Lauerbach (Erbach)

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Lauerbach
City of Erbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 225  (223-251)  m above sea level NN
Area : 2.27 km²
Residents : 353  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 156 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 64711
Area code : 06062

Lauerbach is a district of Erbach in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Lauerbach is located in the Buntsandstein-Odenwald , also called the Hinterer Odenwald , south of the Erbach city center, with which Lauerbach has grown structurally, namely where the Elsbach or Lauerbach joins the Mümling from the west . The highest point is the wooded Schöllenberg in the north-west of the district at 315 meters . The closest localities are the core town of Erbach in the north, Erlenbach in the east, Schönnen in the south, Günterfürst in the south-west and Elsbach in the north-west.

history

The village of Lurbach was first mentioned in a document in 1290. In 1939 the place had 244 inhabitants and belonged to the district of Erbach . In 1806 the place came with the county of Erbach to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Lauerbach was incorporated into the city of Erbach on the occasion of the regional reform in Hesse on December 31, 1971 on a voluntary basis.

Place name

The place name Lurbach is derived from the Old High German word lure 'Schlamm, Morast' and probably refers to the fact that the Mümlingtal was particularly boggy here. Lauerbach was mentioned under the following names in documents that have survived (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Luerbach (1419)
  • Lürbach (1426)
  • Lurbach (1427)
  • Loerbach (1431)
  • Lurbach (1443)

Gottesackerkapelle

One of the special sights of Lauerbach is the old cemetery chapel on the Lauerbach cemetery between the districts of Lauerbach and Erlenbach . It was built in 1616, but was in a poor structural condition by the middle of the 19th century. After the mourning hall was built in the 1970s, it was used as a tool shed. From 2005 it was restored on the initiative of the historical association of the district town of Erbach and equipped with a bell in 2009. Today it is used again for church services on festive days and for smaller funeral services.

traffic

To the east of the Mümling, Bundesstraße 45 passes the village.

The bus line 34 of the Odenwald-Regional-Gesellschaft (OREG) ensures local public transport .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lauerbach, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of July 8, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Population statistics . In: website. City of Erbach, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed in May 2016 .
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 358 .
  4. ↑ Helga Bartmann, Peter W. Sattler: 400 years of Gottesackerkapelle above Lauerbach , Michelstadt: es-Verlag, 2016.
  5. ^ Lauerbach on the website of the district town of Erbach .