Bonstadt

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Bonstadt
community Niddatal
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 137  (123–172)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.72 km²
Residents : 1613  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 150 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 61194
Area code : 06034
Image from Bönstadt

Bönstadt is a district of Niddatal in the Wetterau district in East Hesse .

geography

Bönstadt is located in the Wetterau ( natural sub- unit Heldenbergener Wetterau ) southeast of Assenheim .

history

The place is first mentioned in 1184 as "benstad". The von Benstad aristocratic family can be traced back to 1232 .

A church was built in 1326 and expanded in 1559. It was under the patronage right of the Premonstratensian Monastery of Ober-Ilbenstadt .

On December 1, 1970 , the city of Assenheim and the communities of Bönstadt and Ilbenstadt merged voluntarily as part of the regional reform in Hesse to form the new city of Niddatal, and with it Bönstadt came to the Wetterau district on August 1, 1972 .

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 911 Protestant (= 83.27%), 172 Catholic (= 15.72%) residents
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
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2005
  
 1,791
2011
  
 1,608
2015
  
 1,564
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
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religion

Tower of the historical church

The Catholic parish of St. Nikolaus in Wickstadt is also responsible for the districts of Bönstadt and Assenheim. Bönstadt has a Protestant parish together with Kaichen.

Culture and sights

See also: List of cultural monuments in Niddatal section Bönstadt

Leisure area with a large pond, fountain, long corridor

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

State road 3188 runs south of the village .

Public facilities

In Bönstadt there is a kindergarten and a volunteer fire brigade association.

Individual evidence

  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. ↑ 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 ]).
  3. ^ 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 .
  4. ↑ a b Bönstadt, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Web links

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