Breitzbach

Breitzbach Municipality Herleshausen Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 24 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 51 ″  E
Height :	250  (249–359)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.21 km²
Residents :	113
Population density :	27 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st December 1970
Postal code :	37293
Area code :	05654

Breitzbach is a part of the municipality of Herleshausen in the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse . The hamlet Berlitzgrube belongs to the district .

geography

Breitzbach is about five kilometers northwest of Herleshausen. There is no main road through the village , the federal highway 400 runs past the outskirts and ends not far from the village at the junction Wommen of the federal highway 4 . The stream of the same name flows through the village and flows into the Nesse , a tributary of the Werra , in the neighboring village of Nesselröden .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1545. Other old spellings of the place name are Bredtsbach and Breitzbich . From 1545 to 1824 Breitzbach belonged to the fiefdom of the Treusche von Buttlar. The hamlet of Berlitzgrube was first mentioned in 1433. It is still owned by the von Buttlar trust. Breitzbach belonged to the Sontra office from 1585 , to the Netra justice office from 1818 and to the Eschwege district from 1821 .

On December 1, 1970, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the municipalities of Altefeld, Archfeld, Breitzbach, Herleshausen (with Frauenborn), Holzhausen, Markershausen, Nesselröden, Unhausen, Willershausen and Wommen voluntarily merged to form the larger municipality of Herleshausen.

politics

The mayor is Gerhard Hoffmann.

Attractions

Tanzlinde in Breitzbach (2012)

Chapel in Breitzbach (2013)

In Breitzbach there are many well-preserved half-timbered buildings and a small chapel. Furthermore, there is a very old dancing linden tree with a trunk circumference of more than 6 m on the village green.

literature

• Literature on Breitzbach in the Hessian Bibliography
• Search for Breitzbach in the archive portal-D of the German Digital Library

Web links

Commons : Breitzbach  - Collection of Images

• Breitzbach. In: website. Herleshausen community 
• Breitzbach. Local history, information. In: breitzbach.de. Private website 
• Breitzbach, Werra-Meissner district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Breitzbach. In: website. Herleshausen community, accessed in September 2019 . 
2. ↑ Information on the districts. (No longer available online.) In: Website. Herleshausen community, archived from the original on October 30, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Merger of the communities of Altefeld, Archfeld, Breitzbach, Herleshausen, Holzhausen, Markershausen, Nesselröden, Unhausen, Willershausen and Wommen in the district of Eschwege to form the new community "Herleshausen" on December 1, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 51 , p. 2381 , item 2384 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7.5 MB ]).
4. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 388 .
5. ↑ Mayor Breitzbach. In: Website of the municipality of Herleshausen. Retrieved August 15, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Bernd Ullrich, Uwe Kühn, Stefan Kühn: Our 500 oldest trees. BLV Buchverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8354-0376-5 , p. 151.