Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg

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Sonnenberg coat of arms
Wiesbaden coat of arms
Sonnenberg
district of Wiesbaden
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Coordinates 50 ° 6 '7 "  N , 8 ° 15' 53"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '7 "  N , 8 ° 15' 53"  E
height 145– 538  m above sea level NN
surface 8.34 km²
Residents 8012 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 961 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners 9.9% (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation Oct 28, 1926
Post Code 65193, 65191
prefix 0611

Administration address		 Kreuzbergstrasse 6
65193 Wiesbaden
Website www.wiesbaden.de
politics
Mayor Stefan Bauer ( CDU )
Deputy Mayor Helmut Fleischer-Brachmann ( SPD )
Source: State Capital Wiesbaden: EWZ - HW on December 31, 2019 ( Memento from February 3, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
The Sonnenberg castle ruins
Sonnenberg seen from the south around 1840. Original steel engraving by William Tombleson.
The Sacred Heart Church in Sonnenberg

Sonnenberg is a district of the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden .

The place was incorporated on October 28, 1928 and today has around 8,000 inhabitants. Sonnenberg connects to the north-east of the city ​​center and forms a closed settlement area with it after the development has merged. The historic town center is located between the foothills of the Taunus in the narrow valley of the Salzbach tributary Rambach. The Rambach district is located northeast of Sonnenberg .

Sonnenberg is now considered an upscale residential area with many villas; the purchasing power of 31,346 euros (as of 2014) per inhabitant and year is by far the highest among the Wiesbaden districts. The castle , which towers on a mountain spur above the old town, is worth seeing . The fortifications and the city wall have largely been preserved. From the keep of the castle, one has the best view of the sun Berger valley and the old town with its ramparts.

history

The first written mention of Sonnenberg dates from the years 1208 and 1209 in the name of the first Burgmann Ulbert von Idstein-Sonnenberg as Sonnenburch and Sunnenberc (earlier mentions in the older literature refer to Schweinberg in the Odenwald). The castle was built around 1201–1203 by the Nassau counts and was first mentioned in 1221 as the Sonnenberc . 1257 there must have already been an existing local constitution, since a mayor named Godefridus is mentioned.

At the end of the 13th century, the castle was expanded when Count Adolf von Nassau (* before 1250; † July 2, 1298) was crowned Roman-German king on May 5, 1292 . In 1338 Emperor Ludwig IV visited the castle. On July 29, 1351, the Bohemian King and later Emperor Charles IV. Sonnenberg granted city rights, as a result of which the city wall was built in the following years.

A small church was built in 1429, but it fell into disrepair by 1602. The Thirty Years' War caused great damage, so that only a dozen houses were habitable. In 1672 the city was devastated by Brandenburg troops.

1814, Sonnenberg had about 600 inhabitants when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe paid a visit to the city.

Over the centuries, the creek in the valley floor has frequently overflowed its banks and sometimes caused considerable damage, particularly badly on June 25, 1867, most recently on March 28, 1999.

In 1896 a major fire raged in Sonnenberg, and the Sonnenberg volunteer fire brigade was founded.

politics

Election results for the local council

Since 1972, as part of which is local elections in Hesse and the town council of the local district voted Sonnenberg. The following distribution of seats resulted from the individual election results :

Election year CDU SPD GREEN FDP FW FOAG total
2016 4th 3 0 3 0 1 11
2011 4th 2 0 1 0 2 9
2006 4th 2 2 1 0 0 9
2001 4th 2 1 2 0 0 9
1997 5 2 1 1 0 0 9
1993 4th 2 1 1 1 0 9
1989 4th 3 1 1 0 0 9
1985 5 2 1 1 0 0 9
1981 6th 2 0 1 0 0 9
1977 7th 2 0 0 0 0 9
1972 5 3 0 1 0 0 9

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red a shining golden sun with an angel face."

The talking coat of arms, which has been used by the community for a long time, was officially approved in 1951 and placed in the Wiesbaden town hall. It is contained in all local seals as they have been used since the 17th century: in the SONNENBERGER GERICHTSINSIGILL, also in the two GERICHTSSIGEL SONENBERG from 1714, of which the larger one is up to 1740, the smaller one up to 1736, and in all community seals since 1816 The place was based on the Nassau castle built around 1200 and received city rights on July 29, 1351, which never led to an urban constitution. Since October 1, 1926 he has been incorporated into Wiesbaden.

Culture

The Wiesbaden Castle Festival takes place every year in the castle garden of the Sonnenberg castle ruins. When it rains, the events in the Kaisersaal take place at König-Adolf-Straße 6, the historic ceiling painting of which adorns the room. The hall from 1886 holds up to 200 seats and was converted into a community center in 1986. The Wiesbaden vocal music has existed since 1865 .

Personalities

  • Konrad Duden (1829–1911), high school teacher, died on August 1, 1911 in Sonnenberg
  • Fritz Beckhardt (1889–1962), a highly decorated German-Jewish war pilot in World War I, lived as a merchant from 1926 to 1934 and after returning from exile in 1950 in Sonnenberg, where he died on February 13, 1962. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Wiesbaden.
  • Walter Czysz (1925–2007), local history researcher, author, lived and died in Sonnenberg
  • Count Gerlach von Nassau (before 1288-1361), resided at Sonnenburg Castle and expanded it
  • Lutz Heck (1892–1983), zoo director in Berlin and author, lived and died in Sonnenberg
  • Countess Irmengard von Nassau (around 1310–3 January 1371) lived at Sonnenberg Castle and achieved it from Charles VI. the city foundation
  • Klaus Miehlke (1916–2009), rheumatologist, lived and died in Sonnenberg, Wiesbaden honorary citizen
  • Adolf Presber (1896–1997), painter, lived and died in Sonnenberg
  • Just Scheu (1910–1998), dentist and carnivalist, lived in Sonnenberg
  • Walter Schmidt (1910–1970), SS-Untersturmführer and senior physician at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Eichberg , where euthanasia was practiced under the name Aktion T4, was born in Sonnenberg and grew up there.
  • Ottokar Schupp (1834–1911), pastor in Sonnenberg (1872–1905)
  • Heinrich Vad (1918–1990), Catholic pastor

literature

  • Walter Czysz : Sonnenberg: the story of a Nassau castle town from the Middle Ages to the incorporation into Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden 1996.
  • Otto, Renkhoff, Walter Czysz: Sonnenberg. In: Nassau Annals. Vol. 112, Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 1-57.
  • Pierre Even: 875 years of Sonnenberg? On the first mention of Sonnenberg near Wiesbaden. In: Sonnenberger Echo. No. 63, 2001, pp. 1-5.

Web links

Commons : Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ District profile 2014 Sonnenberg ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), Office for Strategic Control, Urban Research and Statistics; State capital Wiesbaden; accessed on March 11, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiesbaden.de
  2. ↑ HMULV press release dated September 11, 2007 on the grant notification for flood protection measures
  3. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt and Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 248.
  4. ↑ https://www.wiesbadener-burgfestspiele.de