Gründau

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Gründau (definition of terms ) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 9 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
County :	Main-Kinzig district
Height :	175 m above sea level NHN
Area :	67.64 km 2
Residents:	14,619 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	216 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63584
Primaries :	06051 (Lieblos, Rothenbergen); 06058 (all other districts)
License plate :	MKK, GN, HU , SLÜ
Community key :	06 4 35 012
Community structure:	7 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	At Bürgerzentrum 1 (Lieblos) 63584 Gründau
Website :	www.gruendau.de
Mayor :	Gerald Helfrich ( independent )
Location of the community of Gründau in the Main-Kinzig district

Municipal area with districts

Gründau is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse , which got its name from the river Gründau .

geography

Geographical location

Gründau lies west and north of Gelnhausen and south of Büdingen on the rivers Gründau and Kinzig .

Landscape, natural spaces, ecology

According to the natural spatial structure of Hesse ( list of natural spatial units in Hesse ), the municipal area is located with its larger northeastern part in the Büdinger Forest (main unit 143), its southwestern part belongs to the Büdingen-Meerholzer hill country (main unit 233), both belong to the large landscape of the southwest German low mountain range. / Stepland .

The Büdinger Forest is a spur of the Spessart that protrudes to the north over the Kinzig and is part of the Hessian-Franconian mountainous region (main unit group 14). This pushes itself from the south in front of the southern roofing of the Vogelsberg, which faces the Rhine-Main lowland (main unit group 23) . As a north-west-south-east running red sandstone block from 350 to 410 m height, it essentially forms a sandstone plateau , on whose loamy sandy soil there is an almost closed forest area, for the most part deciduous forests , including noble deciduous tree forests that are worthy of protection. The stream valleys are mostly used as grassland. The landscape is of great importance as a recreational area. The large, uncut area north of Gelnhausen is particularly important for the biotope network . On the other hand, on the border with Vogelsberg (reference number 350.5) there are basalt ceilings and one of the largest basalt quarries in Hesse .

The other part of the municipality belongs to the Büdingen-Meerholzer Hügelland (formerly Ronneburger Hügelland - code number 233.0- in the northeast part of the Rhine-Main lowland between Nidder and Kinzig), a wooded and wooded cultural landscape. The soils created from loess layers and from Letten des Rotliegend are the basis of high-yield agriculture. Only the plateau north of the Kinzig valley belongs to the municipality, it is made up of a number of north-east-south-west mountain ridges between broad valleys and a flat undulating area to the west. The Kinzig valley to the south of the plateau occupies an ecological special position, in which floods are frequent. The Kinzig flows through the landscape in a wide, flat Muldental valley at 130 to 110 m above sea level. NN. The forests in the landscape largely consist of beech forest communities . The lowlands, especially the Kinzig, are used as grassland, most of the landscape as arable land. Valuable biotopes in the landscape are woodland in the open country , orchards and near-natural flowing waters with adjacent wetland biotopes.

Districts

The districts of Breitenborn and Gettenbach are located in the middle of the Büdinger Forest . The districts of Hain-Gründau (towards Gründaue) and Lieblos (towards Kinzigaue) are on the edge of this area ; Mittel-Gründau and Niedergründau are in the Ronneburg hill country , Rothenbergen and mostly Lieblos in the Kinzig valley .

Neighboring communities

Municipality of Ronneburg (Hessen) district Altwiedermus (Main-Kinzig-Kreis)	City of Büdingen, Vonhausen district and core city (Wetteraukreis)	City of Wächtersbach District Waldensberg District Wittgenborn (Main-Kinzig-Kreis)
City of Langenselbold (Main-Kinzig-Kreis)		City of Wächtersbach core town (Main-Kinzig district)
Hasselroth community Niedermittlau district (Main-Kinzig district)	City of Gelnhausen District Roth District Hailer District Meerholz (Main-Kinzig-Kreis)	City of Gelnhausen District Haitz (Main-Kinzig-Kreis)

history

Prehistory and first documentary mentions

Most of the districts were mentioned in documents as early as the 12th century ; Traces of settlement from the time before - mostly from the Neolithic , later from the Roman period (the western districts were in the Roman-controlled Limes foreland) and the Franconian settlement from 500 - can be found in all districts (except in Breitenborn) .

Territorial reform and establishment of the new municipality

The municipality Gruendau was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse at 31 December 1971 from the previous communities Breitenborn (Official Wächtersbach) , Gettenbach , Loveless and Niedergründau (by agreement / contract) formed (On May 26, 1971 signed the mayor and First Assistant Secretary of the Municipality of Breitenborn AW, Gettenbach, Hain-Gründau, Lieblos and Niedergründau signed the merger agreement in Breitenborn AW after approval by the state government on December 21, 1971, the agreement - without Hain-Gründau - was implemented on December 31, 1971). Hain-Gründau was not added until August 1, 1972 by force of state law, as did Mittel-Gründau and Rothenbergen (which opposed the merger with Gründau until the end and had signed a merger agreement with the city of Gelnhausen on December 21, 1971 ).

The former Gründau villages (and the Gelnhausen district of Roth ) belonged to the Bergkirche in Niedergründau since the Middle Ages (but not Breitenborn and Hain-Gründau), so that the regional reform was largely based on historically grown structures.

politics

mayor

Gründau town hall

• from 1973 to 1984 August Imhof (FWG) * 1919 - † 1986,
• from 1984 to 2007 Georg Meyer (CDU),
• from 2007 to 2013 Heiko Merz (SPD),
• since 2013 Gerald Helfrich (independent).

The new community of Gründau had three mayors in its first 40 years.

The first alderman and representative of the mayor was Hans Kroth (SPD) from 2011 to 2016 and has been Axel Fetzberger (FWG) since 2016.

For the municipalities in Hesse, the Hessian municipal code and thus the municipal constitution apply , whereby since April 1, 1993 the mayor has been elected directly by the people and no longer by the municipal council due to a constitutional amendment.

• In the first direct election in Gründau on March 3, 1996, the previous incumbent Georg Meyer (CDU) was elected with 75.4% of the votes. His competitor, Ulrike Thienhaus (SPD), accounted for 24.6%. The turnout was 63.3%.
• In the mayoral election on March 17, 2002, Georg Meyer (CDU) was re-elected with 68% of the vote. His competitor, Heiko Merz (SPD), accounted for 32%. The turnout was 56.3%.
• In the mayoral election on March 11, 2007, Heiko Merz (SPD) was elected with 50.4% of the vote. His competitor, Joachim Werner (CDU), accounted for 49.6%. The turnout was 60%.
• In the mayoral election on March 10, 2013 Gerald Helfrich (independent) was elected with 53.0% of the votes in the first ballot. His competitors, Hans Kroth (SPD) received 31.4% and Stefan Ament (CDU) 15.5% of the vote. The turnout was 56.5%.
• In the mayoral election on March 24, 2019, Gerald Helfrich (non-party) was elected with 50.91% of the vote in the first ballot. His competitor, Florian Adam-Neumann (SPD) made up 31.36%; on Axel Fetzberger (FWG) 8.2%, Marcus Marx (AfD) 5.5%, Klaus Böhm (independent) 4.1% of the votes. The turnout was 58.4%.

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016     A total of 37 seats SPD : 13 CDU : 13 FWG : 11	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	35.2	13	56.6	21st	33.4	12	30.2	11
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	34.0	13	28.9	11	51.5	19th	48.8	18th
	FWG	Free community of voters	30.8	11	14.2	5	14.7	6th	15.3	6th
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	-	-	0.3	0	0.3	0	-	-
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.7	2
	total		100.0	37	100.0	37	100.0	37	100.0	37
	Voter turnout in%		53.4		50.5		47.7		56.1

After the state commissioner Karl Rödig in the founding phase of the municipality, the municipal council had the following elected chairpersons ( parliamentarians ):

• from 1972 to 1989 Karl Seibert † (CDU),
• from 1989 to 2004 Karl Fischer (FWG),
• from 2004 to 2011 Stefan Ament (CDU),
• from 2011 to 2016 Norbert Breunig (SPD),
• since 2016 Stefan Ament (CDU).

Local districts, local councils, mayor

The new municipality has formed local districts in line with the previously independent municipalities. According to their area, Gettenbach (1357 ha) and Breitenborn (1872 ha) are the largest districts, according to the number of inhabitants the smallest villages (437 inhabitants and 1085 inhabitants). According to the number of inhabitants ( § 7 HGO ) Rothenbergen (3881 inhabitants) and Lieblos (3675 inhabitants) are the largest districts, according to the area with the smallest (560 ha and 734 ha). Mittel-Gründau (915 hectares, 2080 inhabitants), Niedergründau (719 hectares, 1762 inhabitants) and Hain-Gründau (608 hectares, 1731 inhabitants) are in the middle range in terms of both population and area. Each of the districts forms a local district under local law ( Hessian municipal code - HGO) and has a local advisory board with a local mayor as chairman. However, there are no branches of the municipal administration.

Town twinning

• with the district of Neugersdorf of the city of Ebersbach-Neugersdorf in Lausitz ( Saxony )
• with Laussonne , Haute-Loire department , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region , France

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the community of Gründau was adopted by the formerly independent community of Niedergründau. It shows the imperial eagle of the Holy Roman Empire in connection with the key of St. Peter . The key points to the old mountain church near Niedergründau, which comprises a large parish (district) and was consecrated to St. Peter. The imperial eagle reminds us that Niedergründau was the focus of an imperial court in the Middle Ages and that the king had a court and other property here.

Religions

The interior of the ev. Bergkirche von Niedergründau: built between 1838 and 1840 in a classicist style, renovated in 1950

54.1% Protestant, 18.9% Catholic, 27% other.

Churches

The mountain church on the Schieferberg (locally: Schiwwerberch) in Niedergründau is the old central church of most of the Gründauer localities. It was first mentioned in a document in 1217. At that time, the monks of the Selbold monastery took care of the pastoral care in the places around the Schieferberg. During the Reformation the population became Protestant.

The tower was built in 1556/57. It is 35 m high with the steeple. In 1840 the church with its current nave was built after the old one had been demolished due to its dilapidation. Stylistically, the corpus of the church can be assigned to classicism . Special sights are the Ratzmann organ from 1839 and the altar cross by Bernd Wilfer (Q-Fell) from 2007.

Church, old sexton's house and rectory form a listed ensemble . It is located on the pilgrimage route Frankfurt-Fulda, an old street that was an important military route as well as the connection between the trade fair cities of Frankfurt and Leipzig and part of the Via Regia from Mainz to Krakow . Only in 1810 - at the urging of Napoleonic France ( Marshal Kellermann as administrator of the French occupied Hanau) - a valley road (Steinweg / Chaussee ) on the right (north) of the Kinzig from Gelnhausen to Hanau was completed.

Other old Protestant churches are located in Hain-Gründau ( Laurentiuskirche ) and Breitenborn. The Paul Gerhardt Church in Lieblos is a post-war building from 1960.

There are Catholic Christians in Gründau again in large numbers only because of the expellees . In 1960 they built the Christ the King's Church in Rothenbergen, a church in the shape of a crown.

Evangelical Methodist Christians celebrate their services in the Friedenskirche in Rothenbergen.

Ecumenical Way of St. James

The 125 km long Ecumenical Way of St. James leads through the Gründauer district from Fulda to the Main. The pilgrimage route is part of the connection system of the Via Regia , whose network of routes leads from Ukraine to Spain .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Gründau

Regular events

Once a year in spring, the motorcycle church service takes place in the Niedergründau mountain church . From there, the exit also takes place, which ends at the festival square in Gelnhausen as the meeting point. The meeting is one of the largest motorcycle meetings in Germany.

traffic

The districts of Lieblos and Rothenbergen are located on the federal motorway 66 (A 66) and have direct motorway junctions. The federal highway 457 also runs through Gründau with the junctions Niedergründau, Mittel-Gründau, Hain-Gründau, Gettenbach and Lieblos. In local public transport, Gründau is connected to the Niedermittlau , Langenselbold and Gelnhausen train stations on weekdays with the local lines MKK-66, MKK-67 and MKK-68 . In school transport, the regional transport service Gründau serves the lines MKK-66 and 68 with bus trains from Solaris (with the bus "Urbino 12") and a passenger trailer from Hess, there is no service on Sundays. In addition, the Gießen – Gelnhausen ( Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn ) railway runs through Gründau with stations in the districts of Bahnhof Lieblos and Mittel-Gründau. The Niedermittlau station on the Kinzigtalbahn from Fulda via Hanau to Frankfurt am Main is important for the Rothenbergen district . The regional bus route 374 is also important for Rothenbergen as well as for the villages of Mittel-Gründau, Niedergründau and Lieblos, as it supplements the Lahn-Kinzig railway and the local MKK-66 - 68 lines every day at off-peak times.

Train lines in Gründau

Train line	path	Service time	operator
RB46	Giessen - Hungen - Nidda - Stockheim - Büdingen - Mittel-Gründau - Lieblos - Gelnhausen	Monday to Thursday 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. (hourly), Fridays until midnight. Saturday 7:00 am to 12:00 am (mostly hourly), Sundays 9:00 am to 10:00 pm.	HLB

Bus routes in Gründau

Bus route	path	Service times	operator
MKK-66	Breitenborn - Hain-Gründau (- Gettenbach) - Middle-Gründau - Niedergründau - Rothenbergen - Lieblos - Roth - Gelnhausen	Monday to Friday 5 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. (every 2 hours)	RDG Gründau
MKK-67	Breitenborn - Hain-Gründau - Mittel-Gründau - Niedergründau - Rothenbergen - Niedermittlau Bf - Bahnhofssiedlung - Niedermittlau Kernort - Meerholz - Hailer - Gelnhausen	Monday - Friday 5 a.m. - 8 p.m. (every 2 hours)	RDG Gründau
MKK-68	Langenselbold train station - Westring - Niedergründau - Rothenbergen - Lieblos - Roth - Gelnhausen	Monday - Friday 5 a.m. - 8 p.m. (every 2 hours)	RDG Gründau
374	(Nidda - Ranstadt - Effolderbach -) Stockheim - Bleichenbach - Büches - Büdingen - Vonhausen - Mittel-Gründau - Niedergründau - Rothenbergen - Lieblos - Roth - Gelnhausen	Monday to Friday trips from 4–5 and 10: 30 pm, Saturday trips from 8 pm to midnight (every 2 hours), Sunday one morning trip each in winter	Frieda Gass travel service

economy

In economic terms, the Lieblos district has gained in importance in the last few decades. The commercial area there (Kinzigtal-Zentrum) attracts investors from across the region.

Established businesses

• asecos GmbH - Safety and environmental protection (Lieblos)
• Henzel Automotive GmbH (Lieblos)
• Höffner , until 2007 Möbel Walther (Lieblos)
• IG Bauerhin Automotive GmbH (Rothenbergen)
• MHI - Central German hard stone industry (Breitenborn)
• Putzmeister - concrete pumps (Rothenbergen)

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Gründau  - travel guide

• Official website of the community of Gründau (with many pictures and extensive information)
• Map of the natural spatial landscape according to BfN
• Environmental Atlas Hesse (→ Nature and Landscape → The natural areas of Hesse or natural spatial structure)
• Niedergründau (with lots of pictures and extensive information)
• Bergkirche Niedergründau (information about the Ratzmann Organ Friends' Association and the concerts in the Bergkirche)
• Mittel-Gründau (history, information and dates about the district)
• Literature about Gründau in the Hessian Bibliography
• Literature by and about Gründau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Link catalog on the subject of Gründau at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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. ↑ Otmar Engel and Klaus von Berg: Archeology - Finds on Gründauer area. In: Grindaha, publications of the Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V., Issue 26, Gründau 2016 ISSN  2194-8631 , pp. 146–152.
3. ↑ § 16 Paragraph 3 HGO
4. ↑ Reinhard Weis: 40 years of the community of Gründau - Despite the “difficult birth”, an exemplary community emerged. In: Grindaha - Issue 22, 40 years of the community of Gründau, Gründau 2012 (ISSN 2194-8631), pp. 5–20.
5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg 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 , § 16 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
6. ↑ Art. 1 No. 7 of the law amending municipal regulations of May 20, 1992 (GVBl. I p. 170 [171, 172]) amended § 39 of the Hessian Municipal Code (HGO) of April 1, 1981 Mayor], Art. 11, Paragraph 2, No. 1a of the Act on Amending Local Regulations of May 20, 1992 (GVBl. I p. 170 [185])
7. ^ Homepage of Mayor Gerald Helfrich
8. ^ Homepage of Mayor Gerald Helfrich
9. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
10. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
11. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
12. ^ SPD local association Gründau
13. ^ CDU community association Gründau
14. ↑ Hessian municipal code (HGO)
15. ↑ § 81 HGO
16. ↑ § 82 HGO
17. ↑ § 82 paragraph 5 HGO
18. ↑ Section 81 (3) HGO
19. ^ Heinrich Reimer: Hessisches Urkundenbuch, section 2, document book on the history of the gentlemen of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Volume 1. 767-1300. Publications from the Royal Prussian State Archives, Hirzel, Leipzig 1891 No. 131 and 132
20. ↑ hessenschau.de, Frankfurt, Germany: Thousands of motorcyclists open the season | hessenschau.de | Panorama . In: hessenschau.de . April 23, 2017 ( hessenschau.de [accessed April 23, 2017]).
21. ↑ asecos GmbH Lieblos
22. ^ Henzel Automotive GmbH
23. ↑ IG Bauerhin Automotive GmbH