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Hünstetten is a municipality in the
Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (Districts of Germany, district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis is part of the Darmstadt (region), Darmstadt region; its main administrative seat is Bad Schwalbach. Outposted sections of the local ad ...
in the ''
Regierungsbezirk A ' (, 'governmental district') is a type of administrative division in Germany. Currently, four of sixteen ' (states of Germany) are split into '. Beneath these are rural and urban districts ' (plural, ) serve as regional mid-level local gov ...
'' of
Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the ...
in
Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...
,
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.


Neighbouring communities

Hünstetten borders in the north on the community of Hünfelden, in the northeast on the town of Bad Camberg (both in
Limburg-Weilburg Limburg-Weilburg is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Lahn-Dill, Hochtaunuskreis, Rheingau-Taunus, Rhein-Lahn, Westerwaldkreis. History *1867 the ''Oberlahnkreis'', capital Weilburg was created *1886 t ...
), in the east on the town of
Idstein Idstein () is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt (region), Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Because of its well preserved historical Altstadt (Old Town) it is part of the ''Deutsch ...
, in the south on the town of
Taunusstein Taunusstein () is the biggest town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the of Darmstadt (region), Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. It has 30,068 inhabitants (2020). Geography Location Taunusstein lies roughly 10 km northwest of Wiesbaden and abou ...
and in the west on the communities of Hohenstein and
Aarbergen Aarbergen () is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. As of 2022, it had a population of 6,374. Geography Location Aarbergen lies on the river Aar south of Limburg an der Lahn ...
(all in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis).


Constituent communities

Hünstetten is made up of the following ''
Ortsteil A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located ...
e'': Total: 10,218 The population figures are based on data for 31 December 2007.


History

In the course of municipal reform in Hesse, the community of Hünstetten came into being on 1 January 1972 through the merger of the communities of Beuerbach, Kesselbach, Ketternschwalbach, Limbach, Strinz-Trinitatis and Wallbach. On 1 July 1972, they were joined by Oberlibbach, and then Bechtheim, Görsroth and Wallrabenstein on 1 January 1977, giving Hünstetten its current shape.


Politics


Community council

The last municipal election was held on 14 March 2021.


Coat of arms

The community’s
arms Arms or ARMS may refer to: *Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to: People * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader Coat of arms or weapons *Armaments or weapons **Fi ...
might be described thus: Or a side sinister and dexter and a fess joining them between the fess point and the honour point, the whole gules with the fess between ten dolmens azure, four of which in chief. The German blazon says that the dolmens (called ''Doppel-T-Kopfschäfte'', although it is explained that they are meant to be dolmens) should be blue, despite their silvery appearance here. The coat of arms was approved in December 1979 by the State Archive in Darmstadt, and was given its form by
Bad Nauheim Bad Nauheim () is a town in the Wetteraukreis district of Hesse state of Germany. As of 2020, Bad Nauheim has a population of 32,493. The town is approximately north of Frankfurt am Main, on the east edge of the Taunus mountain range. It is a w ...
heraldic artist Heinz Ritt after the community’s guidelines. The ten dolmens symbolize the ten formerly self-administering communities, and the sides (stripes down each side) and the fess (horizontal stripe) form a red uppercase H, the new (in 1972) greater community’s initial letter. The H’s crossbar also stands for the ''Hühnerstraße'' (road), which splits the community into four constituent communities on one side and six on the other.


Town partnerships

* Neukirchen am Großvenediger,
Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...
,
Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
since 1976


Economy and infrastructure

The community was once rural, and
agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...
still plays a rôle in Hünstetten’s livelihood today. All in all, though, it changed over the latter half of the 20th century into a residential community. There are some 800 jobs in town, meaning that the overwhelming majority of the workforce earns its livelihood outside the community, with the good road links ensuring that this means mainly in the
Frankfurt Rhine Main Region The Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: ''Rhein-Main-Gebiet'', ''Frankfurt/Rhein-Main'' or ''FrankfurtRheinMain'', abbreviated FRM), is the third-l ...
.


Growth against the trend

Hünstetten benefits from the excellent traffic connection and the public infrastructure. Additionally, the cost of construction and property is fairly low, which helps the community to have more than 10,000 residents. The current demographic forecast indicates the highest growth rate for Hünstetten until 2030. An important reason for that development is the high quality of school, public education, and caring institutions for children and teens. To be able to combine both, family and work, is another argument for a lot of young families to live in Hünstetten. The biggest growth in the areas of community and economy development are in Görsroth, Kesselbach and Oberlibbach, which are three of the ten subtowns (Ortsteile) of Hünstetten. In the planning and extension of the community projects, Hünstetten puts main focus and attention on the life quality of the residents. A comfortable life for elder people enables one senior residence and one institution of assisted living. Both institutions are located in Wallbach, one of the ten subtown of Hünstetten where the town hall is also located. Additionally, Hünstetten offers: shopping, doctors, banking, offices and commercial space. Since 2010, all subtowns of Hünstetten are equipped with fiberglass internet. With this step Hünstetten removed a growth barrier.


Education

The richest community in percentage in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis is Hünstetten. It has two kindergartens and three child care center. Also, Hünstetten offers two elementary schools, which are located in Wallrabenstein and Görsroth. Both schools, the "Rabenschule" and the "Panoramaschule", received from the state Hessen the certificate "all day school" - included child care offering. Furthermore, Hünstetten has an integrated school, which combines middle school and high school. Last but not least, Hünstetten has a well-known music school.


Transport

The community is well linked to the long-distance road network through the Bad Camberg (4 km away) and Idstein (8 km away) interchanges on the A 3. Furthermore, ''
Bundesstraße ''Bundesstraße'' (, ), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. Germany Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km. German ''Bundesstraßen'' are labelled with re ...
'' 417 runs through the greater community.
Wiesbaden Wiesbaden (; ) is the capital of the German state of Hesse, and the second-largest Hessian city after Frankfurt am Main. With around 283,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 24th-largest city. Wiesbaden form ...
lies 22 km away,
Mainz Mainz (; #Names and etymology, see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in ...
26 km and
Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...
50 km.


Education


IGS Wallrabenstein
(integrated
comprehensive school A comprehensive school is a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 or 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis ...
) in Wallrabenstein
Rabenschule
(
primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...
) in Wallrabenstein
Panoramaschule
(primary school) in Görsroth


References

Idstein City (2011) ''Wirtschaftsstandort Idsteiner Land'' Retrieved from http://www.gemeinde-huenstetten.de/wirtschaftsfoerderung/11-07-wirtschaftsbroschuere-idsteiner-land.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunstetten Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis