Darmstadt-Arheilgen

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Arheilgen
Independent city of Darmstadt
Local coat of arms of Arheilgen
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 39 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 128 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.27 km²
Residents : 17,988  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 1,596 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1937
Postal code : 64291
Area code : 06151
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Location of Arheilgen within Darmstadt

Arheilgen is a district in the north of the city of Darmstadt in Hesse , which was incorporated in 1937.

Geographical location

Arheilgen borders in the north on the Darmstadt district of Wixhausen , in the east on the Darmstadt district of Kranichstein , in the south on the main plant of Merck KGaA and the city center of Darmstadt and in the west on the district of Weiterstadt .

A detailed description of the location can be found under List of districts of Darmstadt .

history

prehistory

Despite isolated finds from the Stone Age (stone axes), the main focus is on excavations of barrows from the Urnfield culture and the Latène period .

middle Ages

Evangelical-Lutheran Resurrection Church in Darmstadt-Arheilgen, built 1477–1482

The early history of Arheilgens before 1000 AD is largely in the dark.

The actual settlement probably began in the second half of the first millennium when a number of Franconian settlements arose in the Rhine-Main-Neckar area. The place name in its old spelling "Araheiligon" is first mentioned in an undated interest register of Abbey Seligenstadt mentioned, probably around the year 1000 an unknown writer one dating back to the 9th century Gospels added the monastery.

In the course of an exchange in 1013 between King Heinrich II. (Emperor from 1014) and the Diocese of Würzburg , Arheilgen came under the rule of the Würzburg bishop with the royal court of Gerau , to which it belonged like many other communities in southern Hesse. He in turn enfeoffed the Counts of Katzenelnbogen with this property.

On the occasion of a dispute between the monks of the Eberbach monastery from Gehaborner Hof and the villagers of Arheilgen about the Wintershagen forest in the Arheilger district, the village was mentioned again in writing. On November 21, 1225, during the hearing of this case before an arbitration tribunal, a document was drawn up in which Vogt Werner von Grevenhusen was named as an arbitrator and the mayor Godebold von Sneppenhusen was named as a witness.

On August 26, 1318, when the property was divided up between Count Bertolf and Count Eberhard von Katzenelnbogen, the former was given to Arheilgen with all his property and thus once more recorded. When this family died out in 1479, Arheilgen was inherited by the Landgraviate of Hesse and has been Hessian since then.

Early modern age

"Allerheilingen" on a map by Nicolaes Visscher II from 1680
Half-timbered houses on Messeler Strasse
and the Darmstädter Straße in Arheilgen

Around 1600 witch hunts took place in Hessen . Two women were burned at the stake in Arheilgen .

In the following years of peace the Arheilger were able to develop prosperity. The population rose to 800 to 900, at that time it was one of the most populous places in the area. But the Thirty Years War shook Arheilgen badly. As early as 1622, the troops of the Count von Mansfeld robbed all houses and the church. In January 1635, the place was almost completely burned down by French troops. Only a few houses remained. The surviving residents fled behind the supposedly safe walls of nearby Darmstadt, where many of them died of the plague. At the end of the war in 1648 there were only about 12 families left to start rebuilding the community. The hunting lodge Dianaburg was built around three kilometers northeast of the village in 1765 .

Modern

During the Third Reich , Arheilgen was forcibly incorporated into Darmstadt on April 1, 1937, at the same time as Eberstadt, against the will of the population , which thus became a major city . The rejection of this step by the residents was noticeable well into the post-war period.

The Protestant parish in Arheilgen was considered a stronghold of the Confessing Church during the Nazi era under its pastor Karl Grein .

On August 19, 2011, Arheilgen officially celebrated its 1175th anniversary.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Arheilgen was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Seal and coat of arms

The local coat of arms evolved from the court seal , the oldest surviving impression of which dates from 1636 . The upper half shows the half-length figure of Saint Kilian , patron saint of the Franks, to whom the original Arheilger Church was consecrated. Below are a pair of lying glasses, a wolf tang and two hexagonal stars. The origin of these symbols is still unclear today and is a mystery.

Designation of place and origin

No reliable information can be given about the origin of the place name. An earlier attempt at interpretation, of the name (as in "Darimund" Darmstadt) of a fictional Imperial Wild Hübner wanted to derive "Araheil", was later replaced by etymological replaced approaches. The most recent leads via the derivation of the syllable Ar from Germanic âr (messenger) to the meaning "to the messenger saints".

The place name “Arheil i gen”, which is still often inappropriately used today , is a modification of the original historical place name that is no longer in use . One of the bells of the Protestant church acquired in 1712 bears the following slogan:

"The place has been called Allerheyligen from ancient times, but no ministry of the Heyligen is known here."

Today's inhabitants of Arheilgen are called "Arheilger". The family name Arhelger also goes back to the place name. Dialect , the inhabitants of Arheilgen "Oarhelljer" call. In 1850, when around a thousand soldiers demonstrated in front of Darmstadt Castle against the deposition of their vicar, their nickname "Mucker", derived from the verb "aufmucken", was born.

Natural monuments and nature reserves

Inland dunes

Streams

Natural bathing lake

Flood retention basin

Churches

graveyard

Historical buildings

See: List of cultural monuments in Arheilgen

education

Primary schools :

Comprehensive school :

  • District school Arheilgen (school type-related comprehensive school; new admissions) in the building of the former Thomas Mann School.

economy

Asparagus cultivation

South of the Arheilgens district is the site of the oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company in the world, Merck KGaA. The company is the largest employer in the region and supports both schools and clubs there. Asparagus cultivation dominates agriculture .

media

In Darmstadt-Arheilgen, current reports and official announcements take place mainly in the daily newspapers Darmstädter Echo , in the regional editions of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau . There is also the weekly “Arheilger Post” (“The home and weekly newspaper for Arheilgen, Wixhausen and Kranichstein”).

The Hessischer Rundfunk and Radio FFH are each represented with a regional studio in Darmstadt. The non-commercial local radio Radio Darmstadt ( Radar ) broadcasts from Darmstadt. These studios are also responsible for Darmstadt-Arheilgen.

traffic

Local transport

On April 30, 1890, Arheilgen was connected to the steam railway to Griesheim and Eberstadt . The trains consisted of a small two-axle steam locomotive with four to five passenger cars.

The largest transport project in Arheilgen since the end of the war was the continuation of the tram route to the northern end of the town with the addition of an additional track, as well as the redesign of the Frankfurter Landstrasse. The new route was put into operation in August 2011. The changed track layout made the tram's turning loop previously located in the town center superfluous. The space freed up in this way was used in the following years for the construction of a shopping center, which was opened in 2014.

Today Arheilgen has an easy access to public transport (PT) and is accessible by train station Darmstadt-Arheilgen to the S-Bahn -distance S3 from Darmstadt via Frankfurt to Bad Soden am Taunus connected. In addition, there are various connections to the Darmstadt local transport network :

  • A tram connection to the city center and Eberstadt, to Alsbach .
  • Three bus routes in the district and in the districts of Kranichstein and Wixhausen.
  • A regional bus connection to Neu-Isenburg via Langen (Hessen) .

Via Darmstadt-Nord station there is also a connection to regional train 75 in the directions Mainz / Wiesbaden (via Groß-Gerau ) and Aschaffenburg (via Dieburg and Babenhausen ) and to regional train 81 in the direction of Erbach (Odenwald) (via Reinheim and Groß -Umstadt ).

S-Bahn station (train station) Darmstadt-Arheilgen

Stop on the tram and bus stop in Darmstadt-Arheilgen

The station ( 49 ° 54 ′ 49.5 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 43.5 ″  E ) on the Main-Neckar Railway was opened in 1848. In 1876 goods traffic was started. Until 1894 it was about 600 m further north to also connect Wixhausen to the railway network. By 1976 Arheilgen had two mechanical interlockings , which were replaced by a pushbutton interlocking . In 1994 the station building was demolished and an S-Bahn station was opened. Three tracks are used for long-distance and regional traffic, a fourth for the Rhein-Main S-Bahn in both directions.

societies

There are 52 clubs in Arheilgen. These have become part of the interest group of Arheilger associations IGAV e. V. merged.

  • By far the largest number of members is the Sportgemeinschaft Arheilgen (SGA) with over 4,000 members, making it the second largest sports club in Darmstadt and, with the corresponding department, the largest table tennis club in South Hesse.
  • The soccer team of 1. FCA Darmstadt has been playing in the Hessen Association League since the 2013/14 season .
  • The German Red Cross has been active in Arheilgen since 1904.
  • Many Arheilger entrepreneurs are organized in the Arheilgen trade association.

Regular events

  • June: Mucker participates! (every two years; since 2015)
  • August: Roman Road Festival
  • September: Muckerfest
  • October / November: curb
  • November / December: Christmas market

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arheilgen on the city of Darmstadt's website
  2. ↑ Statistical overview of the city of Darmstadt 2019 p. 8 (pdf 106 kB)
  3. ↑ a b Heinrich Tischner , linguist and name researcher, private homepage: division Katzenelnbogen , derivation of place name
  4. ^ Karl Dienst : Church - School - Religious Instruction: Investigation following the EKHN's church struggle documentation . 2009 ISBN 978-3825818432 , p. 121
  5. ↑ Echo-Online : Arheilgen celebrates its 1175th anniversary ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Arheilgen, City of Darmstadt. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  9. ^ Website of the Wilhelm Busch School
  10. ^ Center Arheilgen
  11. ↑ a b The train stations in Darmstadt . In: Riedbahn Darmstadt - Goddelau. Accessed December 31, 2011. Author describes information as inconsistent and should be treated with caution.
  12. ↑ List of German signal boxes . Retrieved December 31, 2011
  13. ↑ sg-arheilgen.de
  14. ↑ Petra Neumann Prystaj. In: Darmstädter Echo, Tuesday, June 11, 2019, p. 12.
  15. ↑ josi. In: Darmstädter Echo, Monday, August 26, 2019, p. 10.
  16. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Friday, September 4, 2015, p. 15
  17. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Wednesday, October 31, 2018, p. 34

Web links

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