Dietzenbach
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Dietzenbach | |
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Location of Dietzenbach within Offenbach district | |
Stadtteile | |
Government | |
• Mayor (2021–27) | Dieter Lang[1] (SPD) |
Area | |
• Total | 21.67 km2 (8.37 sq mi) |
Elevation | 135 m (443 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 34,928 |
• Density | 1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 63128 |
Dialling codes | 06074 |
Vehicle registration | OF |
Website | www.dietzenbach.de |
Dietzenbach (German pronunciation:
In 2001, Dietzenbach hosted the 41st Hessentag state festival.
Geography
Climate
Lying in the
The amount of
Neighbouring communities
Dietzenbach borders in the north on the town of Heusenstamm, in the east on the town of Rodgau, in the south on the town of Rödermark and in the west on the town of Dreieich.
Constituent communities
The town of Dietzenbach is made up of a number of
Steinberg
Steinberg is a constituent community. Parts of the north industrial area are found here, as well as daycare centres (Kindertagesstätten) 3,5 and 11, the Siedlerstraße Seniors’ Centre and four schools: Astrid-Lindgren-Schule (primary school), Regenbogenschule (primary school), Helen-Keller-Schule (special school) and Heinrich-Mann-Schule (coöperative comprehensive school with Gymnasium upper level). Furthermore, there is a sporting ground on Limesstraße. In the centre is the Steinberg Shopping Centre. Just under 12,000 people live in Steinberg.
Neue Stadtmitte
Between Steinberg and the old town centre, a new building area has sprung up over the years, in whose centre the town administration and Dietzenbach's community centre have settled. It is known as the Neue Stadtmitte – the New Town Centre.
Before this, the most prominent feature was a
Sales dealings kept delaying any new development. Finally, in late 2005, agreements between the town and the Dutch Ten Brinke Group were signed.
After the old toom Markt closed in mid-2005, the whole building complex was torn down in autumn 2006 to make way for a new shopping centre. The foundation stone was laid on 4 December 2006, and on 29 November 2007, the shopping centre opened, and was given the name Rathaus-Center.
The Ten Brinke Group, the €37,500,000 project's investor, built a 230 m-long and 101 m broad building in which are found, on 8 000 m² a toom Markt, and on 4 000 m² a
Hexenberg
Hexenberg, whose name is German for “Witches’ Mountain”, is a constituent community. It is named after the highest elevation in Offenbach district. The buildings are mostly relatively low one-family and multiple-family dwellings as well as a few smaller shops in the middle of the community.
Wingertsberg
Wingertsberg (called der Wingertsberg in German) is not a constituent community as such, but rather a residential neighbourhood lying on a slope across from the Old Town. At the upper end of the neighbourhood are found, besides a sporting ground, a restaurant with a viewing terrace and the lookout tower built for the Hessentag state festival, from which it is possible to see Frankfurt.
Altstadt
In Dietzenbach's Old Town, many timber-frame houses have been preserved. Besides these, the Old Town is where the local history museum, the town library and the police station are to be found.
Spessartviertel (formerly Starkenburgring)
This constituent community, which borders right on the Old Town, is a neighbourhood built up with nothing but highrises. Originally planned as an upscale neighbourhood, social problems and the crime arising therefrom have brought the town and the surrounding area greater challenges than ever. Today, roughly 90% of the inhabitants have an immigration background. Most come from Turkey, Morocco, Afghanistan, Pakistan or various African countries.
History
Dietzenbach had its first documentary mention about 1210 in a donation document to the Patershausen monastery as Dicenbah.[3] The later forsaken settlements of Ippingshausen and Richolshausen lay within what are now Dietzenbach's limits in the Early Middle Ages.
In 1545, the Counts of Hanau, who had been Dietzenbach's lords for a few centuries, introduced Protestantism. When the Counts of Hanau died out in 1736, the Landgraves Hesse-Darmstadt and of Hesse-Kassel fought over who had the right to be Dietzenbach's lords.
The
In 1898, the
A British air raid in 1941 caused great damage in the community.
Dietzenbach was granted town rights in 1971. Since 2002, Dietzenbach has also been administrative seat of the district of Offenbach. However, it was only officially allowed to use the designation Kreisstadt (“District Seat”) beginning in March 2003 as the result of a dispute with the neighbouring town of Rodgau, which had demanded this status on the grounds that it had a greater population.
Population development
Year | Inhabitants |
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2009 | 33,224 |
2007 | 34,773 |
2005 | 34,794 |
1997 | 33,015 |
1983 | 25,500 |
1970 | 12,449 |
1961 | 6,303 |
1950 | 4,711 |
1939 | 3,695 |
1834 | 3,695 |
In 1834, Dietzenbach had 3,695 inhabitants. One hundred and five years later, in 1939, it was 3,695. After the
Politics
Mayors
- Christian Ebert, 1948–1958
- Hermann Kocks, 1958–1976
- Friedrich Keller (SPD), 1976–1988
- Frank Kaufmann (temporary) (Greens), 1988–1989
- Jürgen Heyer (SPD), 1989–2001
- Stephan Gieseler (CDU), 2001–2009
- Dietmar Kolmer (temporary) (CDU), 2009
- Jürgen Rogg (independent), 2009–2021
- Dr. Dieter Lang (SPD), 2021
Town council
The elections in March 2016 showed the following results:[6]
- CDU = 11 seats
- SPD = 10 seats
- GRÜNE (The Greens) = 5 seats
- FDP = 3 seats
- LINKE (The Left) = 2 seats
- AfD = 7 seats
- FW (Free voters) = 1 seat
- WIR = 5 seats
- DL (Dietzenbach list) = 1 seat
Foreigners’ advisory council
Dietzenbach has an Ausländerbeirat – a foreigners’ advisory council – made up of 19 persons representing various nationalities with people from Turkey, Morocco, Italy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Chile and Croatia. As with town council itself, there is a foreigners’ advisory council session, which takes place a fortnight before the town council session.
Coat of arms and flag
The town's arms might be described as a cobalt blue stream surrounded by two bunches of grapes on either side. The grapes refer to the town's wineries which came to an end in the 18th century but were revived in the 1960s on the Wingertsberg. The wavy blue stream refers to the town's name, interpreted as being from the Old High German for “babbling brook” or “Brook of Dietz” (compare here 775 Jahre Dietzenbach, published by Dietzenbach town executive). The town's current arms were determined by its community councillors in 1957 and approved by the then Hessian Interior Minister Schneider.
The town's flag consists of two narrower blue bands framing the broader yellow band in the middle, upon which appear the town's arms.
Transport
Since late 2003, Dietzenbach is connected as the end-station with the
Culture
Festival
Each year in Dietzenbach, the following festivals offer a chance to pursue social contacts:
- Apfelblütenfest is being held in April.
- Fest ohne Grenzen (“Festival Without Borders”), held at the Hessentagspark
- Fest der Biere (“Festival of Beers”), held at the Harmonieplatz, lasts five days
- Weinfest in the New Town Centre, runs ten days
- Nacht der Lichter(“Night of the Lights”)with "Museumsnacht" and "Heimatfest" held in the Old Town Centre
- Trinkbornfest in the Old Town on the first weekend in September
- Dietzenbacher Kelterfest about the "Äbbelwoi" and the making of it
- Kerb or Kirchweih, always held on the last weekend in October. It stretches along Landwehrstraße from Harmonieplatz to the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Schule (school). The revived tradition of the Kerbborsche – a group of young men who perform part of the ceremony – is an important part of the kermis.
Markets
So do the markets of the Town
- Altstadtmarkt (Old City Centre Market) where the old, traditionell Art is shown together with the modern, young Artists
- Kreativmarkt (creative Market) is a market for Creatives and Hobby Artists of the whole Rhein-Main-Area
- Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market) on the first weekend in Advent
Places to Pray and to Believe
- The Earth
- Catholicparish of “Sankt Martin”
- Catholic church of “Hildegardis-Haus”
- Evangelicalparish of “Martin-Luther”
- Evangelical Free Church (Pentecostal parish) of “Jesus-Gemeinde”
- Evangelical parish of “Rut”
- Evangelical “Christuskirchengemeinde”
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Catholic parish church of St. Martin
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Evangelical Christuskirche
- Free and Independent Life in Love
- Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany, K.d.ö.R.
- DitiB Fatih Moschee e. V. (Turkish mosque)
- Tawhid Mosche e.V. (Moroccan mosque)
- Baitul Hadi (House of Leading to the Right Way, Ahmadiyya Muslim JamaatDeutschland e.V.)
Sport clubs
- SG Dietzenbach (longtime team handballBundesliga participant)
- TG Dietzenbach (on the Wingertsberg: gymnastics, dancing, fitness, tennis, association football, team handball)
- SC Steinberg
- FC Dietzenbach 1971 e.V
Radio station
Dietzenbach features an own radio station called "Radio Dietzenbach" with a 24/7 service.[7]
Notable people
- Cornelia Hanisch (born 1952), Olympic fencing champion
- Monika Staab (born 1959), football player and coach
- Götz Otto (born 1967), actor
Twin towns – sister cities
Dietzenbach is twinned with:[8]
- Vélizy-Villacoublay, France (1976)
- Masaya, Nicaragua (1985)
- Rakovník, Czech Republic (1986)
- Neuhaus am Rennweg, Germany (1990)
- Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States (2008)
- Kastsyukovichy, Belarus (2009)
- Kunming, China (2020)
References
- Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. 5 September 2022.
- Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2023.
- ^ "HStAD Fonds A 1 No 181/1". Archival information system Hessen. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- ^ "Kartenseite: Muslime in den Gemeinden mit mindestens 10000 Einwohnern beim Zensus 2011" (PDF). kartenseite.wordpress.com. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ "Kreis Offenbach: Bestandsaufnahme über die Integrationsarbeit in Dietzenbach" (PDF). kreis-offenbach.de. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ "Startseite".
- ^ radio-dietzenbach
- ^ "Partnerstädte". dietzenbach.de (in German). Dietzenbach. Retrieved 2021-02-11.Archived 2014-07-01 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Town's official webpage (in German)
- Dietzenbach at Curlie(in German)