Ersheim

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Ersheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 133 m
Postal code : 69434
Area code : 06272
Ersheim Chapel

Ersheim is a district of Hirschhorn (Neckar) in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse and the only town in Hesse on the left southern bank of the Neckar , if one disregards Bad Wimpfen with its special constitutional status.

Geographical location

Aerial view with Ersheim within the Neckar loop

Ersheim is part of the Hirschhorn district in the Hirschhorn Neckar loop and is surrounded on all sides by water except for an approximately 250 meter wide land bridge in the south. The state border with Baden-Württemberg , which otherwise follows the course of the river, cuts off the Neckar loop at this narrow point . Ersheim is the only Hessian town that belongs to the Kleiner Odenwald , the part of the Odenwald that lies to the left and south of the Neckar. The Hessian Ersheim area in the Neckar loop stretches steadily upwards from the bank to the state border, which is about 1,200 meters away, is almost completely built on and thus offers living space to a considerable part of the residents of the city of Hirschhorn. To Ersheim one can add the Neckar floodplains, which stretch downriver of the place between the water and the forest edge on the left bank for 3 kilometers to Neckarhausen opposite. They too belong to the city of Hirschhorn and thus to Hesse.

The closest localities are the core town of Hirschhorn in the west, Rothenberg in the north, Igelsbach (near Eberbach) in the northeast, Moosbrunn in the southeast and Neckarhausen in the southwest .

history

The earliest surviving documentary evidence in the Lorsch Codex documents a donation to the Lorsch monastery in villa Ersheim (in the village of Ersheim) in 773. The first evidence of the existence of a church or chapel is from 1345 under the patronage of Nazarius and Celsus . In the course of the 16th century, the village of Ersheim gradually dissolved in favor of the newly founded town of Hirschhorn with its solid protective walls.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reported in 1829 about the Ersheim church:

»Erheimer Kirche (L. Bez. Hirschhorn) chapel, lies with a few houses and two brick huts opposite Hirschhorn on the left bank of the Neckar. This chapel or church is remarkable for its Gothic construction and its age, which dates back to at least 1335. It contains exquisitely already worked stones, on one of the foremost arch supports of the choir the names of the three brothers, Georg, Philipp and Engelhard von Hirschhorn are carved; opposite is the number 1517. Among the tombstones there is also that of Albertus de Hirzhorn , † 1400, and that of his son Johannes from 1405. The burial place for Hirschhorn is around this church, and four times a year its inhabitants make pilgrimages here and in solemn procession visit the graves of the dead. But there is also a small churchyard on the right side of the Neckar if it is not possible to drive over the Neckar in winter. The legend says that Hirschhorn once stood here, but documents name the village of Erfheim, whose name the church still bears and which is called Eressam in a Lorsch document. It must have disappeared early; for in the 15th and 16th centuries only the apartments of the pastor, the altarist, the bell ringer and a farm farmer were left, which were subsequently also destroyed. In 1496, the villages of Hirschhorn, Igelsbach, Heimbrunn and Neckarhausen belonged to the parish of Ersheim, also known as Ersheim.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the place is listed as a brickworks of Hirschhorn with 3 houses and 34 inhabitants in 1863.

In 1927 there were 26 inhabitants in Ersheim. Since the completion of the Neckar barrage with lock and bridge in 1933 there has been a road connection from Ersheim to Hirschhorn. Aided by this, the school and some residential buildings were built in Ersheim in the 1930s. From 1946 onwards, the influx of displaced persons and refugees to Hirschhorn led to the development of new building areas in Ersheim, so that almost 1,000 apartments were built there by 1982 and the population of the formerly deserted place began to exceed that of the old town.

traffic

The district road K 38 leads over the Neckar and through Ersheim, which branches off the state road L 3105 at Hirschhorner Ufer and continues beyond the state border as K 4105 to Moosbrunn. The federal highway 37 and the associated federal highway 45 cut south of Ersheim from the Hirschhorn Neckar loop with two bridge structures and a tunnel.

The Hirschhorn double lock for the Neckar as a federal waterway and the power station are on the Ersheimer Ufer at river kilometer 47.7. The target is at a height of 121.70 meters and the drop height at 5.30 meters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2624, August 11, 773 - Reg. 946. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 188 , accessed on June 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse: Province of Starkenburg . tape 1 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Darmstadt October 1829, p. 68 ( online at Google Books ).
  3. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, volumes 1-5 , Hofbuchhandlung von G. Jonghaus, Darmstadt 1862, volume 2, page 24 ( at google books )