Gronau (Bad Vilbel)

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Gronau
City of Bad Vilbel
Gronau coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 36 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 110 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.05 km²
Residents : 2752  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 390 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Postal code : 61118
Area code : 06101

Gronau is a district of Bad Vilbel in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

Geographical location

Gronau lies on the Nidder , which flows into the Nidda from the left on the western outskirts . The center of Gronau is about two and a half kilometers northeast of the town center of Bad Vilbel, at an altitude of 115 m above sea ​​level .

history

prehistory

Ribbon ceramists settled here as early as the Neolithic Age , and some finds show that there was a settlement from Roman times . In the second half of the first millennium AD, the Franks settled in Gronau.

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of the village as Gronowe in Nitachgowe (Gronau im Niddagau ) took place on the occasion of a donation to the imperial monastery Lorsch in 786 . The place was assigned to the Bornheimerberg office around 1255 . In 1320 King Ludwig IV pledged the Bornheimerberg office to Ulrich II von Hanau , so that Gronau first belonged to the Hanau rulership and later to the Hanau-Münzenberg county .

A parish church existed since at least 1332. The patronage of the parsonage was initially at the Marienstift Lich , after the Reformation with the Prince of Solms zu Lich . The central church authority was the archdeaconate of the Peterskirche in Mainz .

Historical forms of names

In documents that have survived, Gronau was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Gronowe (786)
  • Guonowa (855)
  • Grunouwe (1305)
  • Gronauwe (1340)
  • Groenaw (1385)
  • Großgronau (18th century)

Modern times

In the first half of the 16th century, the county of Hanau-Münzenberg and with it the village of Gronau carried out the Reformation, initially following the Lutheran model. In 1597 Count Philip Ludwig II implemented a second Reformation in favor of the Reformed denomination . He made use of Jus reformandi , his right as sovereign to determine the denomination of his subjects,

Evangelical Church in Gronau, built in 1718/19

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the landgraves of Hessen-Kassel inherited the county of Hanau-Munzenberg. The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel became the Electorate of Hesse in 1803 . During the Napoleonic period , Gronau was temporarily part of the French Empire , Principality of Hanau , Office of Bergen (formerly Bornheimerberg) from 1806 to 1810 , then to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt from 1810 to 1813 , before it became part of the Electorate of Hesse again. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, during which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, Gronau belonged to the Hanau district . As an ally of Austria, the electorate was subject to the Kingdom of Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 . This annexed then Kurhessen and thus Gronau. From 1867 Gronau belonged to the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau , the administrative district of Kassel , but remained in the district of Hanau.

On July 1, 1971, Gronau was incorporated into Bad Vilbel on a voluntary basis as part of the regional reform in Hesse . It initially belonged to the Friedberg district , and from August 1, 1972 to the Wetterau district .

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1632: 28 households
  • 1663: 325 inhabitants in 45 houses
  • 1753: 35 households with 164 people
Gronau: Population from 1663 to 2012
year     Residents
1663
  
 325
1753
  
 164
1834
  
 367
1840
  
 349
1846
  
 379
1852
  
 432
1858
  
 400
1864
  
 407
1871
  
 357
1875
  
 365
1885
  
 410
1895
  
 425
1905
  
 514
1910
  
 475
1925
  
 528
1939
  
 534
1946
  
 750
1950
  
 812
1956
  
 786
1961
  
 802
1967
  
 900
1970
  
 1,261
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2000
  
 ?
2012
  
 2,653
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: City of Bad Vilbel

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 362 Protestant (= 98.37%), 6 Catholic (= 1.63%) residents
• 1961: 581 Protestant (= 72.44%), 201 Catholic (= 25.06%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

The Gronau local council currently consists of nine members as follows:

The mayor is Mr. Karl Peter Schäfer (CDU)

Local council elections Gronau %
2016 		%
2011 		%
2006 		%
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 51.0 51.6 60.37 61.3
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 17.6 34.5 28.07 25.0
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 18.2 - - -
FDP Free Democratic Party 13.1 13.9 11.56 13.9

coat of arms

Two rivers are depicted on the coat of arms, the Nidder and the Nidda . Both flow together in Gronau and continue under the name Nidda to the confluence with the Main in Frankfurt-Höchst .

Attractions

societies

  • SV-Gronau e. V. - football, volleyball, recreational karate, children's gymnastics and health sports (founded in 1974)
  • Purebred poultry breeding association 1921 Gronau
  • Volunteer Fire Brigade Gronau (founded 1929)
  • Angelsportverein Frühauf Gronau 32/82 e. V. (founded 1932)
  • Gronauer Kerbeburschen (founded 1966)
  • Allotment garden association Bad Vilbel-Gronau e. V. (founded 1980)
  • Tennis club TC 84 Gronau e. V. (founded 1984)
  • Support and care association of the city school Gronau e. V.
  • Archery Club Gronau e. V.

Son of the place

Associated with Gronau

  • Herbert Heckmann (1930–1999), writer, essayist, editor; 1984–1996 President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, wrote a. a. Benjamin and his fathers, Little Fritz, Hessian in German.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location factors of the city of Bad Vilbel , accessed in April 2020.
  2. ↑ Zweckverband Regionalpark Niddaradweg (Ed.): Freizeitkarte Niddaroute - From the mouth to the source. Karben, no year
  3. ↑ a b c d Gronau, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 19. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 360 .
  6. ↑ http://www.bad-vilbel.de/de/politik/wahlen/wahlverbindungen-seit-1946