Groß-Karben

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Groß-Karben
City of Karben
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 15 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 118 m above sea level NN
Area : 8.25 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 4601  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 558 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1970
Postal code : 61184
Area code : 06039
The Leonhard Castle in Groß-Karben

Groß-Karben is a district of Karben in the Wetteraukreis in Hesse with around 4600 inhabitants.

geography

The district has an area of ​​825 hectares.

history

The oldest surviving mention of Groß-Karben comes from 1293. In the Old Kingdom the village belonged to the Freigericht Kaichen , which came under the rule of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg in the 15th century . With this it fell to Hessen-Darmstadt in 1806 .

In Groß-Karben, the particular law of the Kaichen Free Court, the Friedberger Police Regulations, applied . In 1679 it was renewed and printed. This is the first time that it can be put into writing. She mainly dealt with administrative , police and regulatory law . In this respect, the Solms land law remained the main source of law for the broad area of civil law . The Common Law was, moreover, if all these regulations did not contain provisions for a fact. This legal situation remained valid in the 19th century after Groß-Karben was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . It was not until the Civil Code of January 1, 1900, which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that this old particular law was suspended.

On July 1, 1970, the city of Karben was created in the course of the regional reform in Hesse through the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent communities Groß-Karben, Klein-Karben , Kloppenheim , Okarben and Rendel .

Culture

In the center of Groß-Karben there are two modern castle complexes : The Leonhard Castle and the Degenfeld Castle .

Infrastructure

The district is named after the S-Bahn station , which is served by the S6 line to Friedberg (Hessen) and Frankfurt am Main on the Main-Weser Railway . However, this is about one kilometer away from Groß-Karben on the outskirts of Kloppenheim .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Economic data of the city of Karben. P. 7 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.karben.de
  2. Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 107, enclosed map.
  3. merger of the communities Groß-Karben Klein-Karben, Kloppenheim, Okarben and Rendel in the district of Friedberg the new municipality "Karben" and granting them the right to use the designation "city" of 19 June 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 27 , p. 1366 , item 1325 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).