Lahnau


Lahnau is a municipality in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany, and lies about midway – about 6 km each way – between the towns of Wetzlar and Gießen.

Geography

Neighbouring communities

Lahnau borders in the north on the community of Biebertal, in the east on the community of Heuchelheim, and in the south and west on the town of Wetzlar.

Constituent communities

The centres of Atzbach, Dorlar and Waldgirmes are all part of the community.

The community of Dorlar had itself incorporated into Wetzlar in 1972. Wetzlar, Gießen, Atzbach, Waldgirmes and 12 other municipalities formed from 1977 to 1979 the city of Lahn. Within Lahn, the constituent communities of Waldgirmes, Dorlar and Atzbach the Stadtbezirk of Lahntal. After the city of Lahn was dissolved, the borough became an independent community under the name Lahnau on 1 August 1979
The constituent community of Dorlar thereby managed to belong to four different municipalities over only seven years, which stands as a curiosity even in the complex history of Hessian municipal reform.

Public institutions

Educational institutions

  • Lahntalschule Lahnau
  • Grundschule Waldgirmes

    Sports and leisure

  • Trimm-Dich-Pfad Atzbach
  • Sportpark Lahnau in Dorlar, artificial turf and hard court, athletic facility
  • Indoor and outdoor swimming pool with 50m × 12.5m basin and broad sunbathing lawn
  • Riding hall and square
  • Sports ground in Waldgirmes, natural and artificial turf

    Clubs

  • TSV Atzbach
  • SC 1929 Waldgirmes
  • TV05 Waldgirmes
  • TSG Dorlar
  • AS LahnLaender Lahnau
  • CVJM Atzbach-Dorlar
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  • Sängervereinigung Waldgirmes
  • Deutsch-Englischer Freundeskreis Lahnau e.V.
  • Burschenschaft Fidelio Atzbach e.V.
  • Mädchenschaft Atzbach

    Town partnerships

  • Wincanton, United Kingdom
  • Geraberg, Thuringia

    Culture and sightseeing

  • The Roman Forum von Waldgirmes – owing to a lack of any Roman written record of the place it is still nameless – is Germany's oldest known stone building foundation, and shows that the Romans founded a town in Magna Germania north of the Danube and east of the Rhine. The site was dated by finds of Roman coins showing likenesses of Publius Quinctilius Varus, placing the ruins at about the time of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in the year 9, in which Varus lost three legions and his own life.

    Museums

  • Heimatmuseum in Waldgirmes

    Buildings

  • Atzbach Church
  • Amtsgericht Atzbach
  • Backhaus Atzbach
  • Dorlar Church
  • Altes Backhaus Dorlar
  • Waldgirmes Church

    Regular events

  • Kirmes in Atzbach, in May
  • 2. Advent Atzbacher Adventmarkt
  • LahnLaender, last Sunday in June
  • Kirmes in Waldgirmes, first weekend in August