Schwalheim

Schwalheim City of Bad Nauheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 22 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 50"  E
Height :	131 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.48 km²
Residents :	2130  (June 30, 2012)
Population density :	475 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	February 1, 1972
Postal code :	61231
Area code :	06032

The church of Schwalheim

Schwalheim is a district of Bad Nauheim in the Wetteraukreis in Hesse .

Geographical location

The district is located two and a half kilometers southeast of the core city of Bad Nauheim at an altitude of 140 m above sea ​​level . Schwalheim is separated from the city center in the west by the routes of Bundesstraße 3 , Bundesstraße 275 and the Main-Weser-Bahn . The district roads 174 and 175 run through the village. Schwalheim is located in the Wettertal .

history

prehistory

Coin finds in the Schwalheimer Sauerbrunnen prove that the mineral spring was already used in Roman times .

middle Ages

The place Schwalheim is mentioned for the first time in the so-called Codex Eberhardi of the Fulda monastery : " Rutheri tradidit deo et sancto Bonifacio in Wettereiba in Rodoheimere marca in villa Suabileheim predia et familiam suam ". The passage in question is dated to 790–817, the more recent date (817) being the most relevant for the first mention. The place name means "home of Swabilo".

After the death of Ulrich II von Munzenberg in 1255, Schwalheim was part of the Munzenberg inheritance and initially fell to the Lords of Falkenstein as an allod . After their extinction, it was bequeathed to the Lords of Eppstein in 1418 . These also died out in 1535. Schwalheim was bequeathed to the Counts of Stolberg . They pledged the village in 1572 and finally sold it to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg in 1578 . There it was integrated into the newly formed Dorheim Office in 1597 .

Modern times

The Reformation was gradually introduced in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg in the middle of the 16th century . This happened first in the Lutheran sense. In a "second Reformation", the denomination was changed again: From 1597 Count Philipp 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 made this largely binding for the County of Hanau-Munzenberg, including in Schwalheim. The higher church authority was now the consistory in Hanau .

As in the rest of the county of Hanau-Münzenberg, the Solms land law became customary here at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries . The Common Law applied only if the rules contained the Solmser land rights for a fact no provisions. The Solms land law remained valid in the 19th century, even in the Electorate of Hesse and the Hessian Grand Ducal period. It was not until the Civil Code of January 1, 1900, which was uniformly valid throughout the German Reich , that the old particular law was largely overridden.

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , In 1736, Landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel inherited the county of Hanau-Münzenberg and thus Schwalheim on the basis of an inheritance contract from 1643. In 1803 the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hesse . During the Napoleonic period, the Dorheim office 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. After the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, in the course of which the Electorate of Hesse was divided into four provinces and 22 districts, the Dorheim office became part of the newly formed Hanau district . After the lost war of 1866 , the Kingdom of Prussia annexed the Electorate of Hesse. However, in the peace treaty of September 3, 1866 , the Dorheim office was passed on from Prussia to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in an area swap, from whose territory it was completely surrounded. There the village of Schwalheim was incorporated into the Friedberg district, which belonged to the province of Upper Hesse . In 1908 the school was built in the village.

For February 1, 1972 Schwalheim was in the context of municipal reform in Hesse in the town of Bad Nauheim incorporated .

Residents

• 1821: 0730 inhabitants
• 1939: 0946 inhabitants
• 1961: 1428 inhabitants
• 1970: 1611 inhabitants

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on July 8, 1966 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon : "In a golden shield under three red rafters, a red wheel on blue and white wavy lines as a shield base."

In contrast to the community seal from the beginning of the 19th century, which shows the sovereign Hessian lion and the shield of the Counts of Hanau, i.e. purely historical symbols, the new coat of arms also contains a local symbol, namely the large wheel, which is a landmark Schwalheims is well known. The rule of the Counts of Hanau, which was exercised for three centuries, is impressively expressed by the fact that the three Hanau rafters are attached over the wheel and, as it were, roof it over.

Medicinal water

A waterwheel built on the Wetter River in 1748 was in operation until the late 1960s. From there, a wooden rod for power transmission led to the graduation buildings IV and V in Nauheim, with the help of which the brine was pumped onto the graduation buildings. Most of the linkage was dismantled.

In the direction of Dorheim , the Schwalheimer Sauerbrunnen and the Löwenquelle , both officially recognized medicinal springs, are located in a park-like area . The version of the Lion Spring in the style of reform architecture was planned by the architect Wilhelm Jost , who was also responsible for the construction of the Bad Nauheimer Sprudelhof and other buildings. Coins found in the fountain show that the water was valued as early as Roman times. The tasty spring water used to be sold all over the world. The well-keeper's house used to be a popular excursion destination. Today it houses a restaurant again.

A spa house was built in 1840, but it was demolished in 1962. The initially flourishing spa business failed when the neighboring Bad Nauheim rose to the spa with the Großer Sprudel .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural monuments in Bad Nauheim-Schwalheim

and display information about the image

View of the remains of the Motte Gewanneküppel between the sports field and the weather with the display board as part of the city history tour

Infrastructure

• The village has a community center , a daycare center , a primary school and a Protestant church built in. 1851
• A volunteer fire brigade has also been in town since 1936 .

literature

• Schwalheim History Working Group on behalf of the Magistrate of Bad Nauheim (ed.): 1200 Years of Schwalheim 817–2017. Bad Nauheim 2017.
• Karl Dielmann: Magistrate Otto Friedrich Zaunschliffer, the Schwalheimer Sauerbrunnen and the jug construction near Steinau . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter , Volume 24 (1973), pp. 157-175.
• Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 until the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform . (= Darmstädter Archivschriften , Volume 2.) 1976, p. 189.
• Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area. (= Writings of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of Hesse and Nassau , Volume 16.) 1937 (Reprint 1984), p. 33.
• Heinrich Meyer zu Ermgassen (Ed.): The Codex Eberhardi of the Fulda Monastery, Volume 4, The book decorations of the Codex Eberhardi. Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7708-1332-2 and ISBN 978-3-86354-137-8 .
• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Heinz Wionski (Ed.): Wetteraukreis II, Part 1, Friedberg to Wöllstadt . (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1999, ISBN 3-528-06227-4 , pp. 201-208.

Web links

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

• Schwalheim at www.bad-nauheim.de
• Schwalheim, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature about Schwalheim in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schwalheim, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ Bad Nauheim: Inhabitants HW and NW ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Meyer zu Ermgassen (Ed.): The Codex Eberhardi des Klosters Fulda, Vol. 2. Marburg (1996), p. 208, no. 114.
4. ↑ Herbert Pauschardt: From the history of a village in Wettertal - Rödgen Nauheim = Festschrift for the 750th anniversary (2010) of the Bad district. Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Bad Nauheim. Bad Nauheim 2010, p. 33.
5. ↑ Arthur Benno Schmidt : The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 75, note 65, as well as the enclosed map.
6. ↑ Alexander C. Jung: The Schwalheimers become Bad Nauheim citizens . In: Schwälemer Sandhoas 1 (2012), pp. 8–18.
7. ↑ Number after: Thomas Klein: Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1845 . Row A: Prussia. Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau including predecessor states. Marburg 1979, p. 109.
8. ^ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Schwalheim, district Friedberg from July 8, 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1966 No. 30 , p. 978 , item 695 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4,9 MB ]).