Großostheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '  N , 9 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Aschaffenburg
Height :	137 m above sea level NHN
Area :	44.31 km 2
Residents:	16,365 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	369 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63762
Area code :	06026
License plate :	AB , ALZ
Community key :	09 6 71 122
Market structure:	4 districts
Market administration address :	Schaafheimer Str. 33 63762 Großostheim
Website :	www.grossostheim.de
Mayor :	Herbert Jakob ( CSU )
Location of the Großostheim market in the Aschaffenburg district

Municipal area with districts of Großostheim

Aerial view of Großostheim

Großostheim is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg .

geography

location

Großostheim is located on the northeastern edge of the Odenwald in the Bavarian Lower Main region . The Welzbach , which rises in Klein-Umstadt and flows into the Main via the Schönbusch Park , flows through the main town and the districts of Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt . The topographically highest point of the municipality is at 284  m above sea level. NN (location) on Bolachberg south of Wenigumstadt, the lowest is on the lake of the Sonneck leisure area at 114  m above sea level. NN (location) .

Community structure

Großostheim has four districts: (  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap ) While Ringheim has always been a district and belongs to the district of Großostheim, Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt have only been districts since the municipal reform of May 1, 1978.

Part of the community	Gemarkungs - area ( ha )	Population Jan. 1, 2019	Coordinates
Großostheim	2717.59	8,505	49 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E
Plum home	818.54	2,876	49 ° 54 '32 "  N , 9 ° 3' 34"  E
Ringheim	belongs to Großostheim	3.159	49 ° 55 ′ 50 "  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 8"  E
Wenigumstadt	895.11	2,092	49 ° 53 '36 "  N , 9 ° 2' 29"  E
Großostheim community	4431.24	16,632	49 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E

Neighboring communities

City of Babenhausen	Stockstadt am Main market	City of Aschaffenburg
Community Schaafheim		Community Niedernberg
	community Mömlingen

Together with Stockstadt am Main and the neighboring Hessian community of Schaafheim, the market community forms the historic Bachgau region .

Etymology of the name

The name Großostheim consists of the Old High German words ost and heima , which mean east and home . The addition of large distinguishes it from the nearby town of Kleinostheim , which does not derive its name from a direction, but from a personal name. The residents of Großostheim refer to themselves as "Äistemer", the place itself as "Oustem".

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

• 780 Ostheim
• 1774 Groß Ostheim
• 1867 Großostheim

history

“Cent Bachgaw”, engraving by Nicolaus Person 1695

Until the church is planted

Ostheim, known as Großostheim since the 17th century, is mentioned for the first time in a document from the Fulda Monastery , which was created between 780 and 799. Since it was first mentioned in a document, Ostheim belonged to various domains before it became part of the Electorate of Mainz in 1278, together with the entire Bachgau .

At the end of the old empire Großostheim belonged to the city ​​and district bailiwick of Obernburg and Großostheim in the Vizedomamt Aschaffenburg of the Electorate of Mainz. In 1803 Großostheim came with the Vizedomamt Aschaffenburg to the newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg , which became part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in 1810 . In the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Großostheim was part of the Obernburg district mairie of the Aschaffenburg department . As a result of the Treaties of Paris, it fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814 .

As a political municipality, Großostheim emerged as part of the administrative reforms in Bavaria with the municipal edict of 1818 and initially belonged to the administrative court district of Obernburg.

Administrative history

On July 1, 1862, Großostheim (still without the districts of Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt, which were incorporated in 1978) was incorporated into the administrative area of ​​the newly formed district office of Aschaffenburg . In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Großostheim was now one of the 33 communities in the old district of Aschaffenburg . On July 1, 1972, this merged with the Alzenau district to form the new Aschaffenburg district.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent communities of Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt were incorporated.

Population development

• 1961: 10,707 inhabitants
• 1970: 12,788 inhabitants
• 1987: 13,514 inhabitants
• 1991: 14,358 inhabitants
• 1995: 14,893 inhabitants
• 2000: 15,913 inhabitants
• 2005: 16,489 inhabitants
• 2010: 16,358 inhabitants
• 2015: 16,372 inhabitants
• 2016: 16,352 inhabitants
• 2017: 16,547 inhabitants

politics

town hall

Municipal council

After the last local election on March 15, 2020, the local council has 24 members. The turnout was 55.8% (2014: 54.87%). The choice brought the following result:

CSU	10 seats (2014: 10 seats)	(41.6%, 2014: 42.2%)
Green / Young List Bachgau	5 seats (2014: 4 seats)	(18.9%, 2014: 15.9%)
SPD	4 seats (2014: 6 seats)	(17.6%, 2014: 26.5%)
Free voters Bachgau	3 seats (2014: 2 seats)	(13.7%, 2014: 7.9%)
Independent citizens of Bachgau	2 seats (2014: 1 seat)	(6.4%, 2014: 4.0%)

Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the first mayor.

mayor

Until April 30, 2014, the mayor was Hans Klug (CSU), who no longer ran for election for reasons of age. His successor is Herbert Jakob (CSU), who was elected as the new mayor with 67% of the votes and was re-elected successfully in 2020 with 71.8%. In 2014, Horst Müller and Bettina Göller (both SPD) were elected as the mayor's deputies in a controversial election, which led to a long-lasting discussion.

Since the CSU did not send its own candidate into the race in the first ballot, Göller, who was supported by the SPD, Young List and UB-Bachgau (together eleven seats), but was rejected by the CSU (eleven seats), was the only candidate in the first ballot . After this ballot had to be repeated due to too many invalid votes (13 abstentions , twelve votes per Göller), in the second ballot the CSU nominated Horst Müller, the SPD councilor, which it had already supported, as a candidate for the office of second mayor. This prevailed in the following fight vote with 12 to 11 votes with two abstentions against his party colleague Göller, which u. a. caused outrage among the SPD and Young List. Göller then ran for the election of the third mayor, in which she again prevailed with twelve to eleven votes with two abstentions to the displeasure of the CSU against its candidate Franz Executive Lechner.

A few days after the election, Müller resigned from the SPD parliamentary group, according to his own statements, in order to forestall an exclusion. The inferior CSU candidate from the board of directors criticized his party comrades in the Bachgau-Bote newsletter and complained about dissenters from within their own ranks. In an internal test vote, for example, two party friends refused to vote because of their own ambitions for the office of third mayor. He expressly thanked the Free Voters / Women List faction for votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided by gold and black; above a half, jumping black goat; below three two-to-one silver clover leaves. "

Coat of arms history: Until the 18th century, Großostheim was only called Ostheim. The name Großostheim appeared for the first time in 1774. The coat of arms awarded by Prince Regent Luitpold on January 17, 1911 and has been used since then is a combination of a local seal from the 17th century, which no longer exists, and the reduced family coat of arms of the Schad family, which was called Schad von Ostheim. It died out in 1581. The family lived for centuries in Bachgau, to whose center the Ostheim community belonged. The shamrocks come from the coat of arms of the Clebiz von Nalbach family, another influential family in the Bachgau, but which had their main possessions in Klein- and Großwallstadt. The Clebiz married into the Schad family, so that there was a combination of the two coats of arms, which was raised to the local coat of arms in 1910.

Town twinning

• Carbon blanc
• Saulxures-sur-Moselotte
• Hamoir
• Archea Olymbia

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul

Nöthig-Gut on the market square (Bachgaumuseum)

The Wendelinus Chapel , built no later than 1607 in the current construction

• The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul contains a Lamentation of Christ by Tilman Riemenschneider (1515), which is iconographically and stylistically related to the early work in the Hessenthal pilgrimage church .
• The Bachgau Museum and the music school are housed in the Nöthig-Gut half-timbered courtyard on the market square, a former feudal courtyard of the Mainz Domproöpste (1537–1629). The exhibits in the museum focus on handicrafts and agriculture in the region in the 19th century.
• Half-timbered houses from the 16th to 18th centuries characterize the entire town center around Marktplatz, Marktgasse and Kanzleistraße, Haarstraße and Breite Straße. With 148 listed houses (as of 2007), Großostheim ranks first in the Aschaffenburg district.
• The top tower (prison tower with dungeon), the blunt tower (powder tower), the witch tower, in which eleven women fell victim to the witchcraft rampant in the Electorate of Mainz between 1602 and 1603, and a small remainder, still stand of the city fortifications razed in the 19th century the formerly two-kilometer-long city wall in Grabenstrasse.
• There are three chapels in Großostheim. A chapel dedicated to the patron saint of this craft, Saint Eligius , was built in 1517 by the local blacksmith Peter Drippel . The so-called Frauhäuschen is a Lady Chapel (late 15th century). The most important piece of equipment in the Kreuzkapelle is a crucifixion group by Hans Backoffen , a late work from 1513.
• The oldest town hall in Bachgau is in the Pflaumheim district. The half-timbered building (restored in 1981) dates from 1548. The town hall was badly damaged in a traffic accident in 2015 and has partly collapsed since then.
• The Wenigumstadt district has a stylistically similar town hall building from 1584.
• Großostheim is located on Einhardsweg . This 77 km long long-distance hiking and cycling path follows in the footsteps of the biographer Charlemagne on a route from Bad König to Hanau .
• 36 wayside shrines from the 16th to 18th centuries stand on the hiking and cycling trails in the immediate vicinity.
• The television series With Body and Soul was filmed in Großostheim from 1988 to 1992 . The place was called "Eberfeld" in the film.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Großostheim

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

Former European headquarters of Nintendo (today: Logwin)

In 1998 there were 85 employees in the field of agriculture and forestry, 2427 in the manufacturing sector and 1067 in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. In other economic sectors, 910 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 5627 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were nine companies in the manufacturing sector and 14 companies in the main construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 84 farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​2,656 hectares. 2,428 hectares of which were arable land and 193 hectares were permanent green areas. Here there is a brewery and several wine-growing businesses that work a total of 34 hectares of cultivation area.

The best known company was the European headquarters of Nintendo Co., Ltd. The closure of this location was announced in mid-2014. Of the previous 430 jobs, around 130 have been lost, the rest have been relocated to Frankfurt. Also Salomon Food World , a manufacturer of finger food, burgers and chips for the foodservice sector, is based in Grossostheim; also the German branch of Owen Mumford . The E-Bike Café has been selling electric bikes and electric scooters across Germany since 2010. The Eder & Heylands Brewery is located in Großostheim , and in 2009 it had beer sales of around 300,000 hectoliters. The best-known and best-selling beer brand is the Schlappeseppel .

In March 2013 the energy cooperative BürgerEnergie Bachgau eG was founded in order to promote the energy transition in Bachgau. The aim of the cooperative is the sustainable generation of energy in the region using renewable energies as well as their distribution and sales on site. In October 2013, the cooperative claims to have more than 220 members, and the first two projects, two photovoltaic systems on municipal properties, have already been put into operation.

traffic

Großostheim is located on federal highways 469 and 26 near federal highway 3 . In the district of Ringheim there is a commercial airfield, the Aschaffenburg airfield ; Frankfurt Airport is 47 km away.

In public transport Großostheim is served by several bus lines.

• Line 53: Aschaffenburg - Großostheim - Ringheim - Schaafheim - Babenhausen
• Line 54: Aschaffenburg - Großostheim - Pflaumheim - Wenigumstadt - Mosbach - Radheim - Schaafheim - Babenhausen
• Line 55: Aschaffenburg - Großostheim - Pflaumheim - Mömlingen - Obernburg
• Line 56: Großostheim - Niedernberg - Sulzbach
• Line 57: Großostheim - Stockstadt - Zellhausen (until August 3, 2018)

Großostheim was by the railway line Aschaffenburg-maximum (Odenwald) with the station Großostheim to the regional rail connected.

Since closure of the route is the nearest train station Aschaffenburg South on the railway line Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg . In Aschaffenburg there is a connection to Frankfurt and Würzburg via the Main-Spessart-Bahn , via the Rhein-Main-Bahn to Darmstadt, Mainz and Wiesbaden and via the Maintalbahn to Miltenberg; in Babenhausen , in addition to the Rhein-Main-Bahn, the Odenwaldbahn from Eberbach reached via Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach to Hanau and Frankfurt.

In addition, due to the tense traffic situation after Aschaffenburg, especially during rush hour, efforts are being made in Großostheim and Aschaffenburg to reactivate the Bachgaubahn to Großostheim , which was closed in 1974 for passenger traffic .

With the timetable change in December 2016, Großostheim was connected to the newly created line 58 from Aschaffenburg to Rodgau via Zellhausen to the Frankfurt-Rhein-Main S-Bahn network with a shuttle bus , line 57 . With great political unity, this was introduced for 3 years on a trial basis across all transport associations and federal states. In July 2018, however, the end of line 57 and the end of the Hessian summer vacation was announced. This step was justified with the lack of profitability, in particular due to the partial line closure in Stockstadt / Main.

education

There are several kindergartens, elementary and middle schools in the village, as well as a secondary school since 2012. The adult education center in Aschaffenburg offers courses on a regular basis, and two music schools complete the educational offer.

Sons and daughters of Großostheim

• Otto Becker (* 1958), show jumper
• Heinrich Hock (* 1887; † 1971), chemist
• Gabriel Ritter von Morhart (1840– after 1920), lawyer, including district administrator in Neustadt an der Aisch, government councilor of the Palatinate and senate president
• Noemi Ristau (* 1991), ski racer
• Rudolf Schüßler (* 1960), philosopher
• Jakob von Tullian (* presumably 1672; † 1729), nobleman and high administrative officer of the secular government in the Principality of Worms
• Werner Williams (* 1946), old Germanist

Oddities

Since the pear variety Gute Graue , introduced from France in the 18th century as Beurre gris , proved to be a robust, disease-resistant table pear, there were many trees in the Großostheim fields. It was mainly processed into dried fruit and enriched the menu in winter. The residents of Großostheim, like the residents of Kleinostheim (15 km away on the Main), must have been so convinced of the Guten Grau that the neighboring towns nicknamed them "Aisdemir Grohbirn". The people of Kleinostheim, whose dialect is “Goubern”, celebrate their Groubern-Grobirn Festival every summer today.

Due to its status as the former headquarters of Nintendo of Europe GmbH, the place is mentioned in some video games: In the German version of Secret of Evermore the hometown of the protagonist is Großostheim and in Paper Mario: Die Legende vom Äonentor , the German translator decided on a pun : A cold, snow-covered place is called Groß frost heim. Großostheim also appears in one of the early versions of SimCity .

literature

• Wolfgang Hartmann: 1200 years of Großostheim. Großostheim 1999.
• Frank Schmelz: Linear anthropogenic woody and fringing structures in the Bachgau (Gmde. Großostheim, Lkrs. Aschaffenburg). Giessen 2001.
• Ewald Lang and Karlheinz Ostheimer: Aisdmerisch Gebabbel. Anecdotes, stories, poems and 1000 words in Großostheim dialect. Großostheim 1987.
• Eva Stauch: Wenigumstadt: A burial place of the migration period and the early Middle Ages in the northern Odenwald foreland. Bonn 2004.
• Lothar Rollmann: Pflaumheim in the 20th century. Edited by History Society Pflaumheim. Pflaumheim 2010.
• Dorothee Klinksiek: Chronicle of the market in Großostheim 1803–1978. Neustadt ad Aisch 1994

Web links

Commons : Großostheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Großostheim market
• History portal Bavarian Lower Main
• Großostheim during the National Socialist tyranny, documentation
• Former Jewish community in Großostheim
• Großostheim: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Population increased, article in Main Echo (as of January 1, 2019)
3. ^ Markt Großostheim in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
4. ↑ ^{a b} Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 90 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 736 .
6. ↑ | Aschaffenburg district : numbers, data, facts. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
7. ↑ Großostheim.de Budget Statute 2018 as PDF, page 7 statistical information
8. ↑ Council information. Großostheim community, accessed on August 7, 2020 . 
9. ^ ^{A b} Großostheim: Deviants in the CSU? In: Main-Echo . May 19, 2014. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
10. ^ Großostheim: wounds on all sides . In: Main-Netz , May 8, 2014. Accessed May 13, 2014.
11. ↑ Horst Müller leaves the SPD parliamentary group. Politics: Rift after mayoral election . In: Main-Netz , May 13, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
12. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of Großostheim  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
13. ↑ What do the shamrocks mean. In: Wolfgang Hartmann: 1200 years of Großostheim. Großostheim 1999.
14. ↑ http://bachgaumuseum.de/
15. ^ Ewald Lang: 500 years of the Kreuzkapelle Großostheim. In: The Odenwald. Journal of the Breuberg Association. 62nd volume, issue 2, June 2015, ISSN  0029-8360 , pp. 59–70.
16. ↑ polizei.bayern.de. Retrieved April 15, 2015 . 
17. ↑ https://www.krfrm.de/projekte/museen-und-sonderausstellungen/veranstaltungen/die-fernsehserie-mit-leib-und-seele
18. ^ "Nintendo in Großostheim. Crisis discussion without group representatives ". In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. Archived from the original on January 29, 2015 ; Retrieved December 4, 2015 . 
19. ↑ Background: The new warehouse of the Eder and Heylands brewery. In: Main-Echo , April 13, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
20. ↑ Energy cooperative founded in Bachgau. In: Bachgau messenger. 10/2013.
21. ↑ Successful start. Website of BürgerEnergie Bachgau. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
22. ↑ ^{a b} Changes in bus traffic: Unsuccessful line 57 is discontinued in: Offenbacher Post from June 17, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018
23. ↑ Broad alliance for the Bachgau Railway In: Main Echo of March 24, 2011, last accessed on July 12, 2011.
24. ↑ First bus connection to the Aschaffenburg regional center In: Offenbach-Post from October 18, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2018
25. ↑ Stockstadt: through-town traffic fully blocked until autumn 2018 In: Main-Echo from May 24, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2018
26. ↑ mein-journal.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 6, 2012 ; accessed on April 15, 2015 . 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.  
27. ^ Joachim Lilla in: Bayerische Landesbibliothek: Administrative Handbook.
28. ↑ November 11, 2012 Prima Sunday