Hellmannshofen

Hellmannshofen Community Frankenhardt Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	approx. 448 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	74586
Area code :	07959
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Hellmannshofen is a hamlet in the Gründelhardt district of the Frankenhardt community in the Schwäbisch Hall district in northeastern Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

Hellmann Hofen is located at an altitude of about 448 463  m above sea level. NHN in the upper valley basin of the Stettbach running northeast to the Speltach and about one kilometer south of the village seat of Gründelhardt , which stands on the other side of a flat ridge on the valley floor and on the slope of a left tributary. About just as far to the southwest is the significantly smaller hamlet of Birkhof in the same, hardly closer to the east-southeast is the also smaller hamlet of Reishof in the neighboring district of Honhardt of the municipality. The district town of Schwäbisch Hall is over 13 km west-northwest, the central town Crailsheim about 10 km northeast. (Distances as the crow flies between the town centers.)

From a natural point of view, the hamlet lies in the lower area of ​​the Burgberg Vorhöhen and Speltach Bay of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains ; Half a kilometer south-southeast the terrain rises steeply to the neighboring sub-area of ​​the Ellwanger Mountains . The undulating plain immediately surrounding the place and the valley floor are still in the reed sandstone ( Stuttgart formation ), below it the Stettbach , which runs in a narrow Holocene alluvial sediment band, then reaches the level of the gypsum keuper ( grave field formation ), while that on the slope or also above wooded mountains in the broader arc from west to south-southeast rise up to the step-forming silica sandstone ( Hassberge formation ). Outside of the soft area and the valley basin up to the foot of the forest mountains, the corridor is mainly occupied by fields.

description

The place, which is still dominated by agriculture today, has about two dozen house numbers and is surrounded by a soft patch of old orchards, interrupted on the north side by younger barns and stables. Most of the houses, some with open half-timbering and some with carved and painted corner beams, are located on the L 1068, which starts at the nearby rifle house of Gründelhardt in the west on the L 1066 , runs through the village after a slightly deep valley eastward, shortly before the end of the village the right side of the Stettbach changes and then leads to Honhardt or on a farm road that continues in the valley floor to the left of the Stettbach. The St. Lukas Chapel is on the left before crossing the Landesstrasse creek .

St. Luke Chapel

This local chapel apparently dates from the Romanesque period. It was secluded by the end of the 19th century at the latest and was last used as a beet cellar before it was restored in the 20th century. In the possession of the bourgeois community, it is now sometimes used again by the Evangelical parish of Gründelhardt and for other solemn occasions. The equipment includes a plague chest.

history

The place, first mentioned in 1373 as Heilwigeshofen , later became Helmshofen (like the nearby hamlet of Helmshofen in the municipality of Satteldorf ) and is now called Hellmannshofen , and in the regional dialect also Helmleshofen . The place belonged to Honhardt ecclesiastically until 1819, since then to Gründelhardt, which was churchly independent from Honhardt even earlier.

At the end of the 19th century a population of 156 is given.

traffic

The L 1068 crosses the town from west to east, and a closed ravine from the K 2637, which connects Hinteruhlberg with Gründelhardt, flows into it at the entrance to the town from the south-west . From the main road, near the chapel, a public municipal road leads north over the hill to Gründelhardt and a farm road north-east and down the valley to Stetten .

Individual evidence

LUBW

Official topographic map with a suitable section and the layers used here: Hellmannshofen and the surrounding area
General introduction without default settings and layers: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( notes )

1. ↑ Height according to the contour line image on the topographic map background layer .
2. ↑ Distance measured on the background layer topographic map .

Other evidence

1. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
2. ↑ Geology according to the layers for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes ). The geological map listed under → Literature offers a similar picture  .

literature

• Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6925 Obersontheim
• Geological map of Baden-Württemberg 1: 25,000, published by the State Geological Office 1982, sheet no. 6925 Obersontheim with explanatory booklet.

Web links

Wikisource: Section on the Hellmannshofen plot in the chapter on Gründelhardt  - the description of the Crailsheim Oberamt from 1884

• Map of Hellmannshofen and the surrounding area on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
• Map of Hellmannshofen and the surrounding area on: Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information )
• Measuring table sheet 6925 Obersontheim from 1936 in the Deutsche Fotothek
• Page to the St. Lukas Chapel on the website www.frankenhardt.de of the community of Frankenhardt
• Hellmannshofen - Wohnplatz , article about Hellmannshofen on the regional history website www.leo-bw.de