Siegbach
Siegbach is a municipality in the Lahn- Dill-Kreis in Hesse.
- 3.1 Municipal Council
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 6.1 well-known personalities of the community
Geography
Geographical Location
The community Siegbach located in Gladenbacher mountain land in the valley of the eponymous victory creek, which originates very close to the east side of Angel Castle, parts of municipalities flows through succession in north-south direction, and finally joins up with Bischoffen in the Aar.
More than half of the municipal area is forested. The highest point in the municipality is the basic Schmitt with 590 m above sea level. NN, the second highest after the Angel Castle Hill in Gladenbacher Bergland.
Wall rock is on the Bottenhorner high plateaus, which smoothly across the west of the town of Angel castle and Schmitt reason in the Escaut forest; all other districts are inch beech in the west of the natural area.
Neighboring communities
Siegbach bordered to the north by the municipalities Eschenburg (Lahn -Dill -Kreis) and Angel castle, on the east by the municipality of Bad Endbach (both in Marburg- Biedenkopf ), to the south by the municipalities Bischoffen and Mittenaar, in the southwest of the city of Herborn and in the west on the town of Dillenburg (all in the Lahn -Dill -Kreis).
Structure
The municipality comprises the five districts Eisemroth ( council offices ), Oberdorf, Tringenstein, over valley and wall rock.
History
On 1 December 1970, the until then independent municipality Oberndorf was incorporated into the municipality Eisemroth. This concluded in the course of municipal reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971 Tringenstein, over valley and wall rock to the new community Siegbach together.
The municipal area once stood three castles, in Eisemroth (location present church ), in Wall rock and Tringenstein. They were ( 1230-1333 ) built during or shortly after the end of the 100 -year-old Dernbacher feud, the castles Eisemroth and wall rock of the Landgrave of Hesse, the. Tringenstein castle of the Counts of Nassau It related to dominance in this area between the emerging County of Nassau and the country county of Hesse.
Policy
Municipal council
The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:
Coat of arms
Description: In Green, on a gold ( yellow ) sign foot a black coalmines with golden Control, in silver hammer and chisel ( Gezähe ). The coat of arms is the former mining community in the area.
Attractions
The Wilhelm stones, located between the hamlets Tringenstein and Wall Rock, are a group of up to 15 m high in the middle of Eisenkieshärtlingen Schelderwaldes. Every year on Ascension Day is celebrated a forest service for decades between them.
The Wilhelm stones, named after Duke William of Nassau, were formerly called bush stones. They were probably a key pre-Christian sanctuary. Near them on the Angelburg was from the early to the late Middle Ages and an important hub of old trade routes that ran on the longer and shorter watersheds. The coming of the Northeast " High Street / Herborner Road" crossed there the major east -west trade route (Leipzig- Cologne - Messestraße also " Brabant Street "), and the Coming of Leipzig Marburg continue to Cologne to the province of Brabant, ( today was in Belgium). In the narrow region, he was also called " Schelderwald - way" in ancient documents " strada publica" (public road). There resulted also the Westphalia way of coming on the Aar - Salzböde watershed about the current state road 3047, following by casting up to the customs beech, about Günterod and Salzbödesattel west to Hartenrod and Schlierbach over the Angelburg zustrebte. Through its northern continuation could reach over Paderborn to Bremen.
At the Angel Castle ( Hill) a significant prehistoric settlement has been demonstrated.
Ruins: In Tringenstein the castle Tringenstein and Wall rock the castle wall rock.
Energy
The end of 2011, a wind farm with three wind turbines were taken from Nordex N100/2500 in operation. The plants have a hub height of 140 m, a rotor diameter of 100 m and a rated power of 2.5 MW. Operator is Mainova. Every year they are about 16 million kWh produce electrical energy, according to the power consumption of 6400 households.
Personalities
Known personalities in the community
- Bernd Nickel Football Players
- Michael Heck, a pop singer