Dudenhofen (Rodgau)

Dudenhofen City of Rodgau
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 47 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 29"  E
Height :	127 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.24 km²
Residents :	7792  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	350 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1977
Postal code :	63110
Area code :	06106
Dudenhofen aerial photo from 2008

Dudenhofen is a district of the city of Rodgau in the Offenbach district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Dudenhofen is at an altitude of 127 m above sea ​​level between the Rodgau districts of Jügesheim and Nieder-Roden , 7 km southwest of Seligenstadt .

history

middle Ages

Dudenhofen is a foundation of the second Franconian settlement wave, after the time of the division of the empire of 561. The place was founded in the extended road network at a newly built road junction, at the expense of the previous junction Jügesheim . The place name is associated with the personal name Tuoto or Dodo .

Dudenhofen was first mentioned in a document in 1278 in a comparison between Archbishop Werner von Mainz and the Lords of Eppstein . Here the lords of Eppstein had to return Dudenhofen, which was then a Mainz fiefdom , to the Archbishop of Mainz. In 1383 the tithe fell to the rule of Hanau , at the beginning of the 15th century it was owned by the Count von Katzenelnbogen .

The village was in the late Middle Ages, long a Kondominat , were involved in the various regional powers: The Lords of Falkenstein , the lords and counts of Hanau , Isenburg , and Kurmainz . Individual parts were inherited, others exchanged or pledged. In 1436 Dudenhofen belonged to the Niederroden district court , where it was represented by 2 lay judges. From 1450 Dudenhofen belonged to one third to the county of Isenburg and two thirds to the county of Hanau then to the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg and was assigned to the office of Babenhausen there . In the pre-Reformation period, the central church authority was the Archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg, Landkapitel Rodgau .

Historical forms of names

Dudenhofen: registry office of the city of Rodgau and ev. Church

In documents that have been received, Dudenhofen was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

• Dudenhoven (1278)
• Totenhofen (1303)
• Dudinhaven (1339)
• Dodinhofin (1383)
• Dudinhoffen (1407)
• Dudenhofen (early 15th century)
• Dodenhoffen (1451)
• Dudenhoifen (1460)
• Dudenhoven (1485)
• Dudenhoffen (1486)
• Dodenhoffen (1489)
• Dodenhoeffen (1493)
• Dodenhofen (1527)

Early modern age

Due to its affiliation to Hanau and Isenburg, both of which joined the Reformation , Dudenhofen became an evangelical enclave in the midst of Roman Catholic neighboring communities, which mostly belonged to Kurmainz , from around 1550 . Therefore the arms of Rodgau-Dudenhofen includes demonstratively addition to Hanauer rafters and the Luther Rose .

During the Thirty Years War , the population of the village suffered great losses. Of the 430 residents, 155 perished in 1622 alone. In 1631 the plague claimed another 104 victims. Just 26 residents saw the end of the war. In 1701, the Isenburg rights to Dudenhofen were transferred to Hanau in the course of a swap between the houses, to which the place now belonged alone.

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736, Landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel inherited the County of Hanau-Münzenberg on the basis of a contract of inheritance from 1643, due to the intestate succession , the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell to the son of Johann Reinhard III's only daughter, Landgrave Ludwig IX. from Hessen-Darmstadt . The affiliation of the parts of the County of Hanau immediately south of the Main was disputed between the two heirs . There was almost a military conflict when Hessen-Darmstadt occupied the towns of Dietzenbach , Schaafheim and Schlierbach , and the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel with the military already carefully stationed in Hanau , occupying the rest of the Babenhausen office . The dispute could only be ended with a settlement in 1771 after a long-standing legal dispute before the highest imperial courts , the so-called participation recess . In it Dudenhofen was awarded to Hessen-Kassel. The coat of arms of Hessen-Kassel is therefore placed above the main entrance of the baroque Protestant church , a baroque church built in 1769 . Under the coat of arms is the inscription:

What Hereditary Prince Wilhelm built at the pleasure of Hesse is
now familiar to you, oh true God, for maintenance.

Modern times

In the 18th and 19th centuries, many young men emigrated to America to seek their fortune.

In 1807 the office of Babenhausen and Dudenhofen came under French administration. In 1811 Dudenhofen was added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . There it belonged to the following higher-level administrative units:

• 1821: Seligenstadt district council
• 1832: Offenbach district
• 1848: Dieburg administrative district
• 1852: Offenbach district

On January 1, 1977, Dudenhofen became part of the large community of Rodgau, since 1979 town of Rodgau, as part of the regional reform in Hesse through the amalgamation of five previously independent communities.

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

• 1681: 38 households = 139 inhabitants
• 1961: 2671 Protestant (= 77.71%), 727 Catholic (= 21.15%) inhabitants

Dudenhofen: Population from 1829 to 2015
year				Residents
1829			1,131
1834			1,139
1840			1,145
1846			1,240
1852			1,221
1858			1,142
1864			1,135
1871			1,153
1875			1,201
1885			1,324
1895			1,426
1905			1,618
1910			1,761
1925			2.016
1939			2.120
1946			2,493
1950			2,639
1956			2,935
1961			3,437
1967			4,257
1970			4,628
2015			7,792
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources:

In the 19th century, almost all of the residents were Protestant, with the exception of a long-established Jewish family who were expelled from the town in 1938. After the Second World War , however, many Catholic refugees came to Dudenhofen. The Catholic Church, consecrated in 1953, is called St. Marien.

badges and flags

coat of arms

Blazon : “Shield divided. Above in a golden field three red rafters (Hanau) and below in a blue field a silver, five-petalled rose, topped with a red heart, in the middle a black cross (Luther rose). "

The coat of arms of the municipality of Dudenhofen in the Offenbach district was approved by the Hessian Minister of the Interior on October 4, 1954 . It was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth.

The rafters are taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Hanau , whose territory Dudenhofen belonged to. The Luther rose symbolizes Dudenhofen as a Protestant place, surrounded by predominantly Catholic parishes and was later included in the Rodgau coat of arms.

flag

On April 14, 1958, the Hessian Minister of the Interior approved a flag for the municipality, which is described as follows:

"The municipal coat of arms on a wide white central strip of the red-white-red flag cloth."

Economy and Infrastructure

In 1896 Dudenhofen received a connection to the railway and a train station with the Rodgaubahn . Since there was no longer any passenger traffic on the route between 2001 and 2003, Dudenhofen has been connected to the Rhine-Main S-Bahn network with the S-Bahn line S1 ( Wiesbaden - Ober-Roden ) since the 2003 winter timetable .

In 1966, the Opel test center with a 6.7 km long test track was completed in Dudenhofen . Opel had actually chosen Dudenhofen in Rhineland-Palatinate as the location, but the responsible employee at Opel accidentally sent the application documents to Dudenhofen near Rodgau. After their arrival, the Offenbach district began immediately with the planning work, which had progressed so far after the error was discovered that Opel finally decided in favor of Rodgau-Dudenhofen.

With the exception of asparagus cultivation , agriculture no longer plays a role.

literature

• Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main (= writings of the Hessian State Office for historical regional studies. 29). P. 103.
• Adam Geißler: Dudenhofen between yesterday and tomorrow. Frankfurt 1971.
• Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book. Volume 1: Starkenburg. 1937, pp. 149-151.
• Manfred Resch: Dudenhofen - as it used to be. Gudensberg-Gleichen, 1992.
• Manfred Resch among others: Our church our home - 450 years of evangelical faith in Dudenhofen. Gudensberg equals.
• 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. 75.
• Georg Schäfer: Offenbach district. Part of Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse - Province of Starkenburg. 1885, p. 29 f.
• Dagmar Söder: Cultural monuments in Hessen, Offenbach district. Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1987, pp. 245-253.
• Literature about Dudenhofen in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

• The district of Dudenhofen on the website of the city of Rodgau.
• My Dudenhofen. Local history, information. In: www.in-dudenhofen.de. Heimat history and culture in Dudenhofen eV 
• Dudenhofen, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Dudenhofen, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ ^{a b} City of Rodgau: Resident population, main and secondary residence , accessed in June 2016.
3. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - secular dominions in the Hessian area approx. 900-1806 (= Handbook of Hessian History 3; = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63). Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 210.
4. ↑ This is Wilhelm IX.
5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 316–318 , § 6 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
6. ^ 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. 375 .
7. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the municipality of Dudenhofen in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt administrative district, dated October 4, 1954 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1954 No. 42 , p. 990 , point 1013 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
8. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt , Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 86. Also in: Klemens Stadler : Deutsche Wappen, Volume 3 ; Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 29.
9. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the municipality of Dudenhofen in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt administrative district of April 14, 1958 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1958 No. 18 , p. 503 , item 432 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.2 MB ]).
10. ^ City of Rodgau (Ed.): Yearbook of the City of Rodgau 2009/2010 - The special topic: Test Center Dudenhofen . Legel-Verlag GmbH, Rodgau 2010, p. 8 f .