Hanau-Steinheim

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Steinheim
City of Hanau
Former municipal coat of arms of Steinheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 23 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 115 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.28 km²
Residents : 12,426  (April 1, 2015)
Population density : 1,500 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 63456
Area code : 06181
Aerial view of Steinheim
Aerial view of Steinheim

The former town of Steinheim am Main is one of the larger districts of Hanau in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district with around 13,000 inhabitants .

Steinheim is a stop on the German Half-timbered Road and is known for its old town with its restored half-timbered houses . As a starting point of the Hessian Cider Road Steinheim is popular for its celebration: on the one hand because of Steinheimer Johannis fire , now, however, which is celebrated annually on June 23 and 24 and its origins in the Germanic solstice celebration has on the eve of the feast of John the Baptist celebrated on the other hand because of the Bundesäppelwoifest on the last weekend in August.

geography

Neighboring communities

Steinheim borders in the northwest and west on Mühlheim am Main (Offenbach district), in the southwest on the Obertshausen district of Hausen, in the southeast on the Hanau district of Klein-Auheim , and, separated by the Main , on Hanau-Großauheim , in the northeast on the city center and in the north to the Hanau district of Kesselstadt , to which there was a bridge over the Main in Roman times.

Community structure

Steinheim is divided into two districts, the larger Klein-Steinheim in terms of area and the Groß-Steinheim located to the south.

View over Steinheim am Main in south-east direction

history

Gallows of the Steinheim High Court 1579
Steinheim - Excerpt from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian the Younger 1655

Prehistory and early history

Numerous archaeological finds from many prehistoric periods are known from the district of Steinheim. At the boundary to Mühlheim - mostly in the Mühlheim area - right on the southern bank of the Main there are storage areas for the Upper Paleolithic people of the Rissen group of penknife groups from around 11,500 BC, from which numerous worked stone tools could be excavated. In several places in the Steinheim district there were settlements from the Bronze Age burial mounds and the Urnfield Culture . In the forest area between Steinheim and Mühlheim-Dietesheim, around 80 graves of these Bronze Age cultures were excavated in the 20th century.

In Roman times, up to the middle of the third century AD, there was a small craftsmen and traders' center on the Steinheimer “Mainspitze”. Here, on the opposite side of the Roman military facilities and civil settlement of Hanau-Salisberg, a long-distance road from Dieburg , the ancient capital of the Civitas Auderiensium and running in the direction of Wetterau , crossed the Main on a pile bridge, with wooden posts in 1886 and 1893, a few meters below the current one Harbor basin of the Waterways and Shipping Office, were found during dredging work.

middle Ages

Klein-Steinheim or Niedersteinheim was initially probably a craft and fishing village on the Main. Around 1200, on the ridge south of the village of Klein-Steinheim, the construction of a castle (see Steinheim Castle ) began, around which a place soon developed that was called Obersteinheim or later Groß-Steinheim. The Lords of Eppstein expanded this castle into a regional center. 1320 Steinheim received from King Louis IV. , The city rights awarded. Steinheim was the main town of the Steinheim office of the same name .

Towards the end of the 14th century, however, the Lords of Eppstein were in a crisis and had to pledge the office and town of Steinheim. From 1371 half of the pledge was in the hands of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and the Lords of Hanau . In 1393 it came to the Lords of Kronberg .

Cent Steinheim

Steinheim was also the seat of a central court in the Middle Ages . This met under a seven- trunk linden tree in front of the main gate . The affiliation of the places to the central courts changed in many cases frequently, often with the change of sovereign. The original Zent Steinheim included Mühlheim, Dietesheim, Meielsheim , Lämmerspiel, Bieber, Heusenstamm, Obertshausen, Hausen, Rembrücken, Weiskirchen, Hainstadt and Klein-Auheim. In addition to this central court as the sovereign high court with the ban on blood, there were other courts in the Steinheim Cent, namely Huben Courts in Bieber, Mühlheim, Lämmerspiel, Obertshausen, Hausen and Weiskirchen as well as the Märkergericht in Bieber. A gallows was located on the Galgenberg in Steinheim, the remains of which can still be seen today. The two pillars of the gallows are approx. 5 m high and 4.3 m apart. The first written mention of the gallows was in the tithe book in 1524. The last known execution took place in the 18th century.

Modern times

In 1425 Gottfried von Eppstein sold the town and office of Steinheim for 38,000  guilders to Archbishop Konrad III. from Dhaun . From then on the Archbishop and Elector of Mainz was city ​​and sovereign.

In 1631, during the Thirty Years' War , the castle, town and office of Steinheim were confiscated by King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden as spoils of war and the descendants of Hanau Count Heinrich Ludwig (* 1609; † 1632) and Jakob Johann (* 1612; † 1636) for leave their support to the Swedish cause. This only lasted until the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634. Since both counts died soon and the Peace of Westphalia changed to the normal year 1624, Steinheim came back to Kurmainz, where it remained until 1803 when it was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the course of secularization. Darmstadt fell. After an administrative reform in 1832 it belonged to the Offenbach district .

During the period of industrialization , a cigar industry developed in Steinheim, especially when the Hanau-based company CJ Hosse set up such a business in today's Villa Stokkum . More soon followed, so that by 1890 around 600 men and women were employed in the Steinheim cigar industry. Memorabilia from this time are exhibited in the Museum Schloss Steinheim .

Steinheim am Main was not created until April 1, 1938 through the merger of the city of Groß-Steinheim and the municipality of Klein-Steinheim. 1 July 1974 at Steinheim am Main was then in the course of administrative reform in Hesse powerful state law in the city of Hanau incorporated . This also ended membership of the Offenbach district, as the city of Hanau became part of the Main-Kinzig district as part of the reform .

politics

Mayor and Mayor

The mayors of the town of Steinheim (Groß-Steinheim), the municipality of Steinheim (Klein-Steinheim), from 1938 of the common town were:

mayor

Mayor of Groß-Steinheim (until 1938)

  • Jean Busch until 1922
  • Martin Rachor 1922-1933
  • Peter Götz 1934–1937
  • Fritz Henninger (acting) 1937–1938

Mayor of Klein-Steinheim (until 1938)

  • Paul Stahl 1868–1885 and 1886–1892
  • Philipp Röder 1925–1933
  • Werner Stohmann 1933
  • Karl Rüttinger 1933–1938

Mayor of Steinheim (1938 to 1974)

  • Karl Rüttinger 1938–1945
  • Martin Rachor 1945–1948
  • Otto Struwe 1948–1954
  • Georg Royer 1954–1966
  • Willibald Sommer (CDU) 1966–1972
  • Ferdinand Jung (SPD) 1972–1974
Mayor
  • Wolfgang Sibenhorn (CDU)
  • Heinz Seidel (SPD)
  • Fritz Eberhard (SPD)
  • Jürgen Sticher (CDU) 1993-2009
  • Klaus Romeis (CDU) since 2010

badges and flags

Banner Steinheim (Main) .svg

In February 1952 the city of Steinheim am Main was granted the right to use a coat of arms and a flag by the Hessian State Ministry.

Coat of arms of Steinheim
Foundation of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the oldest known seal, which dates from the middle of the 15th century. Steinheim had come to the Archbishop of Mainz from the Lords of Eppstein in 1424 . Later seals only show the wheel with the letters  ST , but the city returned to the old design in the 19th century. The gold coat of arms shows a bishop clad in blue, holding a fallen sword in his right hand, who stands behind the silver Kurmainzer wheel .

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth.

Town twinning

Steinheim's twin town has been the French town of Francheville since 1972 . The Dutch city of Doorn was a twin town from 1970 to 2008.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Sports

  • The gymnastics club Steinheim played in the handball Bundesliga. When field handball was still played, Steinheim was always represented in the top leagues. In the 1971/72 Olympic season, the German field handball cup was played instead of a German championship. Steinheim defeated the team from Hochdorf in the final at the Opelstadion in Rüsselsheim and has been the German field handball cup winner ever since.
  • The sports club 1910 Germania Steinheim is the second largest sports club in Steinheim with more than 600 members. As SV Klein-Steinheim, the club played the first final round of the DFB Cup in 1938 . The game against 1. FC Nürnberg was almost 2: 3 lost.
  • The club TFC 1884 Steinheim played with the men's table tennis team at the end of the 1980s in the 2nd Bundesliga and currently plays in the Hessenliga - the fifth-highest division.

education

schools

Elementary schools
  • Theodor Heuss School
  • Sibling Scholl School
Sibling Scholl School
Hauptschule and Realschulen
  • Eppstein School
further training
  • August-Bebel-School of the Offenbach district, (branch)
  • GSG - Rescue Service School Steinheim
music school
  • House of Music Hanau Steinheim eV

Kindergartens

  • Catholic Kindergarten St. Nicholas
  • Catholic kindergarten St. Johann Baptist
  • Evangelical kindergarten
  • Municipal kindergarten and after-school care center at the Pfaffenbrunnen
  • Isarweg family day-care center

Personalities

Honorary citizen

As an independent town of Steinheim am Main, the municipality also had the right to award honorary degrees.

  • Georg Busch (1862–1943), second son of Georg Busch the Elder. Ä. (1823 to 1895), studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and stayed as a sculptor in Munich. He was a major Christian artist. On October 15, 1911, the peace monument he had created was unveiled in Groß-Steinheim. For this he was given honorary citizenship that day.
  • Louis Mayer-Gerngroß. The son of a Jewish butcher from Groß-Steinheim, childhood friend of the sculptor Professor Georg Busch, donated the peace monument in Groß-Steinheim to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Jewish-friendly constitution issued by Grand Duke Ludwig I. For this he was given honorary citizenship at the unveiling on October 15, 1911.
  • Hermann Cardinal Volk (1903–1988), Bishop of Mainz , who was born in Groß-Steinheim on December 27, 1903, was granted honorary citizenship on December 5, 1964.
  • Wilhelm Sattler, who worked for the CDU in the numerous local political offices, was appointed honorary councilor of the city of Steinheim for his services to local politics. Because of his commitment to the unification of Europe, he is regarded as the founder of the town twinning with Doorn (NL) and Francheville (F), he was popularly awarded the title of European Minister .
  • Leopold Imgram (July 11, 1888 to March 30, 1970). The local historian, who was born in Groß-Steinheim, published numerous works on Steinheim's history, on the fishermen's guild (1925), and two works on the history of the town (1958/62). After the Second World War, Imgram headed the Steinheim City Archives and was granted honorary citizenship of his hometown on July 14, 1964.
  • Albert Reuss (April 19, 1874 to December 22, 1956). Born in Groß Steinheim, Reuss founded the Klein-Steinheimer Heimatverein in 1929, which later became the Steinheimer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein. On June 2, 1953, he received honorary citizenship for his work.
  • Johannes (Jean) Eppert (May 21, 1883 to October 19, 1966). Was the first freely elected city fire inspector in Steinheim after the Second World War, before the volunteer fire brigade was still separated into Groß- and Klein-Steinheim. Eppert received honorary citizenship for his commitment in 1961.
  • Karl Kirstein (January 17, 1911 to May 8, 1976). The Frankfurt-born local researcher and archaeologist has published numerous works on the history of Steinheim and the Offenbach district. During excavations on the Main Arch opposite Philippsruhe Castle , he discovered an old Roman settlement in the Steinheim district. Kirstein was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Steinheim on October 3, 1972.
  • Dr. Friedrich Joseph von Eiff (December 16, 1881 to November 19, 1966). Born in Steinheim, Councilor of State until 1933, Government Councilor from 1945, published numerous works on Steinheim's history, he revived the Steinheim Midsummer bonfire on the eve of Midsummer Day and was a co-designer of the Steinheim Museum of Local History in the castle . The peace memorial, well-known beyond Steinheim's borders and donated by the former Jewish fellow citizen Steinheims Meyer-Gerngroß, was inaugurated with a speech by him in 1911 (here still as a trainee lawyer) and in 1965 when it was rebuilt, mainly by him. On December 12, 1961, he was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Steinheim.
  • Wilhelm Paul (September 12, 1893 to July 21, 1972). Was born in Schöbritz in the Czech Republic and found a second home in Steinheim after being expelled. He made a contribution to the integration of the displaced. He made a name for himself as a co-initiator of the cooperative housing construction in the Pfaffenbrunnensiedlung , in which numerous displaced persons were able to create their own homes , as evidenced by the street name after him. On December 10, 1970, Paul received honorary citizenship.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

Web links

Commons : Hanau-Steinheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics for the district on the website of the city of Hanau , accessed in March 2016.
  2. Statistics from the city of Hanau from June 2015: Population figures with main residence , accessed in March 2016.
  3. ^ Hermann-Josef Fruth: The late Paleolithic site Mühlheim-Dietesheim, Offenbach district. In: Find reports from Hessen 22/23, 1982/83 (1994), pp. 1-67.
  4. Nadine Zimmer: The "forgotten" graves of Galgenbruch and Teufelskaute. Barrow bronze and urnfield finds from Hanau-Steinheim and Mühlheim-Dietesheim. Hanauer Writings on Archeology and History 4, 2012.
  5. ^ Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War . Hanau 1886, p. 91, 593f.
  6. Leopold Imgram: history of the city Steinheim. Part II - The former Groß-Steinheim. Steinheim 1958, p. 155.
  7. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Gelnhausen, Hanau and Schlüchtern and the city of Hanau as well as the recirculation of the cities of Fulda, Hanau and Marburg (Lahn) concerning questions (GVBl. 330-26) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 149 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  8. ^ 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. 345 .
  9. Granting of the right to carry a coat of arms and a flag to the city of Steinheim am Main, Offenbach district, Darmstadt administrative district on February 14, 1952 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1952 No. 10 , p. 155 , point 208 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  10. Stadler, 1964–1971, 8 volumes.
  11. HStAD inventory R 6 C No. 267 / 1-2  In: Archive information system Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  12. Partnership ended - Hanau: Doorn and Steinheim are divorced. FR, January 10, 2009, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  13. DTS magazine , 1988/8, p. 35.