Walldorf (Hesse)

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Walldorf (Hesse)
Coat of arms of the former city of Walldorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 103 m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.13 km²
Residents : 18,035  (2016)
Population density : 1,192 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Incorporated into: Waldfelden
Postal code : 64546
Area code : 06105
Walldorf Waldensian Church
City Hall in Flughafenstrasse
Walldorf train station (Hessen)

Walldorf ( listen ? / I ) is a suburb of Mörfelden-Walldorf in the Groß-Gerau district in southern Hesse . Audio file / audio sample

Geographical location

Walldorf is located on a cleared island in the wooded Lower Main Plain in the Rhine-Main area , in the triangle between the southern Hessian cities of Frankfurt am Main , Darmstadt and Mainz and borders on the south side of Frankfurt Airport . In a north-east-south-west direction, the district is drained by the Gundbach , which in parts accompanies the north-west edge of the village. The south-western part of the district around the Birkenseewiese and the Alte Torfstich belongs to the extensive Mönchbruch nature reserve . To the east of Walldorf, on the other side of the federal highway 5 , lies the Walldorf bathing lake . The north of the district on the other side of the Gundbach is taken by the Gundwald , which extends to the airport.

The nearest towns are in the south, just under four kilometers away, the suburb of Mörfelden, in the east Langen and Buchschlag , in the north-east Zeppelinheim , in the north the Cargo City Süd of the airport, and in the west Raunheim and Haßloch .

history

The Thirty Years' War with its great loss of life and destruction prepared the ground for the foundation of Walldorf.

At the invitation of Landgraf Ernst-Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt arrived on June 21, 1699 14 from the Cottian Alps displaced Piedmont Waldensian families here and founded the Waldensian colony at Gundhof that in 1715 was named Walldorf. It shares administrative history with Mörfelden.

The colonists and their descendants suffered hardship for a long time due to the barren, sandy arable soil and the increasing population. Quite a few residents had to earn their living as forest workers or day laborers. Today's Waldensian Church could only be built in 1804/05 with donations from Reformed congregations in Frankfurt, Holland, Great Britain and Switzerland .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Walldorf in 1829:

»Walldorf (L. Bez. Langen) reform. Parish village; is 2 St. from Langen, consists of 64 houses and 506 inhabitants, the 11 Luth. 3 Cath. And 10 Jews are Reformed. The village was laid out by French emigrants at the beginning of the 18th century. "

The commissioning of the Riedbahn by the Hessian Ludwigsbahn in November 1879 brought an economic boom. Many Walldorfers found work in the factories in the nearby cities. As a result, the rural town increasingly turned into a workers' community.

From 23 August to 24 November 1944 was in Walldorf the KZ Walldorf . 1,700 Jewish girls and women were abducted from Hungary in 1944 and had to carry out expansion and repair work on the taxiways under inhumane conditions at Frankfurt Airport. About 50 women did not survive the four-month storage period. Of the remaining women, only about 300 survived further deportation and the Third Reich . This part of Walldorf's history was only rediscovered by three young people in 1972 and processed in 2003 in the film Rollbahn (2003).

Jewish residents were also deported to Walldorf during the Nazi era. The 54 stumbling blocks that have been laid so far are a reminder of this .

After the Second World War and the currency reform in 1948 , Walldorf grew initially through the reception of displaced persons and refugees and later through the stormy economic development of the Rhine-Main area . For the constantly growing population, new residential and commercial areas had to be developed and the performance of the infrastructure expanded. The Josima string factory (for all musical instruments) owned by Joh. Siebenhüner was one of the local companies in “Walldorf b./Frankfurt-Main” .

The municipality of Walldorf was granted the right to use the designation city on July 24, 1962 by the Hessian state government .

In the course of regional reform in Hesse , the cities of Walldorf and Mörfelden were merged to form the city of Waldfelden . A year later, at the request of the newly founded city, the name was changed to Mörfelden-Walldorf .

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1791: 211 inhabitants
• 1800: 211 inhabitants
• 1806: 252 inhabitants, 40 houses
• 1829: 506 inhabitants, 64 houses
• 1867: 793 inhabitants, 114 houses
Walldorf: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 211
1800
  
 211
1806
  
 252
1829
  
 506
1834
  
 583
1840
  
 562
1846
  
 588
1852
  
 649
1858
  
 775
1864
  
 745
1871
  
 831
1875
  
 914
1885
  
 1,084
1895
  
 1,327
1905
  
 1,904
1910
  
 2,443
1925
  
 3,066
1939
  
 4,447
1946
  
 5,392
1950
  
 6.211
1956
  
 8,158
1961
  
 9,731
1967
  
 11,674
1970
  
 12,712
1978
  
 15,900
1985
  
 16,287
1990
  
 15,687
1995
  
 15,649
2000
  
 15,398
2005
  
 16,446
2010
  
 17,434
2011
  
 16,944
2015
  
 18,023
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 2011 census
The population of Walldorf rose slowly but steadily in the 19th century to 1875 from 583 in 1834 to 1327 in 1895. Before the Second World War in 1939 the number was 4447 and in 1946 5392. In the 1950s a sharp increase began. In 1961 Walldorf overtook Mörfelden with 9731 inhabitants. The further increase was just as explosive to 14,393 on March 31, 1972, that is around 4,500 inhabitants in ten years.

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1829: 11 Lutheran (= 2.17%), 482 Reformed (= 95.26%), 10 Jewish (= 1.98%) and 3 Catholic (= 0.59%) residents
• 1961: 6157 Protestant (= 63.27%), 2792 Catholic (= 28.69%) residents

coat of arms

On February 25, 1966, the city of Walldorf in the Groß-Gerau district was approved to change the previous coat of arms. Since then the blazon has been: In red, a silver oak branch with three silver acorns, topped with two diagonally crossed golden flails.

Meaning : The colors red and silver take up the colors of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and the Grand Duchy of Hessen as the original state rule. The oak branch with the three acorns refers to the location in the historical Wildbann Dreieich .

Regular events

Transport and infrastructure

The federal highway 44 from Frankfurt am Main via Groß-Gerau to Mannheim leads east past Walldorf. At Zeppelinheim there is a connection point to the federal motorway 5 via it . The district road K 152 connects as Okrifteler Straße Walldorf to the northwest with Kelsterbach and connects in parts with the K 823, the ring road around Frankfurt am Main airport from the freight center south under the runway west to the freight center north , to Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 leads.

The Riedbahn from Frankfurt to Mannheim has been expanded on the one hand for high-speed traffic up to 200 km / h, on the other hand the Walldorf (Hessen) station is the station for the regional train RE 70 and for the S-Bahn line 7 of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main . After Frankfurt (Main) main station and the journey takes about 15 minutes. There are also bus routes to Frankfurt am Main Airport Terminal 1.

literature

  • Jutta Brod and Britta Schack: Dornholzhausen and Walldorf - two Waldensian settlements between originality and growth . In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History 4/2018, pp. 28–33.
  • Literature about Walldorf in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Walldorf, district of Groß-Gerau. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 3, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ a b Budget 2019 (PDF; 76 MB) City of Mörfelden-Walldorf, pp. 148–49 , accessed in April 2019 .
  3. ^ A b c Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. = 254 ( online at google books ).
  4. ↑ The runway. (Movie). In: gg-online. Poprtal for Groß-Gerau and Rhein-Main. Accessed November 2019 .
  5. ↑ The runway. A documentary (film). Basis-Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin, accessed November 2019 .
  6. ^ Mörfelden-Walldorf - Stolpersteine ​​in Mörfelden-Walldorf. Archived from the original on January 19, 2018 ; accessed on January 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Stones against oblivion. (PDF; 4.9 MB) In: Website. City of Mörfelden-Walldorf, accessed November 2019 .
  8. ^ Walldorf town history. In: website. City of Mörfelden-Walldorf, accessed on December 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Erich Valentin : Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde. Gustav Bosse, Regensburg 1954, p. 455 ff. ( Instrument maker ).
  10. ↑ Granting the right to use the designation "city" to the community of Walldorf, district of Groß-Gerau on July 24, 1962 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1962 No. 37 , p. 1234 , point 1025 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).
  11. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the district of Groß-Gerau (GVBl. II 314–32) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 314 , § 5 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  12. ^ 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).
  13. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  14. ↑ a b List of offices, places, houses, population. (1806) HStAD inventory E 8 A No. 352/4. In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of February 6, 1806.
  15. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  122 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  16. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  122 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  17. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 90 ( online at google books ).
  18. ↑ Budget 2013. (PDF; 3.5 MB) City of Mörfelden-Walldorf, pp. 12–13 , archived from the original ; accessed in April 2019 .
  19. ↑ Selected data on population and households on May 9, 2011 in the Hessian municipalities and parts of the municipality. In: 2011 census . Hessian State Statistical Office;
  20. ^ Local elections 1972; Relevant population of the municipalities on August 4, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 33 , p. 1424 , point 1025 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  21. ↑ permission to change the coat of arms and to carry a flag of the municipality of Walldorf, district Gross-Gerau, Reg. District Darmstadt of 22 February 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1966 No. 11 , p. 363 , point 226 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
  22. ↑ Notch. In: Calendar, Darmstädter Schaustellerverband eV, Darmstadt 2019.