Seulberg
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Seulberg
City of Friedrichsdorf
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| Height : | 169 (160–215) m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 7858 (Dec. 31, 2013) |
| Incorporation : | August 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 61381 |
| Area code : | 06172 |
 The Friedrichsdorf district of Seulberg
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Seulberg is a district of the city of Friedrichsdorf and one of the oldest places in the Hochtaunus district in southern Hesse . It is located about 20 kilometers north of Frankfurt am Main .
geography
Seulberg is the southernmost district of Friedrichsdorf and is located in the Vordertaunus, west of the A5 . The old town center is on the Seulbach at the end of the Bottig Valley. The settlement has largely expanded in a westerly direction towards the Hardtwald and thus also reached the southern slope of the Bottig Valley up to the dam forest with the parrot settlement on Hardtwaldallee , while the valley itself is reserved for the Seulbach, orchard meadows and agricultural areas. Part of the large forest area and the Römerhof and Schäferborn settlements also belong to the district. Seulberg thus borders on the Burgholzhausen district and on the entire southern part of the city of Bad Homburg.
history
Traces of the Rössen culture from the Neolithic were found near the motorway . The area was also cultivated by the Romans . They built a villa rustica . The name of the place, "Seulberg", is derived from Suleburc (sule = swamp , humid area). Its oldest surviving mention can be found in the Lorsch Codex for the year 767. Seulberg is one of the oldest settlements in the Hochtaunuskreis.
Seulberg was part of the Homburg office since the late Middle Ages . In 1486, Gottfried X. von Eppstein, with the consent of the feudal lord , the Hessian landgrave , sold the Homburg office and the associated villages - including Seulberg - to Count Philipp I (the younger) von Hanau-Münzenberg for 19,000 guilders . The Hanau counts did not keep the office long. In 1504 Hanau was defeated in the Landshut War of Succession , Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hesse, on the other hand, stood on the side of the victors and confiscated the office. At the Diet of Worms in 1521 a settlement was reached through the mediation of Emperor Charles V : The Counts of Hanau waived their claims in return for payment of 12,000 florins.
Between 1652 and 1656, 26 women and 6 men fell victim to the witch hunt. They were executed on the Homburg Platzenberg.
In addition to agriculture and linen weaving, pottery was an important line of business in Seulberg for a long time. There were lively trade relations with the Huguenots in Friedrichsdorf.
In 1934 Seulberg received a water pipe and sewers, and the 750 m³ elevated tank at the highest point of the Hardtwald was put into operation in 1965.
In order to counteract the housing shortage after the Second World War , a new residential area was built in the post-war years to the northwest of the town center between the Homburg Railway and today's streets Alt Seulberg and Hardtwaldallee . West of the railway line followed in 1964 the almost 120,000 m² building area Homburger Weg , later called Parrot Settlement, as well as the 95,000 m² building area Berliner Straße in 1966 under the control of the municipality .
In 1968 a town partnership with the Austrian market town of Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting was launched.
In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the former town of Friedrichsdorf and the communities Seulberg, were on August 1, 1972 by virtue of state law Köppern and Burgholzhausen before the height of today's city Friedrichsdorf together . The last Seulberg mayor Wilfried Fey (SPD) became mayor of the new community.
coat of arms
On April 9, 1968, the Seulberg community in what was then Obertaunuskreis was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : In a shield split by red and silver, a horseshoe with 6 nail holes in mixed up colors.
The downwardly open horseshoe from the Seulberg coat of arms was incorporated into the Friedrichsdorf coat of arms after the regional reform. This symbol was adopted around 1847 as a reference to agriculture. Previously there had been other symbols that pointed to the pottery that was important in Seulberg at the time, but they no longer appeared in keeping with the times after pottery was stopped (the last fire in the Aulofen was in 1847).
Culture and sights
Museums
The Seulberg local history museum is located in Seulberg , with a 350 square meter focus on agriculture, handicrafts and pottery. There is also a market here several times a year (for example on St. Nicholas or Easter) and special exhibitions.
Buildings
Directly in the old town center, across from the local history museum, is the neo-Gothic Evangelical Lutheran church built between 1862 and 1864 in place of a previous chapel . The bricks, which were available in large numbers and were burned in the Aulofen , were used as building material . The oven was moved and is now on the outskirts next to the cemetery. The pottery fountain stands in front of the church as a monument to pottery .
Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery from the Baroque period also served the Jewish community in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe as a burial place until 1865 . The last burial took place here in 1924. In the night of the pogrom in 1938 the cemetery was partially destroyed, and some gravestones were later used to expand the Seulbach.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Seulberg has a railway station on the Homburg Railway . The Seulberg stop is served by the S5 S-Bahn line every half hour and by the Taunusbahn . For cost reasons, the connection to the city bus was discontinued and a ring bus line was introduced, which only runs five times on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Since 1990, Seulberg has had a bypass road that connects to the feeder roads to Friedrichsdorf (Höhenstraße), Burgholzhausen (until 2014), Ober-Erlenbach and Gonzenheim and leads around the old town center to the northeast. Originally it was supposed to become part of the Friedrichsdorfer relief road, which was discarded due to the higher costs for noise protection. Instead, a variant that runs parallel to the motorway was chosen.
schools
On the western edge of the village is the Hardtwaldschule Seulberg primary school , which was previously called Seulberg primary school . It also offers the entry level .
Leisure and sports facilities
A (large) sports hall and the sports hall of the TV Seulberg, two sports fields and two tennis courts can be found next to the Hardtwaldschule Seulberg. In the immediate vicinity of the sports halls and courts there is a mini golf course , which can be found right next to the second tennis court. The shooting range of the Seulberg rifle club is located above the lawn on Hardtwaldallee . There is also a football field near the primary school in front of the embankment , with a soccer field , a beach volleyball field and a sandpit for children and young people.
Also in the Bottigtal, behind the Hardtwald School, is the " Kletterwald Taunus". There you can climb over ropes and platforms between the trees under supervision at certain times. The site is freely accessible.
There is also a youth club in Seulberg.
literature
Subject witch hunt in the 17th century:
- Uschi Flacke : The witch children from Seulberg . Carlsen, 2003, ISBN 355135250X
- Dagmar Scherf : Homburg witch hunt or when is tomorrow? VAS Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-88864-301-5
- Literature about Seulberg in the Hessian Bibliography
Web links
- Seulberg district. In: Internet presence. City of Friedrichsdorf
- Seulberg, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: population statistics with NW
- ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900–1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 211 .
- ↑ a b Parish council of Seulberg / Taunus: 1200 years Seulberg - past and present. Anniversary publication for the 1200th anniversary of the Seulberg / Taunus community. Seuberg 1968
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Obertaunus district and the district of Usingen (GVBl. II 330-18) 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. 227 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- ^ 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. 374 .
- ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the Seulberg community, Obertaunuskreis, Wiesbaden administrative district on April 9, 1968 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1968 No. 18 , p. 723 , point 520 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
- ^ Website of the local history museum, museum guide
- ^ Website of the Seulberg Church
- ↑ Timetable for bus line 56 - (former Seulberg ring bus). In: www.friedrichsdorf.de. Accessed May 2019 .
