Oberneisen

Oberneisen is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Hahnstätten.

• 4.1 Structures 4.1.1 Castle Oberneisen
• 4.1.2 Evangelical Church Oberneisen

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Tourism

Geography

Oberneisen lies in the Taunus mountains on the Aar river five miles south of Limburg an der Lahn. In Oberneisen open into the Aar the southeast springing from Kaltenholzhausen Kaltenbach well as the smaller watercourses Welsbach (of Lohrheim Coming ) and the Herbach (of Mensfelden Coming ).

To Oberneisen includes the residential places Herbachmühle, yard Seiter, lime works and Wirth mill.

History

Oberneisen 790 was first mentioned in a deed of Charlemagne as Nasonia documented. This certificate documents the donation upper iron and several surrounding villages to the Prüm Abbey. The place belonged first to the Lahngau, later resulting therefrom County Diez. From the 15th century, the country splintered rule over Oberneisen between the House of Nassau, Eppstein, Katzenelenbogen, the country county of Hesse and the Electorate of Trier.

For 1092, a court in Oberneisen is detected. At the end of the 13th century it was seat of a parish, which belonged to several surrounding villages was. From 1334 Schultheiße in Oberneisen are guaranteed, from 1412 Heimberger.

In the Thirty Years' War, the village was completely destroyed and later rebuilt. In the wake of the Napoleonic reorganization by the Act of Confederation Oberneisen was taken over by the Duchy of Nassau in 1806. Following annexation by Prussia of the site from 1866 until the end of the Second World War, part of the Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau and came after the state of Rhineland -Palatinate.

In Oberneisen are the ruins of the Bailiwick Oberneisen. The knights held the bailiwick of the congregation of St. Alban against Mainz. Have been preserved only the foundation walls of the once four-story tower.

Between 1569 and 1620 the parish priest in the village for the first time granted education. 1632 the first school house was built, in which students from across the parish went to 1819.

Economy

893 is the first time a mill at Oberneisen mentioned.

In the district Oberneisen the reduction of hematite and phosphorite took place. Mining must have been there already before 1648, since this year, the field name "In the Eysengrub " first appears. Real deep mining began only much later in the pit Rothenberg, are still preserved by the remnants of factory buildings and the Halden. Finds of rhodochrosite / Himbeerspat ( rhodochrosite ) from active mining time can be seen in Wiesbaden Museum Wiesbaden.

Population Development

1529 are 29 households in Oberneisen vouches, 119 inhabitants in 1588 and 1684 after the Thirty Years' War, only 15 inhabited houses. 1716, the population again indicated with 194, including for the first time two Jews. 1800 were counted 263 inhabitants.

Parish council

The local council in Oberneisen consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Culture and sights

Structures

Castle Oberneisen

The 1288 first mentioned building was the seat of the Lords of Nesen. From the castle is only the former western exterior wall, about 20 meters long, one meter thick and four stories high wall, which is located opposite the round church obtained.

Evangelical Church Oberneisen

Shortly before 881 the abbey of Prüm had built a church in Upper iron. Between 1021 and 1031 a successor building was dedicated. He was succeeded by a church, from which a still existing, late Romanesque tower dates. 1525, the choir of the church was completely rebuilt, in 1733 the whole building fundamentally repaired. 1815, the building was torn down to the old tower.

From 1816 to 1819, a new round church in the classical style, designed by Friedrich Ludwig shrink and financed by the municipalities Lohrheim, Netzbach and Oberneisen built. The Romanesque west tower was incorporated into the new building. The " Cathedral of Aartals " said Church, as far as known, the only round church north of the Alps, where the altar is located in the center of the room. The round altar consists of a marble slab with 1.75 meters in diameter. The church has 230 seats on the ground floor and offers on the gallery 350 other people space.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Oberneisen

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

West of the town runs in a north -south direction, the B 54 The nearest motorway junctions are at the A 3 in Limburg, about nine kilometers northeast of Oberneisen. Oberneisen has a station on the disused since 1986 on this section for passenger Aartalbahn. The nearest railway station is the Limburg Süd station. In December 2014, the Aartalbahn to be reactivated on the stretch of Limburg after customs house for public transport with an hour. Oberneisen is expected to be a breakpoint.

Tourism

In Oberneisen located south of the former railway station of Aartalbahn in the so-called Erbslöhalle the depot of the Working Group Aartalbahn, offered from which trolley rides on the Aartalbahn who every year are used by thousands of visitors.