Wiesbaden-Kloppenheim

Kloppenheim district of Wiesbaden
Coordinates	50 ° 5 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 20"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 40 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 20"  E
surface	5.39 km²
Residents	2298 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	426 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners	9.7% (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1928
Post Code	65207
prefix	0611
Administration address	Poststrasse 11a 65191 Wiesbaden
Website	www.wiesbaden.de
politics
Mayor	Erika Milke-Frenz ( SPD )
Deputy Mayor	Erhard Stein ( CDU )
Source: State Capital Wiesbaden: EWZ - HW on December 31, 2019 ( Memento from February 3, 2020 in the Internet Archive )

Kloppenheim is a district of the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden . The place is on the edge of the Taunus and has around 2300 inhabitants. Kloppenheim was incorporated into Wiesbaden on April 1, 1928.

location

View from the southern outskirts over Wiesbaden-Kloppenheim

The neighboring districts are starting clockwise in the north: Naurod , Auringen , Medenbach , Igstadt , Bierstadt and Hessloch .

The place is within the conservation area, the city of Wiesbaden and east of the village is the 1992 designated nature reserve Wickerbachtal at Kloppenheim .

history

View from Oberstrasse to the Protestant church

Old town hall in Oberstrasse

Franconian graves found in the area of ​​today's Bierhausweg indicate a settlement as early as the 6th and 7th centuries AD. In 927 AD under the reign of the Saxon king Heinrich I , Kloppenheim is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation. In another document, Count Drutwin bequeathed the Bleidenstadt monastery six marks in “Clopheim” and a forest with adjacent fields. Most likely, Kloppenheim was given the name "Clopheim" in Franconian times. Clopheim means "residence on the rock, on the hill". In the history of the following centuries Kloppenheim had the status of a Königssondergau.

For a long time Kloppenheim's church life was closely connected to the Bleidenstadt monastery. Today's church building dates largely from the years 1706 to 1708.

In 1927 Kloppenheim celebrated its 1000th anniversary. At that time it had 970 inhabitants. In 1928 Kloppenheim was incorporated into Wiesbaden.

On March 22, 1945, six days before the American invasion, three Soviet prisoners of war were shot to cover up the fact that one of the prisoners had been ill-treated. The case caused a stir in Kloppenheim, with the result that today there is a memorial plaque for the three murdered Soviet citizens in the Kloppenheim cemetery.

The apple variety Kloppenheimer Streifling was named after the place and was chosen as the " Hessian fruit variety of the year 2007 ".

politics

Election results for the local council

Since 1972, the local council of the Kloppenheim district has also been elected as part of the local elections in Hesse . The following distribution of seats resulted from the individual election results :

	CDU	SPD	Environmental group	FDP	total
2016	2	3	2	0	7th
2011	2	3	2	0	7th
2006	2	3	2	0	7th
2001	3	3	1	0	7th
1997	2	3	2	0	7th
1993	2	4th	1	0	7th
1989	2	4th	1	0	7th
1985	3	4th	0	0	7th
1981	2	4th	0	1	7th
1977	3	4th	0	0	7th
1972	3	4th	0	0	7th

Sons and daughters of the place

• Johann Tobias Schmidt (1755–1831), piano maker and designer of the first guillotine in France
• August Wilhelm Goebel (1883–1971), sculptor
• Erika Skrotzki (* 1949), actress

Web links

Commons : Wiesbaden-Kloppenheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kloppenheim IN the internet presence of the state capital Wiesbaden
• "Kloppenheim, City of Wiesbaden". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature on Wiesbaden-Kloppenheim in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wiesbaden in Germany , www.protectedplanet.net, accessed on April 24, 2020.
2. ↑ Ordinance on the nature reserve "Wickerbachtal bei Kloppenheim" of May 15, 1992 . In: State Gazette for the State of Hesse , No. 23, June 8, 1992, pp. 1303–7.
3. ^ Wickerbachtal bei Kloppenheim in Germany , www.protectedplanet.net, accessed on April 24, 2020.