Oberauroff

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Oberauroff
City of Idstein
Coat of arms of Oberauroff
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 46 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 327  (303-335)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.27 km²
Residents : 342  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 151 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 65510
Area code : 06126
Protestant church
Protestant church

Oberauroff is a district of Idstein in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

The village is located in the Auroffer Grund on the Auroffer Bach west of the core city of Idstein, separated from it by a ridge with the 403 meter high Rügert and the federal highway 3 . Large parts of the district are forested. The closest localities to the city center in the east are Niederauroff in the north, Ehrenbach in the south-west and Eschenhahn in the south.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1160 as Urefo . In 1230/31 the place was mentioned as superior Urefe , 1253 as superiori Uriphi , 1358 as Urfe and 1409 as Urff . From 1230/31 the place is under Count Heinrich II. A part of the County of Nassau . In 1566 the name Oberauroff was first used in a document.

Around 1650 Oberauroff was the center of the Auroffer Grund court .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Oberauroff was incorporated into Idstein on January 1, 1977 by virtue of state law . For the district of Oberauroff, as for all districts, a local district with a local advisory board and mayor was set up.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1566: 6 households
  • 1609: 7 households
  • 1821: 166 inhabitants (with Niederauroff)
Oberauroff: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 97
1840
  
 93
1846
  
 91
1852
  
 100
1858
  
 93
1864
  
 93
1871
  
 90
1875
  
 105
1885
  
 99
1895
  
 92
1905
  
 96
1910
  
 99
1925
  
 97
1939
  
 125
1946
  
 186
1950
  
 173
1956
  
 163
1961
  
 195
1967
  
 215
1970
  
 222
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 092 Protestant (= 92.93%), 7 Catholic (= 7.07%) residents
• 1961: 157 Protestant (= 80.51%), 37 Catholic (= 18.97%) residents

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on October 21, 1969 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon : "In blue on green ground, a golden oak tree with silver acorns."

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Heinz Ritt .

Cultural monuments

Well in Oberauroff

The Liebfrauenkirche is located in Oberauroff , an evangelical parish church with a Romanesque nave and a late Gothic choir . The furnishings are from the 15th-18th centuries. Century

The cast iron fountain in the street "Am Dorfbrunnen" was possibly made in the Michelbacher Hütte in 1898 (according to the date on the narrow side) and is a listed building. The fountain column has a water outlet in the shape of an animal's head. He stands in the open space at the entrance to the churchyard.

For the other cultural monuments see the list of cultural monuments in Oberauroff .

traffic

Local public transport is provided by bus line 224 of the Rheingau-Taunus transport company .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Oberauroff, Rheingau-Taunus district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers-data-facts. In: website. City of Idtein, archived from the original ; accessed in March 2019 .
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Rheingau district and the Untertaunus district (GVBl. II 330-30) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 312 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  4. ↑ main statute. (PDF ;; 36; kB) §; 5. In: Website. City of Idstein, accessed February 2019 .
  5. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Oberauroff, Untertaunuskreis, administrative district Darmstadt from October 21, 1969 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1969 No. 44 , p. 1799 , point 1485 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.3 MB ]).
  6. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Brunnen Oberauroff In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse