Offenthal

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Offenthal
City of Dreieich
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Offenthal
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 179 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.36 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 5252  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 507 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 63303
Area code : 06074
Protestant church
Protestant church

Offenthal is a district of Dreieich in the Offenbach district in southern Hesse .

geography

Offenthal is the most southeastern part of Dreieich. While the other parts of the city line up seamlessly along the Hengstbach , Offenthal is around 1000 meters from the nearest district, Götzenhain . The Fritzenwiesengraben goes through Offenthal and drains to the southwest to the Hegbach , also known as the Rutschbach . The center of Offenthal developed at a transition over the Fritzenwiesengraben south of it.

The two highest points of the urban area of ​​Dreieich are in the Offenthal district. In the west, the Koberstädter Wald rises up to 195.3 meters and in the east on the border to Dietzenbach above the campsite, the district on the western slope of the Bulau reaches 203 meters.

Offenthal borders in the north and northwest on the districts Götzenhain and Dreieichenhain , in the west on the city of Langen , in the south on the municipality of Messel and in the east on the district of Urberach of the city of Rödermark and the district town of Dietzenbach.

The municipal area is 1036 hectares, of which 511 hectares are forested (as of 1961). Most of the forests are in the west and south-east, in the Koberstädter Forest as well as around the Gleisner Kopf and the Rosengarten .

history

In the boundary description of the Langener Mark , Offenthal was probably first mentioned as Ovemdan . However, this document cannot be dated exactly, but falls within a possible period from 834 to 840. The first documented mention of Offenthal that can be reliably dated comes from the year 837, which is why the 1150th anniversary of the place was celebrated in 1987. Offenthal is the oldest settlement in today's Dreieich after Sprendlingen. The Counts of Isenburg owned Offenthal from 1489. The Gothic church of Offenthal has been preserved as an important architectural monument. It was donated around 1400 and is one of the oldest churches in the Offenbach district . After the Reformation was introduced in 1528, the parish became Lutheran, and from 1596 attempts were made to introduce Calvinism . In 1816 Offenthal became Hessian.

At the beginning of the nineties, the two new development areas Borngarten and Tannenstumpf were created. 10 years later the construction of the new building area "Auf den Lippsäckern" began. The rural tranquility on the one hand and the proximity to the city of Frankfurt am Main on the other allowed Offenthal to grow rapidly. This year, Offenthal was voted the most beautiful district of Dreieich for the 11th time in a row.

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse on January 1, 1977, the law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district merged the cities of Dreieichenhain and Sprendlingen and the communities of Buchschlag, Götzenhain and Offenthal to form a city with the name Dreieich . Local districts for the city districts were not established.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: 1478 Protestant (= 75.45%), 417 Catholic (= 21.29%) inhabitants
Offenthal: Population from 1834 to 2014
year     Residents
1834
  
 441
1840
  
 483
1846
  
 519
1852
  
 534
1858
  
 504
1864
  
 505
1871
  
 576
1875
  
 578
1885
  
 637
1895
  
 686
1905
  
 768
1910
  
 805
1925
  
 901
1939
  
 1.003
1946
  
 1,277
1950
  
 1,432
1956
  
 1,561
1961
  
 1,959
1967
  
 2,201
1970
  
 2,417
1977
  
 3,020
2012
  
 5,151
2014
  
 5,177
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; City of Dreieich

badges and flags

Banner Offenthal.svg

coat of arms

DEU Offenthal COA.svg

Blazon : “Shield split; in front: in the red field a silver chisel, covered by a silver angle iron; back: in the silver field a green oak branch with three golden acorns. "

The coat of arms of the municipality of Offenthal in the Offenbach district was approved by the Hessian Interior Minister on April 28, 1955 . It was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth.

Chisels and angle irons were created from a district sign and are now understood as a symbol for the local stone cutters. The oak branch is a symbol of the Dreieich Wildbann , to which Offenthal belonged.


flag

The flag was approved by the Hessian Interior Minister on July 7, 1958 and is described as follows:

"The municipal coat of arms on a white and green flag."

Culture and sights

The Protestant church in Offenthal impresses with its defensive character.

Offenthal is located on the German half-timbered road and the Hessian apple wine and orchard route .

Offenthal offers a wide variety of different clubs. The big clubs are the SUSGO Offenthal, the FC Offenthal, the Musikverein 1919 Offenthal, the TTC Offenthal and the volunteer fire brigade (542 members, as of December 31, 2009).

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

A small industrial area is located on the eastern outskirts between the train station and Bahnhofstrasse around Behringstrasse and Wernher-v.-Braun-Strasse . The only campsite in the Dreieich urban area is located in the Buchenbusch district in the northeast of the district.

In Offenthal there is the Wingert School as a primary school.

The Dreieich public library has a branch in the Offenthal district.

traffic

Local public transport

Offenthal is connected to the railway network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund through the Dreieichbahn station , which runs from Dieburg via Rödermark - Ober-Roden to Dreieich-Buchschlag station . At the station in Buchschlag there is a connection to the S 3 and S 4 S-Bahn lines. There are hourly non-stop trains to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf .

In addition, a bus line connects Offenthal with other parts of the city and Frankfurt Airport. Another bus line leads via Dietzenbach to Heusenstamm.

Road traffic

Federal highway 486 runs through Offenthal from Langen in the west via Urberach and Eppertshausen to Dieburg in the southeast. Furthermore, the state road L 3001 connects the place with the district town of Dietzenbach and the L 3317 leads to the other Dreieich districts and in the opposite direction to Messel and Darmstadt .

The sometimes narrow through-road of the federal road was heavily used in the morning and evening rush hour traffic, which is why traffic jams in the direction of Rödermark-Urberach and Langen often formed. The long-planned 3.34 kilometer bypass of the B 486 in the south of Offenthal has been accessible since the end of 2013 (new B486). The east clasp of the L 3001 linked to the new federal road has also been completed since October 2014.

literature

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Dreieich in numbers
  2. ↑ Name of the water body according to WFD Hessen
  3. ↑ cf. Walther Raffius: Offenthal in Hanne Kulessa: Dreieich - Eine Stadt , p. 102
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) 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. 316–318 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 374 .
  6. ↑ a b Offenthal, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ↑ approval of a coat of arms of the community Offenthal in the district of Offenbach, Darmstadt Region of 28 April 1955 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 20 , p. 495 , point 522 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.3 MB ]).
  8. ↑ DEMAND, KARL E. AND RENKHOFF, OTTO, Hessisches Ortswappenbuch, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, page 134.
  9. ↑ Approval of a flag for the municipality of Offenthal in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt administrative district of July 7, 1958 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1958 No. 29 , p. 826 , item 714 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  10. ↑ This is what the route of the planned Offenthaler bypass road looks like. In: Offenbach Post , August 20, 2009
  11. ↑ Dreieich bypass. Things are progressing in Offenthal. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 4, 2013