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City of Friedrichsdorf
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| Height : | 208 (194-259) m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 6108 (Dec. 31, 2013) |
| Incorporation : | August 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 61381 |
| Area code : | 06175 |
 View over Köppern from the east
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Köppern is a district of the city of Friedrichsdorf in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis , near Frankfurt am Main .
geography
The place Köppern is located in the Vordertaunus about 20 kilometers northwest of Frankfurt am Main in a richly wooded valley of the Erlenbachss . With its western boundary, Köppern borders on the Roman Limes . Neighboring places are Rosbach vor der Höhe (north), Rodheim vor der Höhe (east), Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe (southeast), the core town of Friedrichsdorf with Dillingen (south) and Wehrheim (northwest). The Erlenbachtal in the northwest, called in the course to Wehrheim Köpperner Tal , represents an important connection to the Usinger Land .
history
The oldest surviving mention of Köppern comes from the year 1269, when Count Gerhard von Eppstein gave Burchard von Printsac a fief of a watermill to "copperno" .
In 1486 Gottfried X. von Eppstein, with the consent of the feudal lord , the Hessian landgrave , sold the Homburg office and the associated villages - including Köppern - for 19,000 guilders to Count Philipp I (the younger) von Hanau-Münzenberg . The Hanau counts did not keep the office long. In 1504 Hanau was defeated in the Landshut War of Succession , Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hesse, on the other hand, stood on the side of the victors and confiscated the office. At the Diet of Worms in 1521 a settlement was reached through the mediation of Emperor Charles V : The Counts of Hanau waived their claims in return for payment of 12,000 florins.
For a long time, linen weaving and brick making were the most important branches of business alongside agriculture. Later, the manufacture of hats and the processing of leather were added. In 1901, the Frankfurt doctor Emil Sioli founded the forest hospital (specialist clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy ) that still exists today .
Starting from the old street village along the Köpperner Straße between Erlenbachbrücke and Schulstraße, the village grew in the 20th century, especially on the south side of the Erlenbach towards the railway line, this new development area is characterized by a right-angled street layout oriented towards the Chaussee to Friedrichsdorf ( planned town ). To the north of the town center, an industrial area was created that was expanded at the beginning of the 21st century ( Köppern-Nordost ).
Territorial reform
In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the former town of Friedrichsdorf and the communities were on August 1, 1972 by virtue of state law Seulberg , Köppern and Burgholzhausen before the height of today's city Friedrichsdorf together . The last mayor of Köppern, Fritz Levermann (mayor 1958 to 1972), was first councilor of Friedrichsdorf from 1972 to 1978 and later an honorary citizen of the city.
Place name
For a long time, the most likely theory was that the name was derived from the job title of the cooper , who processed the wood of the surrounding forests in the Middle Ages. The resulting settlement "bei den Küfern" was finally ground to the place name Köppern .
The newer name research finally refuted the older theory and traced the place name back to an old name of the Erlenbach in the area there. Analogous to the name of the copper in Baden-Württemberg, the name Köppern comes from pre-Germanic Kuprina or Kupria , which in turn goes back to an Indo-European basic form * keup- . This means something like “to tremble (inwardly)” and probably designates a place where the torrent of water from the stream was particularly strong.
Historical evidence of the place name:
- 1269 Copperno
- 1290-1306 Coppers
- 1310 Cůpperne
- 1317 Chůppern
- 1334 Kůppern
- 14th century Cuper
- 1487 Kopffern
- 1537 Koeppern
- 1567 Coiffern
Culture and sights
Buildings
Along Köpperner Strasse and its side streets, some half-timbered houses have been preserved from the reconstruction phase after the Thirty Years War , including the representative Köppern rectory from 1830. The Köppern Protestant parish church is located in the center of the village. The hall church was built in 1727–31 by Johann Wilhelm Detler. The master mason from Rodheim also designed and built the Protestant church in Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe. The interior of the church is decorated with ornamental art nouveau paintings and simple stucco work from the 18th century. The three bells in the roof turret with the tone sequence f 1 -as 1 -b 1 were cast in 1963 by the Rincker brothers . In accordance with this, two bells c 2 -es 2 , which were cast in 1975 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher, ring in the Catholic parish center of St. Josef .
The Erlenbachbrücke on Köpperner Strasse was built in 1826 with the Friedrichsdorf road construction.
Culture
There has been a family-owned cinema in Köppern since 1925. The first films were shown as early as 1918. The cinema has been modernized several times, and now 3D films can also be shown.
In addition, the Forum Friedrichsdorf is a community center and cultural center in Köppern which, among other things, houses a restaurant and serves as a place for regular cultural events.
Sports
The sports facility (grass and artificial turf pitch) of SV Teutonia Köppern is located at the community center. The 1st men's team (soccer) currently plays in the Hochtaunus regional league.
The tennis club Köppern eV has its facility with six courts on Wiesenweg.
TSG 1890 Köppern offers u. a. Athletics, judo, table tennis and volleyball.
Economy and Infrastructure
Two discount grocery stores , a butcher , a bakery and other shops cover the basic food supply and are supplemented by several restaurants and two petrol stations . There are several medical practices and pharmacies in the district.
education
Köppern has a primary school with around 260 pupils and around 16 teachers, as well as three day-care centers .
traffic
The A5 is to the east of the village . The B 455 originally ran through the town, but was replaced by the A 5. Since 2006, the Friedrichsdorfer relief road (L3057) has been a bypass for the place. The state road L3041 running through the Köpperner Tal is an important alternative route to the Saalburg Pass .
At the end of the village in the direction of Friedrichsdorf is the Köpperner train station , which is served by the Taunusbahn in the direction of Bad Homburg and in rush hour to Frankfurt and in the direction of Brandoberndorf . The Saalburg train station is also still in the Köppern area, but opens up the Wehrheimer Saalburg settlement and the Lochmühle amusement park .
Forest Hospital
The Köppern Forest Hospital , a specialist clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy, is located on the western edge of the village in the Köppern Valley . The traditional hospital operated until mid-2009 as the Center for Social Psychiatry Hochtaunus non-profit GmbH , today Vitos Hochtaunus non-profit GmbH .
Quartzite plant
At the western end of the Köppern valley in the direction of Wehrheim , CEMEX Kies & Splitt GmbH (a subsidiary of the globally active Cemex group) operates a large quarry in which quartzite has been mined since the end of the 19th century . While the quarry can only be seen from the ground from a certain angle from the Wetterau, it is a striking landmark from the air ⊙ . Today, 1.8 million tons of quartz gravel and grit are produced annually . Due to the high purity and the associated light color, it is a high-quality material that is used in particular in road construction. Today's mining takes place at a depth of 120 meters. Despite the daily production of 400 truck loads, the company only has 15 permanent employees, plus 15 external workers (e.g. blasting specialists). In addition to transporting timber, the plant was once one of the Taunusbahn's largest freight customers . Although the connection to the railway still exists as the successor to the earlier 600 mm field railway, ballast has not been loaded over it since 1996.
Köppern ammunition depot
The Köppern ammunition depot is located about 4 kilometers northeast of the town center . The Bundeswehr stores more than 40 kilotons of weapons and ammunition on the 254-hectare site . Although the area is located exclusively in the Wehrheim and Rosbach districts, the depot got its name because of the access road from Köppern.
Web links
- The history of Köppern on the website of the city of Friedrichsdorf.
- Köppern, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature on Köppern in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population statistics with NW ( Memento from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau. In: Knights, Counts and Princes - secular dominions in the Hessian area approx. 900-1806. (= Handbook of Hessian History. 3; = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 63). Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 211.
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II 330-18) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 227 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- ^ Karl Jäger: The place name Köppern. In: Suleburc Chronicle. Volume 14, 1983.
- ^ M. Petran-Belschner: Taunusnames - brought to speak. In: Ingrid Berg (Ed.): Heimat Hochtaunus. Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pp. 553-557.
- ^ A. Greule: German book of water names. de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-019039-7 , p. 290.
- ^ Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall : Handbook of German art monuments. Hesse. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 485 f.
- ^ History of the Köppern cinema on its website, accessed on March 24, 2014.
- ↑ Alexander Schneider: Who knew when? In: Taunus newspaper. July 30, 2008, p. 11.
- ^ Saalburg Taunus. On: weiltalbahn.de.
- ↑ Taunus quartzite movement. On: weiltalbahn.de.
- ^ Anton J. Seib: Munitionsdepot Köppern: Idyll on the powder keg. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. September 29, 2009.
