Apr 10, 2012

Eckenheim



The Eckenheim is also one of the district of Frankfurt. It has 2.347 Km2 area and it has the population 14,287 and density of this district is 6,087 /Km2.  The postal code of this district is 60435 and area code of this district is 069. The Boundaries of this district is meeting with DornBush, Eschersheim, Frankfurter Berg, Preungesheim.

The oldest mention of corner home was built in 795 and is received in the Lorsch codex. 1252 King William gave the Teutonic Order in Sachsenhausen, the advowson of the church in Eckenheim. Thus, there is also the first time ever is a church. The Church was a daughter church of Preungesheim. 1320 pledged King Louis IV the Bornheimer mountain to Ulrich II of Hanau. 1336 the emperor then allowed the City of Frankfurt, to redeem the Bornheimer mountain in his place of Hanau. Emperor Charles IV in 1351 but renewed the pledge shaft for Hanau. 1434 Count Reinhard II of Hanau by Emperor Sigismund was even invested with the Bornheimer mountain. In the division of the county of Hanau in 1458 came to the mountain of Bornheimer county of Hanau-Münzenberg.

Historical forms of names

  • Eccinheim (795)
  • Hecgenheim (9. Jahrhundert)
  • Aeckenheim (um 1090)
  • Egenheim (1252)
  • Ekinheim (1287)
  • Eckenheim (1294)
  • Eckinheym (1292)



The Reformation in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg in the middle of the 16th century, first by their Lutheran expression. In a "second Reformation", the denomination of the county of Hanau-Münzenberg was changed again: Count Philipp Ludwig II from 1597 pursued a decidedly Reformed Church policy. He made use of his law reformandi, its right as a sovereign use to determine the religion of his subjects, and put this largely for the county through binding. After the death of the last Count Hanauer, Johann Reinhard, 1736 Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse-Kassel inherited due to inheritance contract from the year 1643 the county of Hanau-Münzenberg and hence the Bornheimer mountain and corner home. During the Napoleonic period Eckenheim stood from 1806 under French military administration, from 1807 to 1810 belonged to the Principality of Hanau, Office mountains, and then from 1810 to 1813 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Department of Hanau. Then it became part of Hesse-Kassel, now "electorate of Hesse" called back. It was 1821 in a fundamental administrative reform: The Bornheimer Mountain slammed it to the newly formed county of Hanau. 1863 the Nazareth Lutheran Church, built from 1896 to 1899, the Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Church. After the war of 1866 Kurhessen was on the losing side and was annexed by Prussia. It now belonged to the district Wiesbaden and the province of Hesse-Nassau County from 1886 to Frankfurt.

Population Development


  • 1634: 24 Haushalte
  • 1753: 44 Haushalte mit 207 Personen
  • 1834: 370 Einwohner
  • 1840: 413 Einwohner
  • 1846: 465 Einwohner
  • 1852: 481 Einwohner
  • 1858: 520 Einwohner
  • 1864: 610 Einwohner
  • 1871: 807 Einwohner
  • 1875: 1.008 Einwohner
  • 1885: 1.364 Einwohner
  • 1895: 1.954 Einwohner
  • 1905: 3.041 Einwohner
  • 1910: 3.445 Einwohner
  • 1925: 5.858 Einwohner
Main sights are the renovated half-timbered houses and two churches corner home. The younger of the two is the 1896 to 1899, built by Max Meckel Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Church, of which today is only the 56-meter high tower, the landmark corner home. 1961 to replace the old nave, a larger building was erected. Since this is now too big and on top of that again in need of repair, it should be according to a decision by the Diocese of Limburg demolished soon and replaced with another new building. A little further north is the Protestant Church Nazareth, a plain brick building built in 1863.