Hesselbach (Oberkirch)

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Hesselbach in Butschbach
City of Oberkirch
Coat of arms of Hesselbach in Butschbach
Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 221 m above sea level NN
Residents : 237  (2012)
Incorporation : 1837
Incorporated into: Butschbach
Postal code : 77704
Area code : 07802

Hesselbach is part of the Butschbach district of the city of Oberkirch in the Ortenau district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Hesselbach was first mentioned as Haselbach in 1196. Other historical place names were Heselenbach, Heselnbach and Hesselbachl. The first mention as Hesselbach comes from 1475. Hesselbach is a residential area .

Hesselbach was an independent municipality until 1837, which initially belonged to the Staufenberg manor and then from 1660 to the episcopal-Strasbourg rule of Oberkirch .

The place Hesselbach is located at the upper south-eastern end of the Hesselbach valley below the 436.2  m high Geigerskopf . The St. Josef Chapel was built in Hesselbach in 1877.

The Hesselbach , which gives the valley and the community its name, is a left tributary of the Rench .

Districts

According to Ludwig Heizman in the Oberkirch district, Hesselbach has in the past and present :

Hesselbach mine

Fluorspar (fluorite) and barite (barite) used to be extracted in the Hesselbach mine . Today there are still abandoned heap remains.

literature

  • Ludwig Heizmann: The Oberkirch district in the past and present. Badenia Aktien-Gesellschaft für Verlag und Druckerei, Karlsruhe, 1928, pages 40–41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Heizmann: The district of Oberkirch in the past and present. Badenia Aktien-Gesellschaft für Verlag und Druckerei, Karlsruhe, 1928, pages 40–41.
  2. ↑ woelsendorfer: pit Hesselbach. In: mineralienatlas.de. Stefan Schorn, October 6, 2013, accessed on December 13, 2018 .