Assenheim (Niddatal)

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Assenheim
community Niddatal
Assenheim coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : 125  (119–141)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.64 km²
Residents : 4002  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 317 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 61194
Area code : 06034
Old town hall in the town center
Old town hall in the town center

Assenheim is a district of Niddatal in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .

Geographical location

Assenheim is located in the Wetterau , six kilometers southeast of Friedberg at an altitude of 121 m above sea ​​level . In the place the weather flows into the Nidda .

history

Assenheim in the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian
View of Assenheim, around 1800

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Assenheim comes from the year 1139. Between 1179 and 1180 a castle was built here, of which hardly any remains can be seen today. The village was first referred to as a city on January 6, 1277. In the Old Kingdom it belonged to the Kaichen Free Court . Ecclesiastically, Assenheim was a daughter parish of Ilbenstadt .

Sovereignty

The rulership was exercised in a condominium . The rights of the individual shareholders in the rulership were divided as follows:

Modern times

In 1700 there were 57 master craftsmen and in 1727 three markets were held annually. Assenheim was occupied by the French from 1806 to 1810 and was then added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse , where it remained after the Congress of Vienna . The civil privileges initially continued to exist, especially the civil jurisdiction. It was not until 1821 that the civil office of Assenheim was dissolved and a series of changing affiliations began at district level, which mainly reflect the various administrative reforms of the Grand Duchy and the State of Hesse :

In 1957 Assenheim was raised to the status of town and on April 1, 1957 the community-free farm group Wickstadt was incorporated. On December 1, 1970 , the city of Assenheim and the communities of Bönstadt and Ilbenstadt voluntarily merged into the new city of Niddatal as part of the regional reform in Hesse, and with it, Assenheim became part of the Wetterau district on August 1, 1972 .

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 1554 Protestant (= 74.39%), 497 Catholic (= 23.79%) inhabitants
Assenheim: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 929
1840
  
 1,100
1846
  
 1,149
1852
  
 1,114
1858
  
 1,215
1864
  
 993
1871
  
 939
1875
  
 950
1885
  
 943
1895
  
 930
1905
  
 1,150
1910
  
 1,256
1925
  
 1,336
1939
  
 1,288
1946
  
 2,027
1950
  
 2,104
1956
  
 2,084
1961
  
 2,089
1967
  
 2,408
1970
  
 2,504
2005
  
 3,959
2011
  
 3,873
2015
  
 3,879
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

religion

The Roman Catholic parish of St. Nikolaus in Wickstadt is also responsible for the districts of Assenheim and Bönstadt . The pilgrimage to the Maria Sternbach church near Wickstadt takes place on the Sunday before Ascension , on the Sunday after the Visitation and on the Sunday after the Assumption . The image of Mary ( miraculous image ) probably dates from the 15th century.

Assenheim has its own Protestant parish.

coat of arms

In November 1950 the municipality of Assenheim was granted the right to use a coat of arms by the Hessian State Ministry.

Assenheim coat of arms
 Blazon : "In silver, a red tower with a wide basement covered with blue and two tower cores, all with blue roofs and a gold cross on the tower roof."

The town, first mentioned as a town in 1275, introduced a main seal with the German inscription referring to town rank, which already shows the strangely shaped tower as an image. This also appears in the secretion from the 14th century, in the coat of arms with the year 1744 on the town hall and in the above coat of arms confirmed again in 1950. Allegedly the symbol was also shown on an old city flag. In contrast to this, the court seal of 1597 contained St. Dionysius , who carries his head in his hand. In the 17th century a divided shield with the Hanauer rafters and the Solms lion was used in the seal .

Sights and culture

Assenheim Castle , 2011

Buildings

See also section Assenheim in the list of cultural monuments in Niddatal

societies

  • Darts Club (DC) Royal Blue
  • Ewaldshof e. V.
  • Voluntary fire brigade association
  • Assenheim Carnival Society Association Humor 1914 e. V.
  • Cultural and communal (KUK) Assenheim
  • Rhine-Main Patriots
  • Rifle Club Assenheim 1921 e. V.
  • SV 1920 Assenheim e. V.
  • Theater group Assenheim e. V.
  • TTC 1951 Assenheim
  • Gymnastics club Assenheim

Local peculiarities

The Assemer Soup is a tasty, strong and invigorating vegetable soup with meat and an insert of barley barley. The origin can be found with the construction of the railway bridge in Assenheim. The workers who built this structure did not come from Niddatal and therefore had to be provided with food. They preferred this relatively cheap meal.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Assenheim (Oberhess) train station, direction Friedberg

Landesstrasse 3187 and Kreisstrasse 239 meet in the village .

The public transport is ensured by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund . To the north of the village is the Assenheim (Oberhess) train station on the Friedberg – Hanau railway line . Because of its remote location, it is of little importance for traffic. In the past, agricultural products were loaded there. The station building was privatized in 2007.

Numerous cycle paths cross in Assenheim: long-distance cycle path R4 , apple wine and orchard route, Celtic cycle route, rose cycle path .

Schools and kindergartens

In Assenheim there are two kindergartens and the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule, a primary, secondary and secondary school .

Personalities

literature

  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area = writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 (1937). ND 1984, pp. 46f.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 319.
  • Rudolf Lummitsch: History of the city of Assenheim: From the early period to the 19th century . Niddatal, City of Niddatal, 1977.
  • Hans-Georg Ruppel: Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 to the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform = Darmstädter Archivschriften 2. Darmstadt 1976, p. 51.
  • Heinz Wionski: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Wetteraukreis II: 1st part: Bad Nauheim to Florstadt, 2nd part: Friedberg to Wöllstadt = monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Braunschweig and Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 820-844.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau, city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian-Wetterauischen city and former. County. With special consideration of the older time. Increased edition, self-published, Hanau 1919 (Unchanged reprint. Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 ).

Web links

Commons : Assenheim  - Collection of Images
Wikisource: Assenheim in Merian's Topographia Hassiae  - sources and full texts

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Inhabitants and areas. (No longer available online.) In: Internet presence. City of Niddatal, archived from the original ; accessed on June 14, 2018 . (Data from web archive)
  2. ↑ Zimmermann, pp. 767, 772.
  3. ↑ Merger of the city of Assenheim and the communities of Bönstadt and Ilbenstadt in the Frieberg district to form the city of "Niddatal" on November 11, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2252 , item 2242 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 360 .
  5. ↑ a b Assenheim, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Pilgrimage in Maria Sternbach .
  7. ↑ Granting of the right to use a coat of arms to the community of Assenheim, Friedberg district on November 2, 1950 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1950 No. 46 , p. 470 , point 868 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
  8. ^ Klemens Stadler : The municipal coat of arms of the state of Hesse . New edition of the collective work Deutsche Ortswappen by Otto Hupp on behalf of HAG Aktiengesellschaft in Bremen, edited by Klemens Stadler, drawings by Max Reinhart (=  German coat of arms - Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 3 ). Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 16 .
  9. ↑ "Secret" in the sense of "confidential communication", see Secret ( Wiktionary )
  10. ↑ https://www.ewaldshof.de/
  11. ↑ 50 ° 18 '17.6 "  N , 8 ° 48' 45.4"  E
  12. ↑ Assenheim train station (Oberhess)