Weißkirchen (Oberursel)

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Weisskirchen
Former municipal coat of arms of Weißkirchen
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 152 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 4762  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 61440
Area code : 06171
primary school

Weißkirchen is one of the four districts of the city of Oberursel in the southern Hessian Hochtaunuskreis in Hesse .

geography

Weißkirchen is located southeast of the core city and borders the cities of Steinbach (Taunus) and Frankfurt am Main . The district is traversed by the Urselbach, which rises in the Oberursel district and flows into the Nidda in the Frankfurt area .

history

  • 1255: Weißkirchen is mentioned for the first time in a transcript of a fiefdom list as Wizenkirchen . However, the foundation of the town is before this point in time. Therefore, in 1980, the city administration set the anniversary date to June 24, 818.
  • 1622: Like many other places, Weißkirchen is not spared from the Thirty Years' War . The place is pillaged and plundered several times later.
  • 1860: The Homburg Railway from Frankfurt to Bad Homburg vor der Höhe begins operations, and Weisskirchen also gets a small train station.
  • 1972: The previously independent community of Weißkirchen is incorporated into the city of Oberursel on April 1, 1972.

Religions

St. Crutzen Church
  • 1310/50: construction of the first church
  • 1827: The Weißkirchen pastor Dr. Jakob Brand is called to be the first bishop of the newly founded diocese of Limburg .
  • 1955: Formation of the Protestant parish of Stierstadt / Weißkirchen
  • 1992: Renaming of the Protestant congregation to the reconciliation congregation .

coat of arms

On April 3, 1965, the community of Weißkirchen in Obertaunuskreis ( Wiesbaden administrative district ) was given a talking coat of arms.

Blazon : “In red a silver church in front view with a black doorway. On the tower a gold cross, above the ship the letters W and K in silver. "

Culture and sights

Buildings

St. Crutzen Church

The old Catholic Johanniskirche in Weißkirchen became too small after the Second World War , as the Catholic population grew rapidly due to the displaced persons. Therefore, in 1961/63 the construction of today's Roman Catholic Church of St. Crutzen took place . The name of the church goes back to the church and monastery of St. Crutzen (Holy Cross), which was in Frankfurt-Kalbach am Riedberg.

From the outside, the building is a concrete building in the style of the 1960s with a separate bell tower. The folded roof with the glass windows in the upper quarter is striking. Even if the building is unmistakably a work of modern times from the outside, there is a statue of Mary with child in the side aisle (around 1750) and a statue of St. Barbara at the side entrance from the old St. John's Church.

Water tower
Water tower at the S-Bahn station

The water tower on the Mazda test site, an industrial monument, is visible from afar, especially from Frankfurt . The Erste Süddeutsche Ceresinfabrik Schütz, which was previously located here, stored 200 m³ of water in the 42.2 m high structure . In the form of steam it was used to liquefy the raw waxes, and then as cooling water to solidify the candles.

Natural monuments

Step linden tree on the Urselbach

The former village and court linden tree stands on the former village square on the Urselbach, which has now become an inn garden, and represents the old village center of Weißkirchen. The approximately 800-year-old summer linden tree is a guided and supported step linden tree with an exceptionally expansive and bizarre growth. The tree, designated as a natural monument , is the only specimen of a linden tree in the Hochtaunus district. The State Historical Information System of Hesse (LAGIS) describes the place under the linden tree as a historical court .

societies

The club ring Weißkirchen / Taunus

is an interest group of associations and parishes in the Oberursel district. He coordinates the dates of the event and supports the cooperation between the member organizations.

Gesangverein Germanias 1873 Weißkirchen e. V.

With its founding on December 31, 1873, the oldest of the Weißkirchen associations is the Germania 1873 Weißkirchen e. V.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

  • S-Bahn station on the western edge

  • Subway, east side

AFN station

Weisskirchen transmitter on April 25, 2011, two years before the shutdown

In Weißkirchen, the American Forces Network  (AFN) operated its most powerful transmitter in Germany from 1951 to 2013 . It was broadcast on medium wave 873 kHz with a transmission power of 150 kW.

The transmitting antenna consisted of three to earth insulated, 86 meters high, guyed steel lattice towers erected 1954-1955 and were arranged in a line with a mutual distance of 140 meters. During the day, omnidirectional radiation was used and the transmission energy was nominally radiated via the central transmission mast . At night, all three transmission masts were fed for a more directed radiation .

On May 31, 2013 the transmitter was switched off. The planned shutdown time was 4:00 p.m., and operations actually ended at 3:12 p.m. The reason for the shutdown was excessive energy costs of around 400,000 euros per year. The masts remained standing for the time being; they were blown down on April 23, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. and dismantled. Just a few years earlier, a new transmitter had been installed and the antenna system had been converted for a million euros.

The transmitter Weisskirchen of the American Forces Network has nothing with the also mined weiskirchen transmitter of the hessian broadcast  to do (HR).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures on the website of the city of Oberutsel (Taunus) , accessed on April 14, 2018.
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 373 .
  3. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Weißkirchen, district Obertaunuskreis, administrative district Wiesbaden from April 3, 1965 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1965 no. 16 , p. 436 , point 369 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.0 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Church leader Hochtaunus, accessed on January 14, 2016 ( p. 58 PDF; 4.8 MB)
  5. ↑ Bernd Ochs: The company Georg Schütz GmbH - First South German Ceresinfabrik in Weißkirchen (Taunus) and its forced labor camp , issue 50-2011 of the communications of the Association for History and Local History Oberursel eV ( PDF )
  6. ↑ "Guided Linde in Weißkirchen" in the tree register at www.baumkunde.de
  7. ^ "Weißkirchen, Linde", in: Courts in Hesse
  8. ↑ Website about the AFN transmitter ( Memento from September 3, 2011 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ↑ AFN switches off medium wave transmitter Weißkirchen. In: dxaktuell.de
  10. ↑ A piece of radio history comes to an end. In: Taunuszeitung , June 1, 2013
  11. ↑ RadisEins: Demolition of the medium wave antenna Weißkirchen announced ( Memento from April 20, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  12. ↑ Video of the demolition on YouTube , accessed on November 20, 2016.
  13. ↑ radioeins.de: AFN switches off 873 kHz ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )