Ober-Kainsbach

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Ober-Kainsbach
Coat of arms of Ober-Kainsbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 53 "  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 28"  E
Height : 227 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.43 km²
Residents : 560
Population density : 66 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1972
Postal code : 64385
Primaries : 06164, 06063
The cemetery chapel between Ober-Kainsbach and Gersprenz am Kitzestein above Nibelungenstrasse
The cemetery chapel between Ober-Kainsbach and Gersprenz am Kitzestein above Nibelungenstrasse

Ober-Kainsbach is the easternmost district of the Reichelsheim community in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse .

geography

Ober-Kainsbach is located in the upper valley of the Kainsbach, part of the Vorderen Odenwald, northeast of the main town of Reichelsheim. The valley leads to the northwest down to the neighboring village of Nieder-Kainsbach in the Gersprenz lowlands . The location extends over the entire length of the valley floor for 3 kilometers from just before Stierbach to the headwaters of the Kainsbach. Furthermore, in the northeast in the headwaters of the Wünschbach, the 2 farmsteads of the high-altitude hamlet Wünschbach , the hamlet Spreng on the transition to the Mümlingtal and the restaurant Vierstöck belong to the local situation.

The Böllsteiner Odenwald characterizes the main part of the Ober-Kainsbach area. It fills the valley of the Kainsbach and the Wünschbach between the Kitzestein (366 m) in the west, the southern slope of the Schnellert (350 m) in the north and the Heidelberg (443 m) in the east. The town center is dominated in the north by the wooded height of the Hohen Stein (389 m). The cemetery with the chapel is just beyond the boundary to the neighboring town of Gersprenz above the Hutzwiese am Kitzestein . The area down the valley from the Vierstöck tavern on the northern slope of the stream from the Vierstöck to the first houses of Kirch-Beerfurth and to the Gersprenz has a pan-handle-like, narrow extension . Rounding out the district in the south by the Morswald on the eastern slope of the Morsbergs and ends in the headwaters of Mossaubachs . With this part of the district, Ober-Kainsbach already has a share in the sandstone Odenwald .

The highest point of the district is at a height of almost 510 meters near the Morsberg summit. The lowest point at around 190 meters is on the Gersprenzufer opposite Pfaffen-Beerfurth. The town center is 280 meters above sea level.

The closest localities are Stierbach, Affhöllerbach and Böllstein in the north, Hembach in the east, Langenbrombach and Rehbach in the south-east, Ober-Mossau and Rohrbach in the south, Kirch-Beerfurth in the south-west and Gersprenz in the west.

history

The name Cunigesbach has been known since 1012. The earliest surviving documentary evidence proves the existence of the place Cuynesbach since 1333, when the Johanniterkommende zu Ober-Mossau sold the village to the Schenken zu Erbach . Under their rule, the village remained with interruptions until 1806, when it fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse with the Erbachisches Amt Reichenberg .

In 1625 a gallows was erected on site . The cemetery chapel , which can be seen from afar, was built around this time .

Territorial reform

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Ober-Kainsbach was incorporated into the municipality of Reichelsheim by law on August 1, 1972 at the same time as Beerfurth. For Ober-Kainsbach, a local district with a local advisory council and a local mayor was set up.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have been preserved, Ober-Kainsbach was mentioned under the following place names (the year it was mentioned in brackets):

  • Konspach (1376)
  • Konspach (1408)
  • Künspach (1413)
  • Kingispach (1420)
  • Koenigspach (1420)
  • Oberkünspach (1425)
  • Kunspach (1427)
  • Kunßpach (1454)
  • Oberkonspach (1482)
  • Konspach (1532)
  • Obern-Kainsbach (1541)

religion

Ober-Kainsbach as well as Ober-Gersprenz and Unter-Gersprenz were branches of the church of Reichelsheim from 1555. Since 1962 Ober-Kainsbach has been part of the Protestant Johannesgemeinde Beerfurth in the deanery of the Vorderer Odenwald.

badges and flags

Banner Ober-Kainsbach.svg

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Ober-Kainsbach
 Blazon : "In a blue shield there is a silver, obliquely right-lying wavy band, top left and bottom right a crown."

The coat of arms of the municipality of Ober-Kainsbach was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on December 18, 1957 . It was designed by the heraldist Georg Massoth.

The wave bar is supposed to represent the Kainsbach, which gives the place its name. The crowns indicate the origin of the name of the stream, Cunigesbach (Königsbach).

flag

The flag was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on November 30, 1964 and is described as follows:

"The municipal coat of arms is placed on the red and white flag cloth in the intersection."

traffic

The state road 3260 runs through the village. This leads through the Kainsbachtal and connects the federal road 38 near Nieder-Kainsbach with the federal road 47 at the Spreng .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data / facts. In: Internet presence. Reichelsheim community, archived from the original ; accessed in January 2016 .
  2. ↑ Ober-Kainsbach district on the Reichelsheim municipality's website, accessed in July 2018
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the district of Erbach (GVBl. II 330–16) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 224 , § 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
  4. ^ 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. 357 and 359 .
  5. ↑ Ober-Kainsbach, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 28, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Evangelical Johannesgemeinde Beerfurth on the Internet
  7. ^ Approval of a coat of arms of the municipality of Ober-Kainsbach in the district of Erbach, administrative district of Darmstadt from December 18, 1957 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1958 No. 1 , p. 3 , point 8 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.5 MB ]).
  8. ^ Approval of a flag of the municipality of Ober-Kainsbach, district of Erbach i. Odw., Darmstadt district of November 30, 1964 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1964 No. 50 , p. 1482 , point 1378 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 4.1 MB ]).