Erzhausen

Erzhausen
Municipality
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Erzhausen within Darmstadt-Dieburg district
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Coordinates: 49°57′N 08°38′E
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Darmstadt-Dieburg
Government
• Mayor (2018–30)	Claudia Lange[1]
Area
• Total	7.4 km^2 (2.9 sq mi)
Elevation	112 m (367 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	8,153
• Density	1,100/km^2 (2,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	64390
Dialling codes	06150
Vehicle registration	DA
Website	www.erzhausen.de

Erzhausen is a village and a municipality in southern Hesse, Germany. It is part of the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg. It has about 7,900 inhabitants (2020). Wixhausen, a borough of the City of Darmstadt, is just South of Erzhausen.

History

Settlement in the area dates back to about 1500 B.C., as shown by several cairn burial sites found some kilometres west of the town.

The settlement itself is mentioned in documents from 900 A.D. onward under various names like 'Erardishusen', 'Erhartzhausen', 'Ebrichshusen' or 'Erndeshusen'. The oldest document of the Lorsch codex names it as 'Erhartshausen' ('Houses of Erhart').

After remaining a mostly unimportant farming village until the early 20th century, it grew strongly after the railway line from Frankfurt to Darmstadt was built several kilometers to the east of it. The habitation spread out towards it, and workers employed in the nearby cities (which could now be reached a lot easier) settled here.

Today, it is still mostly a residential village, with some commerce and office activities. There is a small seminary of the German Pentecostalism BFP movement situated in the town, Bible School Beröa also called Theologisches Seminar Beröa .^{[3] [4]}

Historic names

• 10. century: Erhardeshusen
• about 1200: Erhardeshusen
• about 1250: Erharteshusen
• 1264: Erardishusen
• 1273: Erharthusen
• 1273: in villa Erharthusen
• 1282: Eradeshusen
• 1282: Erndeshusen; Ebrathshusen
• 1331: Erarshusen
• 1331: Irtzhusen
• 1413: Ebrichshusen; Erarthusen
• 1413: Ehartzhusen
• 1440: Eretzhusen
• 1446: Erhartzhusen
• 15. century: Erczhussen
• 1451: Erhartshusen
• 1452: Erhartshusen
• 1453: Erhartshusen
• 1454: Erhartßhussen
• 1454: Erhartßhußen
• 1497: Ertzhusen
• 1506: Erhartzhausen
• 1526: Ertzhusen
• 1541: Erhartshaussen
• 1549: Erhartshausen
• 1576: Ertzhaussen
• 1579: Ertzhausen
• today: Erzhausen

Demography

Demography

Year Population 1618 ca. 250 1622 ca. 200 1629 29 "Hausgesessene" 1641 ca. 50 1648 uninhabited 1669 73 1771 559 1829 559 1834 567 1840 596 1846 643 1852 692 1858 726 1864 787 1871 829 1875 898 1885 1.053 1895 1.151

Year Population 1900 1.244 1905 1.390 1910 1.556 1925 1.872 1933 2.258 1939 2.342 1946 2.859 1950 3.086 1956 3.471 1961 4.098 1967 5.296 1970 5.663 1981 6.208 2004 7.186 2011 7.503 2012 7.578 2013 7.699 2014 7.716

Year Population 2015 7.864 2016 8.126

Twin towns – sister cities

• 1997 Mnichovo Hradiště, Czech Republic
• 2006 Incisa in Val d'Arno, Italy
• 2013 Malgrat de Mar, Spain
• 2017 Ivanychi, Ukraine

Gallery

• 
  Erzhausen from the air (2010)
• 
  Evangelical Lutheran Church (2007)
• 
  Erzhausen train station building, now a public library (the railway station itself is still active) (2010)
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  Monument Dankmal (2015)
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  Half-timbered house (2015)
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  Half-timbered house (2015)
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  Wooden house (2007)
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  Nature reserve Faulbruch (2016)
• 
  Fields south of Erzhausen, showing a typical South-Hesse countryside during autumn (2005)

References

1. "Ergebnisse der letzten Direktwahl aller hessischen Landkreise und Gemeinden" (XLS) (in German). Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. 5 September 2022.
2. "Bevölkerung in Hessen am 31.12.2022 nach Gemeinden" (XLS) (in German). Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2023.
3. wordpress.com, Pentecostal Heritage Center, Jan, 29, 2014
4. wordpress.com, Pentecostal Heritage Center, History of the BFP, Jan, 3, 2010

External links

• Media related to Erzhausen at Wikimedia Commons
• Erzhausen travel guide from Wikivoyage