Steinbach (Taunus)

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Steinbach (Taunus)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′  N , 8 ° 34 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Hochtaunuskreis
Height : 166 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.4 km 2
Residents: 10,665 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 2424 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 61449
Area code : 06171
License plate : HG, USI
Community key : 06 4 34 010
LOCODE : DE STE

City administration address : 		Gartenstrasse 20
61449 Steinbach (Taunus)
Website : www.stadt-steinbach.de
Mayor : Steffen Bonk ( CDU )
Location of the town of Steinbach (Taunus) in the Hochtaunus district
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Bütt and Pijnacker-Platz
The "Golden Star" inn

Steinbach (Taunus) is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis in the Rhein-Main area in southern Hesse .

geography

Geographical location

Steinbach lies at an altitude of 166  m above sea level. NN in the Vordertaunus , at the foot of the Taunus Nature Park , about 7 kilometers from the Frankfurt city ​​limits and 7.5 km southwest of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . The Altkönig and the Große Feldberg can be seen in the northwest , while the Odenwald can be seen in the southwest when visibility is clear . The Frankfurt skyline rises to the south and in sunny weather you can see the Staudinger power plant in Großkrotzenburg near Hanau .

The city is surrounded by wide fields. In the southeast lies the valley of the Steinbach , which flows into the Nidda in Praunheim , marked as a protected landscape component. Today the stream meanders through the Wiesental and forms a swamp area in front of the railway bridge ( viaduct ). He gave the village its name and was probably one of the prerequisites for people to settle here in prehistoric times.

The city only includes the district Steinbach (Gmk.-Nr. 60840). The western part of the district with scattered orchards and field hedges is part of a large priority area for nature and landscape . To the northwest is the Steinbacher Heidewald.

In prehistoric times there was a lake in the north of Steinbach that was dammed by a natural earth wall . It reached down to today's “Bornhohl”. The lake dried up centuries ago. Only the two enclosed Steinbach springs on private property and the park “Am alten See” are left.

Village complex

The oldest village was a round village , the houses of which were grouped within a radius of 100 meters around the old fountain at Freie Platz . The local well ("Bütt") supplied the residents with fresh water. Water pipes, like the gas pipes, were not laid until 1954 after Steinbach had become a municipality in the Obertaunus district . Unter- and Kirchgasse and Bornhohl - as an extension of the Obergasse - still lead from the square.

The current land use of the urban area is as follows:

Type of use Area (hectares)
District area 440
Built up 146.5
Farmland / meadow 218.5
Wooded area 75

Neighboring communities

Clockwise, starting in the north, Steinbach borders the cities of Oberursel (Taunus) with the Stierstadt district , Frankfurt am Main (with the Niederursel , Praunheim and Rödelheim districts ), Eschborn (with the Niederhöchstadt district ) and Kronberg im Taunus .

history

prehistory

The water of the Steinbach and the fertile loess soil in the Taunus foreland prompted people in the Neolithic to settle here and practice agriculture and cattle breeding . These first settlers settled on the northern bank of the dammed lake (today's "Rombergstrasse"). To the west of today's Waldstrasse, finds show a settlement of the Bandkeramischen culture , in which 250 to 300 people lived. Other corresponding archaeological sites in corridor 7 on Viehweg on the grounds of the union school also prove this. A site from the Hallstatt period (800–450 BC) came to light during construction work on the south residential area.

In September 1988 an archaeological excavation in the northwest of Steinbach came across several Roman stone foundations , some of which were remains of buildings. A small section of a building complex was probably excavated.

middle Ages

Steinbach's oldest surviving mention comes from the year 789 in a copy of a document in the Lorsch Codex . A certain Alaholf certifies that he donated thirty days of arable land to Lorsch Abbey on September 14, 789. Further mentions from the Carolingian period can be found in the Codex .

The Protestant St. George's Church in Steinbach belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz and was built around 1270, but the oldest documented mention that has been preserved dates back to 1371, when the knight Frank von Kronberg bequeathed 40 guilders in his will for its building maintenance. From around 1367 Steinbach belonged to the parish of Eschborn. The central church authority was the Archdiaconate of the Provost of St. Peter in Mainz .

Until 1418 Steinbach belonged to the rule of the Counts of Falkenstein , who sold it to the Lords of Kronberg in 1350 . Afterwards it belonged to the rule of the Lords of Eppstein in the late Middle Ages .

Early modern age

After the Lords of Eppstein died out, Steinbach passed to the Counts of Stolberg in 1535 , who also carried out the Reformation according to the Lutheran denomination . In 1578 Steinbach was pledged by the Counts of Stolberg along with three other villages to Count Philipp Ludwig I of Hanau-Münzenberg and finally sold in full to Hanau in 1595. Count Philipp Ludwig II, who ruled in the County of Hanau-Münzenberg at that time, was strictly reformed and, according to the principle of " Cuius regio, eius religio ", implemented the Reformed denomination as far as possible in his entire county.

The county of Hanau-Münzenberg  - and thus Steinbach - fell after the death of the last Count of Hanau , Johann Reinhard III. , 1736, on the basis of an inheritance contract with the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel .

Mayor

  • 1582: Johann Ruppel
  • 1592: Philipp Michel
  • 1594: Hans Bender
  • 1600–1618: Jakob Ansbach
  • 1669: Johann Sulzbacher
  • 1681: Hans Michel
  • 1710: Joh. Helwes Heinrich
  • 1733: Kaspar Michel
  • 1737–1796: Christoph Lorey
  • 1764: Peter Bechtel
  • 1773–1796: Adam Philipp Hill
  • 1809: Straßheimer
  • 1812: Kaspar Epp
  • 1817: Heinrich Gissel

Modern times

From 1806 to 1810 Steinbach was occupied by the French, belonged to the Principality of Hanau and was then added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse , where it remained after the Congress of Vienna . Here and with the legal successors of the Grand Duchy it belonged to the following administrative units:

From 1866 to 1945 Steinbach formed a Hessian exclave  - together with the mountain "Altkönig" - in the otherwise Prussian Vordertaunus . From 1918 it belonged to the People's State of Hesse .

In 1909 the Steinbach Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded.

During the First World War , 184 Steinbachers were called up for military service, which corresponded to a fifth of Steinbach's population. 29 Steinbach soldiers died in this war. From 1919 to 1924 Steinbach was occupied by French troops. An attempted incorporation into Frankfurt failed at that time.

Second World War

At the beginning of the Second World War, mainly young Polish and Soviet citizens came to Steinbach, where they were mainly employed in the household. Then came French prisoners of war whose labor was needed on farms. In 1944, two mass camps were finally set up in the village: an Italian commando in the gym and a Russian commando on the old sports field in the Steinbacher Wald in four barracks. In mid-January 1944, the Italians walked from the train station freezing in the direction of Obergasse, where the local gym with straw sacks was poorly prepared for storage. Individual groups of Italians were picked up by the Deutsche Reichsbahn for work. Those who stayed were occasionally employed by the locals, had a lot of free time and already felt at home. When American troops marched into Steinbach on March 29, 1945, the Italians began their journey home. The "Russians" were also used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

An ammunition dump was located in the Steinbacher Forest, on whose concrete foundations today's Oberhöchstädter “Waldsiedlung” stands.

On the night of August 24th to 25th, 1942 Steinbach was attacked with high explosive and incendiary bombs. Numerous fires broke out, the school in Gartenstrasse (today the town hall) burned down. A bomb attack in 1944 left 13 dead.

In another attack on the night of August 27th to 28th, 1943, a British colonel jumped down in Steinbach's area to spy on the anti-aircraft guns that kept shooting down British bombers . The British spy landed so unhappily in an apple tree when he jumped that he sprained his ankle and had to give up his plan. While he hobbled along today's Eschborner Straße towards the center of the village, the residents formed a lynch mob. This scene was observed by Heinrich Laundry, a corporal. He rushed towards the mob with the pistol released and intimidated the people. The Colonel returned safely to Great Britain after the war and sent greetings when his savior's daughter later married in Steinbach.

Steinbach had 58 missing and fallen soldiers to complain about in World War II.

post war period

The connection with the district town of Offenbach was completely interrupted in the first weeks after the war. The municipal administration therefore submitted to the administration of the Obertaunuskreis. Soon afterwards, the Steinbach exclave was initially assigned to the Obertaunus district by law and from 1947 onwards .

Shortly after Walter Herbst took office as mayor in 1962, it had 1900 inhabitants. The established social structure had changed little by then.

expansion

View towards Altkönig
Steinbach aerial view

The small village of Steinbach now had big goals: in the south and north, extensive building areas were created in which multi-family and high-rise buildings were built. 628 apartments were built in a 30-hectare settlement area. The project was estimated at 20 million DM . Mainly young families moved to Steinbach at that time. In 1960 the population of Steinbach was 1713, ten years later 7255, and in 1980 there were 10,550 people in Steinbach. Steinbach developed from Taunusdorf to residential town. The population rose from 1956 to 1968 by almost 270 percent, while in the entire Obertaunus district it grew by "only" 32 percent. Another result of this development was that Steinbach was granted city rights on September 22, 1972.

Prior to this, incorporation into Frankfurt am Main as part of the regional reform in 1972 had been considered. On April 10, 1972, the Frankfurt magistrate under Rudi Arndt (SPD) applied for incorporation with the state government. The draft law by Interior Minister Hanns-Heinz Bielefeld (FDP) also contained this incorporation. Only the responsible state parliament committee led to the rejection of the Frankfurt application through a tie.

In the course of the regional reform, individual plots of land from the Stierstadt and Weißkirchen districts of the city of Oberursel were incorporated by virtue of state law on August 1, 1972 .

Steinbach has nevertheless retained its rural character to this day and is still valued as a residential town, although it has the third highest population density in Hesse after Frankfurt and Offenbach. This development has stagnated since the beginning of the 1990s, which is mainly due to Steinbach's unfavorable traffic situation .

The regional zoning plan for Steinbach provides for building area expansions of over 26 hectares. The commercial areas are to be expanded by six hectares:

  • "Am Eschborner Weg", at the southwestern end of Steinbach in the direction of Eschborn. 4.2 hectares are currently being built on. Apartments, terraced houses and 15 building sites are being built here.
  • "Taubenzehnter" (3.8 hectares), opposite the "Am Eschborner Weg" building area. Since the construction of a planned supermarket was rejected in a referendum and the riding hall has to be relocated, the start of construction is unclear.
  • "Alter Cronberger Weg" (4.9 hectares), on the outskirts towards Niederhöchstadt, in the area of ​​a former Roman villa.
  • "Süd 4a" (2.3 hectares), located on the southern outskirts on the S-Bahn line.
  • Development areas at the southwest exit of the town are planned.

Population development

year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents year Residents
1535 31 1864 584 1925 1,050 1965 4,089 2012 10.138
1750 220 1871 604 1939 1,147 1967 4,959 2014 10,357
1754 312 1875 678 1945 1,492 1970 6,566 2015 10,453
1834 454 1885 680 1946 1,400 1975 10,642 2016 10,536
1840 556 1895 711 1950 1,461 1985 10,440
1852 603 1905 853 1956 1,513 2007 10,005
1858 565 1910 993 1961 1,713 2010 10.097

religion

St. George's Church interior with altar and pulpit

As a result of the historical development, Steinbach was a predominantly Protestant village. But it did not get its own pastor until 1859. In the period from 1959 to 1966 the evangelical pastor from Steinbach also looked after the branch community in Stierstadt / Weißkirchen, today the reconciliation community . After the Second World War, a large number of new Protestant citizens moved to the formerly purely Roman Catholic communities. Conversely, with the arrival of new citizens in 1964, the proportion of the Roman Catholic population in Steinbach rose to around a quarter. The Roman Catholic parish of St. Sebastian Stierstadt initially looked after the Catholics in Steinbach. The Roman Catholic St. Boniface Church was built here in 1964.

politics

mayor

  • 1821: Philipp Straßheimer (first mayor)
  • 1883–1887: Franz Heck
  • 1887–1898: Kaspar Matthäus
  • 1898–1919: Heinrich Heinrich
  • 1919–1932: Karl Molitor ( MSPD )
  • 1946–1956: Kaspar Braunroth ( SPD )
  • 1956–1961: Heinz Molitor ( FWG )
  • 1962–1992: Walter Herbst (SPD) (today honorary mayor)
  • 1992–1998: Edgar Parnet (SPD)
  • 1998–2009: Peter Frosch ( CDU )
  • 2009-2018: Stefan Naas ( FDP )
  • 2019-: Steffen Bonk ( CDU )

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 31 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
FDP Free Democratic Party 39.0 12 21.8 7th 9.5 3 9.0 3
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 27.4 9 26.5 8th 29.7 9 33.6 10
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 19.7 6th 29.4 9 46.7 15th 44.5 14th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 13.8 4th 22.3 7th 14.1 4th 12.9 4th
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 50.8 51.4 48.2 57.9

Town twinning

coat of arms

Steinbach's coat of arms (the original is on Pijnacker-Platz)
The Steinbacher Brunnen on the open space

On February 28, 1964, the municipality of Steinbach in what was then Obertaunuskreis , Wiesbaden administrative district , was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon : In blue, a roofed golden fountain with a wooden vat into which a silver jet of water flows from two tubes.

meaning

The coat of arms represents Steinbach's landmark , the fountain on the Freie Platz, which has changed externally over time. While it currently only has one outlet, it used to correspond to the version with two water jets shown in the coat of arms. The fountain on Freiem Platz (formerly: Pijnacker-Platz , popularly known as “Dalles”) is still used today during the so-called Bachrecht baptism as a reception for new citizens and new citizens are “baptized” from its water.

Culture and sights

Worth seeing

St. George's Church
Backhaus in Kirchgasse

The Protestant St. George's Church was built around 1270 in Romanesque and early Gothic times. Two bells hang in its small, pointed turret. The oldest, the St. Georgen bell from 1622 (still from the Thirty Years War ) weighs 125 kilos and is tuned to the tone “dis”. Its inscription reads "1622, Johannes Schneidewindt poured me in Frankfurdt" . The second, the St. John's Bell. It was cast in Sinn by the Rincker bell foundry on December 2, 1956 , weighs 110 kilos and is tuned to the “f sharp” tone. Its inscription reads “Let yourselves be reconciled with God” , the motto of the 7th German Evangelical Church Congress in Frankfurt in 1956.

The landmark, the "Bütt", a running fountain that is fed directly from the Steinbach, stands on Pijnacker-Platz . This center is framed by the two inns "Zum Goldenen Stern" and "Zum Schwanen" with their distinctive half-timbered facades, cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Both restaurants have a long tradition. Steinbach's oldest inn "Zum Taunus" in the Bornhohl no longer exists.

The operational bakery is located in Kirchgasse . The rooms in the bakery are also used for exhibitions and lectures. There is also a wedding room here.

In Steinbach there are other historical buildings on which bronze plaques inform about the year of construction and its history, such as the house Untergasse 2, in which Johann Christoph Diehl , the teacher of the Frankfurt dialect poet Friedrich Stoltze, lived from 1782 to 1856 . A bronze shield commemorates the former Steinbacher.

Also interesting and historically valuable is the old Schultheißenhaus in the Bornhohl, which was first mentioned in 1549 as the House of the Schultheißen . It is the oldest preserved building in Steinbach after the church. The mayor at that time was called Neustat, also called von Neuenstein. From 1549 to 1553 he lived in the lower rooms of the building with his wife. The first floor was used to store grain and pulses of all local residents. Only on September 16, 1765 is there another mention of the house. After the introduction of the municipal code in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1821, the mayors were replaced by elected mayors . From this point on, Steinbach's honorary mayors, mostly wealthy farmers, carried out their official business in their living rooms.

education

In the first part of the 20th century, the Steinbach population increased sharply due to the high number of births. In the old schoolhouse (now the youth center) on Eschborner Straße, the two classes of the two-class elementary school were bursting at the seams. A third class therefore had to be accommodated in the meeting room of the town hall in 1907. But only two years later in 1909 these three classes were hopelessly overcrowded, so that a new school had to be built. Construction work began in early 1909, for which the municipality took out a loan of 50,000 marks . On October 13th, the new school building was opened. Small linden trees were planted in the schoolyard, some of which are still preserved today, but now tower above the school, which now serves as the town hall. From the 1950s, the elementary school was first run in three classes and later in four classes.

Due to the building boom, there was initially an additional pavilion with two classrooms in Gartenstrasse (now a café) and shift lessons. Then the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule was built and in 1966 the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule ( elementary school ) opened. They visit around 450 students. After attending primary school, the children have to switch to schools in neighboring communities, such as the integrated comprehensive school in Oberursel-Stierstadt or the grammar schools in Kronberg, Oberursel or Eschborn. In addition, a Phorms Management school has existed since 2009 . It is private and bilingual and is currently only designed for primary school students. From 2017, lessons will be offered there up to the Abitur. The Oberursel-Stierstadt Integrated Comprehensive School will also be offering the upper secondary school from the 2018/2019 school year.

Steinbach has three kindergartens , a day care center, a day care center and a large number of playgrounds.

The Steinbach educational institution is the central, supraregional educational institution of the industrial union building-agrarian-environment . Among other things, works councils from the construction industry, building cleaning and other industries are trained there. Numerous cultural events also take place in the educational facility.

Green spaces

Generous open spaces were created when the apartment blocks were built in the 1960s. There is a large number of trees here. There is a pond at the southwest end of Steinbach .

The Steinbacher Stadt- and Heidewald is the starting point for hikes in the Taunus. The Hessian apple wine and orchard route leads through the Steinbach district.

Stage program

Community center in 2010
Fire damage to the high-rise building next to the Steinbach community center

Several times a year the city offered plays with well-known actors, as well as cabaret and children's programs, on the Bürgerhausbühne in the Bürgerhaus on St.-Avertin-Platz , which was built in 1969 and expanded in 1981 . On the night of February 7th to 8th, 2013 the Steinbacher Bürgerhaus burned down after a carnival event. The big fire had broken out in the stage area and led to the total loss of the community center, which could no longer be saved. The new construction of the community center - in the same location and in the same size - should be completed by the end of 2016. The new opening took place on August 20, 2017. The around 4 million euros in costs are largely financed by fire protection insurance and funds from the Hessian state program Social City.

Regular events

In June every year - on the weekend after Corpus Christi  - the Steinbach City Festival takes place, organized by the trade association on Bahnstraße. On Sundays on the first summer holiday weekend, there is a public drink on Pijnacker-Platz. On the last Sunday of the summer holidays there is a town hall concert and flea market , on the second weekend in October there is Steinbacher Curb on St.-Avertin-Platz and on the first weekend in Advent there is a Christmas market around Pijnacker-Platz and Kirchgasse.

Every year from 1992 to 2006, the Steinbacher “Kultursommer” took place on the grounds of the IG BAU educational center. Here occurred Soul - Jazz - and salsa bands on.

museum

There is a local museum in Steinbach. This is located in the basement of the bakery (Kirchgasse) and is open on weekends.

Sports

Steinbach has three sports halls - Altkönighalle, Friedrich-Hill-Halle and school gym, a sports center - with a grass field with a 400-meter running track and two hard courts -, tennis courts, tennis and riding arena. The swimming pool was closed in the 1990s and is for sale. Plans to build a large swimming pond on the fallow site have not been pursued.

The cycling club Wanderlust 1905 has won several German and European championships in the fields of artificial cycling and roller skating.

Economy and Infrastructure

media

The Taunus-Zeitung , a regional edition of the Frankfurter Neue Presse , the regional edition of the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung report in detail on what is happening in the Hochtaunus district. The Steinbacher Information is published by the Steinbacher Gewerbeverein and distributed free of charge to all households. Since September 13, 2010, Gorma Medien GmbH has also been publishing the “Oberurseler Stadtkurier”, a free local newspaper that has also appeared in Steinbach since February 28, 2011.

The Suton Radio , which is tailored to people from the former Yugoslavia, is located in the industrial park, reaches around 270,000 listeners in the Rhine-Main area and broadcasts a 24-hour program of music, information and current service.

The Great Hessen Quiz was recorded in a warehouse in the Steinbach industrial park.

At the beginning of February 2008, the Hessischer Rundfunk announced that it would in future shoot the Hessen quiz with moderator Jörg Bombach in Steinbach . An empty warehouse in the Steinbach industrial park served as the backdrop. After a month, the episodes for the upcoming season were shot.

There is a library.

Business

Steinbach has a 14 hectare industrial park. Another industrial area of ​​six hectares is to be developed together with the neighboring town of Oberursel. The current trade tax multiplier is 320 percent. In 2007 trade tax income amounted to 1.9 million euros.

In Steinbach, 23 companies are assigned to the high-tech sector. With around eight percent of all workplaces, this is a relatively high proportion. One third of these companies produce locally, two thirds exclusively carry out sales and consulting activities. The focus (14 companies) is in the area of information and communication technology . Here, among other things, computers, EDP accessories, electronic devices and software are manufactured and sold. The sensor, measurement and control technology sector comes in second with six companies. The technical fields of medical technology, microelectronics as well as production and process engineering are each represented by one or two companies.

According to the municipal energy profile for Steinbach, the energy consumption of the trade in Steinbach for 2015 was only 5.1% and is thus well below the average of the regional association (14.5%).

Local supply

Steinbach is close to the Main-Taunus-Zentrum Sulzbach (Taunus) and the Frankfurt Northwest Center . Oberursel, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Eschborn and Frankfurt itself are easily accessible with their extensive range of offers. But there are also some shops and supermarkets in Steinbach on Bahnstrasse.

Agriculture

Long ago wine was even grown in Steinbach. The name "Wingerte" on the course of the Steinbach indicates this.

In the twenties of the 20th century the field cultivation of strawberries began with great success. The varieties changed frequently, individual species have maintained their position for decades. Even with the cultivation of special fruits, things slowly but steadily increased. After Steinbach had received the highest federal award for the finest table fruit ( Cox Orange ) at three major horticultural exhibitions , fruit growing in Steinbach finally prevailed. In the past, the fruit was mainly sold in the - now defunct Kronberger Markthalle - as a cooperative . The collection point was on Eschborner Straße, where the “Ile de Re” restaurant is today. Among other things, the fruit was marketed nationwide under the name "Kronberger Strawberries". Today, after the construction boom of the 1960s, agriculture lacks acreage and fruit growing is of little importance. Until around the 1970s, Steinbach apples were pressed in various restaurants, such as "Zum Schwanen" and "Goldener Stern", and fermented into cider .

traffic

Airport

The Frankfurt Airport is 15 kilometers away.

Local road connections

Steinbach is just a few kilometers from the junctions to the federal highways 5 and 66 . The federal motorway 5 is 1,375 m away. Noise protection measures were not necessary according to the sound engineering preliminary assessment in 2017, even after the upcoming expansion of the federal motorway 5 between Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt and Friedberg by the 4th lane in each direction. There is no direct road connection to Frankfurt. Corresponding plans failed. The country road 3006 with a very high volume of traffic runs right through the center of the village. A southern bypass has therefore been planned for more than 40 years. The southern bypass has always failed due to funding. After the city of Frankfurt considered a potential area for new construction areas also west of the A 5 in 2017, the realization of the southern bypass was within reach. The southern bypass would then also be a development of the new district.

The network of cycling and hiking trails is around 20 kilometers.

Street names through the ages

Before 1900 there were no street names in Steinbach. The houses were a run numbering provided. This began with “1” in Untergasse and ran clockwise around today's Freie Platz to end at Eschborner Strasse with number 107. Names for the streets and paths did not officially exist until 1910, although names that are still valid today had become established in the place. Examples are the Ober- and Untergasse, which refer to the hillside of the place. In the spring of 1904, the grand ducal geodesist Hofmann was sent from Bad Nauheim ( Wetterau ) to Steinbach, who carried out a survey of the Steinbach area. His map series, which to this day forms the basis of building authority calculations, contained street names such as "Kirchgasse", "Borngasse", "Eschborner Straße" or "Gartenstraße" for the first time. From 1910 onwards, building work on Gartenstrasse began. In 1925, the municipal council decided to rename it to Friedrich-Ebert-Straße , in 1933 it was renamed “Gartenstraße”. At the time of National Socialism, Eschborner Strasse was renamed Hindenburgstrasse and Bahnstrasse was henceforth Hermann-Göring-Strasse and today's Freie Platz Adolf-Hitler-Platz. The square was renamed Pijnacker-Platz in the 1970s , before it was renamed Freier Platz back in 2017 - long after the end of the city partnership .

Rail transport and local public transport

Oberursel-Weißkirchen / Steinbach train station

Steinbach is connected to the S-Bahn network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) via the Oberursel-Weißkirchen / Steinbach stop on the Homburger Bahn . Friedrichsdorf, Oberursel, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and Frankfurt am Main 2016 can be reached directly with the S5 line . The S-Bahn runs every 15 minutes during rush hour (5 a.m. to 6 p.m.).

The former station building of the railway station Steinbach was right on the Gemarkungsgrenze to white churches and Stierstadt (today districts of Oberursel) and was demolished due to the new building bridge over the railway 1976th

For the first time in 1950 a rail bus line connected Steinbach with Frankfurt Central Station and with Oberursel. In 2016 the RMV bus routes operated by the Hessian State Railway 251 Kronberg - Steinbach - Frankfurt Nordweststadt and 252 Oberursel - Steinbach - Eschborn - Frankfurt-Rödelheim, which also made the connection to the S-Bahn station.

Since the beginning of 2013, the Frankfurt traffic department has been examining a possible extension of the 6 underground line to Eschborn . The Frankfurt head of the transport department has already commissioned a corresponding specific investigation of the project. It is about the extension of the underground line 6, which currently ends at Heerstrasse in Praunheim. A stop in the Helfmann-Park industrial park may also be possible. According to the mayor of Eschborn, this would “further enhance the Eschborn location”. There is not yet an exact schedule for the project. In the foreseeable future there will be a meeting with representatives from Eschborn, Frankfurt and Oberursel on the subject of the subway. The Greens in the Hochtaunuskreis have recently spoken out in favor of expanding the U6 beyond Eschborn with stops in Steinbach and Kronberg . The city of Oberursel in the Hochtaunus district was connected to the Frankfurt underground network a long time ago via underground line 3.

The Oberursel-Weißkirchen / Steinbach S-Bahn station is part of the planning for the northern planning section of the West Regional Tangent, which is to be used in 2023.

Personalities

Josef Schwarzschild

Josef Schwarzschild was born on November 21, 1908. His Jewish father Abraham was a railway attendant of the Prussian State Railways and moved with his family into the railway attendant's house on the viaduct in the south of Steinbach, which is located in the Eschborn district . This is how the Schwarzschilds became citizens of Eschborn. From 1915 Josef went to school in Steinbach.

He became a bricklayer and an active union member, a member of the Germania football club and worked as a water driver for the Steinbach fire brigade until the mid-1930s. In 1931 Josef Schwarzschild married his childhood sweetheart Anna Maria and moved with her to Schwanengasse in Steinbach. With the seizure of Nazi Josef Schwarzschild was threatened as a Jew. The Gestapo arrested him in a wave criminalization against Jews in mixed marriages in Gau Frankfurt under the pretext that he had his Jewish star is not worn properly. From April to September 1943 he was harassed in the Heddernheim and Köppern labor education camps and finally deported to Auschwitz and murdered in December 1943.

Jochen Schwalbe

Dr. med. Jochen Schwalbe (1938–2012) was a doctor and local politician in Steinbach. As a member of the FDP he belonged to the city council of Eschborn from 1968 and from 1972 to 2001 in Steinbach (he had moved his practice from Eschborn to Steinbach in 1971). From 2001 to 2008 he was head of the city council. in February 2009 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Steinbach. He received the state letter of honor from the state of Hesse and in 1994 the Federal Cross of Merit .

Other personalities

literature

  • Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Historical municipality directory for Hessen. Volume 1: The population of the municipalities 1834-1967. Wiesbaden 1968.
  • Manfred Hundt: Querbeet 1. A reading book not just for real Steinbachers. Steinbach 2002, DNB 968680895 .
  • Manfred Hundt: Steinbacher story. Part 1. (= Steinbacher Hefte. No. 21). Ed .: History circle of the city of Steinbach. Steinbach 1987, DNB 880156007 .
  • Manfred Hundt: Steinbacher story. Part 2. (= Steinbacher Hefte. No. 23). Ed .: History circle of the city of Steinbach. Steinbach 1991, DNB 920610013 .
  • Erich Keyser (Ed.): Hessisches Städtebuch. (= German city book. Handbook of urban history. 4). January 1957.
  • Fritz Krause: 1200 years of Steinbach. Published by the municipal authorities of the city of Steinbach, Steinbach 1989.
  • Fritz Krause, Manfred Hundt: Steinbach (Taunus) when it was a village. Horb am Neckar 1998, ISBN 3-89570-495-4 .
  • Hermann Pauli: Steinbach am Taunus. A home book. Ed. Community council. Steinbach 1970, DNB 730483819 . (New edition of the 1966 edition)
  • Literature on Steinbach in the Hessian Bibliography
  • Literature by and about Steinbach in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Karl Josef Minst (transl.): Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3315, September 14, 789 - Reg. 2132. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 150 , accessed on February 27, 2016 .
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  4. ↑ "Item sat Hrhr Forty Gld. to make the churches of Steinbach again ” .
  5. ^ Ernst J. Zimmermann : Hanau, city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian-Wetterauischen city and former. County. With special consideration of the older time. Increased edition, self-published, Hanau 1919. (Unchanged reprint: Peters, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-243-2 , pp. 767, 772)
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  7. ↑ 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 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  8. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  9. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  10. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  11. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms for the community of Steinbach, Obertaunuskreis, Wiesbaden administrative district from February 28, 1964 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1964 No. 11 , p. 346 , point 315 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.5 MB ]).
  12. ↑ Town house in Steinbach destroyed. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. February 8, 2013, accessed March 7, 2016.
  13. ↑ Turned further: Bürgerhaus Steinbach ( Memento from August 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Report in the “Hessenschau” on August 20, 2017, accessed August 22, 2017.
  14. ↑ Tour of the construction site in Steinbach: The new community center is growing. ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at: taunus-zeitung.de , December 29, 2015, accessed March 7, 2016.
  15. ↑ Hessen Mobil: A 5 - expansion of the north-west junction Frankfurt / Friedberg. Presentation at the Steinbach Citizens' Assembly on April 2, 2012, accessed May 10, 2017.
  16. ^ Fear of Frankfurt's building idea. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. April 7, 2017.
  17. ^ Public transport - subway to Eschborn. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. January 24, 2013.
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  19. ↑ Bernd Vorlaeufer-Germer: The fate of Josef Schwarzschild from Steinbach. (on-line)
  20. ^ Mourning for Dr. Swallow. In: Taunuszeitung. October 17, 2012, p. 12.