 then the District Administrator District Butzbach was formed, which belonged to the Grand Duke and the Stolbergische share, while the District Administrator District Hungen was responsible for the Solms 's share. All this was summarized in 1841 in district Hungen. During the Revolution of 1848 coins mountain belonged to the government district Friedberg, 1852 the district Friedberg, who came up in 1972 in the Wetterau. 1957 coins mountain was again city.

Incorporations

In the course of municipal reform in Hesse, the city Miinzenberg was incorporated into the municipality Gambach on October 1, 1971 the community Gambach was named coins mountain and the right to the community Miinzenberg attributable term " city " to continue. On December 31, 1971, the municipalities Trai coins mountain and upper Hörgern ( Gießen district ) were incorporated into the new city coins mountain.

Population Development

Policy

City Council

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

Twinning

Coin mountain has a partnership with Ronneburg in Thuringia.

Attractions

The coins mountain castle was built in the second half of the 12th century. It is one of the most important castles in Germany. Due to the remote view of the castle, it is referred to as the " Wetterau inkpot ."
Noteworthy is the Protestant parish church with a Altarziborium ( aisle ) and the late Gothic crucifix ( with real hair) above the altar.
The Roman Catholic Church is housed in the former hospital church.
Geological Garden Miinzenberg

Traffic

Road

Coin mountain is accessible by the highway 488 and highway access Coins mountain on the Autobahn 45. On neighboring Gambacher cross the motorway take 5 ( Hattenbacher Triangle Weil am Rhein) and the A 45 (Dortmund -Aschaffenburg ).

Railway

The coins mountain station is situated on the main route Butzbach Butzbach the Lich - Lich Railway (BLE ). He went along with the route on 28 March 1904 in operation. Here passenger was abandoned on 27 May 1961. The freight was discontinued September 26, 1985 between Mountain Coins and Coin Mountain Trai.

Today, the Münzenberger station terminus of trains of the railway museum of railway enthusiasts is Wetterau Association ( EfW ). The trains travel the route on Griedel and rock mountain to Bad Nauheim North. In the freight timber is loaded here, which is driven on the Main- Weser Railway over the Butzbach Ost station. The reception hall of the station coins mountain is now a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.

Bus

Coin mountain belongs to the area of the Rhine -Main Transport Association ( RMV). In the resort buses stop VGO lines FB -200 and FB -210, which connect Miinzenberg with Butzbach, Lich and Beienheim.

Born in Miinzenberg

Johann Nikolaus Misler (1614-1683), Lutheran theologian
John Casimir piston of Wartenberg (1643-1712), born in Metz, Prussian Prime Minister
Theodor Morell (1886-1948), born in the village of Trai, doctor, 1936-1945 Adolf Hitler's personal physician
Nikolai Weber ( * 1980 ), handball players

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