Harb

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Harb
City of Nidda
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 166  (165-170)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.37 km²
Residents : 775  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 122 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 63667
Area code : 06043

Harb is a district of Nidda in the Hessian Wetteraukreis . 420 hectares of the 637 hectares of the district are forest.

Geographical location

The place is in the northern Wetterau in the Harbwald, north of Nidda.

traffic

The federal highway 455 and the federal highway 457 meet in the village .

history

The place was already settled in the Bronze Age. In the Middle Ages, the town of Bonlant, which was first mentioned in a document in 1187, was located east of the “Södeköppels” within the district boundaries . Later this place fell desolate .

To the northeast of the village is the forester's house Glaubzahl .

Harb was first mentioned in 1935/36 when approx. 420 acres of forest east of Borsdorf were cleared for the construction of a military airfield . At the end of the Second World War , the Richthofen squadron was stationed here. On Christmas Eve 1944 at around 3 p.m., US Air Force bombers were supposed to attack the airfield. Due to a mix-up two threw against 15:00 squadrons with 26 machines total of 41.8 tons of bombs on the village Bellersheim . 13 people died there in this attack.

After 1945 the airfield was closed. The site was handed over to the Nassauische Siedlungsgesellschaft to settle the site. This Harbwald housing estate was an independent district of Borsdorf. On April 1, 1954, Harb was accepted as the 103rd independent municipality in the Büdingen district .

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipalities of Bad Salzhausen, Borsdorf, Fauerbach bei Nidda, Geiß-Nidda, Harb, Kohden, Michelnau, Ober-Lais, Ober-Schmitten, Ober-Widdersheim, Stornfels, merged on December 1, 1970 Ulfa, Unter-Schmitten, Wallernhausen and the city of Nidda to form the new city of Nidda. Harb has been part of the Wetterau district as a district of Nidda since 1972 .

Population development

Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 178 Protestant, 112 Catholic residents
Harb: Population from 1939 to 2019
year     Residents
1939
  
 7th
1946
  
 10
1950
  
 144
1956
  
 174
1961
  
 300
1967
  
 508
1970
  
 505
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
1996
  
 712
2000
  
 717
2006
  
 755
2010
  
 709
2011
  
 654
2016
  
 738
2019
  
 775
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 2000:; 2011 census

politics

The mayor is Jörg Hebbe (as of May 2016) .

Infrastructure

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Harb, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Nidda in numbers. In: Website of the city of Nidda, accessed in May 2020.
  3. ^ Karl Christian Eigenbrodt , certificates. in: AHG 2, Darmstadt 1841, pp. 117-139, no. 32.
  4. ^ Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung of November 27, 2009.
  5. ↑ Wagner, Stadtteile Nidda , p. 323 f.
  6. ↑ Amalgamation of the city of Nidda and the municipalities of Bad Salzhausen, Borsdorf, Fauerbach near Nidda, Geiß-Nidda, Harb, Kohden, Michelnau, Ober-Lais, Ober-Schmitten, Ober-Widdersheim, Stornfels, Ulfa, Unter-Schmitten, Wallernhausen in the district Büdingen on the new town "Nidda" from November 24, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 49 , p. 2290 , point 2281 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  7. ^ 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. 351 .
  8. ^ Nidda in numbers. In: website. City of Nidda, archived from the original on October 4, 2011 ; accessed in November 2011 .
  9. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  10. ↑ Local Advisory Board Horb In: Website of the city of Nidda, accessed in May 2020.

Web links

Commons : Harb  - collection of images