Marxheim (Taunus)

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Marxheim
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Marxheim (Taunus)
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 150 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.76 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 9127  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 1,176 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1938
Postal code : 65719
Area code : 06192

Marxheim is a district of Hofheim am Taunus in the Main-Taunus district in southern Hesse . The location has grown together with the core town of Hofheim and the border between the two is no longer recognizable in the cityscape.

Geographical location

Marxheim is located on the southern edge of the Vordertaunus , which merges into the flat Taunus foreland, between Diedenbergen in the southwest, the core town of Hofheim in the north, Kriftel in the east and Weilbach in the south. The Marxheim district extends over 776.4 hectares from the Bundesautobahn 66 in the south, where it has its lowest point at the Weilbach service station (west side) on Kastengrundgraben at 121 meters, over 5 kilometers to the highest point in the north at 315 meters on state road L 3018 on the edge of the forest east of the 326 meter high Bahnholz , near the local Langenhainer Aussiedlerhöfe . The height of the local development ranges from 141 meters (southern Rheingaustraße / Eddersheimer Straße) to 209 meters at the edge of the forest on the upper Schloßstraße with the Zum Guten Hirten monastery .

history

Former vicarage in Eichstrasse
Catholic parish church of St. George

To the east of Marxheim, a Roman military camp (referred to as Hofheim III ) was found in 2006 by geomagnetic prospection ; Part of the Roman settlements around today's Hofheim.

In 1191 Marxheim, at that time still Marbodesheim , was mentioned in a document, later the spellings Marpsheim and 1366 Marpisheim are documented. Marxheim's church and towers are mentioned in 1366.

For centuries, Marxheim was an Electoral Mainz area and at the time of the Duchy of Nassau belonged to the Hochheim district . The Catholic parish church of St. Georg in the old town center of Marxheim was built from 1843 to 1845.

In 1938 Marxheim was incorporated into Hofheim. This makes Marxheim the oldest part of today's district town in the Main-Taunus district.

politics

After the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the eleven seats in the Hofheim-Marxheim local advisory council are distributed as follows:

Political party Seats Result
CDU 4th 39.8%
Green 2 22.0%
SPD 2 20.3%
FWG 2 13.4%
left 1 4.5%

Mayor: Armin Thaler (CDU)

Culture and sights

societies

  • FC 1957 Marxheim eV
  • TSG Marxheim
  • Voluntary fire brigade Marxheim
  • Tennis Club Marxheim (TC Marxheim)
  • Association for local history Marxheim eV
  • Promotion Society Maxemer Kerb eV
  • Badminton Club Hofheim (BC Hofheim - trained and based in Marxheim)
  • Association for Hofheim eV
  • Small animal breeding association Marxheim 1913 eV (KZV Marxheim 1913 eV)
  • Schützengesellschaft 1897 Marxheim eV
  • Support group football Marxheim eV
  • Maxemer eV
  • DRK local association Marxheim
  • Marxheim Carneval Association 1949 e. V.

Buildings

For the cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Hofheim am Taunus # Marxheim .

These include:

  • Pfarrer-Klarmann-Platz with Pieta from 1802 - carefully renovated (upper Schulstrasse)
  • Half-timbered chapel (lower Schulstrasse)
  • Catholic parish church St. Georg (Eichstrasse)
  • Memorial monument for the fallen in World War I (opposite Marxheim cemetery)

education

Comprehensive School Am Rosenberg

There are several schools in Marxheim:

  • Heiligenstockschule (elementary school with special needs)
  • Comprehensive School Am Rosenberg (cooperative comprehensive school with all-day school)
  • Montessori School Hofheim
  • Friedrich von Bodelschwingh School
  • Johann Hinrich Wichern School
  • Marxheim Elementary School

Personalities

  • Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966), expressionist painter and poet, lived in Marxheim from 1953 to 1963
  • Heinrich Weiss (1893–1966), trade unionist, politician (SPD) and entrepreneur

Web links

Commons : Marxheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers, data, facts: Population figures (HW). In: Internet presence of the city of Hofheim. Accessed November 2017.
  2. ↑ Topographic Map 25V, sheet 5916 Hochheim am Main
  3. ↑ Local council election 2016. City of Hofheim am Taunus, archived from the original on December 6, 2016 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  4. ^ Local Advisory Board Hofheim-Marxheim , accessed in March 2017