Hornau (Kelkheim)

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Hornau
Hornau coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 50 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 213 m above sea level NN
Area : 5.81 km²
Residents : 4170
Population density : 718 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1938
Postal code : 65779
Area code : 06195
Hofgut of the Gagern family and the Alte Martinskirche
New Martinskirche

Hornau is one of the six districts of Kelkheim (Taunus) in the Hessian Main-Taunus district . Hornau is the fourth largest district of Kelkheim with around 4200 inhabitants.

location

It is located in the Vortaunus , around 20 km northwest of Frankfurt am Main . Hornau lies on both sides of the Liederbach , a right tributary of the Main . To the left and right of the valley, the terrain rises partly steeply. To the north of Hornau lies forest, in the other directions there are orchards and urban development.

The development of Hornau merges directly with that of Kelkheim-Mitte in the south , and in the west it is separated from that of the Fischbach district by a strip that is only 200 meters narrow . The Königstein district of Schneidhain is about two kilometers north of Hornau, the Bad Soden district of Altenhain about one kilometer to the east.

history

It was first mentioned in a document in 874, so it can be seen as a Franconian foundation. The municipality of Hornau was merged with the villages of Kelkheim and Münster in 1938 to form the city ​​of Kelkheim. Today, Hornau is primarily an artist's district among the locals.

Infrastructure

The coat of arms of the city of Kelkheim shows ( heraldically , i.e. viewed from the wearer) the coat of arms of Hornau at the top left, a red horn on a silver background.

The center of the district is located on the Liederbach around Hornauer Straße and Rotlintallee . The most important inner city main street is the Gagernring . The federal highways 8 and 519 run on the eastern edge of Hornau .

Hornau has a station on the Königsteiner Bahn , a suburban railway line that runs from Königstein via Kelkheim and the Frankfurt-Höchst train station to Frankfurt Central Station . There are also several Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund bus routes .

Churches

There are two parishes in Hornau , the Protestant Stephanus parish in the street Am Flachsland (see Stephanuskirche (Hornau) ) and the Catholic parish of St. Martin in Rotlintallee . In addition to the Martinskirche, which is in use today, there is still the previous building from 1725, the oldest church building in the Kelkheim city area. The old Martinskirche belongs to the building complex of the Hofgut of the von Gagern family ( Heinrich von Gagern was President of the National Assembly in Frankfurt's Paulskirche in 1848/49 ). The church was built in place of a chapel mentioned in 1490. The former courtyard house, now the parsonage, dates from around 1830. The old Hornau cemetery still has numerous listed graves of the Gagerns. In 1952 the church was profaned and renovated inside and outside from 1974 to 1977. Since 1952 the new Martinskirche opposite on the other side of the brook has been used.

Gagernsteine

Opposite the church are the Gagernsteine. The Gagernsteine ​​are a reminder of the von Gagern family who lived in Hornau from 1818 to 1866. We remember Hans Christoph Freiherr von Gagern , his wife Charlotte and their ten children (of whom Friedrich , Heinrich and Maximilian became known as pioneers of liberalism).

Education and leisure

The Hornau primary school bears the name of a member of the most famous family in the area: Max-von-Gagern-Schule . On the northern edge of the district is the Am Reis sports facility , home of the local sports club TuS Hornau .

Worth seeing

For the listed cultural monuments in Hornau, see the list of cultural monuments in Hornau .

Half-timbered house from 1568

At the Liederbach lies the fox cave , which legend says the minstrel Heinrich von Ofterdingen retired to after his defeat in the war of singers on the Wartburg (1206). The Liederbach owes its name to its sad songs. In fact, at the instigation of Friedrich von Gagern, the cave was carved out of the rock in order to have a resting place for his meditations.

The core of Hornau offers a beautiful sight with cobblestones and old buildings. The oldest half-timbered house in Hornau is also located here. The building was constructed in 1568 and is privately owned.

literature

  • Gerd S. Bethke: The Knights of Hornau. in: Between Main and Taunus. MTK Yearbook 1998 , pp. 93-96
  • Gerd S. Bethke: The field names of Hornau (Main-Taunus-Kreis). Rad und Sparren, magazine of the Historisches Verein Rhein-Main-Taunus eV 38 (2008), pp. 1-47, ISSN  0342-2860

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The location on the city of Kelkheim's website , accessed in April 2016.