Ruppertshain

Ruppertshain City of Kelkheim (Taunus) Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 26 ″ N , 8 ° 24 ′ 3 ″ E
Height :	360 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.5 km²
Residents :	2142
Population density :	476 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Incorporated into:	Rossert
Postal code :	65779
Area code :	06174

The former lung clinic

Obituary notice for Fritz Hallgarten , from 1908 to 1924 chairman of the association that ran the Ruppertshain pulmonary hospital

Ruppertshain (in the local dialect Ruppsch ) is one of the six districts of Kelkheim (Taunus) in the Main-Taunus district in southern Hesse .

geography

The Eichkopf (right in the foreground) is 563.3 meters, the highest mountain in the Main-Taunus-Kreis .

Ruppertshain is 365 m above sea level. NN in the High Taunus , on the Taunushauptkamm , and is thus one of the highest places on the southern side of the Taunus facing Frankfurt. Ruppertshain borders the Kelkheim district of Eppenhain in the west, Kelkheim- Fischbach in the south, Königstein im Taunus in the east and Schloßborn (municipality of Glashütten) in the north .

The altitude and the view of the Rhine-Main plain make Ruppertshain a popular place to live.

At 563.3 meters, the Eichkopf is the highest mountain in the Main-Taunus district .

history

The charcoal burner settlement Ruppertshain (Ruprechtshan) was first mentioned in a document in 1294 . In contrast to the numerous places in the area ending in -heim or -bach , which were created in the Franconian period (8th and 9th centuries), the places ending in -hain - such as Schneidhain , Mammolshain , Neuenhain and Altenhain - date from the late medieval period Land development , as well as steep slopes were used to build villages.

In the late 19th century, Ruppertshain became a climatic health resort , mainly tuberculosis patients were treated here.

On December 31, 1971, Ruppertshain and Eppenhain merged to form the community of Rossert . The community Rossert in turn went on January 1, 1977 in the course of the regional reform in Hesse in the city of Kelkheim.

Population development

As of December 31 of each year, the following were registered with their main residence in Ruppertshain:

2005: 2228
2008: 2070
2011: 2096
2013: 2141
2015: 2121
2019: 2142

(Source: respective official gazette of the city of Kelkheim)

Culture and sights

"Ruppertshain" is the title and setting of a 1985 novel by Martin Mosebach .

Buildings

The most famous building in Ruppertshain is a former lung sanatorium, the Gerhard Domagk Clinic. The clinic, which was closed in 1982, was built in 1895 by the Frankfurt convalescent association with the significant participation of the patron Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild from neighboring Königstein .

Walther Amelung , whose father helped found the clinic, describes the clinic as the first public health facility in Germany .

In the 1990s, the clinic building was used as a temporary residence for emigrants from Eastern Europe and residents of the GDR who had emigrated. Artists, service providers and a restaurant have settled in the so-called Zauberberg (since the renovation based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mann ).

The old town hall, built as a schoolhouse from 1888 to 1889, was used as Ruppertshain's town hall from 1910 to 1971. After that it was the town hall of the community of Rossert until January 1st, 1977 and is now the club house of the Alemannia-Concordia 1874 Ruppertshain e. V. used.

Monuments

Hollow stone (natural monument)
Medieval road barrier "Landsgraben" (ground monument)

In addition to the two natural monuments, there are two more monuments in Ruppertshain:

Cenotaphs
Memorial stone to the end of the French occupation in 1930

Literary reception

Ruppertshain is a regular location in the Taunus crime series by the author Nele Neuhaus (investigator duo Kirchhoff / von Bodenstein).

traffic

Ruppertshain has a connecting road to each of the neighboring towns. The main street of the village is Robert-Koch-Straße .

Four bus lines of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund serve Ruppertshain at a total of five bus stops and connect the place with all other Kelkheimer districts, the city of Liederbach, the city of Königstein, the municipality of Glashütten, the municipality of Schmitten and the Main-Taunus-Zentrum in Sulzbach .

literature

Gerd S. Bethke: 700 years of Ruppertshain 1294–1994. In: Between Main and Taunus. Yearbook of the Main-Taunus-Kreis 1994. Ed. By the District Committee of the Main-Taunus-Kreis. T. Hofheim, Taunus, ISSN 0942-3419 , pp. 123-128.
Gerd S. Bethke: The field names of Ruppertshain. In: Rad und rafter. Journal of the Historisches Verein Rhein-Main-Taunus eV 28 (1999), ISSN 0342-2860 , pp. 3-33.
Walther Amelung : Be it as it may, it was so beautiful - life memories as contemporary history (= Edition Rasch ). Rasch Publication Service, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-9800951-0-X .
Literature about Ruppertshain in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

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

Kelkheim-Ruppertshain district. In: Internet presence. City of Kelkheim; accessed in August 2018
Ruppertshain, Main-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ruppertshain on the website of the city of Kelkheim , accessed in May 2019.
^ 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. 370 f .
↑ ^a ^b The former lung sanatorium in Ruppertshain - today the “Zauberberg” cultural center - as a sight of the city of Kelkheim . In: kelkheim.de, accessed on May 11, 2019.
^ Website of the magic mountain.
↑ Chronicle of the community of Ruppertshain from 1908 to 1945. From the local history of the community of Ruppertshain 1908 to 1945. (PDF; 209 kB) p. 13 (for the celebration on June 30, 1930 "on the occasion of the withdrawal of the French from the occupied territories" ). In: t-online.de, accessed on March 3, 2017 (private website, with editorial comments).
↑ Between Main and Taunus - The yearbook of the district 2016. In: taunus-nachrichten.de. February 3, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2017 ("Kelkheim occupied by French and English soldiers - nobody remembers that today. And yet, after the First World War , various places on the Taunus belonged to the ' bridgehead ' on the right bank of the Rhine , which was due to of the armistice negotiations in Compiègne . ").

[DF-1] Ruppertshain on the website of the city of Kelkheim , accessed in May 2019.

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-2] 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. 370 f .

[Ruppertshein-3] The former lung sanatorium in Ruppertshain - today the “Zauberberg” cultural center - as a sight of the city of Kelkheim . In: kelkheim.de, accessed on May 11, 2019.

[4] Website of the magic mountain.

[5] Chronicle of the community of Ruppertshain from 1908 to 1945. From the local history of the community of Ruppertshain 1908 to 1945. (PDF; 209 kB) p. 13 (for the celebration on June 30, 1930 "on the occasion of the withdrawal of the French from the occupied territories" ). In: t-online.de, accessed on March 3, 2017 (private website, with editorial comments).

[6] Between Main and Taunus - The yearbook of the district 2016. In: taunus-nachrichten.de. February 3, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2017 ("Kelkheim occupied by French and English soldiers - nobody remembers that today. And yet, after the First World War , various places on the Taunus belonged to the ' bridgehead ' on the right bank of the Rhine , which was due to of the armistice negotiations in Compiègne . ").