Ober-Schmitten

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Ober-Schmitten
City of Nidda
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 40 ″  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 142 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.32 km²
Residents : 905  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 273 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 63667
Area code : 06043

Ober-Schmitten is a district of Nidda in the Hessian Wetteraukreis and has about 1000 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Ober-Schmitten is located in the northern Wetterau on the edge of the Vogelsberg on both sides of the Nidda . The highest point of the district reaches 300 meters on the wooded north slope of the Friedrichsberg .

history

Ober-Schmitten was first mentioned in a document in the copy book of the Hirzenhain monastery in 1449 as "Oberste and Unterste Waltsmytte" . However, there are already location information from October 1, 1441: "Meadows located zu den tzwen smytten" and from March 22, 1442: "Meadows ... located zu den tzweyn waltsmitten." The toponym of the two villages is self-explanatory.

The history of Ober-Schmittens has always been closely linked to iron mining and paper production. The forest smiths, who smelted the Vogelsberg brown iron stone into ore in a primitive way in the Niddatal, were considered as founders .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Ober-Schmitten in 1830:

“Oberschmitten (L. Bez. Nidda) evangel, Filialdorf; is on the Nidda, in a grove of fruit trees, 1 St. from the city of Nidda, has 78 houses and 423 inhabitants, who are Protestant apart from 5 Catholics. There are 36 farmers, some of whom are also involved in other trades, 20 day laborers, such as a paper mill, which is one of the most important, delivers good types of paper and has strong sales. "

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipalities of Bad Salzhausen, Borsdorf, Fauerbach bei Nidda, Geiß-Nidda, Harb, Kohden, Michelnau, Ober-Lais, Ober-Schmitten, Ober-Widdersheim, Stornfels, merged on December 1, 1970 Ulfa, Unter-Schmitten, Wallernhausen and the city of Nidda to form the new city of Nidda.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Ober-Schmitten was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Population development

• 1791: 280 inhabitants
• 1800: 283 inhabitants
• 1806: 308 inhabitants, 59 houses
• 1829: 423 inhabitants, 78 houses
• 1867: 461 inhabitants, 86 inhabited buildings
• 1875: 433 inhabitants, 87 inhabited buildings
Ober-Schmitten: Population from 1791 to 2019
year     Residents
1791
  
 280
1800
  
 283
1806
  
 308
1829
  
 423
1834
  
 443
1840
  
 502
1846
  
 488
1852
  
 491
1858
  
 482
1864
  
 444
1871
  
 466
1875
  
 433
1885
  
 486
1895
  
 431
1905
  
 462
1910
  
 494
1925
  
 520
1939
  
 648
1946
  
 884
1950
  
 934
1956
  
 975
1961
  
 1,041
1967
  
 1,071
1970
  
 1,089
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
1996
  
 1,033
2000
  
 1,035
2006
  
 1.009
2010
  
 933
2011
  
 867
2016
  
 914
2019
  
 905
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 2000:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 418 Protestant (= 98.82%), 5 Catholic (= 1.18%) residents
• 1961: 853 Protestant (= 81.94%) and 179 (= 17.20%) Catholic residents

politics

Mayor

The mayor is Andreas Prasse (as of June 2013) .

coat of arms

On January 28, 1966, the municipality of Ober-Schmitten in what was then the administrative district of Büdingen was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : In a golden shield head, red blacksmith's tongs turned to the left, grasping a red nail, including three silver scrolls (2: 1) in the black shield.

Meaning : the colors black and gold stand for the earlier belonging to the county Nidda under the house Ziegenhain . Pliers and nails, as well as the three scrolls, point to traditional iron extraction and paper production.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Ober-Schmitten is on federal highway 455 .

Established businesses

  • Glatfelter Ober-Schmitten
  • Kopafilm electrofoils
  • Hera paper processing
  • Moufang KG

education

The Josef Moufang School was the first new school in the Büdingen district after the war and was inaugurated in 1951. Even then it was named after Josef Moufang, who ran a paper mill in Ober-Schmitten and donated a substantial amount of money for the new school building.

This school also heralded the end of the old two-class school, in which grades 1 to 4 and 5 to 8 were taught in two rooms. Until the 1960s, classes 1 + 2, 3 + 4, 5–8 were taught together. The children from grade 5 onwards have not been schooled here since around 1970. With the new school, each elementary school class could then move into its own room.

The school building became necessary due to the significant increase in population after the war. As a result of refugees and displaced persons, Ober-Schmitten grew from 600 inhabitants to around 1,100. After 1951, apartments were set up in the old school and the building was demolished in 1970.

Sports facilities

  • Two sports fields of the VfB 1920 Ober-Schmitten eV
  • Two tennis courts of the Ober-Schmitten tennis club

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ober-Schmitten, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Nidda in numbers. In: Website of the city of Nidda, accessed in May 2020.
  3. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The desolations in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. With a supplementary appendix by F. Knöpp (Vol. 1–3). Darmstadt 1854-1865. P. 213.
  4. ↑ K. Th. Christian Müller, Aschaffenburger Kopialbuch des Hirzenhain Monastery. In: AHG NF 11, 1916, pp. 324-472, pp. 347 f, No. 94 and 99.
  5. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 224 ( online at google books ).
  6. ↑ Amalgamation of the city of Nidda and the municipalities of Bad Salzhausen, Borsdorf, Fauerbach near Nidda, Geiß-Nidda, Harb, Kohden, Michelnau, Ober-Lais, Ober-Schmitten, Ober-Widdersheim, Stornfels, Ulfa, Unter-Schmitten, Wallernhausen in the district Büdingen on the new town "Nidda" from November 24, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 49 , p. 2290 , point 2281 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  7. ^ 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. 351 .
  8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  10. ↑ Martin Röhling: Niddaer Geschichtsblätter. Issue 9 . The story of the Counts of Nidda and the Counts of Ziegenhain. Ed .: Niddaer Heimatmuseum e. V. Im Selbstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 , p. 75, 115 .
  11. ^ The affiliation of the Nidda office based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hesse : Hessen-Marburg 1567-1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604-1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567-1866 .
  12. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 13 ff ., § 26 point d) IX. ( Online at google books ).
  13. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  203 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  14. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 9 ( online at google books ).
  15. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  268 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  16. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 421 ( online at Google Books ).
  17. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 181 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  18. ↑ Law on the repeal of the provinces of Starkenburg, Upper Hesse and Rheinhessen from April 1, 1937 . In: The Reichsstatthalter in Hessen Sprengler (Hrsg.): Hessisches Regierungsblatt. 1937 no.  8 , p. 121 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 11.2 MB ]).
  19. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  222 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  20. ↑ Housing spaces 1867 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 121 ( online at google books ).
  21. ↑ Residential places 1875 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 15 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 14 ( online at google books ).
  22. ^ Nidda in numbers. In: website. City of Nidda, archived from the original on October 4, 2011 ; accessed in November 2011 .
  23. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  24. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the municipality of Ober-Schmitten, district of Büdingen, administrative district of Darmstadt from January 28, 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1966 No. 7 , p. 218 , point 128 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5,6 MB ]).

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