Rothenbergen

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Rothenbergen
Community of Gründau
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 59 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 130  (124-150)  m
Area : 5.59 km²
Residents : 3973  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 711 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 63584
Area code : 06051
Christ the King Church

Rothenbergen is the most populous district of the community of Gründau in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district .

geography

location

The place is in the Büdingen-Meerholzer Hügelland (main unit 233, formerly Ronneburger Hügelland, in the northeast part of the Rhine-Main lowland, main unit group 23), according to the natural spatial structure of Hesse, a wooded or wooded cultural landscape. The district covers 571 hectares (in 1949 296 hectares were arable land).

On the southern outskirts of the village the federal motorway 66 leads (A 66 from Wiesbaden via Frankfurt am Main and Hanau to the Fulda triangle with the "Gründau-Rothenbergen" junction ); the former federal road 40 with through town is now the district road (K 903).

Rothenbergen has no rail connection, but the district can be reached by rail on the Frankfurt (Main) line through the Neue Brücke ( New Bridge) built in 1915 over the Kinzig (before there was only a small wooden walkway for pedestrians) via the Niedermittlau railway station, established in 1896 in the southern neighboring community of Hasselroth. –Hanau – Fulda easy to reach.

Geology and natural space

The soils created from loess layers and from Letten des Rotliegend are the basis of high-yield agriculture. Only the plateau north of the Kinzig valley belongs to the district, it consists of a north-east-south-west running mountain ridge and a flat undulating area to the west. The Gelnhäuser Kinzig valley , which is located south of the plateau and in which floods are frequent, occupies a special ecological position . The Kinzig flows through the district in a wide flat Muldental at 130 to 110 m above sea level. NN. Most of the district's forests consist of beech forest. The lowlands of the Kinzig are used as grassland, the rest of the landscape as arable land. Valuable biotopes in the landscape are woodland in the open country, orchards and near-natural flowing waters with adjacent wetland biotopes.

Neighboring marks

In the north Rothenbergen borders on the district of Gründau Niedergründau , in the east on that of the Lieblos district , in the south on that of the Meerholz district of the city of Gelnhausen, the Niedermittlau and Neuenhaßlau district of the Hasselroth community and in the west on the district of Langenselbold .

history

prehistory

A number of finds suggest an early settlement: Below the Hühnerberg (steep slope towards the Kinzig) are stone tools from the Neolithic and remains of a settlement from the time of the Bandkeramik , the Rössen and Michelsberg cultures and the Hallstatt and early La Tène times in the corridors of Vor der Lohe , Beim Kühborn , Wellesborn , Beune , Before the Scheiblingsgraben and Before the Niederwald . The finds of a stone ax and two stone axes come from above the place (already in today's district Niedergründau) and to the east of the place (in today's district Lieblos) another two stone axes.

middle Ages

The place was first mentioned in 1220. At that time the place was called Rodinberch . This place name means clearing on the mountain . In the middle of the village is the "Schiefersteinhof", an old royal estate .

Economic history

A status report on the local conditions in the first half of the 19th century can be found in a statistical survey from 1856: According to the census, there were 587 souls in 114 families in the place, of which 572 were Protestant and 2 were Catholic, Jews were 13 in 3 families; A total of 98 residential buildings, 20 private and 3 public wells and a fire-fighting pond were available. The wages of a farm hand annually amounted to 30 to 60  florins (approx. 402 to approx. 802 euros), the wages of a maid (annually) 20 to 40 florins (approx. 268 to 536 euros).

In the rather rural village of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, the agricultural sales and credit system was of great importance:
August 7, 1898 Foundation of the Rothenberger Savings and Loan Association
November 1, 1949 Renaming of the Rothenberger Savings and Loan Association to Raiffeisenkasse Rothenbergen
June 28, 1963 Merger of Raiffeisenkasse Rothenbergen and Raiffeisenkasse Lieblos to Raiffeisenkasse Lieblos
March 29, 1972 Merger of Raiffeisenkasse Lieblos and Meerholz to form Raiffeisenbank Mittlere Kinzig
May 11, 1990 Renaming of Raiffeisenbank Mittlere Kinzigenschluss to Raiffeisenbank Gelnhausen
, September 13th, 2001 Merging Bank Gelnhausen and the VR Bank Bad Orb-Gelnhausen under the company VR Bank Bad Orb-Gelnhausen eG

From 1920 there was electric light in the place; The supply of electrical energy came from the Kinzigmühle in Lieblos (water power), the turbines of which are still used to generate electricity today.

Gelnhausen-Rothenbergen Air Base

Before and during the Second World War (1936-1945), a military airfield (was on the southern outskirts airbase ) and the heavy beacon Otto 599 kHz (a ground system for air defense of the Reich).

From Lieblos station on the Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn, a track used to branch off to the air base built in 1936, which was used for the industrial area in Rothenbergen ( StEG - Staatliche Erfassungsgesellschaft , WIBAU, etc.) after the Second World War ; it has now been shut down and partially built over.

On April 1, 1949, WIBAU (Westdeutsche Industrie- und Straßenbaumaschinen GmbH) started operations with four employees. The head and founder of the largest industrial company in the Gelnhausen district in the following years was Dipl.-Ing. KH Matthias. After a change of ownership in 1980, the company went under with the IBH Holding .

Territorial reform

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the place came to the community of Gründau by law with effect from August 1, 1972.

Population development from 1600 to 2009

Residents 1600 1840 1914 1919 1925 1933 1939 1948 1949 1961 1970 2009
Rothenbergen 250 609 770 776 803 801 1009 1405 1469 1685 1991 3826

religion

Since December 17, 1967, the place has its own Protestant church , a brick building with a gray church tower. But he still belongs to the parish Auf dem Berg ( mountain church ) in the neighboring village of Niedergründau.

The Catholic Christ the King Church is in Rothenbergen . Construction began in autumn 1963, the consecration on July 11, 1965 (by Bishop Adolf Bolte , Fulda ); the church (280 seats) has the shape of a crown and large stained glass windows, a youth home and the apartment for the clergy.

In 2012 the Methodist Church celebrated its centenary. In 1970 a new church building was built.

Cultural monuments

See: List of cultural monuments in Gründau-Rothenbergen .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Budget plan of the community of Gründau 2014. p. 4 , archived from the original ; accessed in October 2018 .
  2. ↑ "Facts and Figures" on the website of the community of Gründau, accessed in October 2018.
  3. ^ Georg Rösch: Rothenberger Kinzigbrücke became wider . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Gelnhausen - 150 years Kreis Gelnhausen - Between Vogelsberg and Spessart 1971, published by the district committee of the Gelnhausen district, Gelnhausen 1970, p. 188 f.
  4. ^ Erwin Rückriegel: Interesting facts about the construction of the road from Rothenbergen to the Niedermittlau stop. In: Grindaha - annual books of the Gründau e. V. (Issue 10), Gründau 2000, p. 21 f.
  5. ↑ Hans Kreutzer: Rothenbergen - Settled as early as the Neolithic 5,000 years ago . In: Between Vogelsberg and Spessart, Heimat-Jahrbuch 1979, annual calendar for family and home in town and country between Vogelsberg and Spessart, published by the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, main administrative office Gelnhausen, Gelnhausen 1978, p. 36 ff.
  6. ↑ Hans Kreutzer and Fritz-Rudolf Hermann and State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Dept. for Prehistory and Early History (Ed.) Archaeological Monuments in Hesse 21 - The archaeological exploration of a small landscape in the central Kinzig Valley, 10 years of systematic observations 1971–1981 guide to one Exhibition in Gelnhausen-Meerholz, Wiesbaden 1981
  7. ↑ Maximilian Reutzel (from 1818 to 1859 parish administrator or pastor on the mountain (= Bergkirche Niedergründau )): Statistical survey of Rothenbergen from the year 1856 of the community Rothenbergen, Gelnhausen district (edited by Wilfried Günther). In: Grindaha - annual books of the Gründau e. V. (Issue 14), Gründau 2004, pp. 77–111
  8. ↑ VR Bank Bad Orb-Gelnhausen eG (ed.): 150 years of VR Bank Bad Orb-Gelnhausen eG . VR Bank archive, 2014 p. 20 f.
  9. ↑ http://renertec-gmbh.com/wasserkraft/
  10. ↑ Eckard Sauer: Crash in the Kinzigtal - Aviation in the Hessian Kinzigtal from 1895 to 1950 , 3rd edition, Gründau 2013 p. 140 f.
  11. ↑ Werner Kalinka: The guard at Rothenbergen Air Base . In: Grindaha, publications of the Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V., Issue 26, Gründau 2016 ISSN  2194-8631 , pp. 26-28
  12. ↑ Martin Ludwig: Henri Nannens imprisonment in the guard of the Rothenbergen air base . In: Grindaha, publications of the Geschichtsverein Gründau e. V., Issue 26, Gründau 2016 ISSN  2194-8631 , pp. 19-25
  13. ↑ Eckard Sauer: Crash in the Kinzigtal - Aviation in the Hessian Kinzigtal from 1895 to 1950 , 3rd edition, Gründau 2013, pp. 87–91
  14. ↑ Map: Soil Organization Greater Night Hunting / Luftflotte Reich 33 MB jpg
  15. ↑ Funkfeuer Otto at www.geschichtsspuren.de
  16. ^ Heinrich Goy: Large construction site Rothenbergen airfield . In: Between Vogelsberg and Spessart 2016, Gelnhausen Heimat-Jahrbuch, annual calendar for people in town and country between Vogelsberg and Spessart, District Committee of the Main-Kinzig District (publisher), Gelnhausen 2015 p. 123 ISBN 978-3-9808424- 7-1
  17. ↑ Stephan Boernecke, Michael Grabenströer: Nobody wants to be there - Wibau process: Ex-boss hides behind banks, auditors, etc. Supervisory boards . Zeitverlag Bucerius, issue 14 (March 29, 1985), Hamburg 1985, p. 22, ISSN 0044-2070
  18. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg (GVBl. II 330-19) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 230 , § 16 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  19. ↑ R. Heuchert and Martin Schäfer: Number table about the population and the economic conditions of our home district . In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Gelnhausen, 3rd edition, Gelnhausen 1950, p. 253
  20. ↑ Georg Rösch overview of the community administration of the Gelnhausen district in: Between Vogelsberg and Spessart - 1950 - Heimat-Jahrbuch des Gelnhausen district - Gelnhausen 1949, p. 98.
  21. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 363 .