Breitenbuch (Kirchzell)

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Breitenbuch is a district of the Kirchzell market in Lower Franconia .

geography

The church village is located in the border triangle of Bavaria, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg in the middle of the Odenwald on the district of Watterbach . Breitenbuch is also the “roof of the Miltenberg district ”, because at 512 meters above sea level it is the highest place in this Bavarian district. The place is dominated by agriculture and has about 120 inhabitants.

Attractions

Hornbeam in Breitenbuch
  • Breitenbuch's landmark is an approximately 400-year-old hornbeam , called "the hornbeam" in dialect. This most beautiful specimen of its kind in the Odenwald has a trunk circumference of about 5 m; the crown diameter is over 20 m.
  • About 2 kilometers north of Breitenbuch you come across the Neckar-Odenwald-Limes . To the west of the village you can visit the Würzberg Fort , a Roman numerus fort , and the associated well-preserved fort bath.

  • Kastellbad Würzberg, view from the south-south-west

  • Church in Breitenbuch

history

Breitenbuch is mentioned for the first time in the land register of the Benedictine Abbey Amorbach in 1395. There it says on sheet 62:

"Item in the village Breidenbuch do Lute, as mentioned above, also has a buzzer for customs officers."

Since in 1272 Ulrich von Dürn had sold the city of Amorbach with the bailiwick of the monastery to Archbishop Werner von Mainz and the secular sovereignty was transferred to the Archbishopric Mainz, but the ecclesiastical sovereignty remained with the Bishop of Würzburg, Breitenbuch belonged at that time secular to Mainz . It was not until 1656 that after a contract between the monasteries of Würzburg and Mainz on territorial consolidation, the archbishopric of Mainz also became a church.

After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the abbey was secularized and Breitenbuch came into the possession of the princes of Leiningen . A description of the condition of the place has been preserved from the Leiningen archive from 1806. Accordingly, the place had at that time

“14 neighbors, 10 closed yards, 14 mercenaries, 4 bites, 1 tolerated, no freed or noble property owners. The place has 150 acres of fields, 5 acres of gardens, 10 acres of meadows, 15 acres of Heumathen, 164 acres of forest. "

After the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars , the principality was mediatized, and so Breitenbuch finally came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816.

Breitenbuch formed the municipality of Watterbach with Watterbach and Dörnbach. On January 1, 1975, the municipality of Watterbach was dissolved as part of a regional reform. The three villages have since been part of the Kirchzell market.

societies

Trivia

In the past, a lot of wood was felled in the municipality. In order to bring the felled tree trunks safely into the valley with the help of so-called “ ramming shoes ”, they had to brake so that the load did not get out of control. The local dialect name Remmschüh for the width books, which is common in the neighboring villages, is derived from this.

In her story Eine Dorfgeschichte , the writer Katharina Hacker (* 1967 in Frankfurt am Main) creates an impressive character image of this Odenwald village , where she brought the summers in her childhood.

literature

  • Georg Benz: width book. The mountain village in the Odenwald . Darmstadt-Arheilgen 1972.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for 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. 750 .
  2. ↑ Werner Trost Stampes, Worzelköpp and Staffelbrunzer , Miltenberg district 2003
  3. ↑ Katharina Hacker: A village story. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-10-030066-9

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 7'  E