Dornberg (Hardheim)

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Dornberg
Hardheim parish
Dornberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 32 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 41"  E
Area : 5.15 km²
Residents : 67  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Population density : 13 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 74736
Area code : 06283
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Dornberg is a district of Hardheim in the Neckar-Odenwald district .

Geographical location

Dornberg is a small clustered village on the plateau of the so-called Hinterer Odenwald, west of the Erf Valley (also Erfa), about 3.5 km northwest of the core city and about 2.8 km from the border between Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria . This runs between Rütschdorf and Guggenberg , a district of the municipality of Eichenbühl , district of Miltenberg .

history

Dornberg, first known as "Dorenberg" in 1252, was created as a high medieval clearing settlement and was originally owned by the Amorbach monastery . The local rule was in 1322/33 as a Würzburg fief with the ministerial family von Dürn . In 1498 it was sold to Kurmainz .

In the course of secularization , it became the Principality of Leiningen in 1803 and the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806 .

From 1935 to 1945 Dornberg (together with Rütschdorf and Vollmersdorf ) was incorporated into Wettersdorf . In 1975 it was incorporated into Hardheim.

The church of St. Stephan with a Romanesque choir tower (around 1200) was built as a branch church of Hardheim and is still looked after from there today.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the once independent municipality of Dornberg shows a golden tower crowned with a golden cross on a green Dreiberg on a red background. The appearance and color of the coat of arms was proposed in 1908 by the General State Archives in Karlsruhe.

Culture and sights

Ruins of the Kappel

Not far from the village in the deciduous forest are the ruins of the "Kappel", a former hermitage chapel "to our dear lady in the woods". ⊙ This was built at the beginning of the 15th century by the Junkers von Hardheim and later also consecrated to Saint Catherine. The last service took place in 1557. On January 1, 1791, the Bishop of Würzburg gave permission to "demolish" the chapel. The roof was removed in order to leave the building to decay. The more than head-high outer walls have remained. Since the 1960s, Marian devotion and occasional church services have taken place there again. The fountain of the former hermitage was uncovered in 1986.

Dornberg Air Base

Southwest of the village was during the era of National Socialism from 1937 to 1945, the former air base Dornberg ⊙ , a military airfield in camouflaged construction on the field at Schlempertshof ( Höpfingen ) with bunkers in the adjacent forest. As a “deployment port of the first order”, it had a siding on the Walldürn – Hardheim railway line .

Economy and Infrastructure

Dornberg is an agricultural place.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Dornberg (Hardheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Dornberg , website of the Hardheim community
  • Discover regional studies online, Dornberg. LEO-BW, accessed on August 18, 2015 .
  • Dornberg . In: Franz Xaver Kreuz (ed.): The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Thuringia / Leipzig 1901, p. 44 ( Online [accessed October 21, 2019]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.hardheim.de - Numbers, data & facts
  2. ^ History of the former Dornberg-Schlempertshof military airfield