Bull town

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Bull town
Coat of arms of Stierstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 56 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 167 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 5336  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 61440
Area code : 06171

Stierstadt is one of four districts of the city of Oberursel (Taunus) in the Hochtaunuskreis in Hesse . Stierstadt is located south of the Oberursel core city.

history

Stierstadt was first mentioned in a document on April 26, 791 in the Lorsch Codex . The document confirms the donation of a man named Suicger over 15 hectares (60 acres ) of land, a farmhand and two farmsteads in the villages of “Steorstat” and “Ursella” to the Lorsch monastery .

In 1860 it was connected to the Homburg Railway , today's S 5. In 1892 the first factory in the village was founded: the Frankfurt bronze paint and metal sheet factory in the former Neumühle. It is said to have served as an ammunition factory during the Second World War. 1947–1990 the property houses the glassworks Hessenglaswerke GmbH , founded by Sudeten German refugees.

In the years before the First World War , the construction of the water network began. Together with Weißkirchen, a water system was built in Borngrund. Since July 16, 1966, the water supply has been provided by the Vordertaunus water procurement association. In 1952 the community was connected to the gas network.

The structure and size of the community changed rapidly in the years after the Second World War . In 1935, Stierstadt was a rural village with 1,355 inhabitants. In 1968 it became a place of residence for commuters to Frankfurt and Stierstadt had over 3,500 inhabitants.

On April 1, 1972, it was incorporated into Oberursel as a result of the Hessian municipal reform .

The last mayor of the independent community of Stierstadt was Heinrich Geibel (SPD) (1918–2002), who became head of the joint registry office after the merger.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories and administrative units to which Stierstadt was subordinate:

Religions

  • 1348: Construction of the St. Sebastian Chapel.
  • 1918: Founding of his own Catholic parish.
  • Foundation of the Protestant parish of Stierstadt Weißkirchen on October 1st, 1955
  • In the period from 1959 to 1966, the evangelical pastor Martin Knolle from Steinbach also headed the branch community in Stierstadt / Weißkirchen - today the "Reconciliation Community". A large number of new Protestant citizens had moved to the pure Catholic parishes there. Conversely, the Catholic parish of St. Sebastian Stierstadt looked after the Catholics in Steinbach

Town twinning

1971 closed the (still independent) community Stierstadt a city partnership with the Dutch municipality Ursem (Ursem belongs to the community since 1979 Wester-Koggenland , since 1 January 2007 Koggenland ).

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On December 11, 1971 in Stierstadt and on May 13, 1972 in Ursem, the official partnership was sealed with the signing of appropriate documents. At the ceremony in the hall of the “Waldlust” restaurant in Stierstadt, Ursems Mayor de Nijs presented his “dear colleague” Heinrich Geibel 2000 Dutch tulip bulbs, one from each Ursemer. The event was embedded in a two-day festival at which the whole of Stierstadt was on its feet, especially since a skilful director linked the partnership celebration with the laying of the foundation stone for the new fire station, which was so important for the community, a project with the enormous sum of half a million marks at the time . At the twinning ceremony on May 13, 1972 in Ursem, Mayor Geibel presented a wooden fountain and a wooden bench on behalf of the Stierstadt community. In order to maintain the partnership that has been agreed upon, it was decided that an exchange should take place in both communities at least once a year. The number of participants should be around 50 people and should be made up of club members, interested parties from the local population and hosts. The exchanges have been taking place annually since 1970.

In addition to the official exchange, there are also other visits to the partner cities. Many of the visits do not have the official character of the exchange, rather smaller private visits are also made at short notice. This happens e.g. B. to the curb in Ursem on the Whitsun weekend or to the curb in Stierstadt on the second weekend in July or simply to celebrate a private celebration or a club anniversary together. Since the carnival clubs in Ursem and Stierstadt have the same season and thus cannot travel to the twin city, it has become a tradition that the CV Ursem comes to the summer festival of the CV Stierstadt. There is then the opportunity to exchange "Carnevalist thoughts" and to cultivate a good friendship. In the meantime, however, the visit to the Stierstadt Advent market on the second Advent is semi-official. This is where the members of the Stierstadt Commission from Ursem come to run a stand together with the Holland Committee: There is information about the partnership as well as typical Dutch specialties: in particular cheese, matjes, jenever and bitterballen. In addition to the committee members, private individuals from Ursem also occasionally take part in this “exchange”. The intensive exchanges resulted in a large number of private friendships that have lasted from 1970 until today. A marriage also emerged from the partnership.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Catholic Church of St. Sebastian, seen from the village linden tree
Catholic Church St. Sebastian, Oberursel-Stierstadt

Bull town lies on old cultural soil. This is evidenced by an urn find (1956) with bone ash from the Hallstatt period (around 800 BC) and a Roman road to the “Kleiner Feldberg” fort. A donation to the Lorsch Abbey on April 26, 791 is notarized. In 1972, the place is incorporated into Oberursel. Before a St. Sebastian chapel with a tower was built in 1348, the people of Stierstadt went to Oberursel to attend mass. On July 1, 1898 a parish vicarie was established. From 1918 St. Sebastian is its own parish. On the foundations of the chapel from 1348, “a little church” was built in 1670, which in 1933 received two aisles. According to plans by Bernhard Weber (son of the important Frankfurt church builder Martin Weber), a new church was built next to the listed tower from April 1969, which was inaugurated on July 4th 1971. It offers space for around 500 believers. Around the altar (made of basalt lava stone), flanked diagonally by the baptismal font and Easter candle, ambo and tabernacle, the congregation gathers for worship. What is special about the church is an expressionist spatial structure, which ends in the elevation of the altar in terms of lighting technology and construction, which defines the T-shaped church interior as the central focus. The bricks of the walls and floor, the light spruce wood of the benches and the ceiling paneling and the ornamental colored glazing of the large east window result in a bright, colored interior. The church interior is adorned by a way of the cross engraved in clay and inserted into the interior walls as a frieze, a filigree altar cross, a Queen of Mary with child and a late Gothic crucifixion group in the side chapel. In addition to these figures, four statues were taken from the old church and placed in the entrance hall: St. Ursula, St. Sebastian (probably from the Riemenschneider School), St. Barbara and St. Maria. Two stained glass windows (Good Shepherd, Maria Magdalena), the old baptismal font as an altar stone, a fourteen-saints shrine and stained glass (St. Sebastian and John the Baptist) were also taken over. In the tower with a round window (Holy Trinity) hang three bronze bells: Sebastian's bell (1953, 824 kg, f sharp '), Marien's bell (1776, 293 kg, h'), Joseph's bell (1953, 192 kg, d ''). In the shadow of the old village linden tree there is a war memorial from 1871 in the churchyard, a grotto with a wood-carved statue of Mary built in 1958 by returning soldiers, the sandstone cross of the old cemetery and a walk-in labyrinth to commemorate World Youth Day 2005.

"Sanssouris Castle"

The "castle" is a small half-timbered barn on the Stierstädter railway embankment in which a publishing house founded in 1949 was based. The building was jokingly called "Sanssouris Castle" (translated: "without mice"), which is also to be understood ambiguously and was an allusion to the miserable financial situation of the "lord of the castle".

Natural monuments

Village linden bull town

The freely accessible village linden tree stands on a free space in front of the church in the center of the village. The summer linden tree , designated as a natural monument , is noticeably tall and shows a pronounced trunk-foot area. It is surrounded by a surrounding bench. The tree is said to have been planted during or at the end of the Thirty Years War and is estimated to be around 350 years old.

Natural spaces

Stierstadt Heath

The Stierstädter Heide is an area that has become a heather due to human cultivation . The heather character is preserved through landscaping measures. As Oberurseler Stadtwald and Stierstädter Heide , the area is protected as FFH area No. 5717-304 .

Regular events

On the last Saturday in April, the brass orchestra of the TV1891-Stierstadt eV organizes its annual concert in the club gym of the TV-Stierstadt. On the weekend of Pentecost, the local volunteer fire brigade invites you to their open day, which has developed as a tradition in the city for years and has thus become a permanent culture in Stierstadt.

On the first Saturday in July, the two groups “Tauernfreunde” and “Die Schnuddler”, under the direction of Willy Seidenthal, organize the Stierstädter Grenzgang, which takes the participants over a distance of around 15 kilometers along the border of the Vordertaunus community high up in the Taunus and along the neighboring towns and communities Steinbach, Kronberg-Oberhöchstadt, Bommersheim and Weißkirchen leads. The border crossing, which has been carried out annually since 2002, is growing in popularity from year to year.

On the second weekend in July, the Stierstädter Curb takes place on the festival square on Platanenstrasse . The highlight is the morning pint on Notch Monday , which is known far beyond the local borders.

On the second weekend of Advent, the Stierstadt Christmas Market has been taking place on Saturdays and Sundays for several years. It has been in the old town center on Gartenstrasse since 2005. In previous years, the stands were always set up in the lower part of Taunusstrasse (Stierstadter Hauptstrasse).

Sports

The 1st team of FV Stierstadt (soccer), which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2010, will play in the group league Frankfurt-West (7th division) in the 2017/2018 season. The association is also involved in youth work.

The 1st team of the table tennis department of TV Stierstadt is represented in the district league in the 2018/2019 season. The 2nd and 3rd men's teams fight for points in the district class, the 4th team in the 1st district class, while the 5th team goes to the table in the 2nd district class.

The Fahrwohl cycling club has been active in Stierstadt since 1907. This association emerged from two associations founded in Stierstadt. People's cycling, which has been taking place annually since 1981, is very popular. Fahrwohl offers the following areas: Artistic cycling, bike meeting, bike tours, bike touring and also enables the sports badge.

education

In Stierstadt there is a primary school (Primary School Stierstadt) and the Integrated Comprehensive School Stierstadt (IGS). The IGS goes back to the Association School Vordertaunus, whose first construction phase began in 1963 and was inaugurated in April 1965. From the 2018/2019 school year, it will also offer the upper secondary school.

literature

  • Chapter "Bull City" by Mayor Heinrich Geibel. In: 100 years Obertaunuskreis , published by the district committee of the Obertaunuskreis 1967 (without pagination).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures on the website of the city of Oberutsel (Taunus) , accessed on April 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3371 April 26, 791 - Reg. 2312. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 165 , accessed on January 24, 2016 .
  3. ^ 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 .
  4. ^ Boundary change agreement between Oberursel and Stierstadt dated 03.03.1972 ( Memento of the original dated March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 44 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberursel.de
  5. ↑ Stierstadt, Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 24, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ twinning Ursem. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: oberursel.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberursel.de
  8. ^ Church guides: Churches in the Hochtaunuskreis . Edited by Hochtaunuskreis - District Committee 2006
  9. ↑ Data on the history of Stierstadt. ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: oberursel.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberursel.de
  10. ↑ "Dorflinde in Oberursel-Stierstadt" in the tree register at www.baumkunde.de
  11. ↑ Jürgen Streicher: The Stierstadt Heath is alive. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 7, 2012
  12. ↑ Teams. FV Stierstadt, August 4, 2010, accessed April 25, 2011