Kirch-Beerfurth

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Kirch-Beerfurth
Community Reichelsheim
Coat of arms of Kirch-Beerfurth
Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 10 ″  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 196 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.2 km²
Residents : 370  (1970)
Population density : 116 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Incorporated into: Beerfurth
Postal code : 64385
Area code : 06164

Kirch-Beerfurth is a village with its own boundary in the Odenwald and, together with Pfaffen-Beerfurth, forms the district of Beerfurth of the Reichelsheim community in the Odenwald district in southern Hesse .

geography

Kirch Beerfurth located in the Middle Odenwald counting Gersprenz valley northeast of the main town Reichelsheim. The district of Kirch-Beerfurth lies to the east and to the right of the Gersprenz, exactly opposite Pfaffen-Beerfurth on the west side of the valley. Both places have grown together along Brückenstrasse . The northern border of the district is formed by the four-storey stream . East of Kirch-Beerfurth the district rises through the southern tip of the crystalline Böllsteiner Odenwald to the Morsberg , which is already in the sandstone Odenwald and rises at a height of 517 meters as the highest point of the district visible from afar above the Gersprenz lowland. The north-western slope of the Morsberg merges into the crystalline Vorderen Odenwald, where the ruins of the Beerfurther Schlösschen can be found on a mountain spur of the 404 meter high castle hill .

The closest localities are in the northwest Pfaffen-Beerfurth, in the north Gersprenz , in the northeast Ober-Kainsbach , in the southeast, a little further away, Ober-Mossau , in the south Bockenrod and in the southwest Frohnhofen as well as the core community Reichelsheim.

history

The earliest surviving documentary evidence proves the existence of the place Berenforte since 1324 and Bernffurt an der syte der bache since 1443. On February 8, 1335, documented, the noblemen Albrecht the Elder bought . Ä. von Echter, progenitor of the Herren von Echter , and Wortwin von Ungelaube for 40 pounds of Heller the tithe at Beerfurth . On April 28, 1336 this sale was notarized again, this time for 72 pounds Heller . The name Pfaffen Beerfurth has been documented since 1650. The rulership of the two districts to the left and right of the Gersprenz diverged early on. The division became final when the village on the west bank was sold to the monastery of the Holy Spirit Heidelberg in 1478, while the east remained under the rule of Erbach-Erbach and Löwenstein-Wertheim.

Railway: From October 10, 1887 to August 1964, Kirch-Beerfurth was connected to the railway line of the Gersprenz Valley Railway (Reinheim-Reichelsheimer Railway) with the Kirch- and Pfaffenbeerfurth station (route kilometers 14.9) .

Post: On May 17, 1907, telegraph stations, together with a public telephone and accident reporting center, were merged with the post offices in Unter-Gersprenz and Kirch-Beerfurth (Centralanzeiger für den Odenwald, May 28, 1907). In 1953 a post office was opened in Kirch-Beerfurth at Heidelberger Str. 24, which was closed on November 30, 1970. From December 20, 1996 to December 31, 1997, a post office was operated at the local gas station. This replaced the previous post office in Pfaffen-Beerfurth.

School: In 1907 a new one-class schoolhouse with a teacher's apartment is built in Kirch-Beerfurth. The building served as a school until 1963 and has been a meeting room for local associations since 1990.

Credit institute: In 1965 Volksbank Gersprenztal eG opened a branch in Kirch-Beerfurth.

Church: On October 1st, 1962, the independent Protestant parish of Beerfurth was founded. The parishes of Kirch-Beerfurth, Pfaffen-Beerfurth, Gersprenz and Ober-Kainsbach now belonged to him. In 1964 the foundation stone was laid for the construction of the Protestant church in Kirch-Beerfurth. The first pastor was Mrs. Marianne Queckbörner.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipalities of Kirch-Beerfurth and Pfaffen-Beerfurth voluntarily merged to form the municipality of Beerfurth in 1970 . At that time the place had 370 inhabitants. Since the cancellation by law integrating the new community created to Reichelsheim on August 1, 1972 Kirch Beerfurth and priests-Beerfurth together form the local district Beerfurth with town council and mayor .

traffic

Bundesstrasse 47 / Bundesstrasse 38 runs through Kirch-Beerfurth and connects the town with the core community of Reichelsheim. The B 47 comes from Bensheim an der Bergstrasse and Lindenfels in the west and leads over the junction in Ober-Gersprenz curvy east over the Spreng to Michelstadt and Erbach (Odenwald) in the Mümlingtal . The B 38 leads north in the direction of Dieburg and Darmstadt and south over the Gumpener Kreuz to the Weschnitzsenke to Weinheim and Heidelberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kirch-Beerfurth, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 19, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Simon (1858), Part 3, p. 29, Certificate XXVII.
  3. ↑ Simon (1858), Part 3, p. 29 f., Certificate XXVIII.
  4. ^ History of Beerfurth. Trade association Beerfurth, archived from the original on February 16, 2012 ; accessed in 2012 .
  5. ↑ The congregations of Kirch-Beerfurth and Pfaffen-Beerfurth in the Erbach district merged to form the new “Beerfurth” congregation on November 16, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2253 , point 2250 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).