Urberach

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Urberach
City of Rödermark
Urberach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 26 "  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 52"  E
Height : 152 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.44 km²
Residents : 12,157  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 977 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 63322
Area code : 06074
Catholic parish church St. Gallus from 1821/22 in the town center

Urberach is a district of Rödermark in the Offenbach district in southern Hesse .

geography

Urberach lies at an altitude of 152  m above sea level. NHN , 15 km south of Offenbach am Main , between Dietzenbach in the north, Langen in the west and Messel in the south.

history

Territorial history

In the seventies of the 13th century, the Lords of Eppstein owned the village of Urberach as a pledge. In 1280 they enfeoffed Heinrich, previously mayor of Frankfurt am Main , with a third of the bailiwick in Urberach. In 1303 the possession of the Lords of Hanau in Urberach was also mentioned. Urberach belonged to the Röder Mark and there to the Märkergericht von Ober-Roden . In 1425 Urberach was sold to the Electorate of Mainz along with other Eppstein possessions . There it belonged to the Dieburg office .

In 1706 the Archbishop of Mainz Lothar Franz von Schönborn and Count Johann Philipp von Isenburg-Büdingen exchanged the place for Hechtsheim and Weisenau . From then on, Urberach belonged to the Isenburg-Philippseich county , a younger line of the Isenburg family and, within the Isenburg possessions, to the Offenbach District Office .

In 1786, the Röder Mark cooperative , until then a large, communal forest, was divided among the communities of Ober- and Nieder-Roden , Urberach, Messel, Dietzenbach, Hainhausen , Jügesheim and Dudenhofen, which belonged to it. Urberach received its community forest.

After the principality of Isenburg-Birstein was dissolved in 1816, Urberach fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . It was then assigned to the following administrative units:

Urberach was an independent municipality in the Dieburg district until December 31, 1976. As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent municipalities of Urberach and Ober-Roden merged by law on January 1, 1977 to form the municipality, and since August 23, 1980, the town of Rödermark. Urberach has been part of Rödermark since then.

Historical forms of names

Urberach was mentioned under the following names in documents that have survived (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Orbruch (1275)
  • Urbruch (1280)
  • Urbruch (1303)
  • Orbruch (1322)
  • Urbruch (1385)
  • Orberach (1652)
  • Urberach (1706)

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

  • 1961: 851 Protestant (= 17.92%), 3751 Catholic (= 78.99%) inhabitants
Urberach: Population from 1829 to 2016
year     Residents
1829
  
 1,213
1834
  
 1,387
1840
  
 1,468
1846
  
 1,527
1852
  
 1,577
1858
  
 1,531
1864
  
 1,474
1871
  
 1,537
1875
  
 1,631
1885
  
 1,451
1895
  
 1,609
1905
  
 1,856
1910
  
 2.112
1925
  
 2,447
1939
  
 2,807
1946
  
 3,428
1950
  
 3,723
1956
  
 4,186
1961
  
 4,749
1967
  
 6,858
1970
  
 7,393
2007
  
 11,537
2011
  
 11,369
2016
  
 12,157
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Place nickname

The Urberacher describe themselves as "Orwischer". The Urberach dialect formation The Rodauschiffer wrote a hymn, Our Orwisch, on the place, in which they also recall the old cider tradition and other special features.

religion

Before 1250, the place already had a church that was under the patronage of St. Gallus and was a subsidiary church of Oberroden. In 1256 the Lords of Hanau held the church patronage. In the Middle Ages and early modern times , the central church authority was the Archdiakonat St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg , Landkapitel Rodgau .

Around 1550, Count Philipp von Hanau-Lichtenberg introduced the Reformation and the community became temporarily Lutheran . In 1576 the pastor of Ober-Roden held the small tithe . 1706 established Kurmainz in Urberach its own Roman Catholic parish.

In 1821/22 the Catholic community had a new church built under the direction of Georg Moller , a classical hall . The Catholic Church of St. Gallus belongs to the diocese of Mainz.

Until the immigration after the Second World War, Urberach was dominated by Catholicism. Since then there have been three Christian parishes:

  • Catholic parish of St. Gallus Urberach
  • Evangelical Petrus Congregation Urberach
  • New Apostolic Congregation Rödermark-Urberach
  • Free Evangelical Community of Rödermark

badges and flags

Banner Urberach.svg

coat of arms

DEU Urberach COA.svg

Blazon : "In a red shield a six-spoke silver wheel (Kurmainz), topped with a gold pole, on it a black clay vase (Urberach)." The coat of arms of the municipality Urberach in the then district of Dieburg was approved on October 30, 1952 by the Hessian Minister of the Interior . It was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth.

The newly lent and newly created coat of arms connects the former political affiliation of the place to Mainz ( Mainzer Rad ) with a special commercial activity typical of Urberach, pottery (clay vase). A boundary stone from the 18th century, on the other hand, shows a large Gothic U.

flag

The flag was approved by the Hessian Minister of the Interior on May 12, 1953 and is described as follows:

"The coat of arms of the municipality of Urberach on a wide white central strip of the red-white-red flag cloth."

Economy and Infrastructure

Urberach substation

Economic structure

In the 17th century, the Elector of Mainz owned two mills in Urberach, which he leased. Urberach was a center of the pottery trade . A pottery museum, a pottery market and the clay vessel in the city coat of arms remind of this tradition.

West of the town is since the 1950s, a large switching and transformer station of Amprion GmbH (formerly RWE ), which is constantly expanding. It works on the voltage levels 380, 220 and 110 kV and is the starting point for numerous high-voltage lines , such as the 380 kV line to Bürstadt .

The newly founded University of Cooperative Education Rhein-Main moved to Urberach in 2002.

traffic

In 1905 the place received a railway connection with the Dreieichbahn and its own train station .

Urberach is made accessible for regional road traffic by the federal highway 486 .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

People related to the community

literature

  • Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main (= writings of the Hessian State Office for historical regional studies. ) 29, p. 155.
  • Max Herchenröder : The art monuments of the district of Dieburg . 1940, p. 293 f.
  • Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book . Volume 1: Starkenburg. 1937, p. 536 ff., 717.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 until the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform (= Darmstadt archival documents. 2.). 1976, p. 204.
  • Regina Schäfer: The Lords of Eppstein. Exercise of power, administration and possession of a noble family in the late Middle Ages . Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 978-3-930221-08-0 , pp. 72, 242, 370-372, 375.
  • Dagmar Söder: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Offenbach district (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). 1987, p. 277 ff.
  • Literature on Urberach in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Urberach  - Collection of Images

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e Urberach, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Rödermark - Statistics In: roedermark.de. Accessed October 2017.
  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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 375 .
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 316–318 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  5. ↑ From 2007 City of Rödermark
  6. ^ Catholic parish St. Gallus on the Internet
  7. ^ Website of the Evangelical Petrus Congregation
  8. ↑ New Apostolic Congregation Rödermark-Urberach on the Internet ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nak-darmstadt.de
  9. ↑ FeG Rödermark website.
  10. ↑ HStAD inventory R 6 C No. 279 / 1-2  In: Archive information system Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  11. ↑ Approval for the use of a coat of arms for the municipality of Urberach in the district of Dieburg, Reg.-District Darmstadt from October 30, 1952 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1952 No. 46 , p. 847 , item 1148 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.3 MB ]).
  12. ↑ DEMAND, KARL E. AND RENKHOFF, OTTO, Hessisches Ortswappenbuch, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, page 151.
  13. ↑ Authorization to fly a flag to the municipality of Urberach in the district of Dieburg, administrative district of Darmstadt from May 12, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1953 No. 22 , p. 494 , item 623 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.1 MB ]).