Ostheim (Butzbach)

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Ostheim
City of Butzbach
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Ostheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 197 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.52 km²
Residents : 982  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 178 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35510
Area code : 06033
Rathausstrasse Ostheim
Rathausstrasse Ostheim

Ostheim is a district of Butzbach in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

Geographical location

Ostheim is located at the northeastern transition from the Taunus to the Wetterau, about five kilometers south of Butzbach. Ostheim is laid out as a medieval street village. Ostheim has almost grown together structurally with the Nieder-Weisel district to the northeast . The Riedgraben drains the gently sloping area to the east towards the weather that flows by around five kilometers away . The district area is 552 hectares, of which 5 hectares are forested (as of 1961).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1265 under the name Ostheym . Finds in a row grave field on the outskirts suggest, however, that the first settlement took place in the 6th century by the Merovingians .

Until 1255 the district of Ostheim belonged to the Lords of Munzenberg . After the male branch died out, Ostheim fell to Philipp von Falkenstein . By inheritance, ownership changed again in 1418, this time to the Lords of Solms . From 1643 the place belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt .

In a fire in 1770, almost a third of the place was destroyed.

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Ostheim was incorporated into the city of Butzbach on December 31, 1970 on a voluntary basis . For Ostheim, as for every part of the city, a local district with a local advisory board and local councilor was set up. The boundaries of the local districts follow the previous district boundaries.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

  • 1961: 605 Protestant (= 77.07%), 168 Catholic (= 21.40%) residents
Ostheim: Population from 1834 to 2015
year     Residents
1834
  
 527
1840
  
 509
1846
  
 526
1852
  
 528
1858
  
 548
1864
  
 481
1871
  
 480
1875
  
 460
1885
  
 419
1895
  
 467
1905
  
 486
1910
  
 520
1925
  
 557
1939
  
 590
1946
  
 882
1950
  
 891
1956
  
 813
1961
  
 785
1967
  
 861
1970
  
 886
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
2008
  
 1,082
2010
  
 1,071
2015
  
 1,033
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; after 1970: City of Butzbach

politics

Local advisory board

In the local elections on March 6, 2016, the following distribution of seats in the local council resulted:

Parties and constituencies Seats
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 2
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 3
total 5

Ute Stengel from the CDU has been chairman of the local advisory council since 2016.

coat of arms

On April 9, 1964, the Ostheim community in what was then the Friedberg district was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In red, a silver court linden tree over a golden scale .

Culture and sights

Protestant church
  • In the center of the village is the former town hall, a richly decorated half-timbered building from 1697.
  • The Protestant Martinskirche was built as a transverse church in 1749/50 in the Baroque style. The tower of the church dates from the 14th century.
  • An asphalted area is available for the younger audience. There are two hockey goals, a table tennis table, a basketball hoop and a small skate park with a “bench”, a “quarter” and a “fun box” in the middle. There are of course additional seating options for the parents.
  • Every year the Christmas market takes place in the area at the park. The park was renewed in 2008/09.

traffic

There is a road connection to the east to the Bad Nauheim junction of the federal motorway 5 and to the north to the core town of Butzbach via the K 17 district road and the 3 federal road . Ostheim is a station of the Main-Weser-Bahn between Giessen and Frankfurt in the area of ​​the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund .

literature

  • Dieter Wolf , Karl Rosenow: Chronicle of Ostheim near Butzbach. In: Kelterei Müller KG, Butzbach-Ostheim (Hrsg.): Ostheimer Chronik. 300 years of the town hall 1697–1997, 125 years of the family-owned cider press from 1873–1998. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 37-116.
  • Literature about Ostheim in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ostheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ostheim, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 7, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Population of the individual city districts. In: Internet presence. City of Butzbach, archived from the original ; accessed on May 22, 2018 . (archived numbers)
  3. ^ Incorporation of the communities Hoch-Weisel, Nieder-Weisel, Ostheim and Pohl-Göns into the town of Butzbach in the Friedberg district on December 10, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 52 , p. 2447 , point 2466 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.8 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 360 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 103 kB) § 5. In: Website. City of Butzbach, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  8. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 8 ( online at google books ).
  9. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology . tape 22 . Weimar 1823, p. 419 ( online at Google Books ).
  10. ^ Ostheim local advisory board in the town hall information system of the city of Butzbach
  11. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the Ostheim community, Friedberg district, Darmstadt district dated April 9, 1964 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1964 No. 17 , p. 538 , point 456 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4,2 MB ]).