Ober-Wöllstadt

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Ober-Wöllstadt
community Woellstadt
Coat of arms of Ober-Wöllstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 143  (135-149)  m
Residents : 2610
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 61206
Area code : 06034

Ober-Wöllstadt is one of the two districts of the municipality of Wöllstadt in the Wetterau district of Hesse .

geography

Ober-Wöllstadt lies between Taunus , Vogelsberg , Main - and Lahntal in the southern district. The federal highway 3 runs through the village .

history

Ober-Wöllstadt was first mentioned in a document in 790.

Already in 1050 there is a church in town. Today the Catholic St. Stephen's Church stands here. It was built in 1752.

On August 1, 1972 at the course of were municipal reform in Hesse , the previously independent communities of Nieder-Wöllstadt and Ober-Wöllstadt powerful state law the new municipality Woellstadt together .

Infrastructure

In the place there is

  • the Catholic kindergarten St. Stefanus
  • a sports field
  • the branch of the Fritz-Erler-Schule Wöllstadt, a primary school
  • the Catholic parish church of St. Stefanus

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ober-Wöllstadt, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg (GVBl. II 330-19) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 230 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 361 .