Frankfurt-Sindlingen

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Sindlingen
38th district of Frankfurt am Main
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Coordinates 50 ° 4 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 7 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 7 ″  E
surface 3.968 km²
Residents 9068 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 2285 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 65931
prefix 069
Website www.frankfurt.de
structure
District 6 - West
Townships
  • 60 1 - Sindlingen-South
  • 60 2 - Sindlingen-North
Transport links
Highway A66
Federal road B40
Train S1 S2
bus 54 55 57 837 n8
Source: Statistics currently 03/2020. Residents with main residence in Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .

Sindlingen has been part of Frankfurt am Main since April 1, 1928 .

The population is 000000000009068.00000000009,068.

Sindlingen was first mentioned in a document in 797. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Sindlingen benefited from the nearby Hoechst AG , which caused a significant increase in population. In 1917 Sindlingen became a district of Höchst am Main , with which it came to Frankfurt am Main in 1928.

location

Sindlingen is located on the western city limits of Frankfurt, about 12 km from the Hauptwache and about 4 km from the airport on an arc of the Main that borders the district to the southeast. It is the southernmost district in the Frankfurt-West district. At almost 88 meters above sea ​​level , the Sindlinger Mainufer is also the lowest point in Frankfurt. To the northwest, the district rises up to 110 meters.

Adjacent Frankfurt districts are Zeilsheim in the north and Höchst with the industrial park of the same name in the east. To the west lies the Main-Taunus district with the town of Hattersheim and its district Okriftel , and in the south begins Kelsterbach, the northernmost part of the Groß-Gerau district .

The district of Sindlingen also includes the Friedenau settlement and the southeastern part of Annabergstrasse. However, the official district boundaries do not include this area. It was subsequently assigned administratively to the Zeilsheim district.

history

Prehistory and early history

Bandkeramischer Kumpf, location Marburg- Schröck, excavation 1983

The district of Sindlingen was settled in the Neolithic period. Among the 16 known sites in Sindlingen so far, there are traces of settlement from the time of the Bandkeramiker (5600 to 5500 BC), the Michelsberg culture (from around 4400 to 3500 BC) and the Hinkelstein group (5000 to 4800 B.C.). In 1989 archaeological investigations revealed a villa rustica in the old town center of Sindlingen .

After the Limes border was abandoned and the area on the right bank of the Rhine was cleared by the Romans in AD 260, the Germanic tribe of the Alemanni invaded the formerly Roman areas and settled there from the end of the 3rd to the end of the 5th century AD . From 455 the Alamanni began to expand to the west and east to Gaul and Noricum , about which only unsecured information is available. A conflict with the neighboring Franks led by Gregory of Tours, between 496 and 507 to the ultimate defeat of the Alemanni in Zülpich against the Frankish king Clovis result, the Alemanni settlement came Sundolingen under Frankish rule. At this time the area of ​​the Chatten , in which the settlement Sundolingen was at that time, was occupied by the Franks and incorporated into their kingdom in order to protect the Franconian borders from the Saxons , who settled north of the Chatten and again and again in Chattisches and invaded Franconian territory. The Sundolingen settlement was thus also incorporated into the Franconian Empire and belonged to the Niddagau within the Franconian administration .

Expansion of Clovis' rule from the Salian kingdom in 481 to the Frankish empire in 511

In the western area of ​​the Sindlinger Uferterrasse, more precisely at the intersection of today's Farbenstrasse and Lehmkautstrasse, a Franconian grave field with 500 graves was discovered between 1892 and 1897. The dead were buried on their backs or stretched out on their sides, their faces turned towards the rising sun. The grave goods, some of which were valuable and rich, were given to museums in Frankfurt , Wiesbaden and Höchst . After the victory of the Frankish King Clovis I , Sindlingen was probably also captured by the Frankish conquests. Sindlingen seems to have been an extensive and prosperous early Franconian settlement, because right next to the Franconian graves with rich grave goods there were Carolingian-Franconian graves. These shallow graves did not contain any grave goods, an indication of the Christian tradition practiced from the middle of the 8th century onwards, not to give the dead any objects to the grave.

Presumably the first Christian chapels made of wood were built near the Franconian burial ground that was found. Therefore the church in Sindlingen mentioned by Einhard could have been the old Martinskirche on the Main terrace opposite Sindlingen. The Martinskirche can no longer be seen today and was located in the area of ​​today's industrial park. The Justinuskirche in Höchst could possibly also go back to such an early Franconian wooden chapel.

middle Ages

The exact founding date of Sindlingen is unknown today. The history of Sindlingen only begins with the first documentary mention. The original documents from which the place name Sindlingen emerges are no longer preserved today. The copy from the Fulda monastery record book dates from around 1150 and does not contain an exact date. The original document, in which Sindlingen was mentioned for the first time, is dated to the term of office of the Fulda abbot Baugulf, which extended from 780 to 802. The middle date 791 was chosen in Sindlingen as the date of the 1200 year celebration in 1991.

The first owner of Sindlingen (originally written as Scuntilingen ) is Ymmina in the document book. The transcript reads (translated): Ymmina, the maid of Christ, gives God and St. Boniface (i.e. the Fulda monastery) their goods with accessories and many associated people in Fischbach, Kriftel, Sindlingen and Liederbach .

Limburg monastery ruins

In the Lorsch Codex it is recorded in the year 797 that a man named Grimolt gave 6 acres of farmland and a meadow in villa Sundilingen (in the village of Sindlingen) to the Lorsch Monastery . This is the oldest document available to us today about Sindlingen. Since Sindlingen is called "village", one can assume a sizable settlement for this time.

Villa Sindlingen is also mentioned in later documents . In the year 804 a Hildebure donated the monastery Lorsch u. a. two mans of land with a building and a servant in villa Suntilingen . In 889 the Bleidenstadt Benedictine monastery received property from a Herevicus in Singelingero marca . As early as 965 , a Rigalint gave the Bleidenstadt monastery goods in Suntilingero marca to save her soul . The designation marca suggests a considerable area.

On February 16, 1035, Konrad II and his wife Gisela von Schwaben gave royal property in Sundelingen to the Benedictine monastery of Limburg , to which they also transferred the Sindling patronage. In 1268 the Limburg monastery made Philipp I von Falkenstein the guardian of Sundelingen .

Modern times

Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg, copper engraving from the Theatrum Europaeum , 1662

A local court in Sindlingen is mentioned for the first time in 1369. Minor offenses were judged here, but the sealing of common objects and documents was the task of a local court. In 1352 Sindlingen belonged to the Hofheim office and was under the court administration of Hofheim. Mainly civil matters in debt, purchase and inheritance matters were negotiated here. Smaller offenses such as brawling, drunkenness and insults were also dealt with here. The names of 243 Sindlingers are recorded in the Hofheim court book between 1425 and 1500. The local court met on the street in front of Frank von Kronberg's house.

In 1490 the Limburg Abbey in the Palatinate had its rights in Sindlingen recorded by the mayor of Hofheim. In 1484 the Limburg Monastery sold its Dinghof in Sundelingen to the St. Peter Monastery in Mainz , to which the last Sindlinger guardian Johann von Cronberg ceded his bailiff rights.

While the community name with Sundtlingen is still recorded in a "Hofheimer Landbrief" in 1581 , it appears on the court seal of 1633 as Sindelingen , on that of 1682 as Sindlingen , although the name Sundlingen appears later .

A school in Sindlingen is mentioned for the first time from 1596. In 1608, Archbishop and Elector Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg assigned Sindlingen to the office of Höchst am Main . A year later, in 1609, construction of the Catholic parish church of St. Dionysius begins on the site of an old chapel. At that time there were 210 inhabitants in Sindlingen: 48 husbands, 2 widowers, 48 ​​wives, 6 widows and 106 children.

Archbishop and Elector Johann Schweikhard granted Sindlingen its own local court and the use of a court seal in the same year.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , postcard after a painting by Georg Oswald May , 1779

In the Thirty Years' War Sindlingen was hit by severe devastation. The number of households decreases from 56 to 43. In 1654 the number of households decreases further to 25, 17 riding courts are uninhabited. The number of inhabited households does not rise again to 37 households until 1680.

The entire harvest of the community is destroyed by French troops who reach Sindlingen during the War of the Palatinate Succession . On May 7, 1699, a fire destroyed 26 houses, the town hall, 10 barns and 23 wine press houses in Sindlingen within a short time. To rebuild the town hall, the community sold one acre of shaving in 1770.

Joseph Maria Bolongaro

The brothers Andreas and Franz Vaccani from Italy acquired in 1740 in Sindlingen an estate and started in the buildings with the production of gold and silver trim pieces and haberdashery . The operation was stopped again in 1744.

In 1760 the merchant Karl Franz Allesina acquired the Vaccani brothers' estate and built a mansion, two court rides, 16 acres of vineyards, fields and meadows, a total of around 156 acres , on a bricked-up terrace on the banks of the Main .

The young Johann Wolfgang Goethe was invited to the golden wedding of Johannes Maria Allesina and his wife Franziska Clara, born Brentano, on May 30, 1774 . As well as the snuff supplier Josef Maria Markus Bolongaro. The celebration of the golden wedding took place on May 29, 1774 in the old Sindlinger parish church. At the wedding celebration, Goethe also met Maximiliane von La Roche , with whom Goethe was friends.

At the beginning of June Goethe wrote in a letter to a friend: () ... At the golden wedding in Sindlingen, since I was dancing your dear Max's birthday, I thought of her a lot ... I gave your Max my arm. Tell me a word from your heart! You will see how to give impetus my bike if you read my Werther ... . Maximiliane von La Roche's birthday was May 31st, so Goethe danced into the birthday " .

The floods in February 1784 destroyed 11 buildings in Sindlingen. On October 5, 1799, the French troops fight in the Kurmainzische Landsturm between Sindlingen and Höchst.

Nassau and Prussian Period (1802–1917)

Sindlingen 1893

In 1802 the ecclesiastical principalities and thus also the Archdiocese of Mainz were dissolved by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . Höchst comes to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen , which soon merges into the Duchy of Nassau . The royal seat responsible for Sindlingen was now Wiesbaden .

In the year 1810 there were 98 houses with 570 residents in Sindlingen and six inns: Zum golden Adler, Zum golden Engel, Zum golden Löwen, Zum white Schwan, Zum green Baum and Zum Stern.

Since the reorganization of the dioceses in 1821, Sindlingen no longer belongs to the diocese of Mainz under canon law, but to the then newly created diocese of Limburg . In 1820, the cemetery was relocated to make room for a new church. The Catholic parish church can be consecrated as early as 1825.

In January 1863, the Chemische Fabrik Meister Lucius & Co., the later Farbwerke Hoechst, started its service in Höchst . In 1866 the Duchy of Nassau was dissolved and converted into a Prussian province. Sindlingen thus belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia , which in 1918 became the State of Prussia . In 1946 this was also dissolved. Since then, Sindlingen has belonged to the state of Hesse.

After an administrative reform in the province of Nassau, Sindlingen was incorporated into the newly created district of Höchst in 1886 .

Villa Meister from the Werksbrücke West

Due to the narrowness between the Taunus Railway in the north and the Main in the south, the Hoechst paintworks expanded further and further west and built their first production building on Sindling soil in 1894 with the “Heilserum”.

In 1885 the population of Sindlingen rose to 1,497 people. At that time, 60% of the working population were farmers, 30% factory workers and 10% artisans. In 1886 the municipality had a Main shipyard built, a landing place for ships whose goods are unloaded or loaded in Sindlingen. The remains of the Main shipyard, which in the meantime silted up and overgrown with bushes and lawns, can still be seen on the banks of the Main.

With the breakpoint established in 1893, Sindlingen also grew northwards and at the beginning of the 20th century it changed from a farming village to a workers' residence. Sindlingen also became increasingly attractive to the managers of the color works. In 1902 Herbert von Meister built the splendid Villa Lindenbaum , which still characterizes the banks of the Main , on the grounds of the manor house of the Allesina family, based on plans by building officer Franz von Hovens . After 1945 Herbert von Meister's widow and daughter moved into an outbuilding on the property. According to a testamentary decree, the extensive park with the ice house and the old trees is open to the public and open to walkers at all times.

In 1910 the villa colony followed on the then north-western outskirts. Previously, the Höchst parish had bought a piece of land for a church in the north for the mostly Protestant workers. On September 29, 1907, the church designed by architect Alfred Günther was inaugurated. Two years later, a Farbwerke department store followed, and another two years later a new school building (today's master school ). In 1906 a high-wire ferry was built between Sindlingen and Kelsterbach.

After the construction of the local sewer system in 1913, a year later there were 3526 inhabitants in Sindlingen.

Sindlingen as a district (since 1917)

The color works brought Höchst and Sindlingen closer and closer together and the city of Höchst's interest in new building land in the west increased. In 1917, the Sindlingen community lost its previously preserved independence. Together with Zeilsheim and Unterliederbach , the village was incorporated into the town of Höchst am Main. The economically tense situation and the occupation of Höchst by the French armed forces largely prevented the vision of “Groß-Höchst”. For example, the Höchst – Sindlingen tram line promised in the incorporation contract in 1917 was never established. Instead, a bus line operated from 1926. The Höchst-West settlement planned by city planner Carl Rohleder and city architect Paul Wempe was at least partially realized and was built on today's Richard-Weidlich-Platz from 1920 . The previous Sindlingen-Zeilsheim railway station became Höchst-West .

On April 1, 1928, Höchst am Main, with all the affiliated localities, became part of the larger community of the City of Frankfurt am Main by incorporation agreement. Sindlingen became one of the most westerly districts, its western boundary the western city limit of Frankfurt.

The relocation of Mainzer Landstrasse ( Farbenstrasse ) was planned as early as 1941, but was not implemented until 1954 , bypassing the Farbwerke and Sindlingen. Since then, Hoechster-Farben-Strasse has been the main road to Höchst, while the old Farbenstrasse ends as a dead end on the banks of the Main. Another new road was built in 1978 as part of the Frankfurt tangential road system.

Due to a housing shortage, the Friedenau settlement was built on Pfaffenwiese in the northernmost part of the Sindling district in 1950 . Today it belongs administratively to the district of Zeilsheim.

In the mid-1950s, the part of the color works that was on Sindlinger Boden, an area of ​​about 1.2 km², was assigned to the district and the Höchst district. Since then, Höchst has extended to the West Works Bridge .

As one of the first town houses was 1,961 at the Richard-Weidlich-Platz the house Sindlingen built.

In 1979, the founding assembly of the " other political association - the Greens " took place in Sindlingen , which took place in the first European elections in the same year .

Historical forms of names

The name of the village of Sindlingen probably goes back to an Alemannic settlement that was founded between 300 and 500 AD and after the Alemanni were driven out by the Franks around 500 . The name ending "ingen" is typical for Alemannic settlements. Place names ending with “ingen” were always associated with a person or clan. Therefore the name Sindlingen can be associated with a person or family of the Sundo or Sundilo as the first resident or founder of the settlement. The place name would mean something like "Belonging to the men or descendants of Sundo or Sundilo" or "Sundo and his people" . More detailed information is not guaranteed.

Although the current spelling Sindlingen appears in documents as early as the 18th century, the uniform place name Sindlingen did not finally become established until the 19th century .

Spelling of the place name Sindlingen
8th century 9th century 10th century 11-15 Century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century
Sundilingen Sundilingen
Sundelingen Sundelingen
Suntilingen Suntilingen Suntilingen
Scuntilingen
Scuntelingen
Swindelinga
Scuntelingen
Sundlinga Sundlinga
Suntiligua
Singles Singles Singles
Sucklings Sunlingen Sunlingen
Sinlingen Sinlingen
Sunliu
Youngster
Singling
Sindlingen Sindlingen

Documented landlords

List of spiritual and secular landlords
year Landlord
791 Fulda Monastery
797 Lorsch Monastery
831 Prüm Abbey ( Eifel )
889 Bleidenstadt Monastery
1036 Limburg Monastery ( Palatinate )
1268 Falkenstein (later Kronberg )
1394 Obermockstadt Abbey ( Wetterau )
1394 Mainz Cathedral Monastery
1412 St. Bartholomew's Foundation in Frankfurt am Main
1484 St. Petersstift Mainz
1488 St. Alban of Mainz
1493 Order of St. John of Mainz

politics

Mayor and mayor

The first mayor of Sindlingen was elected in 1849 after the mayor named by the dukes had been deposed during the March Revolution.

List of mayors and mayors of Sindlingen
year person
1394 Peter Schudder (mayor in the courtyard of the Obermockstadt Abbey)
1428 Scrape
1475 Peter Hermann
1487 Hen
1492 Contz
1496 Crine
1560 Vältein Strauss
1614 Anthes Veix
1633 Ludwig Haub
1654 Wendel Scheffer
1680 Wendel Scheffer
1724 Josef Neuser
1744 Christoph Specht
1771 Peter Hahn
1781 Peter Hahn
1803-1814 Joseph Westenberger
1815-1825 Peter Huthmacher
1825-1836 Philipp Huthmacher
1836-1849 Johannes Schmitt
1849-1854 Johannes Schmitt
1854-1875 Philipp Glatt
1875-1888 Andreas Schmidt
1888-1917 Franz Joseph Huthmacher

Franz Josef Huthmacher signed the incorporation contract for Sindlingen with Höchst am Main.

Infrastructure and economy

economy

Sewage sludge incineration plant in the IP Höchst

The economic center is the Höchst industrial park , which is directly adjacent to the district . In the district there is also the wastewater treatment plant (ARA Sindlingen) and one of the largest sludge incineration plants in Europe (SEVA).

In addition to industry, the district has a few smaller retail locations. There are two petrol stations, three supermarkets, two drugstores, two pharmacies and two bakeries in Sindlingen. Craft businesses are also strongly represented. The Hotel Post and the numerous restaurants in the district benefit from the proximity to the airport . The Frankfurter Sparkasse and Volksbank maximum have offices along the Sindlinger way street. With a total of 210 companies and 665 employees, Sindlingen is only a small business location.

Streets

The Farbenstrasse, as part of the Mainzer Landstrasse, used to be the most important street in Sindlingen, ends today on the one hand at the factory wall of the Höchst industrial park and on the other hand at the Sindlinger Friedhof and is only of secondary importance. The background to this is the closure of Mainzer Landstrasse to the general public in 1957. Until then, this traffic artery ran right through the Hoechst AG factory premises. A southern branch of Bundesstrasse 40 , the successor to Mainzer Landstrasse , now runs on its own elevated route on the western edge of Sindlingen's development.

Important access roads to the north is West-Höchster-Strasse , which in Sindlingen bears the name Sindlinger Bahnstrasse . The Hoechster-Farben-Strasse ( L3006 ) has been running to the east since the 1950s .

The street Im Hofheimer Grund ( L3265 ) and the small Okrifteler Straße , named after the Hattersheim district , lead to Hattersheim .

bridges

West works bridge

There are two Main bridges in Sindlingen that connect the district with Kelsterbach. The Werksbrücke West , built in 1972 , is a combined road and railway bridge that serves the internal traffic of the Höchst industrial park. The two public lanes are cordoned off by bollards and are only used by pedestrians, agricultural vehicles and two-wheelers. The Sindling Main Bridge , completed in 1978, carries the B 40 , which has been converted into an expressway, and two cycle paths.

Transportation

Main article: Frankfurt-Sindlingen train station , train station zeilsheim

Sindlingen has two S-Bahn stations with connections to the S1 and S2 . The district is connected to the city bus network with lines 54, 55 and 57 as well as with the N8 night bus . If desired, the AST bus line 837 goes to Hattersheim. In April 2007, a second S-Bahn station called Frankfurt-Zeilsheim was opened at the city limits .

Development

For the listed cultural monuments see the list of cultural monuments in Frankfurt-Sindlingen .

Sindlingen-North

High-rise residential building on Hermann-Küster-Strasse

Ferdinand Hofmann settlement

Ferdinand-Hofmann-Strasse

The north of Sindlingen (officially referred to as the Sindlingen-Nord district , 60 2 ) lies between the railway lines of the Main-Lahn-Bahn (north) and the Taunus-Eisenbahn (south). It is shaped by the Ferdinand Hofmann settlement , which consists of several blocks from different building periods. Construction on this relatively new part of Sindlingen began in 1920. The Sindlinger way street , Ferdinand Hofmann road and Neulandstraße are part of this first building. The houses in the workers' housing estate are mostly two-story and have a neo-classical style that is reminiscent of the Mediterranean palazzi. After almost 30 years of construction freeze, construction work began on the rest of the settlement in the 1950s. This differs significantly from the first construction phase. As a result of the housing shortage in the post-war period, taller, mostly five-story apartment buildings were built for the first time in Sindlingen. The first houses of this "new" Ferdinand Hofmann settlement were built between the route of the Main-Lahn-Bahn and the newly created Hermann-Küster-Straße . The tallest residential building in the settlement is at the end of this street. In the 1960s, construction continued further south and the settlement was completed. By 2006 almost all of the residential buildings were renovated and painted in bright colors.

Richard-Weidlich-Platz

Richard-Weidlich-Platz

Richard-Weidlich-Platz forms the end of northern Sindlingen , a half-round circle towards which the three original streets of the settlement run. The semicircle is divided by the Sindlinger Bahnstraße. On the eastern side is the Sindlingen house , which is home to a branch of the city library. The town house gained fame when negotiations against the RAF took place there in 1974 . In the following years the house served as the service building of the 18th police station, until it was first relocated in 1990 and then closed. Since the beginning of 2006, the former community center has been open to citizens again as the Sindlingen House . The southern end of the square is the Sindlingen S-Bahn station , under which the Sindlinger Bahnstrasse runs . The underpass was built in 1980 to replace the overloaded level crossing.

Ev. Sindlingen-Süd church

Sindlingen-South

Spinning top

A few meters south of the underpass is the Hoechster-Farben-Strasse roundabout , which was built in 1954 as a replacement for Sindlinger Farbenstrasse . Until then, this was the main street in Sindlingen and part of the Mainzer Landstraße , but ran through the factory premises of Hoechst AG . Today the West Gate of the chemical plant known today as Industriepark Höchst is on that roundabout. The Sindlinger rail road leads from here on in the ancient village of the district, the Hoechst-color street in circumvention of the national highway 40 towards the airport and Bundesautobahn 66 .

Old town center

At the beginning of the 20th century, a partially dense peripheral development was built in the town center along Sindlinger Bahnstrasse . The Protestant church from 1907 is located at the intersection with Gustavsallee , a former factory gate of Hoechst AG.

On Christmas Eve 1996, the church was the site of a suicide attack by a mentally ill woman that killed two other people. However, the church was able to reopen a year later.

At the Dalles, the Bahnstraße joins the Farbenstraße and the old town center begins. There are narrow, winding streets with small houses between the Main and Farbenstrasse . The Catholic church of the former Kurmainzer community is also located here. At the end of Farbenstrasse is the Sindlinger Friedhof and the terminus for bus lines 54 and 55, which also have their turning loop here.

Sindlinger Mainaue with Main Bridge

On a hill on the Main is the Villa Meister with the associated Meisterpark , a palace built in 1902 by Hoechst board member Herbert von Meister , which was the seat of the Institute for Applied Geodesy until 1980 . Today the Phönix-Haus-Gesellschaft , a rehabilitation center for the social integration of former drug addicts, is located in the villa.

The district's two bridges are on the banks of the Main. The West Works Bridge, built by Hoechst AG in 1972, is suspended from two 52 meter high pylons with wire ropes. Two independent roads and a freight railway run over it. The street, which is located outside the factory walls, is closed to motorized traffic and is only used by two-wheelers and pedestrians. It leads to the South Gate and the Schwanheimer Dunes nature reserve . The second bridge - the lowest in the Frankfurt city area - is used by the motorway-like B 40 with a separate cycle path and leads to the airport . The bridge, inaugurated in 1978, is part of the Frankfurt-Höchst southern bypass .

graveyard

schools

School history in Sindlingen

In 1598 a school in Sindlingen is mentioned for the first time. At that time the school was an ecclesiastical affair and keeping school in the village was connected with the service of a bell ringer. It was only through suggestions from Luther's writings that there were municipal teaching institutions that had little in common with today's schools. Since Sindlingen was part of the Electorate of Mainz, the school was the responsibility of the parish. And since the canons of St. Peter's Abbey in Mainz were Catholic, Catholic people were appointed as schoolmasters. In 1648 Johann Heinrich Wilhelm was a schoolmaster in Sindlingen. Sindlingen itself did not have its own school building at the time. Teacher Heinrich Schutzbrett held his lessons in 1688 in his own house, at today's Huthmacherstraße 14. Only in 1700, at the urging of the electoral government, was a school built (Huthmacherstraße 20) that also contained the mayor's office and a community smithy.

Compulsory schooling for 6 to 12 year old children was introduced in 1682 for Kurmainzische areas. School time was mainly limited to the winter months. Because you needed the children's work in summer for work in the yard and in the fields. Teaching positions were also not well paid and relied on extra income. When a school academy opened in Mainz in 1771, this situation changed. The Sindlingen teacher Johann Balthasar Klemm, who had been a teacher in Sindlingen since 1772, had already visited this institution and was rewarded as follows: 209 guilders and 8 kreuzers. His son Georg Andreas Klemm followed him in 1792 at an annual salary of 270 guilders. In 1818 a teacher's salary was 350 guilders, as the number of schoolchildren in Sindlingen had risen to 94.

In 1817 and with the transition to Nassau, the school service was also reformed. School education was now a public affair of the secular authorities. The church still had an influence on the school system, but this influence was finally abolished in 1919.

The last "village schoolmaster" in Sindlingen was called Nikolaus Gottschalk. In 1830 he was granted a teaching assistant, as the number of students increased to 140. In 1833 the community of Sindlingen had a massive, two-story building built in the former Schulgasse (today Allesinastraße) for 6139 guilders. In addition to the classrooms, this house also housed the community room and the rooms for the teachers.

In 1858 the number of schoolchildren in Sindlingen rose to 173. In 1873 a third and fourth teaching position was set up for Sindlingen, and in 1891 a fifth. At that time, the teachers' apartments were also used as classrooms because of the tightness in the school building. Due to the narrowness of the classrooms, an extension was added to the schoolhouse in 1900.

Herbert von Meister , the son of the founder of the Hoechst paint factory, had a gymnasium built at his own expense in 1910 and made the area available to the Sindlingen community for the construction of a new school building. The building of the current master school cost 12,000 gold marks at that time. The new building was officially opened in 1911 . At the beginning the school was only reserved for the upper classes, the younger children continued to be taught in the old school building.

After the incorporation of Sindlingen into Höchst in 1917, the master school had 765 students, including 7 boys 'and 8 girls' classes, which were taught by 13 teachers. In the administrative report of the same year of the city of Höchst , the teaching conditions are described as unsatisfactory . The school equipment was described as downright shameful . The urgent expansion of the master school was not completed until 1929 after it was incorporated into Frankfurt . At that time the school had 542 students.

In the years 1949–1954 the rooms of the school were renovated. The construction boom in Sindlingen that began in 1950 brought a large number of pupils to Sindlingen-Nord, which is why three pavilions were built on the grounds of the master school from 1961. The master school reached a preliminary high in the number of students in 1965 with 826 students.

In the 1970s, the space problem at the master school was alleviated by the construction of the Sindlingen-Nord school. The Ludwig-Weber-School was planned as a primary school and built on Paul-Kirchhof-Platz.

Current school situation

Sindlingen is now divided into two primary school districts.

The students from Sindlingen-Nord are assigned to the Ludwig Weber School . The master school in Sindlingen-Süd is the district's primary and secondary school .

In 1999 the International School Frankfurt-Rhein-Main opened in Albert-Blank-Straße , a private school with elementary and high school branches, equipped with its own swimming pool and sports fields. Lessons there are mainly in English.

In 2011 the master school celebrated its 100th anniversary.

Overview school principal in Sindlingen

List of principals at the master school in Sindlingen until 1985
year person
1852-1860 Wilhelm Günster
1860-1868 Wendelin Bibo
1869-1878 Carl Molitor
1878-1887 Ludwig Schardt
1887-1896 Konrad Rehm
1896-1920 Johannes Sturm
1920-1935 Peter Althen
1935-1945 Adolf Manns
1945-1960 Aloys Ludwig
1960-1968 Hugo May
1964-1968 Reinhold Schmitt
1969-1985 Reinhold Daub
List of the headmasters of the Ludwig Weber School in Sindlingen until 1990
year person
1973-1990 Christel Könnecke
since 1990 Monika Schäfer

Worth knowing

On August 18, 1978, the Frankfurter Neue Presse reported an accident in Sindlingen-Süd on the area of ​​the so-called new playground between Küferstrasse and Hermann-Brill-Strasse. According to the police investigation, three children had built a torch out of charcoal, sulfur, black powder and weed killers . The explosion of the torch was so great that it ripped open the carotid artery of 13-year-old Norbert Loos and seriously injured another 11-year-old boy in the hand. A third boy went into severe shock. Norbert Loos' injuries were so severe that he died of his injuries at the scene of the accident. After this accident, the concrete desert of the playground was completely redesigned and made more child-friendly with funds from the city of Frankfurt. In the master school, Rector Daub gave a commemorative speech on the death of Norbert Loos, who was a student at the master school. In addition, a minute's silence was held to commemorate.

Between 2008 and 2011, the cabaret and comedy show "Comedy Lounge" with nationwide known and prominent artists took place monthly in the Sindlingen community center.

Villa Meister can be seen in the 2012 film "The House of the Crocodiles" as the residence of the Laroche family.

Personalities

Personalities who were born in Sindlingen

literature

  • What do we know In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1997 ( online - on the suicide attack in the Protestant church in Sindlingen-Süd).

Web links

Commons : Frankfurt-Sindlingen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, page 7 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  2. Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, page 10 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  3. ^ Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, pp. 12-13 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  4. Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, page 14 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  5. Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3396, March 28, 797) - Reg. 2573. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 171 , accessed on March 16, 2016 .
  6. Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Manchot : Limburg Monastery , Mannheimer Altertumsverein, 1892, p. 7
  8. ^ Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, pages 20 and 149 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  9. ^ Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, page 149 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  10. Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, pages 68 to 71 and 150 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  11. a b c d Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  12. Wolfgang Schubert: Church of the Hergelopen . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 22, 2007.
  13. ^ A b Wolfgang Metternich: The urban development of Höchst am Main . City of Frankfurt am Main, 1990.
  14. Frankfurt Press and Information Office (ed.): Frankfurter Verkehrsbauten .
  15. Christoph Becker-Schaum: "Peace and human rights issues are about the loyalty of citizens of different systems". In: boell.de. April 2, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
  16. Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  17. Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  18. Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  19. Statistical Yearbook 2006 frankfurt.de (PDF; accessed on Feb. 26, 2020)
  20. ^ Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, pages 122 to 123 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  21. ^ Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, page 124 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  22. ^ Adalbert Vollert: Sindlingen - A Frankfurt district then and now, pages 124 to 132 . Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  23. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse , August 18, 1978.