Wiesbaden-Frauenstein
Mrs. Stone is a local district of the Hessian capital Wiesbaden.
The place with just under 2400 inhabitants already belongs to the Rheingau wine region and describes why happy as gateway to the Rheingau
Townscape
In the center, extending into the narrow valley Lippbach, stands on a rock castle ruins, with its preserved keep, which originated around the year 1200.
Opposite the castle ruins there is a small square with the Catholic Church of St. George and Catherine with late Gothic choir and roof Reiter ( 1509 ). Built in 1953/54, new parish church met at right angles behind the old church and has some of the features added to the inter alia, a Gothic crucifix from the period of the Church, a Baroque high altar of the Monastery Tiefthal (1713 ), one from the Franciscan monastery in Hadamar originating Baroque pulpit ( 1676 ) and the statues of the patron saints of the same epoch belong. In a restoration in 1989/90, a new altar, ambo and Paschal candle of Hubert came to Alsace.
The fountain in front of the church (1978 ) is crowned by a sandstone sculpture of St. George.
Next to the church is an already partially ruptured thousand year old lime tree. It is also blood Linde named after a legend that a young man who allegedly abducted the niece of a woman Steiner lords, had been executed for that. The bride had plants at this point the Linde.
Among the best-preserved half-timbered houses of the place of Schönborn'sche yard of 1571 in cherry blossom street belongs just below the castle, with remnants medieval masonry. He was, as the Falker'sche courtyard in the George Street and the former wine house to the castle originally built for the Burgmannen.
The tourist infrastructure includes several wineries, some with serving, wine shops, inns, villas and apartments.
Environment
On the hill behind the castle ruins perched the Nuremberg court, a popular tourist restaurant and vineyard, from which one has a view of the Rhine and the Rheingau with its vineyards. 1815, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe here during his second stay in Wiesbaden station to operate geological studies. In 1932, Mrs. Steiner citizens put him up here over the vineyards, a monument: the so-called Goethe stone. This is not as often assumed erroneously to an obelisk, but because of its triangular base to a tetrahedron.
At the exit Wiesbaden - Schierstein and Walluf, near the court Grorother a European vineyard was created in which different characteristic varieties of Europe are planted. On billboards, they are described in detail.
To Mrs. Stein, there is, in addition to wine, numerous cherry meadows, which are a popular tourist destination especially during the cherry blossom in the spring. Behind these orchards, hiking trails lead to the Grey Stone ( 339 m) at George Born in Nuns Buchenwald. With a height of 25 m of gray stone is one of a quartzite transition, which was formed about 320 million years ago and about 4 km to the tips of stone ( on which the castle ruins Mrs. Stein is ) enough. The gray stone is also used as a climbing exercise rock.
On a trail parking lot below the Grey stone once stood Monstranzenbaum, a stocky English Oak, where legend had buried the holy monstrance for fear of looting in the chaos of war by an abbess of the monastery deep valley, and had planted a tree for orientation next to the hideout. Later, however, she did not find the place again and died when looking from exhaustion. The tree grew in the form of a monstrance. Died years ago, he had to be like 2009; the root is still in place.
At the center stone woman, at the Goethe stone as well as on Grauenstein the Rhine trail leads past.
A special feature of the region is the occurrence of the rare Aesculapian represents a " snake path " was created in 2006 by the Association Lindenbachtal natural shelter and information about these domestic non-toxic snake.
Policy
Town council election results Wiesbaden- stone woman
Since 1972 is at the same time, but regardless of chosen with the elections to the Wiesbaden city council of town council of the Municipality of Mrs. Stein ( indicated in the table in percent).
The distribution of seats in the town council Wiesbaden woman stone looks then as follows:
Current members of the Ortsbeirats are:
- Harald Weber (SPD / mayor )
- Ralf Wagner ( CDU)
- Hartmut Bernd (SPD )
- Andreas Kuckro (CDU / deputy mayor )
- Ute Hülsing (SPD )
- Marc Zenglein (SPD )
- Wilfried Schmäing (CDU )