Kalbach-Riedberg

650 - Kalbach
651 - Riedenberg

Kalbach - Riedenberg is, since August 1, 1972, a northern district of Frankfurt am Main. It consists of the historically rich town district Kalbach and the new city district Riedenberg. The two districts together form the local district Kalbach / Riedenberg.

Overview

The formerly independent village was incorporated in 1972 along with Kalbach Harheim, Nieder-Eschbach and Nieder-Erlenbach to Frankfurt. The area of the district has an area of 6.9 square kilometers (km ²) and the end of 2009 had 8,482 inhabitants, of whom 5,036 in the district Kalbach and 3446 in the district of Ried mountain. The name comes from Kalbach " Cold Stream " from; the Riedenberg is a survey in the south of Kalbach. The population is rising due to the still ongoing development of Ried Hill in the next few years.

History

According to tradition, rested 754 of the funeral procession of St. Boniface on his way from Mainz to Fulda near the present site Kalbach. Kalbach was first documented in the year 772, when a gentleman Walprath just that field from Caltebach where the funeral procession snapped to the monastery of Fulda gave away. Over the centuries, the serfs and the goods of Kalbach were several times away, pledged, redeemed and inherited. Among other things, the church to the monastery of Lorsch, the men of King and Falkenstein, the Johanniterhaus in Frankfurt belonged. As in 1418, the Falkensteiner line became extinct, Kalbach came into the possession of the house Eppstein and was part of the county Königstein.

On May 25, 1535 last Count of Eppstein, Eberhard IV died his nephew Ludwig of Stolberg inherited by will the county. Under his rule, the Reformation was introduced after the church order of Count Wolfgang von Pfalz- Zweibrücken. After the death of Louis 's successor Christoph Stolberg saw the Elector of Mainz Daniel Brendel of Homburg, the county as a completed Reichslehen and turned it into the now to the Electorate of Mainz belonging Oberamt Königstein.

1802 fell Kalbach after the dissolution of the Electorate of Mainz at Nassau- Usingen and finally revealed after the German Prussian war of 1866 and the district Wiesbaden allocated.

In the course of municipal reform in Hesse Kalbach 12 was incorporated to Frankfurt am Main after a previously failed merger with five neighboring communities to the municipality Eschbachtal to August 1, 1972 from the Upper Taunus county as a municipality and 650 local district. 2001, the development plan of the large housing estate in the south Riedenberg Kalbachs was decided. There are until completion 2017 15.000 people live and 3,000 jobs. At the local elections of 2006, the municipality 650 ( Kalbach ) was scaled down in order to Riedenberg, the local District 12 to the parts of Kalbachs and low Ursel's newly formed municipality 651 ( Riedenberg ) enlarged and renamed " Kalbach / Riedenberg ".

The up in the 1990s, reaching dominant agricultural use of Kalbächer district has declined by extensive territorial concessions for the industrial area " Am Martinszehnten " and the settlement Riedenberg of once about 20 commercial farms (including milk production ) in 2012, only two companies and three cattle available.

Coat of arms

On November 24, 1966, the municipality Kalbach in the Upper Taunus district, administrative district of Wiesbaden was awarded a coat of arms with the following Blazon: Argent, three red rafters, covered with black shield is a silver K.

Policy

The 19 seats are distributed according to the Ortsbeirats the municipal election in 2011 as follows:

CDU: 7 seats
Alliance 90/The Greens: 5 seats
SPD: 4 seats
FDP: 1 seat
CDU: 1 seat
The Left: 1 seat

Infrastructure

Commercial area "Am Martinszehnten "

The local district Kalbach / Riedenberg has several major roads and the developed since 2002, 86.9 hectares ( ha) large commercial area "Am Martinszehnten ", reported on former agricultural land in the north Kalbachs. This opened the first large reservers in June 2004 by the former Frankfurt wholesale market in Ostend here shifted Frischezentrum Frankfurt, where fruit and vegetables, served with meat, fish and bakery products for Frankfurt and some surrounding municipalities delivered and handled on the retail market. For a certain independence of the commercial area provide a budget hotel, a gas station, fast food restaurant, a branch of TÜV, a tire fire and a technology trading, truck and motorcycle workshops, crafts companies and other service providers. At full occupancy of all commercial space ( around 2015 ) here will employ about 2,500 people.

Main reservers the central area are large logistics centers and leased storage capacity, a ready-mix concrete operation, commercial vehicle operations ( Iveco, DAF automobiles, Mercedes -Benz commercial vehicles and a subsidiary of Liebherr Group ), as well as shielded data-processing facilities, as since 2008, the largest non- American data center Citibank or since summer 2012, the technology - service building of the Deutsche Bundesbank. The commercial area is developed with tree-lined streets; moves longitudinally through the slightly sloping terrain to the southeast about 1.1 kilometers (km) a 30 to 60 meters (m ) wide stormwater retention trench; in the direction of the Federal Highway 5, a 3 -hectare park closes at Terrace. Since 2013 performs another pedestrian bridge over the main road 3019 ( On White kirchener mountain ) to Kalbach - center.

Sports facilities

In the east, the old part Kalbachs located since 1992, the large sports and leisure center. It consists of several halls and outdoor facilities:

On the right side stands with a floor area of 56 to 135 m largest, designed for competition purposes, hall with a 200 -meter running track. She has two telescopic bleachers with a total of 1,000 seats. In the hall there are also the areas of administration.
On the left side is a multi-purpose hall with a floor area of 27 to 45 m. Your three playing fields have an area of 15 to 27 m. On the four telescopic grandstands there are up to 450 seats.
In the middle of the complex there is a sports business that join a tennis hall with three fields on an area of 1,996 square meters and four outdoor tennis courts. On the back is a jump system connects.

The sports halls widely fall on their architecture. To be able to do without support columns inside, the weight of the roof above the boom on the sides of the hall and ropes is transferred to ground anchors. The optical effect of the boom is reinforced by the vent pipes, which are mounted between the arms. The front pages were made of mirrored glass. The architect was the architectural firm BLFP Frielinghaus.

The sports and leisure center was repeatedly the scene of various German Indoor Championships. To the north, a private 9 - hole golf course closes with covered driving range.

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Public transport

The district Kalbach - Riedenberg is connected to the Frankfurt bus lines as well as the metro network. In the area Kalbach the bus lines 24, 28, 29 and night bus N4 line drive; in the field Riedenberg the lines 29, 251, and night bus line N3. The operation of the bus 26 has been discontinued and replaced with the path of the line 29. The U -Bahn line U2 connects Kalbach one hand to the city center to the South Railway Station and the other hand to Bad Homburg - Gonzenheim. The newly built compounds of lines U8 and U9 were released by an opening ceremony by Mayor Petra Roth on 12 December 2010 on the traffic and connect the area Riedenberg with downtown via Heddernheim to South Station ( line U8 ) as well as the districts of Nieder-Eschbach (via the stop Kalbach ) and Ginn Home ( U9 ).

Visual impressions

Primary school Riedenberg input

Primary school Riedenberg

Fire Station and City Hall Kalbach

Town Hall with Crossroads

Attractions

Other attractions in Kalbach - Riedenberg include:

The St. Lawrence Catholic Church was built in 1733-1765 in Baroque style farmhouse. The Baroque decoration of its interior dates from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The redesigned in 2004 Boniface Boniface fountain, which is located on the slopes of the Kalbach height is intermediate station at the newly built Bonifatiusweg for pilgrims and hikers. It was revised and expanded. According to legend, the source is to have sprung from that night in the year 754, when the pilgrims who brought the bones of the later saint from Mainz to Fulda, stayed here. The well was rediscovered in the early 1970s while it was discovered in the 1990s during excavations in the vicinity of the well remains of Crutzenkirche, which suggests that this place had formerly far greater religious significance and only later increasingly fell into oblivion.
The old town hall in Kalbach is used as a Citizens' Advice Bureau and is the seat of the arbitration 's. On the back of the fire station of the volunteer fire department Kalbach is located.
In the park of Kalbach since 1979, a stele, the " narrative stone " of the Frankfurt sculptor Reiner Uhl, at the first mention Kalbach 779

Stele in the park

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Cultural Activities

Nationwide is known of Kalbach kids club, as he annually the Literature Prize Kalbach rattlesnake aligns. The Kalbach rattlesnake is an undoped Literature Prize, which is annually since 1988 by a jury of children, composed of children and adolescents aged 8-13 years from the district Kalbach - Riedenberg awarded.

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