Weiskirchen (Rodgau)

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Weiskirchen
City of Rodgau
Weiskirchen coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 11 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 120 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.11 km²
Residents : 5921  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 650 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 63110
Area code : 06106

Weiskirchen is a district of Rodgau in the Offenbach district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Weiskirchen is located on the Rodau in the Rhine-Main plain at 122 m above sea ​​level , about 6 km west of Seligenstadt .

history

middle Ages

A street village was built around the church in Franconian times . The oldest surviving mention comes from 1215. The place was owned by the Lords of Hagenhausen / Eppstein . In 1305 the abbess and convent of the Marienborn monastery sold her farm and income in Weiskirchen to the Seligenstadt monastery.

Weiskirchen belonged to the Auheimer Mark and was part of the Steinheim office , which initially belonged to the Lords of Hagenhausen / Eppstein. From 1371, half of them pledged it to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and the Lords of Hanau . In 1393 the pledge came to the Lords of Kronberg . In 1425 Gottfried von Eppstein sold the Steinheim office to the Electorate of Mainz .

In 1397 one mill is occupied, in 1473 already two. The Meckelsmühle was located on the northern edge of the town on the Rodau and was still in operation in the middle of the 20th century.

Historical forms of names

Mill wheel in Weiskirchen

Weiskirchen was mentioned under the following names in documents that have survived (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Wichenkirhen (1287)
  • Wizzinkirchin (1305)
  • Wyzenkirchen (1339)
  • Wyzinkirchen (1357)
  • Wizsenkirchen (1371)
  • Wyßinkirchin (1407)
  • Wyßenkirchen (1421)
  • Wissenkirchen (1473)
  • White churches (1527)
  • Wyßkirchen (1535)
  • Weisskirchen (1542)
  • Weyßkirchen (1642)

Church history

The church with the patronage of St. Peter ad Vincula was built in Franconian times. Weiskirchen was the mother church for the villages of Hainhausen and Rembrücken in the Middle Ages . Jügesheim was a branch from 1477 . First, the lords of were Hagen-Münzenberg , after Münzenberger inheritance , from 1256, the Lords of Hanau Patrons . In 1440, Count Reinhard II of Hanau transferred the right of patronage to the Maria Magdalena Church in Hanau, which he strongly supported . In the early modern period, the church's central authority was the Archdeaconate of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg, Landkapitel Rodgau .

Modern times

In 1576 the landlords in Weiskirchen u. a. the Arnsburg Monastery , the Teutonic Order in Frankfurt , the Seligenstadt Monastery, the Patershausen Monastery , the Counts of Isenburg and the Lämmerspiel parish .

In the years 1631–1634, during the Thirty Years War , King Gustav II Adolf confiscated the office as spoils of war and endowed the later Hanau Counts Heinrich Ludwig von Hanau-Münzenberg (1609–1632) and Jakob Johann von Hanau-Münzenberg (1612–1636) ) who were allied with him. Since both counts died soon and the Peace of Westphalia was based on the normal year 1624, Weiskirchen came back to Kurmainz.

When the Auheimer Mark was divided up in 1786, Weiskirchen received a share of the former common forest.

In the course of secularization , the Steinheim office and the villages in it came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , later the Grand Duchy of Hessen , where it was assigned to the following administrative units:

The former HR transmitter was blown up

In the course of the 19th century, Weiskirchen changed from a farming village to a workers' community. Only a few half-timbered buildings remain from the original village center . The small Jewish community was wiped out during National Socialism . In March 2005, the restored small former synagogue was reopened as a memorial.

On January 1, 1977, Weiskirchen became part of the greater community of Rodgau as part of the regional reform in Hesse through the amalgamation of five previously independent communities, and since 1979 the town of Rodgau.

Since 1967 the transmitter Weiskirchen , a medium wave transmitter of the Hessischer Rundfunk for the frequency 594  kHz, was on the north-western outskirts of Weiskirchen. The plant was shut down on January 1, 2010 for cost reasons; in April 2012 the transmitter masts were blown up.

Population development

Occupied population figures are:

  • 1576: 37 families
  • 1961: 848 Protestant (= 24.66%), 2495 Catholic (= 72.55%) inhabitants
Weiskirchen: Population from 1829 to 1970
year     Residents
1829
  
 575
1834
  
 655
1840
  
 725
1846
  
 716
1852
  
 771
1858
  
 785
1864
  
 685
1871
  
 695
1875
  
 731
1885
  
 782
1895
  
 920
1905
  
 1,157
1910
  
 1,291
1925
  
 1,474
1939
  
 1,740
1946
  
 2,238
1950
  
 2,345
1956
  
 2,781
1961
  
 3,439
1967
  
 4,474
1970
  
 4,840
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

politics

badges and flags

Banner Weiskirchen (Rodgau) .svg

coat of arms

DEU Weiskirchen (Rodgau) COA.svg

Blazon : "On a blue background over a golden floor a silver church with a red roof and a golden tower cross, the tower topped by four golden mill wheels"

The coat of arms of the municipality of Weiskirchen was approved by the Hessian Interior Minister on February 25, 1958 . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

The coat of arms shows the talking white steeple of the Church of St. Peter in chains. The mill wheels indicate the numerous mills along the Rodau.

flag

On January 24, 1959, the Hessian Minister of the Interior approved a flag for the municipality, which is described as follows:

"The municipal coat of arms on the wide, white central strip of the red-white-red flag cloth."

Sports

On the Commune, it was by participating in the known trampoline Bundesliga as the German Gymnastics League the Weiskirchen game association .

traffic

Former reception building of Weiskirchen train station, platform side

In 1896, Weiskirchen was connected to the railroad with the Rodgau Railway and had its own train station. Since the end of 2003 it has been connected to the Rhein-Main S-Bahn network with the S1 S-Bahn line ( Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof - Ober-Roden ) .

literature

  • Barbara Demandt: The medieval church organization in Hesse south of the Main = Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 29, p. 158.
  • Wilhelm Müller: Hessian place name book . Volume 1: Starkenburg. 1937, pp. 739f.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel (edit.): Historical place directory for the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy and People's State of Hesse with evidence of district and court affiliation from 1820 to the changes in the course of the municipal territorial reform = Darmstädter Archivschriften 2. 1976, p. 211.
  • Georg Schäfer: Offenbach district . Part of Rudolf Adamy: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse - Province of Starkenburg. 1885, 236ff.
  • Dagmar Söder: Cultural monuments in Hessen, Offenbach district . Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1987, pp. 268-269.
  • Helmut Trageser: Christians, do you want to honor Rochus, 300 years Rochus Vow Weiskirchen . Weiskirchen 2002.
  • Helmut Trageser u. a .: History and stories, 700 years of Weiskirchen . Weiskirchen 1986
  • Helmut Trageser: Weiskirchen in old views , Weiskirchen 1984
  • Margarete Zilch and Arnold Haag: Mills on the middle Rodau . Weiskirchen 2008
  • Literature about Weiskirchen in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Weiskirchen, Offenbach district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ City of Rodgau: Resident population main and secondary residence , accessed in June 2016.
  3. ^ Richard Wille: Hanau in the Thirty Years' War . Hanau 1886, p. 91, 593f.
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Offenbach district (GVBl. II 330-33) 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. 316–318 , § 6 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 375 .
  6. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Weiskirchen in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt district dated February 25, 1958 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1958 No. 10 , p. 298 , point 255 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).
  7. ^ Klemens Stadler : Deutsche Wappen, Volume 3 ; Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1967, p. 92.
  8. ↑ Approval to fly a flag to the community Weiskirchen in the Offenbach district, Darmstadt administrative district from January 24, 1959 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1959 no. 6 , p. 130 , point 132 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.0 MB ]).