Groß-Bieberau

Wholesale Bieberau is a town in the district of Darmstadt in Hesse -Dieburg on the northern edge of the Odenwald.

In the year 787 wholesale Bieberau was first mentioned. Since 1312 large -Bieberau has city rights. In the Middle Ages it was one of the 30 wild strokes of wild spell Dreieich, which also belonged to the surrounding forest.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 4.1 City Council
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.3 Town twinning

Geography

Neighboring communities and circles

Wholesale Bieberau bordered to the north by the city clean home, in the east on the community Brensbach ( Odenwald ), to the south by the municipality Fischbachtal and in the west on the community and the city Modautal top Ramstadt.

Neighboring communities

Boroughs

In addition to large -Bieberau has the following neighborhoods:

  • Hippelsbach
  • Rodau

History

Due to the high fertility ( loess ) and the exceedingly abundant water resources has been inhabited the district of Groß-Bieberau already in the Neolithic Age of farmers. This is clearly evidenced by the numerous ceramic and jewelry finds from this period. A first-time documentary mention of the place it was in the year 787, the award of the city right then took half a millennium later, in 1312. Groß-Bieberau was from 1312 to 1479 in the possession of the Counts of Katzenelenbogen and fell 1567 of Hesse- Darmstadt after the line of the counts had died of Katzeneinbogen. The Thirty Years' War, which survived only twelve inhabitants, a major setback for the city. The Hesse- Darmstadt in 1806 then went to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Wholesale Bieberau then one of the following documented administrative unit:

  • To 1820: Office of Lichtenberg, which belonged to the province Starkenburgring the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1806.
  • 1821-1832: District District clean home province Starkenburgring.
  • 1832-1848: Dieburg, with the introduction of circles in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
  • 1848-1852: Government District Dieburg, while the division of the province Stark castle in administrative districts.
  • 1852-1938: Dieburg with the reintroduction of circles in the province Starkenburgring.
  • 1938-1977: County Dieburg. As part of local government reform in 1938, the three Hessian provinces Starkenburgring, Rheinhessen and Oberhessen be resolved in circles.
  • 1977: Darmstadt- Dieburg, in the county Dieburg rises in the course of municipal reform in Hesse.

Incorporations

In the course of municipal reform in Hesse, until then independent municipality Rodau was annexed to Great -Bieberau on 31 December 1971.

Location Name and Demographics

The following historical place names have been handed down:

  • Biberahe; Biberae villa ( 1267 )
  • Bibera ( 1312)
  • Biberauwe (1326)
  • Bybera ( 1345 )
  • Beberaw; Bieberaw ( 1422 )
  • Büberauw; Büberauwe; Great Bibra ( 1514)
  • Great Bieberaw ( 1671)

Documented population figures are:

Policy

City Council

The municipal election held on March 27, 2011 had the following result:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Great -Bieberau shows in blue a fairly flipped ascending rotbewerten and rotgezungten gray beaver.

Twinning

  • Montmeyran (France, Drôme) since 1972
  • La Baume- Cornillane (France, Drôme)
  • Bela pod Bezdězem (Czech Republic)
  • Schleusegrund ( Germany, Thuringia )

Education

  • Albert Einstein School (AES ) Under the AES is a shelter building (former auxiliary hospital with 1,000 beds ). The Albert Einstein School is a cooperative ( type of school related; formerly additive ) comprehensive school, which goes back to its origins, which was founded in 1900 grammar school wholesale Bieberau. Your direct precursor it has in the school center Odenwald, a joint creation of large - Bieberaus and the Association of Schools of communities that were partly associated with the Odenwald after the municipal reform.
  • Haslochbergschule ( primary school )

Sports

Nationally known is the sports club TSG wholesale Bieberau. The first men's team plays in the third Handball League ( South).

Traffic

The former Gersprenz Valley Railway (clean home - Reichel home ) is shut down. Between Clean Home and Great Bieberau currently no freight takes place. This route is served by bus line 693, which connect to Odenwaldbahn (Frankfurt - Eberbach - Darmstadt) manufactures. , K57 (clean home - Niedernhausen - Neunkirchen - Brandau - Gadernheim ), K58 (large Bieberau - - Asbach Ernsthofen ) and K 85 (Express Moreover, the bus routes K55 ( - Roßdorf - - Pure Home Lower Hausen Darmstadt ) run; Darmstadt - clean home - wholesale Bieberau - Low Hausen ).

Holiday destination

The Odenwald is as a tourist destination increasingly popular. Wholesale Bieberau lies on the northern edge of the Odenwald and is also referred to as the " gateway to the Odenwald ". The nearby mountain is the Neunkircher height 605 m in height. The most visible Lichtenberg Castle is located in the neighboring municipality Fischbachtal, in the district of Lichtenberg, in 278 m height.

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