Finkenbach (Oberzent)

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Finkenbach
City of Oberzent
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 49 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 227 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.33 km²
Residents : 449  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 48 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Incorporated into: Rothenberg
Postal code : 64760
Area code : 06068

Finkenbach is a district of the town of Oberzent in the Odenwald district in southern Hesse .

geography

The place is located in the southern Odenwald in the Geo-Naturpark Bergstrasse-Odenwald am Hinterbach . State road 3119 runs through the village .

history

Ober-Finkenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1347. In 1939 the village had a total of 482 inhabitants and belonged to the district of Erbach .

Originally, today's place consisted of Ober- and Unter-Finkenbach. It was not until July 1, 1949 that the towns merged.

On July 1, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the voluntary incorporation into Rothenberg took place , which in turn formed the town of Oberzent on January 1, 2018 with other communities. Finkenbach has been part of Oberzent since then.

In 2002, Finkenbach was recognized as a funding priority in the Hessian village renewal program.

Culture and sights

The place is known nationwide for the Finkenbach Festival , which has been attracting thousands of rock music fans to the Odenwald almost every year since 1977 in July or August . The festival was founded by Mani Neumeier with his band Guru Guru and the Finkenbacher fire department. Today's host is FC Finkenbachtal 1946 eV

Finkenbach has nine cultural monuments , in addition to the Huben-Hof and the Johanns-Mühle, the so-called Armbruststein , first mentioned in 1518:

Personalities

  • Christian Kehrer, Mayor of Oberzent since 2018 , lives in Finkenbach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finkenbach, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers and dates. In: website. City of Oberzent, accessed March 2019 .
  3. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Para. 15. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 358 .
  5. ↑ Finkenbach Festival on the Internet