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Waller cities
City of Groß-Gerau
Coat of arms of Wallerstädten
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 86 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.95 km²
Residents : 2708  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 272 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 64521
Area code : 06152
The old City Hall
The old City Hall

Wallerstädten is a district of the southern Hessian district town Groß-Gerau in the district of the same name Groß-Gerau .

Geographical location

Wallerstädten is located about one kilometer southwest of the core city of Groß-Gerau. It belongs to the Rhine-Main area and is located between Darmstadt and Mainz on the northern edge of the Hessian Ried and on the southern side of the land ditch that drains the inner city area of ​​Darmstadt near Trebur into the Schwarzbach , which in turn flows into the Rhine at Ginsheim-Gustavsburg .

Three larger new housing estates were built around the old town center. It started in the 1960s with the so-called "settlement" in the southwest. Around 1980 the "Lange Hecke" development area was added in the south-east and finally in the early 1990s the so-called "field of houses" northwest of the town center. The oldest building in Wallerstadt, the old mill from 1619, is the only property in the village on the north side of the ditch .

The closest localities are the core city of Groß-Gerau in the northeast, Berkach in the east, Dornheim in the southeast, Leeheim in the south, Geinsheim in the southwest, Trebur in the northwest and Nauheim in the north.

history

Protestant church

Wallerstädten was first mentioned in a document as Waldirsteden in 1281 . The place name originally meant places in the forest . Graves indicate a settlement as early as 600 AD. In the historical documents, Wallerstädten is mentioned in the following centuries with these place names, among others : Walderadesteden in 1326, Stederweg in the municipality of Dornheim 1326, Walder Steden 1403, Steden called Waldsteden 1414, Waldersteten 1450, Walersteden 1613 and Wallerstatten in 1733.

Wallerstädten belonged to the royal estates and was given to the diocese of Würzburg in 1013 by King Heinrich II . Later it was part of the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen and then of the Landgraviate of Hesse . In 1518 the place fell victim to a pillage by Franz von Sickingen . During the Thirty Years' War, Wallerstädten was destroyed again by Mansfeld troops in 1622 .

In administrative terms, Wallerstädten belonged to the Rüsselsheim office until 1820 , which from 1806 belonged to the Starkenburg province of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In 1821 district districts were introduced in the Grand Duchy and Wallerstädten were allocated to the district of Dornberg .

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

»Wallerstädten (L. Bez. Dornberg) Lutheran parish village; is located on the Landbach, as well as on the Chaussee that runs from Darmstadt to the Rhine and 34 St. from Dornberg. The place has 94 houses and 651 inhabitants, who apart from 10 Cath. And 33 Jews are Lutheran. The chapel for St. Valentin and Ottilie was taken care of by the Caplan in Großgerau; Later the place got its own preacher, but it remained connected with Großgerau in church terms until it was finally raised to its own parish in 1822. The Altloch farm appears in the area around 1238, but it has run out. "

In 1832 the units were enlarged one more time and circles were created. Wallerstädten was thereby brought into the Groß-Gerau district. The provinces, the counties and the administrative districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by administrative districts, but this was reversed on May 12, 1852. As a result, Wallerstädten belonged to the Darmstadt administrative district between 1848 and 1852 before the Groß-Gerau district was again responsible for the higher-level administration. The place remains there until today due to all further administrative reforms.

The competent jurisdiction was during the affiliation to Hesse, from 1821 to 1879 the district court Großgerau and from 1879 the district court Groß-Gerau .

At the beginning of the 18th century, numerous stately buildings were built, including the half-timbered town hall with a massive basement. Wallerstädten received the title of the most beautiful village in the Groß-Gerau district in 1963 .

There were large apple tree cultures in the Wallerstädten district . The apples harvested here had a good reputation far beyond the local borders. Therefore, the inhabitants of the place carried the nickname Wallersteerer Äppelköpp ("Wallerstädter Apple Heads").

Territorial reform

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the community Dornheim, Wallerstädten and Gross-Gerau were on 1 January 1977. virtue of state law to the new city Gross-Gerau together . Local districts were not formed.

Territorial history and administration

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

Population development

• 1629: 43 house seats
• 1791: 506 inhabitants
• 1800: 461 inhabitants
• 1806: 513 inhabitants, 91 houses
• 1829: 651 inhabitants, 94 houses
• 1867: 767 inhabitants, 116 houses
Wallerstädten: Population from 1791 to 2017
year     Residents
1791
  
506
1800
  
461
1806
  
513
1829
  
651
1834
  
669
1840
  
711
1846
  
740
1852
  
761
1858
  
715
1864
  
766
1871
  
786
1875
  
750
1885
  
868
1895
  
918
1905
  
991
1910
  
1,027
1925
  
1,114
1939
  
1,145
1946
  
1,515
1950
  
1,697
1956
  
1,770
1961
  
1,765
1967
  
1,885
1970
  
1.963
1980
  
?
1990
  
?
2000
  
?
2011
  
2,655
2013
  
2,706
2017
  
2,708
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 ; after 2011 website Groß-Gerau (web archive)

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 0608 Lutheran (= 93.39%), 33 Jewish (= 5.07%) and 10 Catholic (= 1.54%) residents
• 1961: 1392 Protestant (= 78.87%), 352 Roman Catholic (= 19.94%) inhabitants

Safariland

Saddle track in Safariland

From 1970 to 1985 there was Safariland in Wallerstädten , at the time the largest safari and leisure park in Germany, which was continuously expanded. You could drive through open enclosures in which tigers and lions were kept by car or safari bus. In 1971, a monorail that could be used to travel across the Serengeti area was inaugurated. Safariland was very well visited back then. The municipality of Wallerstädten even planned to build a bypass road, as the cars of Safariland visitors would jam in the village on good days.

From 1974 the area was closed to visitor vehicles. Instead, the safari train drove through the area in a western look, where over 250 animals, including elephants , giraffes , zebras , emus , camels and ostriches , were kept. From 1973 to 1983 there was a dolphinarium with a dolphin show under an air dome . A 180 degree cinema was set up and a Mad House , the Old House of Rocki-Tocki , opened in 1979 . Other attractions were the monkey island, drama stage, pony rides, horse riding arena, archery, children's and adult playground, moon base, slide mountain, bird free flight hall, stilt village and casino.

The closure took place due to financial difficulties that were already apparent when in 1983 the inflatable hall of the dolphinarium, which was destroyed by a hurricane, could not be rebuilt. After the closure, the facilities were gradually dismantled. Only the Safariland restaurant is still there. Safariland is one of the venues for the novel The Quietest Day in the Year by the writer Ralf Schwob .

Culture and sights

The male choir was founded in 1806 by the teacher Johann Petersen Teutonia is one of the oldest German singing societies in the German Choral Association (formerly German Choral Association ) and is the oldest choral society in the Hessian Sängerbund.

traffic

The state road L 3094, which comes from Groß-Gerau and continues to Geinsheim and Kornsand , where there is a connection with Oppenheim via a Rhine ferry , runs through Wallerstädten .

Sons and daughters of the place

Franz Staudinger (born February 15, 1849 - † November 18, 1921), philosopher and high school teacher

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g Wallerstädten, district of Groß-Gerau. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 23, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. Groß-Gerau in numbers. In: website. City of Groß-Gerau, archived from the original ; accessed in March 2019 .
  3. a b History of the districts In: Website of the city of Groß-Gerau. Accessed Nov. 2012.
  4. a b c Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province Starkenburg, Volume 1 October 1829, p. 254 ( online at Google Books )
  5. Fanclub Äppelköpp Wallersteere ( Memento from January 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed in Nov. 2012)
  6. Law on the reorganization of the district of Groß-Gerau (GVBl. II 314–32 §3) 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 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  7. ^ 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).
  8. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Darmstadt 1866, p. 43 ff . ( online at Google Books ).
  9. 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.
  10. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  127 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  11. Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1800 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1800, p.  131 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  12. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 92 ( online at google books ).
  13. 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;
  14. Groß-Gerau in numbers. In: website. City of Groß-Gerau, archived from the original ; accessed in March 2019 (values ​​from web archive).
  15. Winfried Barth; Andreas Christopher: Light railways in Hessen: industrial plants, collections, monuments. Working group Drehscheibe 2002, Cologne. ISBN 3-929082-22-5 .
  16. Dolphinarium , safarilandgg.com. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  17. Cinema 180 ° , safarilandgg.com. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  18. House Rocki Tocki , safarilandgg.com. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
  19. Monkey Island , safarilandgg.com. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  20. The End , safarilandgg.com. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  21. The quietest day of the year. ( Memento from March 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: ralfschwob.de. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
  22. ^ Men's Choir Teutonia 1806 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed in November 2012.