Hausen (Obertshausen)

Hausen City of Obertshausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 51 ″  E
Height :	111 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.82 km²
Residents :	12,672  (2007)
Population density :	2,629 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1977
Postal code :	63179
Area code :	06104
Hausen district, Lammerspiel in the foreground

Hausen ( listen ^{? / I} ) is a district of the city of Obertshausen in the Offenbach district in southern Hesse and is the seat of the city administration.

geography

Hausen lies at an altitude of 112 m above sea ​​level , about 8.5 km southeast of Offenbach.

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Hausen comes from the year 1069: At that time, King Heinrich IV allowed the St. Jakobs monastery in Mainz to clear land in the Dreieichforst . The land was near the village "Hyson" in pago Moinegowe in comitatu Gerhardi comitis (in Maingau in the county of Count Gerhard). The Lords of Hausen , a sideline of the Hagenhausen family, owned this property.

Hausen was in the office of Steinheim , which initially belonged to the Lords of Eppstein and, from 1371, as pledge, half each to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and the Lords of Hanau . In 1393 the pledge came to the Lords of Kronberg . From the Middle Ages until 1819, Hausen belonged to the Biebermark .

The local church patronage was with Joseph of Nazareth . The community initially belonged together with that of Lammerspiel zu Großsteinheim , from 1576 to the independent parish of Lammerspiel. In 1842 these two communities were each made independent.

Historical forms of names

In surviving documents, Hausen was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

• Hyson (1069)
• Husen (1223)
• Husen posterior (1287)
• Hinderhusen (1302)
• Husen (1317)
• Hausen behind the Suns (1337)
• Husin behind the suns (1339)
• Husen hindir of the suns (1397)
• Hausen in the Sunnen (1524)
• Husen hinder Simen (16th century)
• Hausen (1616)

Postcard from 1910

The name form Hausen behind the sun , under which the place was designated until the 20th century, probably goes back to the Eppsteiner time, when there were two places called Hausen in their domain. Hausen to the east was referred to as Hausen behind the sun (in the east: behind the sunrise) in contrast to Hausen in front of the sun to the west . Hausen to the west was probably not the present-day Frankfurt district of Hausen , but rather the hamlet of Hausen vor der Sonne , today a district of Hofheim am Taunus . Hausen near Frankfurt was under the rule of Eppstein for a short time, but Hausen vor der Sonne (near Hofheim) belonged to Eppstein for the longest time.

The other well-known village, Hausen, which was abandoned in the 17th century at the latest, behind the sun in the eastern Odenwald, must also have been named to distinguish it from western Hausen. Since there were two houses behind the sun at the same time, which were only forty kilometers apart, confusion should have arisen occasionally.

Modern times

In 1425 Gottfried von Eppstein sold the Steinheim office to the Electorate of Mainz . In the years 1631 to 1634, during the Thirty Years' War , King Gustav II Adolf confiscated the office as spoils of war and endowed the later Hanau Counts Heinrich Ludwig von Hanau-Münzenberg (1609–1632) and Jakob Johann von Hanau-Münzenberg (1612–1636) ) who were allied with him. Since both counts died soon and the Peace of Westphalia was based on the normal year 1624, Hausen came back to Kurmainz. The Thirty Years War and the plague epidemic of 1636 decimated the population considerably.

In 1664 Archbishop Johann Philipp von Mainz sold the villages of Hausen and Obertshausen to his brother Philipp Erwein von Schönborn for 9,000 guilders . In 1806 the princes of Isenburg-Birstein received sovereignty over the Schönborn office of Heusenstamm with Hausen. With the dissolution of the Rhine Confederation , the principality south of the Main became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . After the division of the Biebermark in 1819, shares of the market property in Hausen were assigned as a community forest. Within the Grand Duchy, Hausen belonged to the patrimonial rule of the Counts of Schönborn until 1821 and then to the following administrative units of the Grand Duchy:

• 1821: Seligenstadt district council
• 1832: Offenbach district
• 1848: Darmstadt administrative district
• 1852: Offenbach district

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on January 1, 1977, the previously independent municipalities of Obertshausen and Hausen were merged by law. The community was initially called "Hausen". On January 1, 1978, the name was changed to "Obertshausen". Both parts of the city are spatially separated from each other by federal highway 448 .

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

• 1576: 10 households

Hausen: Population from 1829 to 1970
year				Residents
1829			377
1834			444
1840			495
1846			532
1852			580
1858			572
1864			583
1871			643
1875			676
1885			807
1895			925
1905			1,175
1910			1,346
1925			1,631
1939			2,034
1946			2,804
1950			3.127
1956			3,746
1961			5,318
1967			7,926
1970			9,201
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources:

badges and flags

coat of arms

Blazon : “Shield divided by gold and red (Hanau or Schönborn). Above a green oak branch with three acorns (Bannforst Dreiech), below a silver bag (Hausen). "

The coat of arms of the then municipality of Hausen in the Offenbach district was approved by the Hessian Minister of the Interior on June 30, 1955 . It was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth.

The acorns are a reference to the earlier Dreieich Wildbann , to which Hausen belonged. The bag is a symbol for the leather industry, which used to be strongly represented in the town. The colors indicate the former local rulers: red, gold on the Counts of Hanau and red, white, green on the Counts of Schönborn . >

flag

On August 15, 1957, the Hessian Minister of the Interior approved a flag for the municipality, which is described as follows:

"On a wide, white central strip, flanked by two narrower red strips, the municipal coat of arms."

Buildings

Forest Church

• Hausener market square
• Roman Catholic St. Josef Church , Seligenstädter Strasse
• Roman Catholic St. Pius Church , Gumbertseestrasse
• Evangelical Forest Church , Schönbornstrasse

Personalities of the former community of Hausen

• Valentin Mahr (* 1908; † 1972), first full-time mayor of the municipality of Hausen from 1951 to 1971
• Pastor Peter Valentin Schwahn (* 1889; † 1964), first pastor and first honorary citizen of the Hausen community
• Marie Friederike Vetter (* 1904; † 1995), entrepreneur
• Jakob Wolf (* 1899; † 1982), co-founder of the former Ymos AG
• Ahmet Kaan (* 1999), sports journalist

literature

• Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main. (= Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies. 29) 1966, pp. 113–114, 127.
• Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book. Volume 1: Starkenburg. Historical Commission for the People's State of Hesse, Darmstadt 1937, pp. 304–305.
• Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse. With proof of district and court affiliation from 1820 to the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform . (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Volume 2.) Darmstadt 1976, p. 110.
• Georg Schäfer: Erbach district. (= Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. A: Province of Starkenburg. Volume 1) Darmstadt 1891, pp. 70–71.
• Dagmar Söder: Offenbach district (= monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse. ) Braunschweig 1987, pp. 236–239.
• Literature about Hausen in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

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

• From the story of Obertshausen
• Hausen, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hausen, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 14, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ https://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/xsrec/id/14120/current/1/sn/ol?q=YToxOntzOjg6ImdlbWVpbmRlIjtzOjEyOiJPYmVydHNoYXVzZW4iO30%3D Ortslexikon Hessen
3. ↑ https://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/idrec/sn/ol?id=43600702005 Ortlexikon Hessen
4. ^ Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War . Hanau 1886, p. 91, 593 f.
5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 316–318 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
6. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Renaming of the Hausen community 1978 Offenbach district (January 1, 1978)
7. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community of Hausen, Offenbach district of June 30, 1955 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 29 , p. 709 , point 759 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.8 MB ]).
8. ↑ Online
9. ^ Klemens Stadler : Deutsche Wappen, Volume 3 ; Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 47.
10. ↑ Approval of a flag for the municipality of Hausen in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt administrative district of August 15, 1957 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1957 no. 35 , p. 845 , item 865 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.1 MB ]).