Graefenhausen (Weiterstadt)

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Graefenhausen
City of Weiterstadt
Coat of arms of Graefenhausen
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
map
Location of Graefenhausen in Weiterstadt
Protestant church
The former castle

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

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:

Population development

• 1791: 465 inhabitants
• 1800: 514 inhabitants
• 1806: 624 inhabitants, 101 houses
• 1829: 698 inhabitants, 106 houses
• 1867: 979 inhabitants, 152 houses
Deadline Residents Deadline Residents
1829 698 May 27, 1970 3,391
December 3, 1864 941 December 31, 1975 4.113
December 1, 1895 1,366 December 31, 1981 4,199
May 17, 1939 1,785 June 30, 1986 4,562
October 29, 1946 2,458 January 1, 2001 5,288
June 6, 1961 2,893 December 31, 2007 5,624
Graefenhausen: Population from 1791 to 2018
year     Residents
1791
  
 465
1800
  
 514
1806
  
 624
1829
  
 698
1834
  
 777
1840
  
 796
1846
  
 832
1852
  
 925
1858
  
 936
1864
  
 941
1871
  
 992
1875
  
 982
1885
  
 1,156
1895
  
 1,366
1905
  
 1,450
1910
  
 1,469
1925
  
 1,613
1939
  
 1,795
1946
  
 2,458
1950
  
 2,647
1956
  
 2,695
1961
  
 2,893
1967
  
 3,374
1970
  
 3,391
1975
  
 4.113
1981
  
 4,199
1986
  
 4,562
2001
  
 5,288
2007
  
 5,324
2011
  
 5,475
2015
  
 5,963
2018
  
 6.097
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Weiterstadt website (web archive); 2011 census

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

DEU Graefenhausen (Hessen) COA.svg

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

literature

Web links

Commons : Graefenhausen  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistical information from the city of Weiterstadt: Population figures HW / areas , accessed in November 2017.
  2. ↑ Roses for the ladies. In: Darmstädter Echo, Wednesday, October 8, 2014. p. 29 , archived from the original ; accessed in April 2019 .
  3. ^ History of Graefenhausen. Heimatverein Gräfenhausen-Schnepenhausen, accessed in November 2019 .
  4. ↑ 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).
  5. ^ 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 ).
  6. ↑ 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 ]).
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ^ 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 ).
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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 ).
  11. ↑ 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 ).
  12. ^ 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 ).
  13. ↑ The data up to 1986 come from the book Chronicle of the Community of Weiterstadt by Günther Hoch.
  14. ↑ Statistical information: Population numbers HW / areas. In: website. City of Weiterstadt, archived from the original ; accessed in June 2019 .
  15. ↑ 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;
  16. ↑ 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 ]).
  17. ^ Klemens Stadler : Deutsche Wappen, Volume 3 ; Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 40.
  18. ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Thursday, November 26, 2015, p. 20.