Kaichen (Niddatal)

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Kaichen
community Niddatal
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 19 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 151  (149–171)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.7 km²
Residents : 1093  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 142 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 61194
Area code : 06187
Depiction of the village in the Salbuch of Naumburg Monastery (1514), in the foreground Landscheider with her tools, in the background the village with the old church before the new building in the 18th century.

The Hessian village Kaichen is the smallest district of the city of Niddatal in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .

geography

Kaichen is located in the southern Wetterau in a charming landscape with forests, meadows and arable land ( natural spatial sub- unit Heldenbergener Wetterau ). northern neighbors are Ilbenstadt and Assenheim . Heldenbergen is in the south . The old town center with z. T. yet historic half-timbered buildings is located off the west of Federal Highway 45 . Quiet and hardly burdened by development traffic, the town center still reflects numerous elements of an intact village structure.

history

Kaichen was first mentioned in a document when an Anshelmus de Cochene was mentioned in 1231. The village of Kaichen belonged to the Kaichen free court of the same name , which came under the rule of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg in the 15th century .

In Kaichen, 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 force in the 19th century after Kaichen had passed 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.

A church was built as early as 1400 . A new building followed in 1737.

As part of the Kaichen Free Court, Kaichen fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806.

On December 31, 1971, Kaichen was incorporated into the just one year old town of Niddatal.

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 735 Protestant (= 76.32%), 214 Catholic (= 22.22%) inhabitants
Kaichen: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 602
1840
  
 671
1846
  
 772
1852
  
 726
1858
  
 644
1864
  
 626
1871
  
 545
1875
  
 520
1885
  
 542
1895
  
 551
1905
  
 576
1910
  
 586
1925
  
 660
1939
  
 640
1946
  
 961
1950
  
 1.002
1956
  
 957
1961
  
 963
1967
  
 975
1970
  
 1,027
2005
  
 1,079
2011
  
 1,073
2015
  
 1,081
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
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religion

The largest part of the local population professes the Protestant faith. In addition to Kaichen, the parish also includes Bönstadt. About a third of the population is Catholic and is looked after by the Catholic priest from nearby Ilbenstadt.

coat of arms

On January 10, 1967, the municipality of Kaichen in what was then the district of Friedberg was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : "In a blue shield a right-turning , red-tongued and armored golden lion ."

Culture and sights

Attractions

The most famous cultural monument of the place is the Freigericht zu Kaichen. It is popularly known as the stone table . Here until the 18th century judgments were held for crimes that could only be punished with the death of the accused. The judgments were carried out in the nearby gallows ground (gallows field) or on the execution block . The former places of execution only exist as district names.

In the south of the place are the remains of a Roman settlement. The so-called Roman fountain is still visible today as the remains of a Roman villa rustica on the site of a model airfield.

The town's handsome Protestant church, together with the old schoolhouse and the weed on the village square, form the historic town center. The current restoration of the village fountain, the Weed , is the beginning of further extensive restoration measures which are to encompass the entire town center. The most extensive project is the Friedberg Castle official building from 1782, which is called the "Old School House" due to its later use.

To the east of the Friedberg – Hanau railway line stretches the idyllic Krebsbachtal nature reserve with the Hainmühle at the foot of a wooded hill. The historic Naumburg Castle sits enthroned on the hill .

In June 2012, a "historical tour" initiated and designated by the Kaichen village development was inaugurated, which initially includes around a dozen historical sights.

  • The stone table

  • Reconstructed Roman well.

  • The Hainmühle in the Krebsbachtal

  • The lily Xanthellum v luteum

societies

  • Village development Kaichen eV
  • Football club 1963 Kaichen eV
  • Kaichen Volunteer Fire Brigade (FF Kaichen)
  • Singing Association EINTRACHT Kaichen 1888 eV
  • Singing Association UNITY Kaichen eV
  • Modellfluggruppe Kaichen eV
  • Weiberfassenacht Kaichen 1973 eV
  • Gymnastics community in 1988 Kaichen

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

former Erbstadt-Kaichen stop

Kaichen is well connected by car via Bundesstraße 45 . The B 45 leads north to Nieder-Wöllstadt (6 km), from where Frankfurt (27 km) and Friedberg (8 km) can be reached via the B 3 . The B 45 leads south to Heldenbergen (4 km), from where Frankfurt (23 km) and Hanau (15 km) are easily accessible. The closest motorway connections are Friedberg ( A 5 ) in the west and Altenstadt ( A 45 ) in the east. The Erbstadt-Kaichen stop on the Friedberg – Hanau railway line has been closed since the 1990s. The nearest train stations are in Heldenbergen (5 km) (see: Nidderau train station ) on the Friedberg – Hanau railway line and the Bad Vilbel – Glauburg-Stockheim and Nieder-Wöllstadt railway line (7 km) on the Main-Weser Railway . Hanau can be reached in under 20 minutes from Heldenbergen. The journey time from Wöllstadt to Frankfurt is around 30 minutes and to Friedberg around 5 minutes. Kaichen is also connected via the bus routes FB 06 Kaichen-Wöllstadt-Friedberg and 5902 Nidderau-Kaichen-Hanau.

Local infrastructure

The local infrastructure is appropriate to the size and rural location. In the village itself there is a kindergarten, a hairdresser and a local supply shop for everyday items. The community center offers event rooms, a bowling alley and a restaurant. A sports field, two children's playgrounds and a public barbecue area complete the local leisure offer together with over 10 active clubs.

Larger shops, comprehensive medical care, an outdoor swimming pool, a large cinema and numerous dining options are located in Heldenbergen (4 km). There are further supermarkets, medical facilities and restaurants in Assenheim (5 km) and Ilbenstadt (4 km). The elementary schools in Ilbenstadt and Assenheim as well as an all-day school with secondary and secondary school in Assenheim guarantee basic school provision.

Personalities

A local breeder named an internationally recognized lily after the place.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Inhabitants and areas. In: Internet presence. City of Niddatal, archived from the original ; accessed on June 14, 2018 . (Data from web archive)
  2. ↑ Documentation for the first mention on the website of the city of Niddatal ( Memento from February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ 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.
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 360 .
  5. ↑ a b Kaichen, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality Kaichen, district Friedberg, administrative district Darmstadt from January 10, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 5 , p. 154 , point 109 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3,4 MB ]).