Unter-Widdersheim

Unter-Widdersheim City of Nidda Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 47 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 2 ″  E
Height :	140  (136–152)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.37 km²
Residents :	310  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	92 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	August 1, 1972
Postal code :	63667
Area code :	06402

Unter-Widdersheim is a district of Nidda in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .

Geographical location

The village is located in the northern Wetterau northwest of Nidda. State road 3188 runs on the western edge of the village .

history

A 2.30 m tall menhir - the so-called Kindstein - existing in the vicinity of the new development area indicates a settlement at the time of the megalithic culture, i.e. the 3rd millennium BC. Chr., Out. The Limes with a small fort , which is located at the Massohl quarry , also known as "The Castle", ran near the town . The oldest known written mention of Unter-Widdersheim took place in 1260 under the name of Niedyrn-Wetridesheim .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reported in 1830 about Unter-Widdersheim;

“Unterwiddersheim (L. Bez. Nidda) evangel. Branch village; also Niederwiddersheim; is not far from the Horloff, 2 St from Nidda, has 1 church, 49 houses and 263 Protestant residents. 1 mill and the Schwalheimer Hof with a sour well, which should not be confused with the mineral well at the Churhessian village of Schwalheim, belongs here. The fountain at the Schwalheimer Hof was discovered in 1769 while searching for salt springs in this area. Numerous societies visited it calmly, and the water, which had become popular, was not only used heavily in the neighborhood, but was also carried far away. The owner of the meadow on which the well was located saw it with displeasure that others were doing not insignificant business on his property, and he threw the well shut. Only after the heirs had sold the meadow did the new owner rediscover the fountain on November 11, 1806. It was redrawn, provided with two tubes and planted with poplars and bushes. - Unterwiddersheim appears in documents from 1303 and 1306. "

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the community was in the city Nidda sub-Widdersheim powerful state law on August 1, 1972 incorporated .

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Unter-Widdersheim was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

• before 1450: Holy Roman Empire , County Nidda , Amt Nidda
• 1450–1495: Hereditary dispute between the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Counts of Hohenlohe
• from 1450: Holy Roman Empire, Landgraviate of Hesse , Amt Nidda, Court of Stornfels
• from 1567: Holy Roman Empire, office of Stornfels (sons of Margarethe von der Saale )
• from 1584: Holy Roman Empire, Landgraviate Hessen-Darmstadt , Office of Stornfels
• 1787: Holy Roman Empire, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, Upper Duchy of Hesse , Office of Schotten and Stornfels , Court of Widdersheim
• from 1806: Grand Duchy of Hesse , Upper Duchy of Hesse , Office of Schotten and Stornfels, Court of Widdersheim
• from 1815: German Confederation , Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse , Office of Schotten and Stornfels, Court of Widdersheim
• from 1821: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse, District District Nidda (separation between justice ( District Court Nidda ) and administration)
• from 1832: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse, Nidda district
• from 1848: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, administrative district of Nidda
• from 1852: German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse, Nidda district
• from 1867: North German Confederation , Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse, Nidda district
• from 1871: German Empire , Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse, Nidda district
• from 1874: German Empire, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Upper Hesse, District of Büdingen
• from 1918: German Empire, People's State of Hesse , Province of Upper Hesse, District of Büdingen
• from 1938: German Empire, People's State of Hesse, Büdingen district (provinces dissolved in 1937)
• from 1945: American occupation zone , Greater Hesse , Darmstadt administrative district, Büdingen district
• from 1949: Federal Republic of Germany , State of Hesse , Darmstadt district, Büdingen district
• On December 31, 1971, Unter-Widdersheim was incorporated into the municipality of Nidda as a district
• from 1972: Federal Republic of Germany, State of Hesse, Darmstadt district, Wetterau district

Population development

• 1791:	207 inhabitants
• 1800:	212 inhabitants
• 1806:	201 inhabitants, 46 houses
• 1829:	263 inhabitants, 49 houses
• 1867:	264 inhabitants, 52 inhabited buildings
• 1875:	295 inhabitants, 49 inhabited buildings

Unter-Widdersheim: Population from 1791 to 2019
year				Residents
1791			207
1800			212
1806			201
1829			263
1834			258
1840			245
1846			322
1852			250
1858			271
1864			250
1871			267
1875			295
1885			305
1895			277
1905			278
1910			296
1925			248
1939			267
1946			367
1950			371
1956			334
1961			312
1967			297
1970			293
1980			?
1990			?
1996			348
2000			372
2006			356
2010			328
2011			303
2016			303
2019			310
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:	263 Protestant (= 100%) residents
• 1961:	280 Protestant (= 89.74%) and 30 Catholic (= 9.62%) residents

politics

Mayor is Rainer Strauch (as of June 2013) .

Infrastructure

• The public transport , the transport company Oberhessen GmbH as part of the Rhine-Main Transport Association safely.

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

• In the place there is
  • a town house and
  • a sports field .
  • Furthermore, is located in one of oven stones existing historical oven from Michel Auer Tuff , which is still in operation.

• Several local residents are co-markers in the Markwald Berstadt .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Unter-Widdersheim, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Nidda in numbers. In: Website of the city of Nidda, accessed in May 2020.
3. ^ History. In: www.unter-widdersheim.de. www.unter-widdersheim.de, accessed in May 2020 . 
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. 287 ( online at google books ).
5. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Büdingen and Friedberg (GVBl. II 330-19) 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. 230 , § 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 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 GmbH, 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. 121 ( 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. 15 ( 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 

Web links

Commons : Unter-Widdersheim  - Collection of images

• Unter-Widdersheim district. In: Website of the city of Nidda.
• Unter-Widdersheim. History, local advisory board, clubs, information. In: www.www.unter-widdersheim.de. Local Advisory Board Unter-Widdersheim 
• Unter-Widdersheim, Wetterau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Literature on Unter-Widdersheim in the Hessian Bibliography