Babenhausen (Hesse)

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Babenhausen (Hesse)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '  N , 8 ° 57'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Darmstadt-Dieburg
Height : 124 m above sea level NHN
Area : 66.87 km 2
Residents: 16,940 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 253 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 64832
Area code : 06073
License plate : DA, TU
Community key : 06 4 32 002
City structure: 6 districts

City administration address :
Town hall
Marktplatz 2
64832 Babenhausen
Website : www.babenhausen.de
Mayor : Joachim Knoke ( SPD )
Location of the city of Babenhausen in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district
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Location of the Babenhausen districts

Babenhausen (in the local dialect: Bawehause ) is a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

geography

location

The city lies in the drifting sand plain north of the Odenwald . The core city is 124  m above sea level. NHN on the Gersprenz , which flows through the city in several arms. Babenhausen is one of the most densely wooded communities in southern Hesse. The surrounding area is largely used for arable farming, u. a. are asparagus and corn grown. Several gravel pits are distributed around the city .

Babenhausen is on the German half-timbered street . The Altdorf desert is also within the boundaries of the city .

Neighboring communities

Babenhausen borders in the north on the cities of Rodgau and Seligenstadt as well as the community Mainhausen (all Offenbach district ), in the east on the market communities Stockstadt am Main and Großostheim (both districts Aschaffenburg ), in the south on the community Schaafheim and the city Groß-Umstadt as well as in West to the municipalities of Münster (Hessen) and Eppertshausen (all in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district).

City structure

City district "Ost-Zwei" and former VDO (aerial photo from 2008)

The city has the following districts:

In the city center, various residential areas are also given names. However, these names are not official and are not strictly delimited (e.g. Erloch, Ost I – III, Altstadt).

history

Urban development

Babenhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1236.

Adelheid von Munzenberg , daughter of Ulrich I von Munzenberg , married Reinhard I von Hanau before 1245 (the exact year is not known) . Among other things, she brought the rulership of Babenhausen with her as marriage goods , with which the place belonged to the Hanau rulership , later the Hanau county and after the division of 1456 to the Hanau-Lichtenberg county . Babenhausen was the main town of the Babenhausen office .

The city was planned as a market settlement immediately north of Babenhausen Castle as an irregular square. Approximately in the middle is the rectangular market square, the east side of which is the (today Protestant ) Nikolauskirche . The streets branch off at right angles from the main street and to the west of it form a grid-shaped street network.

The Hexenturm is the landmark of Babenhausen

The city received city ​​rights with a weekly market through King Adolf von Nassau in 1295 . During this time, the construction of a city ​​wall began, which was rebuilt in 1445 with a wall and moat and originally had seven towers and two gates. A large part of the wall has been preserved to this day, as is the mill tower or witch tower and the breach tower or "tip tower". The city charter granted by King Adolf von Nassau was renewed in 1351, 1401 and 1404.

Babenhausen had its own city court, which applied the city ​​law of Frankfurt am Main . In addition, it belonged to the Altdorf Regional and Central Court, which was responsible for larger disputes and also applied the city law of Frankfurt and later the Solms regional law . In the 16th century, this court was moved to the city of Babenhausen by the sovereign, although the city itself should no longer fall under the jurisdiction of the court. It was also partly occupied by municipal aldermen and was responsible for the more important proceedings. The city court of Babenhausen negotiated smaller cases.

On February 22, 1368, Emperor Charles IV awarded Ulrich III. von Hanau the right to set up a mint in Babenhausen and to mint coins with its own coat of arms and the common denominations in Frankfurt or Nuremberg . King Ruprecht confirmed the right to mint in 1404, but no use was made of it. It was only Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg , who tacitly transferred this privilege, which actually only applies to Babenhausen, to Hanau , who then minted coins for the first time. It was not until Count Johann Reinhard that a mint worked in Babenhausen in the years 1607–1625 and minted gold guilders , among other things .

Around 1430 the place Langenbrücken became deserted as a result of the agricultural crisis and became part of the Babenhausen district.

In 1503, under Count Philipp II von Hanau-Lichtenberg, the city received a privilege from the emperor to hold a fair - the Nikolausmarkt.

During the Thirty Years' War , the neutrality policy initially pursued by Count Johann Reinhard I (* 1569; † 1625) and Philipp Wolfgang (* 1595; † 1641) did not bear fruit . The Babenhausen office suffered particularly intensely due to its location in the Rhine-Main area near the Electoral Palatinate and on the military roads in the Rhine Valley . Occupied several times by different warring parties, the surrounding villages were already devastated in the first years of the war, the residents fled, 2,500 to the city of Babenhausen alone, where the plague broke out. In 1631 the city and Babenhausen Castle were hit again when they were occupied and looted by imperial troops. A year later, the Swedes invaded under General Count Wolfgang Heinrich von Isenburg -Büdingen. From February 23 to March 28, 1635, the city was again besieged by the imperial family under Count Philipp von Mansfeld , albeit unsuccessfully, but then occupied by Kurmainz until 1647 in 1636 . Within the current district of Babenhausen, the village of Altdorf was given up after 1635 due to the consequences of war and the plague .

The logo of the city of Babenhausen

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , In 1736 there was almost a military conflict between the potential heirs, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , around the town and office of Babenhausen . Both sides occupied a part of the office with their military. The city of Babenhausen was occupied by the Hesse-Kassel military. The dispute could only be ended after a long-standing legal dispute before the highest imperial courts in 1771 through a settlement, the so-called participation recess . Then Babenhausen fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel. In 1807, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Babenhausen office came under French administration. By a state treaty with France in 1810, however, to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and then belonged to the following administrative units: until 1821: Amt Babenhausen ; 1821 to 1832: Seligenstadt district in the Starkenburg province of the Grand Duchy of Hesse; 1832 to 1848: Offenbach district with the introduction of districts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse; 1848 to 1852: Dieburg administrative district during the division of Starkenburg province into administrative districts; 1852 to 1938: Dieburg district with the abolition of the administrative districts until the end of the Starkenburg province; 1938 to 1977: Dieburg district ; from 1977: District of Darmstadt-Dieburg, in which the district of Dieburg is dissolved in the course of the regional reform in Hesse.

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

“Babenhausen (L. Bez. Seligenstadt) city; is on the left bank of the Gersprenz, 2 St, von Seligenstadt and 4 St von Steinheim, and has 230 houses and 1602 inhabitants, all of which are Lutheran except for 20 Cath., 6 Reform and 80 Jews. You can find a Lutheran parish church, which was built in the 16th century, with statues of some popes and bishops, and the crypt of the Hanau Lichtenberg line, a post office, the former grave with double walls and three moats on the opposite bank. Hanau residential palace, now a military penal institution, a town hall built in 1804, 2 grinding mills, 1 brickworks and a glue boiler. 4 grocer's markets are held here every year. - Babenhausen, an ancient property of the Count Palatine of Tübingen, or actually its mark, first appears in a document in 945 under the name Babenberg , and is found in 1236 in the possession of the Lords of Munzenberg. The castle is also called at this time. It had its castle men, and at that time could be regarded as belonging: Altdorf, Hiltenhausen, Langenbrücken, Sickenhofen, Hergershausen and Harreshausen. Between the years 1258 to 1278, Babenhausen and 9 villages came to the Lords of Hanau, as Munzenberg co-heirs, and in 1295 the place was elevated to the status of town. In 1372 Ulrich IV. Von Hanau entrusted Emperor Carl IV., Who granted Babenhausen the right to mint, to fief the castle and town. After the former's death in 1404, his successor Ulrich V got into a violent dispute with his brothers Johann and Reinhard, who made a claim to greater appanage, which finally resulted in the administration of the country by Archbishop Johann II. After Johann II and Ulrich V's deaths, which took place in one year, Reinhard II came into possession of Babenhausen in 1409, although Mainz wanted to assert itself by force. In the treaty of 1458, according to which the count. Hanauische Haus, divided into the Hanau – Munzenberg and Hanau – Lichtenberg lines, the castle and town, including all indirect and immediate affiliations, came to the latter line, which began with Count Philipp I. In 1467 he chose the city as permanent residence, which made it stand out. Count Philip III. in 1521 incorporated the villages of Schaafheim, Harpertshausen, Schlierbach, Kleestadt, Langstadt, with reservation of the Palatinate feudal rights over Schaafheim etc., into his rule Babenhausen. In the Thirty Years' War Babenhausen was now in imperial and now Swedish possession, and finally it was taken by Elector Anselm Casimir of Mainz, who in 1647 handed it over to Count Johann Philipp as deputy. After the exit of the Hanau – Lichtenberg line with Count Johann Reinhard in 1736, the rule (Amt Babenhausen) should come into the possession of the Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, as the consort of the only daughter and only Hanau – Lichtenberg heir; only Hessen-Cassel resisted, and each of these two houses took possession of several places through the military. By comparing 1762 and 1771 the office was divided in the way that Hessen Darmstadt Schaafheim, Schlierbach, Altheim, Harpertshausen and Dietzenbach; Hesse Cassel received the castle and town of Babenhausen, Kleestadt, Langstadt, Harreshausen and Dudenhofen. There were now two offices: Babenhausen and Schaafheim. The former was taken over by France in 1807, and in 1810 incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, which was newly established at that time, from which, however, in the same year it was ceded to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. "

The breakthroughs through the fortress belt began at the beginning of the 19th century. The Bachtor in the south was laid down in 1819, the Hanauer Tor ("Kühtor") in the north in 1823 and the Bachtorturm in 1840. But it was also rebuilt: A new south-western part of the city (“New World”) was built and the city was expanded to the north since 1870. The Spessartviertel was added in 1925, the settlement on Seligenstädter Landstrasse in 1936/37.

During the Second World War, there was a camp for Soviet prisoners of war in Babenhausen , which after the end of the war served as a DP camp for Jewish so-called displaced persons . The DP camp, which housed up to 3,000 people, was closed in April 1950. After the Second World War, Babenhausen was an important garrison of the US Army until 2006 , which was occupied with the artillery units MLRS and Patriot . The area used was in the southeast of the city. The subsequent use is being discussed, also through a joint project between the city and TU Darmstadt .

Territorial history and administration

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

Incorporations

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the communities of Harpertshausen, Langstadt and Harreshausen were incorporated into Babenhausen on a voluntary basis; on July 1, 1972, the municipality of Hergershausen followed, and finally on January 1, 1977, the municipality of Sickenhofen was incorporated by virtue of state law . For the core city of Babenhausen and the incorporated city districts, local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

population

Population structure

According to the 2011 census , there were 15,587 residents in Babenhausen on May 9, 2011. These included 2116 (13.6%) foreigners of whom 966 came from outside the EU , 941 from other European countries and 209 from other countries. Of the German residents, 13.2% had a migration background . The inhabitants lived in 6568 households. Of these, 1,900 were single households , 1,946 were couples without children and 2017 were couples with children, as well as 576 single parents and 129 shared apartments .

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1377 0070 people in common, about 300 inhabitants
• 1636: 0090 families, including the neighboring Dietzenbach, around 350 residents
• 1707: 0169 families
• 1775: 0230 families and 48 widows
• 1829: 1602 inhabitants, 230 houses
• 1867: 2104 inhabitants, 275 houses
• 1948: 3702 inhabitants, of which 410 new citizens, 384 evacuees
Babenhausen: Population from 1754 to 2015
year     Residents
1754
  
928
1786
  
1,033
1795
  
1,195
1800
  
1,192
1822
  
1,569
1829
  
1,602
1834
  
1,769
1840
  
1,904
1846
  
2.011
1852
  
1.965
1858
  
2,099
1864
  
2,074
1871
  
2,673
1875
  
2,516
1885
  
2,544
1895
  
2,066
1905
  
2,862
1910
  
2,947
1925
  
3,029
1939
  
3.143
1946
  
3,343
1950
  
4,567
1956
  
4,270
1961
  
4,583
1967
  
7.117
1970
  
7,240
1972
  
12,546
1976
  
14,010
1984
  
13,845
1992
  
15,407
2000
  
16,300
2005
  
16,426
2010
  
16,124
2011
  
15,587
2015
  
15,800
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000 :; 2005 :; 2010 :; 2011 census; 2015:
From 1972 including the towns incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 1496 Lutheran (= 93.38%), 6 Reformed (= 0.37%), 80 Jewish (= 4.99%) and 20 Catholic (= 1.25%) residents
• 1961: 3362 Protestant (= 73.36%), 1075 (= 23.46%) Catholic residents
• 2011: 6600 Protestant (= 43.3%), 2970 Catholic (= 25.5%), 220 Orthodox (= 1.4%), 320 non-believers (= 2.1%), 4300 other (= 27.6%) residents

Gainful employment

The municipality in comparison with the district, administrative district Darmstadt and Hesse:

year local community district Administrative district Hesse
Employees subject to social security contributions 2017 6.52 74,525 1,695,567 2,524,156
Change to 2000 + 28.1% + 21.1% + 16.1% + 16.0%
of which full-time 2017 79.2% 68.3% 72.8% 71.8%
of which part-time 2017 20.8% 31.7% 27.2% 28.2%
Only marginally paid employees 2017 758 15.305 224.267 372.991
Change to 2000 + 15.0% + 14.4% + 9.0% + 8.8%
Branch year local community district Administrative district Hesse
Manufacturing 2000 73.6% 41.1% 27.0% 30.6%
2017 61.6% 31.3% 20.4% 24.3%
Commerce, hospitality and transport 2000 11.8% 26.1% 26.4% 25.1%
2017 15.2% 26.8% 24.7% 23.8%
Business services 2000 4.0% 11.6% 25.1% 20.2%
2017 13.0% 17.1% 31.6% 26.1%
other services 2000 8.9% 18.8% 20.1% 22.5%
2017 9.5% 23.6% 23.0% 25.4%
Other (or without assignment) 2000 1.8% 2.4% 1.4% 1.5%
2017 0.8% 1.1% 0.3% 0.4%

religion

Christian church

Originally the church of Babenhausen was a branch church of Altdorf and it was not until 1339 that it was named as an independent parish church. The villages Langenbrücken and Zell belonged to the parish . The patronage right lay with the gentlemen of Hanau. The central church authority was the Archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg, Landkapitel Montat .

The Reformation took place in 1545 by Erasmus Alberus under Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg. The congregation became Lutheran . Between 1777 and 1796 there was a Reformed pastor's position under the Reformed Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel. After 1807 there was no longer any Reformed service.

Jewish community

Memorial inscription for the Jewish community of Babenhausen, in the valley of the communities in Yad Vashem

The oldest mention of a Jew in Babenhausen comes from the year 1318. One hundred years later, a Jewish school ( synagogue ) is mentioned. Since 1351 the lords and counts of Hanau were enfeoffed with the imperial fief over the Jews, which was confirmed again and again until the 17th century. The Jewish community in Babenhausen was only wiped out by the Holocaust . The Jewish cemetery still exists. A memorial stone was erected on the site of the former synagogue in Amtsgasse. Structural remains that were used secularly existed at least in 1985.

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
     
A total of 37 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016
Seats
2016
%
2011
Seats
2011
%
2006
Seats
2006
%
2001
Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 33.9 13 29.5 11 39.4 15th 44.4 17th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 32.9 12 36.9 14th 30.4 11 38.4 14th
FWB Free voters Babenhausen 15.0 6th 12.0 4th 9.6 3 3.5 1
FDP Free Democratic Party 9.1 3 4.2 1 5.0 2 4.7 2
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 7.0 3 15.3 6th 12.3 5 9.0 3
LEFT The left 1.4 0 - - - - - -
The citizens The citizens for Babenhausen 0.6 0 2.0 1 3.2 1 - -
total 100 37 100 37 100 37 100 37
Voter turnout in% 47.9 47.9 45.9 53.9

mayor

The mayoral elections on September 28, 2014 produced the following results:

year Candidates Political party % Result
2014
Achim Knoke SPD 53.9
Rudiger Manowski CDU 36.4
Bernd Buchinger 6.1
Heinz Schumacher The citizens 3.6
Voter turnout in% 46.8

The mayors of the previous terms were:

  • 2008-2014: Gabi Coutandin (SPD)
  • 2002–2008: Reinhard Rupprecht (CDU)
  • 1996-2002: Kurt Lambert (CDU)

Districts

The following local districts with local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code exist in the municipality:

  • Local district core community Babenhausen (areas of the former city of Babenhausen). The local advisory board consists of 11 members.
  • Harpertshausen district (areas of the former Harpertshausen municipality ). The local advisory board consists of 5 members.
  • Harreshausen district (areas of the former Harreshausen municipality ). The local advisory board consists of 5 members.
  • Hergershausen district (areas of the former Hergershausen community ). The local advisory board consists of 7 members.
  • Langstadt district (areas of the former Langstadt municipality ). The local advisory board consists of 7 members.
  • Sickenhofen district (areas of the former municipality of Sickenhofen ). The local advisory board consists of 7 members.

badges and flags

Banner Babenhausen (Hessen) .svg

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Babenhausen
Blazon : "Square: 1 and 4 in gold three red rafters , 2 and 3 in silver, one above the other two striding, looking, red-tongued black lions ."

The place received urban liberties in 1295 and its own seal around 1310, which contains the coat of arms in a square lady's shield. The composition corresponds to the ownership structure at that time: The rafters were kept by the Lords of Hanau in the shield, there are two theories for the origin of the lions and leopards: Either they come from the coat of arms of the von Hohenlohe family , since Ulrich von Hanau took over the former Münzenberg rule of Babenhausen in 1310 had given his wife Agnes von Hohenlohe as a morning gift, or they come from the coat of arms of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , whose residence on the right bank of the Rhine was Babenhausen from 1458 to 1736. In the 19th century the city coat of arms was sometimes wrongly tinged , the origin of the lions incorrectly explained.

flag

On January 30, 1981, the city of Babenhausen was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior for a flag, which is described as follows: "Between the red border stripes in the upper half of the white central stripe, the city coat of arms."

Town twinning

Note in Babenhausen about the twin town Buchsweiler

Babenhausen maintains with the city of Bouxwiller in Alsace , in France one, since 1984 twinning . In 2004 the twentieth anniversary of the relationship was celebrated with two big celebrations - one in Bouxwiller, one in Babenhausen.

Friendly relations exist with Babenhausen (Swabia) in Bavaria and Lichtentanne in Saxony.

Culture and sights

Nature and protected areas

The Natura 2000 area "In den Rödern", southeast of Babenhausen, with 86 hectares of sand habitats is of outstanding importance for numerous animals and plants (FFH and EU bird sanctuary 6019-302). Formerly it served as a military training area , since 2007 the patriot positions have been dismantled and transformed into near-natural biotopes. In order to preserve the extensive open sandy lawns, sheep grazed temporarily. Since June 2014 Przewalski's horses have been grazing the areas permanently. This also contributes to the conservation of this almost extinct steppe species . A tour with a viewing hill was laid out for visitors within the fenced off area. In May 2016, a stallion was added to the five Przewalski mares.

On a small Natura2000 area on the company premises of VDO Automotive of Continental AG (FFH area 6019-305) there is one of the largest populations in Germany of the very rare pioneer plant sand silver sliver (Jurinea cyanoides) .

In the Hergershausen meadows are the nature reserves " The little jellyfish from Hergershausen " and " On the sand between Hergershausen and Altheim ". North of Hergershausen is the NSG " Brackenbruch bei Hergershausen " with wet meadows, bodies of water and near-natural forests. These three protected areas are embedded in the larger Natura2000 areas “Untere Gersprenz” (FFH area 6019-303) and “Untere Gersprenzaue” (EU bird protection area 6119-401), Hergershausen sub-area.

The beautiful oak near Harreshausen ( natural monument ) is an approximately 550 year old pyramid oak with a trunk circumference of 3.85 meters. It is considered the mother of the pyramid oaks and a botanical rarity. There are more pyramid oaks on Spessartplatz .

Buildings

City church and market square

Regular events

  • “Ball der Vielharmonie” of the choirs of the city center in January
  • Rose Monday ball in the town hall, every year on Rose Monday
  • Mardi Gras parade on Mardi Gras
  • Easter market with trade show
  • Summer night party of the Babenhausen volunteer fire brigade
  • SEEBEBEN Beach Party Festival, every year on the first weekend in August (Thursday-Saturday)
  • Forest festival on the second Sunday in August (last time in 2015)
  • Old Town Festival (second weekend in September)
  • Art and culture days in November (last time in 2017)
  • Christmas market in the old town on the first weekend of Advent

Economy and Infrastructure

Land use

The municipal area covers a total area of ​​6687 hectares, of which the following hectares are:

Type of use 2011 2015
Building and open space 422 433
from that Living 235 240
Business 70 72
Operating area 167 162
from that Mining land 155 149
Recreation area 41 46
from that Green area 21st 25th
traffic area 377 384
Agricultural area 2177 2277
from that moor 0 0
pagan 0 0
Forest area 3246 3239
Water surface 92 125
Other use 165 21st

education

In the city of Babenhausen there are three primary schools, a comprehensive school, a special educational advisory and support center and a grammar school. The education authority of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district is responsible for these schools.

  • Elementary school in the Kirchgarten
  • Bachwiesenschule Hergershausen (elementary school)
  • Markwaldschule Langstadt (primary school)
  • Joachim-Schumann-School - Open School Babenhausen (Integrated Comprehensive School)
  • Bachgaugymnasium in Babenhausen (upper level high school)
  • Edward Flanagan School in Babenhausen (school with a special educational focus on learning; special educational advisory and support center)

traffic

Street

Historically, Babenhausen lies at the crossroads of three old trade routes, the connections between Odenwald and Frankfurt, Franconia and Frankfurt and Darmstadt - Aschaffenburg . Babenhausen is on federal highway 26 . The German half-timbered road runs through Babenhausen.

railroad

Babenhausen station, side of the track after the tracks were raised in the 1920s

The city ​​received the Babenhausen station in 1858 when the Hessian Ludwig Railway opened the Rhein-Main Railway . Babenhausen was in the section of the line between Darmstadt Ludwigsbahnhof (today: Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof ) and Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof . Twenty years later, Babenhausen became a crossing station with the Odenwaldbahn , whose Babenhausen– Eberbach branch went into operation in 1870 and 1882 in the Babenhausen– Hanau Ost section (today: Hanau Hauptbahnhof ). In the 1920s, major renovations began at the train station due to the increase in road traffic: the tracks were placed five meters higher on an embankment and the level crossings on Aschaffenburger and Darmstädter Strasse were closed. An underpass to today's B 26 was built right next to the station building. The work was completed in 1928/1929. The area around the station was redesigned in 2014–2016 as part of an urban redevelopment project, a pedestrian underpass was built and barrier-free access was made. The station has two Park & ​​Ride facilities in the north and south, as well as covered bicycle parking areas and lockable bicycle boxes.

There is also an important hub for regional bus transport at the train station. As part of the urban redevelopment, the stops were relocated to the station forecourt.

Established businesses

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Maximilian Adam von Blumencron (* 1612 as Maximilian Adam Ludwig; † after 1690), military member of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years' War, bailiff of the prince-bishops of Würzburg and founder of the noble family of knights (later barons) von Blumencron
  • Wilhelm Grünewald (1859–1925), politician (Progressive People's Party, DDP), MdL (Hessen), member of the Weimar National Assembly
  • Oskar Hock (1898–1976), doctor, NSDAP functionary, SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS
  • Heinrich Klein (1932–1989), politician (SPD); 1970–76 District Administrator of the Dieburg district and 1976–89 member of the German Bundestag
  • Johann Adam Oest (1946–2019), actor
  • Heinrich Leonhard Kolb (* 1956), politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag

Other personalities with connections to the city

literature

  • Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main. (= Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies. 29). 1966, p. 93.
  • Max Herchenröder : The art monuments of the district of Dieburg . 1940, p. 10 ff.
  • Erich Keyser (Ed.): Hessisches Städtebuch. (= German city book. Handbook of urban history. ) 1957.
  • 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. 533 f.
  • Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book . Volume 1, Starkenburg 1937, p. 29 ff.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): 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 until the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. 2). 1976, p. 52.
  • Dagmar Söder: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Offenbach district (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. ) 1987, p. 38 ff.
  • Literature about Babenhausen in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Literature on Babenhausen in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Commons : Babenhausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. Bawehause Helau. (No longer available online.) In: Kinder und Jugendförderung. City of Babenhausen, archived from the original on December 7, 2017 ; accessed on December 8, 2017 .
  3. The spelling of the place name varied in the late Middle Ages : Babenhausen (1236), Babenhusen (1254, 1295), Babenhosen (1314), Babinhusin (1345), Babynhusin (1348), Babinhusen (1353, 1374) and Bobinhusen (1357). [see LAGIS]
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  11. 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 , §16 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
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  35. Approval of a flag for the city of Babenhausen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district from April 30, 1981 . In: State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1981 No. 20 , p. 1086 , item 639 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
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