Iron Hand (Bad Orb)

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Iron Hand , waypoint on the old trade route Frankfurt - Leipzig (des Reiches Strasse, or Via Regia ), where the road coming from Bad Orb and the Spessart (today Landesstrasse 3199) ends.

geography

Geographical location

Coming from the Wirtheimer Passes from the west, the old Via Regia fell off towards Wirtheim, and continued east of Wirtheim, with another small upswing, into the anterior Orbe valley. There, a little above the damp Orbgrund and the “swampy Kinzigauen”, it met the road branching off to Orb, now known as the Iron Hand crossing point . Then it rose again a little, on a last small hill of the outflowing Spessart, before it fell off again in the Fuhrmann-Hohl (also Fuhrmannshohle) towards Aufenau . The confluence of the Orbbach coming from Bad Orb (called Aubach in this section) into the Kinzig is located near this waypoint, the Iron Hand .

history

The signpost to Orb, at the junction of the Via Regia, near the confluence of the Aubache and the Kinzig, was, as was customary at the beginning of the 19th century, cast-iron and shaped like a hand or arm, which sometimes ends in 4 finger-like bulges, came close. This iron hand was named for the crossbreed "iron hand". Many such signposts were made during this time by the nearby Rexroth company based in Spessart . The multitude of waypoints, places and field names of the name " Eiserne Hand " speaks for similar situations and developments in different regions of Germany.

In the Napoleonic period, the Via Regia was chaussiert , built near the Iron Hand to the 1822nd From 1836 - the road "between Höchst and Wirtheim had its current course and no longer ran over the Wirtheimer Passes", but the name Eiserne Hand was retained for the junction to Orb.

Trivia

The way to the east led Napoleon repeatedly on the Via Regia. Therefore he knew exactly the points of the route that were important for him as a military strategist. These included B. the Wirtheimer Passes, known and feared for their steepness, the terrain bottleneck at Wirtheim or the road junction to Orb, at the confluence of Orbbach and Kinzig. At the junction to Orb on the Iron Hand, Napoleon had a guard set up on his return from the disastrous Russian campaign in order to avoid further losses of his extremely weakened army through desertion .

literature

  • Helmut Ruppel, "Unterwegs auf der Straße", Ed. Willi Stubenvoll, Administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse, Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990 ISBN 3-524-69098-X
  • Franz Nikolaus Wolf, Das Landgericht Orb, its saltworks and surroundings, 1824, facsimile edition, Orb 1977, pp. 119/120

Web links

  • [4] , Helmut Ruppel, On the Road
  • [5] , A historical tour of the town through Biebergemünd Wirtheim
  • [6] , History of the Biebergrund

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , A historical tour of the town through Biebergemünd Wirtheim
  2. ^ [2] , Fuhrmannshohle, Aufenau
  3. ↑ "The Road" , "History and Presence of a Trade Route " , Hsgb. Willi Stubenvoll, Administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse, Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990 ISBN 3-524-69098-X , p. 16
  4. ↑ [3] , Wirtheimer Chronik, 1000–1684
  5. ↑ "The Road" , "History and Presence of a Trade Route " , Hsgb. Willi Stubenvoll, Administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse, Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990 ISBN 3-524-69098-X