Upper Easter

Upper Easter Community Reichel (Odenwald) Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 19 ″ N , 8 ° 50 ′ 52 ″ E
Height :	322–353 m above sea level NN
Area :	5.86 km²
Residents :	407
Population density :	69 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	December 31, 1971
Postal code :	64385
Primaries :	06164, 06253

Ober-Easter is a district of the Reichelsheim community in the Odenwald district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Upper Easter and Lower Easter share the location in the valley of the Osterbach , which forms the Gersprenz together with the Mergbach . Ober-Easter occupies the valley above the confluence of the Erzbach , which the Osterbach takes up about half its length from the southeast. In terms of its natural surroundings, the valley lies in the Vorderen Odenwald , the part of the Odenwald formed from crystalline rock with a finely structured surface relief . The district area is 573 hectares (1961), 204 hectares of which are forested.

The historical structure of the place consists of farms that are relatively evenly spread across the valley. In the easily accessible location on the southern edge of the district near the federal highway 460 , some residential developments have also been built, which are directly adjacent to the local area of Weschnitz .

history

The oldest surviving name form Osterenaha is documented for the year 880 and means a stream flowing to the east . The next mention of Obern Osterna dates back to 1321. Since 1398, the Erbach taverns have been enfeoffed with rights to the village of Osterna . The mention of a stone (mine) tithing suggests income from mining. Barite was mined until the 1920s . In 1806 the place came with the county of Erbach to the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

On December 31, 1971, Ober-Easter was joined with four other communities in the run-up to the regional reform in Hessen in the community of Reichelsheim i. Incorporated.

Culture and sights

The old school, now used as a kindergarten, stands as a cultural monument in the middle of Ober-Easter, a half-timbered building built in 1900 in the style of a picturesque villa with a basement made of sandstone blocks.

There are three restaurants and four associations ( volunteer fire brigade , choral society, the Kastelruther-Spatzen-Fanclub Ostertal and the theater group Noachtwäwwere). There is also a wine press , a retirement and senior citizens' home , a car dealership and a mobile home manufacturer as an employer in the village, not to mention several large and small farmers .

Regular events are held in the first weekend in September at the church fair (Hawwerkerb) and at Easter the Easter market with the largest Easter bunny jumping jack in the world ( Guinness Book of Records ). As part of the creation of a UNESCO- supported geopark in the Odenwald around Reichelsheim, boards were set up in many places to explain the local geology (see the Rohrbach-Bockenrod mining trail). Also at Easter, a tunnel that had previously been built for the trial mining of barite (barite) was made accessible to the public under expert guidance.

traffic

Ober-Easter is opened up for supra-local traffic through the district road K 52 , which branches off as Ostertalstraße at the end of Unter-Easter from the state road L 3105 and joins the federal road 460 known as Siegfriedstraße shortly after the district boundary to the Bergstraße district in Weschnitz .

Personalities

Johann Peter Arras (born November 5, 1870 in Ober-Easter; † June 30, 1939 there), Hessian politician (HBB) and member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic.

Web links

District Ober-Easter on the website of the municipality of Reichelsheim.
Upper Easter, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Easter in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ Data / facts. In: Internet presence. Reichelsheim community, archived from the original ; accessed in January 2016 .
↑ Ober-Easter district on the Reichelsheim community's website, accessed July 2018.
^ 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 .
^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Former school In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

[DF-1] Data / facts. In: Internet presence. Reichelsheim community, archived from the original ; accessed in January 2016 .

[2] Ober-Easter district on the Reichelsheim community's website, accessed July 2018.

[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] State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Former school In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse