Hobbach

Hobbach Eschau market Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	184 m above sea level NN
Residents :	786  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	63863
Area code :	09374
Location of Hobbach in Bavaria

Hobbach is a district of the Eschau market (Lower Franconia) in the Miltenberg district . In 2015 Hobbach had around 800 inhabitants.

geography

The river Elsava near Hobbach

Old branch church of St. John the Baptist in Hobbach

The ( church village ) Hobbach is located in the southwestern part of the Spessart in the Elsava valley . Well-known cities in the area are Aschaffenburg and Obernburg am Main . State road 2308 runs through the village .

Surname

The name Hobbach comes from the name Hofbach. Hofbach is a name that can be derived from Streudorf. Hobbach consisted of many farms at a distance from each other. While the place was still called Hobbahe in 817 , it was known as Hoinbuch in 1248 . This became the name Hoenbach in 1468 and finally the name Hohenbach in 1594 . However, the district was also named Hoppach, Hopach or Hobach.

Territorial

The district Hobbach borders on the hamlet Unteraulenbach and the forests of the von Mairhofen family with the moated castle Oberaulenbach . The Neuhammer, a former iron hammer of the Rexroth family, belongs to the neighboring municipality of Dammbach in the district of Aschaffenburg , borders the Hobbach district to the northeast. To the north of Hobbach, forests border the district of Aschaffenburg and the community of Heimbuchenthal .

history

Hobbach ("Hohenbach") in the map of the Spessart by Paul Pfinzing from 1594 (north is on the right)

The knightly village was first mentioned in a document with the name Hobbahe in 817 and changed its name frequently. The history of Hobbach was shaped by the sovereignty of the Electors of Mainz from the early Middle Ages until 1814 .

In 1862 the district office of Obernburg was formed, on whose administrative area Hobbach lay. As everywhere in the German Reich , the term district was introduced in 1939. Hobbach was now one of the 35 municipalities in the district of Obernburg am Main (license plate OBB ). With the dissolution of the district of Obernburg, Hobbach came to the newly formed district of Miltenberg (license plate MIL ) in 1972 .

The formerly independent district of Hobbach, with an area of ​​5 km², was incorporated into the Eschau market on May 1, 1978 through the regional reform.

There was a Jewish community in Hobbach from around 1700 to 1920 . From 1700 the first iron hammer was built on the banks of the Elsava. Iron processing came to an end around 1900. In 1910 Hobbach was opened up by the Obernburg-Elsenfeld-Heimbuchenthal railway line.

Dillhof / industrial area

The Dillhof industrial park was created around 1975, named after a farm near Unteraulenbach that was demolished around 1920. A map from 1746 and a photo from the water management office from December 30, 1919 prove the location and existence of the so-called Dillhof.

After the company Fenster Herrmann , the Bachmann sawmill from Wintersbach-Neuhammer also settled. Later, other companies such as Kinetics and Gerlach Gerüstbau settled there .

As early as 1961, a soccer field was built in the so-called Bruchwiesen on the Elsava, in the vicinity of the “Dillhof” industrial park.

70% of the income of the municipality of Eschau is earned in Hobbach.

Hobbocher leaflets and community table

The Hobbocher leaflet has been available as an information sheet for Hobbachers since 2011. It serves to convey historical as well as current information to the citizens of Hobbach.

The community table deals with village renewal and the fair distribution of goods and financial resources in the community of Eschau. Among other things, the Stammtisch is committed to the organization of new festivals. The funds obtained from this will be donated to non-profit organizations such as B. donated to the kindergarten ("dwarf villa" in Hobbach) or the Bavarian Red Cross in Eschau.

From iron hammer to school camp

The first iron hammer , built in 1700, was followed in 1767 by the "Lower Hobbach Ironworks". In 1876 Konrad Lahr bought the bankrupt Hobbacher Hammer from the Rexroths and ran a sawmill in addition to farming. The hammer business ceased completely in 1888. A mansion built by Johann Ludwig Rexroth around 1830 was built between 1870 and 1876 by Wilhelmine Lahr, sister of the doctor Dr. Richard Wehsarg, and wife of the hammer lord, operated as a sanatorium under the name "Villa Elsava". Afterwards it was used as a hotel and was bequeathed by the heirs to the Main-Spessart district. The buildings of the former iron hammer and the Villa Elsava were used as a retirement home after the Second World War . Since 1984 there is a school camp of the Schullandheimwerk Unterfranken e. V. with 135 beds. The environmental laboratory set up in 1991 - today the Roland Eller Environmental Center - offers projects on environmental and nature education. In March 2007 a water school was added. In 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 this was awarded as a project for the UN Decade of Biodiversity .

Hobbach churches

Three churches were built in Hobbach over the centuries. Two of them can still be seen today.

St. John the Baptist in the Renaissance

In the second half of the 16th century there was already a chapel 6.5 m long and 3 m wide and hardly higher than a one-story house. The chapel had a tiled gable roof with a ridge turret. She had an altar. Due to the small space, only a few citizens were able to attend the service. At that time it was common for the Hobbach faithful to visit the parish church of St. Laurentius in Sommerau for Sunday services. The stones from the broken chapel were used for the cemetery wall and the altar was used as a side altar in the new church. The cemetery at that time was in the immediate vicinity of the church.

St. John the Baptist in the Baroque Period

The popularly known "Old Church" was made by the Miltenberg master builder Johan Martin Schmidt as a plan in the Rococo period and this was carried out by the Aschaffenburg master mason Franz Bokorni. After paying 2130 guilders and 30 kreuzers for the construction and 587 guilders for the master carpenter Johann Georg, who made three altars, a pulpit, chairs and cupboards for the interior. The inauguration took place on September 2, 1766 by the Mainz auxiliary bishop Christoph Nebel .

Mentioned in a document by J. Georg as “Meine Kapellen”, the building was furnished by him with altarpieces and church decorations, including the foundation of the main altar with 250  fl. , The organ with 200 fl., Three chasubles, a silver monstrance and two goblets. He also added four guilders from his private fortune to the building. This was consecrated in 1759. The building of the church was supposed to bring the patron saint of the German fatherland, John the Baptist, closer to the town and, above all, to correspond to the size of the population.

Franz Lothar, Freiherr von Mairhofen headed the building of the church. Up to six different builders can be identified with the symbols K, Z, H, I, W, +. Valuable documents, coins and family jewelry were placed in the golden balls on the church roofs.

The coat of arms above the entrance comes from the baron of the village. The interior of the church is decorated in the baroque style. Statues and paintings adorn the building, such as B. two oil paintings of the high altar by the famous painter Johann Conrad Seekatz . The church survived the First and Second World Wars. In 1955, four new bells were installed because the old ones had fallen victim to the war.

The church is the landmark of the place. A Christmas story about her is also known.

Visitation of the Virgin Mary

In 1959 a new building for the church was planned as an extension. The building should be modern and simple. Due to a lack of space, the new building was built across the Elsava. At first the church was decorated with colorful stained glass windows. The windows of Bamberg Cathedral served as a model. After it was found that the glass panes were leaking, other colorless windows were added. In 1964 the church was ready to move into. The nickname "gym" arose from the spacious nave. The inauguration took place on December 5, 1964 by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Alfons Kempf.

Three maypoles

The custom of raising the maypole in Hobbach can be traced back to pre-war history. Regular “Tanz-in-den-Mai” events were already held in the post-war period. These took place in the centrally located Neuhammer (today's school campus). In the following decades, the festival including the erection of the maypole was held across the Grundwiesenhalle to the fire station. The fire brigade and other associations in the village maintained this list until an accident in 2003.

After a few years, they decided to set up a festival with a ten-meter-high guild tree at Gasthof Engel (Hobbach). After these funds were no longer available, the Gasthaus Spessarterhof maintained the tradition with an approximately six meter high tree from the Spessart Klang Hobbach association. Since an eight-meter-high tree was erected by ten young people in 2012, an approximately 20-meter-high Marian guild tree was erected in 2013. The number of helping young people doubled to 20. So Hobbach has the opportunity to own three maypoles and one of them as the largest in the Eschau community.

More buildings

• Filial church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , partly built across the Elsava, inaugurated in 1963
• Hobbacher Eisenhammer (later a health resort, then an old people's home, now a school campus)
• Dillhof (Einöd homestead, demolished around 1920)
• Community house Hobbach (formerly elementary school and town hall)

Personalities

• Klaus Miltenberger (* 1963), educational scientist and game designer

Honorary citizen

• Peter Seubert (1908–2001) was pastor in the parish “St. Laurentius " Sommerau from 1957 to 1975. With his active assistance, the new rectory was built in Sommerau at the end of the 1950s and the new church" Mariä Heimsuchung "was built in Hobbach in 1963/64. He became an honorary citizen of the Hobbach community in 1976. Seubert is buried in the priest's grave at the Sommerau cemetery.

literature

• Peter Körner: Biographical manual of the Jews in the city and old district of Aschaffenburg. Publications of the History and Art Association Aschaffenburg, Vol. 39, Aschaffenburg 1993, ISBN 3-87965-062-4 .
• Felix Mader : The art monuments of Bavaria . Lower Franconia XXIII. District Office Obernburg. Publishing house R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1925.
• Baruch Zvi Ophir, Falk Wiesemann : The Jewish communities in Bavaria 1918–1945. Publisher R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1979.
• Theo Schneid, Burkhard Spatz: 250 years of St. John the Baptist in Hobbach. Catholic parish office St. Laurentius Sommerau, 2009.
• Otto Pfeifer: The history of the parish and the churches of St. Laurentius Sommerau. Hinckel-Druck, Wertheim, publisher Markt Eschau, self-published, 2012.

Web links

• On the history of the Jewish community
• School camp Hobbach
• European cultural route Eschau 2 - Hobbach
• Spessartagen - Hannes-Jakob von Hobbach
• Location database of the Bavarian State Library online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.spessartprojekt.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KW-Eschau-2-Taf-02.pdf
2. ^ Karl Appel: Eschauer Heimatbuch 1985 - 700 years Markt Eschau, p. 247
3. ^ 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. 751 .
4. ↑ http://www.spessartprojekt.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KW-Eschau-2-Taf-07.pdf
5. ^ Franz Michael Ress: Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers . Written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers . Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1960, DNB  453998070 , p. 189 . .