Florstadt

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Florstadt
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′  N , 8 ° 53 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Wetteraukreis
Height : 135 m above sea level NHN
Area : 39.6 km 2
Residents: 8799 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 222 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 61197
Primaries : 06035, 06041 (Nieder-Mockstadt)Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : FB, BÜD
Community key : 06 4 40 007
LOCODE : DE FLS
City structure: 6 districts

City administration address : 		Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. 1
61197 Florstadt
Website : www.florstadt.de
Mayor : Herbert Unger ( SPD )
Location of the city of Florstadt in the Wetterau district
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Florstadt is a city in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .

geography

The city is located about 28 km northeast of Frankfurt am Main in the Wetterau . Nidda and Horloff flow through the urban area .

Neighboring communities

Florstadt borders the city of Reichelsheim in the north, the municipality of Ranstadt in the northeast, the municipality of Glauburg in the east, the municipality of Altenstadt and the city of Niddatal in the south and the city of Friedberg in the west .

City structure

The city of Florstadt consists of the districts Leidhecken , Nieder-Florstadt , Nieder-Mockstadt , Ober-Florstadt , Staden , and Stammheim .

history

timeline

Florstadt-Stammheim around 1910
  • Around 90 AD, during the Chat Wars, the Roman Emperor Domitian built the Ober-Florstadt fort in the Ober-Florstadt district .
  • Nieder-Mockstadt was first mentioned in a document in 930.
  • In 1150, today's district of Staden was first mentioned in a document for the city of Goslar and received city rights in 1304.
  • Today's Stammheim district was first mentioned in a document in 1244.
  • Leydthecken (Leidhecken) was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century.
  • In 1365 Nieder-Florstadt received city ​​rights from Emperor Charles IV .
  • Since March 27, 2007, Florstadt has had city rights again.

Church building

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , on July 1, 1970, the previously independent municipalities of Nieder-Florstadt and Ober-Florstadt voluntarily merged to form the new municipality "Florstadt". Staden was added on December 31, 1971. Leidhecken followed on February 1, 1972. With the incorporation of Nieder-Mockstadt and Stammheim, the series of incorporations was completed on August 1, 1972 by virtue of state law.

Place name

In 880 Florstadt is attested as a “plague”. The name can go back to the Old High German blaen ('blasen', ' wehen ') and then means something like Windstadt. The F initial sound is only in the 11th / 12th. Century ("Flagestat"). In the Central Hessian dialect there was then a contraction -age-> o.

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 31 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 59.6 18th 59.3 18th 67.7 21st 60.7 19th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 27.8 9 25.4 8th 21.2 7th 28.2 9
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 12.6 4th 15.3 5 7.3 2 8.9 3
FDP Free Democratic Party - - - - 3.9 1 2.2 0
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 53.5 51.2 54.4 58.8

mayor

The past mayoral elections produced the following results:

year Candidates Political party %
Result
2006 Herbert Unger SPD 90.8
Voter turnout in% 54.4
2000 Herbert Unger SPD 62.4
Susanne Hofmeister CDU 37.6
Voter turnout in% 67.0
year Candidates Political party %
Result
1994 Heinrich Trupp SPD 71.2
Wolfgang Schulz CDU 16.2
Klaus Seipel GREEN 12.6
Voter turnout in% 70.5

Mayor Herbert Unger (SPD) was re-elected on March 26, 2006 with 90.8% of the vote. He had no opponent.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Florstadt in literature

Florstadt is the location of the action in the novel Wäldchestag by Andreas Maier .

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Florstadt .

The Evangelical Church in Stammheim was built in 1751 as a transverse church.

Natural monuments

See the list of natural monuments in Florstadt .

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

Florstadt is mainly a place of residence for commuters who mainly find work in the Rhine-Main area. There are local businesses in agriculture, craft, trade and service industries.

traffic

In terms of traffic, the urban area is developed through the federal highway 275 and the federal highway 45 with the junction Florstadt (on the B 275 between the districts of Nieder-Mockstadt and Staden).

education

  • Karl Weigand School in Nieder-Florstadt
  • Stammheim primary school
  • Volkshochschule Friedberg branch office Florstadt

Care facilities

  • Municipal day care center in Staden
  • "Little Castle Ghosts" crawling group in Staden
  • Daycare center "Sonnenschein" Stammheim
  • Stammheim nursery
  • Kindergarten Lummerland Nieder-Florstadt
  • Kindergarten An der Nachtweide Nieder-Florstadt
  • Care school at the Karl Weigand School NFl
  • Student support in Stammheim
  • Childcare card file Florstädter Kindergruppen eV / Bürgerhilfe Florstadt.

Leisure and sports facilities

Personalities

  • Karl Weigand (1804–1878), Germanist, spokesman for historical spelling, born in Nieder-Florstadt
  • Anton Lux (1878–1953), mayor from 1945 to 1953 and member of the state parliament, born in Nieder-Florstadt

literature

Nieder-Florstadt

  • Nieder-Florstadt, From the history of a community in the Wetterau, Dieter Alt, Jürgen Reuss, Florstadt / Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2847-3 (2)
  • The history of pharmacy - A chronicle on the 50th anniversary of the Nidda pharmacy Nieder-Florstadt, Kurt Leidecker, Walburga Papsch, Florstadt 2002, ISBN 3-00-009005-3 (2)
  • 100 years of SPD Niederflorstadt, Horst Neuwert, Florstadt 2003
  • 100 years of the Nieder-Florstadt volunteer fire brigade 1905-2005, published by Artur Fischbach, Robert Nolte, Florstadt 2005

Ober-Florstadt

  • Ober-Florstadt in der Wetterau - From the history of an old village - 750 years of Laurentius Chapel, HRSG: Kurt Leidecker, Hist. Archive of the municipality of Florstadt on behalf of the volunteer fire brigade Ober-Florstadt, Ober-Florstadt 2001, ISBN 3-923907-05-2 (2)

Staden

  • Staden memories in pictures, Staden Tourist Office, Florstadt 1978–79

Stammheim

  • The church in the village, documentation for the 200 year celebration, publisher: Ev. Parish of Stammheim, Red .: Rolf Lutz, Peter Eickmann, Karin Weisswange, Florstadt / Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-9805862-1-9 (1)
  • My evergreen village - On the fate of the Jews from Stammheim in der Wetterau, Hedi Strauss, Johanna Voss, ed. Municipality Florstadt, Florstadt 2004, ISBN 3-9805862-4-3 (1) (2)
  • 750 years of Stammheim, chronicle from 1244–1994, published by the community of Florstadt, red. Rudolf H. Lummitsch, 1994 (2)
  • Kigamenta - Children's Artists Exhibit, Ed. Ev. Sunshine Kindergarten, Florstadt-Stammheim 1998 (1)

Hedge hedges

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. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007
  3. ↑ Merger of the communities Nieder-Florstadt and Ober-Florstadt in the Friedberg district to form the new community "Florstadt" on June 11, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 26 , p. 1300 , point 1225 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.6 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg (GVBl. II 330-19) 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. 230 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 360-361 .
  6. ^ Manfred Niemeyer (ed.): German book of place names . De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-018908-7 , pp. 178 .
  7. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  8. ↑ For more details see Kathrin Ellwardt: Church building between evangelical ideals and absolutist rule. The cross churches in the Hessian area from the Reformation century to the Seven Years War . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-937251-34-0

Web links

Commons : Florstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
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