Niederdorfelden

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Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '  N , 8 ° 48'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Main-Kinzig district
Height : 110 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.53 km 2
Residents: 3936 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 603 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 61138
Area code : 06101
License plate : MKK, GN, HU , SLÜ
Community key : 06 4 35 022
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Burgstrasse 5
61138 Niederdorfelden
Website : www.niederdorfelden.de
Mayor : Klaus Büttner ( SPD )
Location of the community of Niederdorfelden in the Main-Kinzig district
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Niederdorfelden is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district in East Hesse .

geography

Niederdorfelden is located at an altitude of 111 m above sea ​​level , 4 km northeast of the city center of B ad Vilbel and 12 km northeast of the city center of Frankfurt am Main .

Niederdorfelden only encompasses a district (Gmk.-Nr. 60968) and consists of the only district Niederdorfelden.

Niederdorfelden borders the city of Karben ( Wetteraukreis ) in the north, the municipality of Schöneck in the east, the city of Maintal in the south, the independent city of Frankfurt am Main in the southwest and the city of Bad Vilbel (Wetteraukreis) in the west .

history

prehistory

The district of Niederdorfelden was also settled in prehistoric times. These living spaces were a good bit above today's village in the direction of the Große and Kleine Lohe. The Roman road from Friedberg to Fort Salisberg near Hanau-Kesselstadt crossed the Nidder near Niederdorfelden .

middle Ages

Ruins of the medieval castle Dorfelden .

The oldest written mention of Niederdorfelden comes from the Lorsch Codex , a copy of the Lorsch Monastery , and dates to the year 784. Another document from 792 assigns it to the Niddagau .

A noble family , the lords of Dorfelden, can be traced from the 12th century . They owned the Dorfelden Castle , a moated castle , of which only a few remains of walls and towers can be seen today. It originated in the 13th century on the elongated island between Nidder and Mühlgraben in the floodplain of the Nidder. The moat that completely surrounds it is almost completely preserved.

After the neighbors of the von Buchen family had died out, the von Dorfelden family inherited their property on the Kinzig in Hanau and also relocated the main focus of their politics there. In the 13th century they exchanged their family name from Dorfelden for the new one from Hanau .

In 1234, Reinhard I von Hanau and Heinrich II von Dorfelden - his uncle - agreed on the division of the inheritance of the father and brother. Reinhard I received Hanau Castle with the possessions belonging to it, Heinrich Dorfelden Castle with all its accessories. In the following years the ownership of Dorfelden changed several times. The gentlemen von Hagen-Münzenberg and later the von Falkenstein owned shares in Dorfelden. The mill belonging to the castle was first mentioned in 1266, when the imperial court chamberlain Philipp von Falkenstein gave half of the castle and the mill to the Fulda monastery as a fief . This is probably the oldest mention of a mill in the Main-Kinzig district. The water mill was on a mill ditch branching off from the Nidder. In 1960 the flour mill was shut down. Around 1288 Ulrich I von Hanau was able to buy back the estranged shares in Dorfelden.

Around 1300 a family Dorfelden reappeared , who belonged to the servants of the lords and later counts of Hanau, but were not related to them.

In 1333 the castle was given to Elector Rudolf I of Saxony-Wittenberg as a fief, who immediately gave it back to Ulrich II of Hanau as a fief. This served to create a safe “stepping stone” for the elector at the gates of Frankfurt am Main , the place where the emperor was elected.

In 1368 Ulrich III. von Hanau from Emperor Karl IV. a town charter for village heroes, in which he gave the place the freedoms and rights of Hanau. Obviously, this had no influence on the actual development of the place. In the late Middle Ages Niederdorfelden belonged to the Office Windecken the rule and from 1429 county of Hanau , according to the provincial division of 1458 to Hanau-Münzenberg .

Church history

In 1374 a chapel is mentioned which was under the patronage of St. George . In 1266 the von Falkenstein family had half the patronage rights , in 1497 the von Dorfelden family.

Historical forms of names

The Protestant Church

In documents that have survived, Niederdorfelden was mentioned under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Dorfelden, in (784–803)
  • Torvelden (around 850)
  • Dorovelden (around 1130)
  • Torvelde, de (1166)
  • Dorenfelt (1234)
  • Dorfelden (1266)
  • Doroveldin inferior (1344)
  • Großendorfelden

Early modern age

Catholic Church of St. Mary

The Reformation was gradually introduced in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg in the middle of the 16th century , initially in the Lutheran sense. In a “second Reformation”, the county's denomination was changed again: from 1597 Count Philip Ludwig II pursued a decidedly reformed church policy. He made use of the Jus reformandi , his right as sovereign to determine the denomination of his subjects, and made this largely binding for the county.

With the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736, Niederdorfelden - together with the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg - fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , from which the Electorate of Hesse emerged in 1803 .

Modern times

During the Napoleonic period, Niederdorfelden was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807 to 1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. In the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse of 1821, under which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, Niederdorfelden came to the newly formed Hanau district . In 1866 the electorate - and with it Niederdorfelden - was annexed by Prussia after the German-Austrian War . From then on it belonged to the administrative district of Kassel , where it remained until the end of the Second World War. With the establishment of the state of Hesse, Niederdorfelden with the districts of Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern became part of the Wiesbaden administrative district. Today Niederdorfelden belongs to the Darmstadt administrative district after the Wiesbaden regional council was dissolved. After the Second World War , Niederdorfelden belonged to the state of Hesse.

After the Second World War, the living conditions within the community had to be adapted to the sharply increased population. In 1957, the construction of the sewer system began and was completed in 1959. All the roads that existed at that time had to be expanded or renewed. New building areas were developed, first on Oberdorfelder Strasse between Bischofsheimer and Hanauer Strasse, then on Siedlerstrasse, Brüder-Grimm-Strasse, An der Gänsweide, Feldbergstrasse and Taunusstrasse. This meant that all free areas up to the Niddertal Railway were built on. A commercial area was designated and a new sports field was created. To complete the local drainage, a sewage treatment plant was built. In 2004, the development of the new building area "Auf dem Hainspiel" began, which is located south of the Niddertal Railway and covers approx. 14 hectares. This expanded Niederdorfelden, which at that time had around 3,000 inhabitants, to around 3,600 inhabitants. From 2017 the new building area "Am Bachgange" was developed, which closes the gap between "Auf dem Hainspiel" and the industrial area south of the Niddertalbahn. It covers around 11.2 hectares and will accommodate 500–600 residents.

In 1964, the ten-year was Mittelpunktschule completed in 1966, the fire station and the morgue , 1971, the community center with the town hall and in 1972 the kindergarten .

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1587: 30 riflemen, 18 philistines
  • 1616: 53 households
  • 1632: 31 families
  • 1707: 41 families
  • 1754: 69 families with 360 people
  • 1812: 83 fireplaces, 588 souls
Niederdorfelden: Population from 1754 to 2015
year     Residents
1754
  
 360
1812
  
 588
1834
  
 607
1840
  
 614
1846
  
 640
1852
  
 658
1858
  
 658
1864
  
 678
1871
  
 697
1875
  
 722
1885
  
 735
1895
  
 819
1905
  
 850
1910
  
 897
1925
  
 862
1939
  
 842
1946
  
 1,145
1950
  
 1,160
1956
  
 1,252
1961
  
 1,322
1967
  
 2.014
1970
  
 2,455
1972
  
 2,586
1976
  
 3,013
1984
  
 3,055
1992
  
 2.986
2000
  
 3,000
2010
  
 3,652
2015
  
 3,800
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000, 2015 :; 2010:

During the Second World War , many bombed-out people from the city of Hanau and from 1945 refugees and displaced persons had to be taken in. The population rose sharply as a result.

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1885: 0724 Protestant (= 98.50%), 11 Catholic (= 1.50%) residents
  • 1961: 1045 Protestant (= 79.05%), 247 Catholic (= 18.68%) inhabitants

politics

Community representation

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

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
   
A total of 15 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 59.3 9 47.4 7th 47.0 7th 59.1 9
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 27.4 4th 27.8 4th 30.8 5 28.7 4th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 13.3 2 24.9 4th 22.2 3 12.2 2
total 100.0 15th 100.0 15th 100.0 15th 100.0 15th
Voter turnout in% 57.6 55.8 66.6 61.6
The community center

mayor

In the mayoral election on November 20, 2011, the SPD mayor candidate Klaus Büttner was directly elected as the new mayor with 53.5% of the votes in the first ballot. He replaced Mathias Zach (Bündnis 90 / DIE GRÜNEN) who, after more than five years in the mayor's office, moved to the Main-Kinzig district as a department head on November 1, 2011.

Partner municipality

A partnership has existed with Saint-Sever in the Calvados department ( Normandy region ) since 1973 .

badges and flags

Banner Niederdorfelden.svg

coat of arms

Coat of arms Niederdorfelden.svg

Blazon : "Blue / gold boxed, in the shield head on gold the black mark D."

The coat of arms of the municipality of Niederdorfelden in what was then the district of Hanau was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on July 31, 1967 . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The D is the old place mark of Niederdorfelden.

flag

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

"The municipal coat of arms on blue with golden side stripes."

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Engelhard Arzneimittel is based in Niederdorfelden. This is an international pharmaceutical company and brand manufacturer of OTC drugs. Engelhard Arzneimittel has around 460 employees.

In addition, there are two discounters in Niederdorfelden (Norma and Tegut ), 4 beverage markets and two bank branches, the Sparkasse and the Frankfurter Volksbank .

education

There is a primary school in Niederdorfelden, the Struwwelpeterschule . Secondary schools are available in Maintal-Bischofsheim , Bad Vilbel , Nidderau and Hanau .

traffic

Niederdorfelden is on federal highway 521

In Niederdorfelden there is a train station of the Niddertalbahn , which offers connections to Frankfurt main station every 30 minutes until midday on weekdays and every hour on weekends. Niederdorfelden is also the end point of the MKK-31 bus line, which connects the town with the district town of Hanau, and the end point of the MKK-24 line, which connects the Niederdorfelden station with the Maintal West station. Due to the connection via Maintal to Frankfurt, there is a connection to Frankfurt every 30 minutes from Niederdorfelden on weekdays.

On Sundays, next to the Niddertal Railway, only call and collect taxis and the night bus to Bad Vilbel go early in the morning.

Niederdorfelden has been connected to the Rhine-Main night bus network since December 8, 2019. On weekends, there is an hourly connection from Frankfurt Konstablerwache to Niederdorfelden and an hourly connection from Niederdorfelden to Bad Vilbel on the n96 line between 1 and 4 a.m.


Special

Between Mondays and Fridays there is often a 4-kilometer traffic jam from Bad Vilbel to Niederdorfelden to the traffic light on the L3008. On some days even beyond that.

literature

Web links

Commons : Niederdorfelden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ The oil mill at the "Förderverein Ölmühle Niederdorfelden e. V. "
  3. ↑ a b c d Niederdorfelden, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ↑ Website of ZSE Immobilien GmbH
  5. ↑ In the years 1632, 1707 and 1754 the number of inhabitants in the county of Hanau was determined. The figures are reproduced here after Erhard Bus : The consequences of the great war - the west of the county of Hanau-Munzenberg after the Peace of Westphalia . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 : The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 45 (2011), ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 , pp. 277-320 (289 ff.)
  6. ^ Local elections 1972; Relevant population of the municipalities on August 4, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No.  33 , p. 1424 , point 1025 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  7. ↑ Local elections 1977; Relevant population figures for the municipalities as of December 15, 1976 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1976 No.  52 , p. 2283 , point 1668 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.3 MB ]).
  8. ^ Local elections 1985; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 30, 1984 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1984 No.  46 , p. 2175 , point 1104 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  9. ↑ local elections 1993; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 21, 1992 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1992 No.  44 , p. 2766 , point 935 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).
  10. ^ Municipal data sheet : Niederdorfelden. (PDF; 222 kB) In: Hessisches Gemeindelexikon. HA Hessen Agency GmbH ;
  11. ↑ The population of the Hessian communities on June 30, 2010. (PDF; 552 kB) Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, p. 11 , archived from the original on February 7, 2018 ; accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  12. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  13. ^ Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011. Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt
  14. ^ Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006. Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt
  15. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the community Niederdorfelden, district Hanau, administrative district Wiesbaden from July 31, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 33 , p. 1009 , item 828 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).