Stockheim (Glauburg)

Stockheim Community of Glauburg Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 29 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 3 ″ E
Height :	133 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.2 km²
Residents :	2035 (2013)
Population density :	283 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1971
Postal code :	63695
Area code :	06041
	Catholic Parish Church of St. Jude Thaddaeus

Hofgut Leustadt west of Stockheim

Stockheim is a district of Glauburg in the Wetterau district in Hesse and the seat of the municipal administration.

Geographical location

Stockheim is located in the eastern Wetterau, west of the Büdinger Forest and north of the Ronneburg hill country on both sides of the Bleichenbach , just above its confluence with the Nidder near Glauberg .

The municipal area is given for 1961 as 720 hectares , of which 151 hectares are forest. The district extends in the floodplains of Bleichenbach and Nidder and includes the Leustadt estate to the west of the Nidder . The forests of Stockheim are on the heights west of Leustadt and in the south on the northern slope of the Glauberg . Here, just below the summit, is Stockheim's highest elevation at around 275 meters.

Stockheim is located northeast of the second Glauberg district of Glauburg . The town centers are about one kilometer apart. In addition, Stockheim is surrounded by the places Nieder-Mockstadt in the west, Effolderbach in the north, Selters in the northeast, Bleichenbach in the east, Rohrbach in the southeast and Düdelsheim in the south.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1198 as Stokheim with the mention of a Conradus de Stokheim . In 1787 Stockheim belonged to the Isenburg-Büdingen county . After the Second World War, Stockheim became a place of refuge for many expellees.

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the municipality Stockheim concluded with the neighboring community Glauberg on 1 July 1971. voluntarily merged to Glauburg together .

Population development

Stockheim: Population from 1834 to 1970
year		Residents
1834	431
1840	455
1846	472
1852	486
1858	422
1864	462
1871	466
1875	469
1885	586
1895	646
1905	912
1910	856
1925	942
1939	937
1946	1.611
1950	1,686
1956	1,672
1961	1,678
1967	1,768
1970	1,839
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968. Other sources:

Religious affiliation

Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961:

1245 Protestant (= 74.20%), 388 Catholic (= 23.12%) residents

Transport and infrastructure

The Glauburg-Stockheim train station on the north-western edge of the town is on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line and is also the end point of the Niddertal Railway from Bad Vilbel . Regional trains run almost every hour on both railway lines. There are free connections to Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof .

Furthermore, the privately owned station building was converted into an economic model railway museum , the so-called Stockheim model station , and opened in 2008. The station restaurant has been open for a long time.

literature

Jürgen Röhrig: The Upper Hessian railway village Stockheim . In: Oberhessische Vertriebsbetriebe AG (OVAG) (Ed.): Connection to the wide world: On the changeful development of the railroad in Oberhessen , Friedberg 2014 (2015), ISBN 978-3-9815015-5-1 , pp. 182-185.

Web links

Commons : Stockheim - collection of images, videos and audio files

Internet presence of the community of Glauburg
Stockheim, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Stockheim in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Stockheim, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ Figures, data, facts from the community of Glauburg ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed in July 2016
^ Ludwig Baur, document book of the Arnsburg monastery in the Wetterau. Darmstadt 1849 ff. Pp. 1 f, No. 2
^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 13. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 352 .
↑ www.oberhessen.de - The model station in Stockheim. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; Retrieved July 19, 2014 .

[lagis-1] Stockheim, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[2] Figures, data, facts from the community of Glauburg ( Memento from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed in July 2016

[3] Ludwig Baur, document book of the Arnsburg monastery in the Wetterau. Darmstadt 1849 ff. Pp. 1 f, No. 2

[4] Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 13. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-5] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 352 .

[Der_Modellbahnhof_in_Stockheim-6] www.oberhessen.de - The model station in Stockheim. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; Retrieved July 19, 2014 .