Affolterbach

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Affolterbach
Community Wald-Michelbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 38 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 354  (352-410)  m
Area : 8.25 km²
Residents : 1245  (2005)
Population density : 151 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 69483
Area code : 06207
Gustav Adolf Church
Gustav Adolf Church

Affolterbach is a district of the municipality of Wald-Michelbach in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Affolterbach is 357  m above sea level. NHN in the north of the municipality of Wald-Michelbach in the middle of the Odenwald . The center stands on the east side of the upper Ulfenbach , which runs south towards the Neckar and in the local area receives the Kocherbach from the west and the Affolterbach from the east . The agriculturally used valleys are framed in the west and east by the wooded ridges of the forest . The district extends from the Salzberg ( 452  m ) in the west to the Meisenberg ( 538  m ) and the Kleiner Meisenberg ( 528  m ) in the east near Dürr-Ellenbach .

The closest localities are Wahlen in the north, Olfen in the east, Aschbach in the south and Kocherbach in the west.

history

Affolterbach 1717.jpg

The place was in 1353 with the spelling Affolderbach first mentioned in documents as the Squire of St. Bruno Lenen and his wife Anna, among other things his people to Affolterbach to the Count Palatine Ruprecht I sold. The place name can be derived from apple trees. The brook, in whose valley the upper village lies, is also called the apple brook.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, the taverns of Erbach had the place as Palatine fief into a contract between the Elector Ludwig of the Palatinate and the taverns Eberhard, Mr. Erbach and Bickenbach of 5 July 1509 Affolterbach in exchange Hetzbach to the Palatinate fell back.

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 faiths. Affolterbach became a branch village of the reformed parish Waldmichelbach .

At the end of the Thirty Years' War (1648), like many areas of the Electoral Palatinate , the place was almost deserted. The whole village consisted of only four farms. After the devastating war, the Electoral Palatinate pursued a policy of resettlement in its area characterized by religious tolerance. But the wars that broke out in the troubled times that followed, such as the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688–1697) and the War of Spanish Succession (1701–1714), ruined many efforts and tens of thousands of Palatine emigrated to North America and Prussia, among others. For Affolterbach, there were reports of religiously persecuted immigrants from Switzerland and France for 1700.

From a religious point of view, too, the time after the Thirty Years' War was marked by great unrest. In 1685 the Reformed Palatinate-Simmern line died out and the Catholic cousins ​​of the Palatinate-Neuburg line took over the government in the Electoral Palatinate with Elector Philipp Wilhelm . This ordered the equality of the Catholic faith in the predominantly Protestant Palatinate. Even during the War of the Palatinate Succession, France tried to advance the Counter-Reformation in the conquered areas and founded a number of Catholic parishes. The war ended in 1697 with the Peace of Rijswijk , which strengthened the position of the then reigning Catholic Elector Johann Wilhelm . This led to the decree of the Simultaneum on October 26, 1698 . After that, the Catholics were entitled to use all reformed institutions such as churches, schools and cemeteries, while the reverse was not allowed. Furthermore, the reformed church administration, which had been independent until then, was subordinated to the sovereign. Only at the instigation of Prussia in 1705 came the so-called Palatinate church division in which the simultanum was reversed and the churches in the country, including rectories and schools, were divided between the Reformed and the Catholics in a ratio of five to two. There were special regulations for the three capitals Heidelberg , Mannheim and Frankenthal as well as the regional authorities Alzey , Kaiserslautern , Oppenheim , Bacharach and Weinheim . In cities with two churches, one should go to Protestants and the other to Catholics; in the others, where there was only one church, the choir was separated from the nave by a wall, and the one to the Catholics and the other to the Protestants. The Lutherans were only allowed those churches that they owned in 1624 or had built afterwards. In Affolterbach in 1705 the church fell to the Reformed . The cemetery by the chapel in Affolterbach was abandoned in 1770 and the dead were buried in Wald-Michelbach from then on.

The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) was reorganized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and ceased to exist with the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806. As a result of this reorganization, the Electoral Palatinate was dissolved and the " Oberamt Lindenfels " to which Affolterbach also belonged came to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , which was added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which was also formed under pressure from Napoleon .

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 1825 a permanent school was set up in Affolterbach and in 1837 a new cemetery was laid out on the street after elections. The population is given for the year 1828 with 499.

In the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the superordinate administration of Affolterbach was the district of Lindenfels in 1821 . The mayor's office in Affolterbach also took on the administrative tasks for the villages of Kocherbach, Unterscharbach and Wahlen. Since 1820 the municipalities have elected the mayor themselves and there was no longer any appointment of mayors . Through several administrative reforms in Hesse, the place finally came to today's Bergstrasse district via the Lindenfels and Heppenheim districts in 1938 .

In the Affolterbach cemetery is the grave of Leander van Eß , next to Martin Luther one of the great Bible translators. Van Eß was born on February 15, 1772 in Warburg (Westphalia) and died on October 13, 1847 in Affolterbach.

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.

The Affolterbacher Ortschronik names a number of other events up to the First World War. Affolterbach still had 710 inhabitants in 1890, but due to structural changes in agriculture and emigration, the number fell to 615 inhabitants in 1933. In 1852 a one-story school building was inaugurated. In 1853 Leander Heidenreich became mayor who, as a member of the state parliament, campaigned for the construction of the Überwaldbahn from Mörlenbach after elections , which was completed with the inauguration of the line and the Affolterbach station in 1901. This line was shut down 82 years later on September 23, 1983 for passenger traffic and on March 1, 1984 for freight traffic. In 1860 the district was surveyed and a corresponding cadastre was created . The founding of the "Gesangverein Frohsinn" in 1869 and the founding of the "Savings and Loan Fund" in 1874 are reported. There is more news about the school in Affolterbach: It was increased in 1878 and seen with a bell tower; In 1880 lessons for 140 children were held in the now two-class school and in 1890 204 pupils were counted in two classes in the village, which now had 710 inhabitants. In 1881 the Ulfenbach was regulated in Affolterbach . The church building association was founded in 1894, to which the Tsarina of Russia donated 100 rubles in gold and whose efforts led to the laying of the foundation stone of the Gustav Adolf Church in 1906 . The church was designed in Art Nouveau style by the church builder Prof. Friedrich Pützer . In 1895 the volunteer fire brigade was founded and a Hessian grand-ducal post agency was set up, which also supplied the towns of Kocherbach, Tromm, Scharbach and Wahlen by post. In 1906 the “Gesangverein Blossom” was founded and in 1911 the community laid a water pipe to supply drinking water.

On August 1, 1914, the First World War broke out, which put an end to the positive economic development here as in the entire German Empire . When the armistice was signed after the German defeat on November 11, 1918, the war had cost a total of around 17 million human lives. There were 29 dead in Affolterbach. The end of the German Empire was 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.

The following events can be taken from the local history from the time between the two world wars. In 1922 the place was connected to the electrical power supply. In 1925 the church in Affolterbach received new bells to replace the bells that had been requisitioned and melted down during the First World War. In 1926 the place received electrical street lighting and the Ulfenbach Bridge in Mühlstraße was built. In 1926 a men's choir and a sports club were founded again, which in 1932 was given a sports field built in emergency work at the end of the village in the direction of Olfen. The sewerage system in Hauptstrasse and Mühlstrasse was built in 1931 as an emergency work.

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, which sealed the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship. In Affolterbach, the residents were able to experience the rare occurrence of a zeppelin overflight in 1934 . In 1936 in Affolterbach the Evangelical Confessing Church was able to assert itself in the church fight against the attempts to harmonize the German Evangelical Church (DEK). In 1938 the chamber singer Joachim Sattler, born in Affolterbach, appeared in Paris and London as Siegfried in Richard Wagner's " The Ring of the Nibelung ".

On September 1, 1939, when German troops marched into Poland, the Second World War began , the effects of which were even more dramatic than the First World War and the number of victims estimated at 60 to 70 million people. 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. Affolterbach was largely spared from the aerial warfare; only two Bf 109 aircraft were shot down in air battles over Affolterbach in 1944. However, the place had 54 fallen or missing soldiers in this war.

In 1946 the Protestant church choir was founded and the two Affolterbacher choral societies merged. After the war, the population increased due to the settlement of many expellees, 145 of whom were living in Affolterbach at the end of 1948. In 1948 the first democratic local elections after the war were held, which confirmed the mayor, who was still appointed by the National Socialists, in his office. In 1952, the Affolterbacher local streets were given a tar cover and in 1953 the local radio was installed, which replaced the public announcements of the community servant. From 1957 the neighboring municipality of Kocherbach was voluntarily co-administered by the mayor's office in Affolterbach.

The local history provides information about the following events from 1960 to 2003. In 1962 the "Odenwaldklub Affolterbach" was founded, which compiled the Ortschronik cited here in 2003 on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of Affolterbach. In 1963, "Coronet Metall und Pedex", the first industrial company to settle in Affolterbach, created 350 jobs. The Affolterbachers received a village community center in 1965. In addition to common rooms, it contained the community administration, a kindergarten, a nurses' station and a cold store with 120 cooling compartments. In 1965 a new sports field was built in the direction of Kocherbach, the construction of which was supported by the American Army with heavy equipment.

In 1970 the voluntary incorporation of Kocherbach took place with which the municipality hoped to be able to maintain its independence. But even citizen protests and regional television broadcasts that reported on this event could not prevent Affolterbach from being incorporated into the large community of Wald-Michelbach in 1972. In 1970 the bypass road (L3120) towards Olfen was also completed. In 1971 the water supply and sewer system were renovated. In 1972, at the time of incorporation into Waldmichelbach, Affolterbach had two industrial companies, 77 commercial companies and 18 pensions with a capacity of 120 beds that were available for tourism. From 1973 there are reports of the erection of a water tank for the drinking water supply and the demolition of the old school. The infrastructure for the sewer system was improved again in 1978 with the construction of a rain overflow basin and in 1980 it was connected to the central sewage treatment plant of the “Abwasserverband Überwald”, which is supported by the communities of Wald-Michelbach and Grasellenbach .

In 1983 the final end of the Überwaldbahn came with the dismantling of the line after Wahlen and the Affolterbach station. It was not until 2002 that it was used again as a leisure path (combined foot and cycle path) between Wahlen and Wald-Michelbach. In 1984 the sports club Affolterbach (SVA) built a large sports hall on its own and the local statistics reported 1163 inhabitants, 76 of whom were foreign citizens.

In 1992, the Affolterbach volunteer fire brigade was able to put the new LF 8/6 fire engine into operation. In 1993 the new building area Roßklingen was developed and the company "Peter Jöst Schleifmittel" opened its production. In 1997 Affolterbach received the first artificial turf pitch in the Bergstrasse district.

In the year 2000 the "Jöst Racing Team", which is maintained by the company "Peter Jöst Schleifmittel" and is involved in racing and especially in the "ADAC GT Masters Cup" , achieved worldwide success. In 2001 the Gustav Adolf Kirch, which was completely renovated inside and out , was inaugurated in the presence of the Russian Orthodox Archbishop Longin von Klin . In 2003 the "Hofwiese building area" was designated and the motorsport club set up a traffic education area for young people on the sports grounds.

At the beginning of 2003 the local statistics counted 1278 inhabitants, of which 656 belong to the Protestant, 318 to the Catholic denomination and 304 to other faiths. There were 115 foreigners among the inhabitants, most of whom came from Turkey. There were three industrial companies in the areas of household goods, wood, plastics and grinding technology. Furthermore, around 30 businesses, four boarding houses and five restaurants.

Territorial and administrative history

Affolterbach originated 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 Affolterbach was located, was followed by its decline in the 11th and 12th centuries. In 1232 Lorsch was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Mainz . After long disputes, the Electoral Palatinate and the Archdiocese of Mainz were able to agree on the inheritance from the Lorsch Abbey at the beginning of the 14th century and the parts of the Palatinate were administered by the Lindenfels District Bailiwick.

The earliest known mention of Affolterbach took place in 1353, when the Squire of St. Bruno Lenen and his wife Anna, among other things his people to Affolterbach to the Count Palatine Ruprecht I sold. The Erbach taverns took the place as a fief in the 14th and 15th centuries . This is evidenced by the following documents, among others:

  • 1359, Count Palatine Ruprecht I gives the village with bailiwick, court, forest, water and pasture to Schenck Eberhard von Erbach as a fief.
  • 1430, the central court in Affolterbach is held by the linden tree.
  • 1443, Count Palatine Ludwig IV enfeoffs the donor Konrad von Erbach with the bailiwick, court and other rights.
  • 1509, Scheck Eberhard returns this fief and other rights to the Count Palatine in exchange for the village of Hetzbach near Beerfelden.
  • 1556, Affolterbach belongs to the Palatinate Eicher Cent (also called Hammelbacher Cent) with all authorities with command and prohibition. In Affolterbach there is another half course and the Oberhof is Eicher Cent.
  • 1613: Affolterbach forms a half court with Ober-Schabach and the courts of appeal are the Eicher Cent and the court court in Heidelberg.

Further evidence about Affolterbach shows for the year 1613 that the place had eight Huben and serfs, 12 men and 17 women. According to the register from 1784, there were 32 homes, 32 families with 195 souls, and a church in the village. The district consisted of 347 acres of fields, 141 acres of meadows, 160 acres of pasture, and 160 acres of forest. There was an electoral forester who was in charge of both these and all of the other forests of the Cent Wald-Michelbach and the Cent Hammelbach. The tithe ratios change several times over the centuries, for example in 1786 of large tithe, the gentleman from Mayerhof zu Klingenberg had two thirds and the Electoral Mainz court chamber from the time of the Lorsch monastery had one third.

Until 1737 the Lindenfels Office was under the Heidelberg Oberamt , after which Lindenfels became an Oberamt . Affolterbach was part of the "Zent Hammelbach" (also called Eicher, Affolterbacher or Wahlheimer Zent ) within the Lindenfels office . Affolterbach and the two Olfener Höfe belonged to the "Zent Hammelbach" of the Oberamt Lindenfels of the "Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein" (in the "Electorate of Palatinate Bavaria" from 1777) until 1803 .

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 were annexed by France as early as 1797 . At the last session of the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg in February 1803, the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss was passed, which implemented the provisions of the Peace of Luneville and reorganized the territorial situation in the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) . Through this reorganization, the Palatinate was dissolved and Affolterbach came with the Oberamt Lindenfels to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt . There, the upper office was as Hessian Amtsvogtei continued for the time being and the " Principality Starkenburgring " assigned. 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.

From 1812 on, Affolterbach was part of the Fürth District Bailiwick . After Napoleon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also regulated the territorial situation for Hesse, and in 1816 provinces were established in the Grand Duchy. 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 was added in 1803, was renamed “Province of Starkenburg” .

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 administrative districts were introduced, with Affolterbach 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 arranged the administrative administration at the municipal level. The mayor's office in Affolterbach was also responsible for Kocherbach, Unterscharbach and elections, although the mayors had been elected by the municipality since 1820 and there were no more appointments of mayors .

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 the second district, to which Affolterbach now belonged, alongside the Bensheim district. 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 . Four years later, in the course of the reaction era, they returned to the division into districts and Affolterbach became part of the newly created Lindenfels district .

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the Affolterbach branch with its own mayor's office, 74 houses, 596 inhabitants, the Lindenfels district, the Wald-Michelbach district court, the Protestant Reformed parish Wald-Michelbach of the Lindenfels dean's office and the Catholic parish Wald-Michelbach parish of the dean's office in Heppenheim. The mayor's office in Affolterbach was also responsible for the hamlet of Tromm (2 houses, 12 pop.).

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, with Affolterbach coming back to the Heppenheim district.

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 .

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.

On October 1, 1955, the residential area Tromm , with 23 inhabitants, was reorganized into the community of Scharbach . In 1961 the size of the district was given as 825  hectares , of which 535 hectares were forest.

In the course of administrative reform in Hesse , the western neighboring community cooking Erbach made by mutual agreement following Affolterbach on December 1, 1970 incorporate . The community, which was enlarged in this way, was nevertheless unable to maintain its independence and was incorporated into the community of Wald-Michelbach by law on August 1, 1972. For Affolterbach, a local district with a local advisory council and a local mayor was set up.

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 regional court district was created, whose seat was in Wald-Michelbach and to which Affolterbach also belonged.

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.

Historical descriptions

In the attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the Elector. Pfalz am Rheine can be found in 1786 via Affolterbach:

“Affalterbach. A mediocre village, three hours south-east of Lindenfels, borders the Ulvenhöfe and the Kurmainzische Dorf Dörnenbach to the east; towards the south at Asbach and Hederode; towards the west at Kochernbach, all of the Mainz area; towards the north to the following village of Walheim. In olden times it seems to have been called Affaltern. The Ulvenbach runs past the village, takes in the Dorf-, März- or Kocher- and Wolfertsbächlein, flows to Heddesbach in the Oberamt Heidelberg, and falls into the Neckar at Hirschhorn. The village stream operates a grinding mill. […] The division of the old church fell to the Reformed. The pulpit stands on a stone on which a lily is carved, and from the outside you can see a piece of ashlar on which a coat of arms consisting of three stars is carved. It is strange that there are as few traces of this church as that of Hammelbach in the Mainz and Wormsian Döcesan news. It is not used any other way than a branch of the parish Wald-Michelbach. On the big tithe, Meyerhof zu Klingenberg receives two, and Kurmainz receives a third because of the Lorsch monastery; instead of the small, hand wages are paid. In this district, or rather in the Graeflich-Erbachischen Walde, are the Ulvenhöfe, four hours from Lindenfels. There are actually two courtyards, including four acres of forest and hedges, called courtyards, and which have been bequeathed by the Electoral Palatinate Court Chamber. "

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Affolterbach in 1829:

»Affolterbach (L. Bez. Lindenfels) reform. Filialdorf; is located on Ulvenbach, 3 St. from Lindenfels, and 55 houses and 499 inhabitants, up to 35 Luth. and 12 Cath. all are reformed. Among the population are 34 farmers and day laborers and 45 business people. There is 1 ruined church, 2 meals and 1 oil mill. The place probably got its name from a forest district and seems to have been called Affaltern in ancient times. In the partition of 1705 the old church fell to the Reformed. The village was in the Electoral Palatinate and became part of Hesse in 1802. «

The latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states from 1845 states:

“Affolterbach. - Village, belonging to the parish church Waldmichchelbach. - 55 H. 499 Reformed E. - Grand Duchy of Hesse. - Prov. Starkenburg. - Heppenheim district. - District Court, Fürth. - Darmstadt Court of Justice. - The village, otherwise in the Palatinate, came to Hesse in 1802. It has 1 oil and 2 grinding mills, and there are 34 farmers and 45 tradesmen among the inhabitants. - The place probably got its name from a forest district and seems to have been called Affaltern in ancient times. "

Population development

• 1613: Serfs : 12 men and 17 women
• 1784: 195 souls, 32 homes with 32 families
• 1961: 673 Protestant (= 77.98%), 177 Catholic (= 20.51%) residents
Affolterbach: Population from 1784 to 1970
year     Residents
1784
  
 192
1829
  
 499
1834
  
 518
1840
  
 640
1846
  
 568
1852
  
 585
1858
  
 639
1864
  
 629
1871
  
 582
1875
  
 633
1885
  
 643
1895
  
 659
1905
  
 605
1910
  
 588
1925
  
 595
1939
  
 587
1946
  
 875
1950
  
 862
1956
  
 809
1961
  
 863
1967
  
 966
1970
  
 983
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Other sources:

traffic

The state road L 3105 runs through Affolterbach , which runs along the Ulfenbach from Wegscheide on Siegfriedstraße in the north via Gras-Ellenbach and Wahlen to Aschbach, Wald-Michelbach, Ober-Schönmattenwag , Unter-Schönmattenwag , Heddesbach to Hirschhorn (Neckar) in the south leads where the Ulfenbachs joins another large Odenwaldbach to form the only short Laxbach . In the village, the district road K 28 branches off to Kocherbach and the L 3120 to Olfen. Affolterbach used to be the station of the Überwaldbahn .

societies

Affolterbach fire department

The associations form the cultural life in Affolterbach.

  • MGV men's choir
  • Volunteer firefighter
  • Sports club
  • Motorsport Club
  • Odenwaldclub
  • church choir
  • Friends of the Gustav Adolf Church
  • Easter egg throwing club
  • Carneval Association Affolterbach
  • Affolterbach sports association

Worth seeing

The Evangelical Gustav-Adolf-Church , designed in the Art Nouveau style by the church builder Prof. Friedrich Pützer , is the landmark of Affolterbach.

politics

The mayor is Thomas Michel (as of 2011).

Affolterbach's sons and daughters

literature

  • Johann Goswin Widder: Attempt of a complete geographic-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Palatinate on the Rhine. Volume 1 , Leipzig 1786–1788. ( Online at Hathi Trust, digital library )
  • Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg, volume October 1 , 1829.
  • Christoph Friedrich Moritz Ludwig Marchand: Lindenfels. A contribution to the local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Darmstadt 1858 ( online at google books ).
  • Philipp Alexander Ferdinand Walther: The Grand Duchy of Hesse by history, country, people, state and locality. Jonghans, Darmstadt 1854. ( Online at google books )
  • Literature about Affolterbach in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Affolterbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Affolterbach, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 14, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Information about the whole congregation ( Memento from February 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Ortschronik at Odenwaldklub-Affolterbach ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 22, 2014
  4. ↑ a b c d Wilhelm Müller: Hessisches Ortnamesbuch - Starkenburg , Darmstadt 1937, pages 2-3
  5. ^ Lists of casualties of the German army in the campaign 1870/71. In: Online project fallen memorials. Archived from the original on May 6, 2015 ; accessed on May 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Jöst Schleifmittel , accessed on July 24, 2014.
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