Altenstadt, Hesse

Old town is a German municipality in the Wetterau in Hesse. Through the village flows the Nidder, which opens in the coming out of the room Büdinger Seemenbach at Lindheim.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Municipal Council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 partnerships
  • 4.1 Music
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Long distance routes
  • 5.3 educational institutions
  • 5.4 Leisure and sports facilities

Geography

Neighboring communities

Old town is bordered on the north by the city Florstadt and community Glauburg, on the east by the city Budingen, in the southeast on the community Limeshain (all four in the Wetterau district ) in the southwest of the city Nidderau ( Main-Kinzig -Kreis), and on the west by the city Niddatal ( Wetterau ).

Community structure

To the municipality since the municipal reform in Hesse include the Old City districts, Heegheim, maximum at the Nidder, Lindheim, Enzheim, Oberau, Rodenbach and forest settlement. In addition to the municipality of Old City are still the little monastery outlying Engelthal and Oppel Hausen, which consists of a few houses and a large golf course.

History

Documented old town is first mentioned in June 767 as Aldenstat, Altun deeds and Aldunstater marca.

Since the first half of the 2nd century Old Town garrison of an unknown number was ( see main article: Castle Old town). He was first stationed in a nearly one -acre fort. It was rectangular and had a safety fence made ​​of wood and earth, and was surrounded by a moat. A gate and a corner tower are known. Of the internal buildings are known traces of various buildings. Well by 135 AD a new fort is then built. It probably had more than 1 ha size and balustrades turf. The northern half of the fort was moved slightly to the west. The plant had four gates, turrets and was surrounded by a moat. An internal buildings a unterkellerter Vorratsbau and remnants of the Principia, commander of the house and a troop barracks are known.

Around the year 150 was built by a rectangular ground plan with four gates, corner towers and numerous intermediate towers, a 1.5 -hectare (132 mx 114 m) stone fort. Two trenches surrounded the fort. From the internal buildings, one knows a pool of water and remnants of the Principia, the alleged commander of the house, of troop barracks and other buildings. Prior to the deployment of the humerus were located at the same place two small forts. They had a safety fence made ​​of wood and earth and a ditch. The camp village stretched on all sides.

The Roman military sites in the Old City obviously had the task to lock a probably pre-Roman path, which came along by the Nidder in the Vogelsberg and on to Fulda, and the only 5 km away Glauberg to monitor, in pre-Roman times the seat of a Celtic Prince and had been on the settled the Germans after the withdrawal of the Celts. But the Romans tolerated neither Celtic nor Germanic on any hilltop settlements in or on the edge of their dominions. Today, the fort area is built over almost completely. The history of the fortification is quite complicated as it evolved over the years from a small ski jump at a Numerus ( number = unit of about 150 men ). The fort was destroyed twice in the second half of the 2nd century and the big Alemanni incidence by 233 AD An inscription stone from the year 242 AD, which has already been salvaged in 1603 from a well, suggests that the AD fort had been occupied until the end of the limes in the year 260.

The first documentary mention, however, took place only in the year 767. Old town is so as the oldest community of Upper Hesse. It belonged to the German Empire for free Kaichen court, which came under the rule of the castle county of Friedberg in the 15th century. With this, it fell in 1806 Hesse -Darmstadt.

On August 1, 1972, the resolution of the county Büdingen and the reclassification of the Old Town municipality in the district of Wetterau made ​​.

Incorporations

On 1 October 1971, the formerly independent communities maximum ad Nidder and Oberau were incorporated. On December 31, 1971 Heegheim and Lindheim were added. Rodenbach followed on August 1, 1972.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal election held on March 27, 2011 had the following results (for comparison are the values ​​for the elections in 2006 and 2001 indicated):

Mayor

The last mayor elections gave the following results:

In the last election on 1 April 2012, the incumbent mayor Norbert Syguda (SPD ) won with 74.0 % against Sabine Lipp (CDU ), which reached 23.4%, and against Daniel toggle ( NPD), the 2.6% reached. It is the third term of Norbert Syguda. The turnout was 47.85 %.

First mayor after the war Fritz Kress (1896-1960), who was mayor from 1945 to 1960.

Partnerships

  • Beauchamp, Val-d'Oise department in France ( since 10 May 1997)
  • Wielka Kazimierz, Poland ( since 2007)

Culture and sights

Music

  • Fanfares and marching band Old City

Infrastructure

Traffic

Old town lies on the national road 521 from Budingen to Frankfurt / Main. About the motorway network, the community is accessible via the A45 (casting - Hanau ), Junction Old City.

Old town is accessible daily by train on the Niddertalbahn (stock Home - Bad Vilbel - Frankfurt / Main). The stations are:

  • Old City ( Hess), Bf
  • Old Town High, Hp

In addition, bus routes, inter alia, to Hanau, Friedberg and Büdingen.

Public transport, the transport company Oberhessen GmbH, within the framework of the Rhine -Main Transport Association.

Long distance routes

  • The volcano bike trail starts high and leads through the Old City, Lindheim and Enzheim continue on the former railway line from floor home to Lauterbach (Hessen). Today the volcano bike path is part of the railway cycle path Hesse, the 250 km leads to the former railway tracks through the Vogelsberg and Rhön.
  • The German Limes Cycle Route follows the Upper Germanic - Rhaetian Limes 818 km from Bad Hönningen am Rhein to Regensburg on the Danube.

Educational institutions

  • Comprehensive school Limes School Old Town
  • Different primary schools

Leisure and sports facilities

  • The fanfare and marching band Old City is the flagship of the community. The German champion in 2006 bears the arms Old City's throughout Europe.
Darmstadt (region) Wetteraukreis Main-Kinzig-Kreis Engelthal Abbey Germanic peoples National Democratic Party of Germany Kazimierza Wielka Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund Lauterbach, Hesse Limes Germanicus Bad Nauheim Butzbach Echzell Friedberg, Hesse Gedern Hirzenhain Karben Kefenrod Nidda, Hesse Ortenberg, Hesse Reichelsheim (Wetterau) Integrated Authority File
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