Ostheim (Nidderau)

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Ostheim
City of Nidderau
Coat of arms of the Ostheim community from 1964 to 1974
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 38 ″  E
Height : 136 m above sea level NN
Residents : 4767  (2019)
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 61130
Area code : 06187
Half-timbered houses in Ostheim

Ostheim is a district of Nidderau in the Main-Kinzig district of Hesse .

Geographical location

Ostheim is located on the southern edge of the Wetterau and at the foot of the Ronneburg hill country , a foothill of the Vogelsberg , at an altitude of 135 meters above sea ​​level , about 10 km north of Hanau .

history

middle Ages

Around 850 the place was first mentioned as Ostheim in a register as a donation to the Fulda monastery , and in 1016 it was described as “in pago Wedereiba” (Gau Wetterau).

Reinhard I. von Hanau received it in 1260 as a pledge and in 1262 as a fief together with the neighboring Windecken (Tezelnheim) from the diocese of Bamberg . In the late Middle Ages Ostheim belonged to the Office Windecken the rule and from 1429 county of Hanau , according to the provincial division of 1458 to Hanau-Münzenberg .

In 1245 a priest is named. So at that time there was a church in the village. It belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz . Ecclesiastical middle authority was the Landkapitel Roßdorf . Until 1488 Windecken also belonged to the parish of Ostheim. The church patronage lay with the Bishop of Bamberg.

The place was surrounded by a curtain wall and the entrances were secured by gates. The street name "Eicher Tor" still reminds of this today.

Historical forms of names

Ostheim was mentioned in documents that have survived under the following names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Ostheim (around 850)
  • Ostheim (1016)
  • Hostheim (1245)
  • Oestheim (1356)
  • Oystheim (1366)

Early modern age

The Reformation was gradually introduced in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg in the middle of the 16th century , initially in the Lutheran sense. In a “second Reformation”, the county's denomination was changed again: from 1597 Count Philip Ludwig II pursued a decidedly reformed church policy. He made use of the Jus reformandi , his right as sovereign to determine the denomination of his subjects, and enforced the Reformed variant of the Reformation as largely binding for his county. The parish now belonged to the Windecken deanery .

Ostheim was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . The chronicle reports: “ Ostheimb, when there was 1 church, 1 town hall and a school building next to 2 common backhouses and 104 other court rides and apartments, the associated barns and stables. Of these, 83 Heuser and 80 Schewern were spoiled in the Brant by Cardinals Infant Volck ”. This refers to events between November 1634 and January 1635. What was left after that was burned down by Croats in May 1635.

With the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736, Ostheim fell - together with the entire county of Hanau-Münzenberg - to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , from which the Electorate of Hesse emerged in 1803 .

On the western edge of the village was a mill, also known as the “mill on the pasture”, on the so-called Mühlbach.

Modern times

During the Napoleonic period, Ostheim was under French military administration from 1806, belonged to the Principality of Hanau from 1807 to 1810 and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Department of Hanau . Then it fell back to the Electorate of Hesse. In the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse of 1821, under which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, Ostheim came to the newly formed Hanau district . In 1866 the electorate - and with it Ostheim - was annexed by Prussia after the German-Austrian War . From then on it belonged to the administrative district of Kassel , where it remained until the end of the Second World War. With the establishment of the State of Hesse, Ostheim was incorporated into the Wiesbaden administrative district with the districts of Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern . Today Ostheim belongs to the Darmstadt administrative district after the Wiesbaden regional council was dissolved. After the Second World War , Ostheim belonged to the state of Hesse. On July 1, 1974, was in the course of administrative reform in Hesse by law as the last community in the city Nidderau incorporated . At the same time, the new Main-Kinzig district , to which the city of Nidderau has belonged, was created.

Population development

  • 1632: 0091 families
  • 1663: approx. 35 families
  • 1707: approx. 82 families
  • 1753: 0127 households and one Jewish with a total of 559 people
  • 1754: 0128 families, one of them Jewish = 559 inhabitants
  • 1970: 2967 inhabitants
  • 2000: 4483 inhabitants
  • 2010: 4729 inhabitants
  • 2019: 4767 inhabitants

Hessian State Statistical Office

religion

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms of the former municipality of Ostheim reads: Three red rafters in gold, topped with a silver rose with green sepals and red clusters.

The three red rafters in gold indicate that Ostheim is part of the Windecken office . The rose on the rafters has six petals as a symbol of Mary, Queen of Heaven. It appears in this form for the first time on an Ostheim court seal from the 17th century. Approval to use the coat of arms was granted to the Ostheim community on October 19, 1964 by the Hessian state government.

traffic

The Friedberg – Hanau railway line runs through the city and has the Ostheim stop here (Kr. Hanau) .

Sometimes the planes turn over Ostheim in westerly weather conditions to land at Frankfurt am Main Airport.

literature

  • Helmut Brück (Red.): Chronicle Ostheim. A district of Nidderau in 2000. Nidderau 2000, ISBN 3-9801873-8-1 .
  • Wilhelm Figge et al. a .: Chronicle of the Ostheim community. Ortenberg 1974.
  • Peter Gbiorczyk: The two Reformations in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg using the example of the rural community Ostheim (1530–1642) ( online ).
  • Willi Klein: On the history of milling in the Main-Kinzig district (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter . Volume 40). Hanau 2003, p. 378f.
  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local lexicon for Kurhessen (= publications of the historical commission for Hesse. Volume 14). Reprint from 1926. Elwert, Marburg 1974, ISBN 3-7708-0509-7 , p. 363.
  • Literature about Ostheim in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ostheim, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. Law on the reorganization of the districts of Gelnhausen, Hanau and Schlüchtern and the city of Hanau as well as the recirculation of the cities of Fulda, Hanau and Marburg (Lahn) concerning questions (GVBl. 330-26) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 149 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 367 .
  4. In the years 1632, 1707 and 1754 the number of inhabitants in the county of Hanau was determined. The figures are reproduced here after Erhard Bus : The consequences of the great war - the west of the county of Hanau-Munzenberg after the Peace of Westphalia . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 : The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 45 (2011), ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 , pp. 277-320 (289 ff.)
  5. Figge, p. 30.
  6. a b Nidderau "scratches" the 20,000 inhabitant mark , April 7, 2011, wetterauer-zeitung.de
  7. Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Historical municipality directory for Hessen 1 = The population of the municipalities 1834-1967. Wiesbaden 1968.
  8. ^ City of Nidderau: coat of arms