Solms | |
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Location of Solms within Lahn-Dill-Kreis district  | |
  Solms  Solms | |
| Coordinates:50°32′23″N08°24′26″E / 50.53972°N 8.40722°E /50.53972; 8.40722 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Hesse |
| Admin. region | Gießen |
| District | Lahn-Dill-Kreis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2022–28) | Frank Inderthal[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 34.05 km2 (13.15 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 144 m (472 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 13,862 |
| • Density | 410/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 35606 |
| Dialling codes | 06442 |
| Vehicle registration | LDK |
| Website | www |
Solms is a town west ofWetzlar in theLahn-Dill-Kreis,Hessen,Germany with around 13,500 inhabitants. In the constituent community of Burgsolms once stood the ancestralcastle of the Counts and Princes ofSolms.
Solms lies right in theLahn valley at the mouth of the eponymous little riverSolmsbach and is nestled between the foothills of both theTaunus andWesterwald at heights from 140 to 400 m abovesea level. It is about 7 km west ofWetzlar and 30 km northeast ofLimburg an der Lahn.
Solms borders in the north on the community ofEhringshausen and the town ofAßlar, in the east on the town ofWetzlar, in the southeast on the community ofSchöffengrund, in the southwest on the town ofBraunfels and in the west on the town ofLeun (all in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis).
The town consists of the following centres:
Solms is a town west ofWetzlar in theLahn-Dill-Kreis,Hessen,Germany with around 13,500 inhabitants. In the constituent community of Burgsolms once stood the ancestralcastle of the Counts and Princes ofSolms.
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The municipal elections in 2011 yielded the following results:[3]
| Party | Seats |
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| Freie Wählergruppe (FWG) | 23.4 |
| Social Democratic Party (SPD) | 40.3 |
| Christian Democratic Union (CDU) | 23.0 |
| Free Democratic Party (FDP) | 2.6 |
| Greens | 10.7 |
Note: FWG is a citizens' coalition.
Since 2002 there has been aTown of Solms Youth Council serving as the town's official board representing youth's interests and needs. It is elected every two years by children and youths who either live in the town or go to thecomprehensive school.
The town of Solms maintains partnerships with the following places:
Oberbiel is home to two commercial-industrial areas. A shipping company has set up shop at the newer one, while the older one, on an island in the river Lahn, was established in the early 20th century. It was originally home to abrad factory, awireworks and aball bearing factory.
County of Solms Grafschaft Solms | |||||||||||
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| Status | State of theHoly Roman Empire | ||||||||||
| Capital | Solms | ||||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
• Established | 1129 | ||||||||||
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County of Solms: Town of Solms Grafschaft Solms-Burg-Solms | |||||||||
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| 1258–1415 | |||||||||
| Status | State of theHoly Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Solms | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Partitioned fromSolms | 1258 | ||||||||
• Annexed toS-Braunfels | 1415 | ||||||||
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Solms had its first documentary mention in 788 in a donation document from the Lorsch Monastery. The villages that nowadays form the town of Solms belonged for centuries to the County of Solms, an independent state within theHoly Roman Empire, elevated to a county in 1223, until it was dissolved in 1806. Early branches of theHouse of Solms[4] were Burgsolms (extinguished 1415), Konigsberg (nearBiebertal, extinguished 1364), Old and New Hohensolms (atHohenahr, extinguished in the 14th century) andBraunfels. The still existing lines are the princely branches ofSolms-Braunfels,Solms-Hohensolms-Lich with their seat inLich andSolms-Baruth, furthermore the Counts ofSolms-Laubach with theirseat inLaubach,Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim with their seat in Assenheim,Solms-Sonnewalde andSolms-Wildenfels. The Burgsolms castle at Solms, ancestral seat of the family since around 1100, was destroyed in 1384 by a coalition of nearby towns under the leadership ofWetzlar, forcing count John to move toGreifenstein castle.
After a short while being part of theDuchy of Nassau, Solms passed toPrussia in 1815.
As part of Hesse's municipal reforms, the communities of Albshausen and Oberbiel voluntarily merged on 1 July 1971 to formBielhausen, while Burgsolms andOberndorf did the same to formSolms. By state law, these two new communities were amalgamated with Niederbiel on 1 January 1977 to make the new greater community of Solms, which in 1978 was granted town rights.
A new residential area has been being built on the western edge of Oberbiel since the 1990s.
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