Niddatal

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '  N , 8 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
County :	Wetteraukreis
Height :	149 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.26 km 2
Residents:	9828 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	244 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	61194, 61130 (Winnerhöfe)
Primaries :	06034 (Kaichen district: 06187)
License plate :	FB, BÜD
Community key :	06 4 40 017
City structure:	4 districts
City administration address :	Hauptstrasse 2 61194 Niddatal
Website :	www.niddatal.de
Mayor :	Michael Hahn ( CDU )
Location of the city of Niddatal in the Wetterau district

Niddatal is a Hessian town in the Wetterau district . It is historically part of Upper Hesse . The Nidda flows through the city .

geography

Neighboring communities

Niddatal borders the city of Friedberg in the north, the city of Florstadt in the northeast, the municipality of Altenstadt and the city of Nidderau ( Main-Kinzig district ) in the east, and the municipality of Schöneck (Main-Kinzig district) and the city in the south Karben , and in the west to the municipality of Wöllstadt .

City structure

Niddatal consists of the districts of Assenheim (with the community-free farm group Wickstadt , which was incorporated into the city of Assenheim on April 1, 1957 ), Bönstadt , Ilbenstadt and Kaichen .

Church building

On December 1, 1970 , the city of Assenheim and the communities of Bönstadt and Ilbenstadt merged voluntarily to form the new city of Niddatal as part of the regional reform in Hesse . The village of Kaichen was added on December 31, 1971.

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council       A total of 31 seats Left : 2 SPD : 14 Greens : 3 FDP : 3 CDU : 9	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	30.1	9	39.7	12	42.3	13	39.9	12
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	44.6	14th	35.5	11	37.1	12	35.9	11
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	8.6	3	15.5	5	7.2	2	8.5	3
	FWG	Free voter community Niddatal	-	-	7.7	2	9.1	3	15.7	5
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	11.5	3	1.6	1	4.3	1	-	-
	LEFT	The left	5.2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
	total		100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31	100.0	31
	Voter turnout in%		56.9		49.0		47.2		56.6

mayor

In the mayoral election that took place on March 15, 2020, Michael Hahn (CDU) was able to prevail in the first ballot with 57.49% against 2 competitors. After the expiry of his predecessor's term of office, he took office on July 1, 2020 for a period of 6 years.

Religions

• Catholic parish St. Nikolaus in Wickstadt (for the districts: Assenheim, Bönstadt)
• Catholic parish of St. Maria, Petrus and Paulus in Ilbenstadt
• Evangelical parish of Assenheim
• Evangelical parish of Bönstadt and Kaichen
• Evangelical parish of Ilbenstadt

Educational institutions

• NABU Umweltwerkstatt Wetterau (environmental education institution)

Schools:

• Eichendorff School (elementary school with preliminary class)
• Geschwister-Scholl-Schule (elementary, secondary and secondary schools with special needs)

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Niddatal

Stone table at Kaichen

Basilica in Ilbenstadt

• Niddatal Nature and Culture Park
• In Assenheim: knowledge trail along the rivers Nidda and Wetter, Storchenweg (circular hiking trail around Assenheim with a length of 3.8 km), old town hall, castle of the Counts of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim , teaching biotope, wooded nature trail, historic old town with Protestant church, former town mill with 45 m high silo tower in the center of the village, numerous cycle paths cross in Assenheim: long-distance cycle path R4, apple wine and orchard route, Celtic cycle route, rose cycle path.
• In Bönstadt: leisure area u. a. with a large pond, fountain, long corridor
• In Kaichen: The Steinern Table , old court. As a free court it did not belong to any rule. Here jurisdiction was exercised in the name of the king. The Free Court was a blood court and dealt with crimes that could only be atoned for by the death of the accused. It was also an appeals court.
• In Ilbenstadt: The Ilbenstadt monastery was founded here by Count Gottfried von Cappenberg in 1123 as a male and female monastery (Upper and Lower Ilbenstadt). This Premonstratensian monastery is the oldest religious settlement in the Wetterau. The first provost was Antonius, a student of St. Norbert . In 1657 the monastery became an abbey . According to a legend, there was said to have been an underground passage between the men's and women's monasteries. Based on this legend, the local collection of short stories, Das Ilbenstädter Dekameron , was created in 2005 . From 1946 to 1979 the monastery housed a reformatory for girls.
• The old Ilbenstadt abbey and today's parish church of St. Maria, Petrus and Paulus is also called the Wetterau Cathedral . It was founded in 1929 by Pope Pius XI. raised to the minor basilica .
• The pilgrimage church of St. Gangolf in the lost village of Sternbach was first mentioned in a document in 778 in the so-called Beatus document.

The Jewish cemetery in Assenheim

• The Assenheim grain silo was the largest grain silo in Europe in the 1940s and part of the roller mill that was shut down in the 1970s. Even today, the 45 meter high tower, which was built on the former mill island, is used to store grain.
• At the end of the 1960s, a bunker was built as a command center for civil protection and disaster control in Frankfurt. The facility, which is no longer used, is located between the Ilbenstadt and Kaichen districts, about 300 m outside of Ilbenstadt.
• Jewish cemeteries : There are Jewish cemeteries with preserved gravestones in Assenheim and Bönstadt .

Leisure and sports facilities:

• Hessian long-distance cycle route R4
• Niddaradweg
• Hessian apple wine and orchard route

traffic

• Niddatal is connected to the RMV local transport network through the Assenheim train station . Regional trains of the DB Regio Mitte run there from Monday morning to Saturday evening almost every hour to half an hour in the direction of Friedberg and Hanau. On Sundays, the trains run in a strongly thinned out rhythm.
• The former Erbstadt-Kaichen stop, which belongs to the Bönstadt district, was given up in the 1990s due to a lack of profitability due to its distance from the two places.
• Furthermore, all parts of the city can be reached by regular bus service.

societies

• environment
  • Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), Gruppe Niddatal / Florstadt e. V.
• Communal
  • Voluntary fire brigade associations, (development associations in all parts of the city)
  • Bunker Ilbenstadt e. V.
  • Village development Kaichen (DEK) e. V.
  • Society for History, Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection Niddatal
• Culture
  • Ewaldshof eV
  • Cultural and communal (KUK) Assenheim
• Customs care
  • Assenheim Carnival Society Association Humor 1914 e. V.
  • Weiberfassenacht Kaichen eV
  • Carnival Association Bieschder "Wissegickel"
  • Assenheim shooting club
• Children and education
  • “Mäusezahn” care school run by GSS e. V.
  • Supervision school Schatzinsel e. V. of the von Eichendorff School
• music
  • Singing Association EINTRACHT Kaichen 1888 e. V.
  • Men's choir UNITY Kaichen 1908 e. V.
  • Choral society Frohsinn Assenheim
  • Kaichen choir community from both of the above Association since 2014
• Sports
  • Modellfluggruppe Kaichen e. V.
  • Football club 1963 Kaichen e. V.
  • VfR 1920 Ilbenstadt e. V.
  • TV Ilbenstadt
  • TSC Niddatal
  • SV1920 Assenheim e. V.
  • Tennis club Niddatal e. V.
  • Inline club Assenheim Rhein-Main Patriots 1999 e. V.

Web links

Commons : Niddatal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Niddatal  - travel guide

• Official website of the city of Niddatal
• "Niddatal, Wetteraukreis". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Niddatal in the Hessian Bibliography
• Literature by and about Niddatal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Link catalog on the subject of Niddatal at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Merger of the city of Assenheim and the communities of Bönstadt and Ilbenstadt in the Frieberg district to form the city of "Niddatal" on November 11, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2252 , item 2242 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).
3. ^ 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. 361 .
4. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 . 
5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
7. ↑ Election of the mayor in Niddatal on March 15, 2020. votemanager.de, March 15, 2020, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Ilbenstadt bunker