Offenbach (Mittenaar)

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Offenbach
Mittenaar municipality
Offenbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 49 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 34 ″  E
Height : 257  (246-293)  m
Area : 11.81 km²
Residents : 1339  (June 30, 2012)
Population density : 113 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 35756
Area code : 02778
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Location of Offenbach in Mittenaar

Offenbach is a district of the Mittenaar community in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse .

Geographical location

The place is east of the main town. The federal highway 255 leads through the place.

history

The church

Offenbach was first mentioned in 1269 in a document from Johann von Dernbach.

In the terrible years of the Thirty Years' War , at the end of April 1635, the hordes of the imperial general Philipp von Mansfeld attacked the Aartal villages and set fire to the houses. 60 buildings burned in Offenbach, 53 in Bicken and 18 in Ballersbach.

A dark chapter of the great war, the witch hunt, also remained unforgotten . In 1629/1630 their own fellow citizens put 6 women and men at the stake in Offenbach, 18 in Bicken and also 6 in Ballersbach.

As the oldest cultural monument , the tower of the Offenbach church houses a bell from 1452, which has been in continuous use since then. The increased number of inhabitants made an expansion of the nave in Offenbach necessary in 1955/1956.

In 2019 Offenbach celebrated its 750th anniversary with a big festival weekend.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the communities Offenbach, Bicken and Ballersbach voluntarily merged on December 31, 1971 to form the community of Mittenaar.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Offenbach: Population from 1834 to 1970
year     Residents
1834
  
 510
1840
  
 572
1846
  
 558
1852
  
 546
1858
  
 516
1864
  
 514
1871
  
 526
1875
  
 542
1885
  
 583
1895
  
 607
1905
  
 721
1910
  
 799
1925
  
 906
1939
  
 1,021
1946
  
 1,177
1950
  
 1,235
1956
  
 1,228
1961
  
 1,281
1967
  
 1.312
1970
  
 1,414
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: 0580 Protestant (= 99.49%), one Catholic (= 0.17%), 2 Jewish (= 0.34%) residents
• 1961: 1175 Protestant (= 91.73%), 94 Catholic (= 7.34%) residents

badges and flags

Banner Offenbach (Mittenaar) .svg

coat of arms

DEU Offenbach (Mittenaar) COA.svg

Blazon : "In a shield divided by black and gold diagonally to the left, a golden three-leaf clover above, a black ox yoke below."

The coat of arms was approved for the community of Offenbach in what was then Dillkreis on October 17, 1957 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The colors and the shamrock come from the coat of arms of the Lords of Dernbach .

flag

On October 21, 1958, the Hessian Minister of the Interior approved a flag for the municipality, which is described as follows:

"In a flag field divided by gold and black, the coat of arms of the Offenbach community."

Infrastructure

  • Local public transport is provided by the Lahn-Dill transport association with bus routes 407 and 403.
  • There is an evangelical daycare center with three groups in the village.
  • There are two large supermarkets and a gas station in the village.

Attractions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Facts and Figures". Mittenaar community, archived from the original on October 6, 2015 ; accessed on September 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Gerstenmeier, K.-H. (1977): Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen. P. 306
  3. ↑ a b c Offenbach, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 1, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Offenbach im Dillkreis, administrative district Wiesbaden from October 17, 1957 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1957 no. 44 , p. 1090 , point 1085 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.4 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Approval of a flag of the community Offenbach im Dillkreis, administrative district Wiesbaden from October 21, 1958 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1958 No. 45 , p. 1332 , point 1103 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).