Lengfeld (Odenwald)

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Lengfeld
community Otzberg
Lengfeld coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 201 m
Area : 13.2 km²
Residents : 2303  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 174 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 64853
Area code : 06162
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Location of Lengfeld in Otzberg
Lengfeld, seen from the Veste Otzberg
Lengfeld, seen from the Veste Otzberg

Lengfeld is one of the six districts of the Otzberg community in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

geography

Lengfeld is about 200 meters above sea level on the northern foothills of the Hessian Odenwald . Until the voluntary merger on December 31, 1971, the place was an independent municipality with five other municipalities to form the new municipality of Otzberg as part of the regional reform in Hesse . Today Lengfeld is the administrative center of Otzberg with over 2400 inhabitants.

location

Idyllic Lengfeld

Lengfeld is located about eight kilometers south of the former district town of Dieburg in the Dieburger Becken, a fertile loess area , at the northern foot of the Otzberg in a valley that is closed on both sides on a flat promontory. The Otzberg is an extinct volcanic cone that dominates the landscape in the northern foothills of the Odenwald , visible from afar .

Village structure and neighboring communities

The Lengfeld townscape shows itself as a cluster village. Time and again, new building areas were developed around the old town center. Until the 19th century, there was little new construction sites in Lengfeld, which has only the Chaussierung changed the streets to Reinheim, Lower blades and Gross-Umstadt. The construction of the train station in Lengfeld also increased the demand for building land. Housing was scarce in the post-war period, and this is how the biggest changes in Lengfeld took place. A few years ago, the first Otzberg industrial park was built in Lengfeld.

4.1% of the total of 13.21 km² are built-up areas, 6% traffic areas, 60.6% meadows and fields, 28.4% forest and 0.4% each for water areas and other areas.

Lengfeld forms the spatial center of the municipality of Otzberg, all around are the other districts ( Hering , Habitzheim , Nieder-Klingen , Ober-Klingen and Ober-Naus ). The district of Lengfeld borders on the cities of Groß-Umstadt , Reinheim and the municipality of Höchst in the Odenwald .

history

Territorial affiliation of Lengfeld (H. = Hessen)

The Lengfeld village structure through the ages

Until the 13th century

Pottery shards with patterns from the Rössen culture

Settlement around Lengfeld goes back to the Neolithic Age (5500 to 2500 BC). This is proven, among other things, by findings made in 2008 in the Lengfeld building area of Pfarrers Dreispitz ( Lage ). Thousands of years old garbage pits were discovered there, in which, among other things, were also decorated pottery shards, the patterns of which are typical of the Rössen culture .

Around 500 BC The inhabitants around Lengfeld belonged to the Celts .

The Romans also had a settlement at the point where Lengfeld is today. It is believed that they lived together with remnants of various Germanic tribes. At first there were individual court rides (farmsteads), from which the cluster village with streets around it arose . The Romans ruled the area until 260, at which time the Limes was conquered from the east by the Alemanni .

Around 750 the area belonged to Franconia . In 766 the Carolingian gave Pippin III. , the father of Charlemagne , the villa autmundistat with accessories from the imperial abbey of Fulda ( autmundistat = Umstadt, today Groß-Umstadt ). Lengfeld was probably one of the "accessories".

Presumably, Count Palatine Konrad already exercised the bailiwick over the Fulda property on the northern edge of the Odenwald. It is certain that in 1214 the Fulda Upper Bailiwick passed to the Count Palatine via Umstadt and Höchst .

The first mention of Lengfeld dates later. In 1244, Lengfeld is mentioned for the first time as a parish in Fulda in a document. The document confirms the end of a dispute between the parish of Lengfeld and the convent of the Höchst monastery through a settlement. The excerpt reads:

"... that the pending dispute between the convent of Höchst and the Burgmannen von Otzberg on behalf of the parish of Lengfeld over certain fields belonging to this parish was reached between the parties: ..."

- Document from 1244

14th to 18th century

Coat of arms of Pfalz-Neuburg on the old town hall

At the beginning of the 14th century, the Fulda monastery ran out of funds, and so Prince Abbot Heinrich VI pledged it . von Hohenberg 1332 Lengfeld to Werner von Anevelt and Engelhard von Frankenstein. Fulda released the estate again in 1374 and pledged it to Ulrich IV von Hanau in the same year . In 1390 Friedrich I, abbot of the Fulda monastery, sold Otzberg and half of Umstadt together with the Hanau pledge to Count Palatine Ruprecht II .

This made Lengfeld an electoral Palatinate and initially remained so until 1504. In that year Lengfeld went to Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hesse. In the dispute over the Landshut legacy , Emperor Maximilian declared a ban on the imperial government against Count Palatine Philip for breach of the peace . Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hesse took the Oberamt Otzberg militarily. He moved to southern Hesse with 20,000 infantry and 2,000 horsemen and leveled Hippenheim and Wächtersbach (both are deserted areas today), and Lengfeld will not have been spared either.

Already in 1507 Lengfeld came back into possession of the Palatinate.

After the sovereign, Elector Friedrich V of the Palatinate , in the conflict with Emperor Ferdinand II. For the Bohemian crown, the imperial ban (1621) and finally had to give up his Palatinate hereditary lands, Lengfeld came under the administration of Hesse-Darmstadt and in 1626 was the Landgrave Ludwig V as a gift from Emperor Ferdinand II.

Lengfeld remained Hessian until the end of the Thirty Years' War . The Peace of Westphalia reassigned the old territories to the new Count Palatine Karl I. Ludwig .

In 1653, after the Palatinate line died out, Lengfeld belonged to the rule of the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg . The coat of arms stone with the coat of arms of Pfalz-Neuburg on the old town hall from 1717 reminds of this.

19th and 20th centuries

The closing stone at the old town hall is popularly referred to as the Breilecker von der Burg Breuberg .

Lengfeld remained in the Electoral Palatinate until 1803, when the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt received the areas on the right bank of the Rhine through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Lengfeld in 1829:

»Lengfeld (L. Bez. Dieburg) market town; is located in a fertile area 2 St. from Dieburg and 1 St. from Umstadt. There are 148 houses and 895 inhabitants who are Reformed with the exception of 74 Lutherans, 129 Catholics and 29 Jews; then 1 communal church with a brand new organ, 1 parsonage, 2 schoolhouses, 1 town hall, 1 synagogue, 2 grinding mills and the estate of Herr von Leonhardi zu Frankfurt, which consists of an apartment, economy buildings, gardens and many goods. There are 62 farmers, 77 artisans and 12 day laborers among the population. Some wine is grown in the district, and it also contains an important deposit of red sandstones. Five fractures, near the tip, are opened, and yield a great quantity of stones, which are used both hewn and rough. Five markets are held annually. The village of Huppelnheim lay between Lengfeld, Habizheim and Niederklingen. - Lengfeld used to be a property of Fulda and appears in 1244 as a parish. At that time, the Höchst monastery had the church set, just as the church had to build it. Close to the church dedicated to h. Gallus was consecrated, is said to have stood a monastery before. The place used to have its own blood spell. In 1802 Lengfeld came from Palatinate to Hesse. "

Until the middle of the 19th century, Lengfeld was a predominantly agricultural place. When the Odenwaldbahn went into operation in 1871 , it was a significant event that helped Lengfeld to achieve an economic upswing, which also increased the population.

A dark spot in the history of Lengfeld was, as elsewhere, the extreme hostility towards Jews in the Third Reich . During the November pogroms in 1938 , a detachment of 40 people destroyed the inventory of the houses of two Jewish families still living in Lengfeld. One day later the families were taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp . All family members were killed there.

During the Second World War , agricultural production was maintained by prisoners of war from Poland, Italy and France.

On March 30, 1945, the Americans arrived in Lengfeld from Reinheim. The planned resistance actions of the Volkssturm were not implemented because the leaders had fled.

1971 until today

On December 31, 1971, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the municipality of Lengfeld merged voluntarily with five other municipalities to form the new municipality of Otzberg. For the six formerly independent municipalities, local districts with local advisory councils and local councilors were formed according to the Hessian municipal code. Due to its geographical location within the municipality, Lengfeld has a special position. The municipal administration and the Otzberg School are located in Lengfeld. In the last few years, an industrial area with 15 hectares was designated, in which various companies have successfully settled.

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Lengfeld was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

dishes

The competent jurisdiction of the first instance was:

History of the hamlet of Zipfen

Zipfen owes its existence to the deposits of sandstone and basalt in its vicinity. It was first called the Lengfelder Forsthof , then in 1784 as the Zipf . Economic interests played the decisive role when it was founded as a workers' settlement. Until the 18th century, the hamlet of Zipfen consisted only of the chief forester , the Lengfelder Forsthof. In times of crisis, soldiers from the Otzberg garrison had to be deployed to protect the forester .

At the end of the 18th century, Bavarian stone carvers were sent to Zipfen by the Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian government.

The former brickworks of Zipfen is an important monument for the local history of the entire Odenwald. In the front building, the Gasthof Becker, 71 representatives from all circles of the population of Hesse met in 1882 and founded the Odenwaldklub , one of the first German hiking clubs.

Before the voluntary amalgamation to the municipality of Otzberg (1972), the hamlet of Zipfen belonged to the municipality of Lengfeld.

School history

The beginnings of the school in Lengfeld

According to the Protestant church records of 1595, there was a school in Lengfeld as early as the 1970s. The school was reformed after the then sovereign Elector Ottheinrich . From 1598 the general compulsory schooling existed by the Strasbourg church order; but when it was implemented in rural Lengfeld is not known. Students of a denomination other than the Reformed had to be given the opportunity to attend classes. The common use of the churches and schools was unsatisfactory for the strictly Catholic Elector Johann Wilhelm . As a result, a Catholic schoolhouse was built in Lengfeld in 1701, so that Lengfeld had two schools that stood next to each other near the church.

The reformed schoolhouse

Until 1629, lessons were given in the rectory, which was customary at the time. Then the former ossuary was converted into the first school building. In 1769 this building was completely demolished and in the same year a new and larger school building was erected. In 1880 the Grand Ducal Reformed Collection Umstadt sold the school to the community of Lengfeld. The community had intended to build a new school building since 1832, but the necessary money was lacking. With the acquisition of the school house, the community was paid 26,000 marks in cash and the reformed collection was released from all further obligations. Today the building is privately owned.

The Catholic schoolhouse

Around 1701 a Catholic schoolhouse was built in Lengfeld. Catholic children from Hering also attended this school. The building still belongs to the Catholic Church today.

The simultaneous school

In 1874 the formation of simultaneous schools became compulsory. Due to an acute shortage of space, a new school building was needed, for which a piece of land in Otzbergstrasse was acquired in 1883. The new building was completed in autumn 1885. In 1904 a new school hall was added. In 1906 the extension was extended to get a fourth classroom. The school was obsolete at the beginning of the 1970/71 school year. From then on, lessons were held in the new Otzberg School. The town hall of Otzberg is now located in the building of the former simultaneous school.

Deserted areas around Lengfeld

There are two desert areas in the vicinity of Lengfeld :

  • The place Hippenheim , which was first mentioned in 1220 as Hufilheim , was between Lengfeld and Nieder-Klingen. It was destroyed in 1504 in the Bavarian-Electoral Palatinate Feud (Bavarian Feud) by the troops of Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hesse . The district of Huppelnheim (so designated 1438) was divided between Lengfeld and Nieder-Klingen.

This campaign earned the landgrave the nickname "Hessian fire chief". The villages of the Otzberg office were burned down. He had the town of Hering laid to rubble and ashes in order to force the castle to hand over. In 1507 the Otzberg office came back to the Palatinate. The destroyed villages were rebuilt - only Hippenheim was not.

  • Another place called Unrode was mentioned in 1425 as Vnrade vnwige Oczberg . It was located at the foot of the Otzberg near Wiebelsbach and burned down in the Thirty Years' War . His name during the Thirty Years' War is probably the word Unterrodt, used around 1661 . It was later called Unterrod (1741).

Meaning of the place name Lengfeld

The place name Lengfeld is composed of the words length (extension to the front and back) and field (land used in plowing).

“Long and narrow fields resulted from the new plow, which was introduced in Roman times and which turns the earth over and not just tears it open. So you only had to plow in one direction. With the old hook plow you had to poke back and forth. That gave 'wide', square fields. "

- Settlement names between the Rhine, Main, Neckar and Itter

Lengfeld was first mentioned in a document in 1244 as Lengevelt . Further mentions were as Lengenvelt in 1327 , as Lengenfelt in 1397 , as Lengefeldt in 1414 and as Lengfelt in 1454 .

Population development

Lengfeld had around 300 to 350 inhabitants before 1500 , but drastic events such as the incursion of the Landgrave of Hesse (1504) and the occurrence of the bubonic plague  (1511, 1546 and 1563-1565) decimated the number of inhabitants.

Population:

• 1806: 768 inhabitants, 131 houses
• 1829: 895 inhabitants, 148 houses
• 1867: 1063 inhabitants, 196 houses
Population development Otzberg-Lengfeld.svg
year Residents year Residents year Residents
1573 260 1846 1,075 1990 2,020
1608 320 1879 1,165 1979 1,855
1633 239 1919 1,520 2001 2,100
1636 6th 1925 1,473 2005 2,318
1640 130 1939 1,400 2008 2,333
1671 183 1946 1,969 2011 2,374
1768 469 1950 1,957 2011 2,196
1814 863 1961 1,747 2015 2,308
1829 895 1979 1,855 2018 2,303

In 1636 Lengfeld only had six inhabitants. This is due to an occupation by the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War and the repeated occurrence of the plague (1634-1635), which raged very heavily in the region. As early as 1633 the population had decreased due to the war.

During and after the Second World War , the number of Lengfeld residents rose sharply, as a result of the influx of bombed out, evacuees, refugees and displaced persons.

In the last few years of the second millennium, the population has decreased by a few dozen. But this development stopped when the “Brühel” residential area was expanded at the beginning of the 21st century, which today is fully built with almost 40 houses. The development of the Lengfeld "Dreispitz" also ensures that the number of residents is constantly growing.

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 0074 Lutheran (= 8.27%), 663 Reformed (= 74.08%), 29 Jewish (= 3.24%) and 129 Catholic (= 14.41%) residents
• 1961: 1192 Protestant (= 68.23%), 533 Catholic (= 30.51%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

There is a local district for Lengfeld (areas of the former municipality of Lengfeld with the hamlet of Zipfen) with a local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board currently consists of four members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has three members of the CDU and one member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . The head of the village is Ulrike Bundschuh (CDU).

Mayor of Lengfeld

badges and flags

Banner Lengfeld (Odw) .svg

coat of arms

Lengfeld coat of arms
 Blazon : "Black two-pipe water-dispensing fountain in the golden field."
Justification of the coat of arms: The fountain represents the Borngasse fountain, which still exists today. It was already listed in 1903 in the official seal of the mayor.

The color black and the metal gold allude to the longstanding membership in the Electoral Palatinate.

On November 2, 1950 the municipality of Lengfeld was granted the right to use a coat of arms by the Hessian State Ministry.

flag

The flag was approved on November 18, 1955 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Flag description: "The coat of arms of the municipality of Lengfeld on the white central panel of the red-white-red flag cloth."

religion

Catholic Church of St. Mary Seven Sorrows
Evangelical Church of St. Gallus

There are two Christian communities in Lengfeld : The Protestant community has around 1200 residents . Today's Evangelical St. Gallus Church was built around the 11th century, probably as a fortified church . The early mention of its tower in a document around 1244 speaks for the old age. The nave in its present form dates from 1772. Due to the Peace of Rijswijk , the church has been used as a simultaneous church by the Catholic and Protestant parishes since 1697 . It was not until 1963 that construction began on its own Catholic church, which was consecrated in 1965. The Catholic community, which is also a pilgrimage community, has around 550 inhabitants.

The Catholic Church belongs to the Hering parish, together with the churches in Hering and Wiebelsbach . The Hering parish has been part of the Otzberg parish group since 2006, which consists of the Hering and Habitzheim parishes (with Nieder-Klingen and Ober-Klingen as well as Semd ).

The Protestant parishes in Lengfeld and Habitzheim are also looked after by a pastor .

Sights and culture

Buildings

See also: List of cultural monuments in Lengfeld

Old Town Hall

Old Town Hall in Lengfeld; Built in 1717

The old town hall, which is located in the middle of the street , was built in 1717 and inaugurated under Mayor Johan Bastian Bauer. The town hall has been a listed building since 1905; it is two-story, with a large attic under the hipped roof . The basement is made of solid rubble stones with sandstone corner blocks. The upper floor was built in half-timbered construction. In the basement there is a passage in a north-south direction. Until 1973 the traffic was directed through the town hall and only then was a bypass of the town hall built. From 1974 the Museum of Folklore Hesse was located in the town hall, from 1984 to around 1999 the Toy Museum, a department of the Otzberg Museum, was set up there. The Museum of Odenwald Folk Culture has been located there since 2009 and is also directed by Gerd J. Grein .

Customs House

  • Customs house in Lengfeld

  • Side view of the customs house, built in 1707

Fountain on Borngasse, which can also be found in the coat of arms
Fountain at the former Catholic schoolhouse (Pfarrhausstrasse)

The former baroque customs house from 1707 (cellar from 1521) with a conspicuous bay window on the east side is in the immediate vicinity of the old town hall. It is now privately owned. Road duties were levied here when goods and other goods were imported from the neighboring state of Hessen-Darmstadt (Lengfeld and the Oberamt Otzberg were an exclave of the Electoral Palatinate until 1803).

Fountain

Two of the Lengfeld landmarks, originally eight running fountains , have been preserved, one still in its original form. The Borngassenbrunnen can be seen on the Lengfeld coat of arms, it was probably built between 1753 and 1754.

The second well was built in 1956 after laying the water pipe from fragments of the well at the Catholic schoolhouse. Only a part of the well is preserved from the well, which old Lengfelder called the most beautiful well . It was built in 1846 and only stood for 100 years.

Bundenmühle

In the “Bundenmühle” built towards the end of the 18th century, about half a kilometer outside ( 49 ° 49 ′ 54.6 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 18.4 ″  E ), the television series “ This Drombuschs ”shot for ZDF . The mill house is now very dilapidated.

Heydenmühle

The Heydenmühle was first documented in 1220 as "The mill in the valley of the old Mühlbach". In the course of the 19th century the residential and farm buildings were renewed and in 1898 the old mill building was rebuilt after a fire. For economic reasons, the mill was stopped in 1957.

In 1996 the Dolmen e. V. and Lebensgemeinschaft Christopherus e. V. die Mühle to found a community of people with and without disabilities. In the same year the mill tower burned down again. In 1997 the employees started their work; around 80 people live here today. Heydenmühle e. V. is the sponsor of the social therapeutic facility with residential groups and a recognized workshop for disabled people (WfbM). The Heydenmühle also serves as an event center with concerts ( folk , jazz and classical music) and exhibitions.

In 2004 the “Zur Rose” estate in Lengfeld was acquired and converted into apartments. There and in the Heydenmühle there are also apartments for people with and without disabilities.

More Attractions

The old forge in the center of Lengfeld is a museum that can be visited by arrangement. The forge is still set up exactly as the blacksmith worked there 20 years ago.

The Andreae cactus nursery on the outskirts of the village in the direction of Zipfen houses a large collection of cacti . It can be viewed during normal opening times.

Protected areas

In the district of Lengfeld, on the slope of the Otzberg, there are the loess caves "Hinterer und vorderer Kuhgraben" and "Extension Hinterer Kuhgraben" , which are protected as geological natural monuments and bird protection trees. The Eichgraben natural monument near Zipfen , a former sandstone quarry, is also part of the district.

Regular events

Every year finds notch on Sunday after 16 October ( St. Gallus , patron of the Evangelical Church) in gymnastics and sports club, the volunteer fire department and the Lengfelder notch Borschen instead. On the first weekend in August, the rifle club organizes the “Lengfeld Muzzle Loader Days”. Different cannons will be used this weekend . There is also a western market there. The gymnastics and sports club organizes the "weekly football tournament" every year and the volunteer fire brigade invites you to an "open day" every year. Another highlight in the annual calendar are the three carnival sessions of the gymnastics and sports club and the shooting club.

The “Otzberg Week” takes place every three years in Otzberg. The Odenwaldtag ends in Lengfeld. There is an entertainment street here with food and drinks. On the last day, the parade moves through the town, in which the partner communities Lencloître and Langenweißbach are actively involved.

In addition, the Lengfeld pilgrimage of the Catholic parish of St. Mary takes place on Trinity Sunday (Sunday after Pentecost). The pilgrimage has existed for around 280 years. It is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows ( Memory of the Sorrows of Mary ), who is also the patroness of the pilgrimage church in Lengfeld. The Marian pilgrimage can be traced back to a relocation of the Corpus Christi procession . That is why there is a sacramental procession through the streets of Lengfeld on pilgrimage day with stations for blessings at the old exterior altars at the old town hall and at the confluence with Hindenburgstrasse.

The Heydenmühle offers a large and varied cultural program with folk , jazz and classical music. Artists exhibit their work in the Heydenmühle.

dialect

  • The Lengfelder were and are still called Schnullkappe . This is derived from a traditional costume custom at the time, apparently the Lengfelders liked to wear a pacifier cap.
  • Wealthy farmers were jokingly called standing-noise farmers or turnip counts .

Museums

  • The Museum for Odenwald Folk Culture has been set up in the Old Town Hall in Lengfeld since 2009 (open every first Sunday of the month)
  • In the historic fire station in Lengfeld there is the “Galeria Auto d'Epoca” car museum.
  • The old forge is located in Lengfeld. Appointments are necessary to view the museum (Museum of Folklore Collection in Hesse).

Clubs and associations

German songs and the urge to experience nature were the first reasons for founding associations in Lengfeld. So in 1864 the choral society Frohsinn and in 1882 the Odenwaldklub were founded.

The volunteer fire brigade has existed since 1925. The oldest evidence found that there was a kind of fire brigade in Lengfeld comes from the year 1735. In that year, the municipal treasury issued 27 Kreuzers for wine and weck as compensation for the fire runners who were in ran to extinguish the night.

Today there are around 20 clubs and associations in Lengfeld.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic importance in Lengfeld

Before the Odenwaldbahn was completed in 1871, Lengfeld was mainly an agricultural town. With a few exceptions (sawmill etc.), this did not change until the completion of the industrial park in 2000. The fact that a large industrial area was opened up is due to the initiative of the former mayor Müller (who died in office in 2000). The ring road in the industrial area bears his name.

In the industrial park, among others, CEVA Logistics has established itself on an area of ​​approx. 43,000 square meters. Tires are stored and distributed here.

The best-known company in professional circles is probably Adolf Neubert's Eurokart , which is dedicated to the sale of karts and accessories. Later motorsport greats such as Michael Schumacher , Stefan Bellof , Bernd Schneider and Timo Glock drove for the company and were able to gain their first experience in motorsport.

Furthermore, today Lengfeld is mainly characterized by small and medium-sized businesses and agriculture.

traffic

Road connection

Otzberg-Lengfeld stop

The federal highway 426 runs through Lengfeld from Obernburg am Main via Darmstadt to Riedstadt am Rhein. This road is ideal for truck traffic as an east-west traffic axis through the Darmstadt-Dieburg district as an alternative to the longer and toll sections of the federal motorways 5 and 3 . However, this means a greater burden on residents on the B 426.

The federal highway 45 runs about 5 kilometers away , it connects the Odenwald with the Frankfurt area. The federal highway 3 , the federal highway 66 and the federal highway 45 can be reached via the federal highway 45 . The federal highway 426 leads past the federal highway 5 near Pfungstadt and crosses the federal highway 67 . All federal motorways can be reached in around 30 minutes.

Bus and train connections

The Otzberg-Lengfeld stop of the Odenwaldbahn is located in Lengfeld . There are regular connections to Frankfurt am Main via Darmstadt and to Eberbach via Erbach as well as bus connections to Groß-Umstadt, Darmstadt, Reinheim and also within the Otzberg districts.

media

In Otzberg there is the weekly newspaper Otzberg-Bote with the latest news about the community and its districts. It is also the official gazette of the Otzberg community.

The regional section of the Darmstadt Echoes also reports irregularly about Otzberg and Lengfeld.

education

Otzberg School

The Otzberg School

The central school of the Otzberg community is located in Lengfeld with a primary school, grades 5 and 6, as well as a secondary and a secondary school.

In 1964 the places Lengfeld, Habitzheim, Nieder- and Ober-Klingen, Hering and Ober-Nauses founded a school association. Classes began at the beginning of the 1970/71 school year. The pupils from the other places are brought to the Otzbergschule by bus. The school has been expanded three times since the foundation stone was laid.

The next grammar school is the Max Planck grammar school in Groß-Umstadt.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities who have worked on site

literature

Web links

Commons : Lengfeld  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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