Niederauroff
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 Niederauroff  
City of Idstein
 
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 9 ″  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 53 ″  E
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| Height : | 285 m above sea level NHN | 
| Area : | 2.13 km² | 
| Residents : | 384 (Dec. 31, 2017) | 
| Population density : | 180 inhabitants / km² | 
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1971 | 
| Postal code : | 65510 | 
| Area code : | 06126 | 
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 View from Philippsruhe / Holdersberg Castle to Niederauroff 
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Niederauroff is a district of Idstein in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse .
Geographical location
The village is located west of Idstein in the Auroffer Grund . Highway 3274 runs through Niederauroff . Federal motorway 3 runs east of the town .
history
As Urefe inferior , the place was first mentioned in 1230/31 and belonged to the County of Nassau under Count Heinrich II . In 1939 there were 127 people living in the village.
In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Niederauroff voluntarily joined the city of Idstein on July 1, 1971 with two other municipalities. For the Niederauroff district, as for the other districts, a local district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up.
Culture and sights
- On the Holdersberg you can find the remains of Holdersberg Castle (at the Philippsruhe viewpoint), as well as the Nack ring wall .
 - The cast iron fountain in "Brunnenstraße" was possibly made in the Michelbacher Hütte and is a listed building.
 
For the cultural monuments see the list of cultural monuments in Niederauroff .
traffic
- Local public transport is provided by bus line 224 of the Rheingau-Taunus transport company .
 
Individual evidence
- ^ Niederauroff, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
 - ↑ Numbers-data-facts. In: website. City of Idtein, archived from the original ; accessed in March 2019 .
 - ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 17. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
 - ^ 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. 377 .
 - ↑ main statute. (PDF ;; 36; kB) §; 5. In: Website. City of Idstein, accessed February 2019 .
 - ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Brunnen Niederauoff In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
 
Web links
- The districts on the website of the city of Idstein.
 - Niederauroff, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
 - Literature on Niederauroff in the Hessian Bibliography