Klein-Krotzenburg

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Klein-Krotzenburg
Community Hainburg
Coat of arms of Klein-Krotzenburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 44"  E
Height : 107 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.05 km²
Residents : 6712  (Jun 30, 2013)
Population density : 668 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Former town hall
Former town hall

Klein-Krotzenburg is a district of the municipality of Hainburg in the Offenbach district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Klein-Krotzenburg lies at an altitude of 105 m above sea ​​level , about 3 km north of Seligenstadt am Main .

history

prehistory

In Roman times a bridge crossed the Main here. Remnants of it found in the Main are exhibited in the local history museum and in the Saalburg .

middle Ages

The oldest mention of the place is to be found in a document dating back to 1175, on the occasion of a dispute between the Benedictine Abbey Seligenstadt and Mainz Peter Pen was written. The village belonged to the Auheimer Mark . It was initially owned by the Seligenstadt Abbey. In 1306 the Lords of Eppstein temporarily sold the bailiwick of Klein-Krotzenburg to Seligenstadt Monastery. In 1371 they pledged them to the lords and later counts of Hanau and sold them to the Electorate of Mainz in 1425 . Since 1489 Klein-Krotzenburg was under the sovereignty of Mainz, which assigned it to its Oberamt Steinheim , whereby it was still subordinate to the central court of the Seligenstadt monastery.

In 1330 a pastor is mentioned in the village, in 1366 a parish church is explicitly mentioned. This is in the patronage of St. Nicholas . The church patronage lay with the Seligenstadt monastery, which also provided the pastor. Middle church authorities were the archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg and the district of Rodgau .

Historical forms of names

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

  • Cruzenburch (1175)
  • Cruzenburg (1232)
  • Cruzenburch (1235)
  • Crocenborch (1287)
  • Crotzinburg (1314)
  • Crotzenburg (1330)
  • Croczenburg (1336)
  • Crutzenburg (1357)
  • Crotzenburg (1366)
  • Krotzenburg (1370)
  • Croczinburg (1420)
  • Klein Crotzenburg
  • Crotzenburg (1434)
  • Little Crotzenborg (1482)
  • Clein Crotzenberg (1487)
  • Crotzenberg inferior (1517)
  • minor villa Croczenbergk (1518)

Modern times

The population suffered greatly during the Thirty Years War . In 1632 alone, 90 residents died of the plague . At the end of the war the village fell desolate .

The abbots of the Seligenstadt monastery chose Klein-Krotzenburg as their summer residence and built a villa-like residence here at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1736 a chapel was built on Liebfrauenheide , which soon became a destination for pilgrimages .

With the secularization , Klein-Krotzenburg fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803 , which later became the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Here it belonged to the following administrative units:

On January 1, 1977, Klein-Krotzenburg was united with the municipality of Hainstadt by law to form the municipality of Hainburg as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

In 1988 the parish church of St. Nicholas burned down and was then rebuilt.

Main ferry

The first mention of a ferry can be found in the parish's birth and death books, according to which, in 1886, the deceased Valentin Brauneis recorded the profession of “fan” (= ferryman).

With increasing employment in the factories in Hanau and Großauheim, more and more people streamed from Klein-Krotzenburg to the other side of the Main in the morning. There was not yet a lock , construction only started in 1915. In the course of time, the ferry was expanded from a boat to a pontoon-like vehicle.

The first ferry crossed at another place further down the Main and was probably moved to the later location around 1896.

Klein-Krotzenburg ferry before 1901

In 1901 an iron ferry was bought, which also translated with a different mechanism. If the original ferry was pulled along a chain that ran across the Main, the new ferry was held by a steel cable that was anchored in the middle of the Main. The system is called the yaw ferry or “flying bridge”. However, due to problems with the rope over water, this ferry was soon replaced by a high-wire ferry, with which the crossing was still achieved according to the same principle with the help of the current.

In January 1917 there was a serious ferry accident in which 15 men drowned. A few meters from the bank near Großkrotzenburg, the ferry, loaded with 28 people, probably ran into an obstacle early in the morning in the dark. The force of the impact threw the crowded people together and the boat overturned. In the choir under the bell tower of the St. Nicholas Church in Klein-Krotzenburg there is a memorial plaque for those who died in the ferry accident.

In 1945 the ferry was sunk by fleeing Wehrmacht troops and then probably lifted again by the residents in autumn 1945. After the war, the ferry was still on a tightrope, but got an electric drive, which was later switched to diesel. From 1963 the first iron ferry was replaced by a new one, with which the high ropes also disappeared.

The ferry connection was finally shut down in 1999. After a stopover on the Rhine, the ferry was rebuilt and now, under the name “Sottje II”, brings holidaymakers to the campsite on the Elbe island Lühesand .

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 598 Protestant (= 14.25%), 3529 Catholic (= 84.10%) residents
Klein-Krotzenburg: Population from 1829 to 1970
year     Residents
1829
  
 860
1834
  
 921
1840
  
 1,045
1846
  
 1,123
1852
  
 1,067
1858
  
 1,204
1864
  
 1,216
1871
  
 1,475
1875
  
 1,661
1885
  
 1,742
1895
  
 1,944
1905
  
 2,188
1910
  
 2,325
1925
  
 2,453
1939
  
 2,777
1946
  
 3,396
1950
  
 3,768
1956
  
 4.118
1961
  
 4,196
1967
  
 4,657
1970
  
 5,096
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

politics

badges and flags

Banner Klein-Krotzenburg.svg

coat of arms

DEU Klein-Krotzenburg COA.svg

Blazon : "In red above a six-spoke silver wheel, below a Latin silver cross."

The coat of arms was granted to the community of Klein-Krotzenburg on November 25, 1950 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior the right to use a coat of arms. It was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth.

The talking cross has been in the seal of the village since at least the 18th century. Today it is supplemented by the Mainz wheel , as a sign of earlier membership of Kurmainz.

flag

On January 16, 1954, the Hessian Minister of the Interior approved a flag for the municipality, which is described as follows:

"The coat of arms of the community of Klein-Krotzenburg is on the white central panel of the red-white-red flag cloth."

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Parish Church of St. Nicholas

  • Half-timbered house Maingasse 10

  • Former school

  • Sculpture "Alte Schleuse" on the Main

societies

  • MSC Klein-Krotzenburg's international grass track motorcycle race for the Golden Pheasant of the Main Valley
  • Football of the SG Germania Klein Krotzenburg 1915 e. V. (Group League Frankfurt East)

traffic

Road traffic

The state road L 3065 runs through the village .

The Kreis-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft Offenbach (KVG ) acts as a local public transport company and authority in the Rhein-Main transport association in the local public transport sector .

Long-distance cycle routes

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the town. This follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

On the left bank of the Main, the Main Cycle Path and D-Route 5 ( Saar-Mosel-Main ) run over 1021 km from Saarbrücken via Trier , Koblenz , Mainz , Frankfurt am Main , Würzburg and Bayreuth to the Czech border.

literature

  • Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main = Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 29 (1966), p. 124.
  • Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book . Volume 1: Starkenburg. 1937, pp. 392-394.
  • 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 to the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform = Darmstädter Archivschriften 2. 1976, p. 128.
  • Georg Schäfer u. a .: Offenbach district = Volume of: Rudolf Adamy: The art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . 1885, pp. 97-102.
  • Dagmar Söder: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Offenbach district = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. 1987, pp. 154-163.
  • Literature on Klein-Krotzenburg in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Klein-Krotzenburg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Klein-Krotzenburg, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Hainburg.de: Daten & Statistik ( Memento from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 316–318 , § 3 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  4. ↑ a b c d Eddi Daus: Our home on the Main. 1993.
  5. ↑ Car ferries on the Main. Accessed March 9, 2013
  6. ^ Elbinsel Lühesand. Accessed on January 6, 2018
  7. ↑ Granting of the right to use a coat of arms to the community of Klein-Krotzenburg in the Offenbach a. M. of November 25, 1950 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1950 No. 50 , p. 521 , point 952 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,3 MB ]).
  8. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt , Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 114.
  9. ↑ Approval of a flag for the municipality of Klein-Krotzenburg in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt administrative district from January 16, 1954 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1954 No. 5 , p. 68 , point 73 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
  10. ^ Website of the SG Germania Klein Krotzenburg 1915 e. V