Seligenstadt

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Seligenstadt
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Seligenstadt highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′  N , 8 ° 59 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Offenbach
Height : 110 m above sea level NHN
Area : 30.85 km 2
Residents: 21,267 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 689 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 63500
Area code : 06182
License plate : OF
Community key : 06 4 38 013
LOCODE : DE SLT
Community structure: 3 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Marktplatz 1
63500 Seligenstadt
Website : www.seligenstadt.de
Mayor : Daniell Bastian ( FDP )
Location of the municipality of Seligenstadt in the Offenbach district
Neu-Isenburg Dreieich Langen (Hessen) Egelsbach Rödermark Dietzenbach Heusenstamm Mühlheim am Main Rodgau Obertshausen Hainburg Seligenstadt Mainhausen Darmstadt Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg Bayern Main-Kinzig-Kreis Offenbach am Main Kreis Groß-Gerau Frankfurt am Mainmap
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Benedictine monastery

Seligenstadt is a town in the Offenbach district in Hesse . It lies on the Main and was of great importance in Carolingian times. Since February 5, 2020, Seligenstadt has been nicknamed " Einhard Stadt".

geography

Geographical location

Seligenstadt is one of 13 cities and communities in the Offenbach district. The city is located in the east of the district about 25 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main on the left southwest bank of a right-turning Main bend . The river forms the border with Bavaria here . The Seligenstadt district covers around two thirds of the urban area with 2043 hectares, of which 1026 hectares are forested (as of 1961). Most of the forests are located in the southwest of the urban area, where the terrain level rises gradually from the 108-meter-high Main lowland up to 145 meters in the Kieselhecke forest district .

Neighboring communities

Seligenstadt borders in the north on the municipality of Hainburg , in the east on the municipality Karlstein ( district Aschaffenburg ), in the southeast on the municipality Mainhausen , in the south on the city of Babenhausen ( district Darmstadt-Dieburg ) and in the west on the city of Rodgau .

City structure

In addition to the core town of Seligenstadt, the urban area includes the two districts of Klein-Welzheim , located upstream of the Main in the east, and Froschhausen in the northwest.

history

In documents that have been preserved, Seligenstadt was mentioned under
the following names (year of mention):
Place name year
superior Mulinheim 815
Saligunstat 10th century
superiori Mulnheim,
quod moderno tempore Selgenstat nuncupatur 		933
Selegonostat 1002
Selgenstat 1012
Selingestat 1026
Saligenstat 1041
Molnheim nunc vero Seligunstat 1045
Selgenstat 1063
Saligenstad 1120
Seligenstad 1122
Selingestat 1136
Seliginstat 1247
Selingestat 1249
Selginstat 1255
Selgenstat 1256
Selegenstad 1266
Seligenstad 1336
Mülheim nunc act of bliss dicto 1405
Name of the settlement:
villa 815
civitas 1232

Antiquity

Neo-Romanesque west facade of the Einhard basilica

Around the year 100 AD, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajan, a cohort fort was built on the area of ​​today's Seligenstadt market square and parts of today's old town, the Castrum Selgum. The cohort stationed there was named Cohors I Civium Romanorum equitata and was responsible for the safety of the Limes section (also: Upper German Limes ) running along the Main . With the fall of the Limes during the Alemanni storms around the year 260 AD, the fort was abandoned and the Romans withdrew again behind the Rhine line . The early medieval settlement Mulinheim superior , Obermühlheim, was built on the ruins of the former fort and on today's monastery area in the valley section of the Breitenbach .

middle Ages

Former Benedictine abbey in Seligenstadt

The oldest known written mention of Seligenstadt, at that time as Obermühlheim , goes back to the donation of Ludwig I to Einhard in Michelstadt and, according to a copy of the deed of donation in the Codex Laureshamensis , dated January 11, 815. The city was named by Einhard, Karl's biographer of the great , founded. After receiving the Franconian domain Obermulinheim as a gift from Ludwig the Pious in 815 , he founded a Benedictine monastery here . A Count Drogo is mentioned as a previous owner. The bones of the martyrs Peter and Marcellinus , stolen in Rome , were transferred in 828 from the basilica in Steinbach in the Odenwald to Obermühlheim, which thus became a place of pilgrimage. The place name soon changed from Obermühlheim to Seligenstadt. The bones of the martyrs were initially kept in the Laurentius chapel of the manor, which, however, turned out to be too small in view of the influx of believers. Einhard began building the Einhard basilica , the landmark of the city on the Untermain, and, as its first lay abbot, founded a Benedictine abbey as a private monastery. The abbey received rich property through donations on both sides of the Main and, according to the oldest interest register, had income from 40 places shortly before 1000.

In 1028 a Roman Catholic synod was held in the city , the most important result of which was the introduction of the Quatember with strict rules of fasting. In 1063, Emperor Heinrich IV confirmed to the Archbishop of Mainz the legality of his possession of the abbey.

During a court day in Seligenstadt, Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa signed a marriage contract with King Alfonso VIII of Castile. During his reign, the place received city ​​rights , and a royal court ( palatium ) was built on the banks of the Main.

Palatium - Palatinate Seligenstadt

Seligenstadt founded in 1346, as one of nine cities, the nine cities federation of the Mainzer Oberstift. Initially equipped with local self-government (council constitution), the member cities were able to further emancipate themselves from their sovereign, the Archbishop of Mainz and the Mainz cathedral chapter in the course of the 15th century. Among other things, Seligenstadt had the right to raise and approve taxes independently. The right to self-government ended with the archbishop's decrees from 1527 and 1528, with which the league of towns was effectively dissolved.

Reformation and Renaissance

Seligenstadt - Excerpt from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian the Younger 1655

In 1527, the Archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht von Brandenburg, issued a new town code for the town, which severely restricted the rights of the citizens of Seligenstadt.

During the Thirty Years' War , around 1631, a Swedish commissioner administered the abbey on behalf of King Gustav Adolf . The citizens of Seligenstadt paid contributions to the King of Sweden , who in return refrained from burning down the houses, which was customary at the time. When he moved on with his army, the occupation soldiers left behind plundered the city and the abbey. It was not until 1685 that the abbot and convent buildings were rebuilt.

Modern times

Seligenstadt around 1845

Through the secularization of Kurmainz as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803, the office of Seligenstadt came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and the abbey was dissolved. In 1832 the district district of Seligenstadt was incorporated into the district of Offenbach and on May 1, 1882 the Hanau- Seligenstadt- Eberbach railway line was opened. In 1925, the Einhard Basilica of St. Marcellinus and Peter was opened by Pope Pius XI. raised to the papal basilica minor .

Commemorative inscription for the Jewish community in Seligenstadt in the valley of the communities in Yad Vashem

Seligenstadt had a Jewish community for centuries. In the early years of National Socialism , some of the 146 Jews in Seligenstadt emigrated as a result of disenfranchisement, boycotts and reprisals, the vast majority of them to North and South America. The synagogue was burned down during the November pogrom in 1938 . Jewish citizens were sometimes badly mistreated. Ten of them were driven to the prison in the cloister courtyard with blows and blows and then taken to Buchenwald concentration camp . In May 1939 there were 77 Jewish residents in the city. In 1941 the remaining Jews had to be accommodated in four “ Jewish houses ”; their number had been reduced to around 45 by the time the deportations began. In autumn 1942 they were taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp via collection points . A total of 103 of the Jews from Seligenstadt perished during the Nazi era. Immediately after the war, two returned to Seligenstadt from emigration, they were later buried in the local Jewish cemetery .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1977, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the neighboring communities of Froschhausen and Klein-Welzheim were incorporated by law. Local districts were not formed in Seligenstadt.

City legends

Legend of the renaming of Seligenstadt

According to a legend ( Eginhard and Emma ), the renaming of the city was not due to the storage of the remains of St. Peter and St. Marcelinus, but because the aforementioned Einhard , the adviser and biographer of Charlemagne, fled with his daughter Emma was. He lived with her in Obermulinheim. One day the emperor went through this town and entered the inn where his daughter Emma was now working. She served him pancakes, and the Emperor recognized the incomparable taste.

inscription

As a result, the well-known saying “Blessed be the city because I found my daughter Emma” is said to have originated, which can still be found today on the bay window of the so-called Einhardhaus (renovated in 1596) in Seligenstadt. As a result, the city was called blessed, the name Seligenstadt was born.

regional customs

Seligenstadt escort

Geleitsfest 2011: Arrival of the merchant trains from Augsburg and Nuremberg on the market square
Augsburg spoon books

The Seligenstädter Escort is a custom from the Middle Ages, unique in the Federal Republic of Germany , which has been preserved in a modified form to this day. In the Middle Ages, associations of merchants pulled their horse-drawn carts from all directions to the Frankfurt fair . Merchants from Augsburg and Nuremberg had to move across the Spessart or along the Main to the Seligenstadt rest area. The path was dangerous, as the rich merchants were a worthwhile destination for highwaymen and robber barons. Therefore, in 1240 the Staufer Emperor Friedrich II placed the merchants under imperial protection by means of a " safe conduct " letter . Since then, every sovereign concerned has been obliged to provide armed escort for those passing through for a fee. The escort force was changed near Seligenstadt. Kurmainzer escort soldiers handed over the convoy to Frankfurt protection troops. The " teasing custom " among merchants comes from this time . Newcomers had to drink the escort spoon, which could hold a liter of wine, in one go in order to be accepted into the merchant community. Those who did not pass the so-called “acid test” had to “keep free” the guild , i. H. pay the meals. This custom is in a moderate form in Seligenstadt to this day, the highlight of the festival of the home association Seligenstadt e. V. Since 2003 the working group Kaufmannszug has also been recreating a historic merchant's train every four years.

Brotherhood of the Steyffen Spoon

In order to maintain the tradition of the historical "spoon drink", the fraternity of Steyffen Spoon was founded in Seligenstadt in 1989 . The order master presides over the fraternity. His deputy is Fauth. The spoon group, which carries out the spoon drink with the candidates, consists of the spoon master, the examiner and the recorder. This also includes the spoon host and the so-called spoon girls who carry the large drinking spoons with a capacity of one liter on heavy wooden chains.

Seligenstadt Carnival

Motif car for the Rose Monday parade in 2006

The city of Seligenstadt is nationally known for its Fastnachtszug which is traditionally held on the Monday winds through the historic city center and the adjacent city. There is evidence that this Rose Monday procession has existed since 1859. Today the train has 99 elaborately designed train numbers and attracts an average of 40,000 visitors from near and far with this attraction. During the carnival season, the Seligenstadt fools call themselves “Schlumber” and their city “Schlumberland”. Every year a prince and child prince couple are chosen for the carnival season to rule the "Schlumberland". Seligenstadt is also one of the few cities that have two carnival parades. In addition to the Carnival Monday parade, there is a children's Carnival parade every Sunday. The Heimatbund Seligenstadt e.V. is responsible for the organization and the alignment. V.

The people of Seligenstadt have, unofficially, a Carnival flag that has been slightly modified from the Mainz flag. In this, the four colors are supplemented by the color green in the order green, white, blue, yellow, red. This is to signal that Seligenstadt has its own carnival. These flags can be found especially in the city center and at the thoroughbred fast nights.

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 34.8 13 43.4 16 51.7 19th 50.8 19th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 21.6 8th 21.5 8th 24.1 9 32.9 12
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 10.5 4th 16.6 6th 6.5 2 5.9 2
FDP Free Democratic Party 20.7 8th 9.0 3 10.2 4th 4.9 2
FWS Free voters Seligenstadt 12.5 4th 9.5 4th 7.5 3 5.5 2
total 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37 100.0 37
Voter turnout in% 49.3 49.7 47.6 56.0

A coalition of SPD, FDP and Free Voters has ruled since the last local election. The CDU and the Greens are in opposition.

In the local elections in 2006, individual CDU politicians from the Froschhausen district falsified the election, as a result of which the Darmstadt Administrative Court declared the local election in the postal voting district of the Froschhausen district invalid and ordered the postal vote to be repeated.

The city council has four committees:

  1. Committee on Education, Social Affairs and Culture
  2. Construction and Urban Development Committee
  3. Committee on Environment, Energy and Transport
  4. Main, Finance and Economic Development Committee

mayor

In 2003 Dagmar Nonn-Adams (independent, member of the FDP since 2019 ) was elected as the new mayor, she was confirmed in office in 2009. In July 2015, Daniell Bastian ( FDP ) was elected as the new mayor in the second ballot.

The past mayoral elections produced the following results:

year Candidates Political party Result
2015 Daniell Bastian FDP 50.9%
Claudia Bicherl CDU 49.1%
voter turnout 50.3%
2015 Claudia Bicherl CDU 41.7%
Daniell Bastian FDP 25.6%
Matthias Eiles independent 18.7%
Uwe Czupalla independent 7.2%
Angela Prokoph-Schmitt independent 6.9%
voter turnout 55.4%
2009 Dagmar Nonn-Adams independent 68.9%
Richard Georgi CDU 31.1%
voter turnout 53.4%
2003 Dagmar Nonn-Adams independent 53.9%
Joachim Bergmann CDU 46.1%
voter turnout 60.4%
1997 Rolf Wenzel SPD 62.8%
Joachim Bergmann CDU 37.2%
voter turnout 64.8%

badges and flags

Banner Seligenstadt.svg
Seligenstadt coat of arms
 Blazon : “Shield split. On the right in the golden field a half red armored and red crowned black eagle, on the left in the red field a half six-spoke silver wheel. Both figures at the gap. "

The coat of arms was designed in 1952 by the heraldist Georg Massoth. It was officially approved on December 4, 1952. The coat of arms is a combination of the imperial eagle and the Mainz wheel , which stand for Seligenstadt's time as an imperial city and later Kurmainzer official city.

The flag was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on October 23, 1957.

Description of the flag: "On a wide white central strip, next to two narrower red strips, the municipal coat of arms."

Town twinning

Seligenstadt has partnerships with the French community of Triel-sur-Seine (since 1967), the American city of Brookfield (since September 2008) and the Italian city of Piedimonte Matese (since September 2010).

In March 2008, the partnership that had existed since 1972 with the Dutch municipality of Heel was ended. This happened at the request of the municipality of Maasgouw , into which the former municipalities of Heel , Maasbracht and Thorn were merged on January 1, 2007. The partnership with Heel went back to the partnership between the formerly independent municipality of Klein-Welzheim, which now belongs to Seligenstadt, and the Dutch municipality of Wessem, which then belonged to Heel.

Culture and sights

  • The Steinheimer gate tower in the city wall

  • Einhardhaus

  • Street in the old town

  • Romanesque house

  • Romanesque house (detail)

  • City fortification with bulwark tower

  • Town hall on the market square

  • Water tower at the level crossing

Sacred buildings

Einhard basilica
The garden of the monastery complex
Einhard basilica and monastery garden

The most important building in Seligenstadt is the Einhard Basilica of St. Marcellinus and Peter with relics of Saints Marcellinus and Peter ; since 1925 she wears the Pope Pius XI. conferred honorary title of a minor basilica . Although the building has changed a lot over the centuries, it is still one of the most impressive basilicas with Carolingian structures north of the Alps.

The Benedictine monastery complex to the south, closed in 1803, with baroque wing structures and large courtyards and gardens has been fully restored.

Profane structures

There are still two relics from the time of Friedrich Barbarossa (12th century):

Of the palatium on the banks of the Main, also known as the Red Castle , only the main front with double and triple arcades with overhanging arches made of red sandstone remains . With a base area of ​​47 m × 14 m, the rectangular building was small compared to other imperial palaces. The first restoration work took place in 1938; the reconstruction work on the south and west walls has been in progress since 1996.

The so-called Romanesque house ("domus lapidea") dates from the same time, made of stone, with large arcades in the basement, double arcades on the first floor with a central column and overhanging arch and a blind arcade under the stepped gable. In 1187 the building was the bailiwick and in 1188 the venue for Barbarossa's court assembly . It was restored in 1984. In 1986 the Romanesque House was awarded the Monument Protection Prize of the State of Hesse . In the 21st century, cultural events and civil weddings take place there.

The city ​​fortifications laid out in the 12th century and reinforced in the 15th century originally had four gate towers and six bulwark towers. Of the city gates, only the Steinheimer Tor has survived from 1603 to 1605; three of the bulwark towers are still standing. The main front of the palatium was integrated into the city wall, which also included ramparts and moats. Most of the city fortifications were demolished in the 19th century.

The town hall on the market square was renewed in 1823 and is the only classical building with large arcades in the middle of half-timbered houses that is architecturally out of the ordinary. Two heraldic stones with dragon heads from the previous building documented in 1539 are integrated. The square tower comes from the former parish church, which was demolished when the municipal parish took over the Einhard basilica in 1812 after the Benedictine abbey was dissolved.

The 51.70 meter high water tower built in 1938 is listed as a cultural monument in the monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. What is striking is its "pimple hood-shaped" roof construction, which resembles a baroque castle tower. The original elevated water tank, which could hold 500 m³ of water and provided the necessary pressure in the drinking water network, now houses nesting boxes for kestrels and six different antennas for the fire brigade, disaster control and mobile phone network operators. Up until the 1990s, the water tank was used to store fire water for the adjoining hospital.

Half-timbered architecture

Marketplace
"Schiffsbrücke" in the cloister courtyard (it was part of a temporary exhibition and is now on the Main between Seligenstadt and Klein-Welzheim)

Seligenstadt has a large number of historic buildings and half-timbered houses from the 17th and 18th centuries, some of which are listed. That is why the city is also part of one of the nine routes of the German Half-timbered Road ( Rhine - Main - Odenwald route ).

Most of these two- to three-storey half-timbered houses are on the market square and in the surrounding streets (especially Steinheimer Straße, Kleiner and Großer Fischergasse, Kleiner and Großer Maingasse, Freihofstraße). Examples are the Alte Schmiede (No. 13, now a restaurant), Markt 7 and 10, the historic pharmacy with the emblem of the pharmacist with a mortar, the so-called Einhard House from 1596 with a richly decorated bay window, the house at Steinheimer Strasse / corner Stadtmühlengasse (1697), Freihofplatz 3 (1567), the small house at Freihofstrasse 4 (souvenir shop) and many others.

The half-timbered district of Klaa-France in Rosengasse has a special historical reason: After the Thirty Years War, Abbot Leonhard Colchon settled people from his Walloon homeland here after the local population had been decimated by fighting, famine and the plague. Personal names like Beike, Massoth, Bonifer, Dutine, Oger and Assion still point to this francophone settlement.

Structures outside the city center

  • In the district of Klein-Welzheim, near the historic monastery fish ponds, there is a moated castle in the style of a medieval castle , but with baroque additions, which the Seligenstadt abbot designed as a summer residence in 1707. It is part of the Rhine-Main Regional Park .
  • In the Froschhausen district, the community's former town hall is of particular importance. When it was built in 1939, the former church of the parish at this point was demolished. However, the church tower was integrated into the new town hall building. The old town center of Froschhausen has some other neat half-timbered buildings.

Museums

  • Former Benedictine abbey
  • Mardi Gras Museum
  • Pinball and arcade museum of the For Amusement Only association
  • Gallery art forum in the old house
  • RegioMuseum Seligenstadt (regional museum of the Offenbach district)

Einhard Prize

A legal foundation under civil law was set up in 1998 to maintain Einhard's legacy. The purpose of the foundation is to illustrate the idea of ​​European unification at the level of a traditional city and to make the roots of European nations visible. The purpose of the foundation is achieved in particular through the awarding of a literary prize named after Einhard as well as the scientific cultivation of memory and research on Einhard and his time.

Sports

There are two tennis facilities, a municipal sports center, five sports facilities and seven gyms.

In 1965, the open-air swimming pool with four pool areas was opened in Seligenstadt. Training takes place.

societies

The club culture is an important part of the Seligenstadt identity. Over 190 clubs are based in the city.

The Heimatbund Seligenstadt is active as the umbrella organization of the Seligenstadt clubs; in addition to the Seligenstadt clubs, this also includes individual clubs from the districts. In each of the districts there is the Froschhausen Club and the Klein-Welzheim Club. Around 30 clubs and associations are affiliated to the Froschhausen club, and around 15 clubs and associations to the Klein-Welzheim club.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Seligenstadt has its own motorway junction on federal motorway 3 . The Seligenstädter Dreieck, named after Seligenstadt, lies a little further east on the border between the two neighboring communities of Mainhausen and Stockstadt am Main ( Bavaria ).

Seligenstadt station in 1980

Seligenstadt station is on the Hanau - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach (- Erbach ) line, the 641 route book of Deutsche Bahn ( Odenwaldbahn ), which opened on May 1, 1882. The Seligenstadt (Hessen) train station has two platforms as well as a crossing point for the trains, which is not required as planned. VIAS Rail GmbH runs the RB86 line from Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach to Hanau and vice versa every hour on behalf of RMV. In addition, there are trains on the RE85 line from Groß-Umstadt-Wiebelsbach and partially Erbach to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf and vice versa every two hours.

The Kreis-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft Offenbach (KVG ) acts as a local public transport company and authority in the Rhein-Main transport association in the local public transport sector .

Long-distance cycle routes

Run along the left bank of the Main:

dishes

Seligenstadt has a local court that belongs to the district court district Darmstadt and the OLG district Frankfurt am Main .

media

  • Offenbach-Post - the publishing house is based in Offenbach am Main and reports regularly in the regional section about Seligenstadt. It has an editorial office in Seligenstadt.
  • Seligenstädter Heimatblatt - has been published once a week since 1949. The publisher is Pressehaus Bintz-Verlag GmbH & Co.KG.
  • Courier on the market square - reports on Seligenstadt and the surrounding communities Mainhausen and Hainburg .
  • The “Our Seligenstadt” web portal is a joint initiative of the city of Seligenstadt, the local trade association and SeligenStadtMarketing GmbH.
  • The Seligenstädter - monthly magazine and city illustrated. Is published by the Rackmedia publishing house in Seligenstadt.

natural reserve

NSG Affelderchen and Radichbruch from Klein-Welzheim

The nature reserve Affelderchen and Radichbruch von Klein-Welzheim (NSG identification 1438007) is located between the Seligenstadt district of Klein-Welzheim in the north and the state road L 2310 in the south in the natural area of ​​Seligenstädter Senke. It comprises around 51.23 hectares of forest, which is located in the urban area of ​​Seligenstadt.

Various types of orchid ( Dactylorhiza and Epipactis species), fever clover ( Menyanthes trifoliata ), swamp and meadow iris ( Iris pseudacorus and Iris sibirica ) and marsh fern ( Thelypteris palustris ) can be named as floristic features. The species-rich meadows are cared for by an adapted mowing concept for the optimal season. As a result, the plant population has developed positively in recent years. In Affelderchen breed among others backed Shrike and reed warbler , the cuckoo occurs as a breeding parasite. The oriole is a regular breeding bird in the radish break.

The protection purpose is the preservation and development of the nature reserve as a location for a variety of plant species in Hesse and the Federal Republic of Germany that are endangered, as well as a breeding and food biotope for several equally endangered bird species. Since at least 2015 the raccoon has also been spreading as a neozoon in the water-rich nature reserve and the surrounding area .

NSG Kortenbach near Froschhausen

The nature reserve Kortenbach bei Froschhausen (NSG identification 1438029) is located between Seligenstadt and Froschhausen and in the south between the A3 motorway, the L 2310 state road and a golf course. It covers around 40.5 hectares of forest in the urban area of ​​Seligenstadt.

In the NSG there are deciduous forests that are fresh to the ground and hardwood floodplain relic forests with valuable old stands; the area is traversed by the Werniggraben . The old white elms ( Ulmus laevis ) in the NSG are endangered by lowering of the groundwater.

The purpose of the protection is to preserve and develop a forest consisting of freshly ground deciduous forests and hardwood floodplain relict forests with valuable old stands and the Werniggraben with adjacent agriculturally used areas as a habitat for numerous endangered animal and plant species.

NSG Langhorst von Hainburg and Seligenstadt

The nature reserve Langhorst von Hainburg and Seligenstadt (NSG identification 1438025) lies between the Hainburg district of Hainstadt and the Seligenstadt district of Froschhausen.

It covers around 82.27 hectares of forest, which is located in the urban area of ​​Seligenstadt and Hainburg. It consists of typical and particularly charming landscape elements of the Holocene Main floodplain with near-natural, species- and structure-rich deciduous forests as well as extensive grasslands with valuable wet meadows . They are traversed by Werniggraben and Weihersbach .

In terms of landscape history, these brooks are relics of post-glacial arms of the Main. The meadows and grassland use is largely extensified Service.

The purpose of the protection is to preserve and develop typical and particularly attractive landscape elements of the Holocene Main floodplain with natural deciduous forests rich in species and structures and extensive grassland areas with valuable wet meadows.

NSG Pechgraben near Klein-Krotzenburg

The nature reserve Pechgraben near Klein-Krotzenburg (NSG identification 1438022) lies between Seligenstadt and Klein-Krotzenburg .

It comprises around 34.04 hectares of forest in the urban area of ​​Seligenstadt. It is made up of semi-natural deciduous forests, wet grassland, reed beds and great sedge beds and is traversed by the eponymous pitch moat, a last relic of a post-glacial flood channel of the Main .

The purpose of the protection is to preserve and develop a part of the Holocene Main floodplain that is particularly rich in species and structure with semi-natural deciduous forests, valuable wet grassland, reeds and sedge beds as a habitat for numerous endangered animal and plant species.

NSG Schwarzbruch von Seligenstadt.jpg

The nature reserve Schwarzbruch von Seligenstadt (NSG identification 1438018) is located in the west of Seligenstadt between the state road L 2310 and the Harressee in Froschhausen and includes around 34 hectares of forest in the urban area of ​​Seligenstadt.

With the same layout, the nature reserve is also designated as FFH area DE-5919-303 NSG Schwarzbruch von Seligenstadt and NSG Pechgraben near Seligenstadt. This makes it part of the European Natura 2000 network of protected areas.

The Schwarzbruch is part of the Holocene Main floodplain with extensive wet grassland, deciduous forests and several ponds. It emerged from a silted-up, post-glacial oxbow lake of the Main . The removal of the peat layer there, up to two meters thick, created pools and ponds - an ideal habitat for amphibians. Earlier there were frog and toad very numerous; after the construction of a golf course, their stocks decreased significantly.

The purpose of the protection is to preserve and develop a part of the Holocene Main floodplain that is particularly rich in species and structure with semi-natural deciduous forests, valuable wet grassland, reeds and sedge beds as a habitat for numerous endangered animal and plant species. The landscape emerged from a post-glacial main arm, silted up to a layer of peat. Its dismantling created ponds and ponds. However, these spawning grounds for amphibians are endangered by shrub succession and shade.

schools

safety

  • The Seligenstadt police station of the PPSOH is located in the former Seligenstadt district court in Giselastraße and is responsible for the municipalities of Seligenstadt, Mainhausen and Hainburg .
  • The city of Seligenstadt operates three volunteer fire brigades with around 120 active emergency services. The fire brigade of the city center is housed in the fire station at Frankfurter Strasse 31 with 13 vehicles and 60 women and men. The emergency services are deployed around 160 times a year. The main areas of operation include the federal autobahn 3 and 45 as well as the Main waterway . In the districts of Klein-Welzheim and Froschhausen there are also operational departments with 30 emergency services and three vehicles each. The districts are called to an average of 30 alarms per year. According to the HBKG, the head of the fire brigades is the incumbent mayor. The city fire inspector Alexander Zöller and his deputy Thorsten Ott (elected in 2014, for four years) take on the leading tasks. Full-time employees are two people during the day.
  • The full-time ambulance service of the Offenbach district is stationed in the Seligenstadt Asklepios Clinic and at the Weiskirchen motorway service station, each with two ambulances . There is also an NEF location in the Froschhausen industrial area near the Weiskirchen motorway service station. The NEF location and the RTW location at the motorway service station will be merged into a new rescue station building in the Froschhäuser industrial area in 2016.
  • The DRK local association Seligenstadt has its domicile with 32 active forces in the north of Seligenstadt.
  • The THW local association in Seligenstadt is also domiciled in the north of Seligenstadt. The task force moved into its new accommodation in 2012, which houses two rescue groups and the specialist groups on water hazards and lighting.
  • The DLRG local group has its home at the Seligenstadt open-air swimming pool. It provides a current rescue squad and a boat squad. The units are involved in the disaster control of the state of Hesse. The equipment of the 30-man emergency team includes two motor rescue boats, a raft and three emergency vehicles, as well as a diving equipment vehicle for the country.
  • The Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund , which at that time had moved into a garage in Erich-Kästner-Strasse opposite the Froschhausen fire department, has already dissolved.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • April 20, 1921: Franz Xaver Dorn (* February 17, 1852, † February 10, 1927), school principal
  • Theodor Eichberger jun. (* April 29, 1867, † January 8, 1938), founder of the St. Marcellinus & Peter bell of the basilica
  • Franz Boeres (born September 4, 1872, † May 24, 1956)
  • Fritz Brother (born May 30, 1907, † 1975)
  • July 2000: Marcellin Spahn (born October 31, 1928, † April 1, 2005)
  • November 2009: Hubert Post

Froschhausen

The formerly independent community of Froschhausen made three fellow citizens honorary citizens in the years before its incorporation in 1977 :

  • Ernst Braun (born January 25, 1914, † January 27, 2002), doctor; Street names in the Schildhecke building area
  • Josef Gremm (1910–1984), pastor; Street names in the Schildhecke building area
  • Josef Happel (born June 21, 1923, † January 5, 2019), local politician

sons and daughters of the town

  • Johannes Herbort von Seligenstadt, printer in Venice around 1480.
  • Hans Memling , * around 1433 in Seligenstadt, † August 11, 1494 in Bruges , German painter of the Dutch school.
  • Johannes Joducus Reuss , born July 15, 1765, † December 2, 1838, medical advisor, forensic doctor, official physician and city physician in Aschaffenburg who was honored by Rudolf Virchow
  • Franz Jakob Nessel , born June 30, 1808 in Seligenstadt; † December 13, 1862 in Beerfelden, district judge and member of the state parliament
  • Nikolaus Reuss , born September 21, 1809 in Seligenstadt, † May 12, 1890 in Worms , Catholic parish priest and honorary citizen of Worms
  • Johann David Wissel , born August 11, 1818 in Seligenstadt; † May 23, 1863, Mayor of Seligenstadt and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Land estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • Isaak Bacharach , born December 2, 1854 in Seligenstadt, † September 22, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto , German mathematician.
  • Hermann Josef Wolz , born October 1, 1827 in Seligenstadt; † February 1, 1895 there, member of the Hessian state parliament (center) and mayor of Seligenstadt
  • David Singer , February 24, 1865 in Seligenstadt; † February 10, 1932 there, Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Land estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Mayor of Seligenstadt from 1903 to 1931.
  • Franz Boeres , born September 4, 1872 in Seligenstadt, † May 24, 1956 in Stuttgart , sculptor and painter.
  • Johann Philipp Hofmann , born December 22, 1873 in Seligenstadt, † October 21, 1926 there, member of the state parliament.
  • Käthe Sturmfels , born November 25, 1878 in Seligenstadt, † November 15, 1958 in Darmstadt , writer.
  • Otto Sturmfels , born May 19, 1880 in Seligenstadt, † April 2, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp , member of the state parliament.
  • Heinrich Galm , born October 23, 1895 in Seligenstadt, † October 30, 1984 in Offenbach am Main , socialist politician.
  • Franz Singer , born September 8, 1898 in Seligenstadt, † July 22, 1953 in Saarbrücken , journalist and politician in Saarland.
  • Walter Wilz , born October 20, 1937 in Seligenstadt, † 1983 in Munich , actor.
  • Ulfrid Neumann , born August 20, 1947, lawyer and university professor.
  • Frank Lortz , born June 5, 1953 in Seligenstadt, member and vice president of the Hessian state parliament and chairman of the association ring in Froschhausen.
  • Martin Diepgen , born August 27, 1956, local politician (CDU).
  • Ralf Weber , born May 31, 1969, soccer player.
  • Gina-Lisa Lohfink , born September 23, 1986, model and It-Girl
  • Cenk Güvenç , born December 29, 1991, football player

Other personalities in Seligenstadt

  • Elisabeth Langgässer (1899–1950), poet and writer, taught from 1920 to 1928 temporarily at the elementary school (boys' school) in Seligenstadt. During this time she began her relationship with the constitutional lawyer Hermann Heller .
  • Theodor Eichberger (1835–1917), writer, humorist, sculptor and fastnacht man, born December 28, 1835 in Mainz, † May 3, 1917 in Seligenstadt.
  • René Rock (* 1967), city councilor and since 2017 parliamentary group chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament.

Victims of National Socialism

The list of stumbling blocks in Seligenstadt lists the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide under National Socialism.

Main ferry

Technical specifications
Surname "City of Seligenstadt"
Length over all 28 meters
Width over everything 8.40 meters
Lane width 5.25 meters
Draft (empty) 0.62 meters
Draft (loaded) 1 meter
Load capacity 45 tons
drive 2 Iveco drive motors
propeller 2 Schottel propellers SRP 30
Board power 24 volts
speed 5 knots
Keel laying February 1971
Installation May 1971
Hours of
operation so far		 over
75,000 hours

Today's Main Ferry (formerly called "Newe") is a free-moving carriage ferry and crosses the Main at Main km 69.60. It has been in operation since 1971. There were already two or three ferries before it (the exact number can no longer be determined today) connecting the Hessian city of Seligenstadt with the Bavarian Main side - communities of Kahl and Karlstein am Main . The ferry is operated by the Seligenstädter Stadtwerke and incurs high losses every year, partly because of the high administrative costs. That is why it has often been discussed whether a bridge should be built over the Main instead of the ferry (as happened in Mainflingen ) or whether the car ferry should be replaced by a pedestrian / cyclist ferry. One is also toying with the idea of ​​having the ferry operated by a private company in order to save costs. It is one of twelve ferries that still cross the Main today.

history

There has been a constant connection across the Main since the ninth century, as the Seligenstadt monastery had the right to transport people and goods to the other side of the Main. This right was passed on for money or in kind, from which the “ferry justice” developed. This “ferry justice” usually remained in the possession of a family for many years and could be passed on. When the monastery was dissolved in 1803, the ferry rights were transferred to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the ferry service was leased. In 1868 the city of Seligenstadt took over all rights and privileges for the Main River from the ferrymen at the time for 4,000 guilders. At that time, the city leased the ferry rights to the highest bidder. The city only took over the ferry again after the Second World War . First, a non-motorized ferry boat was purchased, which was not converted into a free-moving ferry until 1957.

  • A Glaabsbräu truck leaves the ferry around 1965

  • Main ferry when mooring in Seligenstadt

  • Main ferry Seligenstadt 2019

Oddities

The people of Seligenstadt used the nickname Schlumper, Schlumber. The name has the following meanings: "Inordinately long, hanging loose dress", "One who walks carelessly slowly" and "Little Main Schelch " with a load capacity of around 250 to 280 quintals.

literature

  • Rainer Atzbach : The Palatium in Seligenstadt. City rule in archaeological evidence from early history to the 13th century . In: Uta von Freeden u. a. (Ed.): Faith, cult and rule. Phenomena of the religious in the 1st millennium AD in Central and Northern Europe. Files of the 59th Int. Saxon Symposium and the basic problems of the early Development in the Central Danube region. Rom.-Germ. Commission, Frankfurt a. M., Eurasia Dept. Berlin of the German Archaeological Institute. (= Colloquia for pre- and early stage 12). Bonn 2009, pp. 461-480.
  • Rainer Atzbach: The Palatium in Seligenstadt - A palace building by Friedrich I. Barbarossa. Seligenstadt Historical Sponsorship Association, 1996.
  • Rainer Atzbach: The St. Laurentius Chapel in Seligenstadt. Seligenstadt Historical Support Group, 1997.
  • Magnus Backes and Hans Feldtkeller : Art-historical hiking guide Hessen. Licensed edition 1984, ISBN 3-88199-133-6 .
  • Einhard: Translatio et Miracula SS. Marcellini et Petri. In: Georg Waitz , Wilhelm Wattenbach u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 15.1: Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars III. Supplementum tomi XIII pars I. Hannover 1887, pp. 238–264 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ) (On the transfer of the relics of the martyrs Peter and Marcellinus and on the origin of the city's name).
  • Dietrich Fichtner: ... and wanted so much to stay. A tour of the houses of the Seligenstadt Jews. Seligenstadt 2000.
  • Ingrid Firner: Living under a crook is good. Seligenstadt am Main between tradition and the Enlightenment (1753–1792). Darmstadt / Marburg 2004.
  • Ingrid Firner: The Augsburg Hansel or Spoon Book and Tsar Peter the Great. Seligenstadt 2005.
  • The martyrs Marcellinus and Petrus, Manfred Schopp, Einhard Society eV, Acta Einhardi Volume 1, Seligenstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-89870-328-4 .
  • Einhard: Translation and miracles of Saint Marcellinus and Peter. Latin / German. Einhard Society V., Acta Einhardi Volume 2, Seligenstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3-00-049804-6 .
  • Einhard's letters, Communication in the Early Middle Ages, Einhard Society eV, Acta Einhardi Volume 3, Seligenstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-059807-4 .
  • Ingrid Firner: In honor of the glorious spoon and the beautiful custom. Seligenstadt 2007.
  • Ingrid Firner: Original texts from the “Augsburger Spoon Books” since 1690. Association for the promotion of the Seligenstadt Landscape Museum e. V.
  • Markus Grossbach: The former Seligenstadt parish church "Our Lady". Seligenstadt Historical Support Group, 1998.
  • Heimatbund Seligenstadt e. V .: Review 2005. Stories and anecdotes from Seligenstadt.
  • Heimatbund Seligenstadt e. V .: Review 2007. Albert Stohr, Bishop of Mainz; The pheasantry near Seligenstadt; At the Harressee; That's how people lived in Seligenstadt; The German Young People; The fate of the Seligenstadt Jews in Ghetto Theresienstadt 1942 to 1945; Americans in Seligenstadt; On the 50th anniversary of Franz Boeres' death.
  • Heimatbund Seligenstadt e. V .: The Seligenstädter Escort 2007.
  • Franz Hell: Seligenstadt and its peculiarities Seligenstadt 1879.
  • Franz Hell: Ortschronik for the city of Seligenstadt. 1st volume 815-1839, 2nd volume 1840-1880. Published by Dieter Burkard, Seligenstadt 1996.
  • J. Koch: The economic and legal situation of the Seligenstadt Abbey in the Middle Ages. 2 volumes, Gießen 1940 and Darmstadt 1942.
  • Thomas Ludwig: The Romanesque house in Seligenstadt. Stuttgart 1987.
  • NN: The old Seligenstadt. Memorandum on the requirements of monument preservation. Seligenstadt 1936.
  • Franz Neubauer SJ: On the history of the former Seligenstadt parish church "Our Lady". Speyer 1967.
  • Fraternity of the Order of Steyffen Spoon in Seligenstadt (ed.): Seligenstadt am Main - A picture book. Photographs by Frank Kress, Horst Müller and Mathias Neubauer, texts by Alexandra Kemmerer, Seligenstadt 2007 (2nd edition Seligenstadt 2008).
  • Kai Thomas Platz: Seligenstadt basilica. History and building development. Seligenstadt Historical Support Group, 2006.
  • Hubert Post: The History of the Benedictine Abbey Seligenstadt - The Abbots of the Seligenstadt Monastery.
  • Herbert Reiss: Restored monuments and archaeological investigations. Seligenstadt Historical Support Group, 2005.

Sources on the history of the Seligenstadt "spoon drink":

  • F. Schneider: The drinking spoons at Seligenstadt. 1874, reprint Seligenstadt 2007.
  • Joseph Schopp: Seligenstadt escort. Seligenstadt 1979.
  • Manfred Schopp: The Augsburg escort roads to Frankfurt. Seligenstadt 2007.
  • Ludwig Seibert: The constitution of the city Seligenstadt in the Middle Ages. Darmstadt 1910.
  • Ludwig Seibert: From the chronicle of a little tower man. A historical tale from old Seligenstadt. Seligenstadt 1938.
  • Ludwig Seibert: witch fires in and around Seligenstadt. Seligenstadt 1936.
  • Ludwig Seibert: The Seligenstädter field names. Seligenstadt 1936.
  • Marcellin P. Spahn: On the history of the Seligenstadt Jews. Seligenstadt 1986.
  • Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner: History and description of the town and former Seligenstadt abbey. Aschaffenburg 1820.
  • Johannes Stillbauer: Necrolog and short chronicle of the former Benedictine abbey of the hh. Marzellin and Peter zu Seligenstadt. Seligenstadt 1880.
  • Johannes Weinckens: Navarchia Seligenstadiana seu Fundatio Abbatiae Seligenstadiensis. Frankfurt 1713.
  • Manfred Schopp: "The Gasthof Zur Krone" at the Freihof in Seligenstadt am Main. Publisher: Brotherhood of the Steyffen Spoon, Seligenstadt 2011.
  • Thomas Laube: The first foundation of the Heimatbund Seligenstadt 1936. In: Seligenstädter Geleit. 2011.
  • The old Seligenstadt. Memorandum on the requirements of monument preservation in the city of Seligenstadt. 1936. In: Seligenstädter Escort. 2011.
  • Ingrid Firner: The Seligenstadt guest books. A search for traces of drinking spoons since the 17th century. Seligenstadt 2014.

Web links

Commons : Seligenstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Seligenstadt  - Sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Seligenstadt  - travel guide

Remarks

  1. ^ Karl Glöckner: Codex Laureshamensis: Volume 1 - Introduction Regesten Chronik. Darmstadt 1929, pp. 299, 19 (Reg. 3082), Donatio Ludouuici I. pii Einhardo in Michlenstat
    German translation: Karl Josef Minst (     transl .): Lorscher Codex: German; Document book of the former prince abbey Lorsch, after d. lat. text d. Original reproduced by Lamey (1768–1770) and Glöckner (1929–1936), in Dt. transfer by Karl Josef Minst, (Volume 1): Chronicon. Documents nos. 1–166, with notes, which report the history of the monastery from 764–1175 and with addenda up to 1181. Lorsch 1966, p. 77 f .:

    “ Gift of Ludwig I the Pious to Einhard in Michelstadt
    In the name of our Lord and God, the Redeemer Jesus Christ. Ludwig, through divine Providence, emperor and always a member of the empire. It is befitting of the imperial majesty to honor and exalt those who serve her faithfully with various gifts and excellent awards. For this reason we follow the customs of our parents, namely our royal ancestors, and it pleases our Majesty to honor our loyal Einhard by the bestowal of certain assets from our property and, for our generosity, to transfer him into his possession. And that is by no means undeserved! For by the service of his loyalty and the devotion of his obedience, he deserves to enjoy our grace in a proper manner, who strives to devote himself to our service with all his might and to obey our commands faithfully. It is therefore useful to all of our loyal friends, present and future, that we have given our loyal Einhard and no less his wife Imma in German districts a place called Michlinstat (Michelstadt in the Odenwald) and located in a forest called Odonewak . There is a small wooden basilica in the center of the village. It has a turnaround of field and forest that belongs to the place and extends evenly in all directions with a radius of two miles or a double mile. Our 14 servants with their wives and children currently live in this measured area. There are also 40 male and female serfs in this place. We forgave this place with its border areas, in its entirety and with its serfs. Nonetheless, we also donate another village, namely Mulinheim (Mühlheim), in Moynecgowe (Maingau) on the Main, which was once the property of Count Drogo. It has a small brick basilica. There are 19 farm horses in the village. There are currently 13 servants living there with their wives and children. In another village of the same name on the same river, which is called inferior Mulinheim (Untermühlheim), there are four court riders and as many servants who live here with their wives and children. They belong to the village mentioned above. This, namely superior Mulinheim (Obermühlheim) with all accessories, with serfs, all attachments, as described above, with churches, hamlets, houses, servants, forests, lands, meadows, pastures, standing and flowing waters, building land and wasteland, with everything Through this deed of gift, we fully grant our faithful Einhard and his wife Imma what is important to them. From now on and in the future, you can deal with the named goods and places and their accessories according to inheritance law and in general at your own discretion. And none of the believers of the Holy Church of God or our faithful try to take anything away from the goods described and handed over to our faithful Einhard and his wife or to reduce their value, but they are allowed to own and to own these properties in peace own and to whom they wish to bequeath. And so that the reputation of our donation over the years remains inviolable and immovable for ever and so that what we have determined will be believed in truth and with certainty by all our loyal ones, the present and future and also by our descendants, we have this Donation certificate signed below by hand and sealed with our ring. Monogram of the most gracious emperor Ludwig. I, Helisachar, have countersigned. Given on January 11th (815), in the first years of the empire of Ludwig, the benevolent and exalted emperor, gifted by Christ. In the seventh indiction. Done in the royal palace of Aachen, in the name of God, who make us happy. Amen."

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. ↑ Destatis: Area changes from 01.01. until March 31 , 2020 from February 26, 2020, accessed on March 12, 2020
  3. ↑ Seligenstadt, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of May 19, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 23, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Handbook of Historic Places in Germany, Hesse. 3rd revised edition, p. 414.
  5. ^ Peter Koblank: Treaty of Seligenstadt 1188. In: stauferstelen.net. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ Famous for a painting by Matthias Grünewald , where he embodies Saint Erasmus
  7. ^ The synagogue in Seligenstadt (Offenbach district). Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 316–318 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  9. ↑ Heimatbund Seligenstadt
  10. ^ Ingrid Firner: Three historical Seligenstädter guest and spoon books foreword, January 2008 , accessed on August 17, 2013
  11. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  12. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  13. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  14. ^ Public prosecutor has closed the case. November 4, 2009, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  15. ^ FDP Seligenstadt: Free Democrats in Seligenstadt with a new management team. Retrieved on May 14, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ Direct elections in Seligenstadt, city. In: statistik-hessen.de.
  17. ↑ HStAD inventory R 6 C No. 256 / 1-2  In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  18. ↑ Approval for the use of a coat of arms for the city of Seligenstadt in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt district from December 4, 1952 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1952 No. 51 , p. 975 , point 1266 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).
  19. ↑ Approval of a flag of the city of Seligenstadt, Offenbach district from October 23, 1957 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1957 no. 45 , p. 1114 , item 1115 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.7 MB ]).
  20. ↑ Offenbach-Post dated September 14, 2010.
  21. ↑ seligenstadt.de - Weddings in the Romanisches Haus ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 19, 2014
  22. ↑ The cultural monument serves as a nesting place , article in Offenbach-Post from January 20, 2010 , accessed on January 22, 2010.
  23. ^ Former Benedictine abbey. In: Unser-Seligenstadt.de. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Mardi Gras Museum Seligenstadt. In: Unser-Seligenstadt.de. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  25. ↑ site of pinball and arcade museum Seligenstadt
  26. ^ Gallery Art Forum in the Old House. In: Unser-Seligenstadt.de. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Website of Royal Museum Seligenstadt
  28. ^ Einhard Foundation
  29. ↑ Homepage of the Einhard Society e. V., Seligenstadt
  30. ↑ Sports facilities in Seligenstadt
  31. ↑ Seligenstadt outdoor swimming pool
  32. ↑ All clubs ( memento of August 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on Unser-seligenstadt.de. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  33. ↑ Homepage of the Vereinring Froschhausen
  34. ↑ Offenbach Post from October 17, 2017: Welzheim in juice and strength
  35. ↑ a b nature reserves. (No longer available online.) In : kreis-offenbach.de. Archived from the original on July 18, 2016 ; accessed on September 20, 2018 .
  36. ↑ cf. Municipal and field boundaries in BürgerGIS of the Offenbach
  37. ↑ Affelderchen and Radichbruch from Klein-Welzheim. (PDF) Retrieved July 17, 2016 .
  38. ↑ See community and land boundaries in the BürgerGIS of the Offenbach district
  39. ↑ nature reserves. In: Kreis-offenbach.de. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  40. ↑ cf. Working group bat: Kortenbach near Froschhausen. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  41. ↑ cf. Municipal and field boundaries in BürgerGIS of the Offenbach
  42. ↑ cf. Working group Fledermaus: Pechgraben near Klein-Krotzenburg. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  43. ↑ nature reserves. In: Kreis-offenbach.de. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  44. ↑ See community and land boundaries in the BürgerGIS of the Offenbach district
  45. ↑ nature reserves. In: Kreis-offenbach.de. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  46. ↑ Cf. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fledermaus: Pechgraben near Klein-Krotzenburg. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  47. ↑ See community and land boundaries in the BürgerGIS of the Offenbach district
  48. ↑ Cf. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fledermaus: Schwarzbruch von Seligenstadt. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  49. ↑ See nature reserves. In: Kreis-offenbach.de. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
  50. ↑ a b Extension of the Merian School
  51. ↑ Seligenstadt volunteer fire brigade
  52. ↑ THW - local association Seligenstadt
  53. ↑ DLRG local group Seligenstadt e. V.
  54. ↑ a b Frehner Consulting GmbH Germany (ed.): 50 years of Stadtwerke Seligenstadt. 2007, p. 6 f.