Ulfa (Nidda)

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Ulfa
City of Nidda
Ulfa coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 170  (171-187)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.02 km²
Residents : 1180  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 79 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Postal code : 63667
Area code : 06043
Ulfa Evangelical Church from the 12th century

Ulfa is a clustered village in the northern Wetterau and a district of Nidda in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .

history

Finds from barrows suggest that the area around Ulfa was already settled at the end of the Neolithic.

The first known documentary mention of the village "Oloffe" comes from the time of the first Fulda bishops Sturmius and Baugulf von Fulda between 750 and 802. The village therefore already existed then. At that time the place name was also Olphe or Olaffa. " Ol" means swamp in the Celtic language and "offe" or "affa" = water, brook or river, d. H. " Settlement situated on the water or swamp". The name reveals that the first settlement was of Celtic origin and was located on a marshland. The village belonged to the Fulda Monastery , which was given as a fief to the Counts of Nidda.

Around 1290 Ulfa became the place of jurisdiction. The village has the right to hold markets to this day and is therefore also a market town.

In the middle of the district stands the massive, over 800-year-old Evangelical Church of Ulfa with its defensive tower . In it hangs a bell that was cast in 1334 and two others that were cast around 1334. The triple bell is one of the oldest in Hessen. Today nothing is left of the castle to the east of the village .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Ulfa in 1830:

"Ulfa (L. Bez. Schotten) evangel. Parish village; is 3 1 ⁄ 2  St. of Schotten, has 184 houses and 981 souls, who are Protestant except for 1 Catholics. In this beautiful clean place you will find 1 church, 1 town hall with school room and 6 bakery houses. The inhabitants cultivate very strong onions. - The Ulfa court belonged to the Counts of Nidda, and was formerly an allode . The name Oloffe is mentioned in a Fuldischen document, but without a date. A Eckhard von Holefe appears in 1129 in the Schiffenberg monastery foundation letter among the witnesses of high nobility. The neighboring Stornfels was the castle of Ulfa. Later there is a family of lower nobility who took the name of Ulfa because they belonged to the castle man in Stornfels and enjoyed their castle fief in Ulfa. Ulfa formed its own court, which as Allode belonged to the Counts of Nidda, and with the other possessions of these belonged to the Landgraves. "

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipalities of Bad Salzhausen, Borsdorf, Fauerbach bei Nidda, Geiß-Nidda, Harb, Kohden, Michelnau, Ober-Lais, Ober-Schmitten, Ober-Widdersheim, Stornfels, merged on December 1, 1970 Ulfa, Unter-Schmitten, Wallernhausen and the city of Nidda to form the new city of Nidda.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Ulfa was located or the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Population development

• 1791: 733 inhabitants
• 1800: 738 inhabitants
• 1806: 843 inhabitants, 160 houses
• 1829: 981 inhabitants, 184 houses
• 1867: 1040 inhabitants, 206 inhabited buildings
• 1875: 1037 inhabitants, 206 inhabited buildings
Ulfa: Population from 1791 to 2019
year     Residents
1791
  
 733
1800
  
 738
1806
  
 843
1829
  
 981
1834
  
 979
1840
  
 1,034
1846
  
 1,124
1852
  
 1,050
1858
  
 1,039
1864
  
 1,057
1871
  
 1,059
1875
  
 1,037
1885
  
 1,042
1895
  
 1,046
1905
  
 1,026
1910
  
 1,049
1925
  
 1,075
1939
  
 1,067
1946
  
 1,484
1950
  
 1,490
1956
  
 1,380
1961
  
 1,316
1967
  
 1,283
1970
  
 1,246
1980
  
 ?
1990
  
 ?
1996
  
 1,379
2000
  
 1,398
2006
  
 1,382
2010
  
 1,278
2011
  
 1,200
2016
  
 1,219
2019
  
 1,180
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; from 2000:; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 980 evangelical, one catholic resident
• 1961: 1177 Protestant (= 89.44%) and 131 Catholic (= 9.95%) residents

politics

The mayor is Christian Döll (as of January 2017) .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Nidda-Ulfa

museum

Upper Hessian Nativity Scene Museum

Economy and Infrastructure

literature

  • Günther Stahnke: Ulfa history and stories; The story of Ulfa. History Society Ulfa, Nidda 2010.
  • Günther Stahnke: Ulfa. 15th to 17th centuries. From the time of the 30 Years War, the time before and after. History Society Ulfa, Nidda 2018.
  • Günther Stahnke, Wolf-Dieter Schulz: Local family book for Ulfa and Stornfels. History Society Ulfa, Nidda 2013.
  • Mathilde Hain: Proverbs and Folk Language - A folklore and sociological village study of the village Ulfa near Nidda dialect house names , Giessen contributions to German philology, Volume 95, Schmitz, Giessen 1951
  • Literature about Ulfa in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ulfa  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ulfa, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Nidda in numbers. In: Website of the city of Nidda, accessed in May 2020.
  3. ^ Edmund Ernst Stengel , document book of the Fulda monastery. 1. The time of the abbots Sturmi and Baugulf, Marburg 1958. = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck 10.1. No. 448, No. 372.
  4. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt August 1830, OCLC 312528126 , p. 284 ( online at google books ).
  5. ↑ Amalgamation of the city of Nidda and the municipalities of Bad Salzhausen, Borsdorf, Fauerbach near Nidda, Geiß-Nidda, Harb, Kohden, Michelnau, Ober-Lais, Ober-Schmitten, Ober-Widdersheim, Stornfels, Ulfa, Unter-Schmitten, Wallernhausen in the district Büdingen on the new town "Nidda" from November 24, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 49 , p. 2290 , point 2281 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.3 MB ]).
  6. ^ 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. 351 .
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  9. ↑ Martin Röhling: Niddaer Geschichtsblätter. Issue 9 . The story of the Counts of Nidda and the Counts of Ziegenhain. Ed .: Niddaer Heimatmuseum e. V. Im Selbstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 , p. 75, 115 .
  10. ^ The affiliation of the office of Schotten based on maps from the Historical Atlas of Hessen : Hessen-Marburg 1567-1604 . , Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt 1604-1638 . and Hessen-Darmstadt 1567-1866 .
  11. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 f ., § 25 point B. ( online at google books ).
  12. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  208 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  13. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, OCLC 165696316 , p. 9 ( online at google books ).
  14. ↑ a b Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1806 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1806, p.  277 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  15. ↑ Latest countries and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands. Kur-Hessen, Hessen-Darmstadt and the free cities. tape  22 . Weimar 1821, p. 345, 422 ( online at Google Books ).
  16. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Upper Hesse . tape 3 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt 1830, p. 262 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  17. ↑ Law on the repeal of the provinces of Starkenburg, Upper Hesse and Rheinhessen from April 1, 1937 . In: The Reichsstatthalter in Hessen Sprengler (Hrsg.): Hessisches Regierungsblatt. 1937 no.  8 , p. 121 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 11.2 MB ]).
  18. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  229 ff . ( Online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  19. ↑ Housing spaces 1867 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 122 ( online at google books ).
  20. ↑ Residential places 1875 . In: Grossherzogliche Centralstelle für die Landesstatistik (Ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 15 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1877, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730484 , p. 19 ( online at google books ).
  21. ^ Nidda in numbers. In: website. City of Nidda, archived from the original on October 4, 2011 ; accessed in November 2011 .
  22. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. (PDF; 1 MB) In: 2011 Census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  23. ^ Ulfa local council. ( Memento from January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Website of the Ulfa local council. Accessed January 2018.