Hengmantel

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Hengmantel
Community Lützelbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 25 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 342 m above sea level NN
Residents : 12
Incorporation : 1927
Incorporated into: Breitenbrunn
Postal code : 64750
Area code : 06165

Hengmantel is a hamlet that belongs to Breitenbrunn , a district of the municipality of Lützelbach in the Odenwaldkreis (Hesse).

location

The hamlet, south of its district and at the southern end of the Breitenbach valley, which is open to the north, is located below the former Hainhaus military site (the site of today's Hainhaus wind farm ), has two farmstead groups and is only a few hundred meters west of the Odenwald Limes near the area of ​​the small fort Wind gap . It is connected to the district by a spur road .

history

Hengmantel was first mentioned in 1426, belonged to the Breuberg rule and was part of the Zent Lützelbach. Around 1450 what the farm was in the possession of the Count of Wertheim , whereby Wilhelm von Wertheim awarded Hengmantel in 1448 as part of the Wittum to his wife Agnes von Isenburg , daughter of Count Diether von Isenburg-Büdingen .

After the Thirty Years War there were two farms there . When the court count hunter Johannes Flach married in 1685, it was mentioned that there was a hunting stable of the Count of Löwenstein-Wertheim there. Later a forester's house was built. Until the 20th century this forester's house was the seat of the "Hengmantel" area and was owned by the Kurhessische Hausstiftung . The building has been privately owned since the 1970s.

Interestingly, in 1787 the hamlet is described as half of the County of Erbach-Schönberg , Lordship of Breuberg , the other half of the Princely House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort , Cent Lützelbach. In 1806 it came completely to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In 1927 the hamlet became part of Breitenbrunn and with it came to the municipality of Lützelbach in 1971. The hamlet is dominated by agriculture and developed for tourism.

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