Radheim

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Radheim
Community Schaafheim
Local coat of arms, as it is used on the memorial stone of the tourist association from 1967
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 20 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 166  (164-190)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.04 km²
Residents : 990  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 245 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 64850
Area code : 06073
Radheimer baroque church of 1577, the Hl. Laurentius dedicated
Greetings from Radheim

Radheim is a district of the community of Schaafheim in the southern Hessian district of Darmstadt-Dieburg .

The village is located on the northeastern edge of the Odenwald in Bachgau . The district road 106 runs through Radheim. The place connects directly to the west of Mosbach . The Pflaumbach (also known as the Welzbach, depending on the region) flows through Radheim, flows into the Schönbusch Lake in the Schönbusch Park and finally flows into the Main at Leider .

history

Prehistory and Antiquity

Archaeological finds suggest an early settlement in the Neolithic . The wealth of springs offered ideal settlement conditions here.

In Roman times there was a Roman manor ( villa rustica ) in place of the church in Radheim, then part of the province of Upper Germany and from 125 AD on the right bank of the Rhine part of the Civitas Auderiensium with the capital Dieburg . These farms supplied the troops on the nearby Limes . The found Roman stones of the four gods serve as evidence . The last stone of the four gods was found during renovation work in 1972 under the altar of the old Radheim church. A stone of the four gods is now also kept in the State Museum in Darmstadt . With the fall of the Limes around the year 260 AD, the Romans withdrew again behind the Rhine line .

middle Ages

The Franks settled the area in the 5th century .

The oldest surviving mention of the village can be found in the Codex Eberhardi of the Fulda monastery from 798. In the historical documents, the place name appears in changing spellings over the centuries: Roden (around 800 to 1262, 1403), Rode (1267, 1317), Roeden (1442), Raden (1445), Rodau (1457), Rode (1567), Rodheym (1577) and Rodheim (1812).

In 1278 the place came with the other communities of the Bachgau to the Electorate of Mainz , where it remained for over five centuries. Landlords in the Radheim district were the monasteries Amorbach , Höchst and Aschaffenburg as well as the Johanniter from Mosbach. The gentlemen from Hanau , von Düdelsheim, von Wasen and Schrautenbach also had goods and authorizations in Radheim.

Modern times

In Radheim, the Mainz land law , which was formally reintroduced in 1755, was considered to be a particular law , and common law was also valid, unless the Mainz land law contained any special provisions for a particular issue. This special rights retained its validity and throughout the 19th century during the affiliation of the area to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was only on January 1, 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced.

After the dissolution of the Mainz electoral state, Radheim first came to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, but was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse by swap in 1817.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Radheim in 1829:

»Radheim (L. Bez. Dieburg) cath. Branch village; is on the Welzbach 3 St. from Dieburg and 1 1 ⁄ 2   St. from Umstadt on a gentle hill. The place has 76 houses and 457 inhabitants, except for 16 Luth. are catholic. In the district there is a break of red sandstones, and on the nearby heights are Roman burial mounds. - This place, which probably derives its name from Rado or Rato, was formerly surrounded by a wall and the seat of several noble families; There are still some ancient stone, formerly noble buildings. The lords of Schrautenbach were patronage and tithe lords of Radheim. The church to which h. Laurentius consecrated, has the year 1578 in a later walled-in coat of arms of the Prince of Mainz. A votive altar is walled up in the churchyard wall. Radheim came from Baiern in 1817 through an exchange with Hesse. "

Radheim, which used to be dominated by agriculture, is now a residential community with almost 1000 inhabitants.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse on January 1, 1977, the previously independent municipality of Radheim was incorporated into Schaafheim by state law . For Radheim as well as for the other incorporated places local districts with local advisory council and local councilor were formed according to the Hessian municipal code.

Territorial history and administration

The higher-level administrative units are documented as follows while they belong to Hessen:

dishes

The competent jurisdiction of the first instance was:

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1812: 74 fireplaces, 486 souls
Radheim: Population from 1812 to 2016
year     Residents
1812
  
 486
1829
  
 457
1834
  
 498
1840
  
 513
1846
  
 572
1852
  
 602
1858
  
 556
1864
  
 538
1871
  
 501
1875
  
 486
1885
  
 476
1895
  
 482
1905
  
 456
1910
  
 435
1925
  
 443
1939
  
 477
1946
  
 635
1950
  
 631
1956
  
 551
1961
  
 577
1967
  
 667
1970
  
 726
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2011
  
 918
2012
  
 949
2016
  
 990
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census ; after 2011 municipality of Schaafheim

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 16 Lutheran (= 3.50%) and 441 Catholic (= 96.50%) residents
• 1961: 42 Protestant (= 7.28%), 533 Catholic (= 92.37%) residents

religion

Ecclesiastically, Radheim belonged to Wenigumstadt until 1820 and then as a branch to Mosbach. After 1945 Radheim received its own parish together with Schaafheim . The Laurentiuskirche, which is still preserved today, was built in 1577 in place of a smaller church, while the Gothic tower was preserved.

Attractions

  • To the north of Radheim rises up on a hill the 22 m high watch tower , which the Archbishop of Mainz Berthold von Henneberg had built on the old Bachgauer Landwehr in 1492 . He secured the crossing of the trade route in the Kurmainzer area. In 1992 the tower was restored and made accessible again.
  • Radheim has two churches. The churches are dedicated to St. Lawrence . The first church is proven from the year 1244. The current old church was built in 1577. Your tower dates from the 14th century. In 1903 the nave was lengthened by six meters and again shortened by six meters in 1968. Inconspicuous from the outside, the baroque interior, which was designed between 1763 and 1767 , is all the more magnificent . The new church was built in 1964. Both houses of worship are connected by a corridor.
  • The old town wall with loopholes.
  • The wayside shrine of St. Ottilie , erected in 1793, but the stone is probably Romanesque, badly damaged in 1965, rebuilt since 1976 on the forest path from Dorndiel , is located on the Einhardweg , a medieval historical hiking path that leads from Dorndiel over the ridge of the Odenwald through Radheim leads.
  • Tannenhof ostrich farm northwest of Radheim.
  • The Bachgau distillery .

traffic

Radheim im Bachgau, extensive network of cycle paths and hiking trails around the village; Starting point for hikes in Odenwald and Spessart
Guard tower near Radheim
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The wayside shrine of St. Ottilie on Einhardweg
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Portrait of St. Ottilie


railroad

The closest train stations are:

Bus routes

  • K 54 Babenhausen (Hessen) train station
  • K 54 Aschaffenburg Central Station

Network of cycle and hiking trails

There is an extensive network of signposted bike and hiking trails around Radheim. The most famous hiking trail is the historic Einhardweg with Radheim as a stopover.

Trunk roads

  • B 26 direction Darmstadt connection to A 5 (Basel-Karlsruhe-Frankfurt-Kassel) and A 67
  • B 26 east towards Aschaffenburg connection to A 3 (Cologne-Bonn-Frankfurt-Würzburg-Nürnberg-Passau)
  • B 45 towards Hanau connection to A 3 and A 45 (Hanau)
  • B 45 north towards Frankfurt / Offenbach via B 486 and A 661 (Egelsbach-Frankfurt)
  • B 45 south towards Michelstadt / Erbach.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Peter Wolf, lat.Petrus Lupinus (* in Radheim; † 1521 in Wittenberg), theologian, rector of the University of Wittenberg in 1506, sponsor of Martin Luther

People who lived in Radheim

  • Norbert Kühne (* 1941), German writer and publicist, lived in Radheim from 1943 to around 1953.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Radheim, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population figures . In: website. Schaafheim community, accessed July 2019 .
  3. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 109.
  4. ↑ a b Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province Starkenburg, Volume 1 October 1829, p. 192 ( online at Google Books )
  5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 15 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  6. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 81 kB) §; 5. In: Website. Schaafheim community, accessed February 2019 .
  7. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Darmstadt 1866, p. 43 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  8. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. In: 2011 census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  9. ^ Peter Wolf - Petrus Lupinus von Radheim In: Private website to Radheim. Accessed July 2020.