Heroes Mountains

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Heroes Mountains
City of Nidderau
Coat of arms from Heldenbergen
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 129  (118-132)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.07 km²
Residents : 6116  (2019)
Population density : 674 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 61130
Area code : 06187
The Roman Catholic Parish Church

Heldenbergen is a district of Nidderau in the Main-Kinzig district in East Hesse .

geography

Heldenbergen lies on the edge of the Wetterau on the right bank of the Nidder on the Niddertal Railway . Bundesstrasse 521 and Bundesstrasse 45 meet northwest of Heldenbergen . In the natural division of Germany (sheet 139 Frankfurt) Heldenbergen gives its name to the sub-unit 234.32 Heldenbergener Wetterau of the southern Wetterau (234.3).

history

Early history

In ancient times , several Roman highways crossed at the site of today's Heldenbergen. From the 1st century, the multi-phase Fort Heldenbergen secured the place. Towards the end of the 1st century, a civil craft settlement ( vicus ) with a regionally important pottery production was built next to the fort . After the settlement was destroyed in the course of the Germanic raids in 233, a settlement hiatus was created , which was not closed until the late 4th century when Alemannic settlers from the Bucinobanten tribe settled .

middle Ages

Oberburg Heldenbergen

The place was then continuously populated from the early Middle Ages. The oldest surviving mention of Heldenbergen comes from 839 as Helidiberga . The place belonged to the Freigericht Kaichen , which came under the rule of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg in the 15th century .

Since the late Middle Ages there have been two castles in Heldenbergen, the Oberburg and the Nassburg . The latter was demolished in the 19th century, and the upper castle remains (private property).

Early modern age

From 16./17. From the 19th century until 1938 there was a larger Jewish community in the village that had its own synagogue . The old Jewish cemetery on Kellerberg and the new Jewish cemetery on the road to Kaichen have been preserved.

In Heldenbergen, the particular law of the Kaichen Free Court, the Friedberger Police Regulations, applied . In 1679 it was renewed and printed. This is the first time that it can be put into writing. She mainly dealt with administrative , police and regulatory law . In this respect, the Solms land law remained the main source of law for the broad area of civil law . The Common Law was, moreover, if all these regulations did not contain provisions for a fact. This legal situation remained in effect in the 19th century after Heldenbergen was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . It was not until the Civil Code of January 1, 1900, which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that this old particular law was suspended.

Modern times

With the free court of Kaichen, Heldenbergen fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806.

On January 1, 1970, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the city of Nidderau was created through the voluntary amalgamation of Heldenbergen and Windecken.

Population development

 

  • 1933: 1765 inhabitants
  • 1939: 1704 inhabitants
  • 2000: 5653 inhabitants
  • 2010: 5617 inhabitants
  • 2019: 6116 inhabitants

Hessian State Statistical Office

religion

The Catholic Church of the Annunciation from 1754 is a baroque hall church with five -eighth closing in the east, a hooded roof turret in the west and rich furnishings.

The evangelical bridge church was built in 1965–68 as a tent church with a surrounding ribbon of windows, an adjoining bell tower and an adjoining parish and rectory. As part of the last renovation, Raphael Seitz created artistic glazing for 24 skylights and two newly broken windows.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on December 30, 1968 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon : "In a shield split by red and gold, the one-headed black imperial eagle with its head turned to the left."

Culture and sights

Bonifatiuskreuz on the hiking and pilgrimage route

The place is on the Bonifatius Route , a pilgrimage and hiking trail.

Personalities

  • Julius Speier (1854–1923), founder of a major German shoe company with over 40 branches, was forcibly aryanized in 1938 as HAKO shoe retailer
  • Ernst Schneider (1900–1977), entrepreneur and President of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), born in Heldenbergen
  • Karl Seifried (1914–2010), founder of the Ameropa travel agency
  • Rolf Gundlach (1931–2016), Egyptologist

Web links

Commons : Heldenbergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heldenbergen, Main-Kinzig-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 22, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 139 Frankfurt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. → Online map (PDF, 4 MB)
  3. ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Czysz : Heroes mountains in the Wetterau. Camp, fort, vicus. Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-2834-6 ( Limes research 27 ). P. 204.
  5. ^ Heinrich Reimer: Hessisches Urkundenbuch. Section 2, document book on the history of the Lords of Hanau and the former province of Hanau. Vol. 1. 767-1300. Publications from the Royal Prussian State Archives, Hirzel, Leipzig 1891 No. 27.
  6. ↑ Monica Kingreen: Jewish country life in Windecken, Ostheim, Heldenbergen. CoCon-Verlag, Hanau 1995, ISBN 3-928100-27-0 , pp. 327-339.
  7. ↑ The Jewish community of Heldenbergen
  8. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 107, as well as the enclosed map.
  9. ↑ Merger of the community of Heldenbergen in the Friedberg district and the town of Windecken in the Hanau district to form the town of "Nidderau" in the Hanau district on December 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 1 , p. 5 , point 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
  10. ↑ a b The world war was at your door - Nidderau-Heldenbergen , interest group "The world war was at your door"
  11. ↑ a b Nidderau "scratches" the 20,000 inhabitant mark , April 7, 2011, wetterauer-zeitung.de
  12. ↑ GJP (Götz J. Pfeiffer): Window by Raphael Seitz, in: Courage to design. Art funding in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel, 2013, pp. 60–61.
  13. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Heldenbergen, district Friedberg, administrative district Darmstadt dated December 30, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1969 No. 3 , p. 99 , point 78 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.1 MB ]).