Falkenstein (Koenigstein)

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Falkenstein
Falkenstein coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 43 ″  E
Height : 398 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 2682  (December 31, 2014)
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 61462
Area code : 06174
Castle ruins above the place
Castle ruins above the place

Falkenstein is a district of Königstein im Taunus in the Hochtaunuskreis in southern Hesse with around 2700 inhabitants. The place is part of the Königstein district .

In 2002, Falkenstein was awarded the seal of quality as a health resort , regardless of whether it was Königstein's rating; a nationwide unique constellation that a district of a spa town has its own rating. Falkenstein lies at the foot of the Altkönig and the Hünerberg .

history

Kempinski Hotel Falkenstein
Asklepios Clinic Falkenstein
View from the north, from the Lips Temple , to Falkenstein as well as Burghain and castle ruins .

Until the 17th century, today's Falkenstein was called Nürings . The namesake are the Gaugrafen von Nürings . The town hall was built around 1650.

With a document dated January 18, 1680, Adolf Johann Karl Freiherr von Bettendorf (as the successor to Gerhard Adam von Staffel, who died childless) received Falkenstein Castle and the village as a Nassau-Weilburg fief .

An independent Jewish community existed from 1807. It had a synagogue and the Falkenstein Jewish cemetery .

In 1873 a pulmonary hospital was built, for which Falkenstein is known. For the period between 1909 and 1917, this sanatorium was turned into an imperial officer's rest home and then a clinic for multiple sclerosis patients. A five-star hotel has been housed in the fully restored buildings since 1999 . Another well-known clinic is the Asklepios Neurological Clinic Falkenstein .

During the time of National Socialism there was a protection organization for politically persecuted people in Falkenstein until 1939 in the Hotel Frankfurter Hof , see Rest Home Project .

In 1966 the Burghain Falkenstein was placed under nature protection.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Falkenstein was incorporated into Königstein on August 1, 1972 by virtue of state law. There was massive resistance in Falkenstein to this territorial reform. The municipal council protested unanimously in the state parliament, an informal survey of citizens had resulted in 1,250 signatures for self-employment and even a constitutional complaint to the Federal Constitutional Court had been submitted (and rejected).

politics

coat of arms

On August 4, 1971, the Falkenstein community in what was then the Obertaunus district was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : In red, a silver ring.

Town twinning

Since 1967 there has been a town partnership between Falkenstein and Le Mêle-sur-Sarthe (Normandy / France).

Culture and sights

Evangelical Martin Luther Church

Opposite the Kempinski Hotel is the Protestant church. The church was designed by the Herborn church builder and royal building officer Ludwig Hofmann (1862-1933) as an architect and inaugurated in 1914. The style of the church combines elements of Romanesque and Art Nouveau with "native" parts. The building material used was gray-green Mammolshain quarry stone, and window and door frames and cornices are made of basalt. The sacristy and an imperial box were added to the rear. Today the Imperial Lodge is a memorial for those who died in the World War.

The church is decorated with putti capitals on the porch by the Kronberg sculptor Hedwig Ostertag (1877–1945) and an altarpiece by Ferdinand Brütt , a member of the Kronberg painters' colony . The painting of the vault and church interior with Art Nouveau elements comes from the Frankfurt church painter Rudolf Linnemann .

Castles

Falkenstein castle ruins

The landmark of the place is the castle ruin Falkenstein, which towers over the place on the Burghain Falkenstein . The foundation walls 10 meters south of Falkenstein Castle, previously mentioned as remains of the older Nüring Castle, probably only date from the end of the 13th and beginning of the 15th century.

Other structures

Dettweiler Temple viewpoint at sunset

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Falkenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Budget 2016. (PDF; 11.3 MB) City of Königstein, p. 23 , archived from the original ; accessed on November 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II 330-18) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 227 , § 5 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 374 .
  4. ^ Stefan Jung: With mourning ribbon and death knell. In: Taunuszeitung from April 12, 2012
  5. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Falkenstein, Obertaunuskreis from August 4, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 34 , p. 1388 , item 1188 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  6. ^ Church leader Hochtaunus. P. 32/33 (online ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 4.8 MB]). Retrieved January 14, 2016.