Ockstadt

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Ockstadt
Coat of arms of Ockstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 158  (153-174)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 18.47 km²
Residents : 3300 approx.
Population density : 179 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 61169
Area code : 06031
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Location of Ockstadt in Friedberg (Hessen)
Ockstadt from the west
Ockstadt from the west

Ockstadt is a district of Friedberg (Hessen) in the Wetterau district .

Geographical location

Ockstadt is about one kilometer west of the core town of Friedberg and at the foot of the southeastern roof of the Winterstein- Taunus ridge , an eastern branch of the densely wooded Hohe Taunus . The 259 meter high gallows head rises directly on the outskirts . Behind this hill, the federal highway 5 overcomes the Taunushauptkamm . The north-eastern boundary of the district follows the ridge line over the Steinkopf , which, at 518 meters, is the highest elevation in the district up to the 500-meter-high Kuhkopf , which is more than five kilometers from the village. The district area is 1847 hectares , 902 hectares of which are forested (as of 1961). Fruit is grown on a large scale in the area around the village, and the “Ockstädter Cherries” are particularly well-known.

Flowering time near Ockstadt (April 2019)

history

Prehistory and the Middle Ages

Ockstadt, which was first mentioned in a deed of donation to the Lorsch monastery in 817 AD, was already settled and used for agriculture during the time of the Celts .

The first known owners were the Counts of Kleeberg and Mörlen. After their extinction it fell to the Lords of Eppstein . As an imperial direct fiefdom it was withdrawn at the beginning of the 14th century and in 1350 it was partially pledged by Charles IV to the Lords of Carben , but the imperial city of Friedberg was allowed to redeem these pledges as early as 1374. The lords of Cleen have been tangible as owners since the end of the 14th century . Under them, Gottfried von Cleen built today's Frankenstein Castle in 1490 . In 1521 this property was passed on to the Lords of Frankenstein , who lived in Ockstadt Castle until the end of the 18th century. The remaining fiefs of the Lords of Carben were sold to Friedberg Castle in 1525 . With the end of the Old Kingdom , Ockstadt came to Hessen-Darmstadt in 1806 .

Modern times

The remaining police and court rights were exercised by the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1822 onwards in the name of the landlords . Administration and jurisdiction were separated at the same time . It was only as a result of the March Revolution of 1848 that the special civil rights were finally abolished with the “Law on the Relationships of Classes and Noble Court Lords” of April 15, 1848.

Ockstadt belonged to the area of common law , which was valid here without the superimposition of particular law. This retained its validity even while the membership of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the 19th century, until 1 January 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code was replaced.

In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Ockstadt was incorporated into the city of Friedberg on December 31, 1971 by mutual agreement. For Ockstadt, as for every part of the city, a local district with a local advisory board and a local mayor was established. The boundaries of the local districts follow the previous district boundaries.

politics

Local advisory board

The local council has nine seats. The mayor is Günther Weil (CDU).

In the local elections on March 6, 2016, the distribution of seats was as follows:

Parties and constituencies % be right Seats
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 75.91 7,483 7th
FDP Free Democratic Party 24.09 2,375 2
total 100.0 9,858 9
voter turnout 51.36

coat of arms

On June 24, 1964, the municipality of Ockstadt in what was then the district of Friedberg was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : shield divided diagonally to the right, a red iron hatchet in front in gold, three five-petalled silver cherry blossoms in black with golden ovaries.

Culture and sights

  • Frankenstein Castle (not open to the public)
  • St. James Church
  • Cherry mountain
  • Spring water swimming pool Ockstadt
  • Golf course
  • Crocodile zoo
  • Hollar chapel

  • St. James Church

  • Frankenstein Castle

  • Tower in front of Frankenstein Castle

  • Defense tower of Frankenstein Castle

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The district road K 12 connects Ockstadt with the core town Friedberg and with the federal highway 3 , which is a bypass between Ockstadt and the core town and is crossed by the K 12 on a bridge. Furthermore, the federal road 455 runs south of Ockstadt . The federal highways intersect at the south-east border of the district with a bridge structure. The main thoroughfare in Ockstadt is the state road L 3134 as Nauheimer Straße , Bachgasse and Rosbacher Straße .

Public facilities

Ockstadt has a primary school. It was built over 100 years ago and used to be an elementary school. Next to the school there is a youth center where the school classes take physical education. There is a sports area with two soccer fields, on which a sports hall was built in 2008. Ockstadt has two kindergartens and a volunteer fire brigade . There is also an outdoor swimming pool, which used to be a fire fighting pond.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ockstadt, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 8, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Ockstadt on the website of the city of Friedberg , accessed in April 2016
  3. ^ Dieter Wolf : Ockstadt in the Middle Ages. An attempt at an overview . In: From Hucchenstat to Ockstadt. 1200 years of history of a village . Friedberg 2017, p. 79 ff.
  4. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 59.
  5. ↑ The patrimonial jurisdiction rights of Ockstadt and the Straßheimer Hof, which were transferred to the state by the barons von und zu Frankenstein, in : Großherzoglich Hessisches Regierungsblatt 1822, No. 19 of July 5, 1822, p. 212.
  6. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  7. ↑ Arthur B. Schmidt: The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 101.
  8. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 360 .
  9. ^ The election officer of the city of Friedberg (Hesse): Announcement of the final election results of the city council and local council elections on March 6, 2016. March 17, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the municipality of Ockstadt in the district of Frieberg, administrative district of Darmstadt from June 24, 1964 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1964 No. 27 , p. 846 , point 764 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).