Erzhausen

Erzhausen
Erzhausen
Municipality
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Erzhausen within Darmstadt-Dieburg district
	Erzhausen Erzhausen
	Coordinates: 49°57′N 08°38′E / 49.950°N 8.633°E
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Darmstadt-Dieburg
Government
• Mayor (2018–30)	Claudia Lange
Area
• Total	7.4 km2 (2.9 sq mi)
Elevation	112 m (367 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	8,153
• Density	1,100/km2 (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)
Monument Dankmal (2015)
Half-timbered house (2015)
Half-timbered house (2015)
Wooden house (2007)
Nature reserve Faulbruch (2016)
Fields south of Erzhausen, showing a typical South-Hesse countryside during autumn (2005)