Friedrichsdorf
Friedrichsdorf | |
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Location of Friedrichsdorf within Hochtaunuskreis district | |
Seulberg), 06175 (Köppern) und 06007 (Burgholzhausen) | |
Vehicle registration | HG, USI |
Website | www.friedrichsdorf.de |
Friedrichsdorf (German pronunciation: .
Geography
Location
Neighbouring communities
Friedrichsdorf borders in the north and east on the town of Rosbach (Wetteraukreis), in the south on the town of Bad Homburg, and in the west on the community of Wehrheim.
History
The town's founding in 1687 goes back to the persecution of the
Later,
The town's most famous son was Johann Philipp Reis, a teacher at the Institut Garnier. He is the inventor of the electric transmission of speech, better known as the telephone and has been dedicated a museum. Friedrichsdorf's comprehensive school (Philipp-Reis-Schule) is also named after him.
In 1916, Dillingen, which had been founded only in 1804, was joined with Friedrichsdorf. Dillingen took its name from a village which had been forsaken in the Thirty Years' War, on the rural area of which Friedrichsdorf's Huguenots later settled. Paul Tirard reported that the town archives were kept in French up until 1871, but thenceforth in German. He also states that the names on grave stones were French up and till 1914 and that Protestant Sunday services were held locally up until the same date.[3]
Constituent communities
In July 1972 the communities of Friedrichsdorf, Seulberg, Köppern and Burgholzhausen merged to form the town of Friedrichsdorf/Taunus.
Köppern
Köppern had its first documentary mention in 1269. At this time, Buchard von Printsac was given in
Köppern has a street hockey team, trained by, among others, professional hockey player Ingo Schwarz, who plays for Rote Teufel Bad Nauheim.
Burgholzhausen
In 1221, Burgholzhausen was being mentioned as Holzhausen in documents. The most important economic activity next to farming and linen weaving was said to be tilemaking, whose raw materials were dug from nearby clay pits. In the late 17th century, through the Ingelheimer family's lordly leadership, fruit growing was brought to Burgholzhausen
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Old Town Hall (gable side)
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Burgholzhausen's Old Town Hall (1605)
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Renovated building from 1630 (downtown)
Seulberg
Seulberg was first mentioned in the
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Töpferbrunnen ("Potters' Fountain")
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Seulberg as a whole
Coat of arms
Friedrichsdorf was given its first civic coat of arms in 1821 in remembrance of Russian Princess Alexandra's – and her eight guests' – visit to Count Friedrich in Bad Homburg: In azure a ring of nine roses argent (i.e. a blue shield with a ring of nine silver roses).
After amalgamation, a new coat of arms was created in 1975, taking the newly amalgamated parts of town into account. It might heraldically be described thus: Party per saltire, above, in azure a rose argent, dexter in argent a four-spoked wheel gules, sinister in argent a horseshoe gules, below, in gules a tower Or. The silver rose charge has been kept, although now there is only one instead of a ring of nine. The red stylized wheel stands for Köppern and the red horseshoe for Seulberg. The tower comes from Burgholzhausen's old arms.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
Roads
Through Friedrichsdorf's outlying rural areas runs Autobahn A5, an important traffic artery that also has an interchange at the northern edge of the municipal area (16, Friedberg / Friedrichsdorf). Furthermore, Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 455 also runs through the town.
Railway stations
There are four
Air Traffic
The Rotorflug company provides helicopter transport.
Population
(in each case on 31 December)
Year | Inhabitants |
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1998 | 24,404 |
1999 | 24,128 |
2000 | 24,282 |
2001 | 24,406 |
2002 | 24,572 |
2003 | 24,497 |
2004 | 24,605 |
2006 (June 30) | 24,522 |
2007 | 24,330 |
2010 | 24,875 |
Politics
Town council elections
Parties and Voters Associations | % 2016 |
Seats 2016 |
% 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
% 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
% 2001 |
Seats 2001 | |
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CDU | Christian Democratic Union | 23.9 | 9 | 31.7 | 12 | 37.1 | 14 | 34.1 | 13 |
SPD | Social Democratic Party | 13.4 | 5 | 18.4 | 7 | 19.9 | 7 | 26.4 | 10 |
GREENS | Alliance '90/The Greens
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21.9 | 8 | 25.5 | 9 | 15.9 | 6 | 14.5 | 5 |
FDP | Free Democratic Party | 11.6 | 4 | 7.0 | 3 | 8.6 | 3 | 6.3 | 2 |
FWG | Free Voters Association | 25.7 | 10 | 17.4 | 6 | 15.5 | 6 | 8.5 | 3 |
REP | The Republicans | - | - | - | - | 1.9 | 1 | 2.3 | 1 |
LLF | Left List for Friedrichsdorf | 3.4 | 1 | — | — | 1.1 | 0 | — | — |
UWG | Independent Voters Association | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8.0 | 3 |
Total | 100,0 | 37 | 100,0 | 37 | 100,0 | 37 | 100,0 | 37 | |
Turnout of voters in % | 50.5 | 49.5 | 46.9 | 56.3 |
Mayor
- Horst Burghardt (Green) is mayor of Friedrichsdorf since 1997. In March 2021, Lars Keitel (Green) was elected as his successor.[4]
Twin towns – sister cities
Friedrichsdorf is twinned with:[5]
- Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting, Austria (1968)
- Houilles, France (1973)
- Chesham, England, United Kingdom (1980)
Schools
Notable people
- François Blanc (1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos
- Abraham Louis Wallon (1807–1889), Methodist preacher in Germany and the United States
- Pierre Jean Édouard Desor (1811–1882), German-Swiss geologist and naturalist
- Paul Cérésole (1832–1905), Swiss politician and judge of the Supreme Court (1867–1870)
- Johann Philipp Reis (1834–1874), teacher and inventor of the Reis telephone
- Karl Willy Wagner (1883–1953), pioneer in the theory of electronic filters
- Martin Schneider (born 1964), comedian, cabarettist and actor
- Rob Pilatus (1965–1998), model, dancer and singer
Religion
In Friedrichsdorf stands one of the two
References
- Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. 5 September 2022.
- Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2023.
- ^ Tirard, Paul (1930). La France sur le Rhin. Paris: Plon. p. 476.
- Faz.net(in German).
- ^ "Partnerstädte". friedrichsdorf.de (in German). Friedrichsdorf. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
External links
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). 1911. .
- Friedrichsdorf
- Friedrichsdorf (Taunus) at Curlie