The Gronauer Hof is about 700 m south of this point. The single settlement, first mentioned in 1354, was owned by the Ibenstadt monastery until it was sold to a Frankfurt citizen during the Thirty Years' War. In 1691, Count Philipp Reinhard von Hanau- Münzenberg acquired the farm, and in 1736 the estate passed into the possession of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel. By 1850, the Gronauer Hof had developed into one of the most lucrative estates in the Hessian state thanks to the extensive meadows. With the end of Kurhessen in 1866, the estate became a Prussian state domain and was placed under the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture in Berlin. In 2007, the city of Bad Vilbel acquired the Gronauer Hof from the state of Hesse. Part of the land was used to expand the landscape protection area "Auenverbund Wetterau" and for the renaturation of the Nidda.