Nidderau

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Coat of arms of the city of Nidderau
Nidderau
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Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 8 ° 52'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Main-Kinzig district
Height : 127 m above sea level NHN
Area : 46.73 km 2
Residents: 20,601 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 441 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 61130
Area code : 06187
License plate : MKK, GN, HU , SLÜ
Community key : 06 4 35 021
LOCODE : DE NIU
City structure: 5 districts

City administration address : 		Am Steinweg 1
61130 Nidderau
Website : www.nidderau.de
Mayor : Gerhard Schultheiss ( SPD )
Location of the city of Nidderau in the Main-Kinzig district
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The city of Nidderau is located on the northeastern edge of the Rhine-Main area in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district .

Nidderau is the fifth largest city in the Main-Kinzig district.

geography

location

The city is located in the southern Wetterau and borders on the southwestern foothills of the Vogelsberg , but administratively still belongs to the Main-Kinzig district (in the 1970s district of Hanau ). The river Nidder gave the city its name. In 2007 (as in 2004 and 2005), Nidderau was the sunniest place in Hesse with 1883 hours of sunshine.

Neighboring community and districts

Nidderau borders in the west on the city of Karben , in the north-west on the city of Niddatal , in the north on the municipality Altenstadt (all Wetteraukreis ), in the east on the municipalities Limeshain (Wetteraukreis) and Hammersbach , in the south on the city Bruchköbel and in the south-west on the Community of Schöneck .

City structure

history

Urbanization

The city of Nidderau was created through the voluntary amalgamation of the city of Windecken and the municipality of Heldenbergen as part of the regional reform in Hesse on January 1, 1970. For this reason, the Nidderau city coat of arms is composed of the Windecker and Heldenberg coat of arms. On December 31, 1971, the northern places Eichen and Erbstadt joined. Most recently, by virtue of the Ostheim state law, it followed on July 1, 1974.

Population development

Residents (as of December 31, 2013: June 30)

Population development of Nidderau from 1998 to 2016
year Residents
December 31, 1998 19.051
December 31, 1999 19,512
December 31, 2000 19,689
December 31, 2001 19,922
December 31, 2002 20,036
December 31, 2003 20,061
December 31, 2004 20.208
December 31, 2005 20,130
December 31, 2006 19,972
December 31, 2007 19,932
year Residents
December 31, 2008 19,894
December 31, 2009 19,800
December 31, 2010 19,859
December 31, 2011 19,802
December 31, 2012 19,949
30th of June 2013 19,964
December 31, 2016 20.051
December 31, 2017 20,120
December 31, 2018 20,333
December 31, 2019 20,830

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 37 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 41.0 15th 40.4 15th 44.9 17th 46.7 17th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 33.0 12 29.3 11 32.7 12 31.5 12
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 12.9 5 19.0 7th 9.4 3 10.0 4th
FWG Free voter community Nidderau 13.1 5 9.5 3 9.8 4th 11.8 4th
FDP Free Democratic Party - - 1.9 1 3.3 1 - -
total 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 54.9 49.3 49.5 54.2
Town hall of the city of Nidderau

mayor

The mayor Gerhard Schultheiss (SPD), who has been in office since May 1997, received a clear majority in the mayoral election on November 30, 2014 with 60.4% of the votes.

badges and flags

Banner Nidderau.svg

coat of arms

Coat of arms Nidderau.svg

Blazon : "In the split shield in front three golden rafters in red, behind in gold a one-headed black imperial eagle at the gap."

The coat of arms was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior for the municipality of Nidderau in what was then the district of Hanau on May 4, 1971 . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The eagle comes from that of the former municipality of Heldenbergen and shows its former affiliation to the Reichsburg Friedberg . The rafters were taken from the coat of arms of the former city of Windecken and show its affiliation to the County of Hanau . The other three districts used to belong to Hanau and showed the colors red and gold in their coat of arms.

flag

The flag was approved together with the coat of arms by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and is described as follows:

"The flag shows the two colors yellow and red, in the upper third the municipal coat of arms."

Partnerships

Nidderau has had a partnership with Gehren in Thuringia since September 1st, 1991 . The Hungarian Kurd has been a so-called cooperation partner of Nidderau since March 11, 2000 .

Culture and sights

New city center

Since the amalgamation of the core towns of Windecken and Heldenbergen, there was only a sparsely populated area between the districts, so that the desire for a new town center soon arose. After long deliberations in the committees and the public, it was decided to develop an area of ​​around 13 hectares west of Konrad-Adenauer-Allee as the new town center. An approximately 11,000 square meter shopping and service center with a large parking lot was built under the name “Nidderforum”. The sales area is 6000 square meters. A prominent focal point of the central commercial area is an elevated restaurant with a distant view of Frankfurt. The other surrounding areas have been approved for construction of private homes and rental apartments with ecological standards. Construction of the center began in May 2015 and the Nidder Forum opened on June 2, 2016.

The Nidderau solar park in Windecken, which went into operation on September 1, 2019, supplies 1.3 megawatts of electricity in the initial phase. The construction costs around 2.5 million euros.

Buildings

cath. Heldenbergen Church

Economy and Infrastructure

Local supply

The Nidderforum shopping and service center is located between Heldenbergen and Windecken.

traffic

Road traffic

Bundesstrasse 45 and Bundesstrasse 521 intersect in Nidderau . A western bypass for the core town of Heldenbergen / Windecken was built between 2009 and 2015, which relieves the city of through traffic, especially in the north-south direction. The entire 8.3-kilometer route was opened at the end of June 2015.

Public transport

The most important bus line is line 562, which connects Nidderau and its districts with Hanau . There were massive protests after the timetable change in 2009, which significantly increased travel times, as the Bruchköbel in the south is no longer bypassed, but crossed. There is also the MKK-45 city bus, which provides better access to the Heldenbergen district .

train

In the urban area of ​​Nidderau there are two railway lines that briefly join and then separate again. With the Nidderau train station there is a train station on the Friedberg – Hanau railway line and on the Niddertal Railway from Bad Vilbel to Glauburg-Stockheim. There are connections to Frankfurt am Main , Hanau , Friedberg (Hessen) and Stockheim (Glauburg) am Vogelsberg . There are also the three stops Nidderau-Windecken and Nidderau-Eichen on the Niddertal Railway and Ostheim (Kr Hanau) on the Friedberg-Hanau railway line.

Bike paths

The cycle path Bahnradweg Hessen leads through the districts Windecken and Eichen . It leads about 250 km on former railway lines through the Vogelsberg and the Rhön.

education

In the city of Nidderau there are four primary schools, the Ostheim primary school, the Albert Schweitzer school in Nidderau in the Heldenbergen district, the Kurt Schumacher school in Windecken and the Paul Maar school in Eichen. In addition, there is the Johann Hinrich Wichern School in the Ostheim district, a school for learning assistance and language therapy school, and in Heldenbergen, the Bertha von Suttner School, an integrated comprehensive school for grades 5 to 10.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Nidderau  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Nidderau  - travel guide

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 community of Heldenbergen in the Friedberg district and the town of Windecken in the Hanau district to form the town of "Nidderau" in the Hanau district on December 17, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 1 , p. 5 , point 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
  3. ↑ 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 , § 18 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 367 .
  5. ↑ Nidderau census and population statistics as a growth engine for the district. (No longer available online.) In: Nidderauer Newsletter Edition 13/2013. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 1, 2014 .
  6. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  7. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  8. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  9. ↑ Mayoral election in Nidderau, city. Hessian State Statistical Office , accessed in January 2019 .
  10. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Nidderau, district of Hanau, administrative district of Darmstadt from May 4, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 21 , p. 857 , point 808 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.4 MB ]).
  11. ↑ Nidderforum taking shape , Hanauer Anzeiger, October 29, 2015
  12. ↑ Solar park with the best irradiation conditions , wetterauer-zeitung.de, July 25, 2019
  13. ↑ Nidderforum