Stockstadt am Main

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Stockstadt am Main
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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 9 ° 4'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
County : Aschaffenburg
Height : 117 m above sea level NHN
Area : 18.88 km 2
Residents: 8002 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 424 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 63811
Area code : 06027
License plate : AB , ALZ
Community key : 09 6 71 155
LOCODE : DE SYS
Market structure: 1 district

Market administration address : 		Hauptstrasse 19–21
63811 Stockstadt a. M.
Website : www.stockstadt-am-main.de
Mayor : Rafael Herbrik ( SPD )
Location of the Stockstadt a.Main market in the Aschaffenburg district
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Municipality of Stockstadt am Main

Stockstadt am Main (officially: Stockstadt a.Main ) is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg . It is best known for the Stockstadt Castle and the oldest proven Christmas tree in Germany.

Aerial photo 2008
The Roman fort Stockstadt is largely overbuilt today. A particularly large number of stone monuments were found in Stockstadt. In the picture the finds from Mithraeum  I, exhibited in the Saalburg Museum .
View of the main street with the former parish church of St. Leonhard
Kurmainzisches Zollhaus from 1546 near the Gersprenz at the northern entrance to the town, view from the east

geography

Geographical location

Stockstadt am Main is located west of the city of Aschaffenburg on the left side of the Main. The border with Hesse is to the west and northwest of Stockstadt. The topographically highest point of the municipality district is located at 144  m above sea level. NN (location) in the forest area between Stockstadt and Babenhausen , the lowest is at the Gersprenz estuary in the Main at 101.7  m above sea level. NN (location) .

Community structure

There is only the district and the district Stockstadt am Main. Stockstadt can be unofficially divided into several settlement areas, which were gradually developed.

Neighboring communities

Community
Mainhausen 		Municipalities of
Kleinostheim
and
Mainaschaff
City of
Babenhausen 		Neighboring communities City of
Aschaffenburg
Großostheim market

Historic region

Together with the districts of Leider and Nilkheim of the city of Aschaffenburg, the district of Dorndiel of the city of Großumstadt, the city of Obernburg and the communities of Niedernberg, Großwallstadt and Mömlingen, the districts of Radheim and Mosbach of the community of Schaafheim and the market in Großostheim, the market town of Stockstadt formed the historic Bachgau region . At present, only the places Großostheim with the districts Ringheim, Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt on the Bavarian side and the community Schaafheim with the districts Mosbach and Radheim in Hesse belong to the Bachgau. Stockstadt no longer belongs to the Bachgau.

Surname

etymology

The name Stockstadt consists of the Old High German words stoc , which means tree trunk and stat , for site. It probably goes back to a time in which the stumps after the slash left and Vermoderung were left. The name addition on the Main distinguishes the place from Stockstadt am Rhein .

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

  • 1000 stocestat
  • 1184 Stocstat
  • 1259 Stochstad
  • 1261 stostat
  • 1326 Stocstad
  • 1387 Stoxstad
  • 1401 Stogxstad
  • 1408 Stockstad
  • 1625 Stockstadt
  • 1888 Stockstadt am Main

history

In 1820 “interesting Roman antiquities” were discovered in Stockstadt. With these discoveries and further excavations, the existence of a Roman fort for Stockstadt in the course of the Upper German-Raetian Limes could be documented for the time of Emperor Trajan at the latest . It existed until the Romans withdrew around AD 260. The Roman site Stockstadt is best known for the numerous stone monuments that were discovered in the vicinity of the fort. In the vicinity of the fort there were several brick kilns assigned to the military brickworks operated by the cohors III Aquitanorum stationed in Stockstadt . The former fort area south of the Rhein-Main-Bahn is today largely built over with a pulp mill.

Stockstadt am Main was mentioned in writing as early as the middle of the 9th century, if only on the basis of a few taxable citizens. These were designated as residing in Stocestat ; that's what the place was called at the time. The place itself was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1024. The village of Stoddenstat was given to the Fulda monastery by Emperor Heinrich II . This remained so until 1309, when Stockstadt was handed over to the Archdiocese of Mainz . In the Middle Ages, the surrounding forests belonged to the Dreieich Wildbann , which maintained one of its 30 Wildhuben in Stockstadt .

A historical source dates to the year 1527 and shows that the oldest Christmas tree in Germany comes from the Stockstadt Hübnerwald. In a file of the Mainz rulers from that time, "the weiennacht tree" in the Hübnerwald is mentioned in a document. Chancellery. 16th Century.

On July 1, 1862, the district office of Aschaffenburg was formed, on whose administrative area Stockstadt was located. In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Stockstadt was now one of the 33 communities in the old district of Aschaffenburg . On July 1, 1972, this merged with the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia to form the new Aschaffenburg district.

politics

Market council

The market town council of Stockstadt am Main has 21 members including the full-time mayor.

CSU SPD FWG total
2002 7th 11 * 3 21 seats
2008 11 * 7th 3 21 seats
2012 9 * 7th 5 21 seats
2014 9 * 8th 4th 21 seats
2020 7th 9 * 5 21 seats

* including mayor

mayor

Rafael Herbrik (SPD) has been the mayor since May 1, 2020; he was elected in the runoff election on March 29, 2020 with 61.0% of the valid votes. His predecessor was Peter Wolf (CDU), in office from May 2008 to April 2020.

coat of arms

The oval local seal from the 17th century showed the first letters of the name under the Kurmainzer wheel. On February 16, 1952, the coat of arms designed by Friedrich Merzbacher was approved.

Blazon : In blue over a lowered silver wave bar, a silver legionnaire's helmet with a red crest in side view.

Partner communities

Attractions

St. Anne's Chapel
  • The customs house on the main road served as a customs post for the Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Albrecht of Brandenburg for a long time . It was built from 1514 to 1545 (coordinates: 49 ° 58 '52.54 "  N , 9 ° 3' 42.26"  O )
  • The Leonharduskirche is also located in the old part of Stockstadt and dates back to 1773. (Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 50.2 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 47.3 ″  E )
  • The St. Anna Chapel, built in 1458, originally stood on the corner of Hauptstrasse and Alter Stadtweg. Its demolition took place in January 1925 on a municipal council resolution. In 2007 the chapel was rebuilt according to the historical model elsewhere, west across the B 469 towards Auhof, and consecrated on April 6, 2008.

Architectural monuments

Soil monuments

Infrastructure

traffic

The Main Bridge is important for train traffic.

The federal autobahn 3 , the federal road 26 , the federal road 469 and the district road AB 16 run through the municipal area contain. Via the B469, the motorway junction 57 (junction Stockstadt) of the federal motorway 3 can be reached in approx. 3 km. In the outermost north-western corner of the municipality is the Seligenstädter Dreieck , where the federal highway 45 connects to the federal highway 3.

Local public transport (ÖPNV) is ensured by the Verkehrsgemeinschaft am Bayerischen Untermain (VAB). The Stockstadt train station is part of the Rhein-Main-Bahn , which runs on the (Wiesbaden–) Mainz – Darmstadt – Aschaffenburg line. The municipality forms the western border of the VAB , in the neighboring town of Babenhausen (Hess.) The Hessian Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) already begins . There is a transitional tariff to improve the connection between the transport associations and the federal states. Every 30 minutes a city bus from Stadtwerke Aschaffenburg (line 3) stops at bus stops in Stockstadt.

Long-distance cycle routes

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

Established businesses

The largest resident company is Sappi Limited. There are also numerous small and medium-sized companies .

Personalities

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ bayerische-stateesbibliothek-online (accessed in January 2013)
  3. ↑ a b Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 215–216 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Anselm Andreas Caspar Cammerer: The Kingdom of Bavaria in its current form. 8th edition, Kempten 1838, p. 193.
  5. ^ Ulrich Brandl and Emmi Federhofer: Ton + Technik. Roman bricks. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2403-0 ( publications from the Limes Museum Aalen. No. 61)
  6. ↑ http://www.wahlen.bayern.de/kommunalwahlen/

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