Wöllstadt

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Wöllstadt
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Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 8 ° 45'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Wetteraukreis
Height : 137 m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.38 km 2
Residents: 6475 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 421 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 61206
Area code : 06034
License plate : FB, BÜD
Community key : 06 4 40 025
LOCODE : DE WLS
Community structure: 2 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Paul-Hallmann-Strasse 3
61206 Wöllstadt
Website : www.woellstadt.de
Mayor : Adrian Roskoni ( independent )
Location of the municipality of Wöllstadt in the Wetterau district
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Wöllstadt is a municipality in the Wetterau district in Hesse .

geography

Neighboring communities

Wöllstadt borders the city of Friedberg in the north, the city of Niddatal in the east, the city of Karben in the south , and the city of Rosbach v. d. Height .

Community structure

Wöllstadt consists of the districts Nieder-Wöllstadt and Ober-Wöllstadt .

Nieder-Wöllstadt ( photographed from Burg-Graefenrode )

history

  • The place was first mentioned in a document in 790 in the Lorsch Codex .
  • During the Reformation , Nieder- and Ober-Wöllstadt became Protestant. Ober-Wöllstadt also remained Lutheran for a while, even when it was added to the Electorate of Mainz around 1580 . It was not until the beginning of the 17th century that Ober-Wöllstadt became Catholic again. Nieder-Wöllstadt remained Protestant.
  • In 1603, the reformed pastor Anton Praetorius , a fighter against witch trials and torture, was arrested in Ober-Wöllstadt after attending a church service after a violent dispute about the Catholic preacher's proclamation of the Virgin Mary shortly after the town was recatholicized by the Archbishop of Mainz and imprisoned for several weeks. Only the personal intervention of his Heidelberg sovereign, Elector Friedrich IV. Saved him from prison.
  • In the Thirty Years War Wöllstadt was badly affected. In 1622 and 1626 soldiers looted here.
  • Until mediatization and secularization , Nieder-Wöllstadt belonged to the Counts of Solms, since 1607 to the Rödelheim line , and Ober-Wöllstadt was Electoral Mainz.
  • Old, widespread surnames in Ober-Wöllstadt are Feuerbach, Gondolf, Ewald, Veith and Brauburger.

On August 1, 1972 at the course of were municipal reform in Hesse , the previously independent communities of Nieder-Wöllstadt and Ober-Wöllstadt powerful state law the new municipality Woellstadt together .

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
   
A total of 31 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 52.1 16 47.9 15th 53.5 16 54.3 17th
FWG Free voter community Wöllstadt 38.1 12 34.8 11 14.8 5 10.1 3
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 9.9 3 17.3 5 31.7 10 35.6 11
total 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 61.9 55.2 51.8 58.4

mayor

The past mayoral elections produced the following results:

year Candidates Political party %
Result
2006 Alfons Goetz CDU 91.0
Voter turnout in% 49.2
2000 Alfons Goetz CDU 81.6
Horst Spuck SPD 18.4
Voter turnout in% 71.0
year Candidates Political party %
Result
1995 (1) Alfons Goetz CDU 56.0
Rainer Fich SPD 44.0
Voter turnout in% 81.3
1995 Alfons Goetz CDU 48.1
Rainer Fich SPD 48.8
Helmut Repp FWG 3.1
Voter turnout in% 73.3

(1) Runoff election

On October 15, 2006, Mayor Alfons Götz (CDU) was re-elected for a third term with 91 percent. The turnout was 49.2 percent. On September 23, 2012, Adrian Roskoni (independent) was elected as the new mayor with 61.7 percent of the vote. Opposing candidate Steffen Maar (non-party) scored 38.3 percent. The turnout was 68.8 percent. Mayor Roskoni took office on March 15, 2013.

Ober-Wöllstadt from the east with a view of the Taunus

Previous mayors:

  • Paul Hallmann, term of office 1972–1975
  • Ernst Balzer, term of office 1975–1981
  • Volker Schäfer, term of office 1981–1986
  • Norbert Schilling, term of office 1986–1994
  • Alfons Götz, term of office 1995–2013
  • Adrian Roskoni, term of office 2013–

Culture and sights

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The B 3 runs through both districts . For decades, residents have been struggling to bypass the area because the noise and pollution levels are very high in both districts. In November 2012, construction of the approximately seven-kilometer-long B 3a road began. Coming from the north, the bypass runs east of Ober-Wöllstadt, then crosses the B 3 (old) between the two districts and swings west past Nieder-Wöllstadt onto the B 3 towards Karben. In addition, the B 45 east of Nieder-Wöllstadt will be connected to the new B3a to the north, so that the total length of the new roads will be around nine kilometers. A total of 10 bridge structures are required for the project. The traffic handover of the B 3 new was carried out by the developer Hessen Mobil in August 2017, with the exception of some remaining work. Nieder-Wöllstadt has an S-Bahn station (line S6) on the Main-Weser-Bahn to Frankfurt am Main and Friedberg . There are also bus connections to Friedberg, Bad Nauheim and Niddatal.

media

The city is located in the catchment area of ​​the Wetterauer Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of Wöllstadt

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ Karl Josef Minst [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 2978, May 24, 790 - Reg. 2189. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 44 , accessed on May 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 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 , § 4 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 361 .
  5. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  6. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011
  7. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Result of the municipal elections on March 26, 2006
  8. ↑ http://www.fnp.de/ndp/region/lokales/wetterau/roskoni-gewinnt-in-woellstadt_rmn01.c.10183332.de.html