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Weilburg is, with just under 13,000 inhabitants, the third biggest town in
Limburg-Weilburg Limburg-Weilburg is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Lahn-Dill, Hochtaunuskreis, Rheingau-Taunus, Rhein-Lahn, Westerwaldkreis. History *1867 the ''Oberlahnkreis'', capital Weilburg was created *1886 the ...
district in
Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
, Germany, after
Limburg an der Lahn Limburg an der Lahn (officially abbreviated ''Limburg a. d. Lahn'') is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Limburg lies in western Hessen between the Taunus and the Westerwald on the river Lahn. The to ...
and
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.


Geography


Location

The community lies in the
Lahn The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). It has its source in t ...
valley between the
Westerwald The Westerwald (; literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Massif ( or Rhenish ...
and the
Taunus The Taunus is a mountain range in Hesse, Germany, located north of Frankfurt. The tallest peak in the range is ''Großer Feldberg'' at 878 m; other notable peaks are ''Kleiner Feldberg'' (825 m) and ''Altkönig'' (798 m). The Taunus range spans ...
just upstream from where the Weil empties into the river Lahn and 80 km southeast of
Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...
. The Old Town, built on and around a rocky hill, is almost encircled by the Lahn.


Neighbouring communities

Weilburg borders in the north on the communities of
Merenberg Merenberg is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Merenberg lies on the southern edge of the Westerwald between the district seat of Limburg and Weilburg. Neighbouring communities Merenberg borders in ...
and
Löhnberg Löhnberg is a municipality north of Weilburg in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Löhnberg lies between Wetzlar and the district seat of Limburg an der Lahn. Neighbouring communities Löhnberg borders in the ...
(both in Limburg-Weilburg), in the east on the town of Braunfels (
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 belo ...
), in the south on the communities of
Weilmünster Weilmünster is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Weilmünster is among the most richly wooded places in Limburg-Weilburg. The forestry office looks after not only the State Forest but also twelve municipal ...
and
Weinbach Weinbach is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Weinbach lies on the Lahn and the Weil between Wetzlar and Limburg an der Lahn. Neighbouring communities Weinbach borders in the north on the to ...
as well as on the town of
Runkel Runkel is a town on the river Lahn in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg an ...
, and in the west on the community of Beselich (all in Limburg-Weilburg).


Constituent communities

Besides the main town, in which just under 40% of the inhabitants live, the outlying centres of Ahausen, Bermbach, Drommershausen, Gaudernbach, Hasselbach, Hirschhausen, Kirschhofen, Kubach, Odersbach and Waldhausen also belong to Weilburg's municipal area.


History

It is believed that the earliest traces of settlers in the area around Weilburg are attested by finds from La Tène times from the Scheuernberger Kopf (mountain) near Kirschhofen. Weilburg was first mentioned in 906 in a chronicle by Abbot
Regino of Prüm Regino of Prüm or of Prum ( la, Regino Prumiensis, german: Regino von Prüm; died 915 AD) was a Benedictine monk, who served as abbot of Prüm (892–99) and later of Saint Martin's at Trier, and chronicler, whose ''Chronicon'' is an important s ...
as a fortification under the name of ''Wilineburch''. Six years later King Conrad I, whose father had been buried in the fortification after having fallen in battle while fighting the Babenbergers near
Fritzlar Fritzlar () is a small town (pop. 15,000) in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany, north of Frankfurt, with a storied history. The town has a medieval center ringed by a wall with numerous watch towers. Thirty-eight meters (125& ...
in 906, founded a church and an abbey. In 912, the ''St. Walpurgis-Chorherrenstift'' (monastery) was founded. The building, which was built on high ground, afforded the monastery control over the Lahn as well as the ''Hohe Straße'' ("High Road") running from
Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
to
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and the ''Via Publica'' from
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to
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, which ran nearby. In 918, the Wilineburg (castle) gained special historic importance when King Conrad I, lying on his deathbed, recommended to his brother
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that he deliver the Imperial insignia to his bitterest rival, the Saxon duke
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(Weilburger Testament). From 993 to 1062, the town was bit by bit donated to the Bishopric of Worms. About 1225, the Bishop of Worms pledged overlordship over the town to the House of Nassau, which in the end they bought up, granting the place a year later the same town rights held by Frankfurt. Count Johann I of Nassau built his residence here in 1355, renovated the castle to a palace, and also built the town fortifications. In 1359, he had a stone bridge built across the Lahn. The House of Nassau shaped the town's history for several centuries. Count Johann Ernst (1664–1719), in particular, renovated and beautified his town of residence by expanding the Renaissance high palace (''Hochschloss''), building a park and changing the town's face. Weilburg thus became one of the most fully preserved examples of a small German residence town from the time of absolutism. From 1806, the town was the governmental seat of the newly created
Duchy of Nassau The Duchy of Nassau (German: ''Herzogtum Nassau'') was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. It was a member of the Confederation of the Rhine and later of the G ...
. Only in 1816 did
William, Duke of Nassau Wilhelm (Given names: ''Georg Wilhelm August Heinrich Belgicus''; 14 June 1792, Kirchheimbolanden – 20/30 August 1839, Bad Kissingen) was joint sovereign Duke of Nassau, along with his father's cousin Frederick Augustus, reigning from 1816 unt ...
move his residence to Biebrich. In 1866, the Duchy of Nassau was annexed by
Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...
. In the field of architectural history, Weilburg is known for its
loam Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size > ), silt (particle size > ), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size < ). By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand–sil ...
buildings from the time before 1800. Wilhelm Jacob Wimpf, a "government lawyer", was instrumental in furthering the so-called ''Pisee'' style of building in the town and its environs, yielding what is still Germany's tallest loam building, a six-floor house.


National Socialism and the Second World War

In 1933, as in other German cities and towns, the
National Socialists Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
were elected into power. Shortly before this, the Nazis in the region had had strong showings in elections. The last non-Nazi mayor chosen by the town council, Diffenhardt, was ousted in a no-confidence vote instigated by the Nazis in the summer of 1933. In the
Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, the town sustained only light damage. The middle façade of the palace's orangery collapsed after an aerial bomb meant for the Weilburg railway station fell right in front of the gate and exploded. The railway station and the nearby Helbig brewery house were also damaged. While United States troops were taking over the town on 27 March 1945, the fighting caused some light damage, although all the town's bridges were blown up by retreating German troops.


Municipal centre

Weilburg was the old Oberlahnkreis's seat from the district's founding in 1867. Weilburg lost this function when, in the course of administrative reform in Hesse, both the Oberlahnkreis and the Limburg district were abolished and the new Limburg-Weilburg district came into being on 1 July 1974, with Limburg as its seat. To this day, however, a district administration outpost can be found at the former district administrator's office on Limburger Straße. In 2005, the town hosted the 45th
Hessentag The Hessentag (; en, Hesse Day) is an annual event, both fair and festival, organized by the German state of Hesse to represent the different regions of Hesse. The events are shown for a week to the visitors, with an emphasis on cultural displ ...
state festival from 17 to 26 June.


Constituent communities' history

Ahausen is first mentioned in documents in 1320. The cluster village lies right on the Lahn where the Grundbach empties into it, which explains why the three
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s that once stood here. Under the name ''Berinbach'', the outlying centre of Bermbach was first mentioned in documents in 1253. Besides agriculture, the villagers also worked at mining. Ore was mined from pits in Bermbach's municipal area up until 1914, when operations ceased. The certification of an estate in 1196 by
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is Drommershausen's first mention in documents. There is historical evidence of an oil mill in 1666, and also, a
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 "forced" or supplied above atmospheric ...
for smelting
ironstone Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron ore compound from which iron (Fe) can be smelted commercially. Not to be con ...
mined in the area is mentioned in 1679. In 1325, under the name ''Gauderinbach'', today's outlying centre of Gaudernbach was first mentioned. At first, the place belonged to the ''
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'' of
Runkel Runkel is a town on the river Lahn in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg an ...
and the parish of Schupbach. The chapel consecrated to
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was built in 1769. A school in the community was mentioned before 1618, although it is unknown how long it lasted. In a great fire in 1863, 68 buildings in Gaudernbach were destroyed. Besides agriculture and mining, villagers found income working in the Gaudernbach
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. In a document from 1235, the place name ''Hasilibach'' was first mentioned, later changing its name to Hasselbach. At the time of its first mention, the community belonged to the
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Johann von Schupbach, who resided in
Montabaur Montabaur () is a town and the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. At the same time, it is also the administrative centre of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Montabaur – a kind of collective municipality – to w ...
. Hirschhausen is first mentioned in documents in 1327, and can be found in writings from 1466 referred to as ''Herbishusen''. In Hirschhausen's municipal area there were many
hematite Hematite (), also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide compound with the formula, Fe2O3 and is widely found in rocks and soils. Hematite crystals belong to the rhombohedral lattice system which is designated the alpha polymorph of . ...
and
limonite Limonite () is an iron ore consisting of a mixture of hydrated iron(III) oxide-hydroxides in varying composition. The generic formula is frequently written as FeO(OH)·H2O, although this is not entirely accurate as the ratio of oxide to hydroxid ...
pits, among which the "Anna" pit was one of the richest in the Lahn area. Worth mentioning is the eight-sided Lutheran church built in 1763 by 27 families from Hirschhausen. Near Hirschhausen, from the 15th to the mid 16th century, was the pilgrimage centre of Pfannstiel. The outlying centre of Kirschhofen was first mentioned in documents in 1363 with the spelling ''Kyrchschyrben''. The spelling ''Kirschhofen'' is known from 1684. Since 1978, Kirschhofen has been linked by footbridge to the outlying centre of Odersbach on the other side of the Lahn. The constituent community of Kubach was first referred to in documents as ''parvulam cubach'' in one of Otto III's documents from 27 December 1000. It is assumed that Kubach had its own church as of 1516. The current church was finished in 1784. Odersbach and Waldhausen are the two constituent communities which are first mentioned in documents before that of Weilburg's in 906. Waldhausen was first mentioned in documents in 881 in the Prüm Abbey's Golden Book, in which it is known as ''Mark Ualthusa'' in a passage dealing with the settlement there and the
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forest holdings. Until 1960, the villagers earned their livelihood mainly in agriculture and mining.


Politics


Town council

The municipal election held on March 6, 2016, yielded the following results:


Mayor

Johannes Hanisch has been mayor since July 1, 2017.


Town partnerships

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Coat of arms

The town's
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were granted in 1906 on the occasion of the town's one thousandth anniversary of its first mention in documents. They show a castle in silver on a blue background. The middle tower of the three has a red roof with a golden ball on the peak. The gate, which is shut and strewn with black, is overlaid with a blue
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, which itself bears the Nassau lion in gold. The arms are modelled on the town's seal from 1329.


Flag

Weilburg's town flag is a horizontal tricolour in yellow, blue and white. The colours are drawn from the
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s in the coat of arms, with yellow standing for the gold, and white for the silver. Blue was the former ruling counts' colour.


Seal

Weilburg's town seal is first known to have appeared in a document dating from 1327, although it seems likely that it was first acquired on the occasion of the granting of town rights in 1295. The seal bears the inscription "SIGILLUM CIVITATIS IN WILBURC" ("Seal of the Citizenry in Weilburg"). The design itself shows a town wall with two corner towers of the same height, between which is a taller tower with a pointed roof, and in the middle of the town wall a town gate with a coat of arms. Along with this first seal, most likely made in the late 14th century, a smaller seal was also made. A replacement for this seal was introduced by 1650. Moreover, a further seal to these three others, which all still exist, was made in 1905, and was likewise modelled on the first seal.


Culture and sightseeing


Museums

Schloss Weilburg Schloss Weilburg (Weilburg Palace) is a Baroque '' schloss'' in Weilburg, Hesse, Germany. It is located on a spur above the river Lahn and occupies about half of the area of the Old Town of Weilburg. It contains the ''Hochschloss'' ("High Palace"), ...
, the former residential palace of the
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, was sold to the State of Prussia in 1935 by Charlotte of Nassau-Weilburg, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, together with her other Nassau residence,
Biebrich Palace Biebrich Palace (german: link=no, Schloss Biebrich) is a Baroque residence (''Schloss'') in the borough of Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Biebrich in the city of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. Built in 1702 by Prince George August, Count of Nassau-Idstein, Geor ...
at Wiesbaden. The ruling House of Luxemburg kept however the burial chapel of their ancestors. This magnificent palace has been a museum since 1935 and can be visited by guided tour. Housed in the former chancellery building is Weilburg's ''Bergbau- und Stadtmuseum'' ("Mining and Town Museum"), which has at its disposal an exhibit area of 1 200 m2. On display are exhibits on Weilburg's town history and a wide assortment about mining in the town and the neighbouring areas. The museum, which has existed since 1972, making it Hesse's oldest mining museum, has also installed a 200 m-long mining gallery exhibit in which the original mining machinery may be seen. Since May 2008, one part of the museum has also housed roughly one hundred works of Chinese cut paper artworks. This display of Chinese cut paper outside China is thus far unique in the world. In the outlying centre of Gaudernbach is found the ''Deutsche Baumaschinen-Modellmuseum'' ("German Building Machine Model Museum"). The museum was founded by the building company Walter Feickert GmbH in 1989. On display here are roughly 1,200 models of building machines and construction sites. In 2017 the Rosenhang Museum for
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was opened housing the art collection of its founder Joachim Legner. It is located in a historical and renovated brewery building in Ahäuser Weg.


Regular events

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is an annual summer festival of mostly classical music held from 1972 at
Schloss Weilburg Schloss Weilburg (Weilburg Palace) is a Baroque '' schloss'' in Weilburg, Hesse, Germany. It is located on a spur above the river Lahn and occupies about half of the area of the Old Town of Weilburg. It contains the ''Hochschloss'' ("High Palace"), ...
, in the church or open air in the Renaissancehof (
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court). At the Freienfels castle ruins, five kilometres from Weilburg, the ''Freienfelser Ritterspiele'' (knightly games) are held yearly about 1 May. This "living history" event is well known countrywide. The ''Weilburger Kirmes'' is known from historical records to have been kept since 1569. Many customs have been observed for a long time, such as the fair's ''Anschießen'', the endowment of prizes for shooting, first awarded in 1746 by the town and later through prize endowments by the citizens. The fair's sponsor is the ''Weilburger Bürgergarde'', a local club devoted to traditions and founded in 1813. Also now in this club's hands is the continued observance of the traditional Weilburg Church Fair (''Weilburger
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'').


Buildings

Weilburg was for many years a residence town and governmental seat of the House of Nassau-Weilburg. Even today, the inner town is still characterized by buildings from that time. The most important building is
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, dating back to the 14th century. It was converted in the 16th and 18th centuries. The Renaissance parts, known as the ''Kernschloss'' (main or central palace) is counted among the best preserved Renaissance palaces in Hesse. After the
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expansion under Johann-Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg, it takes in almost half of the Old Town, and including the
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''Schlosskirche'' from the early 18th century. Even the buildings on the
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with its ''Neptunbrunnen'' (a fountain from 1709) and those in the Old Town were built at the same time as the palace. However, there are also other
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
(i.e. half-timbered) houses from the 16th to 19th century. In the Old Graveyard there is a
Calvary Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early mediev ...
Hill along with a ''Heilig-Grab-Kapelle'' ("Holy Sepulchre Chapel") oriented towards the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, hy, Սուրբ Հարության տաճար, la, Ecclesia Sancti Sepulchri, am, የቅዱስ መቃብር ቤተክርስቲያን, he, כנסיית הקבר, ar, كنيسة القيامة is a church i ...
in Jerusalem. For the '' Gymnasium Philippinum Weilburg'', a representative building was built in the 18th century, which now houses the district and town library. In the 19th century, the town grew noticeably beyond its
mediaeval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...
limits. On Limburger Straße, Bahnhofstraße and Frankfurter Straße, many
loam Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size > ), silt (particle size > ), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size < ). By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand–sil ...
buildings (or ''Pisee-Bauten'', after the style's name, Pisee) were built. In particular, a row of façades in this style still stands on Bahnhofstraße. In Weilburg stands Germany's tallest building in the Pisee style. It is said that the ''Weilburger Tunnelensemble'', a set of three tunnels, is unique in the world. These three bores, set one beside the other each have a different function. One is a railway tunnel, another a highway tunnel and the third a waterway tunnel for shipping traffic. This last building work is unique in Germany. The newest tunnel in the set is the ''Mühlbergtunnel'' on the Weilburg bypass, opened to the public in 2004. File:Weilburg - Eisenbahntunnel.jpg, Railway tunnel File:MJL WS03.jpg, Shipping tunnel File:Weilburg TOU Mühlbergtunnel.jpg, Road tunnel Near the outlying centre of Drommershausen are found the ruins of the former monastery and Church of Our Dear Lady and St. John in Pfannstiel (a pilgrimage church), which figures in the history of the
Order of Saint John The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller (), was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. It was headq ...
. The monastery's and pilgrimage church's first documentary mention came in 1364. The monastery was put under the Nieder-Weisel
commandry In the Middle Ages, a commandery (rarely commandry) was the smallest administrative division of the European landed properties of a military order. It was also the name of the house where the knights of the commandery lived.Anthony Luttrell and G ...
near
Butzbach Butzbach () is a town in the Wetteraukreis district in Hessen, Germany. It is located approximately 16 km south of Gießen and 35 km north of Frankfurt am Main. In 2007, the town hosted the 47th Hessentag state festival from 1 to 10 June ...
. In the course of the
Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...
, the monastery was dissolved in the 16th century.


Parks

Schloss Weilburg Schloss Weilburg (Weilburg Palace) is a Baroque '' schloss'' in Weilburg, Hesse, Germany. It is located on a spur above the river Lahn and occupies about half of the area of the Old Town of Weilburg. It contains the ''Hochschloss'' ("High Palace"), ...
has a Baroque garden that stretches over several terraces along the Lahn. Furthermore, in the outlying centre of Hirschhausen lies the ''Tiergarten Weilburg''. It was originally the Weilburg Counts' hunting ground, but today it is a zoological garden visited by 110,000 people every year.


Natural monuments

In the outlying centre of Kubach is found the ''Kristallhöhle'', or Crystal Cave. Great parts of this cleft cave's walls are set with countless
calcite Calcite is a Carbonate minerals, carbonate mineral and the most stable Polymorphism (materials science), polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). It is a very common mineral, particularly as a component of limestone. Calcite defines hardness 3 on ...
crystals and
calc-sinter Calcareous sinter is a freshwater calcium carbonate deposit, also known as calc-sinter. Deposits are characterised by low porosity and well-developed lamination, often forming crusts or sedimentary rock layers. Calcareous sinter should not be conf ...
. The crystals on the walls in this form are said to be unique in Germany. With a length of roughly 200 m, a breadth of up to 23 m and a height of up to 30 m the cave is believed to be Germany's biggest single natural underground chamber.


Economy and infrastructure


Transport

The town lies on the
Lahntal railway The Lahntal railway (German: ''Lahntalbahn'') is a railway line between Niederlahnstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate to Wetzlar in Hesse. Its western terminus was originally in Oberlahnstein. Trains now mostly operate between Kob ...
(serving
Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...
,
Limburg Limburg or Limbourg may refer to: Regions * Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium * Limburg (Netherlands), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands * Diocese of Limburg, Roman Catholic Diocese in ...
, Weilburg,
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 ...
and
Gießen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...
) and belongs to the ''
Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) is a transport association that covers the public transport network of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area in Germany. Its head office is located in Hofheim im Taunus. Organisation and area covered The RMV ...
''. Until 1969, Weilburg was the terminus of the Weiltalbahn coming from
Grävenwiesbach Grävenwiesbach is a municipality in the Hochtaunuskreis in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Grävenwiesbach lies between 300 and 600 m above sea level north of the Taunus Ridge. The nearest big towns are Wetzlar (20 km) to the north, ...
. For this line's needs a locomotive shed with a turntable was built at Weilburg's railway station. After the line was abandoned, the buildings were torn down in the 1980s. Even the former goods and marshalling station has been converted into three sidings and a passing loop. Weilburg can be reached by ''
Bundesstraße ''Bundesstraße'' (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. Germany Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km. German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...
n'' 49 and 456, which link it to
Autobahn The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. ...
en A 3 (
Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
) from Limburg and A 45 (
Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...
Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg (; South Franconian: ''Aschebersch'') is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is its administrative seat. Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...
) from Wetzlar, as well as from the
Frankfurt Rhine Main Region The Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: ''Rhein-Main-Gebiet'' or ''Frankfurt/Rhein-Main'', abbreviated FRM), is the second-largest metropolitan re ...
. ''Bundesstraße'' 456 crosses the Lahn in Weilburg over the ''Oberlahnbrücke'' ("Upper Lahn Bridge"). This was built as part of the Weilburg bypass. Also crossing the Lahn in Weilburg are the ''Steinerne Brücke'' ("Stone Bridge") and the ''Ahäuser Brücke'' ("Ahaus Bridge") for motorized traffic, and the ''Ernst-Dienstbach-Steg'', a footbridge.


Established businesses

Weilburg is headquarters to Vistec Semiconductor Systems.


Education

Weilburg has a centuries-old tradition as a school town. As early as 1231, a ''
Scholaster A scholaster, from the Latin ''scholasticus'' (schoolmaster), or magister scholarum, was the head of an ecclesiastical school, typically a cathedral school, monastic school, or the school of a collegiate church, in medieval and early-modern Europe ...
'' (monastic schoolmaster) is mentioned and in 1360 the monastery school itself. The school's successor was the
Evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...
school founded on 15 October 1540 by Count Philipp III of Nassau-Weilburg. Weilburg's oldest school, the Gymnasium Philippinum, grew out of this forerunner school. On schooldays, Weilburg's educational institutions are attended by more than 8,000 young learners. The following schools are to be found today in Weilburg: * Christian-Spielmann-Schule (primary school); for pupils from parts of the municipal area on the Taunus side and the constituent communities of Bermbach, Hirschhausen, Kirschhofen and Kubach; named after the historian Christian Spielmann. * Pestalozzischule (primary school); for pupils from parts of the municipal area on the Westerwald side and the constituent communities of Gaudernbach, Hasselbach, Odersbach and Waldhausen. * Heinrich-von-Gagern-Schule (
Hauptschule A ''Hauptschule'' (, "general school") is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (''Grundschule''), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification ...
and
Realschule ''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), ...
); for pupils from Limburg-Weilburg and the Lahn-Dill-Kreis. * Jakob-Mankel-Schule (integrated
comprehensive school A comprehensive school typically describes a secondary school for pupils aged approximately 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is res ...
since 1994, and until 2008 the only one in the district); offers the Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium streams in integrated form up to the 10th class. * Gymnasium Philippinum (Gymnasium); is the oldest school in Weilburg and is attended by pupils from places in the former Oberlahnkreis and from the Lahn-Dill-Kreis. * Walderbachschule (school for practically teachable pupils); is a special school with the goal of helping pupils, independently of their individual handicaps, attain the greatest possible satisfaction from their lives. * Windhofschule (school for children with learning difficulties and those with physical handicaps); is a special school and a special paedagogical counselling and advocacy centre. The Windhofschule offers handicapped pupils the opportunity of a school life participating together with able-bodied pupils. * Wilhelm-Knapp-Schule (vocational schooling centre); unites ten kinds of school in the field of vocational schooling, among them the branches of the vocational Gymnasium, the ''Fachoberschule'' (technical college) and the Higher Trade School. * Staatliche Technikerschule Weilburg ("State Technician School") * Amt für Lehrerbildung ("Office for Teacher Training") * Hessisches Forstliches Bildungszentrum (FBZ, "Hessian Forestry Education Centre) * Dachdeckerzentrum Hessen ("Hesse Roofer Centre") * Kreisvolkshochschule Limburg-Weilburg e.V. (district
folk high school Folk high schools (also ''Adult Education Center'', Danish: ''Folkehøjskole;'' Dutch: ''Volkshogeschool;'' Finnish: ''kansanopisto'' and ''työväenopisto'' or ''kansalaisopisto;'' German: ''Volkshochschule'' and (a few) ''Heimvolkshochschule;'' ...
) * Weilburger Musikschule


Famous people


Honorary citizens

''Note: The listing is chronological by date of conferral.'' # Wilhelm Farr (born 8 July 1833 in Freiensen; died 10 February 1907 in Weilburg) #: businessman, politician, mayor #: honoured 1903 #: Farr was a successful businessman in Weilburg. After stints on town council from 1870 and for three years in the Prussian assembly from 1876, he was elected mayor in 1885. He held the office until 1888 and bequeathed the town on his death a great sum for non-commercial purposes. # Gustav Karthaus (born 21 March 1859 in Grumbach; died 8 February 1934 in Weilburg) #: administrative official, mayor #: honoured 1927 #: After Karthaus had already served four and a half years in Melsungen as mayor, he then reached the top job in the town of Weilburg on 1 October 1905. During his 21 years in office he more than anything else set himself the task of improving infrastructure. The waterworks were modernized, and with the building of a power station, so was the electrical system. In 1913, the new barracks were built. He had many of the town's streets developed and introduced town expansion with building areas on the Zeppenfeld and the Karlsberg. He moreover dedicated himself to dealing with the town's social problems by supporting its relief organizations. On the occasion of his retirement on 31 December 1926, he was made an honorary citizen. # Friedrich Brinkmann (born 25 August 1877 in Weilburg; died 26 July 1960 in Weilburg) #: butchery master #: honoured 1953 #: Brinkmann had taken over his father's estate butcher's shop in the upper Langgasse in 1900. At this time, he began to involve himself in a whole series of honorary offices, serving as honorary chief master (''Ehrenobermeister'') of the butchers' guild, former master of the Wiesbaden crafts chamber and honorary member of the Weilburg volunteer fire brigade. From 1902 until his death he was a captain of the Weilburg ''Bürgergarde'', one of Nassau's oldest tradition clubs. Source: Magistrat der Stadt Weilburg (Hg.): ''Weilburg-Lexikon.'' Weilburg 2006
Paul von Hindenburg Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (; abbreviated ; 2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany fro ...
,
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
,
Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1 ...
,
Jakob Sprenger Jakob Sprenger (24 July 1884 – 7 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official and politician who was the Party's ''Gauleiter'' of Hesse-Nassau South from 1927 to 1933 and Gau Hesse-Nassau from 1933 to 1945. He was also the ''Reichsstatthalter'' (Reich ...
and
Prince Philipp of Hesse Philipp, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (6 November 1896 – 25 October 1980) was head of the Electoral House of Hesse from 1940 to 1980. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930, and, when they gained power with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancel ...
(Chief President of the Province of Hesse-Nassau) were all stripped of their civic honours in 1946 by order of the town council.


Others

*Conrad I, ''the Younger'' (died 23 December 918 in Weilburg; buried in
Fulda Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. History ...
), was from 906
Duke Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ran ...
of
Franconia Franconia (german: Franken, ; Franconian dialect: ''Franggn'' ; bar, Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: ''Fränkisch''). The three administrative regions of Lower, Middle and Upper Fr ...
and from 911 to 918 King of
East Francia East Francia (Medieval Latin: ) or the Kingdom of the East Franks () was a successor state of Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911. It was created through the Treaty of Verdun (843) which divided t ...
. *
Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (13 September 1750, in Weilburg – 24 February 1823, in Munich) was a German landscape gardener from Weilburg an der Lahn. He is regarded as the founder of the English gardens in Germany, which he introduced to the Germ ...
(born 13 September 1750 in Weilburg) one of the most important garden designers, founder of the "classical phase" of the landscaped English garden in Germany. *Wilhelm Jacob Wimpf (born 15 November 1767 in Weilburg, died 11 April 1839 in Weilburg), entrepreneur and pioneer of loam building * Carl Boos (born 8 September 1806); architect; built, among other things, the '' Marktkirche'' ("Market Church") in Wiesbaden *
Heinrich von Gagern Heinrich Wilhelm August Freiherr von Gagern (20 August 179922 May 1880) was a statesman who argued for the unification of Germany. Early career The third son of Hans Christoph Ernst, Baron von Gagern, a liberal statesman from Nassau, Heinrich v ...
(born 1798 in
Bayreuth Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ...
, died 22 May 1880 in
Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
), grew up in Weilburg and did his ''
Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...
'' at the ''Gymnasium Philippinum'' in town, 1848 President of the
Frankfurt Parliament The Frankfurt Parliament (german: Frankfurter Nationalversammlung, literally ''Frankfurt National Assembly'') was the first freely elected parliament for all German states, including the German-populated areas of Austria-Hungary, elected on 1 Ma ...
. *Gert Fritz Unger (died 3 August 2005 in Weilburg), writer and
western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...
author *
Ulrike Meinhof Ulrike Marie Meinhof (7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German left-wing journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author ...
came to Weilburg in 1952, where she attended the ''Gymnasium Philippinum'' up to her ''Abitur'' in 1955. *Heinrich Heinlein (born 3 December 1803 in Weilburg), painter *Erwin Schmidt (born 20 July 1886 in Weilburg; died 31 August 1956 in Weilburg), ''Heimatforscher'' ("homeland researcher") * Richard Hoin (born 23 July 1879 in Odersbach; died 14 October 1944 in Odersbach), politician and
resistance fighter A resistance movement is an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to withstand the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability. It may seek to achieve its objectives ...
*
Willy Heigl Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William (given name), William or Wilhelm (name), Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Willie Aames (born 1960), American ...
(born 25 March 1904 in Dillenburg; died 15 March 1973), first democratic mayor of Weilburg after the Third Reich * (born 13 January 1922 in Weilburg; died 22 November 1980 in Lippstadt), writer


Further reading

* Bernd Modrow, Claudia Gröschel: ''Fürstliches Vergnügen. 400 Jahre Gartenkultur in Hessen.'' Verlag Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2002, * Magistrat der Stadt Weilburg an der Lahn (Hg.); Weilburg an der Lahn. 700 Jahre Stadtrechte 1295–1995, Weilburg 1995,


References


External links

*
private website about the town’s history, buildings, sights and more

The crystal cave of Kubach, the only one in Germany.
* {{Authority control Limburg-Weilburg Burial sites of the House of Nassau