Breitenbach (Oberleichtersbach)

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Breitenbach is a village in the municipality of Oberleichtersbach in the north of Lower Franconia . It has 360 inhabitants, the next larger town is Bad Brückenau .

location

Breitenbach is located in the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park on a connecting road between federal highway 27 and federal highway 286 . It is just under 2 km to the federal motorway 7 in the east. It is 3 km to Bad Brückenau in the north-west, 2.5 km to Oberleichtersbach in the south-west, 4 km to Schondra in the south-east and about 3 km to Schildeck in the east.

history

Breitenbach is first mentioned in a document in 812. For a long time the place belonged to Fulda and its provost office Thulba . In 1425, Breitenbach belonged to the Brückenau district court . In the Turkish tax register of the abbey of Fulda from 1605, the place is mentioned under the names Breydtbach and Breidtbach with 41 families. In a handbook for the Unter-Mainkreis from 1830, 32 houses, 38 families and 221 souls are assigned to the place . A local school is also mentioned. Napoleon Bonaparte had set up a camp in Breitenbach.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality was incorporated into the municipality of Oberleichtersbach.

economy

The village is characterized by agriculture, industry can only be found in the neighboring industrial area Buchrasen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of the community of Oberleichtersbach ( Memento from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Thomas Heiler, Martin Herber: The Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605 , Volume 64 of the publication of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein, Verlag Parzeller, 2004
  3. ↑ http://www.unterleichtersbach.de/Geschichte%20Unterl..htm
  4. ↑ Thomas Heiler: The Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605, (Publication of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter; No. 64), Fulda, Parzeller-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7900-0362-X , place register on pages 37– 47, from there reference to the page with the number of taxpayers
  5. ↑ Statistical-topographical manual for the Lower Main District of the Kingdom of Bavaria , author Anton Rottmayer, Verlag in der Sartorius'schen Buchdruckerei, 1830, page 126
  6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 739 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 23.5 "  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 23.9"  E