Hadamar
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Hadamar | |
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![]() Hadamar town hall from 1639 | |
Location of Hadamar within Limburg-Weilburg district ![]() | |
Gießen | |
District | Limburg-Weilburg |
Government | |
• Mayor (2021–27) | Michael Ruoff[1] (CDU) |
Area | |
• Total | 40.99 km2 (15.83 sq mi) |
Elevation | 191 m (627 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 13,042 |
• Density | 320/km2 (820/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 65589 |
Dialling codes | 06433 |
Vehicle registration | LM, WEL |
Website | www.hadamar.de |
Hadamar (German pronunciation: [ˈhaːdamaʁ]) is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Hadamar is known for its Clinic for
Geography
Location
Hadamar lies 7 km north of
Neighbouring communities
Hadamar borders in the north on the communities of Dornburg, Elbtal and Waldbrunn, in the east on the community of Beselich, in the south on the town of Limburg and the community of Elz (all in Limburg-Weilburg) and in the west on the community of Hundsangen (in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate).
Constituent communities
The town consists of eight formerly autonomous communities.
- Hadamar (main town)
- Niederhadamar
- Niederzeuzheim
- Oberzeuzheim
- Steinbach
- Oberweyer
- Niederweyer
- Faulbach
History
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Hadamar1.jpg/220px-Hadamar1.jpg)
One of the oldest witnesses to the Hadamar region's settlement is the
Out of all today's constituent communities, Oberweyer and Niederweyer were the first to be mentioned in documents, in 772. The town's name itself did not have its first documentary mention until 832 in a
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Hadamar_Schloss.jpg/220px-Hadamar_Schloss.jpg)
After a devastating fire in the 16th century, there were great changes to the town's appearance in the 17th century. The town had Count, later Prince,
"Hadamar Baroque" earned importance in the field of
The Corrigendenanstalt, the forerunner of today's Centre for Social Psychiatry, was built in 1883 beside the former Franciscan monastery on the Mönchberg. The architect was Building Councillor (Baurat) Eduard Zais, who clearly laid the new facility out using one of his earlier works, the Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Eichberg, designed about 30 years earlier, as a model. The institution served as a
In Nazi Germany, beginning in 1941 at the NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar as it is nowadays called in German (literally: "Hadamar Nazi Killing Facility"), the then state health and care facility on the Mönchberg, at least 14,494 handicapped or mentally ill people, along with those known as "Half-Jews" under the Nuremberg Laws and Ostarbeiter ("Eastern workers") were murdered. Today a memorial recalls these crimes. On the grounds today stands the Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry. Most of Hadamar's Jews were murdered in camps that were farther away. In 1942 alone, 19 Jewish inhabitants were taken away and murdered.
After the
In Hadamar is also found the "Musical Boarding School", since 1969 the rehearsal seat of the Limburger Domsingknaben and since 1998 of the department of church music of the Bishopric of Limburg.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Hadamar_Steinerne_Bruecke_Elbbach.jpg/220px-Hadamar_Steinerne_Bruecke_Elbbach.jpg)
Throughout the town, one comes across witnesses to the past. Among these are the Fürstenschloss (princely residence) with its old stone
Politics
![]() | This section needs to be updated.(July 2021) |
The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:
Parties and voter communities | % 2006 |
seats 2006 |
% 2016 |
seats 2016 | |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 37.0 | 14 | 40.7 | 15 |
SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 17.3 | 6 | 20.5 | 8 |
FWG | Freie Wählergemeinschaft Hadamar
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23.6 | 9 | 22.5 | 8 |
WfH | Wir für Hadamar | 22.1 | 8 | 16.3 | 6 |
Total | 100.0 | 37 | 100.0 | 37 | |
voter turnout in % | 44.5 | 44.9 |
Coat of arms
Hadamar's arms have their roots in a seal image that was already being used in the town of Hadamar and in the outlying countryside by the late 15th century. The crosses in the arms stand for peace and the crossed swords for might.
Main sights
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Hadamar_-_Limburger_Pforte.jpg/220px-Hadamar_-_Limburger_Pforte.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Hadamar_-_Herzenbergkapelle.jpg/220px-Hadamar_-_Herzenbergkapelle.jpg)
In the Old Town (Altstadt), many timber-frame buildings have been preserved, among them the Town Hall (Rathaus) built in 1639 and the Jesuit boarding school (early 17th century) at the Limburg Gate (Limburger Pforte). That is why Hadamar is located on the German Timber-Frame Road.
The Gothic Liebfrauenkirche on the Elbbach was built before 1376 and until 1818 served as the town church. The bell that rings in the churchtower comes from the time of the Thirty Years' War, making it one of Germany's oldest bells still in use. The Baroque Church of St. Johannes Nepomuk, currently serving as the town church, is part of the Jesuit residence (built 1756-1758). The Ägidienkirche (“Saint Giles’s Church”) on the Mönchberg was part of the Franciscan monastery from 1632 to 1816. Thirty-one members of the House of Nassau-Hadamar are buried here. Above the Old Town is the Baroque Herzenbergkapelle (a chapel built about 1676) in which the Hadamar Princes’ hearts are buried. All the churches are decorated in the “Hadamar Baroque” style.
The
At the edge of the Old Town, right on the Elbbach stands the former Nassau residence, Schloss Hadamar, in whose stable is housed the town museum. Within the town, two old bridges have also been preserved, the Steinerne Brücke (“Stone Bridge”) and the St. Wendelinbrücke.
At the Herzenbergkapelle, a rose garden has been laid out. In an area of some 3 000 m2, roughly 2,000 rose plants of over 160 varieties have been planted.
Transport
The town of Hadamar lies on Bundesstraße 54 from Siegen to Limburg.
Hadamar lies on the
Education
There are five primary schools in town, one each in Hadamar, Niederhadamar, Niederzeuzheim, Oberzeuzheim and Steinbach.
Moreover, Hadamar is a centre for glazier training. The Federal vocational school of the glazier's craft and the Erwin-Stein-Schule (state glass vocational school) are located here. The Erwin-Stein-Schule is named after Erwin Stein, one of the fathers of the Hessian state constitution.
Hadamar is seat of the “Musical Boarding School”, where the Limburger Domsingknaben are trained.
People
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Christian_Egenolff00.jpg/160px-Christian_Egenolff00.jpg)
- Johann Wilhelm Bausch (1774-1840) 1834-1840 Bishop of Limburg
- Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851–1913), painter
- Christian Egenolff (1502–1555), Frankfurt's first independent book printer
- Ernst Moritz Engert (1892–1986), silhouette artist and painter
- Karl Faust (1874–1952), German botanist
- Maria Mathi (1889–1961), writer
- Peter Melander von Holzappel (1589–1648), commander in the Thirty Years' War
- Prince Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar (1590–1653), regent, Imperial commissioner and signer of the peace agreement for the Peace of Westphalia
- Gustav Ricker (1870–1948), physician and scientist
- Ruth Stock-Homburg (b. 1972), currently Germany's youngest business studies professor
- André Rudersdorf (b.1995), racing driver
See also
- Hadamar Euthanasia Centre
Notes and references
- Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. 5 September 2022.
- Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2023.
- ^ http://www.graf-von-katzenelnbogen.de/ The History of the County of Katzenelnbogen and the First Riesling of the World
External links
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- Hadamar at Curlie