Diebach (Hammelburg)

The stream City of Hammelburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 20 ″  E
Height :	175 m
Residents :	1100
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	97762
Area code :	09732
Location of Diebach in Bavaria

Diebach is a district of the city of Hammelburg in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen .

Geographical location

Diebach is 175  m above sea level. NN in the valley basin on the Franconian Saale , in the northeast is the 326 meter high Sturmiusberg with the upstream Galgenberg, in the southwest the Römersberg. Behind it rises the Sodenberg (506 m), an extinct volcano with a former pagan cult site. The Franconian Apostle Kilian erected a cross there.

The St 2293 running through Diebach leads in a north-westerly direction to Waizenbach (district of Wartmannsroth ) and in a south-easterly direction to Hammelburg. From the St 2293 in Diebach the KG 36 turns off to Morlesau . To the north, Diebach is connected to Windheim (also a district of Wartmannsroth).

The B 27 and A 7 run east of Diebach in a north-south direction .

history

The fertile area in the Saalegrund was already settled 3000 years ago. This is evidenced by pottery shards and bronze objects from the Hallstatt period , which were excavated in the barrows to the left of Waizenbacher Strasse at the beginning of the 21st century. Since 2014, a notice board has been pointing to these barrows, from the Bronze to Iron Ages (1600-400 BC).

The settlement of the village probably goes back to the Franks who invaded the Saale valley around 530 AD .

Diebach was first mentioned in a document in 777, when Charlemagne owned his property in Hammelburg with his "belonging" "Thyupfbah" (Diebach), "Achynebah" (Eschenbach) and "Harital" (Erthal) the Fulda monastery under its first abbot Sturmius assigned as a gift. At that time, Diebach was a Vorwerk of Hammelburg , with which it formed an economic and military unit.

Another document from the year 817 (812?) Attests to the existence of three mills on the Saale and a church that is assumed to be at the site of today's church. The church building was probably built in stone in the early Christian-Romanesque style of the Carolingian era . As with most of the churches in the area, you can accept St. Martin as the patron saint of the church.

Around the year 900, in an inventory letter from the Fulda monastery, 20 estates with 10 servants, 30 free arable farmers, 60 farm residents and 25 servants liable to pay taxes were named as their property in Diebach. If you include the family members, it can be seen that Diebach was a pretty respectable place as early as the 10th century.

In the Turkish tax register of the abbey of Fulda from 1605 the place is mentioned with the names "Dippach" and "Dieppach" with 157 families.

On January 1, 1972 Diebach was incorporated into the city of Hammelburg.

politics

coat of arms

The official description of the coat of arms reads: “Split by red and silver; in front on a silver mountain a vertical golden abbot's staff, behind one another three red mill wheels. "

The use of the colors white for silver and yellow for gold is heraldically no deviation from the official description of the coat of arms. If it is red, the so-called Franconian red is to be assumed.

The Diebach municipal coat of arms was only designed in the post-war period. The colors red and silver are derived from the Franconian coat of arms, the well-known Franconian rake with its three silver tips.

The abbot's staff on a silver mountain symbolizes the Sturmiusberg, named after the Fulda abbot Sturmius. In the past, the ridge of the Sturmiusberg was a single vineyard, today it is an extensive residential area.

The three mill wheels in the back half of the coat of arms are reminiscent of Diebach's characteristic mill trade. As early as 812, three mills in Diebach were mentioned in a document. After a 20-year break, mill wheels are running again in Diebach, but to use the water power to generate electricity and not, as in the past, to grind the farmers' grain.

Culture and sights

Fortified church with Gaden

The Diebacher Kirche St. Georg is essentially a Romanesque choir tower , which was expanded to include a new building in the east in the 1960s. After decades of efforts to preserve the Gaden surrounding the church , the renovation was completed in 2003. The restoration of the fortified church itself was finished in 2006.

The Diebacher Kirchgaden are considered a culturally and historically significant ensemble. The fortified church with the main building was built in the second half of the 13th century. The oldest Gaden may even date from the 15th century. The fortified church in Diebach was built at that time to protect against armed conflicts and probably destroyed at least in part several times by stray troops. In the course of the expansion of the state road in the Diebach through-traffic, the Kirchgaden on the street side were demolished in 1976, and a retaining wall was built for this purpose. The construction of the new church, carried out in the mid-1960s, already required the removal of various aisles in the area of ​​the new sacristy , so that only half of the entire complex of the fortified church remains. Thanks to the initiative of the garden owners, this remaining area was preserved.

traffic

Diebach is located on the road to Hammelburg, the place is served by the modern Lower Franconia shuttles of the Erfurt Railway every hour on the Franconian Saale Valley Railway (with individual clock deviations) . These establish a connection to Bad Kissingen , Hammelburg , Schweinfurt and Gemünden am Main .

Web links

• The attractive village life of Hammelburger OT Diebach
• Diebach's website at www.hammelburg.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Notice board
2. ↑ Thomas Heiler: The Turkish tax register of the prince abbey of Fulda from 1605, (Publication of the Fuldaer Geschichtsverein in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter; No. 64), Fulda, Parzeller-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7900-0362-X , place register on pages 37– 47, from there reference to the page with the number of taxpayers
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 478 .