Ober-Hainbrunn

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Ober-Hainbrunn
City of Oberzent
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 188–247 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 332  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Postal code : 64760
Area code : 06275

Ober-Hainbrunn is a district of Oberzent in the Odenwald district in southern Hesse on the border with Baden-Württemberg . Until December 31, 2017, it belonged to the then independent municipality of Rothenberg , which was merged into the newly founded town of Oberzent.

geography

Ober-Hainbrunn is located in the southern Odenwald on the eastern side of the deeply cut Finkenbach valley . After Kortelshütte , the district is the second southernmost of the city and the district. The place is also part of the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Geo-Nature Park .

The form of settlement Ober-Hainbrunn corresponds to a Waldhufendorf . The farms were laid out in a row on the slope so that the fertile soil in the Finkenbachtal could be used for agriculture and cattle breeding . The slope side was partially cleared and used to draw water through a large number of wells . Today the Neckarstraße as the main axis of the place is built on on both sides.

In addition to Neckarstrasse, there are five branching roads in Ober-Hainbrunn, which form three development areas: shortly before the exit to Unter-Hainbrunn, the Himmelreichweg begins with Im Himmelreich and Neue Strasse ; at the school building west of Mühlstrasse and east of Poststrasse towards Rothenberg; as well as in the north of the area Heckenmühle and Obere Talstraße .

Neighboring places

The next place is the immediately south adjoining Unter-Hainbrunn , which belongs to the town of Hirschhorn in the Bergstrasse district, 4 km away . The Rothenberg district of Oberzenter is 1.5 km east, and the Finkenbach district is 4 km north . The western side of the valley bordering the village belongs to the district of Brombach , a western exclave of the urban area of ​​Eberbach in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg . Brombach itself is about 4 km away.

Other important places in the area are: Heidelberg (25 km southwest), Eberbach (9 km east-southeast) and Erbach (22 km north).

Finkenbach
Brombach compass Rothenberg
Unter-Hainbrunn
Hirschhorn 		Kortelshütte

population

On December 31, 2018, Ober-Hainbrunn had 332 inhabitants, 168 of whom were women (50.6%).

history

Ober-Hainbrunn was first mentioned in a document in 1349 and was already part of the Rothenberg district and dominion. On January 1, 2018, Rothenberg was merged with the three communities of Hesseneck , Beerfelden and Sensbachtal to form a town called Oberzent . Ober-Hainbrunn became a separate district.

In the historical documents, the place is documented under the following place names (in brackets the year of mention):

  • Hunbrun (1409)
  • Hunebronn (1441)
  • Hunbronn (1446)
  • Hynbronnen (1475)

Infrastructure

Connecting roads and public transport

State road 3119 runs through the village, which leads through the Finkenbachtal and connects Beerfelden with Hirschhorn. A 2 km long communal road runs between Ober-Hainbrunn and Rothenberg, which is about 250 m higher .

There are four bus stops in the village. During the week, the place is served about every two hours during the day by bus line 54 of the Odenwald-Regional-Gesellschaft (OREG), which is mainly used for school traffic and the place with the other parts of the city (especially Beerfelden) on the one hand and with the Hirschhorn train station on the other connects, which is connected to the RheinNeckar S-Bahn .

The trips outside of school traffic are on- call buses that have to be ordered at least one hour before departure. Since December 2019 there have been no more trips on weekends and public holidays.

societies

Ober-Hainbrunn has its own volunteer fire brigade , the sports club SV 1972 Ober-Hainbrunn with the departments table tennis , carnival and gymnastics as well as a men's choir . A fire station is available for the volunteer fire brigade at the old school building. The sports club has its own hall with a bar, which can also be used for other local events.

economy

There is a sawmill in Ober-Hainbrunn , and it is also a commuter village with little economic activity. Agriculture, which was once formative, is also only rarely found in the village and is a sideline . A corner shop existed until 2012 , the only retail business is now a beverage distributor. Until the 2000s there were also two restaurants in the village . In the 1970s, Ober-Hainbrunn had its own post office , which gave Poststrasse its name.

Cultural monuments

Cultural monument Stellsteinzeile

Eight historical objects in Ober-Hainbrunn are designated as cultural monuments , including next to the historical schoolhouse also a row of red sandstone stones that were formerly used to drive cattle as evidence of the agricultural history of the place.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Numbers and dates. In: website. City of Oberzent, accessed March 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://www.odenwaldmobil.de/fileadmin/PDF-Fahrplan/Fahrplan_neu/Linie_54.pdf