Wallau (Hofheim am Taunus)

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Wallau
Wallau coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 149 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.56 km²
Residents : 4484  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 684 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 65719
Area code : 06122
Church in Wallau

Wallau im Taunus is a district of Hofheim am Taunus in the Main-Taunus district in southern Hesse . The place is about ten kilometers southwest of the Hofheim city center and lies on Hofheim's western border.

Geographical location

Wallau is located in the Main-Taunus foreland on the border to the Vordertaunus in the valley of the Wickerbach , which flows through the middle of the village. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the districts of Breckenheim , Nordenstadt and Delkenheim in the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden , which surround the location from the north, west and south.

The Wallau district is intersected in the east by the federal highway 3 and in the south by the federal highway 66 , which are linked by the Wiesbadener Kreuz in the immediate vicinity . These two important and busy federal highways in the immediate vicinity of the locality represent an ecological and urban planning impairment, but through the connection points Wallau and Diedenbergen of the A 66 the place became a coveted industrial location because it is conveniently located. Without the connection to the autobahn, the Wallau-Ost industrial area to the east of the A3 would not have developed so well from the 1970s onwards that, with its 500,000 square meters, it exceeds the area of ​​the Wallau residential areas.

The railway tunnels Wandersmann Süd (795 m) and Wandersmann Nord (1.1 km) also run in the southeast of the district . After completion of this construction project, the eastern bypass could be implemented to relieve traffic within the town. It leads traffic from the Wallau junction in the south around the town center, under the A 3 and over the high-speed Cologne – Rhine / Main line to the industrial area there and towards Diedenbergen, Langenhain and Breckenheim.

history

Old half-timbered house in the town center

First mentioned in a document by King Otto I in a deed of donation from the year 950 , the place is referred to as Wanaloha (Wana = water, Loha = forest). Wanaloha was sold and pledged, it changed hands until it finally became the cultural, economic and political center of the country under Hessian rule. In 1563 a Latin school was built and from 1572 a weekly market took place.

Wallau suffered badly from the Thirty Years' War , great fires and the plague.

From 1643 to 1817 Wallau was the official place of the Protestant country . The Jewish cemetery was also built at this time .

The Wallauers lived in hardship and misery again during the French Revolution (1789 to 1799), during further wars, due to robber gangs and bad harvests. Nevertheless, over generations, people rebuilt their houses, their church, the town hall, stables and barns over and over again. Nor did they put up with everything from the authorities. In 1825, for example, the community fathers refused to approve a tax increase (it was cut in half as a result of the protest). The sheep fight in 1849, however, was lost.

After 1945, the rapid development of the Rhine-Main area also had an impact on Wallau. Agriculture and handicrafts receded more and more as the basis of life, the place developed into a modern residential community with a good infrastructure. In 1950, Wallau had 1480 inhabitants, in 1977 it was 3759, and in 2000 it was 4,500.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Wallau was incorporated into the city of Hofheim am Taunus on January 1, 1977 , after over 95% of the residents had voted in favor in 1974. The draft law, which originally provided for a connection to Wiesbaden, was then changed accordingly.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

Occupied population figures up to 1987 are:

• 1457: 0040 houses
• 1492: 0030 houses
• 1536: 0076 families
• 1592: 0069 houses
• 1610: 0096 households
• 1630: 0048 men, 1 widow and 10 guardians
• 1637: 0015 households
• 1643: 0017 households
• 1662: 0044 households
• 1697: 0409 inhabitants
• 1701: 0068 houses
• 1721: 0125 families
• 1791: 570 inhabitants
• 1800: 570 inhabitants
Wallau: Population from 1791 to 1987
year     Residents
1791
  
 570
1800
  
 570
1817
  
 766
1834
  
 752
1840
  
 769
1846
  
 730
1852
  
 906
1858
  
 916
1864
  
 936
1871
  
 891
1875
  
 875
1885
  
 940
1895
  
 1.012
1905
  
 1.004
1910
  
 1,039
1925
  
 1,047
1939
  
 1,020
1946
  
 1,352
1950
  
 1,480
1956
  
 1,457
1961
  
 1,523
1967
  
 1,992
1970
  
 2,091
1987
  
 4.019
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 0888 Protestant (= 94.47%), 29 Catholic (= 3.09%), 23 Jewish (= 2.45%) residents
• 1961: 1167 Protestant (= 76.63%), 340 Catholic (= 22.32%) inhabitants

politics

Local advisory board

In the Hofheim-Wallau local council, the nine seats that were distributed after the local elections in Hesse 2016 are as follows:

Political party Seats Result
CDU 2 26.8%
SPD 1 12.2%
FWG 1 15.5%
WGW 4th 40.2%
Green 1 5.2%

Mayor: Herwart Goldbach (CDU)

coat of arms

On August 16, 1971, the municipality of Wallau was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : In blue between two W-shaped crossed silver sheep's claws, a silver oblique left-hand bar, covered with a red sword. The coat of arms was designed by Adolf Metzler in collaboration with a heraldist.

societies

Sports activities can be pursued at TV Wallau 1861 eV. The club offers football, handball, table tennis, gymnastics, athletics, cycling and hiking.

The handball department of TV Wallau is spun off together with TuS Massenheim in the HSG Wallau / Massenheim. In this constellation, the club already appeared as SG Wallau / Massenheim for a long time in the handball Bundesliga and was u. a. twice German champion. After several insolvencies and the exit of TuS Massenheim, the team temporarily joined the team as SG Wallau and in the HSG FrankfurtRheinMain game community . After the insolvency of SG Wallau after the 2013/14 season, they returned to their origins: HSG Wallau / Massenheim was founded as a successor to the two original parent clubs TV Wallau and TuS Massenheim.

The Wallau Midsummer Run, which has been organized by TV Wallau since 1995, is the largest popular sports event in the region, in which around 2000 runners take part every year.

The brass bands in traditional, modern and concert form is indulged in Musikzug Wallau since 1,962th The orchestra was founded by local researcher and teacher Adolf Metzler.

Economy and Infrastructure

Wallau has around 60 hectares of commercial space. The headquarters of IKEA Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG and the Rhein-Main Exhibition Center are located here.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Wallau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wallau, Main-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 8, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers, data, facts: Population figures (HW). In: Internet presence of the city of Hofheim. Accessed November 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 371 .
  4. ↑ 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 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ The affiliation of the Eppstein office 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 .
  7. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  134 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  8. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  140 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  9. ↑ Local council election 2016. City of Hofheim am Taunus, archived from the original on December 6, 2016 ; Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  10. ^ Local Advisory Board Hofheim-Wallau , accessed in March 2017.
  11. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Wallau, Main-Taunus-Kreis dated August 16, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 36 , p. 1462 , item 1246 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).