Eduardsthal

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Forsthaus Eduardsthal 2017

Eduardsthal is a lonely forester's house in the forest of the princes of Leiningen . At the same time Eduardsthal was an independent district in the Erbach district until 1953 .

Geographical location

The forester's house is located in the southeastern part of Hesse at 370.3  m above sea level. NHN in the Baden-Hessian border area in the Kailbach district of the town of Oberzent in the Odenwaldkreis at the point where two streams join to form the Galmbach , which in turn flows into the Itterbach above Kailbach .

Based on the assumption that the independent district Eduardsthal comprised the corridors 4 to 8 of today's Kailbach district east of the ridge line of the Schildenberg ( 552.3  m above sea level ), the independent district Eduardsthal had an area of ​​around 3.9 square kilometers. With the exception of an approximately eight hectare forest meadow in the valley floor at the forester's house, it is a closed forest area that continues beyond the borders of Eduardsthal in all directions.

history

The forester's house is the last remnant of the village of Galmbach, which was abandoned in the middle of the 19th century and bought by the Princely House of Leiningen . After 1800 bad harvests put the residents of Galmbach in need. During this time, the Princely House of Leiningen endeavored to round off the Leiningen wildlife park by buying up the Galmbach district. In the period from 1832 to 1836, the Liningian administration was able to acquire the entire land of the residents. What was suitable in buildings was preserved. The rest was auctioned off for demolition or fell into disrepair. Only one house was left for the forest workers in Lininga and is now leased as a weekend house. The village of Galmbach was dissolved and renamed Eduardsthal after the son of Prince Karl of Leiningen . The second son Ernst gave the community of Neubrunn north of Galmbach , which was also abandoned at this time, the now known name Ernsttal .

When the municipality of Galmbach was dissolved in 1836, the Prince of Leiningen took over the legal succession with the independent district Eduardsthal created in its place . This in turn lasted until March 31, 1953. With effect from April 1, it was dissolved by a resolution of the Hessian state government at the same time as a number of other independent districts. It was incorporated into the community of Kailbach on the other side . This cabinet resolution, which was apparently inadequate from a legal point of view, was confirmed retrospectively by the law on the incorporation of parish-free land in the Darmstadt administrative region of July 4, 1966 (GVBl. I p. 177).

traffic

Forester's house Eduardsthal with outbuildings, view from the southwest.

The nearest public road is the state road L 2311 , which runs through three federal states with the same number, starting from the Neckar near Eberbach via the Hessian Kailbach and the lower Galmbach valley and back to Baden to reach Bavaria after Ernsttal , where it leads via Kirchzell and ends in Amorbach . The L 2311 crosses the Galmbach on the Drehplatzbrücke ( 299.5  m above sea level ), to the north through the Baden Wassergrund , the largest side valley of the Galmbach, between Sachsenberg ( 499.3  m above sea level ) and Kinzert ( 553, 2  m above sea level ) cut, to leave. Before the bridge, the main path branches off to the forester's house Eduardsthal through the lonely upper Galmbach valley. The valley with the forester's house is on the “white square” hiking trail (HW 30 of the Odenwald Club ) between Kailbach and Waldauerbach , about a good hour's walk from Kailbach .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Source: Hessenviewer, determined by polygon
  3. ↑ Dissolution of the independent districts and independent land in the Darmstadt administrative district; here: Erbach district from March 31, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1953 No. 19 , p. 427 , item 486; Paragraph 9 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 2.4 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the incorporation of parish-free land in the Darmstadt administrative district (GVBl. II 331-12) of July 4, 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1966 No. 20 , p. 177 , §§ 19, 40 No. 5 ( online at the information system of the Hessian Landtag [PDF; 939 kB ]).

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Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '25 "  N , 9 ° 6' 41"  E