Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg

Sonnenberg is a local district of the Hessian capital Wiesbaden.

The town was incorporated on 28 October 1928, has about 8000 inhabitants. Sonnenberg connects to the north east of the city center and forms with her to coalescence of the building a closed settlement area. The historic city center is located between foothills of the Taunus in the narrow valley of the Rambach. Northeast of Sonneberg joins the district Rambach.

Sonnenberg is now considered upscale residential area with many villas; the purchasing power of € 31,346 (as of 2012) per person per year by far the highest among the Wiesbaden city. Worth seeing is the castle, which is perched on a mountain ridge above the old town. The fortifications and city walls remain to a large extent. From the keep of the castle you have the best view of the Sonneberg valley and the old town with its ramparts.

History

The first mention Sonnenberg dates from the years between 1208 and 1209 in the name of the first castle of Idstein 's Ulbert -Sonnenberg as sun Burch and Sunnenberc (earlier mentions in the earlier literature relating to pig mountain in the Odenwald). The castle was built around 1201-1203 by Nassau Count and named in 1221 as Sonnenberc first time. In 1257 it must have been given an existing local constitution, as a magistrate is called called Godefridus.

End of the 13th century the castle was further expanded when Count Adolf of Nassau ( * before 1250, † July 2, 1298 ) was crowned on May 5, 1292 Roman-German king. 1338 visited the Emperor Louis VI. the castle. On July 29, 1351, King of Bohemia and later Emperor Charles IV Sonnenberg gave the city rights, as a result, in the following years, the city wall was created.

1429 a small church was built, but fell apart by the year 1602. The Thirty Years' War caused great damage to, so that only a dozen homes were habitable. In 1672 the city was devastated by the Brandenburg troops.

1814, Sonnenberg had a population of 600, paid Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the city a visit.

The stream in the valley stepped over the centuries frequently overflowed its banks and established some considerable damage to particularly strong on June 25, 1867, last on 28 March 1999.

Policy

Town council election results Wiesbaden -Sonnenberg

The distribution of seats in the town council Wiesbaden -Sonnenberg is as follows: