Dippach am Main

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Unofficial coat of arms of Dippach

Dippach am Main (officially Dippach a.Main ) is a district of Eltmann in the Lower Franconian district of Haßberge in Bavaria and has (2009) 352 inhabitants.

location

Dippach is about five kilometers southeast of the main town on the edge of the Steigerwald . The federal highway 26 runs east of the village and borders directly on the Main .

history

Historical map of Dippach from 1847

The first documentary evidence of the place comes from the year 741. The origin of the place name is not entirely certain, but could have been derived from the word Dietbach , which meant as much as place on the brook, which still belongs to our people . (Diet, see explanation in Dietwart). This was an allusion to the original border, which perhaps ran between Slavs and Franks directly on the Ortsbach in Dippach. Another interpretation suggests a possible derivation of the name from Diebach , which can be translated as Tiefer Bach . The pre-high German word dib or dip would be another possibility to derive the place name.

At the beginning of the 16th century, only about ten people were reported to have lived in the place; after the end of the Thirty Years' War there were only three and a half inhabited houses after Swedish troops had burned the village. Only in 1819 was the population higher again at 152. The school in Dippach was united with Eschenbach and Weisbrunn to a school district until 1840 .

Shortly before the end of the Second World War, there was a heavy attack by American troops in Dippach. Since there were still German troops in Dippach, the place was shelled by American artillery on April 12, 1945 from nearby Spitzberg on the other side of the Main . Seven fatalities and numerous seriously injured people were mourned. In the course of the Second World War, 17 Dippach soldiers died and many are missing.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community was incorporated into the city of Eltmann.

Buildings, landmarks, leisure

As early as the middle of the 19th century, the people of Dippach wanted their own church. However, this first plan failed because of a thieving village teacher, who disappeared with the donated money. In October 1895 the wish finally came true; the Eltmann pastor Georg Albert consecrated the church. The church was built with stones from the nearby Hofberg and Hühnerberg quarries. The little village church was thoroughly renovated in 1995, with the interior being extensively renovated in particular. The church houses an organ built in 1918 that has also been completely overhauled. In 1927 the first own cemetery without tombstones was laid out in Dippach. Instead, ornate wooden crosses decorate the graves. The residents of Dippach agreed not to use anything “pompous” on the graves in order to avoid rivalries. The diocesan border between Bamberg and Würzburg runs through Dippach. If a resident of a house belonging to the diocese of Bamberg gets married in the Dippach church, he or she will be married by the pastor from Eltmann , but the clergyman from Trunstadt must agree.

Nobody knows for sure what the reason for an iron cannonball stuck in a beam in the eaves of a house and since when it has been “decorating” the entablature. The most widespread opinion is that it was shot down at some point from the nearby town of Staffelbach , where the end of a war was celebrated with gunfire . A bullet got lost and hit the building in Dippach.

The bird observation tower in the Mainaue provides a view of the largest gray heron colony in southern Germany. Around 1100 hectares of banks and near areas of the Main were secured as biotopes in their vicinity and some of them were newly created. In spring, numerous breeding pairs of gray herons can be observed from the Dippach Tower, with the hope that waders, ducks and divers, among other things, will soon be found there.

Due to its favorable location, Dippach is the starting point for the nearby Steigerwald and Haßberge nature parks .

Club life

There are three registered associations in Dippach, of which the volunteer fire brigade is by far the oldest. Already in 1873 citizens of Dippach formed fire chains. To this day there is no complaint about a lack of young talent. The Dippach fire brigade was also given special tasks such as the control and relocation of insects. There has been a new fire station since 2002 .

The Liederkranz men's choir was founded in May 1951 and performs, among other things, at Christmas parties, birthdays and honors.

The youngest association is the Gfruana , which was formed on October 10, 1998 and organizes carnival balls, hikes and numerous celebrations. The unusual name, in High German “die Frozen”, is possibly derived from earlier times when children from neighboring Eschenbach also attended the Dippach school. In winter they heated up the school stove, which the Dippach youth took advantage of to show up at the last minute at the start of school when it was already nice and warm. The nickname the Gfruana for the Dippach youth was born with it.

literature

  • Franconian Day : Dippach town portrait from January 13, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 759 .

Web links

Commons : Dippach (Eltmann)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '26 "  N , 10 ° 42' 49"  E