Niederreifenberg

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Niederreifenberg
commune Schmitten
Coat of arms of Niederreifenberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 38 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 35"  E
Height : 534  (498-879)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.15 km²
Residents : 1354  (2006)
Population density : 326 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Incorporated into: Reifenberg
Postal code : 61389
Area code : 06082

Niederreifenberg is a district of the Schmitten community in the Hochtaunus district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Niederreifenberg

The district of Niederreifenberg includes the highest mountain in the Taunus, the Great Feldberg. The location is about 350 meters north below the summit at 545 meters and thus below the neighboring district of Oberreifenberg .

The place Niederreifenberg lies in the Weiltal below the Weilsberg and the Hühnerberg. The state road L3025, which leads from the Red Cross to Schmitten, runs through the village . Above the village are the " tires Berger meadows ', a nature reserve consisting of become rare in the Taunus rough pastures . Without human intervention, beech forests would develop in the Taunus . The Reifenberger Meadows owe their existence to the medieval inhabitants who cleared the forest and used the areas as "Huteweiden", i.e. pastures on which the cattle grazed under the supervision of shepherds. As these meadows were not very productive due to the altitude and quality of the soil, agricultural use is no longer profitable. To maintain this - now protected as a nature reserve - habitat regular mowing is necessary to the encroachment should be avoided.

history

Memorial stone 1000 years celebration

(Nieder) reifenberg was first mentioned in a document in 950. In 1950, Mayor Magnus Buch inaugurated a memorial stone for the 1000th anniversary next to the war memorial. In the Middle Ages, the place belonged to the rule of the Hattsteiner and later that of Reifenberg . When this noble family died out, the office of Reifenberg fell to Count Waldbott von Bassenheim in 1686 . The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 regulated another change of ownership. Now the office of Reifenberg belonged to Nassau-Usingen and from 1806 to the Duchy of Nassau . The Amt Reifenberg was dissolved in 1810 and Niederreifenberg was assigned to the Amt Usingen . After the annexation by Prussia, Niederreifenberg became part of the new Usingen district in 1868 .

The predominantly Catholic Niederreifenberg was a stronghold of the center in the German Empire and the province of Hessen-Nassau . In 1887 in the local diet constituency Region Wiesbaden 1 with Carl Wolf a center MP has been selected in the diet for the first time, Wolf received 47 votes (in the Niederreifenberg DFP 32, the SPD 14 and the NLP 4). The result was even clearer in the runoff election, when Wolf 83 and his opponent received 17 votes from the SPD.

Even in the Weimar Republic , the center remained by far the strongest force. The profits of the NSDAP at the end of Weimar were also much lower here than in the Reich as a whole.

choice DNVP DVP center DDP SPD USPD KPD NSDAP Otherwise
1919 0 0 260 0 138 0 0 0 0
1920 0 4th 279 0 49 80 0 0 0
1924 (1) 5 7th 397 9 19th 4th 31 0 1
1924 (2) 5 13 295 13 33 4th 30th 2 0
1928 7th 5 244 3 76 3 1 0 34
1930 10 3 302 13 44 1 21st 54 18th
1932 (1) 4th 4th 284 2 86 0 29 99 5
1932 (2) 8th 0 241 2 53 0 16 118 3
1933 13 2 258 1 45 0 6th 162 0

After the First World War , Niederreifenberg remained under French occupation as part of the "Mainz bridgehead" and part of the Königstein district . Niederreifenberg did not return to the Usingen district as part of the reorganization of the districts in the Rhine-Main area from October 1, 1928, but became part of the Main-Taunus district . With the exception of the period from 1939 to 1945 until the regional reform in Hesse, Niederreifenberg was independent. From December 31, 1971 to August 1, 1972, there was a brief peculiarity that the municipalities of Niederreifenberg and Oberreifenberg had voluntarily merged to form the municipality of Reifenberg in order to forestall the merger with Schmitten. The municipality of Reifenberg only existed for a few months. It lost its independence on August 1, 1972 and Niederreifenberg has been part of the Schmitten community ever since .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Niederreifenberg
 Blazon : "In silver, two black, inclined, six-ended stag poles between three red inclined bars."

The coat of arms was approved on December 30, 1953 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

religion

The old Catholic baptistery was built in 1898 and expanded in 1906. The listed neo-Romanesque building made of Taunus slate was profaned in 1980 and is now used as a residential building. Since the roof turret was not suitable for supporting heavy bells for static reasons, a bell tower was built on the Johanisstein about 120 meters away in 1925. The bell was triggered electrically from the church. Even after the church was rebuilt, the bell tower is still in use.

Instead, the Catholic parish built the new church in 1980, which was consecrated to John the Baptist . The modern octagonal building is complemented by a rectory and kindergarten in the same complex.

  • Old Church (1898, expanded in 1906)

  • St. Johannes (1980), exterior

  • St. Johannes (1980), detail of the exterior

  • St. Johannes (1980), staircase to the church interior

  • St. Johannes (1980), church interior

  • Kindergarten (foundation stone 1967) near St. Johannes

Culture and sights

Buildings

For the listed buildings see the list of cultural monuments in Niederreifenberg .

Recreation

Great Feldberg

The Great Feldberg, the highest mountain in the Taunus, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, especially from the Rhine-Main area. In Oberreifenberg there are lifts for skiing and tobogganing fun. The main attraction is the nature of the Taunus and many kilometers of well-tended hiking trails.

limes

The Limes as the old border of the Roman Empire runs above Niederreifenberg over the Taunus ridge. The Kleiner Feldberg Roman fort is located in the Niederreifenberg area . The foundation walls that have been preserved give an insight into Roman history.

Weilquelle

A few hundred meters from the Roman fort is the source of the Weil brook. Adorned with wood carvings that look like Indian, the course of the Weil begins here. The spring was first taken in 1911 by the Taunus Club. The version was renewed in 1963. The memorial stone that commemorates these versions is now in Hessenpark .

  • Weilquelle

  • Weilquelle 1963

Hiking trails

A large number of hiking trails run around the Großer Feldberg and Weilsberg . Nature lovers often travel by car via the Taunus Red Cross Pass , the connection between Königstein and the Weiltal in the Niederreifenberg area .

societies

There are a number of clubs in the village that are united in the Vereinsring Reifenberg (club ring for Ober- and Niederreifenberg). A selection of these clubs:

  • FC 1953 Reifenberg (football club)
  • JFC Eintracht Feldberg (youth football club)
  • Taunus Club Niederreifenberg
  • Gymnastics and sports community Niederreifenberg (sports club)
  • VdK Niederreifenberg
  • Taunus-Haie Schmitten (diving club)

Sports

Winter sports

In 1957, with the support of US Army units stationed at Sandplacken , a ski jump was built.

Hall and sports facility

In 1968 a sports hall was built by the community, which was also used for cultural events. This hall was also used as a school gym. The hall had a large hall, several meeting rooms and a kitchen for management. The cost of the construction was about half a million DM . Attached to the hall is the firehouse of volunteer firefighters Niederreifenberg. The adjacent community-owned sports facility "An der Weilquelle" was built by American occupation forces after the Second World War. The former garbage dump was leveled with heavy equipment, creating a level surface for the sports fields.

In spring 2010 the previous hall was demolished and the Hochtaunuskreis built a modern 2-field hall as a sports hall for the clubs and the school at the same location for 6 million euros.

From 2011 to 2013 the sports facility was completely renovated. A new cabin wing, a new tartan runway, a new long jump pit and one of the most modern artificial turf pitches in Hesse were created. A large part of the costs for the renovation was borne by the five local clubs JFC Eintracht Feldberg, FC Reifenberg, SG Oberreifenberg, TSG Niederreifenberg and the development association of the Niederreifenberg elementary school. The subsidy from the community of Schmitten in the amount of € 150,000 was a political issue before the local elections in Hesse in 2011 : Mayor Kinkel appealed against the corresponding resolution of the community council, but could not prevent the construction. Together with the new, modern sports hall, people now rightly speak of the Reifenberg sports center.

  • Old Halle Niederreifenberg

  • Old hall, side view

  • Entrance area of ​​the old hall in Niederreifenberg

  • Newly built Hochtaunushalle

  • The new artificial turf pitch

Motorsport

In the region of the Großer Feldberg in the Hochtaunus, the Feldberg race , an automobile and motorcycle race , was held on various courses between 1920 and 1954 . Among other things, it led through Oberreifenberg and over the Sandplacken mountain pass .

Economy and Infrastructure

primary school

After the old school building in Hauptstrasse had become too small in 1840, a new school (today's old school) was built in Brunhildestrasse in 1912 by the architect Karl Schweighöfer from Usingen. From 1924, individual rooms in the old school were also used as the town hall. In 1973 the Niederreifenberg elementary school was organizationally merged with that in Oberreifenberg to form the Reifenberg elementary school. However, teaching continued at the two previous locations. After the Second World War, the old school was supplemented by further buildings around the schoolyard: in 1950 a building for toilets, the fire department and a meeting room for the mayor's office was built; In 1964, the introduction of the 9th school year in the pavilion was supplemented with two classrooms. The old school, which took up the thoughts of the homeland protection movement , is a listed building .

In 1998, the Hochtaunuskreis as a school authority with financial support from the Schmitten community built the new Reifenberg elementary school on the upper edge of the village. Before the Second World War, the area next to the sports facility and the village community center was used as the town's garbage dump. During construction it turned out that the soil was contaminated and had to be disposed of at great expense. Both children from Ober- and Niederreifenberg are taught in the Reifenberg elementary school. The old school has been used as the club's house since 1998 and is currently for sale.

traffic

The bus line has three stops in Niederreifenberg. Furthermore, a shuttle bus drives a total of 14 parking spaces around the Feldberg on weekends and public holidays.

Personalities

Honorary citizen (of the independent municipality of Niederreifenberg)

literature

Web links

Commons : Niederreifenberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Municipality of Schmitten: districts ( Memento from May 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Thomas Klein: The Hessians as Reichstag voters. First volume: Province of Hessen-Nassau and Waldseck-Pyrmont 1867–1933. 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0924-6 , page 545.
  3. ↑ Thomas Klein: The Hessians as Reichstag voters. Second volume, second sub-volume: Province of Hessen-Nassau and Waldseck-Pyrmont 1867–1933. 1995, ISBN 3-7708-1006-6 , pages 1486-1508, 1856-1864.
  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. 370 .
  5. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, p. 272.
  6. ↑ Approval to carry a coat of arms to the community of Klein-Welzheim in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt administrative district of December 30, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1954 No. 4 , p. 45 , point 44 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.8 MB ]).
  7. ↑ See internet chronicle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Catholic parish of Usingen / Niederreifenberg; Béatrice Träger: History and stories from the large community of Schmitten im Taunus. ed. from the community of Schmitten / Aktion Schmitten e. V., trade, craft and trade, Usingen 1998.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kath-usingerland.de  
  8. ↑ Home calendar for the Main-Taunus-Kreis 1953, page 26.
  9. ↑ From place to place. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 15, 1968, p. 21.
  10. ↑ See Bernhard Kärtner: Die Alte Schule von Niederreifenberg, 2012 Online preliminary version ( memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.6 MB); Wolfgang Breese: 25 years of the large community of Schmitten. Chronicle 1972–1997, ed. from the Schmitten community board in cooperation with the Hochtaunus history association. V., Schmitten 1997. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.philipp-ludwigs-orben.de
  11. ↑ taunus.info ( memento of December 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on May 1, 2017