Juhöhe (Mörlenbach)

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Juhöhe
Municipality Mörlenbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 45"  E
Height : 360 m
Residents : 180
Postal code : 69509
Area code : 06252
View from the west to the Juhöhe settlement
View from the west to the Juhöhe settlement

Juhöhe in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse is a settlement in the district of Bonsweiher in the municipality of Mörlenbach . The settlement in the Odenwald is a state-approved resort and comprises around 64 households and 180 residents.

Geographical location

Juhöhe is located in the Vorderen Odenwald in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park, about 200 m northeast of the border with Baden-Württemberg . It is located 1.7 km northwest of Bonsweiher and 4.3 km (as the crow flies ) southeast of Heppenheim . Connecting these two villages with each other leads through the settlement and northwest of it over the mountain pass Juhöhe (approx.  371  m ) the state road  3120. Juhöhe is surrounded by the Kohlplatte (approx.  345  m ) in the north-northwest, the Zigeunerkopf ( 359.5  m ) in the East-northeast, the Großer Köpfchen ( 376.2  m ) in the south and the Steinkopf ( 402.1  m ) in the west. The Juhöhe settlement has merged with the Hasselhaag residential area , where the highest elevation in the district is located on the Großer Köpfchen , on the border with the city of Heppenheim. There is also a short common border with Laudenbach in Baden-Württemberg.

history

The oldest human traces in the Juhöhe area probably go back to the Neolithic Age . In the years 1892, 1903 and 1928 archaeologists opened four burial mounds surrounded by stone wreaths near the stone head and discovered spherical storage vessels, mugs made of clay with string decorations, stone axes and knives made of flint. They assigned the finds to the band and cord ceramists who lived from around 2500 to 1800 BC. Lived. However, it is controversial whether their settlement was on the mountain or in a valley facing the mountain road. The dating of slag from a copper smelter found near the graves is also uncertain.

The verifiable history of the region begins with the conquest of the Odenwald valleys. The Juhöhe farms in the Bonsweiher district, including Hasselhaag and Frauenhecke , share a political past with this village (see  Bonsweiher's history ) and are usually not shown separately in the documents. In the interest book of 1568 the owners of 9 homesteads are listed, including two (Knorren- and Münstlers-Hube), whose fields border the Ober-Laudenbacher district, i.e. can be assumed to be on the Juhöhe. Hasselhaag is referred to in documents from 1631 as "im Heßels" and from 1840 as "im Hesselhag". The Lindenfelßer official protocol of April 25, 1721 mentions the homestead "Frauenheck" under the municipal boundaries.

The name of the Juhöhe appears for the first time in a documentation by the Heidelberg city director Pfister about the Hölzerlips gang. Before their attack on Swiss merchants on April 30, 1811 on the Bergstrasse between Hemsbach and Laudenbach, the robbers turned up in a “Juchhe house” belonging to the “Michael Fuhnischen [= Fuhr] couple” who owned “some items of goods around them”. In the parish register of Rimbach , the Juhöhe is mentioned as the place of residence of Michael Fuhr in connection with his second marriage on January 8, 1837. Her house, the first on the Juhöhe, at the intersection of two old traffic routes, burned down in 1886, and the successor building that is still preserved was built on the foundation walls.

Together with Bonsweiher, the Juhöhe came from the Electoral Palatinate to Hesse in 1803 and continues to share the territorial history with Bonsweiher.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the district Bonseher, the mayor's office in Bonseiher, 9 houses, 61 inhabitants, the district of Lindenfels, the district court of Fürth, the Evangelical-Lutheran parish of Rimbach and the Reformation parish are shown for the hamlet of Juhöhe Parish Schlierbach of the deanery Lindenfels and the Catholic parish Mörlenbach of the deanery Heppenheim.

While Frauenhecke and Hasselhaag are individual farmsteads to this day, the number of houses and residents (Ew.) On the Juhöhe initially develops slowly - 1828: 1 house, 1861: 9, 1900: 10 (55 Ew.), 1925: 13 (71) , 1946: (97 Ew.) - and doubled from 1946 to today.

In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Bonsweiher joined on December 31, 1971, and with it the Juhöhe as the last of the formerly independent neighboring villages of the municipality of Mörlenbach .

Natural and cultural monuments

Hiking trails

Marked hiking trails lead from the An der Lee , Hölzerne Hand , Frauenhecke parking lots (hiking and cycling map No. 8 of the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park ): Bergstrasse-Weschnitz Valley to the natural and cultural monuments (see above).

Forest and high-altitude trails connect the Juhöhe with the excursion destinations Bonsweiher (pond in Unerts), Waldsee near Klein-Breitenbach (partly Mörlenbach art trail ), Kreiswald and Albersbach (partly fruit meadow nature trail ). On the mountain ridge to the south with views of the Weschnitz valley or the Rhine plain and past the natural and cultural monuments on the Kreuzberg you reach the Waldner tower or Balzenbach.

literature

  • Otto Wagner (editor): Heimatbuch Mörlenbach. Self-published by the municipality of Mörlenbach, 1983

Web links

Commons : Juhöhe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fascinated by the first signs of settlement. (No longer available online.) In: echo-online.de. July 29, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 14, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.echo-online.de
  2. ↑ Hess. State Archives Darmstadt Salbuch 46a
  3. ^ Wagner, Otto (editor): Heimatbuch Mörlenbach . Self-published by the municipality of Mörlenbach. 1983, p. 52ff.
  4. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt Manuscript 7/10 (Sign. C1, No. 7/10). s. Wagner, 1983, p. 595
  5. ^ Wagner, 1983, picture p. 595
  6. ↑ Wagner, 1983, p. 58
  7. ↑ Ludwig Pfister: The history of the robber gangs on the two banks of the Main, in the Spessart and in the Odenwalde . Published 1811, Stadtarchiv Heidelberg, pp. 27 and 30. Digitized reproduction of the book "The history of the robber gangs on the two banks of the Main, in the Spessart and in the Odenwalde"
  8. ↑ Wagner, 1983, p. 222
  9. ↑ Wagner, 1983, p. 284
  10. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 349 .