Offheim

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Offheim
Offheim coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 168 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.58 km²
Residents : 2680  (Sep 2019)
Population density : 480 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 65555
Area code : 06431
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Offheim as a district of Limburg

Offheim is a district of the district town of Limburg an der Lahn in the central Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg .

Geographical location

Offheim is about three kilometers north of Limburg on a small hill, from which one has a view of the Limburg basin , the Westerwald and the Taunus up to the Großer Feldberg . Offheim is connected to the federal highway 49 , popularly known as the " Lange Meil ", running east of the town . The A3 runs south past the place.

The roughly square-shaped district borders in the north on Ahlbach and further clockwise on Dehrn , Dietkirchen , the core city of Limburg, Elz and Niederhadamar . The settlement itself is at an altitude of 155 to 185 meters. In the northeast the district rises up to 215 meters, in the northwest it reaches its lowest point at 135 meters on the Urselbach. With the exception of the northern edge, the district has only slight differences in altitude. The district consists mainly of agricultural land. Just north of the village is a small piece of forest, the "Offheimer Wäldchen", which also contains a disused garbage dump .

history

etymology

The name Offheim, whose old form used to be Ufheim or Uffheym, means "high-altitude place". The name actually applies, as Offheim is located on a small hill and towers over all the villages and towns in the area.

Furthermore, the end syllable "-heim" indicates a place founded at the time of the Franconian conquest in the 5th – 7th centuries . Century, which, however, cannot be documented.

Another approach assumes that Offheim got its name from the Ubier tribe , who at that time maintained a settlement in the Offheim district. The prefix would have developed from the Celtic / Gallic “ubinum” (Ubier settlement) via the Germanic “úpenum” and the Franconian / Old High German “úfheim” to the current place name.

timeline

Rochus Chapel

In 1217, Offheim was first mentioned in a list of goods from the Eberbach monastery in the Rheingau . A “Rouger de Uffheim” is mentioned there as a witness for a property sale in Hadamar. Offheim was the seat of the noble family "von Uf (f) heim", who had their "Od" or farm in the immediate vicinity of today's parish church. The village is much older, however. This is demonstrated in excavation work at the site of the company "iron Fischer" discovered finds , by which you can connect to an earlier settlement. It is assumed that Offheim is more than 1000 years old, which is also indicated by the village name. South of the Rochus Chapel, a shallow grave from the Latène period was found during road works in 1963 , in which three arm or leg rings made of bronze were discovered as grave goods. Unfortunately, the grave was destroyed during the work. At the northern edge of the district, during excavations in 2006/07 in the course of the construction work for the gas pipeline 83, the remains of a barrow and an urnfield- era pit complex were discovered, from which the remains of a Mondidol were recovered.

Field cross on the Offheim area

In the middle of the 12th century, a chapel in Romanesque style was built, the associated tower has been preserved to this day and is considered the village's landmark . Gerhard von Offheim died in 1372, and because none of his sons had offspring, the family of von Offheim and Enolf von Offheim died out after 1421. The village came into the possession of those von Hoenberg / Hömberg, who in 1487 transferred the chapel, which had also been acquired, to the Wilhelmitenkloster in Limburg. A small Vespers picture and also the 1496 cast, inscribed Annaglocke, which today still calls the citizens of Offheim to worship, come from this time .

In 1582 the first school was built in Offheim, where the sexton initially taught the students. In 1589 Offheim, like the entire Principality of Nassau, became Calvinist. As already in 1575 raged in 1598 in the region, the plague , was largely spared from the Offheim; the place Kreuch between Offheim and Limburg fell desolate . In gratitude, after the last plague epidemic in the region, which was rampant around 1680, the Rochus Chapel was built, which was replaced in 1903 by a neo-Romanesque new building, today's chapel.

At the turn of the 17th century there were numerous lawsuits against alleged witches in the community . In two waves of trials in 1589 and 1618 at least five women were tried for sorcery.

In the Thirty Years War Offheim was attacked by the Swedes and committed to labor . During this time, the Offheimers suffered greatly from their occupiers and the population became impoverished. Until 1620 Offheim belonged to the County of Nassau-Diez and then to the line of the Count and Prince of Nassau-Hadamar , whose founder was Johann Ludwig . He converted to Catholicism again in 1629, which means Offheim also became Catholic again.

Today 486 inhabitants are Protestant , 1612 are Catholic , and 550 belong to another religion . (As of December 2002)

After the French Revolution , Offheim was the theater of the First Coalition War (1792–1797). During this time the village was badly devastated by the revolutionary troops.

In 1806 Nassau-Orange , and with it Offheim, came under French rule. The place was the southernmost settlement of the Grand Duchy of Berg , which was ruled by Napoleon's brother-in-law Joachim Murat . In November 1813, the Prussian field marshal Blücher presumably stayed in Offheim, who drove the French out with his troops. A street in Offheim is named after him. In 1815 Offheim came to the Duchy of Nassau and from 1866 to Prussia . In 1858 the school on Backhausstrasse was replaced by a new building. In 1879 Offheim became an independent parish. In 1974 the children moved to what is now the primary school. The old school on Backhausstrasse was demolished in 1975. The neo-Romanesque church, consecrated in 1896, was demolished in 1970 and replaced by the current one.

From 1967 to 1979, in the area of ​​the Offheimer Wäldchen, a former garbage dump for household waste was expanded into a landfill for industrial waste, which made national headlines because of the disposal of highly toxic substances and a fire.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Offheim was incorporated into the city of Limburg on July 1, 1974 by state law .

In 2017, Offheim celebrated its 800th anniversary with an extensive festival week and other activities.

Territorial history and administration

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

"The Offemer Bears"

How the Offheimers got their joke name:

In the 19th century, many gypsies roamed the country. Some of them had carried trained animals, such as dancing bears , with them. During this time, an Offheimer visited the inn on the Alte Lahnbrücke in Limburg. There it was said that a bear ran away from the gypsies and was supposed to be in the vicinity. The man from Offheim drank courage and made his way home late at night. On his way home he suddenly saw the said bear. Filled with fear, he ran as fast as his feet would carry him to Offheim. There his experience spread like wildfire. The citizens of Offheim quickly armed themselves with everything they had on hand, for example pitchforks, axes and scythes. When the brave troop arrived at the place where the big bear supposedly stood, all they found was an old tree stump. The misty night and the schnapps the Offheimer had drunk led to this mix-up.

Since that event, the Offheimers have been called "bears".

The one from Offheim

In 1217, Ruocger von Offheim, the lower aristocratic family Derer von Offheim, was vouched for for the first time . For 1278 a Rudiger von Offheim is recorded as the owner of a Diezer castle fief in Dehrn . In a Dietkirch document from 1098, a "smoker" is mentioned, who could be an early member of the von Offheim family. In addition to Dehrn, today's Dornburg district of Thalheim was one of the family's main holdings. Other goods were in Hadamar and Niedertiefenbach. The last mention of an Enolf von Offheim dates back to 1423. Shortly thereafter, the sex, at least in the male line, must have died out.

population

Population development

• 1500: 140 inhabitants (estimated)
• 1600: 190 inhabitants (estimated)
• 1700: 280 inhabitants (estimated)
• 1800: 390 inhabitants (estimated)
Offheim: Population from 1825 to 2014
year     Residents
1825
  
 432
1834
  
 495
1840
  
 553
1846
  
 588
1852
  
 643
1858
  
 636
1864
  
 702
1871
  
 700
1875
  
 708
1885
  
 670
1895
  
 682
1905
  
 788
1910
  
 838
1925
  
 873
1939
  
 943
1946
  
 1,132
1950
  
 1,128
1956
  
 1,215
1961
  
 1.310
1967
  
 1,496
1970
  
 1,600
1974
  
 1,578
1987
  
 1.937
1994
  
 2,399
2003
  
 2,664
2014
  
 2,560
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 2003 City of Limburg.

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: no Protestant, 670 Catholic residents
• 1961: 127 Protestant, 1197 Roman Catholic residents

politics

The former Limburg mayor Martin Richard and the full-time First City Councilor Michael Stanke live in Offheim.

Local advisory board

The Offheim local advisory board, which was last elected in 2016 , currently consists of nine members. Arne Piecha ( CDU ) holds the position of mayor .

coat of arms

Coat of arms

On April 26, 1967, the municipality of Offheim in what was then the district of Limburg , administrative district of Wiesbaden , was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In the shield head a golden leopard in red, including three red rings in gold.

The coat of arms is based on the coat of arms of those of Offheim . The golden leopard is a sign of strength. The three rings are symbolic of the three kinship lines of the family. The colors red and gold are based on the colors of the Counts of Diez since the Offheimer the Diezern loans subject were.

Culture and sights

Townscape

Offheim has a historic town center in which there are many half-timbered houses and farmsteads from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Backhausstrasse with dance floor, Ober-, Unter- and Hintergasse, Weidestrasse, Postweg and Borngasse belong to the core. In the middle of the village, on a rocky hill, stand the parish church with the Romanesque bell tower from the 12th century as well as a day care center for the elderly, which is surrounded by a medieval stone wall to the west and south. There are squares in front of the two exits of the church, the dance floor at one and the bus stop at the other. There are a few shops on the main street, Limburger Weg, which runs through the whole of Offheim. Outside the town center are new development areas and in the direction of Dehrn and Dietkirchen and Limburg the Offheim commercial and industrial area .

Cultural monuments

  • Offheim Church

  • Oldest house in Offheim (Anno 1615)

  • typical eaves half-timbered house in the town center

societies

The clubs exist at the local level

  • Voluntary fire brigade Offheim eV since 1898 (including youth fire brigade, since June 21, 1974)
  • Singing Association Eintracht Offheim 1888 eV
  • Youth development association (JFV) Dietkirchen / Offheim 2009 eV
  • Catholic women of Germany (kfd) Offheim
  • Church choir St. Servatius 1952 Offheim
  • Small animal breeding association Offheim and the surrounding area
  • Classic car friends Offheim
  • Purebred poultry breeding association Offheim
  • Sportclub 1919 eV Offheim
  • Table tennis club Offheim 1949 eV
  • Gymnastics Club 1912 Offheim e. V.
  • Indoor swimming pool association Offheim e. V.
  • Beautification Association Offheim eV

Regular events

Offheim fair tree
Christmas tree in front of the church

Slaughter festival

The slaughter festival is organized every year on May 1st by the Offheim volunteer fire brigade. Sausage and meat products are offered at this festival. This festival is celebrated on the lawn between the fire station and the village community center.

Stubble field festival

The Offheim stubble festival, which takes place annually on a weekend in July / August, is organized by classic car enthusiasts. The celebrations begin with a tractor parade through the village. Restored tractors and other historical machines are exhibited there. The stubble festival takes place every year with a new theme that revolves around different aspects of agriculture. Historical techniques of tillage and harvest will be demonstrated.

Fair

The Offheim fair takes place every year on the weekend after the Assumption Day (August 15th). Since when the Offheim fair has been celebrated is unknown; the first mention of the fair comes from the year 1719. It is the parish festival of the Offheim parish church “St. Servatius ”and takes place from Friday to Monday. On Sunday morning, the festival service is celebrated together with the fair-boys in the parish church , on Monday there is a large morning pint in all of the inns in Offheim.

Wine festival

The Offheim Wine Festival takes place in late August or early September on the dance floor. It is organized by the Offheimer Vereinsring, to which all larger clubs belong. Wines from different regions are offered at the various stands on a Saturday. The wine festival is opened every year by a wine queen. In bad weather, the wine festival takes place in the village community center.

Christmas Market

At the beginning of December there is a Christmas market in Offheim on the dance floor. Santa Claus, who gives presents to the children every year, is driven by a tractor, as the market is organized by classic car enthusiasts.

Economy and Infrastructure

Offheim has an industrial and commercial area in which numerous car dealerships, supermarkets, furniture stores and other businesses have settled.

Established businesses

education

  • Offheim primary school
  • Day care center “St. Servatius “Offheim
  • Library of the parish of St. Servatius

Recreational facilities

  • 2 sports fields
  • 2 tennis courts
  • 1 boules court
  • 2 sports halls
  • 1 gym
  • playground
  • The former municipal indoor swimming pool was taken over by a non-profit association in 2005 after about a year of closure and is still operated by it today. This makes it one of the few swimming pools in Germany run independently by an association.

Security

Personalities

  • Magdalena Lorger (born September 12, 1734 - † February 8, 1806), lay sister, best known for her stigmatization
  • Karl Ohlenmacher, (born January 8, 1920 - † February 26, 2013), local history researcher
  • Heribert Reitz (born June 1, 1930 - March 11, 2018), politician (SPD), former Hessian finance minister
  • Klaus Kleiter (born January 9, 1944), former German hockey trainer and teacher
  • Martin Richard (born November 8, 1951), former mayor of the district town of Limburg an der Lahn
  • Stefan Simon (born June 18, 1969), former soccer player and player-coach
  • Julia Kleiter (born May 5, 1980), opera and concert singer
  • Marius Laux (born February 7, 1986), football player

Web links

Commons : Limburg-Offheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Budget statute - budget year 2013. Limburg ad Lahn, accessed in December 2018 .
  2. ↑ Limburg in Numbers , accessed in January 2020.
  3. ^ Image of the Offheim Mondidol
  4. ↑ File on a witch trial from 1618
  5. ↑ One of the numerous articles on the Offheim garbage dump in the Spiegel ( Memento from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Limburg district and the Oberlahn district. (GVBl. II 330-25) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 5 , p. 101 , § 5 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 809 kB ]).
  7. ^ 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. 369-370 .
  8. ↑ a b c Offheim, Limburg-Weilburg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ↑ CDU Offheim: Mandate holder Retrieved on December 3, 2015.
  11. ^ Offheim local advisory board . Council and citizen information system of the district town Limburg ad Lahn. Accessed May 2019
  12. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Offheim and a flag (item 468) from April 26, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 20 , p. 578 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  13. ↑ Entry of the file at the Hessian Main State Archives in Wiesbaden
  14. ↑ Internet presence of the traditional fair in the district ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )