Einhausen

Einhausen is a municipality in the district of mountain road in Hesse, about 15 kilometers east of Worms.

• 2.1 Population development

• 4.1 Municipal Council
• 4.2 Mayor
• 4.3 community partnerships

• 5.1 Kirchweih / Kerwe
• 5.2 Fastnacht

• 6.1 traffic
• 6.2 Public bodies
• 6.3 Education

• 7.1 freeman
• 7.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

Einhausen is located on the mountain road in the Hessian Ried and belongs to the climatically favored northeastern Upper Rhine Graben. Surrounded by the flows of the Weschnitz place of mature woodland and agricultural land.

Neighboring communities

Einhausen bordered to the north by the town of Gross - pipe home and the city Gernsheim ( Groß -Gerau ), to the east by the cities of Bensheim and Lorsch, south of the city Buerstadt and in the west on the community of Biblis.

Community structure

Einhausen is officially only one district, the historically established distinction between upper -Hausen (north of the Weschnitz ) and small -Hausen (south of the Weschnitz ) found, however, even today in the use of language. The municipality is Einhausen been surveyed divided into the districts Groß- Hausen and small -Hausen.

History

The place is from a gift, possessions Name: Husun ​​emerged, to the Lorsch Abbey in 768. During the Reformation and Counter-Reformation developed in the 15th and 16th centuries, two politically and religiously fractious districts: Large -Hausen ( Protestant ) and small -Hausen ( Catholic).

With effect from April 1, 1937, the two villages were united by decree of the municipality Einhausen. This deal was due to the reluctance between the inhabitants of the two places quite controversial and unpopular. Ahead of the Association of Municipalities has already taken place in the year before the arrangement for merger of the schools of large and small -Hausen. This led to massive protests on the first day of school: Some parents refused to let their children go on the other side of the Weschnitz to school. The police had to intervene to end the " turmoil " and eventually arrested 16 people, were sentenced from those in the sequence 14 to prison terms of up to six months.

After 1945, efforts were made to make the disposal of the Nazis merging the two places again reversed and the state with two independent villages to be restored. Finally, however, sat down by the realization that a larger community would be up to the challenges of the future better. In a referendum in December 1953, therefore, an application for splitting Einhausen was rejected. A significant effect of this decision was some twenty years later, when Einhausen could retain its independence in the course of municipal reform in Hesse in the 1970s and remained unchanged.

Population Development

The tables show the development of the population figures from 1715. Probably in the 17th century, the initially smaller small -Hausen had surpassed the neighbors large -Hausen to residents. The significant increase of the population (doubling) since 1950 shows the attractiveness Einhausens as a residential community and was made possible by the appropriate designation of development areas.

Coat of arms

On 28 January 1966, the municipality Einhausen was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon: in red on a black -considered golden bridge golden house with a black door and two black windows.

Meaning: The bridge is a symbol of the merger of the two districts large and small -Hausen on both sides of the Weschnitz who had for many centuries developed separately.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:

Mayor

The mayor is elected by direct vote for a term of six years. Since 1996, Philipp drill (independent) Mayor of Einhausen.

The predecessor as mayor of Einhausen have been:

Community partnerships

The municipality maintains Einhausen twinning with the French Attichy in the Oise and using the American Shoreview in Minnesota.

Culture and sights

Fair / Kerwe

The Einhäuser fair, also called church fete, takes place every year on the first weekend of October. It is organized by the Association for the Preservation of tradition Einhausen eV in cooperation with the three groups Kerwe ADI, CHIEF and Ladännsche. Known about the limits Einhausens is the Kerwe parade, every year on the first Sunday in October, takes place. The 2007-built floats with the theme of North Korea was in the November issue of Carnival Magazine " ink! " Means ( a national trade magazine around Carnival) as the best political floats in Germany in 2007.

Shrovetide

At the carnival weekend Narrengiggelsitzungen three children and a meeting will be held. The sessions are organized eV by the Association for preserving the tradition Einhausen

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

On the eastern outskirts of the village, the Federal Highway runs 67 The Lorsch is from the town center is about 3 km. The main road runs through the place in 3111 southeast-northwest direction. In the south through 2.5 km from the town center, the federal highway 47 and parallel to the Nibelungen train Bensheim -Worms the municipality. The nearest train station is 3 km away in Lorsch.

Public institutions

Einhausen has a small indoor pool with teaching pool. It was reopened after renovation in February 2011. Also guests, school groups and clubs from outside use it regularly.

Education

A total of four kindergartens in the municipality are available, of which there is one under the auspices of the Protestant church.

In the center is the school located at the Weschnitz, a primary school with 240 pupils.

Personalities

Freeman

Franz Hartnagel 1989 Honorary Citizen of Einhausen. He was from 1954 to 1973 mayor of the municipality.

Sons and daughters of the town

John Dieter (1903-1955) was from 1953 to 1955 Bishop of Samoa.