Abtsteinach

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Abtsteinach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 8 ° 47'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
Circle : Mountain road
Height : 498 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.03 km 2
Residents: 2431 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 220 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 69518
Area code : 06207
License plate : HP
Community key : 06 4 31 001
LOCODE : DE ABX
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Kirchstrasse 2
69518 Abtsteinach
Website : www.abtsteinach.de
Mayoress : Angelika Beckenbach
Location of the community of Abtsteinach in the Bergstrasse district
Groß-Rohrheim Zwingenberg (Bergstraße) Biblis Viernheim Lampertheim Bürstadt Einhausen (Hessen) Lorsch Bensheim Lautertal (Odenwald) Lindenfels Heppenheim (Bergstraße) Heppenheim (Bergstraße) Fürth (Odenwald) Grasellenbach Rimbach (Odenwald) Mörlenbach Wald-Michelbach Birkenau (Odenwald) Abtsteinach Gorxheimertal Hirschhorn (Neckar) Neckarsteinach Michelbuch (gemeindefreies Gebiet) Rheinland-Pfalz Baden-Württemberg Kreis Groß-Gerau Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg Odenwaldkreismap
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Ober-Abtsteinach, seen from the east
Unter-Abtsteinach with the Hardberg

Abtsteinach is a municipality in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse . The community calls itself "the gateway to the Überwald ".

geography

location

Abtsteinach is located high up in the Vorderen Odenwald in southern Hesse on the border with Baden-Württemberg. The community is surrounded by some well-known mountains of the Überwald , such as the Götzenstein , the Waldskopf and the Hohberg in the west and the Hardberg and the Stiefelhöhe in the east. The Steinach, heading south towards the Neckar, rises in Abtsteinach .

Ober-Abtsteinach is located at 480  m above sea level. NHN on the watershed of Steinach and Weschnitz , formed as a small plateau . To the south of it on the Steinach lies Unter-Abtsteinach ( 409  m above sea level ) and to the north of it begins the steep drop into the valley system of the Mörlenbach , which approaches the Upper Rhine via the Weschitz . Here lies at 400  m above sea level. NHN the district of Mackenheim.

Neighboring communities

Abtsteinach borders in the north on the community of Mörlenbach , in the east on the Überwald community of Wald-Michelbach , in the south on the community of Heiligkreuzsteinach ( Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg ) and in the west on the communities of Gorxheimertal and Birkenau .

Community structure

Abtsteinach consists of the three districts of Mackenheim , Ober-Abtsteinach (seat of the municipal administration) and Unter-Abtsteinach .

history

From the beginning to the 18th century

Corresponding finds indicate that the area around Abtsteinach was already settled by Celts in pre-Roman times.

Absteinach arose in the area of ​​the former Mark Heppenheim which designated an administrative district of the Franconian Empire . On January 20, 773, Charlemagne donated the city of Heppenheim and its district, the extensive Mark Heppenheim , to the imperial monastery of Lorsch . From here the reclamation and settlement of the area was carried out. The heyday of the Lorsch monastery, in whose area Abtsteinach was located, was followed by its decline in the 11th and 12th centuries. In 1232 the monastery was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Mainz . In 1461, as a result of the Mainz collegiate feud , Kurmainz pledged these properties to the Electoral Palatinate . This changed to the Protestant faith in 1556 and closed the monastery in 1564.

More than a thousand years of history are secured, as the earliest surviving documentary evidence in the Lorsch Codex , a property register of the Lorsch Monastery, the existence of the place possesa Steinah , today's district Oberabtsteinach, is first documented for the year 1012. According to the Lorsch Codex, the village of Steinach came into the possession of the monastery in 1012 under Abbot Poppo (V) (1006-1018) as a gift from the Holy Emperor Heinrich II of the Otton family . Later the settlement was called "Abtsteinach" because of its affiliation to Lorsch Abbey, in contrast to other Steinachs. Hence the silver abbot's staff in the municipal coat of arms . The district of Unter-Abtsteinach was first mentioned in 1590 as part of the district of Abtsteinach .

In 1232, Emperor Friedrich II subordinated the imperial abbey of Lorsch to the Archdiocese of Mainz and its bishop Siegfried III. von Eppstein on reform. The Benedictines opposed the ordered reform and therefore had to leave the abbey. They were replaced by Cistercians from the Eberbach monastery and in 1248 by Premonstratensians from the Allerheiligen monastery . From this point on, the monastery was continued as a provost's office.

In 1267, a burgrave is mentioned for the first time on the Starkenburg (via Heppenheim), who also administered the “Office Starkenburg” , to which Abtsteinach belonged. The district Abtsteinach developed as a court and subordinate administrative unit, the oldest surviving description of which dates from 1590. Evidence has been received from 1654 that all "centmen" were serfs from Kurmainz. For the same year is evidence that the villages of Upper and annually 26½ along Unter-Abtsteinach  fl. Bede the Kurmainzer winery had to pay in Heppenheim.

Mackenheim, however, belonged to the " Zent Mörlenbach ". For more details on Mackenheim, see also the history of Mackenheim .

In the course of the Mainz collegiate feud , which was fateful for Kurmainz , the Starkenburg office was pledged redeemable to Kurpfalz and then remained in the Palatinate for 160 years. Count Palatine Friedrich had the “Amt Starkenburg” pledged for his support from Archbishop Dieter - in the “Weinheimer Bund” concluded by the Electors on November 19, 1461 - whereby Kurmainz received the right to redeem the pledge for 100,000 pounds.

In the early days of the Reformation , the Palatinate rulers openly sympathized with the Lutheran faith, but it was not until Ottheinrich (Elector from 1556 to 1559) that the official transition to Lutheran teaching took place. After that, his successors and, inevitably, the population changed several times between the Lutheran, Reformed and Calvinist denominations. As a result of the Reformation, the Electoral Palatinate abolished Lorsch Abbey in 1564. The existing rights such as tithe , basic interest, validity and gradient of the Lorsch monastery were from then on perceived and administered by the "Oberschaffnerei Lorsch". In 1568 Ober- and Unter-Abtsteinach belonged to the reformed parish of Wald-Michelbach .

When Spanish troops of the "Catholic League" conquered the region during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) , Kurmainzer rule was restored in 1623. As a result, the Reformation introduced by the Count Palatine was largely reversed and the population had to return to the Catholic faith. Although the Spanish troops withdrew from the approaching Swedes after 10 years, after the catastrophic defeat of the Evangelicals in the Nördlingen in 1634, the Swedes also left the Bergstrasse and with the Swedish-French War began the bloodiest chapter of the Thirty Years' War from 1635. The chroniclers of that time report from the region: "Plague and hunger rage in the country and decimate the population, so that the villages are often completely empty". With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, the redemption of the pledge was finally established. In 1658, the Archbishop of Mainz, Johann Philipp von Schönborn , had a church consecrated to St. Boniface built in Ober-Abtsteinach, whose parish included 23 towns and was the only church in the whole of the "Zent Abtsteinach" and was part of the "Bergstrasse Regional Chapter ".

When it came to a restructuring of the offices in the district of Kurmainzer office winery Heppenheim 1782, the area of was Oberamts Starkenburg in the four subordinate office bailiwicks Heppenheim, Bensheim, Lorsch and Fürth divided. The Zente Abtsteinach, Fürth and Mörlenbach were the Amtsvogtei Fürth subordinated and had largely cast their powers. Although the central order with the central school remained formally in place, it could only carry out the orders of the higher authorities ( Oberamt Starkenburg , Unteramt Fürth). The “Oberamt Starkenburg” administratively belonged to the “Lower Archbishopric” of the Electorate of Mainz .

From the 19th century until today

Abtsteinach becomes Hessian

The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the “ Left Bank of the Rhine ” and thus the left bank of the Rhine from Kurmainz was annexed by France as early as 1797 . In its last session in February 1803, the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg passed the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , which implemented the provisions of the Peace of Luneville and reorganized the territorial relations in the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) . The Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt was awarded parts of the dissolved principalities of Kurmainz , Electoral Palatinate and Worms as compensation for lost areas on the right bank of the Rhine . The Oberamt Starkenburg and with it Abtsteinach and Mackenheim also came to Hessen-Darmstadt. There the "Amtsvogtei Fürth" was initially continued as a Hessian office while the Oberamt Starkenburg was dissolved in 1805. The superordinate administrative authority was the "Administrative Region Darmstadt" which from 1803 was also referred to as the "Principality of Starkenburg". In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate . With this the Zente and the associated central courts had lost their function.

Under pressure from Napoléon , the Confederation of the Rhine was founded in 1806 , this happened with the simultaneous withdrawal of the member territories from the Reich. This led to the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806 , with which the Old Empire ceased to exist. On August 14, 1806, Napoleon elevated the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt to the Grand Duchy , against joining the Confederation of the Rhine and placing high military contingents in France , otherwise he threatened an invasion.

In 1812, the former Palatinate Oberamt Lindenfels was dissolved and the Wald-Michelbach, which already existed as a center, received its own district bailiwick, the areas of which were also assigned to Ober-, Unter-Abtsteinach and Mackenheim.

After Napoléon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also regulated the territorial situation for Hesse-Darmstadt, after which provinces were formed in the Grand Duchy in 1816. The area previously known as the “Principality of Starkenburg”, which consisted of the old Hessian territories south of the Main and the territories on the right bank of the Rhine that were added from 1803, was renamed “Province of Starkenburg” . In 1814 serfdom was abolished in the Grand Duchy and with the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse introduced on December 17, 1820, it was given a constitutional monarchy , in which the Grand Duke still had great powers. The remaining civil rights magnificent as Low jurisdiction , tithes, ground rents and other slope but remained composed until 1848.

In 1821, as part of a comprehensive administrative reform, the district bailiffs in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy were dissolved and district councils were introduced, with Absteinach and Mackenheim becoming part of the Lindenfels district . As part of this reform, regional courts were also created, which were now independent of the administration. The district court districts corresponded in scope to the district council districts and the district court of Fürth was responsible as the court of first instance for the district of Lindenfels . This reform also regulated the administrative administration at the municipal level. The mayor's office in Oberabtsteinach was also responsible for Buchklingen , Eichelberg (today Eichelberger Höfe in the Unter-Flockenbach district), Flockenbach (today Unter-Flockenbach) , Gorxheim , Kunzenbach (today a settlement in the Gorxheim district) , Löhrbach , Trösel and Unterabtsteinach , while Mackenheim with Schnorrenbach was administered by the mayor's office in Weiher . According to the municipal ordinance of June 30, 1821, there were no longer appointments of mayors , but an elected local council, which was composed of a mayor, aldermen and council.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reported in 1829 about the three present-day Abtsteinach towns:

»Oberabtsteinach (L. Bez. Lindenfels) cath. Parish village; lies in a valley surrounded by high mountains 3 St. from Lindenfels an der Steinach, which has its origins nearby. There are 48 houses and 358 Catholic. Pop. On the nearby mountain, called the Waldknopf, there is a wonderful view of the plain. The place itself does not appear in Lorsch documents, but the Steinach, from which it takes its name, already in 773. The parish was only built in 1651 and the current church was built in 1736. In 1802 Oberabtsteinach came from Mainz to Hesse. "

»Unterabtsteinach (L. Bez. Lindenfels) cath. Filialdorf: is 3 1/4 St. from Lindenfels an der Steinach, and has 43 houses and 336 catholic houses. Pop. There are 3 grinding mills and 1 oil mill. The place came from Mainz to Hesse in 1802. "

»Mackenheim (L. Bez. Lindenfels) cath. Branch village; is 2½ St. from Lindenfels, and has 7 houses and 58 Catholics. The place came from Mainz to Hesse in 1802. «

In 1832 the administrative units were further enlarged and circles were created. After the reorganization announced on August 20, 1832, there should only be the districts of Bensheim and Lindenfels in the future in Süd-Starkenburg; the district of Heppenheim was to fall into the Bensheim district. Before the ordinance came into force on October 15, 1832, it was revised to the effect that instead of the Lindenfels district, the Heppenheim district was formed as a second district, which now included Ober-, Unter-Abtsteinach and Mackenheim. In 1842 the tax system in the Grand Duchy was reformed and the tithe and the basic pensions (income from property) were replaced by a tax system of the kind that still exists today.

As a result of the March Revolution of 1848, with the "Law on the Relationships of the Classes and Noble Court Lords" of April 15, 1848, the special rights of the class were finally repealed. In addition, in the provinces, the districts and the district administration districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by "administrative districts", whereby the previous districts of Bensheim and Heppenheim were combined to form the administrative district of Heppenheim . Just four years later, in the course of the reaction era, they returned to the division into districts and Ober-, Unter-Abtsteinach and Mackenheim became part of the newly created district of Lindenfels .

The population and cadastral lists recorded in December 1852 showed for the three locations:

  • Ober-Abtsteinach: 779 inhabitants. The district with 2050 acres , 966 acres of arable land, 288 acres of meadows and 82 acres of forest.
  • Unter-Abtsteinach: 445 inhabitants. The district with 993 acres, of which 841 acres of arable land, 261 acres of meadows and 1205 acres of forest.
  • Mackenheim: 69 inhabitants. The district with 782 acres , 426 acres of arable land, 106 acres of meadows and 222 acres of forest.

In 1867, 65 houses and 413 inhabitants were counted for Ober-Abtsteinach. The mayor's office also administered Mackenheim (11 houses, 81 inhabitants) and the Schnorrenbacher Höfe (2 houses, 22 inhabitants). Unter-Abtsteinach had its own mayor's office, 55 houses and 341 inhabitants.

In 1870, the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck provoked the Franco-German War with the so-called Emser Depesche in which the Grand Duchy of Hesse took part as a member of the North German Confederation on the side of Prussia . Even before its official end on May 10, 1871, the southern German states joined the North German Confederation and on January 1, 1871 its new constitution came into force, with which it was now called the German Empire . On the German side, this war claimed around 41,000 deaths. With the Reich Coin Act , Germany only had one currency, the mark with 100 pfennigs as a sub-unit. After the Grand Duchy of Hesse had been part of the German Empire from 1871, a series of administrative reforms were decided in 1874. The state-specific rules of procedure as well as the administration of the districts and provinces were regulated by district and provincial assemblies. The new regulation came into force on July 12, 1874 and also decreed the dissolution of the Lindenfels and Wimpfen districts and the reintegration of the three current districts into the Heppenheim district .

As in most places in the Odenwald, the population was poor and the forest was the only source of income alongside agriculture. With the increase in population in the 19th century, this was no longer enough to feed the people and many residents emigrated to America and Australia. Only with the emergence of the quarry industry did more people find work and bread, but this work was harmful to health and dangerous.

Time of world wars

On August 1, 1914, the First World War broke out and put an end to the positive economic development throughout the German Empire . When the armistice was signed after the German defeat on November 11, 1918, Abtsteinach also had many casualties to mourn, while the war cost a total of around 17 million human lives. The end of the German Empire was thus sealed, and the troubled times of the Weimar Republic followed. In the period from 1921 to 1930, there were 566,500 emigrants in Germany who tried to escape the difficult conditions in Germany.

In 1927 the size of the district was given as follows:

  • Ober-Abtsteinach with 324.1  ha .
  • Unter-Abtsteinach with 583.7 ha.
  • Mackenheim with 258.1 ha.

Until the 1930s, Abtsteinach was known for its red sandstone quarries and many churches and townhouses in the region were built from them. With the advent of concrete, many quarries became unprofitable and had to close. Today there is only a quarry in Mackenheim where porphyry is extracted for road and house construction.

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, which marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship . In the spring of 1933, Adolf Hitler made May 1 a public holiday called “German Labor Day”. In this way, a union demand was met by the government of all people, which the unions strictly opposed. The unions called for participation in the May events, as they felt they were the initiators of the May idea. The official program was already heavily influenced by the National Socialists: “6 o'clock wake up by the SA bands. 8 a.m. flag hoisting in the factories, march to the parade ground, 9 a.m. transmission of the rally from the pleasure garden in Berlin to the public squares of the cities. 10.45 am State act of the Hessian government (...), reception of a workers delegation from the three Hessian provinces. (...) Common singing of the 'Song of the Workers'. (...) 7.30 a.m. Transmission from Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin: Manifesto of Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, 'The first year of the four-year plan'. Then light music and German dance. 12 noon: Broadcast of the speech by Prime Minister Hermann Göring. (...) Former Marxist singing, gymnastics and sports clubs can take part in the parades, but carry Marxist flags or symbols with you. ”The rude awakening for the unions came a day later when the“ NSDAP led the red unions took over ”:“ The since then Marxist leaders in protective custody - A 3 million account of the former Reichstag President Löbe blocked - The rights of the workers secured - The buildings of the free trade unions occupied ”, headlined the newspapers, which had already been harmonized throughout the Reich.

The Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were abolished in 1937 after the provincial and district assemblies were dissolved in 1936. On November 1, 1938, a comprehensive regional reform came into force at the district level. In the former province of Starkenburg, the Bensheim district was particularly affected, as it was dissolved and most of it was added to the Heppenheim district. The district of Heppenheim also took over the legal successor to the district of Bensheim and was given the new name Landkreis Bergstrasse .

On September 1, 1939, the German attack on Poland began the Second World War , which was far more dramatic in its effects than the First World War and the number of victims is estimated at 60 to 70 million people. In the final phase of the Second World War in Europe, the American units reached the Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim in mid-March 1945. On March 22nd, the 3rd US Army crossed the Rhine near Oppenheim and occupied Darmstadt on March 25th. In the first hours of March 26, 1945, American units crossed the Rhine near Hamm and south of Worms, from where they advanced on a broad front towards the Bergstrasse. On March 27, the American troops were in Lorsch, Bensheim and Heppenheim and a day later Aschaffenburg am Main and the western and northern parts of the Odenwald were occupied. The war in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of all German troops, which came into effect on May 8, 1945 at 11:01 p.m. Central European Time.

The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a member state of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866 and then a federal state of the German Empire . It existed until 1919, after the First World War, the Grand Duchy for was republican written People's State of Hesse . In 1945 after the end of the Second World War , the area of ​​today's Hesse was in the American zone of occupation and by order of the military government, Greater Hesse was created , from which the state of Hesse emerged in its current borders.

Post-war and present

As the population figures from 1939 to 1950 show, Abtsteinach also had to cope with many refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern regions after the war .

In 1961 the district sizes of the three districts were given as follows:

  • Unter-Abtsteinach stated 584  ha , of which 321 ha were forest.
  • Ober-Abtsteinach 324 ha, of which 82 ha is forest.
  • Mackenheim 268 ha, 104 ha of which is forest.

In the 20th century, the districts of Abtsteinach developed into residential communities and most of the residents found work in the large industrial companies in Weinheim , Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Until December 31, 1971, Mackenheim, Ober- and Unter-Abtsteinach were independent communities. On this date, the municipality of Abtsteinach was formed by these three municipalities as part of the regional reform in Hesse . Local districts were not established.

Today agriculture has concentrated on a few small farms that mainly raise cattle and dairy cattle. In Abtsteinach there are around 300 jobs in trade and industry, most of the workers commute to the neighboring industrial locations.

The local elections in 1977 were based on 2118 inhabitants as of June 1976 and the Hessian State Statistical Office reported 2454 inhabitants for June 30, 2010.

See also
History of Mackenheim
History of Ober-Abtsteinach
History of Unter-Abtsteinach

Courts in Hessen

The jurisdiction of the Oberamt Lindenfels was transferred to the new justice office in Fürth in 1813. With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Fürth regional court was the court of first instance from 1821 . In 1853 a new district court was created, the seat of which was in Wald-Michelbach and which also included Unter-, Ober-Abtsteinach and Mackenheim. On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, as a result of which the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts, the name was changed to the Wald-Michelbach District Court and assigned to the district of the Darmstadt Regional Court . On July 1, 1968, the district court district was added to the district court of Fürth and the district court of Wald-Michelbach was dissolved.

Formation of the community

On December 31, 1971, on the occasion of the regional reform in Hesse, the municipality of Abtsteinach was created through the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent municipalities of Ober-Abtsteinach, Unter-Abtsteinach and Mackenheim. The seat of the municipal administration became Ober-Abtsteinach. Local districts were not established.

Outsourcing

On August 1, 1972, the Schnorrenbach exclave , a former district of Mackenheim, with around 20 inhabitants at that time, was ceded to the municipality of Birkenau.

population

Population structure

According to the 2011 census , there were 2,454 inhabitants in Abtsteinach on May 9, 2011. 119 (4.8%) were foreigners, 98 of whom came from outside the EU , 9 from other European countries and 12 from other countries. The inhabitants lived in 1074 households. 275 of them were single households , 344 couples without children and 375 couples with children, as well as 46 single parents and 34 shared apartments . 415 inhabitants belonged to the Protestant (19.9%) and 1608 inhabitants of the Catholic (65.5%) denomination.

Population development

Abtsteinach: Population from 1977 to 2015
year     Residents
1977
  
 2.118
1984
  
 2.138
1992
  
 2,453
2000
  
 2,500
2005
  
 2,423
2010
  
 2,452
2011
  
 2,454
2015
  
 2,344
Sources: 1977 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000 :; 2005 :; 2010 :; 2011 census; 2015:

Gainful employment

The municipality in comparison with the district, administrative district Darmstadt and Hesse:

year local community district Administrative district Hesse
Employees subject to social security contributions 2017 462 72,939 1,695,567 2,524,156
Change to 2000 + 81.2% + 17.1% + 16.1% + 16.0%
of which full-time 2017 80.1% 70.8% 72.8% 71.8%
of which part-time 2017 19.9% 29.2% 27.2% 28.2%
Only marginally paid employees 2017 108 15,613 224.267 372.991
Change to 2000 + 13.7% −4.3% + 9.0% + 8.8%
Branch year local community district Administrative district Hesse
Manufacturing 2000 40.8% 39.6% 27.0% 30.6%
2017 *) 32.1% 20.4% 24.3%
Commerce, hospitality and transport 2000 11.8% 25.1% 26.4% 25.1%
2017 *) 25.8% 24.7% 23.8%
Business services 2000 *) 11.6% 25.1% 20.2%
2017 21.6% 15.5% 31.6% 26.1%
other services 2000 20.4% 22.0% 20.1% 22.5%
2017 12.1% 25.3% 23.0% 25.4%
Other (or without assignment) 2000 27.1% 01.7% 01.4% 01.5%
2017 66.2% 01.1% 00.3% 00.4%

*) anonymized

Religions

Parish Church of St. Bonifatius in Ober-Abtsteinach

There is a Catholic church each in Ober- and Unter-Abtsteinach, and there is also a chapel in Unter-Abtsteinach.

In the middle of the 17th century, the Elector of Mainz, Johann Philipp von Schönborn, had the first church built for the inhabitants of Ober-Abtsteinach, who were impoverished by the Thirty Years' War. A parish was established around the same time . She received the typical Mainz patronage of St. Boniface . This Benedictine saint connects the Lorsch and Mainz history of the place Abtsteinach. Under Elector Archbishop Friedrich Karl Josef von Erthal (1774–1802; also Prince-Bishop von Worms ) the church was replaced around 1782 by a new classical building. The building material still usable from the old church was reused. The coat of arms of the first donor Johann Philipp von Schönborn still exists as a relief in the new sacristy. When it was rebuilt, the church was given a classicist interior (high altar). The parish of St. Bonifatius (Ober) -Abtsteinach became the mother parish of the outsourced parish curatios of Unter-Flockenbach and Löhrbach in the 20th century . Ecclesiastically, the parish belongs to the diocese of Mainz , Deanery Bergstrasse Ost, parish group Abtsteinach.

St. Marien, the Unter-Abtsteinach church (Patronum Maria Himmelfahrt ), dates from the second half of the 20th century. In the chapel of St. Ludwig IX. , in the center of Unter-Abtsteinach, there is a statue of Mary that, according to a legend, comes from the Lichtenklingen church ruins and is brought there every year during the Lichtenklinger pilgrimage (Sunday around August 15). Many houses in the large community of Abtsteinach also have houses of the Mother of God , small niches in the outer walls of the houses with figures of Mary or Christ.

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
   
A total of 15 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
FWG Abtsteinach free voter association 44.4 7th 48.0 7th 36.6 5 34.4 5
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 40.4 6th 30.3 5 43.5 7th 41.1 6th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 15.5 2 21.8 3 19.9 3 24.5 4th
total 100 15th 100 15th 100 15th 100 15th
Voter turnout in% 55.9 69.4 59.1 54.9
The town hall in Ober-Abtsteinach

The town hall is located in Ober-Abtsteinach.

mayor

The past mayoral elections produced the following results:

year Candidates Political party %
Result
1993 Rolf Reinhard 49.1
Rainer Bergert SPD 10.9
Günther Jöst CDU 39.9
Voter turnout in% 83.8
1993 (1) Rolf Reinhard 55.8
Günther Jöst CDU 44.2
Voter turnout in% 85.5
year Candidates Political party %
Result
1999 Rolf Reinhard 73.2
Voter turnout in% 81.5
2005 Rolf Reinhard 63.4
Udo Bergfeld 3.7
Klaus Schmitt 33.0
Voter turnout in% 80.9
2011 Rolf Reinhard 68.3
Voter turnout in% 69.2
2017 (2) Angelika Beckenbach 62.1
Kevin Flödl 37.9
Voter turnout in% 69.5

(1) Runoff election (2) Appointed on July 1, 2017

coat of arms

Blazon : "A silver abbot growing out of silver rocks in a red shield over blue waves ."

Declaration of coat of arms: The coat of arms of Abtsteinach is a so-called speaking coat of arms : The abbot documents the connection of Abtsteinach as property of the Lorsch monastery (in Abtsteinach there was no abbey). The rock or mountain symbolizes the Hardberg as the highest mountain in the area, which is decisive for Abtsteinach. The base of the wave shield symbolizes the course of the Steinach, whose source rises in Abtsteinach and flows into the Neckar. The coat of arms was awarded to the community of Ober-Abtsteinach on December 21, 1929 and has served as the official coat of arms of the large community of Abtsteinach since January 1, 1972. A seal from 1736 shows a lion in the upper half, the abbot's staff and two stars and the letters A and S in the lower half.

Culture and sights

St. Ludwig Chapel in Unter-Abtsteinach

There is an art hiking trail with eleven works of art that leads from the FCO sports grounds via the barbecue area to Götzensteinstraße.

Leisure and sports facilities

Unter-Abtsteinach and Ober-Abtsteinach each have a sports field, the latter also has a tennis facility. A barbecue hut with an educational forest trail is located in Ober-Abtsteinach between a meadow, a wood and the village cemetery.

Protected areas

The fauna-flora-habitat areas “Steinachtal bei Abtsteinach” and “Upper reaches of the Weschnitz and tributaries” are shown in the district of Abtsteinach. In addition, the Bergstrasse district has designated several trees as natural monuments , namely four horse chestnuts in Ober-Abtsteinach and a particularly forked Scots pine in Unter-Abtsteinach.

Regular events

  • For many years, Abtsteinach has been running the nationally famous “Boa Narhalla” carnival parade on Shrove Tuesday. This, as well as the ceremonial meetings, are organized by Okaclu, the Ober-Absteinach carnival club.
  • Every year in August there is a pilgrimage to St. Maria in Lichtenklingen , organized by the parish .

Hardberg

With the Hardberg ( 593  m above sea level ), the third highest mountain in the Odenwald lies in the district of Abtsteinach. At its summit there is a broadcast tower of the Hessischer Rundfunk with a height of 135 m.

Economy and Infrastructure

Land use

The municipal area covers a total area of ​​1103 hectares, of which in hectares are:

Type of use 2011 2015
Building and open space 83 83
from that Living 55 56
Business 6th 7th
Operating area 11 10
from that Mining land 7th 7th
Recreation area 5 6th
from that Green area 1 2
traffic area 41 41
Agricultural area 457 455
from that moor 0 0
pagan 0 0
Forest area 499 500
Water surface 2 2
Other use 6th 6th

Transport links

Abtsteinach is away from major highways, but it can be easily reached via the connecting roads from Weinheim to Wald-Michelbach . Public buses run daily to Weinheim and Grasellenbach.

Established businesses

  • motech gmbh, technology + systems, manufacturer of switchgear
  • Porphyry works Weinheim Schriesheim AG
  • REIMOTEC Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH
  • MET Extrusionstechnik, world market leader in the manufacture of artificial turf fibers

Educational institutions

The primary school is located in Unter-Abtsteinach and is called "Steinachtal Primary School". In Ober-Abtsteinach there is the Catholic kindergarten “St. Joseph".

Personalities born in Abtsteinach

literature

Web links

Commons : Abtsteinach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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