Pohlheim

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Pohlheim
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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 44'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : to water
County : to water
Height : 240 m above sea level NHN
Area : 38 km 2
Residents: 18,138 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 477 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 35415
Primaries : 06403, 0641, 06404, 06004
License plate : GI
Community key : 06 5 31 014
City structure: 6 districts

City administration address : 		Ludwigstrasse 31
35415 Pohlheim
Website : www.pohlheim.de
Mayor : Udo Schöffmann (since January 31, 2015) ( CDU )
Location of the city of Pohlheim in the district of Giessen
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Pohlheim is a town in the central Hessian district of Gießen .

geography

Geographical location

The town of Pohlheim is located in the southern part of the district of Gießen, directly on the boundary of the university town of Gießen . Pohlheim is located on the Lückebach (flows over the Kleebach into the Lahn ).

Neighboring communities

Pohlheim borders the city of Gießen and the municipality of Fernwald in the north, the city of Lich in the east, the city of Münzenberg ( Wetteraukreis ) in the south , and the municipality of Langgöns and the city of Linden in the west .

Districts, number of inhabitants

The following districts belong to the city of Pohlheim, each of which forms a local district with a local advisory board:


Year (date) Residents
December 31, 1999 17,119
December 31, 2000 17,153
December 31, 2002 17,442
December 31, 2004 17,830
December 31, 2005 17,909
December 31, 2006 18,043
12/31/2007 18.051
09/30/2009 18,072
06/30/2010 18,108
06/30/2013 18,711
December 31, 2016 18.094
06/30/2019 18,572

history

The Upper German Limes runs through the area of ​​Pohlheim (to the north are Hausen, Watzenborn-Steinberg and Garbenteich; south to Grüningen, Dorf-Güll and Holzheim). The name Pohlheim can be traced back to the former village "Pfahlheim", which in turn refers to the Limes ("village on the piles").

The name Garbenteich can be traced back to "Garwards Eich". The northern villages belonged to the jurisdiction of Hüttenberg in the Middle Ages , the southern to the Gambach office (pledged to Solms in 1464). Holzheim was first mentioned in a document in 790, Grüningen and Dorf Güll in 799, Hausen 886 and the youngest Garbenteich and Watzenborn ("Wazenburne") in 1141. Grüningen already had city rights in the Middle Ages - as the only one of the earlier individual communities - since 1400 .

To the north of Pohlheim, at the foot of the Schiffenberg, lies the Petersweiher settlement in Giessen, founded in the 1960s .

On September 4, 1974, Pohlheim was named a town.

Church building

The municipality of Pohlheim was founded on December 31, 1970 as part of the regional reform in Hesse through the voluntary amalgamation of the municipalities of Dorf-Güll , Garbenteich , Grüningen , Hausen , Holzheim and Watzenborn-Steinberg . The name Pohlheim goes to a central location in the municipality in the Thirty Years' War sunken back village. Local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were formed for all former municipalities in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

Religions

The population of Central Hesse is predominantly Protestant . In 1954/1955 the Christ Church was built in Watzenborn-Steinberg and consecrated on July 24, 1955. The first parish existed in the place as early as 1606/1607. The old church was probably built as the first church in the area of ​​today's city of Pohlheim in 1141, near the founding of the Schiffenberg monastery . It was extensively renovated in 2006. There are several historic village churches in the districts, such as the Evangelical Reformed Church of Dorf-Güll (1737), the Evangelical Church of Garbenteich (12th century), the Evangelical Church of Grüningen (12th-16th century) and the Evangelical Church Hausen (13th century) and the Evangelical Reformed Church in Holzheim (1632).

After the Second World War, many Catholic expellees also moved to the villages of Pohlheim. During this time, the St. Hedwig Chapel was founded in Hausen. After the new construction of the Catholic Church of St. Martin in Watzenborn-Steinberg, it was sold to a Syrian Orthodox religious community. After the abandoned St. Hedwig Chapel was demolished, the Syrian Orthodox Church Mor Had'Bschabo was built on the same site in 2013 . The Mor Barsaumo church in Garbenteich was completed in 1999 , and there is a third Aramaic community in Watzenborn-Steinberg.

The church life of Pohlheim is shaped by the Free Protestant Community Pohlheim and the Evangelical City Mission , which is represented in three districts. There is also a New Apostolic Church in Watzenborn-Steinberg.

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
     
A total of 37 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 38.6 14th 39.1 14th 41.2 15th 39.4 15th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 31.8 12 34.5 13 35.5 13 40.4 15th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 9.6 4th 13.9 5 7.3 3 6.7 2
FWG Free community of voters 14.2 5 9.8 4th 11.8 4th 9.1 3
FDP Free Democratic Party 5.8 2 2.7 1 4.1 2 4.2 2
total 100 37 100 37 100 37 100 37
Voter turnout in% 51.0 49.2 47.6 58.5

mayor

Mayor of the city of Pohlheim has been Udo Schöffmann (CDU) since February 1, 2015, who was elected on September 28, 2014 with an absolute majority of 56.4%.

coat of arms

On May 15, 1975, the city of Pohlheim received approval to use the coat of arms described below.

Description of the coat of arms :
“In red a curly golden tip with a blue Limes watchtower; in front a golden oak branch, behind two golden eighth notes set in golden lines. "

Town twinning

The town of Pohlheim maintains town twinning with the market town of Admont in Austria , the town of Zirc in Hungary and the Saxon town of Strehla .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Natural monuments

Sports

  • The city's largest sports club is TV07 Watzenborn-Steinberg with 1700 members. The range on offer ranges from aerobics, diving, gymnastics and tennis to cardiovascular and senior sports courses. In addition to numerous popular sports, competitive sports - especially gymnastics and swimming - are particularly encouraged.
  • In 1927 the football club SC Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg was founded. The association has over 500 members. After a season in the Regionalliga in the 2016/17 season, the 1st team has now been playing in the Hessenliga since 2018 under the name FC Gießen .
  • In 1962 the Steinkopf glider pilot group was founded. The association currently has over 100 members. The association has been operating the Pohlheim glider airfield since 1973 . The training is offered in the areas of glider flying , motor glider and ultralight .
  • The Aramaic football club FC Turabdin-Babylon Pohlheim plays in the Holzheim district .
  • In 1928, the Garbenteich sports club was founded. The association has over 1000 members. Long-standing member of the board (since 1948) and president since 1967 is Ewald Stumpf.
  • The handball departments of TV Holzheim, TV Hausen, TV Grüningen, SV Garbenteich and TV07 Watzenborn-Steinberg have formed the HSG Pohlheim since 2001 . In 1998, the youth teams of all Pohlheim sports clubs (Garbenteich, Grüningen, Hausen, Holzheim, Watzenborn-Steinberg) were brought together under the umbrella of the JSG Limes. This was dissolved when the HSG Pohlheim was founded and transferred to it.
  • Although there is no ice rink in Pohlheim and the surrounding area, the Pohlheim ice and roller sports club was founded by roller skaters in the 1990s.
  • Originally founded in 1961 as a football club, the Neue Sportclub (NSC) Watzenborn-Steinberg, with 15 teams and around 300 members, has developed into one of the largest table tennis clubs in the Hessian table tennis association .
  • In the dance department of CV-1956 "The Mollys" Watzenborn-Steinberg e. V. more than 100 girls and young women practice the carnival-style guard and show dance, and the individual category Mariechentanz is also occupied. On the way to the top German dance sport, Hessian championship titles (last 2016) and qualifications for the South German championships, as well as in the show dance of the active (trainer Lisa Schäfer) 2015 for the German championships are won.
  • The AMSC Pohlheim e. V. (Auto Motor Sport Club) was founded in 1972 and, with around 140 members, is one of the largest motorsport clubs in Hesse in the areas of rallying and kart slalom .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Watzenborn-Steinberg stop

Pohlheim is with the Watzenborn-Steinberg and Garbenteich stops on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line , on which regional trains run almost every hour. The Watzenborn-Steinberg stop is in the Petersweiher area , which belongs to the city of Gießen. The tariffs of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund apply in public transport .

Furthermore, Pohl home is on the A 5 Frankfurt-Kassel, junction remote forest , the A 45 Hanau-Dortmund ( Sauerlandlinie ), junction coins mountain and the junction casting, Schiffenberger valley of A 485 (Giessen ring) distance.

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the Grüningen district . This follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

Economic structure

This is how things work in the Gießen district: 0.6% of employees work in agriculture and forestry, 26.6% in the manufacturing industry and 72.8% in the service sector.

tax income

In the Gießen district, an average of 602.9 euros in municipal taxes are collected per inhabitant. In relation to the Federal Republic of Germany, this value is in the middle range of the Federal Republic of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany average: 494 euros).

Personalities

literature

  • Waldemar Küther (arrangement): Pohlheim: young town on the Pfahlgraben; the history of their districts , Magistrat der Stadt Pohlheim (ed.), Herr, Gießen 1982
  • Pohlheim: Information brochure with city map , 8th edition, WEKA-Info-Verl., Mering 2004
  • Cultural monuments in Hessen. District of Gießen II: The municipalities of Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim and Rabenau , monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (publisher), Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3806221787

Web links

Commons : Pohlheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Pohlheim, district of Gießen ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 23 kB) of March 7, 2005 (GVBl I p. 142) last amended by the law of March 24, 2010 (GVBl I p. 119) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-pohlheim.org
  3. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 365 .
  5. ↑ Amalgamation of communities to form the community "Pohlheim", district of Gießen on January 6, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 4 , p. 140 , point 165 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  6. ↑ Karl-Heinz Meier barley, Karl Reinhard Hinkel: Hesse. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation . Ed .: Hessian Minister of the Interior. Bernecker, Melsungen 1977, DNB  770396321 , OCLC 180532844 , p. 307 .
  7. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 97 kB) § 6. In: Website. Municipality of Pohlheim, accessed August 2020 .
  8. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  9. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  10. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  11. ^ Statute for the protection of the city arms , accessed on June 30, 2010