Lettgenbrunn
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Lettgenbrunn
Jossgrund municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ N , 9 ° 25 ′ 4 ″ E
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| Height : | 416 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 800 approx. |
| Incorporation : | 7th January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 63637 |
 Lettgenbrunn, seen from the Beilstein
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Lettgenbrunn is a part of the municipality Jossgrund in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district . The place with 310 households and about 800 inhabitants is located in the southeast of the country in the low mountain range Spessart and is a state-approved resort .
Geographical location
Lettgenbrunn is one kilometer west of the Spessart-Höhenstraße L 2905. It is three kilometers to Pfaffenhausen in the east and five kilometers to the Wegscheide children's village in the north. Flörsbach is about six kilometers away in the south. It is five kilometers to the south-west to the B 276 ( German Alps-Baltic Sea Holiday Route ).
history
The place was first mentioned in 1313 as Letthechenburne . Later documents describe him as Lettichenborn , Letchenborn and Letgeborn . The emergence of Lettgenbrunn and the hamlet of Vielbach , today Villbach , is associated with Beilstein Castle . This stood on a lava rock between the two districts of Jossgrund.
In 1812, Lettgenbrunn and Villbach had 26 fireplaces and 219 souls (residents) and belonged to the former Kurmainzische Stadt- und Amtsvogtei Orb - at that time Districtsmairie Orb of the sub-prefecture Orb in the department of Aschaffenburg of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. Maire was Franz Stein (Lettgenbrunn), his adjuncts were Johann Fingerhut (Lettgenbrunn) and Georg Götz (Villbach). The school teacher was Johann Stein.
As a result of the Paris Treaty of June 3, 1814, Lettgenbrunn came to the Crown of Bavaria on June 26, 1814 and from October 1, 1814 belonged to the district court district of Orb. On August 22, 1866, Lettgenbrunn came to Prussia as a result of the Berlin peace treaty between Prussia and Bavaria, and from December 7, 1868 it belonged to the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.
Lettgenbrunn has been depopulated and repopulated three times in its history.
For the first time after the destruction of the church and the place during the Thirty Years' War, the village fell into desolation and was not settled again until the church was rebuilt around 1654.
For the second time, Lettgenbrunn was given up in 1912 due to the establishment of military training areas on the Wegscheide ; the population was compensated and distributed to other places. After the First World War , there was a resettlement, but this was only short-lived.
In 1935, Lettgenbrunn was declared a bomb-dropping training area for the Gelnhausen-Rothenbergen air base and had to be vacated for the third time. After the cemetery was moved, on May 6, 1935, those who had not already moved voluntarily were evacuated. According to orders from Luftkreiskommando IV in Münster / Westphalia, the buildings were to serve as targets for bombs from 1937 onwards. The completely destroyed place was rebuilt after the Second World War in 1947 by refugees from the Sudetenland, Silesia, East Prussia etc. and funds from the Marshall Plan of the United States. The names of the streets and the names of two restaurants ( Sudetenhof and Znaimer Hof) still remind of the origin of these settlers .
The creation of an independent community in Lettgenbrunn was decided by the Hessian State Ministry with effect from April 1, 1952.
On July 1, 1974, Lettgenbrunn was incorporated into the new municipality of Jossgrund by law as part of the regional reform in Hesse .
The Catholic parish belongs to Bad Orb, the Protestant Lohrhaupten . Primary school pupils were enrolled in Bad Orb until the beginning of the 2012/13 school year and in Oberndorf from the 2013/14 school year.
Culture and sights
- A special feature is the local church , consecrated in 1954 , which is available for both the Catholic (right room) and Protestant religious community (left room). It replaces the original Gothic church building from the 15th century, which was changed to Baroque style in 1658 and which was completely destroyed by the bombing exercises after 1937; the furnishings (a high altar with a crucifixion group from the school of Tilman Riemenschneider , an altar of Mary and a baptismal font) had previously been cleared out and are now in St. Peter in Mernes . The cemetery cross is now back in Villbach. During the resettlement from 1947 both Protestants (e.g. from East Prussia) and Catholics (e.g. from the Sudetenland) were selected equally. In a letter from the citizens of 1952 they asked unanimously: "We are people of the same fate (...) we get along well and nothing should split us in the future (...) we want a church with 2 rooms!" The Catholic half is how also the old Catholic Church (until 1937), consecrated to St. James, the Protestant to his brother Johannes. The shared bell tower is also unusual. The three bells (h´, d´´, fis´´) were donated in 1959 by a local family. The d´´ bell bears the inscription: "Be joyful in hope + patient in tribulation + stop at prayer!"
- At the mini golf course opposite the church, a stone dated September 16, 2007 draws attention to the Jossa spring emerging here . The Quellbach joins on the spot with the more powerful Villbach , which could therefore easily be mistaken for the upper reaches of the Jossa. In the 1950s there was still a hand pump at the Jossa spring to supply water to the young settlers after the third reconstruction.
- The 18-hole golf course Bad Orb / Jossgrund with attached clubhouse and hotel is located on the hill near the hamlet of Villbach, which until 1974 belonged to the municipality of Lettgenbrunn, which was independent until 1974. A tower of the blown up bunker system still stands as a relic of the bomb dropping area at hole 2.
- The two long-distance hiking trails through the Spessart, the Birkenhainer Straße and the Eselsweg , lead through the district. In addition, the new Spessartweg 3.
- The ruins of Beilstein Castle and the Beilstein nature reserve are located north of Lettgenbrunn.
- Old embankment. Created before and during World War I to supply the military training area.
Web links
- District Lettgenbrunn. In: Internet presence. Jossgrund municipality
- Lettgenbrunn, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Literature on Lettgenbrunn in the Hessian Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ History and tradition
- ↑ 1650-1919-1947 : The village that was settled three times. at the association “The Archaeological Spessart Project e. V. "
- ^ Lettgenbrunn in the Second World War
- ^ New formation of an independent community in Lettgenbrunn in the district of Gelnhausen, administrative district of Wiesbaden on March 18, 1952 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1952 No. 14 , p. 260 , item 322 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the districts of Gelnhausen, Hanau and Schlüchtern and the city of Hanau as well as the recirculation of the cities of Fulda, Hanau and Marburg (Lahn) concerning questions (GVBl. 330-26) of March 12, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 9 , p. 149 , § 11 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).
- ^ 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. 363 .
- ↑ Chronicle 50 years of St. Jakobus / St.Johannes Lettgenbrunn
