Hüttenberg

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Hüttenberg


Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Administrative region	Gießen
District	Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Population	10,434 (31/12/2004)
Area	40.74 km²
Population density	256 /km²
Elevation	296 m
Coordinates	50°30′ N 8°37′ E
Postal code	35625
Area code	06441, 06403
Licence plate code	LDK
Mayor	Dr. Manfred Schmidt (SPD)
Website	Gemeinde Hüttenberg

Hüttenberg is a community in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Politics
- 3.1 Municipal council
- 3.2 Partnerships
4 Personalities
- 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
5 Reference
6 External links

[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

Hüttenberg near Wetzlar lies about 6 km southwest of Wetzlar and 10 km southeast of Gießen south of the river Lahn.

[edit] Neighbouring communities

Hüttenberg borders in the west on the community of Schöffengrund, in the north on the town of Wetzlar (both in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis) and the town of Gießen, in the northeast on the town of Linden, and in the east and south on the community of Langgöns (both in Gießen district).

[edit] Constituent communities

The community consists of the centres of Hüttenberg (earlier Hochelheim and Hörnsheim), Rechtenbach, Reiskirchen, Vollnkirchen, Volpertshausen and Weidenhausen.

[edit] History

On 1 August 1968, Groß-Rechtenbach and Klein-Rechtenbach formed the new community of Rechtenbach, while Hochelheim and Hörnsheim formed the new community of Hüttenberg. On 1 January 1971, Rechtenbach, Vollnkirchen and Weidenhausen merged into the new community of Schwingbach. On 1 January 1977, the new greater community of Hüttenberg was formed out of Hüttenberg, Reiskirchen, Schwingbach and Volpertshausen.

In the years from 1910, Paul Schneider spent his youth in Hochelheim. He was later Hochelheim's and Dornholzhausen's Evangelical minister from 1926 to 1934. In 1939, he was murdered by the Nazis in Buchenwald concentration camp. A street and an Evangelical parish house in Hüttenberg are named after him. After the Second World War, many people driven out of the Sudetenland came here and contributed considerably to the community's economic growth, its cultural modernization and to changes in the community.

Hüttenberg has become well known for team handball and the community's gustatory speciality, Handkäse (literally "hand cheese", so called from its originally being shaped by hand), a pungent, sour-milk cheese. It is still produced in Hüttenberg today and sold all over Germany.

Moreover, Hüttenberg is somewhat less well known – and somewhat more laid back as a result – for being a small recreation destination in the Taunus foothills with lovely forests, hilly fields, brookside paths and rare kinds of plant. On some farms there are tasty treats.

Country parties and many traditional festivals make a trip to the community in summer worth taking.