Graefenhausen (Weiterstadt)
Graefenhausen
City of Weiterstadt
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Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 43 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 8 ″ E | |
Height : | 107 (106-118) m above sea level NHN |
Area : | 11.37 km² |
Residents : | 6097 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 536 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | January 1, 1977 |
Postal code : | 64331 |
Area code : | 06150 |
Location of Graefenhausen in Weiterstadt
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Gräfenhausen (dialect: Grewwehause ) is a district of the city Weiterstadt in southern Hesse Darmstadt-Dieburg .
geography
Geographical location
Graefenhausen is north of the city center Weiterstadt on the A5 . The nearby motorway service station Graefenhausen is named after the place. The residential area is surrounded by agricultural land. In the north lies the Steinrodsee and a forest area. The Apfelbach , the Mühlbach and the Ohlenbach flow through the district . Graefenhausen is about seven kilometers northwest of Darmstadt and about 14 kilometers south of Frankfurt Airport .
Neighboring communities
In the north, Graefelden-Walldorf borders on Mörfelden-Walldorf ( Groß-Gerau district ), in the northeast on Erzhausen , in the east on the Därmstadt district of Wixhausen , in the southeast on the Därmstadt district of Arheilgen , in the south on the core town of Weiterstadt, in the south-west on the Weiterstadt district of Braunshardt and in the west to the Weiterstadt district of Schneppenhausen .
Nature and protected areas
- Nature reserve Am Kleewoog by Graefenhausen
- Natural monuments: the inland dunes Rotböhl (natural monument and FFH area) and sand dune on the Apfelbach .
history
In 1211 Graefenhausen is mentioned in the goods book (Oculus Memoriae) of the Eberbach monastery for the first time ("Dragebodo transferred us when he entered the monastery [...] and a manse in Graefenhausen.") That Dragebodo was a brother of Eberhard I. von Dornberg, progenitor of the dynastic aristocratic family Dornberg zu Burg Dornberg near Groß-Gerau .
On November 21, 1225, Graefenhausen was mentioned in a document together with Schneppenhausen. In an attached document, a Vogt Werner von Grevenhusen was named who was a member of an arbitration tribunal. The reason for the court of arbitration was a dispute over the Wintershagen forest between the Eberbach monastery and the villagers of Arheilgen . From the 12th century to 1658 the village was under Heusenstammer rule. On September 19, 1658, they sold it to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which later became the Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt .
Over the centuries the place has been named in historical documents with changing place names . From Grevenhusen in 1215 via Greffenhusen (1418), Grevenhausen (1516) to Grebenhaußen in 1780. The administrative affiliation of Graefenhausen to the Heusenstammscher part of the Gerauer Mark is documented in 1416. From 1820 to 1821 it then belonged to the Darmstadt Oberamt , from 1821 to 1832 to the Langen district , from 1832 to 1848 again to the Groß-Gerau district , from 1848 to 1852 during the short time of the administrative districts in the Starkenburg province to the Darmstadt administrative district and from 1852 with the introduction of circles to the Darmstadt district .
The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Graefenhausen in 1829:
»Graefenhausen (L. Bez. Langen) Lutheran parish village; is on the Cent- (Black-) Bach, 2 St. from Langen and 1 1 ⁄ 2 St. from Darmstadt, and has 106 houses and 698 inhabitants, all of which are Lutheran except for 1 Catholic and 34 Jews. Among these are 52 farmers, 37 artisans and 27 day laborers. You can find here a beautiful and very friendly new church, except for the tower, which was consecrated on July 28th, 1818, a fairly new rectory, a town hall with which the school is connected, a castle with 2 meals and 1 oil mill. The castle, which consists of the old and the newer and was provided with a moat, was assigned to the disabled in the 1770s, which institution was closed again in 1810. Later the castle was used as a military hospital for a while. - Graefenhausen came, almost without a doubt, from Eberhard Waro von Hagen († after 1219), a Munzenberg branch, which among other things carried the Heusenstamm Castle as a fief of the emperor and empire, to the lords of Heusenstamm as his heirs. The Lords of Ullner had received shares in Graefenhausen through Heurath, but renounced their claims against those of Heusenstamm in 1406. The castle itself and its affiliations and individual goods were imperial, but the rest of the Würzburg fiefdom. In 1413, the place, together with the little tithe and the Frohnhofe, came with feudal approval, by Eberhard von Heusenstamm, by pledge to Count Johann III. von Katzenellenbogen, but was redeemed by the Lords of Heusenstamm in 1497, until Count Johann Christian Ferdinand von Heusenstamm sold it to Hesse in 1658 for 22,000 florins together with the imperial lean castle. Mr. von Heusenstamm and Ullner had a Hubengericht here. As early as 1257 a pleban named Eberhardus appears here as a witness, and in 1310 the place, which was a branch of Großgerau, was separated and the chapel was elevated to its own parish church. At the beginning of the 14th century, a brotherhood of St. Martin set up here, but it did not grow to full maturity. "
Graefenhausen received the first electrical lighting in 1919. Water pipes were laid between 1927 and 1928.
Territorial reform
On January 1, 1977, Graefenhausen was incorporated into the municipality of Weiterstadt together with Schneppenhausen by virtue of state law as part of the regional reform in Hesse . Local districts according to the Hessian municipal code were not established.
Territorial history and administration
The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Graefenhausen was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:
- before 1658: Holy Roman Empire , rule Heusenstamm
- from 1658: Holy Roman Empire, Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt (by purchase), Upper County of Katzenelnbogen , (1783: to the Darmstadt Office, later Darmstadt Upper Office , Cent Arheiligen)
- from 1803: Holy Roman Empire, Landgraviate Hessen-Darmstadt, Principality of Starkenburg , Darmstadt Office
- from 1806: Grand Duchy of Hesse , Principality of Starkenburg, Darmstadt Office
- from 1815: German Confederation , Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Starkenburg , Darmstadt Office
- from 1821: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Starkenburg Province, Langen District District (separation between justice ( Langen District Court ) and administration)
- from 1832: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Starkenburg, District of Groß-Gerau
- from 1848: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Dieburg administrative region
- from 1852: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Starkenburg Province, Darmstadt district
- from 1866: Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Starkenburg, District of Darmstadt
- from 1871: German Empire , Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Starkenburg, District of Darmstadt
- from 1918: German Empire, People's State of Hesse , Starkenburg Province, Darmstadt district
- from 1938: German Empire, People's State of Hesse, Darmstadt district (In the course of the regional reform in 1938 , the three Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were dissolved.)
- from 1945: American zone of occupation , Greater Hesse , Darmstadt district, Darmstadt district
- from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Darmstadt district, Darmstadt district
- on January 1, 1977 to the community of Weiterstadt
- from 1977: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, administrative district Darmstadt, administrative district Darmstadt-Dieburg in which the administrative districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg were dissolved in the course of the regional reform in Hesse .
Population development
• 1791: | 465 inhabitants |
• 1800: | 514 inhabitants |
• 1806: | 624 inhabitants, 101 houses |
• 1829: | 698 inhabitants, 106 houses |
• 1867: | 979 inhabitants, 152 houses |
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Religious affiliation
• 1829: | 663 Lutheran (= 94.99%), 34 Jewish (= 4.87%) and one Catholic (= 0.14%) residents |
• 1961: | 2221 Protestant (= 76.77%), 591 Catholic (= 20.43%) residents |
coat of arms
Blazon : "On a shield squared by red and silver in the 1st and 4th fields, two silver brackish heads turned to the right with blue tongues and brackets."
The coat of arms of the municipality of Graefenhausen in the then district of Darmstadt was approved by the Hessian Minister of the Interior on March 17, 1960 . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .
It reminds of the former local lords of Graefenhausen. The red-white sign to the race Fähnlein represent the Würzburg bishops and Brake heads are from the crest in the arms of the Lords of Heusenstamm . Before this coat of arms, the municipality used a split coat of arms with a brakehead on the left and an unknown human figure on the right.
Sights and culture
Sights are the Protestant church , which was built by Georg Moller in 1818-19 with its church tower from the 12th century, and the former Graefenhausen Castle (now Ohlystift nursing home) with its Renaissance stair tower from 1555.
A little further outside is the Steinrodsee , which was created during the construction of the A5 federal motorway and is now a local recreation area . The Rotböhl sand dune is a nature reserve on the eastern edge of the Graefenhausen district.
Buildings
Regular events
- On the first Saturday after 11.11. the opening of the carnival campaign of the carnival club Ahoi Graefenhausen 1902 eV takes place every year.
- On the first Sunday after Michaelis (29.9.) The Gräfenhausen curb ( church consecration ) is celebrated. In 2006 the festival was moved from the traditional Kerweplatz to the Postplatz and Kirchplatz.
- November / December: Advent market
Sons and daughters of Graefenhausen
- Friedrich Alefeld (* 1820 in Graefenhausen, † 1872 in Ober-Ramstadt ), German doctor and botanist
- Phil Stark (born December 30, 1919 in Graefenhausen, † April 14, 1992 in Toronto ), German tenor who emigrated to Canada
literature
- 750 years of Graefenhausen 1225–1975 , council of Graefenhausen 1975
- Chronicle of the community of Weiterstadt and its districts Braunshardt, Graefenhausen, Riedbahn, Schneppenhausen . Günther Hoch. 1988, ISBN 978-3-924803-08-7 .
- Literature on Graefenhausen in the Hessian Bibliography
Web links
- Districts: Graefenhausen In: Website of the city of Weiterstadt.
- Graefenhausen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Historical pictures. In: Website of the Graefenhausen-Schneppenhausen Heimatverein.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Statistical information from the city of Weiterstadt: Population figures HW / areas , accessed in November 2017.
- ↑ Roses for the ladies. In: Darmstädter Echo, Wednesday, October 8, 2014. p. 29 , archived from the original ; accessed in April 2019 .
- ^ History of Graefenhausen. Heimatverein Gräfenhausen-Schnepenhausen, accessed in November 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Graefenhausen, Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 87 ( online at google books ).
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg and the city of Darmstadt (GVBl. II 330–334) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 318 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB 013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
- ↑ a b List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
- ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p. 119 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
- ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p. 119 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
- ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 32 ( online at google books ).
- ↑ The data up to 1986 come from the book Chronicle of the Community of Weiterstadt by Günther Hoch.
- ↑ Statistical information: Population numbers HW / areas. In: website. City of Weiterstadt, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2019 .
- ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office
- ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the community of Graefenhausen in the Darmstadt district of March 17, 1960 . In: Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1960 no. 14 , p. 405 , item 308 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,9 MB ]).
- ^ Klemens Stadler : Deutsche Wappen, Volume 3 ; Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 40.
- ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, November 26, 2015, p. 20.