Wild Saxons

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Wild Saxons
Coat of arms of Wildsachsen
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 249 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.23 km²
Residents : 1643  (June 30, 2017)
Population density : 314 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 65719
Area code : 06198

Wildsachsen am Taunus is a district of the district town Hofheim am Taunus in the Main-Taunus district in southern Hesse . With around 1,600 inhabitants , Wildsachsen is their smallest district and, at 9.8 kilometers, the furthest from the city center.

Geographical location

Wildsachsen is about 250 m high in the Vordertaunus on the western border of the Main-Taunus district. The town borders the Wiesbaden districts of Auringen , Medenbach and Breckenheim in the west and south and is 13.4 km away from the city center of the Hessian state capital. In the north lies the Eppstein district of Bremthal and in the east on the way to the core town of Hofheim lies Langenhain .

Wildsachsen is embedded in an open meadow and field structure in a valley between the wooded foothills of the Taunus, where Seyenbach and Hollerbach meet .

history

The church today, with its choir from 1145

The mention of "Widilsassin" and "Witelesassen" in documents of the Bleidenstadt monastery from the 9th and 10th centuries was once thought to be the oldest mentions of the place. In 1940, however, these documents turned out to be forgeries. "Wedelensassen" (seat of Wedilo) was mentioned for the first time in 1107 in a document from the St. Alban monastery in Mainz on the occasion of the consecration and endowment of the church in Medenbach, to which the citizens of Wild Saxon had to go. The document also states that the residents of Wedelensassen should give the church 30 denarii annually .

In 1145 Wildsachsen got its own church with its own church service. On June 30, 1145, Archbishop Heinrich I of Mainz ordered the ecclesiastical situation in Wildsachsen by building a church on the grounds of Hertwich. Wildsachsen largely broke away from Medenbach through its own baptismal and burial rights. The main benefactor of the separation was Hartwin from the family of the Mainz city treasurers or the Lords of Weisenau near Mainz, who owned land in Wild Saxony as rulers .

On May 10, 1213 Rheingraf Werner was awarded the goods in Bleidenstadt and Wildsachsen. Wildsachsen appeared in an interest register of the Eppstein rule in the 13th century . The place should deliver 30 sacks of oats to the Eppstein rule as interest. How the Eppsteiner came to Wildsachsen is not known.

On January 13, 1348, Hartegard Berlegen prescribed a pension to "Widelnsassen" for his sister Katharine and the Klarenthal convent near Wiesbaden, and pledged land belonging to the Wildsächser Mark, which pays interest to the Lords of Kronberg and Delkenheim . On December 9, 1348 Ernest Anzen zu Wildsachsen sold the abbess and the convent of Klarenthal Monastery a pension from the properties in Wildsachsen. Before the mayor and lay judges, Else Bygenbach of Mainz handed over her goods at Medenbach, which belonged to Gerhard von Mendligen, to the Augustinians of Mainz on November 26, 1370. Accordingly, Wildsachsen had its own local court in 1370, to which Medenbach also belonged. Henchen von Wildsachsen, resident of Delkenheim, zu Mechthilshausen, was beheaded under the bailiff Helwich von Lauerbach in 1536 because he had helped to seize one of the Mechthilshausen courtiers, carry it on and sell it to the landgrave's enemies for 20 florins, so that the man had to be raised with 100 guilders.

At the end of the 16th century, Wildsachsen was an important Hessian customs station against Kurmainz near Bremthal.

Due to the war , the number of residents in Wildsachsen was reduced to 4 families in 4 houses by 1655. All of the other 16 houses were either burned down, derelict or demolished with the permission of the authorities and rebuilt in other localities. Because of the reduction in the number of souls, Wildsachsen came under the local court of Medenbach after 1630. The exact time is unknown. Despite the hardships of war and impoverishment, taxes were increased in 1667. A soldier's tax of 1 gulden 17 Albus and the so-called "monthly allowance" of 15 Albus for each person and 2¼ pfennigs for each acre of land were added to the constant concern . After the number of inhabitants grew again over the next few decades, Wildsachsen tried in 1702 to get its own court again. The application was refused. The first school in town was founded in 1706. It was not until 1716, when the number of families in wild things had climbed to 24 families, that the place got its own court again. The first mayor of the renewed local court was Johann Sparwasser, followed by his son Johann Peter Sparwasser in 1738, who then passed on to his grandson Johann Jost Sparwasser in 1760. A census took place under the latter in 1775.

Wildsachsen in numbers, from the 1775 census
Number of people / animals Number of buildings Area (in acres)
33 Familys 1 church 304 Forest
144 Souls 1 school 535 Farmland
3 Horses 3 Meetinghouses 94 grasslands
30th Ox 30th Economy rooms
47 Cows 32 Dwellings
16 Bovine
180 Sheep
60 Pigs

1778 began a heyday in Wildsachsen under the mayor Phillip Mahr. The 53 families in Wildsachsen did a lot of fruit-growing and made an excellent fruit vinegar from the wild fruit, the ungrafted core varieties. From this later the preparation of an excellent "Hohenastheimer" developed. Mayor Phillip Mahr introduced the cultivation of red clover and barley as fodder crops and improved arable farming. He also founded a free school in Wildsachsen in 1781 and promoted the income in every way. Mahr had the church and its roof turret, which had been badly damaged in the war, renewed in 1784, he bought a new one for the little bell stolen by soldiers and had the larger, broken bell poured over. A bakery was also built that year.

Around 1800 two thirds of the tithe went to the Mainz cathedral chapter, a ninth to the Mainz Liebfrauenstift and the rest to the Counts of Ostheim.

Wildsachsen suffered a lot from the contributions from the Wars of Liberation from 1813. The Russian artillery had to be supplied with high rations of barley, oats, hay and straw every day. French scattered from the Battle of Leipzig stole to Wildsachsen at the end of October 1813. Several residents saw a Frenchman, pursued by the Wild Saxons, trying to dig a box with a saber at the point where it says "am Franzos" on Langenhainer Weg , beat the same to death after a short verbal battle and pursued the French through the "Bauwald" to the border at the Guldenmühle, with the Bremthaler joining. The Frenchman who was killed was buried at the community expense by the shooter Sebastian from Wildsachsen at the scene of the accident in the forest.

With the establishment of the Hochheim office on April 4, 1816, Wildsachsen belonged to this ducal-Nassau office . With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia , Wildsachsen became Prussian in 1866 and part of the Main District .

Fruit growing and agriculture were the main livelihoods of the inhabitants. Until the 1960s, the population rose only slowly, as there were neither enough jobs nor public transport in Wildsachsen. This only changed with the development of larger building areas and the connection to a denser transport network.

On January 1, 1977 Wildsachsen was incorporated into the district town of Hofheim am Taunus as part of the regional reform in Hesse .

Mining

Iron ore at the entrance to the village

From 1630 to 1900 iron ore was mined in Wildsachsen. An iron ore truck at the entrance to the village reminds of this branch of industry . The lorry comes from Werne an der Lippe and was renovated and installed by the CDU Wildsachsen and the Heimatverein Wildsachsen. See also: List of mines in the Taunus

School history

In 1706 a school was founded in the Secret Annex in Wildsachsen. The first teacher was the school clerk and sexton Johannes Schaub von Oberliederbach, a linen weaver by profession. In 1720 the school building was erected on the spot where the club house stands today. The building was used as a school from 1830 to 1934 and then as the town hall until 1969. Today it is the local museum. In 1932 the community built a new school building on Parkstrasse. This was used as a primary school from 1934 to 1969 . As part of the school reform in Hesse, primary schools were set up and the children have been using the bus to get to school since then. The building itself was used as a kindergarten from 1971 to 1978 and today includes a. the youth club.

Territorial history and administration

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

population

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1570: 017 houses
• 1592: 020 houses
• 1610: 024 households
• 1630: 16 families, 2 widows and 2 guardians
• 1637: 06 households
• 1702: 15 families
• 1716: 24 families
• 1775: 33 families with 144 people
• 1791: 192 inhabitants
• 1800: 192 inhabitants
Wildsachsen: Population from 1775 to 1987
year     Residents
1775
  
 144
1791
  
 192
1800
  
 192
1817
  
 170
1834
  
 186
1840
  
 195
1846
  
 214
1852
  
 202
1858
  
 220
1864
  
 259
1871
  
 280
1875
  
 298
1885
  
 280
1895
  
 300
1905
  
 326
1910
  
 324
1925
  
 339
1939
  
 318
1946
  
 440
1950
  
 455
1956
  
 385
1961
  
 405
1967
  
 542
1970
  
 616
1987
  
 1,509
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: 265 Protestant (= 94.64%), 13 Catholic (= 4.64%), 2 Jewish (= 0.71%) residents
• 1961: 323 Protestant (= 79.75%), 77 Catholic (= 19.01%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

After the local elections in Hesse in 2016, the seven seats in the Hofheim-Wildsachsen local advisory council are distributed as follows:

Political party Seats Result
CDU 2 33.5%
SPD 2 21.0%
Green 1 20.6%
FWG 2 22.7%

Mayor: Ralf Dilthey (CDU)

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on July 2, 1969 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Blazon : "In gold on red ground a red tree, on it three black birds."

The Hessian Main State Archives supported an application by the municipality for the award of the coat of arms and commented on the design of the coat of arms as follows in an opinion of May 7, 1969:

“The community of Wildsachsen did not have an officially approved coat of arms. The present design is based on an old seal of the municipality from the 18th century. The motif - three birds sitting on a tree - can be traced back to the "Hessischer Ortswappenbuch" (Hessischer Ortswappenbuch) because the inhabitants lived primarily from the use of their extensive forests, given the inhospitable nature of the soil. Later fruit growing offered another opportunity to earn a living; in particular one went over to the production of fruit vinegar and cider. The symbol of the tree has a special meaning for the community. In view of the economic importance of the products mentioned, it is therefore advisable to continue to adhere to the old seal symbol, which offers a very lively and impressive coat of arms with the birds sitting on a tree. The colors are freely supplemented. The present draft is perfectly drawn from an artistic and heraldic point of view by the heraldist of the Hessian Main State Archives. "

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

For the cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Wildsachsen .

Sports club

  • Sports community Wildsachsen (SGW)

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2009 a new daycare center was built next to the old school at a cost of 2.2 million euros.

The Wildsachsenhalle is located next to the school. Opposite is the location of the fire station .

A new town hall was built in 1969 on the site of the former bakery and fire station. However, due to the incorporation, it soon lost its function. Today it houses the library and is the seat of the local court in Wildsachsen.

  • School 1830–1934, today a local museum

  • Old school from 1934

  • Day care center

  • Wildsachsenhalle

  • Fire station

  • Library, local court

traffic

Wildsachsen is crossed by the L 3017, which leads from Eppstein to Flörsheim am Main . Furthermore, Wildsachsen is served by three bus routes (two only school traffic), which run every 60/120 minutes throughout the day, these are:

  • Line 21 (ESWE) This line runs only once a day to Wildsachsen around 2:22 p.m .: Wiesbaden - Platz der Deutschen Einheit - Wiesbaden-Bierstadt - Wiesbaden-Rambach - Wiesbaden-Naurod Wiesbaden-Auringen - Wiesbaden-Medenbach - Wildsachsen Parkstraße
  • Line 26 (ESWE): Eppstein-Bremthal - Hofheim-Wildsachsen - Wiesbaden-Medenbach (possibility to change to line 21 to Wiesbaden)
  • Line 403 (MTV): Hofheim-Wildsachsen - Hofheim-Langenhain - Hofheim train station
  • Line 406 (MTV): Hofheim-Wildsachsen - Hofheim-Langenhain - Hofheim - Kriftel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wildsachsen, Main-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 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. ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000
  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. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 13 . G. Jonghause's Hofbuchhandlung, Darmstadt 1872, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 162730471 , p. 12 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  7. ↑ Hessen-Darmstadt state and address calendar 1791 . In the publishing house of the Invaliden-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1791, p.  136 ( 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.  141 ( online in the HathiTrust digital library ).
  9. ↑ Local election 2016 - final result - local councils. In: Hofheim am Taunus. Archived from the original on December 6, 2016 ; accessed on November 11, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Local Advisory Board Hofheim-Diedenbergen. City of Hofheim am Taunus, accessed on March 28, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Coat of arms of Wildsachsen
  12. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the community Wildsachsen, district Main-Taunus-Kreis dated July 2, 1969 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1969 No. 29 , p. 1228 , point 991 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.3 MB ]).
  13. ^ Wiesbaden courier

Web links

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