Okarben

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Okarben
City of Karben
Coat of arms of Okarben
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 6 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 115 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.85 km² [LAGIS]
Residents : 3259  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 476 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1970
Postal code : 61184
Area code : 06039
Evangelical parish church

Okarben is a district of Karben in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .

geography

The district has an area of ​​685 hectares. Most of the district is located between the Main-Weser Railway and the right bank of the Nidda and is separated from the other districts by mainly agricultural land. The townscape is mainly determined by single-family houses from the 1950s to 1970s, beyond the town center, which is characterized by half-timbered houses and residential buildings from the Wilhelminian era. To the west of the S-Bahn line and the B 3 is a residential area on Straßberg that was built after 1960 .

history

Roman time

In the early AD, the Roman army maintained a large fort with a total length of the outer front of 984 m on the site of the later town, which was supposed to help secure the border to the settlement area of ​​the Chatti . It was manned by an Ala miliaria, a 1,000-strong cavalry division. During the reign of Emperor Domitian , the fort was built as part of the Limes fortification line in the Taunus foreland. In the first third of the 2nd century AD it was abandoned with the final establishment of the Wetterau Limes . A village ( vicus ) arose in the immediate vicinity of the fort , which continued to exist after the fortress was abandoned. The final coin was minted under Severus Alexander and documents the continued existence of the settlement up to this time.

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Okarben comes from 1229. At that time the place was called Akarben . In the Holy Roman Empire , the village belonged to the Freigericht Kaichen , which came under the rule of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg in the 15th century .

Modern times

In Okarben the particular law of the Kaichen Free Court, the Friedberger Police Regulations, applied . In 1679 it was renewed and printed. This is the first time that it can be put into writing. She mainly dealt with administrative , police and regulatory law . In this respect, the Solms land law remained the main source of law for the broad area of civil law . The Common Law was, moreover, if all these regulations did not contain provisions for a fact. This legal situation remained valid in the 19th century after Okarben was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . It was not until the Civil Code of January 1, 1900, which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that this old particular law was suspended. With the Burgraviate of Kaichen, Okarben fell to Hessen-Darmstadt in 1806 .

On July 1, 1970, the city of Karben was created in the course of the regional reform in Hesse through the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent communities Groß-Karben , Klein-Karben , Kloppenheim , Okarben and Rendel .

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on June 11, 1955 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Coat of arms of Okarben
 Blazon : "In a blue shield, divided by a silver wavy ribbon, two above and a golden sheaf below."

traffic

Since the main traffic flows past Okarben on federal highway 3 , the entire local area could be calmed down in the 1990s . The expansion of the B 3 between Nieder-Wöllstadt and Kloppenheim is currently planned. The plan is to run this new B 3 through the middle of the city and in a narrow arc to the west around the residential area on Straßberg .

In 1894 a station was built on the Main-Weser Railway . The district now has a S-Bahn stop , which is served by the S6 line to Friedberg (Hesse) and Frankfurt am Main .

Web links

Commons : Okarben  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Economic data of the city of Karben. P. 7 (PDF) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed in July 2016.
  2. ↑ Hans Schönberger / Hans-Günther Simon : The Okarben fort and the occupation of the Wetterau since Vespasian. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-7861-1257-6 (=  Limes research 19 ), p. 37.
  3. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 107, enclosed map.
  4. ↑ merger of the communities Groß-Karben Klein-Karben, Kloppenheim, Okarben and Rendel in the district of Friedberg the new municipality "Karben" and granting them the right to use the designation "city" of 19 June 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 27 , p. 1366 , item 1325 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.0 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Okarben, district Friedberg, administrative district Darmstadt from June 11, 1955 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1955 no. 26 , p. 640 , point 690 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.2 MB ]).