Karben

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Karben (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 8 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
County :	Wetteraukreis
Height :	117 m above sea level NHN
Area :	43.94 km 2
Residents:	22,436 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	511 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	61184
Primaries :	06039, 06034
License plate :	FB, BÜD
Community key :	06 4 40 012
City structure:	7 districts
City administration address :	Rathausplatz 1 61184 Karben
Website :	www.karben.de
Mayor :	Guido Rahn ( CDU )
Location of the city of Karben in the Wetterau district

Karben is a town in the Wetterau district in Hesse . It is located about 15 kilometers northeast of Frankfurt am Main . The river Nidda runs through the districts of Okarben , Klein-Karben and Groß-Karben .

geography

Geographical location

Karben lies at an altitude of 110  m above sea level. NHN at the southern tip of the Wetterau . The city borders in the north on the municipalities of Wöllstadt and Niddatal , in the east on the city of Nidderau ( Main-Kinzig district ), in the southeast on the municipality of Schöneck (Main-Kinzig district), in the south on the municipality of Niederdorfelden (Main-Kinzig -Kreis), the city of Bad Vilbel and the independent city of Frankfurt am Main , in the west to the cities of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ( Hochtaunuskreis ) and Friedrichsdorf and in the northwest to the city of Rosbach vor der Höhe .

City structure

Karben consists of the districts of Burg-Graefenrode , Groß-Karben , Klein-Karben , Kloppenheim , Okarben , Petterweil and Rendel . Each of the seven districts has its own local council , each of which has a local mayor as chairman. The smallest district in terms of population is Burg-Graefenrode, in terms of area Kloppenheim. The largest part of the city by population is Klein-Karben, and by area again Groß-Karben.

Population in the 7 districts on December 31, 2019

district	Area (ha)	Residents
Burg-Graefenrode	466 ha	1,440
Groß-Karben	826 ha	5,071
Klein-Karben	525 ha	5,530
Kloppenheim	399 ha	2,251
Okarben	684 ha	3,246
Petterweil	678 ha	3,340
Rendel	817 ha	2.172

history

The city of Karben was created on July 1, 1970 as part of the regional reform in Hesse through the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Groß-Karben , Klein-Karben , Kloppenheim , Okarben and Rendel . The place name "Carben" is documented from the 9th century and appeared in the year 827 in dated transfers of goods to the monasteries of Lorsch , Hersfeld and Fulda . With its first documentary mention as “Rantuvilre” in 774, Rendel is the oldest part of Karben. During the Staufer period there was probably an imperial estate in what is now the district ; then there was one below the castle Münzenberg , for Freigericht Kaichen , for Friedberg and the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The Okarben district, formerly called "Akarben", was built on the site of a Roman fort .

L-shaped castle of the Teutonic Order in the Kloppenheim district

Manor house of the Leonhard Castle in Groß-Karben

In the Middle Ages two noble families can be identified who named themselves after the place: The Lords of Carben and the Dugel of Carben . Both provided several castle men and burgraves in the Reichsburg Friedberg . In the district of Kloppenheim there had been a Teutonic Order Coming since the 13th century , whose center was later formed by the Teutonic Order Castle Kloppenheim . The properties there are now popularly referred to as “Castle”, as is the property of the Leonhardi family in the Groß-Karben district. The upper castle is located in the Burg-Graefenrode district and served as the seat of the von Carben family until it died out in 1729. Hulshofen , another place between Okarben, Petterweil and Groß-Karben, became a desert in the 15th or 16th century .

The formerly independent municipality of Burg-Graefenrode was incorporated into Karben on December 31, 1971. On August 1, 1972, the further merger with the municipality of Petterweil took place . Alongside Dietzenbach and Neu-Anspach, the extensive commune was declared an exemplary development focus in the rural area just outside Frankfurt for a number of years. However, the 30,000 to 50,000 inhabitants forecast for Karben could never be reached in the following years either.

Due to the history of its origins, Karben had hardly any typical city structures until the 1990s . In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse, city planners initially expected rows of buildings from Kloppenheim to today's indoor leisure pool. Concrete brutalism was to have a major impact on the city center, car traffic in turn should run on several levels and a cable car should regulate local public transport in the city. The amalgamation of the formerly independent municipalities prevented the formation of an urban center for decades ; For a long time, residents followed their errands in the respective districts or neighboring communities such as Bad Vilbel or Hanau .

From the mid-1990s onwards, the city government promoted various urban development measures with the aim of creating a new center along Bahnhofstrasse. The implementation of concrete first projects began in 1998 with the opening of the City Center at the intersection with Robert-Bosch-Straße, in the immediate vicinity of which another shopping center was built in 2005 and 2006 with the Selzerbrunnencenter . The Luisenthaler Straße building area followed in 2010 as well as another ensemble along the city roundabout, consisting of the Rewe store, Frankfurter Volksbank branch and the “Bellevue” residential and commercial building. As of 2017, both the residential area at Taunusbrunnen and a complex for shops, restaurants, hotels and living on the triangular property diagonally opposite were built in the city's core area.

Population development

Population development of Karben from 1945 to 2015

year	Residents
1945	7,500
1961	10.157
1970	14,291
1973	17,481
1980	19,175
1990	20,640
2000	22,377
2005	22,836
2010	22,931
2014	22,509
2018	22,623
2019	23,050

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse:

• on July 1, 1970: merger of the municipalities small Karben, wholesale Karben, Kloppenheim, Okarben and Rendel to the city Karben
• on December 31, 1971: incorporation of the municipality of Burg-Graefenrode
• on August 1, 1972: merger by virtue of state law with the municipality of Petterweil

politics

City Council

From the time the city was founded, the SPD initially had absolute majorities in the city council. Between 1997 and 2006 the city parliament was supported by a parliamentary majority of a red-green coalition . From the Hessian municipal elections in 2006, there was a majority coalition of the CDU , FWG and FDP , since the Hessian municipal elections in 2016 , the CDU has an absolute majority and works without a coalition.

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

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council        A total of 37 seats Left : 1 SPD : 8 Greens : 3 FDP : 1 CDU : 21 FW : 3	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	55.5	21st	49.8	18th	42.0	15th	38.3	14th
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	21.8	8th	27.5	10	39.4	15th	47.6	18th
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	7.9	3	10.9	4th	7.3	3	7.4	3
	FW-Karben	Free community of voters Karben	8.3	3	7.3	3	7.9	3	4.1	1
	The left	The left	3.5	1	2.7	1	-	-	-	-
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	2.9	1	1.9	1	3.4	1	2.1	1
	NPD	National Democratic Party of Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5	0
	total		100.0	37	100.0	37	100.0	37	100.0	37
	Voter turnout in%		58.0		56.1		52.8		59.2

mayor

The first mayor of Karbens was Gerd Klein. His term of office ended prematurely in 1972 after almost two years after Karben was legally forced to dissolve for a short time in order to incorporate the previously independent municipality of Petterweil. Klein and Petterweil's mayor Albert Schäfer were appointed state commissioners for the transition period; later Schäfer was elected as the new mayor.

The current mayor is Guido Rahn . He was directly elected as the new mayor on September 27, 2009, and on April 1, 2010 he succeeded the Social Democrat Roland Schulz. This makes him the first Christian Democratic mayor since the city was founded. In 2016, Rahn defended his position against a candidate from the SPD .

Mayor of Karben

mayor	Political party	Term of office
Gerd Klein	SPD / ÜWG	1970-1972
Albert Schäfer	SPD	1972-1974
Paul Schönfeld	SPD	1974-1992
Detlev Engel	SPD	1992-2004
Roland Schulz	SPD	2004-2010
Guido Rahn	CDU	since April 1, 2010

Town twinning

•  Krnov , Czech Republic (since 1993)
•  Luisenthal , Germany (since 1992)
•  Ramonville-Saint-Agne , France
•  Saint-Égrève , France

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold under a blue shield head covered with three sheaves, two averted black eagle heads with red beaks and tongues .

The three sheaves were taken from the local coat of arms of Okarben, originally they come from the coat of arms of the local aristocratic family Dugel von Carben , but there in silver on a blue background and not lined up. They make the coat of arms " talking " (sheaves = carbs). The eagle heads from the coat of arms of Rendel indicate that the place (and the other parts of the city today except Petterweil) belonged to the Kaichen court in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. They are modified imperial eagles, which is explained by the fact that this free court was in the possession of the Reichsburg Friedberg for a long time .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Karben is located around 15 kilometers north of Frankfurt am Main in the urban agglomeration of Frankfurt / Rhein-Main in the middle of the Niddaaue between Taunus and Vogelsberg . The city is accessed via the Frankfurt-Gießen transport axis with Bundesstraße 3 . The closest motorway connections are Friedberg ( federal motorway 5 , junction  16) in the north and the Preungesheimer Dreieck ( federal motorway 661 , junction 8) in the south. In addition, the route of the Main-Weser Railway runs over the Karben district. The city is connected to it with the Groß Karben train station on the outskirts of the Kloppenheim district and the Okarben stop . The two closest railway stations, the main train station Frankfurt and the separation station Friedberg are, with the S-Bahn - S6 reach.

The local city ​​bus network , which includes the three bus routes 72 (Friedberg - Groß-Karben), 73 (Petterweil (partly Rosbach) - Groß-Karben) and 74 (Rendel (partly Gronau) - Groß-Karben), is connected to the regular bus service in the evening hours, in turn, supplemented by a collective call taxi . Since December 2012, a night bus line has also been connecting Karben with Bad Vilbel and Frankfurt am Main between 1:30 and 3:30 a.m. Since June 2014 there has also been an express bus line which is an extension of an existing line between Bad Homburg and Königstein and runs every 60 minutes between Karben and Bad Homburg. It opens up the connection to the neighboring municipality after the city of Frankfurt discontinued the connection to Petterweils by bus route 65 in 2011 due to a lack of passengers.

Since the 1970s, due to the relatively high load of around 15,000 vehicles per day in the narrow Bahnhofstrasse in the Groß-Karben district, a northern bypass with connection and derivation of the L3351 and K246 has been required. This project was planned and approved by the State of Hesse around 2010; however, it has not yet been placed on the urgency list. In order to accelerate the construction project, the Karbens magistrate signed a contract at the beginning of May 2012 to pre-finance the construction costs of 16.2 million euros. After the preliminary archaeological investigations, the construction work for the 3.2 kilometer long bypass could begin in early 2013. Residents in the residential areas in the north of Groß-Karben had initially resisted the project; they received a special soundproof wall from funds from the city of Karben. The northern bypass was opened to traffic on November 30, 2016 and cost 17.5 million euros.

Companies

• ContiTech Techno-Chemie GmbH, Karben plant of Continental AG
• König + Neurath , office furniture manufacturer
• Rapps Kelterei GmbH
• Continental Automotive GmbH
• Passavant & Zickwolff GmbH

education

• Kurt Schumacher School ; Comprehensive school with upper secondary school, Groß-Karben
• Selzerbach School; Elementary school, Klein-Karben
• Pestalozzi School; Elementary school, Groß-Karben
• Elementary school at the Römerbad, Okarben
• Primary school Petterweil
• Elementary school Kloppenheim
• Bad Vilbel / Karben music school
• Vocational training center South Hesse
• City library with approx. 40,000 media in a main library and three branches

Leisure and sports facilities

• Indoor leisure pool
• Stadium an der Waldhohl, with an additional soccer field since 2017
• Fitness-yourself-path
• Günter Reutzel sports field ( KSV Klein-Karben )
• Youth culture center (JuKuZ) Selzerbrunnenhof
• Keglerverein 1954 Karben e. V. (Groß-Karben)
• Shooting club 1970 Okarben e. V.
• Shooting range of the sport shooters Burg-Graefenrode
• Shooting range for handguns and long guns, as well as the archery facility of the Selzerbrunnen shooting club in Klein-Karben (SV Selzerbrunnen)
• Sports facility Burg-Graefenrode (FSG Burg-Graefenrode)
• Gym at the park in Groß-Karben (Gymnastics Community Groß-Karben 1891 eV)
• Riding facility Reitgemeinschaft Weissenburg Karben / Burg-Graefenrode district
• Scouts Gray Dragons Karben (Burg-Graefenrode)
• Riding facility at the Ludwigsbrunnen
• Riding facility at the Waldhohl
• Skate rink in Klein-Karben
• Karben model airfield
• Sports hall in Petterweil
• Sports field on the slope Kloppenheim
• Sports field Am Park Groß-Karben (until 2016)
• Sports field in Petterweil
• Sports field in Rendel
• Sports hall in Rendel

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Karben

Natural monuments

→ Main article : List of natural monuments in Karben

Rosenhang Karben

Rosenhang Karben

The Karben rose slope lies above the village at the cemetery. It is about 5000 square meters of land with old trees, on which over 700 different historical roses have been planted since 1993. The freely accessible rose slope is not a rose garden in the classic sense. The roses grow in a natural environment according to their natural habit. In many cases, the old rose varieties that have been planted only have one flowering phase per year. Especially in June, the rose slope is a sea of ​​flowers and scents. The Rose Festival has also been taking place in June since 2001.

Geological monument

Between the districts of Klein-Karben and Rendel , a geological monument ( geotope ) was erected in October 2006 by geoscientists from the University of Frankfurt, the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology, the Hessian State Office for Monument Preservation and the Karben city administration. It is a paleontological soil and cultural monument according to § 19 of the Hessian Monument Protection Act.

In the geotope you can look at the soil layers and find fossils that come from the Wetteraussee, which covered the Rhine-Main area 23 million years ago. The west-exposed slope of the geotope is partly responsible for the fact that very little loess was blown there during the last ice ages . As a result, the ground cover is very low and access to the bedrock in the subsoil is easier to reach. This is very popular with scientists because it is easy to do research there.

Personalities

• Peter Geibel (1841–1901) was born in Klein-Karben. He was a poet of the Wetterau dialect, which belongs to the Middle Hessian dialects . On the occasion of the founding of the Peter-Geibel-Apotheke in Klein-Karben (1972), the volume of poems Mein schinste Gruß d'r Wearreraa was reissued. The work, written phonetically, testifies to the dialect that was once common but has now almost disappeared. A street in Klein-Karben as well as a square with a fountain and the birthplace next to the fountain still tell of the poet.
• Heinrich Christian Flick , pastor and democrat in Petterweil (1790–1869)
• Heinrich Siesmayer (1817–1900), garden architect, grew up in Groß-Karben
• Dietrich Weise (* 1934), former soccer coach
• Karin Tietze-Ludwig (* 1941), former ARD TV announcer for the weekly drawing of the lottery numbers in the German lottery block.
• Manfred Fink (* 1958), opera singer
• Nina Hauer (* 1968), former member of the German Bundestag (1998–2009)
• Richard Wendel (1894–1971), former member of the Advisory State Committee Greater Hesse (CDU)
• Hans Jürgen Kärcher (* 1941), engineer and worldwide known telescope developer ( astronomy )

literature

• Magistrat Stadt Karben (ed.): Karben - past and present . Lilienwald Verlag, Karben 1973, ISBN 3-88004-000-1
• Michael Keller and Herfried Münkler (eds.): The Wetterau - landscape between tradition and progress . Verlag Sparkasse Wetterau, Friedberg 1990, ISBN 3-924103-06-2
• Dieter Wolf : Castles, permanent houses and palaces in the Karben area. In: Karben. History and present. Ed. Magistrat der Stadt Karben, Karben 1973, pp. 245-257. [also as a special print]
• Literature on Karben in the Hessian Bibliography
• Literature by and about Karben in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

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

• Website of the city of Karben
• Karben, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Link catalog on Karben at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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. ↑ ^{a b} data and facts. In: Karben.de. Retrieved November 11, 2018 . 
3. ↑ merger of the communities Groß-Karben Klein-Karben, Kloppenheim, Okarben and Rendel in the district of Friedberg the new municipality "Karben" and granting them the right to use the designation "city" of 19 June 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 27 , p. 1366 , item 1325 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
4. ↑ ^{a b} story. History & districts. City of Karben, accessed April 18, 2014 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} story: Rendel. District of the city of Karben since 1970. City of Karben, accessed on April 18, 2014 . 
6. ↑ History: Okarben. District of the city of Karben since 1970. City of Karben, accessed on August 3, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Oberburg: It will be exciting. In: Wetterauer Zeitung . Retrieved November 11, 2018 . 
8. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The desolations in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Volume 1: The Province of Upper Hesse. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt 1854, pp. 334–337 .
9. ↑ Hulshofen (Wüstung), Wetterau. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of September 13, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 12, 2013 . 
10. ^ History: Burg-Graefenrode. District of the city of Karben since 1971. City of Karben, accessed on April 18, 2014 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 359 to 361 .
12. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann: Karben's middle is completed. Frankfurter Neue Presse , February 27, 2014, archived from the original on April 19, 2014 ; Retrieved April 18, 2014 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} Detlef Sundermann: New growth spurt. Frankfurter Rundschau , June 6, 2012, archived from the original on April 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 24, 2014 . 
14. ↑ Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann: Even more space for great visions in Karben. Frankfurter Neue Presse , August 23, 2018, accessed on November 11, 2018 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b c} Population of the city of Karben. Archived from the original ; accessed on November 11, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Dates and facts ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ Dates and facts ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
18. ↑ Facts and Figures 2018
19. ^ City of Karben: data and facts. Retrieved July 7, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg (GVBl. II 330-19) 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. 230 , § 6 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
21. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
22. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
23. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
24. ↑ ^{a b} Bruno Rieb: History made interesting. Frankfurter Rundschau , January 26, 2010, accessed on April 21, 2014 . 
25. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: direct elections in Karben
26. ↑ Detlef Sundermann: Reduce staff. Frankfurter Rundschau , March 25, 2010, archived from the original on April 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 21, 2014 . 
27. ↑ Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann: Guido Rahn achieves sensational victory. Frankfurter Neue Presse , March 7, 2016, archived from the original on May 28, 2016 ; accessed on May 7, 2017 . 
28. ↑ Coat of arms statute of the city of Karben (version of December 13, 2013), p. 2.
29. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. Edited on behalf of the Wiesbaden State Archives by Karl E. Demandt (for Hesse) and Otto Renkhoff (for Nassau). Starke, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, No. 486.
30. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt: Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. Starke, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, No. 1057.
31. ↑ Bruno Rieb: Good for accident balance and the environment. Frankfurter Rundschau , December 10, 2012, archived from the original on April 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 23, 2014 . 
32. ↑ New express bus route Königstein - Karben from June 30th. (No longer available online.) Verkehrsverband Hochtaunus, June 27, 2014, archived from the original on January 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
33. ^ Projects in Karben - northern bypass. City of Karben, accessed January 31, 2016 . 
34. ↑ Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann: Northern bypass: The way is free! (No longer available online.) Frankfurter Neue Presse , March 28, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 7, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
35. ↑ Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann: North bypass in Karben finally open. (No longer available online.) Frankfurter Neue Presse , December 1, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 7, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
36. ↑ Hessenschau from September 19, 2017: Auto supplier Continental is planning a significant downsizing in Karben for the next five years ( Memento from April 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
37. ↑ Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann: The stadium in Karben should be ready for the second half of the season. (No longer available online.) Frankfurter Neue Presse , October 7, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 7, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
38. ↑ Dennis Pfeiffer-Goldmann: The soccer field is now a residential area. (No longer available online.) Frankfurter Neue Presse , March 18, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 7, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.