Book blades (Birkenau)

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Book blades
community Birkenau
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 58 ″  E
Height : 358 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 206  (December 31, 2018)
Postal code : 69488
Area code : 06201

Buchklingen , before the regional reform in Hesse by post, Buchklingen (Odenwald) is the highest district of Birkenau in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse . The place is part of the district of Löhrbach .

Geographical location

Buchklingen is located in the western Odenwald near the Bergstrasse in a high valley between the 415 meter high Geiersberg in the south and the 389 meter high birch tuft in the north. Here is the headwaters of a brook, which drops steeply to the west, already beyond the municipal boundary , through a notched valley to the Grundelbach and flows into it below Gorxheim . This makes Buchklingen the only district of Birkenau that is not in the valley system that is oriented towards the core community. The village is located on the southern boundary of Birkenau in the western corner of the district of Löhrbach .

The place name Buchklingen is derived from the Gewann Im Buchklingen , the name of which can be explained with the predominant beech species .

The location extends in an east-west direction to about 700 meters in length at an altitude between almost 400 meters in the east and 320 meters in the west. At both ends, the development meets the municipal boundary to Gorxheimertal , which also represents the boundary of the agriculturally used area. There is forest on the other side of the border.

history

The Buchklingen district was created in 1800 from the division of a farm belonging to Löhrbach . The settlement belonged to the parish in Löhrbach.

The jurisdiction and sovereign administration over the place came from the "Untergericht Hartenrod" of the " Zent Abtsteinach " of the Oberamt Starkenburg of the "Lower Archbishopric" of the Electorate of Mainz . Through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , with the dissolution of the Electorate of Mainz in 1803, Buchklingen became part of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1806 .

In 1812 Konrad Dahl reported in his historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch, or church history of the Upper Rhinegau, about Buchlingen as the location of the “Hartenroder court” of the “Zent Abtsteinach”:

»Buchklingen or Kücklingen, a hamlet (near Eichelberg) of 4 houses with 38 selenium. It owes its origin to a copper mine that was previously in progress in the area (but on Palatinate territory), and of which the Palatinate. Bergordnung from the year 1551 report. "

The rest of the story is largely identical to that of Löhrbach . From 1821, like Löhrbach, Buchklingen was administered by the mayor's office in Oberabtsteinach in the Lindenfels district in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

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

»Book blades (L. Bez. Lindenfels) cath. Branch village; is 3 St. from Lindenfels, and has 20 houses and 161 inhabitants except for 1 Luth. cath. are. The place owes its origin to a copper mine. In 1802, Buchklingen came to Hessen from Mainz. "

Like Löhrbach, Buchklingen came to the Heppenheim district in 1832 and was part of the Lindenfels district from 1852–1874 before the Heppenheim district in today's Bergstrasse district .

The following entry can be found in the latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states from 1845:

»Book blades b. Lindenfels, - village, for evangel. Parish church Birkenau and Catholic parish church Abtsteinach belonging. - 20 H. 161 E. - Großberzegthnm Hessen - Province Starkenburg. - Heppenheim district. - Fürth district court. - Hofger. Darmstadt. - The town of Buchklingen owes its existence to a copper mine and came to Hesse from Mainz in 1802. «

The population and cadastral lists recorded in December 1852 showed for Buch-Klingen : Catholic branch village with 146 inhabitants.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the branch village Buchklingen with the mayor's office in Löhrbach (and part of the Löhrbach district), 22 houses, 141 inhabitants, the Lindenfels district, the Wald-Michelbach district court, the Protestant parish Birkenau with the dean's office in Lindenfels and the Catholic Ober-Abtsteinach of the dean's office in Heppenheim.

In the impassable Gewann Im Buchklingen there was sporadic forest management for centuries. There were paths here that served as a footpath or as a logging and transport route for wood or for single-axle ox carts.

As early as the end of the 19th century, Buchklingen was a well-known regional hiking destination and a resting station for the first industrial workers who at the time still went to work on foot or on horse-drawn carriage from the Odenwald settlements to Weinheim. In 1902 the excursion restaurant Luisenhöhe opened on the Bergsattel. It offered a panoramic view of the Odenwald and the Rhine plain. The Luisenhöhe became a school campus around 1947 , and in 2002 the property was demolished.

At the beginning of the twentieth century a church and school house were built, in which four classes were taught in one room until around 1970. This building was demolished in 2002 and gave way to a modern village community center .

At the beginning of the 1950s, the K 15 district road was built, coming from the Steinbachtal near Weinheim, winding up the southern flank of the Eichelberg to Buchklingen and connecting it with Löhrbach. The construction of the K 15 resulted in a small construction boom well into the 1960s. The new street and the now good connection to the workplaces in Weinheim made Buchklingen an interesting place to live for commuters. The local roads were also paved. Since the 1990s, a second wave of new residents has been drawn to Buchklingen.

From the 1960s to the end of 1999 there was only one farm left in Buchklingen. With the abandonment of this homestead, the almost two hundred year old rural tradition of the village came to an end.

The place Buchklingen was always part of the community Löhrbach . This joined the municipality of Birkenau on the occasion of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971, at the same time as Nieder-Liebersbach . As a result, two local districts with a local advisory council and local councilor were established in accordance with the Hessian municipal code from the Löhrbach area : one for Löhrbach itself and one for book blades.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Buchklingen was located or the administrative units to which it was subject:

For more see Löhrbach .

politics

There is a local district for Buchklingen (areas of the former Buchklingen subdivision) with a local advisory board and mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of five members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has had five members of the SPD . Mayor is Olaf Hofmann (SPD).

traffic

Buchklingen is accessible to road traffic through the K 15 district road, which leads from Gorxheim to Löhrbach and touches the eastern end of Buchklingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population development in the districts. In: website. Birkenau community, accessed January 2020 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Müller: Hessisches Ortnamesbuch - Starkenburg , Darmstadt 1937, pp. 97-98
  3. ^ Johann Konrad Dahl: Historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch or church history of the Upper Rhinegau . Darmstadt 1812, OCLC 162251605 , p. 247 ( online at google books ).
  4. ^ Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, OCLC 312528080 , p. 31 ( online at google books ).
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch : The newest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states . Part 2nd volume 1 . Zimmermann, Naumburg 1845, OCLC 162810696 , p. 216 ( online at google books ).
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Torge : History of geodesy in Germany . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2007, ISBN 3-11-019056-7 , pp. 172 ( partial view on google books ).
  7. ^ Ph. AF Walther : The Grand Duchy of Hessen: according to history, country, people, state and locality . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1854, DNB  730150224 , OCLC 866461332 , p. 340 ( online at google books ).
  8. ^ Ph. AF Walther : Alphabetical index of the residential places in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1869, OCLC 162355422 , p. 18 ( online at google books ).
  9. ^ 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. 349 .
  10. ↑ a b main statute. (PDF; KK kB) § 6. In: Website. Birkebau community, accessed February 2019 .
  11. ↑ While the main statute mentions a former municipality of Buchklingen , the official municipality boundary map of Hesse , "Limits as of July 1, 1972 with a representation of the incorporations, amalgamations and new formations of municipalities since 1945", does not identify a municipality of Buchklingen. Rather, the district of Löhrbach shown there recognizably includes the location of book blades.
  12. ↑ Buchklingen, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 9, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  13. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. State of Hesse. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  14. ^ Grand Ducal Central Office for State Statistics (ed.): Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . tape 1 . Großherzoglicher Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1862, DNB  013163434 , OCLC 894925483 , p. 43 ff . ( Online at google books ).
  15. ↑ Local Advisory Board Hornbach. In: website. Birkenau community, accessed January 2020 .

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