Heidenrod

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Heidenrod
Heidenrod
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Heidenrod highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′  N , 8 ° 0 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Rheingau-Taunus district
Height : 475 m above sea level NHN
Area : 95.94 km 2
Residents: 7852 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 82 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 65321
Primaries : 06120, 06124, 06772, 06775
License plate : RÜD, SWA
Community key : 06 4 39 005
Community structure: 19 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 9
65321 Heidenrod
Website : www.heidenrod.de
Mayor : Volker Diefenbach ( SPD )
Location of the community Heidenrod in the Rheingau-Taunus district
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Aerial view of Heidenrod-Nauroth
Aerial view of Heidenrod-Nauroth
Rape blossom in Heidenrod
Rape blossom in Heidenrod
The Wisper in Heidenrod
Image of the Wisper in Heidenrod
Red deer in Heidenrod
Image of red deer in Heidenrod
Citizen bus of the municipality of Heidenrod.
Citizen bus of the municipality of Heidenrod.
Aerial view of the Heidenrod district Wisper.
Aerial view of the Heidenrod district Wisper
Donation of a fire truck from the municipality of Heidenrod to the city of Zastavna (Ukraine).
Donation of a fire truck from the municipality of Heidenrod to the city of Zastavna (Ukraine).
Bridge over the Wisper Canyon
Bridge over the Wisper Canyon

With almost 96 square kilometers, Heidenrod is the largest municipality in terms of area in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse and is one of the municipalities with the most districts in Hesse , 19 in number. The municipal administration is located in the largest district of Laufenselden .

Aerial view of the Wispertal
Heidenrod aerial view of the Wispertal

The municipal area is only a good square kilometer smaller than the urban area of ​​the nearby Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz . With almost 7,800 inhabitants, Heidenrod is in the middle of a district comparison between Schlangenbad and Rüdesheim am Rhein .

geography

Geographical location

Heidenrod is located in the western Hintertaunus north of the Taunushauptkamm and west of the Aar , between Koblenz and Wiesbaden , about half way between the Rhine and Lahn . The municipality extends around the high forest area of ​​the Kemeler Heide , which belongs to the ridge on which the federal road 260 known as Bäderstraße runs. The two highest villages of the western Taunus , Kemel (center at 510 m altitude) and Mappershain (center at 500 m altitude) are districts of Heidenrod. The Mappershainer Kopf , about 500 m northwest of the town of the same name, is the highest mountain in the western Hintertaunus at 548 m. Due to the altitude, a large number of streams arise in the municipality, which flow in all directions to the municipality borders and give the Heidenrod a very complex structure of watersheds . Almost every district is in a different valley or alone on a ridge between two valleys.

The source streams of the Wisper , which unite between the districts Wisper and Geroldstein, arise in the municipality to the west of the Kemel district. The Dörsbach rises in the district of Mappershain . About 60% of the municipal area consists of forest.

Neighboring communities

Heidenrod borders in the north on the communities Holzhausen an der Haide , Rettert , Berndroth , Dörsdorf , Eisighofen and Reckenroth (all Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate ), in the northeast on the community Aarbergen , in the east on the community Hohenstein , in the southeast to the city of Bad Schwalbach , in the southwest to the community of Schlangenbad and the city of Oestrich-Winkel , in the west to the city of Lorch , as well as the communities of Welterod , Strüth , Weidenbach , Diethardt and Nastätten (all in the Rhein-Lahn district).

structure

The large community of Heidenrod consists of a total of 19 districts (in brackets the respective number of residents as of November 14, 2012) and thus has the highest number of districts in Hesse alongside the city of Oberzent .

The districts are:

Algenroth (77), Dickschied (473), Egenroth (172), Geroldstein (91), Grebenroth (346), Hilgenroth (103), Huppert (525), Kemel (1,219), Langschied (238), Laufenselden (1,894), Mappershain (246), Martenroth (67), Nauroth (582), Niedermeilingen (328), Obermeilingen (93), Springen (460), Watzelhain (362), Wisper (94) and Zorn (447).

Six of the districts have no more than around one hundred inhabitants each.

For each of the previously independent municipalities, a local district with a local advisory board was established. The former community of Dickschied-Geroldstein was divided into two districts and received a local advisory council for each district.

history

Ahead of the municipal reform in Hesse had voluntarily at 31 December 1971, first 16 independent communities to a greater community under the new name Heidenrod together . Martenroth joined on July 1, 1972. The 18th former municipality of Hilgenroth was incorporated into Heidenrod on January 1, 1977 by virtue of state law . Local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were set up for all districts .

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results: compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
     
A total of 31 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 38.5 12 42.4 13 35.6 11 41.2 13
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 28.4 9 32.0 10 38.5 12 41.2 13
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 9.9 3 14.0 4th 7.3 2 8.4 2
BIH Citizens' initiative Heidenrod 18.5 6th 7.7 3 14.0 4th - -
FDP Free Democratic Party 4.7 1 3.9 1 4.6 2 5.5 2
DHP German Home Party ... The National Liberals - - - - - - 3.8 1
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 59.2 58.8 54.7 61.0

mayor

On September 22, 2013, Volker Diefenbach (SPD) was elected mayor with 53.6 percent of the vote. The turnout was 77.2 percent. He took office on January 1, 2014. On May 26, 2019, he was re-elected for a second six-year term beginning January 1, 2020.

Former mayor
  • 2002–2013: Harald Schmelzeisen (SPD)
  • 1996–2001: Friedrich Flach (CDU)

coat of arms

The municipality of Heidenrod in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis was granted a coat of arms with the following blazon by the Hessian Minister of the Interior on December 12, 1980 : Shield split: In front in a red field over two golden crossed lifting hooks a golden deer head with golden antlers with twelve ends , behind in a golden field a green fir tree with roots.

Partner communities

The community of Heidenrod maintains partnership relationships with

Culture and sights

The list of cultural monuments in Heidenrod includes 83 objects.

Infrastructure and economy

Due to the topography of the municipality, there are eight sewage treatment plants in Heidenrod. There are 18 village community centers , 15 volunteer fire brigades and 16 cemeteries to maintain. The lively club life of the Heidenroder is expressed in the number of 84 clubs. For the Geroldstein district alone, with 90 inhabitants, a new sewage treatment plant had to be built in 2011 by order of the State of Hesse for 2.5 million euros. For this reason and because there are no larger industrial sites in the municipality, Heidenrod is one of the most heavily indebted municipalities in Hesse, the fees for water, sewage and the cemetery fees are higher than in any other Hessian municipality.

traffic

The federal highway 260 crosses the municipality.

Heidenrod belongs to the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). Two bus routes connect the community with Wiesbaden in one direction and Nastätten or Katzenelnbogen in the other direction. A call taxi ensures that most of the smaller districts are connected to local public transport.

The German Limes Cycle Path leads through the Heidenroder districts of Grebenroth, Laufenselden, Huppert and Kemel . This follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

education

There are two primary schools in Heidenrod. The bat school in the district of Laufenselden is attended by primary school students from the districts of Egenroth, Grebenroth, Huppert, Martenroth and Laufenselden, as well as by students from Reckenroth (Rhineland-Palatinate). All other students attend the Kemeler Heide primary school in Kemel.

Secondary schools are located in Aarbergen and Bad Schwalbach.

Companies

Day of the bees in Heidenrod-Mappershain.
Day of the bees in Heidenrod-Mappershain.

Janeco International GmbH in Grebenroth has been producing fortune cookies for the whole world since 1988 , up to 25 million pieces annually. In 2007, Kopp-Umwelt GmbH settled on a former military site in Kemel and turned it into a natural energy park. The company has built two 185-meter-high wind turbines , and it also operates a biomass power plant . In 2013 the company generated up to 40 million kilowatt hours annually from renewable energies and with 85 employees is the largest private employer in Heidenrod.

energy

Heidenrod wind farm with GE systems

In Heidenrod there are two wind parks with a total of 17 wind turbines and a biomass power plant. The first turbines, seven Enercon E-40 / 5.40 , were built in the Kemel district at the end of the 1990s, which were replaced from 2012 by five more modern Enercon E-101 turbines with a hub height of 135 meters and a rotor diameter of 101 meters ( repowering ). As a result, the number of turbines in the wind farm decreased, the total output increased by around four times from 3.5 to 15 megawatts. This so-called natural energy park was realized by the company Kopp-Umwelt GmbH and is operated by him.

The second wind farm in the Heidenrode area was planned and implemented after a referendum in January 2012, in which 88.2% of the Heidenrod population voted for the construction of 12 wind turbines. In March 2013, the Heidenrod wind energy company was founded, 49% of which is held by the Heidenrod municipality and 51% by Süwag Energie . The construction work for the park on the Bäderstraße in the forest began in February 2014 with the clearing work, which was followed by the laying of the paths and cable routes in March. The 30 kV electricity is fed in from the Heidenrod wind farm in the nearby Eisighofen substation , which is connected to the RWE subsidiary Westnetz via a 110 kV line . The official groundbreaking for the construction of the wind turbines took place in June by the mayor of the municipality of Heidenrod and the managing directors of the company Windenergie Heidenrod and Süwag GmbH. The wind farm was opened with a ceremony on May 30, 2015, at which the Hessian Minister of Economics Tarek Al-Wazir was also present.

The twelve wind turbines set up on Bäderstrasse in the Heidenrod wind farm are of the type GE 2.5-120 from the manufacturer GE Wind Energy GmbH from the Salzbergen plant . With a hub height of 139 meters and a rotor diameter of 120 meters, they reach a total height of 199 meters. The output of the systems is 2.5 megawatts, the total output of the park is 30 megawatts, with which around 26,000 households can be supplied with electricity. The forecast amount of energy generated per year should be around 91,000 MWh. In the first full year of operation, from April 2015 to March 2016, the systems significantly exceeded their forecast power generation. a. due to technical acceptance after commissioning and shutdowns to protect bats and birds, 97.8 million kWh fed in.

In total, renewable energies in Heidenrod provide more than 140 million kWh of green electricity per year , of which about 70% is accounted for by wind energy . This corresponds to the annual electricity requirements of approx. 26,000 three-person households. This saves around 110,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year ; an amount produced by burning more than 40,000 tons of coal.

Personalities

  • Arne Hoffmann (* 1969 in Wiesbaden), media scientist, journalist and book author, lives in Heidenrod-Springen
  • Visit of the Hessian State Chancellery in Wiesbaden
    Visit of the Hessian State Chancellery in Wiesbaden
    Christian Hock (* 1970 in Aschaffenburg), former soccer coach of SV Wehen Wiesbaden , lives in Kemel

literature

Web links

Commons : Heidenrod  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Heidenrod-Hilgenroth aerial view
Aerial view of Heidenrod-Hilgenroth

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Districts of the community Heidenrod, population HW
  3. ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Heidenrod PDF file 99 kB
  4. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , point 851 para. 5. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 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. 378 .
  6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Rheingau district and the Untertaunus district (GVBl. II 330-30) 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. 312 , § 2 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  7. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 100 kB) § 5. In: Website. Heidenrod municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  8. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  9. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  10. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  11. ↑ Direct elections in Heidenrod. Hessian State Statistical Office , accessed in January 2020 .
  12. ↑ Yearbook 2020 of the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, page 200: Heidenrod. Debate about road contributions. Volker Diefenbach remains mayor in Heidenrod.
  13. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the municipality of Heidenrod, Rhein-Taunus-Kreis dated December 12, 1980 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1981 No. 1 , p. 5 , item 11 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.1 MB ]).
  14. ^ Research into cultural monuments in Heidenrod
  15. ↑ HESSIAN ECONOMY from September 2013: Happiness comes from Heidenrod , pages 20 and 21
  16. ↑ Heidenrod: A sewage treatment plant for millions for 90 citizens - FAZ.net from July 15, 2010, accessed on June 7, 2020
  17. ↑ Heidenrod in Untertaunus: Powerlessness in the poor house - FAZ.net
  18. ↑ a b Wind farm meets expectations . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 15, 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  19. ↑ Heidenrod wind farm: electricity production exceeds expectations . In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt , June 22, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2016.