Ober-Sensbach

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Ober-Sensbach
City of Oberzent
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 47"  E
Height : 407 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.6 km²
Residents : 219  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 19 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st February 1971
Incorporated into: Sensbach valley
Postal code : 64760
Area code : 06068

Ober-Sensbach is a district of the city of Oberzent, newly founded on January 1, 2018, in the Odenwald district in southern Hesse .

geography

Ober-Sensbach is located on the upper reaches of the Sensbach , which starts from here in a general north-south direction. The district in western Upper Sensbach includes the highest mountains of the Odenwald district which Sensbacher height of 558 meters and in the north with 555 meters to Krähberg . The eastern part of the district takes the deeply incised and wooded, to the southeast of Itter opening towards cattle basic one.

history

The existence of the place is documented under the name Sentzenbach since 1359 and under the name Ober-Sentzelspach since 1443. Ober-Sensbach belonged to the Erbach-Fürstenauischen Zentgericht Beerfelden .

On February 1, 1971, Ober-Sensbach closed on the occasion of municipal reform in Hesse voluntarily with communities sub-Sensbach and Hebstahl to the municipality Sensbachtal together, which formed again on 1 January 2018 other municipalities, the city Oberzent.

Attractions

Manor house of the Krähberg hunting lodge
  • The hunting lodge Krähberg in the north of the district was built from 1761 to 1771 by the Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau .
  • On the road to Beerfelden, in the middle of the forest on the ridge of the Sensbacher Höhe, there is the Ober-Sensbacher Friedhof from 1619 with a chapel . Several members of the Erbach counts are buried in the cemetery.
  • The tithe barn and the former mill from 1781, which temporarily served as the mayor's office, together with the neighboring property at Sensbacher Straße 19, once formed a manorial estate of the Erbach counts.
  • In a defining position at the confluence of the street from Beerfelden, there is an elongated, one-story residential stable from the 18th century as a prime example of a Sensbach farmhouse in excellent state of preservation.
  • the top of the Reußenkreuz pass

traffic

For about local traffic Upper Sensbach is through the county road opened K 39, near the Reußenkreuzes on Krähberg from the main road branches off L 3108 to the south and south of the village shortly before sub-Sensbach in the Beerfelden forth across the Sensbacher height ( Saddle height 525 meters) where the L 3120 joins.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ober-Sensbach, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Numbers and dates. In: website. City of Oberzent, accessed March 2019 .
  3. ^ Municipal reform: mergers and integration of municipalities from January 20, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 6 , p. 248 , para. 22 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.2 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 358 .
  5. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Jagdschloß Krähberg In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  6. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cemetery with chapel In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  7. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Sensbacher Straße 15 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  8. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Sensbacher Straße 43 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse