Nidderau

The city is located on the northeastern edge of the Nidderau Rhine -Main area in the Main- Kinzig district, in Hesse.

Nidderau is the fifth largest city in the Main- Kinzig district.

2.1 Amalgamations
2.2 Population development

3.1 City Council
3.2 Mayor
3.3 Coat of Arms
3.4 partnerships

Geography

Geographical Location

The city is located in the southern Wetterau, bordering the southwestern foothills of the Vogelsberg, but still belongs administratively to the Main -Kinzig -Kreis ( district of Hanau in the 1970s ). The river Nidder gave the city its name. Nidderau was in 2007 (as well as in the years 2004 and 2005) with 1883 hours of sunshine the sunniest town in Hesse.

Neighboring community and circles

Nidderau bordered to the west on the town Karben, in the northwest of the city Niddatal, in the north on the community of Old Town (all Wetterau ), to the east by the municipalities Limeshain ( Wetterau ) and hammer stream, in the south on the town Bruchkoebel and on the southwest by the community Schoeneck.

Boroughs

Heldenbergen
Windecken
Erbstadt
Calibrate
Ostheim

History

Incorporations

The city Nidderau created by the merger of the city Windecken and the community Heldenbergen in the course of municipal reform of the federal state of Hesse on 1 January 1970. For this reason, the Nidderauer city arms up today sets composed of only the Windecker and heroes Berger coat of arms.

On December 31, 1971, the northerly places oaks and Erbstadt joined. Last Ostheim followed on 1 July 1974.

Population Development

Policy

City Council

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

Mayor

The acting mayor since May 1997 Gerhard Schultheiss (SPD ), was re-elected on 30 November 2008 at the first ballot with 70.5 % of the vote for a third term.

Coat of arms

On 4 May 1971, the municipality Nidderau was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon in the former county of Hanau: In the split plate front three gold chevrons in red, in the back of a gold single-headed black imperial eagle at the gap.

Partnerships

Nidderau has since 1 September 1991, a partnership with the Thuringian Mitre. The Hungarian Kurd is since 11 March 2000, a so-called co-operation partner of Nidderau.

Traffic

The Nidderau railway station is on the railway line Friedberg- Hanau, and at the Niddertalbahn. From there, there are connections to Frankfurt am Main, Hanau, Friedberg (Hessen ) and stock home ( Glauburg ).

Attractions and Tourism

Castle Naumburg, Naumburg former Cyriacuskloster on a rise of Erbstädter district
Remains of the castle Windecken
Town Hall of 1520 and Jewish cemetery in Windecken
Upper Castle Heldenbergen
Not visible is the wet castle, a castle in Outbound Heldenbergen.
By districts Windecken and oaks leads to the bike path bike trail track Hesse. He leads on former railway tracks about 250 km through the Vogelsberg and Rhön.

Famous people

William Adam (1893 - 1978) - Politician and General
Dietmar Koppel ( b. 1959 ) - Actor ( A Case for Two, Crime Scene, Judenbuche, cadet murder, etc.), singer, director. He was engaged inter alia in drama and folk theater Frankfurt Frankfurt.
Heinrich Kurz - inventor of the so-called Sweet Henry, a sugar spreader. He filed for a patent for the straightening of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Rodolphe Lindt (1855 - 1909) - The ancestors of the inventor of Conche have owned a bakery in Windecken until the 19th century.
Katharine Mehrling ( b. 1974 or 1975) - Singer, Musical Actress ( Piaf, Cabaret, Les Misérables, Jekyll & Hyde ), actress (Golden Curtain for Forever Jung; Valkyrie )
Bernd Reuter ( * 1940 ) - German politician ( SPD) and former member of parliament.
Simone Reuthal (* 1979) - Radio and television presenter (Planet Radio, MTV2 Pop, KI.KA, Tabaluga tivi )
Ernst Schneider (1900 - 1977) - Entrepreneur and President of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK )
Charles Seifried - Born on October 15, 1914 in Heldenbergen, founded in 1948, the travel agency Ameropa. His success made it possible for him to found the Karl and Else Seifried Foundation, the study incurable diseases, the construction of a children's home and the support of elderly, the sick, mistreated, among other things to has set in Nidderau goal.
Lassa Oppenheim ( born March 30, 1858 in Windecken; † October 7, 1919 in Cambridge ) was a German lawyer, who is regarded as the founders of modern international law.

Schools in Nidderau

In the city Nidderau there are four elementary schools, elementary school Ostheim, the Albert Schweitzer school in the district Nidderau Heldenbergen, Kurt Schumacher- school in Windecken and Paul Maar School in oaks. In addition, with the Johann Hinrich Wichern -Schule in Ostheim district a school for learning support and language therapy school and Heldenbergen the Bertha von Suttner School, a comprehensive school for grades 5 through 10

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