Dimbach (Bretzfeld)

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Dimbach
Bretzfeld municipality
Dimbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 230 m
Area : 5.32 km²
Residents : 878  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 165 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 74626
Area code : 07946
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Location of Dimbach in the municipality of Bretzfeld
Church tower with old school and town hall
Church tower with old school and town hall

Dimbach is a district of Bretzfeld in Hohenlohekreis in northern Baden-Württemberg .

Local division

Dimbach consists of two settlement cores on either side of one of the two source rivers of the stream of the same name, a tributary of the Brettach . The village of Dimbach and the abandoned village of Bayershof belong to the former municipality of Dimbach. The place is bordered in the northwest by the A 6 motorway on its section from Öhringen to Heilbronn . Around 40 percent of the municipal area consists of forest, of which 70 hectares are community forest, 22 hectares are private forests and 116 hectares are state forests.

history

Community house with administrative office, built in 1958

Dimbach was first mentioned in 1289 as Tindebach . Until 1311, the place belonged to the imperial fief of the Lords of Weinsberg and then to the Lichtenstern Monastery , while the Weinsbergers, as bailiffs of the monastery, exercised suzerainty until 1450. Subsequently, the sovereignty passed to the Electoral Palatinate and in 1504 after the Landshut War of Succession to Württemberg . With the Reformation and the abolition of the Lichtenstern monastery, the place fell completely to Württemberg in the 16th century. Until 1806 the place belonged to the monastery office Lichtenstern, from 1807 to 1926 to the Oberamt Weinsberg and after its dissolution it was taken over into the Oberamt Öhringen (from 1938: Landkreis Öhringen ). A mayor existed in 1553 and a mayor in 1699.

For a long time the place was dominated by agriculture , viticulture was first mentioned in 1311. Since there was no significant industrial or commercial settlement, the Dimbach town center is still characterized by the layout of the property as farms and wine farms. The village, which has been almost entirely Protestant since the Reformation, reached a peak population of 458 inhabitants around 1850, after which the number of inhabitants continued to decline due to emigration and emigration until the Second World War. In 1939 332 people were counted. After the Second World War , the immigration of displaced persons, especially from Hungary (in 1950 these accounted for around 17 percent of the resident population), resulted in an increase in the population as well as the number of Catholics in the area.

With the district reform in 1972, Dimbach fell to the Hohenlohe district. On January 1, 1975, Adolzfurt , Bitzfeld , Bretzfeld , Dimbach, Geddelsbach , Scheppach , Schwabbach , Siebeneich , Unterheimbach and Waldbach merged to form the new municipality of Bretzfeld.

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipal coat of arms , awarded in 1958, reads: Under a silver shield head, inside a blue ploughshare , in blue a silver ploughshare .

Attractions

The church tower in Dimbach is the remnant of a St. Sebastian's church, first mentioned in 1562, which was demolished in 1839 except for the tower to make room for the school and town hall. There are also several historic inns ( Zum Rößle and Zum Lamm ) and the Alte Kelter on Kelterplatz.

Events

Every year the sports club Dimbach organizes together with the volunteer fire brigade the traditional Dimbach street festival, which always takes place on the first weekend in August. There is also a winter festival at the community center every December.

societies

SV Dimbach has over 500 members and was founded in 1931. It offers football, judo, gymnastics and hiking in six sections.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Status: December 31, 2018, annual report 2018 of the municipality of Bretzfeld (PDF) municipality of Bretzfeld. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  2. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . Pp. 173-179
  3. ^ 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. 466 .

literature

  • Jürgen Hermann Rauser: Brettachtaler Heimatbuch . Jahrbuch-Verlag, Weinsberg 1983 ( Hohenlohekreis local library . Volume 14)

Web links

Commons : Dimbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Dimbach in the description of the Oberamt Weinsberg from 1861  - sources and full texts