Hettingen (Buchen)

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Hettingen
Coat of arms of Hettingen
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 9 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 381 m
Area : 14.79 km²
Residents : 2456  (Nov. 30, 2003)
Population density : 166 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1974
Postal code : 74722
Area code : 06281
View over Hettingen from Kriegerhain.
View over Hettingen from Kriegerhain.

Hettingen is a former municipality and today a district of Buchen (Odenwald) in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

Hettingen is located in the building land dominated by shell limestone immediately east of the center of Buchen, where the transition from the sandstone - Odenwald to the shell limestone runs.

history

The oldest traces of human settlement on the Hettingens district date from the 6th / 7th. Century BC The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes ran east of Hettingen, as evidenced by the small fort "An der Altheimer Straße" and Hönehaus (Rehberg) as well as three watchtowers .

Hettingen was mentioned for the first time in 774 in a document from the Lorsch Codex , which documents the donation of a field and a serf in the Wingarteiba district on Hettincheimer marca (district of Hettingen) to the Lorsch monastery . At this point in time, the Amorbach monastery held the manorial power and other rights. Village lords were the Dürn family . In 1303 Hettingen came to the Electorate of Mainz . In the course of secularization , Hettingen came to the Principality of Leiningen in 1803 and to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806 .

On October 1, 1974, Hettingen was united with Götzingen, Hainstadt, Hettigenbeuren and Buchen to form today's city of Buchen.

coat of arms

On the coat of arms there is a golden crook, which is accompanied by two silver lilies. The silver lilies are reminiscent of the Amorbach monastery, and the crook as a bishop's staff of Kurmainz.

Architectural monuments, cultural monuments

Between 1946 and 1948, the “Neue Heimat” settlement, whose architect was Egon Eiermann , was built for refugees and indigenous people in need . In the following years, most of the buildings were massively redesigned. One house in the settlement, the Eiermann-Magani-Haus (Adolf-Kolping-Straße 29) has been largely restored to its original state and is now used as a museum.

Religions

Hettingen, which was originally a branch of the Bödigheim parish, was raised to an independent parish in 1352. The parish church was built in 1774 and expanded again in the neo-baroque style in 1898 .

geology

In the northern and north-eastern area of Hettinger district have in karstic Muschelkalk numerous rock sinkholes and sinkholes formed. In the “Sallenbusch” and “Rehberg” areas, there is a sinkhole field with a total of 57 sinkholes in the field and forest area. According to Section 33 of the Nature Conservation Act (NatSchG) Baden-Württemberg, these are generally considered to be specially protected biotopes.

traffic

The Limes hiking trail of the Swabian Alb Association runs as a section of the German Limes hiking trail near Hettingen . From Miltenberg to Osterburken , this path is looked after as the Eastern Limes Path by the Odenwald Club.

Honorary citizen

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Hettingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2880, June 11, 774 or 779. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 254 , accessed on April 1, 2015 .
  2. ^ 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. 485 .
  3. ↑ Dorothea Desch Meier: The Eiermann Magani House. The history of repair . In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg 4/2018, pp. 264–269.
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Eiermann-Magani-Haus .
  5. ↑ Dolin protection program of the city of Buchen, 2004 (PDF 431 kB) ( Memento from April 16, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ https://www.fnweb.de/fraenkische-nachrichten_artikel,-buchen-wir-alle-haben-ihm-viel-zu-verdanken-_arid,645030.html