Bischoffen

Bischoffen
Coat of arms
Bischoffen
Location of Bischoffen within Lahn-Dill-Kreis district
Coordinates: 50°42′N 08°23′E / 50.700°N 8.383°E / 50.700; 8.383Coordinates: 50°42′N 08°23′E / 50.700°N 8.383°E / 50.700; 8.383
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Gießen
District	Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Government
• Mayor	Ralph Venohr
Area
• Total	35.37 km2 (13.66 sq mi)
Elevation	307 m (1,007 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	3,378
• Density	96/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	35649
Dialling codes	06444
Vehicle registration	LDK
Website	www.bischoffen.de

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

Bischoffen lies in the Lahn-Dill Highland at the Aar Dam (Aartalsperre). This dam holds back the river Aar, a tributary to the Dill, forming a 57-ha lake whose purpose is mainly flood control, although of course it also has its recreational uses.

Lying among the villages of Bischoffen (itself a constituent community, and indeed the community's namesake, but not the biggest centre therein), Oberweidbach, Roßbach, Mudersbach and Ahrdt, Niederweidbach is found right on the shore of the Aartalsee, the man-made lake created by the Aar Dam. It is also on the stretch of Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 255 between Herborn and Gladenbach.

q.v. Niederweidbach's history

Bischoffen borders in the north on the community of Bad Endbach and the town of Gladenbach, in the east on the community of Lohra (all three in Marburg-Biedenkopf), in the southeast on the community of Biebertal (Gießen district), in the south on the community of Hohenahr, in the southwest on the community of Mittenaar, and in the west on the community of Siegbach (all three in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis).

The community consists of the centres of Bischoffen, Niederweidbach, Oberweidbach, Roßbach and Wilsbach.

Niederweidbach is Bischoffen's biggest community, and its administrative seat.

Niederweidbach and Oberweidbach were mentioned in the Fulda Monastery's Codex Eberhardi quite early on, in 802. The other communities' first documentary mentions followed lin the late 13th or early 14th century. The villages belonged to various ecclesiastical and secular rulers, but a great deal of the current municipal area came to be part of the County of Solms as time went by, through estate division, pledges and feuds.