Eschbachtal (Hesse)

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Location and extent of the planned community of Eschbachtal

Eschbachtal was a planned municipality in the area between Bad Homburg , Bad Vilbel and Frankfurt am Main , which was founded in the early 1970s during the regional reform in Hesse through the merger of the six municipalities of Harheim , Nieder-Erlenbach , Nieder-Eschbach , Ober-Erlenbach and Ober- Eschbach (all district Friedberg ) and Kalbach ( Obertaunuskreis ) should arise. Nieder-Eschbach was intended to be the seat of the municipal administration; A ring bus line between the districts was also planned.

Harheim eventually decided against the project, so the plan was abandoned. On August 1, 1972, Harheim, Kalbach, Nieder-Erlenbach and Nieder-Eschbach then opened up as districts in the independent city of Frankfurt am Main - in some cases against considerable opposition from politics and the population - while Ober-Erlenbach and Ober-Eschbach joined Bad Homburg in the newly formed Hochtaunuskreis .

Today more than 40,000 people live in the area of ​​the planned community of Eschbachtal. Existing, albeit unconscious, reminiscences of the planned community are the name of the Ober-Eschbach elementary school, which was renamed Elementary School in Eschbachtal in 2004, and the names of the streets Im Eschbachtal in Ober-Eschbach and Am Eschbachtal in Harheim. In addition, the Erlenbach-Eschbach parish association in the Catholic diocese of Mainz is almost congruent with the area of ​​the planned community.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Taunus-Zeitung of April 3, 2012, page 14: "Eschbach was the most beautiful!"
  2. Primary schools in the Hochtaunus district , page 9
  3. ^ Diocese of Mainz: Parish Association Erlenbach-Eschbach