Dam (Aschaffenburg)

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Damm, section from the Pfinzingatlas Spessart 1594
View of dam (foreground houses on Godelsberg)
Aerial photo 2008, in front of the district of Leider

Damm is a district of the independent city of Aschaffenburg with 13,681 inhabitants (December 31, 2018) and belongs to the administrative district of Lower Franconia in the Free State of Bavaria in the Federal Republic of Germany.

location

The district is located in the north-east of the city, north of the Würzburg - Aschaffenburg - Frankfurt am Main railway line . Along the Aschaff, Habichtstrasse, Steinbacher Strasse and Grundweg it borders on the Strietwald district , and otherwise on the Glattbach community and the Goldbach market. The Damm district consists of part of the Damm district and part of the Aschaffenburg district. The Fahrbach settlement belongs to the Damm district. The zip code is 63741.

The largest body of water is the Aschaff .

history

Damm as a village must have originated around 1150, around 1170 with the establishment of the Aschaffenburg parish of St. Agatha , the tenth district of Damm was taken over by the parish of Our Lady (Aschaffenburg) .
“The twilight ham's unner de Hemmer” (shirts); they are said to have been teased with the nickname Hutschen (tadpoles) in the past .

There were twelve mills on the Aschaff and Glattbach rivers , six of which were in the municipality of Damm. The manor mill is mentioned in a donation as early as 1182.

Around 1624 Damm was first mentioned in official documents in connection with Aschaffenburg; 1765 in the tithe directory: Aschaffenburg and the associated Dorff Damm . At the time of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Damm was part of the Aschaffenburg district mairie in the Aschaffenburg department. Maire was the citizen military captain Ignaz Vill, his adjuncts were Caspar Maidhof and Conrad Schuck. In 1812 Damm had 1076 inhabitants.

As a result of the Paris Treaty of 1814, the part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in which Damm was located became part of Bavaria. By ordinance of 1818, Damm came to the district and city court II class Aschaffenburg as a rural community next to the city of Aschaffenburg, which has been a district direct since 1815. In November of that year, according to a government resolution, Damm moved to the Aschaffenburg district court (Aschaffenburg district office from 1862). In 1901 he moved from the district office of Aschaffenburg to the city of Aschaffenburg.

On November 21, 1944, the Damm district was largely destroyed in a British air raid on Aschaffenburg, its train station and the tank repair workshop (in what is now the Nilkheim district). The number of people killed is given differently in two sources and is 221 and 344 respectively. Another air raid on December 29, 1944 claimed 11 lives.

In 2012, a boundary stone was set about 38.1 m southeast of the historical boundary between the Damm Schultheisserei and the city of Aschaffenburg, but at the same time on the current boundary between the Damm and Aschaffenburg districts, namely on the corner of Behlenstrasse and Bernhardstrasse in a green area.

Infrastructure

economy

Damm is the most populous district of Aschaffenburg and is characterized by large industrial areas. It consists of a part of the municipality of the former Schultheisserei Damm and the part of the district Aschaffenburg, which lies north of the Frankfurt - Würzburg railway line. In the 19th century there were paper mills and an earthenware factory in the Schultheisserei Damm . In the Aschaffenburg district of Damm there was also a stoneware factory (in the Haselmühle) around 1830 and a white paper factory from the 1870s.

At the beginning of the 1870s, there was a copper smelter, the Justushütte, in the lower Dämmer Mühle, an earlier flour mill, later also barite and rag mill. There, copper was extracted from the ore of the Upper Kahlgrund. Today this formerly Dämmer industrial area around the paint factory and the sewage treatment plant belongs to the city center district.

traffic

Damm is directly connected to the railway lines to Würzburg, Miltenberg, Darmstadt and Frankfurt at the Aschaffenburg main station with its three multi-storey car parks and approx. 200 P&R parking spaces, has access to the federal motorway 3 via the nearby Aschaffenburg West and Aschaffenburg Ost motorway entrances and is served by the bus routes of the Aschaffenburger Stadtwerke as well as the KVG . State road 2309 runs through the dam .

education

In the dam there are two primary schools , two secondary schools , a private business school , six kindergartens, a technical and vocational high school.

Churches

sport and freetime

  • Club ring dam
  • SV Einigkeit Aschaffenburg-Damm with two German team championships and numerous international successful athletes
  • Rifle Club 1888 Aschaffenburg-Damm
  • Schützengesellschaft 1917 Aschaffenburg-Damm
  • Schwarz-Gold dance club Aschaffenburg with dance center from 2007
  • TuS 1863 Damm with 1200 members in 9 departments; the gymnasts, basketball players and fistball players of this club were represented in the respective national leagues in the past
  • Bowling clubs Bahnfrei Damm and Dreieck Damm in the Schwalbenrainweg bowling center
  • SV 1911 Damm is a pure football club, in 2010 it belonged to the regional league, but then had to move back to the bottom class due to financial problems.
  • Tennis club PWA Damm (name of the former paper mill)
  • Two hiking clubs: Tourist Society Damm and Wanderfreunde Damm

Memorials

In the Damm cemetery there is a memorial stone and the Dümer Memorial Chapel to commemorate the victims of the air raids in 1944 and 1945. Opposite the chapel entrance are two bronze plaques with the names of 240 dead.

Personalities

  • Philipp Dessauer (1837–1900), manufacturer, honorary citizen of the community of Damm (awarded November 30, 1872). He was a pioneer in the processing of pulp into paper.
  • Adolf Dyroff (1866–1943), philosopher, born in Damm
  • Erwin Englert (1922–1989), letter of honor from the city of Aschaffenburg, handball player, chairman of TuS 1863
  • Julius Krieg (1882–1941), Dusk chronicler, prelate, professor of canon law and Bavarian constitutional and administrative law
  • Franz Philipp (1910–1980), letters of honor from the city of Aschaffenburg; Marksman, track and field athlete, handball player, fistball player and sports official; the Franz-Philipp-Halle bears his name
  • Valentin Pfeifer (1886–1964), teacher, local history researcher and writer; The Piper Street was named after him.
  • Karl Pfeifer (1892–1944), prefect at the Aschaffenburg study seminar, pastor of St. Josef
  • Walter Roos (1929–1988), painter and graphic artist
  • Franz Josef Hermann Reuter (1799–1873), philologist
  • Georg Sauer (1888–1973), letters of honor from the city of Aschaffenburg, member of the Oberturnwart and board member of TuS 1863 Damm
  • Alois Stadtmüller (1911–1989), chronicler of the region
  • Alexander Klotz photographer and artist

See also

literature

  • Aschaffenburg studies. II. Documentations, Volume 8 - Twilight, Twilight People's Life in Unfortunately - History in Pictures , compiled by Martin Kempf, City of Aschaffenburg, 1992, ISBN 3-922355-06-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Kempf Damers Chronology Damers Life - Damers Leut (1992)
  2. ↑ Alois Stadtmüller Mühlen in and around Damm Spessart, volume 6 (1972)
  3. ↑ Martin Kempf Damers Chronology Damers Life - Damers Leut (1992)
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 600 .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 9 ° 8'  E