Richtstetten

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Richtstetten
Hardheim parish
Coat of arms of Richtstetten
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 7 ″  N , 9 ° 30 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 330 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 613  (June 30, 2018)
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 74736
Area code : 06296
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Gerichtstetten is a district of Hardheim in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Gerichtstetten lies in the building land at about 330  m above sea level. NHN on the flat incised upper reaches of the Erfa . State road 514 leads through the village from Ahorn to Erfeld and state road 579 from Altheim to Buch . In the northeast is the village of Schwarzenbrunn , to the southwest there are Dörntal , Kudach and Helmstheim , which belongs to the district of Richtstetten . In the east, the border with the Main-Tauber district runs .

history

The name was first mentioned in a document in 1214 in a document from the Amorbach monastery , which testifies to a "Godeboldus de Gerrichisteten". The village itself was only mentioned in 1348. Gerichtstetten once belonged to the manor of the Amorbach monastery. From the 14th century onwards, half of the place was near the Amorbach monastery and the other half with the Counts of Wertheim , who gave it to various surrounding ministerial families as a fief . That left court Stetten 150 years for men Hardheim up to their extinction in 1607. The county Wertheim moved in the first half of the 17th century, several home falling fief in the environment and built with this in 1632 the District Court Stetten .

The Amorbach half of the place went in the 16th century to the Lords of Adelsheim and those of Boxberg to the Office Boxberg in the Electoral Palatinate . In 1691, due to a lack of interest on the part of the Palatinate in the remote areas, the territory was swapped with the Würzburg monastery . In 1806gerichtstetten became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden .

On January 1, 1973, Richtstetten was incorporated into the Hardheim community.

coat of arms

Blazon : On green floor in front of a silver background bishop in goldbortiertem red coat and with equally embellished red Mitra , in his left hand a golden crosier in his right hand a black book keeping.

History of the coat of arms: The oldest verifiable seal of the Richtstetten municipality comes from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century and already shows a bishop with staff and book. He could represent the holy Burkard , since the Würzburg bishop Burkard is the church patron of Richtstetten. In 1908 the General State Archives suggested the design of the coat of arms. In 1958 a heraldic correct determination of the colors took place.

Attractions

Replica of the Keltenschanze in Richtstetten

There was once a Celtic four-cornered hill in Richtstetten .

traffic

There is a connection to the federal motorway 81 in the direction of Würzburg or Heilbronn via state roads at the Ahorn junction (no. 4) about 6 km away or the Boxberg junction (no. 5) about 9.5 km away .

Web links

Commons :gerichtstetten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.hardheim.de - Numbers, data & facts
  2. ^ Sophie Stelzle-Hüglin, Michael Strobel, Andreas Thiel, Inken Vogt (arrangement): Archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office and the Baden-Württemberg State Surveying Office, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89021-717-6 , p. 128 (No. 191: Hardheim ,gerichtstetten, MOS, Celtic Viereckschanze).
  3. ↑ FlyerLAD - Flyer_ViereckschGerichtstetten72dpi__2_.pdf. In: denkmalpflege-bw.de. Accessed August 30, 2020 .