Maintal-Dörnigheim

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Dörnigheim is the largest district of valley and is situated in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse.

• 2.1 Middle Ages
• 2.2 Historical forms of the name
• 2.3 Early Modern Times
• 2.4 Modern Times
• 2.5 Population development

Geography

Geographical location

Dörnigheim lies on the right bank of the Main, at an altitude of 103 m above sea level. The city of Frankfurt am Main is located approximately 13 kilometers west of the town of Hanau, about 6 kilometers east of Dörnigheim.

Neighboring towns

Dörnigheim bordered to the north by the district of Hochstadt, in the northwest of Bishop Home, to the west by Fechenheim, to the east of Hanau - boiler city - south of the Main located - in the southwest of the district of Offenbach Rumpenheim and on the south by the city of Mülheim am Main and its district Teodone.

History

Middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Dörnigheim dates from the year 793 and is listed in the Lorsch Codex. A Wolfbodo gave the abbot of the monastery Lorsch, among others, the area in Maingau, which also was Dörnigheim.

1064 King Henry IV gave the monastery of St. Jacob Mainz goods to Dörnigheim. In the 13th and 14th century, the monastery was in possession of the village. The advocacy of the monastic property was in the 13th century, first at the Count of Rieneck, in the 14th century in the men of Hanau. This in turn awarded the Bailiwick as a fief to the Lords of Rüdigheim. The sovereignty over Dörnigheim but fell to the rule and later county of Hanau and Hanau- coins mountain. This ordered the village to their office Büchertal. Ecclesiastical was initially Dörnigheim vicarage, to which the village of Kessel city was the parish in the 15th century, it was then reversed. The first church patronage was the Palatinate, which gave it in the 16th century on the counts of Hanau- coins mountain.

Historical forms of the name

• Turincheim ( 793 )
• Turin secret ( 850 )
• Thurincheim (1064 )
• Dorenheim ( 1258 )
• Durnkeim ( 1282)
• Durinkeym ( 1288)
• Duringheim ( 1366)
• Dörnigheim ( 1554 )

Early Modern Times

The Reformation continued in the county of Hanau - coins mountain in the middle of the 16th century, initially in its Lutheran expression by. In a " second Reformation ", the denomination of the county of Hanau - coins mountain was changed again: Count Philipp Ludwig II from 1597 pursued a decidedly Reformed Church policy. He made the Jus reform andi use his right as a sovereign to determine the denomination of his subjects, and continued this for the county through largely as binding, as well as in Dörnigheim. 1720, the parish was detached and made ​​independent of boiler instead.

After the death of the last Count of Hanau, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736, inherited Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse -Kassel due to an inheritance contract made ​​in 1643 the county of Hanau - coins mountain and thus the office Büchertal and Dörnigheim.

With its convenient location between the cities of Hanau in the east and in the west of Frankfurt flourished restaurants and Herberg operation since travelers eager appealed for a catch here. Many of the old restaurants are still farmed.

Modern Times

During the Napoleonic period Dörnigheim stood from 1806 to 1810 under French military administration and then belonged from 1810 to 1813 the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Department of Hanau. Then it fell to Hesse -Kassel, now called " Electorate of Hesse ," back. Here it came in 1821 to a fundamental administrative reform: The Office Büchertal was added to the newly formed county of Hanau.

" Hochstadt - Dörnigheim ", which was used as a transit camp for American soldiers, as a POW camp and as a depot explosion: On August 19, 1945, near the Main Valley East Station, then took on an industrial site. The disaster fell 24 Americans and four Doernigheimer firefighters victim.

1964 Dörnigheim received city rights. Ten years later, on 1 July 1974, Dörnigheim was combined with Bishop Home, Hochstadt and Wachenbuchen in the course of municipal reform in Hesse by law to the new city valley.

Population Development

Church

Already in the charter of 793, the oldest mention Dörnigheims, today's Old Church on Main as basilica see Marie is mentioned. The patronage initially lay with the Palatinate, since the 16th century in Hanau. Church Safety Authority was the Archdeacon of the provost of St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz, deanery Roßdorf before the Reformation. After the Protestant Consistory of government in Hanau was the supervisory authority. The church was until 1720 a branch of the Church of Kessel city before it became independent.

Transport and Infrastructure

Dörnigheim is the location in the Rhine -Main area and the close proximity to Frankfurt and Hanau, a well-placed business location. In the east and in the north also limits the industrial areas of East Main Valley and the Main Center at the district.

Dörnigheim is conveniently located. The Main Valley East railway station located in the north of the district on the railway line Frankfurt- Hanau and is served by regional trains of the relation Frankfurt- Main valley Hanau ( -Aschaffenburg ). The railway line separates Dörnigheim of Hochstadt. It is planned to connect to the Nordmainische S-Bahn.

The A66 junction with the Main valley Dörnigheim / Maintal- Hochstadt runs north of the district, the B 8 right through the town center along the River Main.

On Doernigheimer or on the opposite bank of the Main run several cycle routes:

• The Hessian Radfernweg R3 (Rhein -Main -Kinzig- cycle path ) leads under the motto in the footsteps of the late harvest rider. along the Rhine, Main and Kinzig over Fulda to Tann in the Rhön.
• The Main Bike Trail leads from the sources of the White and the Red River Main to Mainz to the mouth of the Rhine.
• The D- Route 5 (Saar -Mosel -Main ) from Saarbrücken to Trier, Koblenz, Mainz, Frankfurt, Würzburg and Bayreuth to the Czech border ( 1021 km ).
• The Regional Park circular route leads over 190 km through the varied landscape of the Rhine-Main region.
• The regional themes bike path Hessian apple wine and orchard route.