Echzell

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
County :	Wetteraukreis
Height :	129 m above sea level NHN
Area :	37.61 km 2
Residents:	5781 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	154 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	61209, 61200
Primaries :	06008, 06035
License plate :	FB, BÜD
Community key :	06 4 40 006
LOCODE :	DE BZH
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Lindenstrasse 9 ; 61209 Echzell
Website :	www.echzell.de
Mayor :	Wilfried Mogk (independent)
Location of the community Echzell in the Wetterau district

Echzell is a municipality in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

geography

Neighboring communities

		Nidda
Wolfersheim
	Reichelsheim	Ranstadt

Community structure

Echzell consists of the districts of Bingenheim , Bisses , Echzell, Gettenau and Grund-Schwalheim .

history

prehistory

Reconstructed walls of the fort bath at the church.

Numerous archaeological finds indicate that it has existed since around 5000 BC. Chr. Uninterrupted settlement of the Echzell area after.

On the north-western edge of today's village there was a large Roman fort for 1000 soldiers as part of the Wetterau Limes (→ Echzell Fort ) from around 90 AD to 260 AD . The church stands on the remains of the Roman baths ; some foundation walls are marked in the pavement in front of it. Near the church is a replica of a Roman Jupiter column that was found a few years ago south of the village.

middle Ages

The oldest surviving written mention of Echzell can be found in a document dated July 28, 782 as Ahizuuila .

The place was in the former Fulda Mark , which then became the County of Nidda , which became part of the County of Ziegenhain at the beginning of the 13th century .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1970, the previously independent municipality of Grund-Schwalheim was incorporated into Echzell on a voluntary basis . On July 1, 1971, the merger with the community of Gettenau took place under the name Echzell . The community of Bisses was incorporated on October 1, 1971. The incorporation of Bingenheim by means of state law ended the series of mergers and incorporations on August 1, 1972.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016 A total of 31 seats SPD : 17 Greens : 5 CDU : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	55.6	17th	45.8	14th	44.3	14th	53.1	17th
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	29.6	9	30.3	10	34.5	11	30.4	9
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	14.8	5	16.7	5	9.6	3	-	-
	FWG	Free voter community Echzell	-	-	7.1	2	11.6	3	16.5	5
	total		100	31	100	31	100	31	100	31
	Voter turnout in%		53.8		52.4		51.7		58.8

mayor

The past mayoral elections produced the following results:

year	Candidates	Political party	% Result
2013	Wilfried Mogk	independent	79.9
2013	Jochen Degkwitz	CDU	20.1
Voter turnout in%		72.5
2007	Dieter Müller	SPD	53.9
2007	Werner Müller	CDU	46.1
Voter turnout in%		59.0
2001	Dieter Müller	SPD	64.4
2001	Lothar Moßmann	FWG	35.6
Voter turnout in%		48.8
1995	Dieter Müller	SPD	61.2
1995	Andreas Günther	CDU	38.8
Voter turnout in%		69.3

On November 1, 2013, the newly elected mayor Wilfried Mogk took office and replaced Dieter Müller (SPD), who had been in office since 1995.

Culture and sights

Floor plan of a Roman bath, discovered under the Protestant church
Local history museum, housed in what was once the region's oldest pharmacy
Jupiter's column, excavated in the 1990s, restored on it and placed in front of the local museum
Landgrave's hunting lodge, built in 1742, formerly a moated castle

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Echzell station

The station Echzell is located on the railway line Beienheim Scots . The trains of the RB 32 run hourly from Friedberg (Hess) via Beienheim , Reichelsheim (Wetterau) , Echzell and Bad Salzhausen to Nidda . During the rush hour , there are through trains to and from Frankfurt (Main) Hbf .

Local public transport is provided by Verkehrsgesellschaft Oberhessen GmbH as part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund .

Echzell is on the L 3188 ( Rodheim (Hungen) - Stammheim (Florstadt) ) and L 3412 (connection to the B 455 ). The district road K 181 leads to the B 455 near the motorway exit 37 ( Wölfersheim ) of the federal motorway 45 .

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the town. It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

education

The Lucius boarding school has space for around 150 students.
The Kurt Moosdorf School is a pure elementary school. Until 2007 there was still a secondary school branch and until 2005 a special level.
In the district Bingenheim is the life Bingenheim , an institution for the disabled with dorm, sheltered workshops and Waldorf special school.

trade

In February 2020 it was confirmed that the US group and online mail order company Amazon intends to build a new distribution center with a size of around 8,500 square meters on the outskirts of the Grund-Schwalheim district.

Personalities

Born in Echzell

Ludwig Matthias (1872–1924), ministerial official in Hesse

literature

Dieter Wolf : Echzell - a village in the medieval Wetterau. Lecture on the occasion of the inauguration of the Echzell Heimatmuseum on November 8, 1987. In: Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Echzell (Ed.): Echzeller Geschichtshefte. 7, Echzell 1991, pp. 18-34.
Literature about Echzell in the Hessian Bibliography
Literature by and about Echzell in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Commons : Echzell - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Internet presence of the community of Echzell
Echzell, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Link catalog about Echzell at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
↑ See "The great Alenkastell Echzell"
^ Incorporation of the Grund-Schwalheim community into the Echzell community, Büdingen district on January 7, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 143 , point 188 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 29. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg (GVBl. II 330-19) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 230 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 352-353 .
^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

↑ Cf. Internatgymnasium Institut Lucius

^ Homepage of the Bingenheim community

↑ Wolfram Ahlers: Amazon builds distribution center in Echzell. In: https://www.faz.net/ . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, accessed on March 9, 2020 (German).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-HE-1] Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).

[2] See "The great Alenkastell Echzell"

[3] Incorporation of the Grund-Schwalheim community into the Echzell community, Büdingen district on January 7, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 143 , point 188 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).

[4] Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 29. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).

[5] Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg (GVBl. II 330-19) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 230 , § 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).

[6] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 352-353 .

[7] Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .

[8] Cf. Internatgymnasium Institut Lucius

[9] Homepage of the Bingenheim community

[10] Wolfram Ahlers: Amazon builds distribution center in Echzell. In: https://www.faz.net/ . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, accessed on March 9, 2020 (German).