Vockenhausen

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Vockenhausen
City of Eppstein
Vockenhausen coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 56 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 37"  E
Height : 200 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.13 km²
Residents : 3700  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 1,182 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 65817
Area code : 06198

Vockenhausen is a district of Eppstein in the Main-Taunus district in southern Hesse . The town hall in Vockenhausen is the seat of the mayor of Eppstein.

history

Eppstein around 1900

Vockenhausen, east of the Dattenbach , was in the 11./12. Founded in the 18th century by the Lords of Eppstein and became a branch of the Fischbach parish . The oldest surviving documentary mention as Vockinhusin dates from the years 1226–1233 and can be found in a tithe register of the parish Schlossborn . The uninhabited area west of the brook belonged to this parish. After the Lords of Eppstein the place in 1581 arrived Kurmainz and belonged to the time of the Duchy of Nassau for office Idstein .

The origin of the settlement were some mills on Dattenbach. Agriculture was not very productive here. In 1470 there was a mill, a pan forge and a grinding mill. In 1539 there were two grinding mills and an oil mill in addition to four houses. Iron smelting and iron processing were important in Vockenhausen because of the nearby iron ore deposits . In the middle of the 18th century, the iron industry ceased and was replaced by leather production in fulling mills and lohmühlen . In 1822/32 a black mill for paint production was added. Industrialization began in Vockenhausen as well. The first companies started manufacturing furniture in 1885.

The Häusel farm has belonged to Vockenhausen since 1816 , and before that it was its own yard mark. The Lords of Eppstein acquired it in the 13th century and sold it to the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1492 . The Häusel district court was located here. According to the wisdom of 1491, in addition to Hof Häusel, Eppstein, Bremthal , Niederjosbach , Oberjosbach , Schloßborn , Kröftel , Ehlhalten , Ruppertshain , Vockenhausen, Eppenhain , Fischbach, Retters , Hornau , Kelkheim , Gimbacher Hof , Oberliederbach , Unterliederbach , Hof belonged to its district Hausen vor der Sonne and Lorsbach . Since 1688 the jurisdiction was no longer exercised. The court was overturned in 1720.

After the Reformation , the Protestant denomination was introduced as in the entire Eppstein rule. With the beginning of the Electoral Mainz rule, the place became Catholic again from 1604. Only Hof Häusel, which belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , remained Protestant.

Geographically, the place is characterized by the main street. The village developed along it as a street village . Only in the second half of the 20th century did pronounced development on the two slopes along the main road begin.

On January 1, 1977, the municipality of Vockenhausen became part of the town of Eppstein as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

religion

The Catholic parish of St. Jakobus is part of the Eppstein pastoral area . The Protestant Christians find the valley church as the closest place of worship in the core town of Eppstein.

Culture and sights

Vockenhäuser Schmelz

Sculpture Vockenhäuser Schmelz

Below the village, in the direction of Eppstein, was the Vockenhäuser Schmelz. Around 1581 the iron caster Wilhelm Wilken and the furnace caster Heinrich Caspar from Liège built the first blast furnace in the Taunus. The ore was mined in Bremthal , the charcoal was produced in the Taunus forests and the nearby brook drove a nearby hammer mill with which the cast iron was forged into bar iron.

The Schmelz was the core of a pre-industrial commercial center. From the 16th to the 18th century there was a powder mill above. In the Schmelz itself, vessels, well pipes, stove plates, spheres and bombs, but also handicraft products such as stair gates were made. Ornamental urns and roof balusters from 1718 to 1720 can still be found in Schloss Weißenstein today .

In 1721, Schmelz had to close due to a lack of profitability. In the centuries that followed, all kinds of businesses used the site: restaurant, fulling leather mill and grain mill, wool factory, tinfoil capsule factory, paint factory and, from 1939 to 1945, an arms factory.

In 1956, the artist Robert Michel (1897–1983) acquired the property in which he had lived since 1920 and used it as a "Heimatmuseum of Modern Art". Robert Michel and his wife Ella Bergmann-Michel (1895–1971) made the Schmelz in the Weimar Republic a meeting place for avant-garde artists .

In 1999 the sculpture was erected according to a design by Walter Hertel . The client was the Eppstein Association, who wanted to remember the history of this place with the sculpture.

  • Sculpture Vockenhäuser Schmelz

  • Sculpture Vockenhäuser Schmelz

  • Sculpture Vockenhäuser Schmelz

societies

There are numerous clubs in Vockenhausen. a .:

  • Gymnastics and Sports Club Vockenhausen 1885 eV
  • Sportfreunde 1982 Vockenhausen
  • Choral society "Singer Association 1851" Vockenhausen eV
  • Vockenhausen Volunteer Fire Brigade .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state road L 3011 leads in the valley of the Dattenbach from Heftrich in the north via Ehlhalten to Vockenhausen, where it joins the federal road 455 at the southern end of the village . About 100 m after the junction begins the core Eppstein and this is also equal to the track of the Main-Lahn Railway the station Eppstein with a commuter train stop the line S2. With the S-Bahn you can reach Frankfurt am Main in about half an hour.

Economic structure

The industry, which arose in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries and was characterized by leather factories and carpenters, developed backwards from the end of the 1970s and made room for supermarkets and service providers.

education

Vockenhausen is the location of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule (comprehensive school), the Burg-Schule (elementary school), as well as the Sparkassenakademie Hessen - Thuringia.

Personalities

Hermann Schmitt-Vockenhausen (1969)

Web links

Commons : Vockenhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Höchster Kreisblatt - Eppstein is growing and growing , 02/07/2017
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Main-Taunus district and the city of Wiesbaden (GVBl. II 330–30) 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. 309 , § 6 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 371 .
  4. ^ Eppstein Pastoral Room
  5. ^ Website of the Talkirchengemeinde
  6. ^ TSV Vockenhausen
  7. ↑ Sportfreunde Vockenhausen In: www.eppstein.de, accessed in May 2019.
  8. ↑ Sängerbund 1851 Vockenhausen , accessed in Main 2019
  9. ^ Vockenhausen fire brigade
  10. ^ FVS school
  11. ^ Castle School ( Memento from February 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Savings Bank Academy Hessen-Thuringia