Klein-Auheim

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Klein-Auheim
City of Hanau
Former municipal coat of arms of Klein-Auheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 103  (101-108)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.71 km²
Residents : 7911  (March 31, 2019)
Population density : 908 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 63456
Area code : 06181

Klein-Auheim is a district of Hanau in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district .

geography

Klein-Auheim from the north

Klein-Auheim lies at an altitude of 104 m above sea ​​level , about 4 km south of the city center of Hanau. It borders the Steinheim district in the north-west, the Großauheim district in the north and east, the Hainburg community in the southeast, the town of Obertshausen (both Offenbach district ) in the south, and the Lämmerspiel district of the city of Mühlheim am Main in the west (Offenbach district).

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of the place could be a Euuicheim named for 806 . The naming can be found in a copy of a deed of donation from Irminrat and is copied in Codex Eberhardi . The name could be derived from the personal name Ewic . The ending -heim is typical for a town founded in Franconian times. Since the original document is not available, only the copy in a copy , it seems possible that there was a transfer error and the copyist read and transferred an original Ennicheim as Euuicheim . In Ennicheim , the entry would refer to Enkheim . Auheim was in Maingau in Franconia . In 1270, Klein- and Großauheim were first mentioned separately.

In 1255 a church is mentioned in Auheim. Their patronage lay with the apostles Peter and Paul , the church patronage with the Mainz cathedral chapter .

Klein-Auheim was in the office of Steinheim , which initially belonged to the Lords of Eppstein and, from 1371, as a pledge, half each to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and the Lords of Hanau . In 1393 the pledge came to the Lords of Kronberg . In 1425 Gottfried von Eppstein sold the Steinheim office to the Electorate of Mainz .

Historical forms of names

In documents that have been received, Klein-Auheim was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Ewichheim (806)
  • Oweheim (1062)
  • Auheim (1255)
  • Auheim to Steinheim (1343)
  • Clein Awheim (1532)
  • Auvhaim bey Stainhaim (1577)
  • Clein Awheim (1594)

Modern times

In the years from 1631 to 1634, during the Thirty Years War , King Gustav II. Adolf confiscated the office of Steinheim - and thus also Klein-Auheim - as spoils of war and endowed the later Hanau counts Heinrich Ludwig von Hanau-Münzenberg (1609–1632) and Jakob Johann von Hanau-Münzenberg (1612–1636), who were allied with him, with it. Since both counts died soon and the Peace of Westphalia changed to the normal year 1624, Klein-Auheim came back to Kurmainz, where it remained until 1803 when it was transferred to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which became the Grand Duchy of Hessen in 1806, in the course of secularization . fell. Here it belonged to the following administrative units:

Until 1968, Klein-Auheim was the headquarters of the well-known two-wheeler manufacturer Bauer .

1 July 1974 at Klein-Auheim was - as well as the neighboring Steinheim , both formerly Offenbach district - as part of the municipal reform in Hesse powerful state law in the city of Hanau incorporated . In 2006 the place, like its neighbor Großauheim , celebrates the 1200th anniversary, based on the oldest surviving mention.

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

  • 1576: 0035 families
  • 1961: 1174 Protestant (= 20.01%), 4567 Catholic (= 77.84%) residents
Klein-Auheim: Population from 1829 to 1970
year     Residents
1829
  
 662
1834
  
 733
1840
  
 850
1846
  
 957
1852
  
 1.003
1858
  
 989
1864
  
 1,077
1871
  
 1,254
1875
  
 1,403
1885
  
 1,582
1895
  
 1,948
1905
  
 2,598
1910
  
 3,015
1925
  
 3,334
1939
  
 3,883
1946
  
 4,719
1950
  
 5,037
1956
  
 5,434
1961
  
 5,867
1967
  
 6,397
1970
  
 6,978
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

religion

Klein-Auheim was traditionally Roman Catholic as it belonged to the Electorate of Mainz during the Reformation . The local Roman Catholic Church is St. Peter and Paul. The Protestant Church of the Redeemer was only consecrated on April 27, 1958.

badges and flags

Banner Klein-Auheim.svg

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Klein-Auheim

Blazon : "On the red shield, the Mainz bike with the Eppstein shield, the red rafters on a silver background."

The coat of arms of the community of Klein-Auheim in the Offenbach district was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on September 6, 1956 , and it was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth.

It combines the coat of arms of the Electorate of Mainz ( Mainzer Rad ) with that of the Eppstein rulership , to which the place used to belong.

flag

The flag of the community of Klein-Auheim was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on January 28, 1957 and is described as follows: "The community coat of arms on the white central strip of the red-white-red flag cloth."

Attractions

Natural monument

Oak with a chest height of 7.10 m (2014).

Pheasantry

Main entrance of the wildlife park and forest museum Klein-Auheim

In Klein-Auheim there is the Alte Fasanerie wildlife park , a popular destination for families and known far beyond the borders of Hanau.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

There is a primary school in Klein-Auheim, the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule . Secondary schools are available in neighboring Steinheim am Main and in the core city of Hanau .

traffic

The motorway-like federal highway 43a leads past Klein-Auheim and connects the town to the supra-regional motorway network.

Klein-Auheim has a connection to the Odenwaldbahn with the Hanau-Klein Auheim station . The Hanauer streetcar AG serves small Auheim with bus lines 4 and 6. In addition, the regional bus line 567 leads through small Auheim and offers a direct connection to Hanau Central .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the district

literature

  • Erhard Bus: daselben The people work very diligently ... . Chronicle of the history of Klein-Auheim on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the first documentary mention in 2006. 2005. 536 pp.
  • Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 , pp. 516-531.
  • Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book . Volume 1: Starkenburg. 1937, pp. 386-388.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 until the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform = Darmstädter Archivschriften 2. 1976, p. 127.
  • Georg Schäfer u. a .: Offenbach district = Volume of: Rudolf Adamy: The art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . 1885, pp. 94-96.
  • Literature about Klein-Auheim in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics for the district on the website of the city of Hanau , accessed in March 2016.
  2. ↑ Population figures Hanau, as of March 31 , 2019, accessed in August 2019.
  3. ↑ Edmund E. Stengel : Document book of the Fulda monastery = publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck 10, vol. 1, no. 521, p. 503.
  4. ↑ Peter Jüngling: Hanau-Kesselstadt - On the archeology of a parish church in Hanau = Hanau writings on archeology and history 1. Hanau, 2004, p. 26f.
  5. ↑ a b c Klein-Auheim, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War . Hanau 1886, p. 91, 593f.
  7. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Gelnhausen, Hanau and Schlüchtern and the city of Hanau as well as the recirculation of the cities of Fulda, Hanau and Marburg (Lahn) concerning questions (GVBl. 330-26) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 149 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  8. ^ 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. 345 .
  9. ↑ St. Peter and Paul Church , accessed April 7, 2012.
  10. ↑ Church history. Evangelical parish Klein-Auheim, accessed in April 2019 .
  11. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community of Klein-Auheim in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt district of September 6, 1956 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1956 No. 38 , p. 982 , point 872 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.1 MB ]).
  12. ^ Approval of a flag for the community of Klein-Auheim in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt district of January 28, 1957 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1957 no. 7 , p. 146 , point 142 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
  13. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017