Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's

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region in

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. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the

Lahn-Dill-Kreis Lahn-Dill is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Siegen-Wittgenstein, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen, Wetteraukreis, Hochtaunuskreis, Limburg-Weilburg, Westerwaldkreis. History The southern district ...

. The town lies on the German-

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holiday road called the Orange Route, joining towns, cities and regions associated with the

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, as well as on the

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and the

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trail.

Geography

Location

Dillenburg lies on the eastern edge of the

Westerwald The Westerwald (; literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the States of Germany, German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Ma ...

range in the narrow valley of the river

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, which flows from Hesse-Westphalia border to

Wetzlar Wetzlar () is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is the twelfth largest city in Hesse with currently 55,371 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019 (including second homes). As an important cultural, industrial and commercial center, the un ...

, emptying into the

Lahn The Lahn () is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the States of Germany, federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). ...

. The

Dietzhölze The Dietzhölze is a river of Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Dill in Dillenburg. At the confluence with the Dill, the Dietzhölze is somewhat longer than its parent river, but has a much smaller catchment area (88 km² compared to 162 km² fo ...

flows into the

in Dillenburg. Dillenburg02

Neighbouring communities

Dillenburg borders in the north on the community of

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, in the east on the community of

Siegbach Siegbach is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location The community of Siegbach lies in the Lahn-Dill Highland in the valley of its namesake brook, the Siegbach, which empties into the Aar to the south at B ...

, in the south on the town of Herborn, and the community of Breitscheid, and in the west on the town of

Haiger Haiger is a country town in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. The nearest city is Siegen, about 25 km north of Haiger. Geography Location Haiger lies about 5 km west of Dillenburg, and 20 km southeast of Siegen on the eastern ...

(all in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis).

Constituent communities

Dillenburg is divided into the centres of Donsbach, Eibach, Frohnhausen, Manderbach, Nanzenbach, Niederscheld and Oberscheld.

Donsbach

Donsbach lies approximately 4 km southwest of the Dillenburg main town.

Eibach

Eibach has some 1,450 inhabitants. The village, whose livelihood was once based on

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, lies among the other constituent communities of Nanzenbach, Oberscheld and Niederscheld. Its healing spring, whose water is heavy with

iron Iron is a chemical element; it has symbol Fe () and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's o ...

, makes the village a favourite among locals. At

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time, it is decorated.

Frohnhausen

With roughly 3,900 inhabitants, Frohnhausen is the largest of the constituent communities after the main town of Dillenburg.

Manderbach

Manderbach lies on a

plateau In geology and physical geography, a plateau (; ; : plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side. ...

3 km north of the main town of Dillenburg.

Nanzenbach

Nanzenbach lies approximately 6 km north of the main town of Dillenburg. The tallest mountain of Dillenburg, the

at an elevation of 589 m, is part of the Nanzenbach area.

Niederscheld

Niederscheld is a village with about 3000 inhabitants, lying 2 km from the main town of Dillenburg. The name comes from a small brook called the Schelde that rises between Oberscheld and Tringenstein and flows into the Dill at Niederscheld. The village's greatest hallmarks are the old

blast furnace A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. ''Blast'' refers to the combustion air being supplied above atmospheric pressure. In a ...

and the Adolfshütte

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. Towards the end of the

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, the village suffered comparatively heavy damage from Allied air raids. Niederscheld had been appointed a target, because parts for the

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were built at the Adolfshütte.

Oberscheld

Oberscheld is a village of about 2,000 inhabitants. It neighbours Niederscheld. Mining was quite important for Oberscheld until the last blast furnace was closed in 1969. Oberscheld had a station, the last train ran in Oberscheld in 1987.

History

Dillenburg had its first documentary mention in 1254. Dillenburg was the ancestral seat of the Orange branch of the

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. Dillenburg Castle was built on top of the peak now called the Schlossberg in the late 13th or early 14th century. There are no pictures of this castle, however, as it was wooden, and was destroyed in the

Dernbacher Feud The Dernbach Feud (German: ''Dernbacher Fehde'') was an over 100-year-long (c. 1230 – 1333) ongoing dispute in present-day Germany between the House of Nassau, several knightly families, and the Landgrave of Hesse. The conflict erupted mainly ove ...

. From his stately home in exile,

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, who was born in Dillenburg, organized the Dutch resistance against

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(1567–1572), which still occasions regular Dutch royal visits to the town to this day. The land was administered by the presidents of the House of Nassau-Dillenburg. One of the last presidents was Georg Ernst Ludwig Freiherr von Preuschen von und zu Liebenstein (born 1727 in Diethardt; died 1794 in

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). In the

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, the stately home was destroyed (1760), and Wilhelmstraße (a street) was built out of the remains. In 1797, one of the earliest schools of forestry in Europe, founded a decade earlier at Hungen by Georg Ludwig Hartig, was moved to Dillenburg. It continued in Dillenburg until 1805, when Hartig lost his position as Inspector of Forests for the Prince of Orange-Nassau, when the principality was dissolved by

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. In 1875, the Wilhelmsturm (tower), views from which can be seen in this article, was completed on the Schlossberg. It is today the town's landmark. The "casemates" under the former stately home are among the biggest defensive works in

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. They have been partly excavated and may be toured. In the 19th century came the

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with the building of the

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and the use of

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found on the Lahn, Dill and Sieg. Many mines,

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and metalworking operations came into being in the region. In this time, many railway branchlines were built from Dillenburg to, among other places, Gönnern and Ewersbach. These lines have all been abandoned now. The line to Gönnern was abandoned in 1987 and torn up. The railway depot, so useful in the time of steam traction, was shut down in 1983. In the

, Dillenburg became a target of Allied attacks due to its

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. In later years that yard was closed and ore mining became ever less profitable and in 1968, the last blast furnace, in Oberscheld, ceased operations. As of November 2017, the town's name was officially extended to "Oranienstadt Dillenburg" to reference Dillenburg's special connection to the

as its ancestral seat.

Eibach

Eibach's history began in "Nassau times" in the 13th century. In 1313, the village had its first documentary mention. In the Second World War, it was left unscathed. In 2004, the healing spring was renovated, and a brineworks was built.

Manderbach

Manderbach had its first documentary mention in 1225, making it older than the main town of Dillenburg (1254). The two former villages – nowadays parts of Dillenburg – Frohnhausen and Manderbach, had much in common in their early history. Here the two noble families von Hunsbach and von Selbach both held sway. As in Frohnhausen, there was also a great fire in Manderbach – albeit 148 years before Frohnhausen's – which, having been started by a

lightning strike A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning ...

, burnt 38 houses down within an hour and a half on 29 April 1630.

Nanzenbach

The name Nanzenbach was mentioned for the first time in a document on 8 May 1325. This document mentions "die Nantzenbecher" — "the inhabitants of Nanzenbach".

Population development

(in each case on 31 December) *1998 - 25,053 *1999 - 25,124 *2000 - 25,092 *2001 - 25,017 *2002 - 24,923 *2003 - 24,681 *2004 - 24,533

Coat of arms

The oldest town seals, dating from the 15th to 19th centuries, show the same composition as Dillenburg's current civic

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon f ...

. The arms were conferred officially in 1907 and confirmed in 1934. The lion inside the gateway is the Lion of Nassau

Culture and sightseeing

Museums

* ''Wilhelmsturm'' (tower) with the Orange-Nassau Museum * "Villa Grün" museum of economic history * The "Casemates", old defensive structures. * ''Hessisches Landgestüt'' (≈ Hessian State Stud Farm) with coach museum in the Orangery. "Living Museum" about the

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Buildings

* ''Wilhelmsturm'' (tower) built in 1872 - 1875 * The "Casemates", old defensive structures.from the 16th century * The Evangelische Town Church from 1491 * The ''Dillturm'' (tower) from 1597 * The old rectory from 1531–1533 * The ''Untertor'' (Lower Gate) from 1344 (alterations in 1594 and 1737) * Manderbach Church

Parks

In Donsbach is a wildlife park.

Hiking trails

The following trails go through or begin in Dillenburg: * The ''

'' from Dillenburg to

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* The ''Schlösserweg'' from Dillenburg to Düsseldorf -Benrath * The ''Dillweg'' from

* The ''Uplandweg'' from Dillenburg to

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Regular events

* Jazz-Weekend, in June * ''Kirschenmarkt'' (cherry market), in June * Aquarena-Nacht, in July * Hubertus-Markt, in October * Hengstparade des Hessischen Landgestüts (stallion parade) * Maypole Festival in Eibach, at the beginning of May * '' Rocknacht'' music festival in Eibach, in summer.

Other

* Brineworks and healing spring, Eibach

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

The bypass on Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B277 opened in April 2007. It is a

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under the Schlossberg, bypassing the historic Old Town with its

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houses and it was one of Germany's biggest tunnel projects. As a result of the bankruptcy of the contractor for the works, Walter Bau, completion of the project was delayed by more than a year.

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is on the Dill line, part of the original Cologne-Gießen Railway. It runs from

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and connects central Hesse with the

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and the

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. The Heller Valley Railway, runs from Betzdorf via Burbach to Dillenburg. The Dillenburg station was once a major freight terminal for iron mining in the Schelderwald.

Established businesses

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Mitte (OT Oberscheld) * Funkenerosionstechnik Hartwig Hermann * INDEN Design * Isabellenhütte Heusler GmbH & Co. KG * Linde & Wiemann * Ströher-Keramik *

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Dillenburg Works * TSR Recycling GmbH & Co. KG Dillenburg Branch * Volksbank Dill eG * Weber Kunststofftechnik

Media

* Dill-Post * Dill-Zeitung

Public institutions

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* Dill-Kliniken (

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) * Deaconate *

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Dillkreis chapter * Lahn-Dill Youth Office * Lahn-Dill ''Jugendbildungswerk'' * ''Lebenshilfe'' for the mentally handicapped ''Kreisvereinigung für den ehem. Dillkreis e.V. '' (District association for the former Dill district) * Lahn-Dill Social Office

Education

* Gewerbliche Schulen (

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) * Goldbachschule (Haupt- and Realschule) * Juliane-von-Stolberg-Schule (

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) * Johann-von-Nassau-Schule ( Haupt- and

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) * Kaufmännische Schulen (vocational school) * Kindergartens (

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, municipal, ''Arbeiterwohlfahrt'' erman workers' welfare * Lahn-Dill-Akademie (

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) * Otfried-Preußler-Schule für Praktisch Bildbare (

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) * Roteberg-Schule (primary school) * Schelderwald-Schule (primary school and Hauptschule) * Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule ( Gymnasium)

Twin towns – sister cities

Dillenburg is twinned with: *

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, Netherlands *

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, Belgium *

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, England, United Kingdom *

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, France

Notable people

William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen William I of Nassau-SiegenIn many sources he is called William I of Nassau(-Dillenburg) and in some sources of Nassau-Katzenelnbogen. He was born with the titles Count of Nassau, Vianden and Diez. Two years before his death, he obtaine ...

(1487–1559) count from the House of Nassau, nicknamed ''the Rich'' *

William the Silent William the Silent or William the Taciturn (; 24 April 153310 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburg Netherlands, Habsburgs that set off the ...

(1533–1584), leader in the Dutch war of independence against Spain. *

John VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg (22 November 1536 – 8 October 1606) was the second son of William the Rich and the younger brother of William the Silent. He has a special place in the history of the Netherlands because he is the male-l ...

(1536–1606), aristocrat. *

Maurice, Prince of Orange Maurice of Orange (; 14 November 1567 – 23 April 1625) was ''stadtholder'' of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic except for Lordship of Frisia, Friesland from 1585 at the earliest until his death on 23 April 1625. Before he became P ...

(1567–1625), aristocrat. * Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573–1632), ancestor of Kings of

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John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen John Maurice of Nassau ( ; ; ; ; 17 June 1604 – 20 December 1679), called "the Brazilian" for his fruitful period as governor of Dutch Brazil, was Count and (from 1664) Prince of Nassau-Siegen. He served as ''Herrenmeister'' (equivalent to Gra ...

(1604–1679), Dutch field marshal, called the ''Brazilian''. *

Karl Christian Kehrer Karl Christian Kehrer (1 August 1755, Dillenburg - 7 April 1833, Ballenstedt) was a German portrait, landscape and history painter. Biography He was born to Martin Tobias Andreas Kehrer (1717-1790), a local land commissioner, and his wife El ...

(1755-1833) portrait, landscape and history painter. * John O. Meusebach (1812–1897), founder of

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and Texas Senator * Julius Eckhardt Raht (1826–1879), American mining engineer and entrepreneur * Arnold Lequis (1861-1949)

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in WWI * Fritz Angerstein (1891–1925), mass murderer * Maria Kliegel, (born 1952), cellist *

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Worked in Dillenburg

Maximilian Mörlin Maximilian Mörlin ( 14 October 1516, Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony — 20 April 1584, Coburg, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach ) was a Lutheran theologian, court preacher, Superintendent in Coburg, and Reformer. Life Maximilian grew up with hi ...

(1516–1584), Evangelical theologian and reformer * Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717–1795), worked in Dillenburg from 1746 and lived here until she died in 1795. Whilst resident, she produced a various publications, including a catalogue of the flora of Orange-Nassau, where she became the first woman to name a

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taxon * Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837) worked from 1797 to 1805 as Inspector of Forests for the Prince of Orange-Nassau, in Dillenburg; at the same time led one of the earliest schools of forestry in Europe, also in Dillenburg * Bruno Gröning (1906–1959), mystic and healer, had his practise in Dillenburg for a period and is buried there

References

External links

Dillenburg

Website about Dillenburg railway station and railway guide line 445

Dillenburg fire station

Nanzenbach
{{Authority control Lahn-Dill-Kreis History of forestry education Burial sites of the House of Nassau-Siegen People from Dillenburg