Taunusstein

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Taunusstein
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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′  N , 8 ° 10 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Rheingau-Taunus district
Height : 393 m above sea level NHN
Area : 67.03 km 2
Residents: 30,050 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 448 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 65232
Area code : 06128
License plate : RÜD, SWA
Community key : 06 4 39 015
LOCODE : DE TSN
City structure: 10 districts

City administration address :
Aarstrasse 150 65232 Taunusstein
Website : www.taunusstein.de
Mayor : Sandro Zehner ( CDU )
Location of the city of Taunusstein in the Rheingau-Taunus district
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View from the north-west of the two districts of Hahn and Bleidenstadt

With about 30,000 inhabitants, Taunusstein is the largest city in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse , nine kilometers northwest of the state capital Wiesbaden . The seat of the city administration is in the Hahn district .

geography

Neighboring communities

Hohenstein Hünstetten Idstein
Bad Schwalbach Neighboring communities Niedernhausen
Snake bath Wiesbaden

structure

Taunusstein consists of ten districts:

district Residents
as of June 2020
Bleidenstadt 8079
Rooster 7287
Labor pains 7142
Neuhof 3490
Seitzenhahn 1347
Orlen 1206
Wingsbach 737
Niederlibbach 547
Hambach 389
Watzhahn 292
total 000000000030516.000000000030,516

history

The city of Taunusstein was created in the course of the regional reform in Hesse on October 1st, 1971 through the voluntary merger of the formerly independent communities Bleidenstadt, Hahn, Neuhof, Seitzenhahn, Watzhahn and Wehen. With the merger, Taunusstein was granted city rights. On July 1, 1972, the municipalities Hambach, Niederlibbach, Orlen and Wingsbach were in the city Taunusstein voluntarily incorporated . Local districts with local councils and local councilors were formed for all city districts .

In 1991, the Dr.-Peter-Nikolaus-Platz, named after the long-time mayor of Taunusstein, was inaugurated in the Hahn district. He is surrounded by the community center "Taunus" the Catholic Church Center of St. John Nepomuk and the new town hall and forms with the bundling of these public functions the new city center. The community center "Taunus" was opened in 1989, the church center in 1991, both designed by the Hamburg architect Bernhard Hirche , who also created the urban planning concept for the new town center. The town hall designed by the Hohenstein architect Armin Bielak, however, could not be inaugurated until 1998.

Population development

On December 31 of the respective year (until 1990 with secondary residences, thereafter only main residence)

Population development as a diagram
year 1961 1970 1972 1980 1990 2000 2001 2002 2003
Residents 9,769 16,056 20,962 27,255 29,130 28,745 28,942 29,113 29,307
year 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Residents 29,389 29,325 29.206 29,221 29,012 28,535 29,081 29,208 29,620 29,981 30,201 30.291

Religious communities

politics

City Council

The city council is the highest body of the city. Its political composition is determined every five years in local elections by the city's electorate. Whoever has reached the age of 18 and is a German citizen within the meaning of the Basic Law or a citizen of one of the other member states of the European Union may vote. Everyone has to have been registered in the city for at least three months.

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

Parties and constituencies 2016
2011
2006
2001
1997
Share a Seats Share a Seats Share a Seats Share a Seats Share a Seats
Christian Democratic Union of Germany CDU 39.9 18th 35.1 16 40.7 18th 37.1 17th 28.5 13
Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD 22.7 10 30.3 14th 30.2 14th 37.2 17th 36.9 17th
Free community of voters FWG 15.3 7th 7.5 3 8.7 4th 7.7 3 10.2 5
Alliance 90 / The Greens GREEN 12.0 5 21.1 9 14.4 6th 10.8 5 11.5 5
Free Democratic Party FDP 10.1 5 6.0 3 6.1 3 7.2 3 5.2 2
The Republicans REP - - - - - - - - 7.7 3
percentage of invalid votes 3.5 3.7 3.4 2.7 2.9
Total seats 45 45 45 45 45
voter turnout 50.4% 48.9% 46.3% 51.2% 62.1%
Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
     
A total of 45 seats
a percentage of the valid votes cast

45 city councilors and the city's local councils had to be elected for the legislative period from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2021. Of the 22,657 eligible voters, 11,411 went to the polls. As a result, the turnout increased from 48.9% in 2011 to 50.4% in 2016.

mayor

The mayor Sandro Zehner (CDU) was elected on September 22, 2013 in the first ballot with a turnout of 73.2% with 60.5% of the votes. On May 26, 2019, Zehner, who this time was the only candidate, was re-elected with 79.1%. The turnout was 58.8%.

Finances

The debt of the city of Taunusstein as of December 31, 2012 was EUR 75,664,097. This corresponds to 2669 euros per inhabitant. Taunusstein was one of the first municipalities in Germany to voluntarily introduce a so-called sustainability statute for the area of ​​urban finances, through which the city strives to prevent financial burdens on future generations and to reduce debt.

coat of arms

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The city's coat of arms shows a golden lion on a blue background, carrying a shield with a red cross on a silver background in its paws. With the golden lion, the coat of arms recalls the centuries-long rule of the Counts and Princes of Nassau and at the same time takes up the tradition of the coat of arms of the Nassau official seat of Wehen and the communities of Hahn and Seitzenhahn, all of which had a gold lion or lion's head. The cross is an attribute of St. Ferrutius , the patron saint of the Bleidenstadt monastery. This monastery was founded in the 8th century and has made great contributions to Christianity and culture in the area around the upper Aar over the centuries. The former municipality of Bleidenstadt already had this cross in its coat of arms.

The official blazon reads: "In blue a red armored golden lion, in its paws a silver shield with a continuous red cross."

Town twinning

Sign in Wingsbach

Taunusstein maintains partnership relationships with:

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

train

The Hahn-Wehen station and the Bleidenstadt stop are on the route of the Aartalbahn, which has not been in operation since 2008 . As part of the discontinued Wiesbaden Stadtbahn project , a local transport connection to the state capital was planned.

Omnibuses

The bus traffic in Taunusstein is largely planned and commissioned by the Rheingau-Taunus-Verkehrsgesellschaft . However , lines awarded by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund also touch the city.

In Taunusstein there are two transfer nodes in the integral cycle timetable , Hahn bus station and Neuhof Mitte. A journey from both nodes to Wiesbaden Central Station takes around 25 minutes.

Other lines run from the Hahn bus station in the direction of Hohenstein and Aarbergen , Bad Schwalbach and the Taunusstein districts of Seitzenhahn and Watzhahn. From Neuhof Mitte there are connections in the direction of Idstein , Niedernhausen , Orlen and an express bus to Limburg an der Lahn . Several bus lines operate between the two transfer points, which take around 20 minutes for the route.

Road traffic

Car pool in Bleidenstadt

The urban area is crossed lengthways by the B 275 . Connections to Wiesbaden are made by the B 417 (Neuhof / Wehen) and the B 54 (Hahn). The nearest motorway junction is the junction Idstein the A 3 from twelve kilometers from the district Hahn.

Taunusstein is one of the communities in which, to improve the mobility of people without a car (such as the elderly, young people), a number of passenger benches have been set up as a supplement to local public transport . This enables, for example, additional, free connections to and from Watzhahn and Bleidenstadt.

air traffic

The nearest international airport is Frankfurt am Main Airport, around 40 km away. The nearest commercial airport is the Mainz Finthen Airport is 26 km away.

Established businesses

Educational institutions

  • Rainbow School - Primary School in Bleidenstadt
  • Silberbachschule - primary school in Wehen
  • Sun school - elementary school in Neuhof
  • Integrated comprehensive school "Obere Aar" in the Hahn school center (with elementary level)
  • Taunusstein High School in Bleidenstadt
  • Vocational schools in Untertaunus in the Hahn school center
  • Obermayr Europa-Schule Taunusstein - bilingual primary school, bilingual secondary school and bilingual grammar school in Neuhof

Leisure and sports facilities

  • Stadium am Halberg in Wehen, former home stadium of the 1st team of SV Wehen
  • Outdoor swimming pool in Hahn
  • Silberbachhalle in labor
  • Aartalhalle in Neuhof
  • Community center / village community center in every district
  • Sports fields in Bleidenstadt, Hahn, Neuhof, Orlen, Seitzenhahn, Wehen (all artificial turf fields)
  • Sports and youth center in Bleidenstadt
  • Soccer hall in Bleidenstadt
  • Boules in Orlen and Neuhof
  • Football fields in almost every district

Culture and sights

museum

The Wehen Castle

In 1995 the Taunusstein City Museum was set up with permanent rooms in Wehen Castle . Since then, the main focus has been on a permanent exhibition on recent regional history, which also reports on the state of Taunussstein during, before and after the Second World War . These are predominantly depictions of everyday culture in the first half of the 20th century. The exhibitions in the “Art in the Castle” series, with which contemporary art, and not just the local area, is offered a forum in Taunusstein, form a second and equal pillar.

Buildings

Wehen Castle
Used, among other things, as a widow's seat and hunting lodge. The Taunussteiner Museum is located there today.
Evangelical Church Labor
Ev. Church pangs
The listed Evangelical Church Wehen was built in 1810–1812 using stones from the old city fortifications (city wall, Obertorturm) on the site of the former princely hunting arsenal according to plans by the ducal Nassau building director Carl Florian Goetz from Wiesbaden . The historic Voigt organ of the Ev. The Wehen church is one of the few original instruments made by the Wiesbaden organ builder Heinrich Voigt . In October 1999 it was restored and returned to its original condition.
Former Wehen School
Built around 1900, a building in transition from the early days to Art Nouveau.
Former monastery with church, Bleidenstadt
(today the parish church of the Catholic parish "St. Ferrutius"). Above the main portal of the church is the statue of St. Ferrutius (patron saint) from 1718, in the building a sandstone wall tabernacle from the High Gothic period built into the choir , a baptismal font from 1696, a late Baroque figure of the Madonna and an organ with baroque renovation. Two bells from 1309 and 1411 in the tower.
Evangelical Church, Bleidenstadt
(Former Catholic parish church "St. Peter auf dem Berg", given to the new Protestant community as a church after 1530) with the oldest stone monument in the district, a grave slab of the pastor Johannes von Spangenberg, who died in 1363. The lower part of the tower is of Romanesque origin. A decorative rose window with ornaments made of sandstone is located above the entrance in the east.
Fort Zugmantel , Orlen
A former Roman cohort fort on the western Taunus section of the Upper German Limes , which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005 . The ground monument , which can still be clearly seen above ground, is located in a forest edge area of ​​Taunusstein- Orlen in the Hessian Rheingau-Taunus district .

Jewish cemetery in labor

Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery on Halberg in Wehen is about as old as the settlement itself.

In 1329, Count Gerlach von Nassau-Weilburg ordered the settlement of Jews . The tombstones from that time no longer exist. The oldest still standing is from 1694. Today there are 58 visible graves in the cemetery. Jews from Wiesbaden were also buried in the Wehner Jewish cemetery until 1749. In 1726, the Jews applied for a wall to be built around the cemetery, which, however, was prohibited because the Jewish cemetery could not be more beautiful than the Christian one. So they just dug a trench. After 1933 there were also burials, but it was forbidden to put up tombstones.

Regular events

In total there are in Taunusstein six regularly scheduled parish fairs ( notches ): The Bleischter notch that Orlener notch that Hahner notch that Weher notch and the Wings Bacher notch and the Neuhofer notch .

In addition, there is the Orlener Markt and the Weher Markt , whereby it is a tradition for the latter that the Wehner companies go to the market in the morning with their employees for a morning pint. There is also the Hahn Center Festival . There are also four Christmas markets: The Taunusstein Christmas Market , the Hahn am Forsthaus Altenstein Forest Christmas Market , the Wingsbach Christmas Market and, since 2004, the Christmas market in Orlen , the proceeds of which are donated to a good cause.

The TIGA ( Taunussteiner Industrial and Commercial Exhibition ) also takes place every two years in the even years .

Personalities

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. ↑ Taunusstein population statistics
  3. ^ 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, paragraph 7. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 377-378 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 90 kB) §; 5. In: Website. City of Taunusstein, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ^ Bernhard Hirche, architect BDA - city center Taunusstein-Mitte
  7. ↑ 1961 and 1970: census results on June 6, 1961 and May 27, 1970 including the places that were later incorporated, see 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 .
  8. ↑ As of May 2018
  9. ^ NAK Taunusstein
  10. ^ Mosque search Taunusstein
  11. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  12. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Results of the municipal elections of 2011 and 2006
  13. ↑ Hessian Statistical Office: Results of the municipal elections of 2001 and 1997
  14. ↑ https://www.hessenschau.de/politik/wahlen/direktwahlen/verbindungen-buergermeisterwahl-taunusstein-260519,direktwahl-taunusstein-100.html
  15. ↑ Federal and State Statistical Offices: Integrated Debt of the Municipalities and Municipal Associations - Proportional model calculation for the inter-municipal comparison - as of December 31, 2012 - joint publication
  16. ↑ Sustainability Statutes of the City of Taunusstein , accessed on August 30, 2014
  17. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church Wehen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  18. ↑ Wehen Jewish cemetery .  Jewish graves in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  19. ^ Jewish cemeteries in the Rheingau-Taunus district of Alemannia Judaica - Working group for research into the history of Jews in southern Germany and the surrounding area

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