Schwanheim is
also one of the district of Germany. It has the 17.727 Km2 areas and
20,127 populations. This District also has 069 area code and 60528, 60529 are
postal codes. This is part of west and is subdivided into the Stadtbezirke
Schwanheim, Goldstein-Ost and Goldstein-West.
History
In 880 Schwanheim (originally Sueinheim) was first mentioned in a document that on the donation of the church to the Sueinheim Salvatorkapelle 17th in Frankfurt November 880 confirmed.In the Middle Ages belonged to the surrounding woods for hunting ground Dreieich, this entertained in Schwanheim also his 30 game hides. During the 11th Century village and court were Schwanheim property of the monastery of St. Jacob of Mainz, the Bailiwick had the Lords of Eppstein to Erblehen. In the 14th Century sought the city of Frankfurt to break into Schwanheim foot. Frankfurt in 1439 and his wealthy citizen Johann von Holzhausen bought in equal rights across the Bailiwick Eppsteinschen Schwanheim. Ownership of Schwanheim was little later the Archbishop of Mainz. 60 years later bought Mainz back the advocacy rights. During the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) the city was destroyed as well as the neighboring Niederrad. In Reichsdeputationshauptschluss Schwanheim 1803 became part of the later Duchy of Nassau. Around this time there were about 700 residents. In the 19th Century Schwanheim developed from pure farming village slowly to a working class neighborhood, influenced by the chemical industry in Höchst and Griesheim and increasingly incipient economic links with Frankfurt. Nevertheless Schwanheim was not as connected to the community of Nassau Hessian State Railways. In the war of 1866-was Schwanheim Prussian territory with the Nassau and Frankfurt. The population at that time was the 1700th. On 1 April 1928 Schwanheim with 5850 inhabitants and 1793 acres, of which 667 acres of woods, incorporated in the Frankfurt area. In the spring of 1932, started the construction of the settlement Goldstein. The first section 380 settlers points. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on 1 56th February 1932 in Sauerackerweg The name of the settlement is on the 13th.
Century, first mentioned back Wasserburg Goldstein, which was owned by the Frankfurt patrician to Goldstein, but was destroyed already 1552nd Also saw the completion of the barrage Griesheim and thus a further transition, if only for pedestrians over the river Main. The end of World War II demolished bridge was rebuilt in 1963 and by the Mayor Werner Bockelmann 21st September inaugurated. In 2005, the 1125-year anniversary of the district was committed.
Attractions
History
In 880 Schwanheim (originally Sueinheim) was first mentioned in a document that on the donation of the church to the Sueinheim Salvatorkapelle 17th in Frankfurt November 880 confirmed.In the Middle Ages belonged to the surrounding woods for hunting ground Dreieich, this entertained in Schwanheim also his 30 game hides. During the 11th Century village and court were Schwanheim property of the monastery of St. Jacob of Mainz, the Bailiwick had the Lords of Eppstein to Erblehen. In the 14th Century sought the city of Frankfurt to break into Schwanheim foot. Frankfurt in 1439 and his wealthy citizen Johann von Holzhausen bought in equal rights across the Bailiwick Eppsteinschen Schwanheim. Ownership of Schwanheim was little later the Archbishop of Mainz. 60 years later bought Mainz back the advocacy rights. During the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) the city was destroyed as well as the neighboring Niederrad. In Reichsdeputationshauptschluss Schwanheim 1803 became part of the later Duchy of Nassau. Around this time there were about 700 residents. In the 19th Century Schwanheim developed from pure farming village slowly to a working class neighborhood, influenced by the chemical industry in Höchst and Griesheim and increasingly incipient economic links with Frankfurt. Nevertheless Schwanheim was not as connected to the community of Nassau Hessian State Railways. In the war of 1866-was Schwanheim Prussian territory with the Nassau and Frankfurt. The population at that time was the 1700th. On 1 April 1928 Schwanheim with 5850 inhabitants and 1793 acres, of which 667 acres of woods, incorporated in the Frankfurt area. In the spring of 1932, started the construction of the settlement Goldstein. The first section 380 settlers points. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on 1 56th February 1932 in Sauerackerweg The name of the settlement is on the 13th.
Century, first mentioned back Wasserburg Goldstein, which was owned by the Frankfurt patrician to Goldstein, but was destroyed already 1552nd Also saw the completion of the barrage Griesheim and thus a further transition, if only for pedestrians over the river Main. The end of World War II demolished bridge was rebuilt in 1963 and by the Mayor Werner Bockelmann 21st September inaugurated. In 2005, the 1125-year anniversary of the district was committed.
Attractions
- The village indulged in a school building, which was built from 1827 to 1832 as a neoclassical building on the corner in the old town. After 1961, there was cultural and social purposes and was named Wilhelm Kobelt-house. Today it houses the district library and the museum.
- In 1901, the neo-Gothic St. Maurice Church was consecrated. Of a previous building in 2001 fragments of a Gothic Grablegungsgruppe from the period have been discovered shortly after 1400. The finds are placed in the church since 2008.
- On 8 May 1984 was in a car converted into halls of the former Forest Railway opened in Schwanheim the Transport Museum Frankfurt.
- Another attraction is the nature reserve Schwanheimer dune, a 58.5-acre inland dune in the west of the district, which is counted to the city forest.
- The Schwanheimer meadow in the south of the district is Frankfurt's largest glade. Here 10,000 years ago and formed those Urmain flowed the fertile soil in which the Schwanheimer forest arose. The meadows caused by deforestation and subsequent lease of the reclaimed land. 1483 at this place a place name has been mentioned as a new lawn for the first time. The Old Meadow, extending from the luge swath to Schwanheimer Bahnstraße verbuschte, during the Thirty Years War and was in the 19th Century restored as such. A 1978-equipped six-kilometer nature trail with explanations and illustrative objects to prehistory of the area leads to the entire Schwanheimer meadow.
- The Schwanheimer old oaks are a group of about 30 oak trees on the northern edge of the forest Schwanheimer. The 500 year-old trees were used until the 20th Century as the fruit trees in the local Hutewald. Text several signs on the site about the history of the trees.
- A scenic feature in the south of the district is the Schwanheimer in Frankfurt City Forest running Kelsterbacher terrace. There is a five mile long, in the Pliocene era resulting river terrace, which was formed during the ice ages of great-Main.
- On the northern edge of the forest lies the Schwanheimer Kobelt Zoo. It takes its name from the pet from the first doctor in the former farming village Schwanheim Wilhelm Kobelt.
- By Schwanheimer Forest leads the Historic Trail Schwanheim. The trail has 18 stations, the 19th on the history of the district from the Stone Age to the Century information. Along the trail several archaeological sites to visit.
Other
Happened in Griesheim, directly across from Schwanheim at the other bank of the Main, on 22 February 1993, 4:00 clock in the morning, a serious incident: After an accident, leaked 10 tons of chemical mixture from the work of Hoechst AG. The yellow cloud, which consisted mainly of the yellow meta-nitroanisole harmful to health, but that also include the toxic substance contained ortho-nitroanisole drove across the Main and descended over the districts Schwanheim settlement Goldstein. The yellow substance covered houses, cars, trees. Schools and kindergartens were closed, many residents complained of burning eyes, nausea, vomiting and skin lesions. We conducted a longitudinal study to demonstrate any long-term damage can.
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