Oberafferbach

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Oberafferbach
Johannesberg parish
Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 33 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 343 m
Residents : 1444  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972

Oberafferbach is a district of the Johannesberg municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg . The village has an area of ​​434 hectares and 1444 inhabitants.

geography

Oberafferbach is on the 2309 state road between Johannesberg and Glattbach . The topographically highest point of the village marking is at 371  m above sea level. NN in the northern local area, the lowest is on Afferbach at 206  m above sea level. NN . The Franconian Marienweg leads through Oberafferbach .

history

On November 27, 1200 Oberafferbach was first mentioned as Affulderbach in the necrology of the St. Peter and Alexander monastery by a Hartlibus. In 1818 Oberafferbach was mentioned as "Oberaffholdersbach". Like the place name "Affoltern", "Oberaffholdersbach" is derived from "aphaltra" (apple tree, ahd. Aphal = apple, ahd. Tra = tree).

In the 13th century the first Romanesque church was built with a west-east orientation. As a high-altitude church, it was built outside the village of Oberafferbach on the Johannesberg. On September 22nd, 1232, a wood mill in Steinbach and a farm in Oberafferbach were mentioned in a document issued in Mainz . Knight Johannes von Wasen carried his court in Oberafferbach as a fief on October 17, 1291 as part of an extensive property transaction of the collegiate church St. Peter and Alexander zu Aschaffenburg .

The old rectory on Johannesberg was first mentioned on September 2, 1550. In the course of the Austrian War of Succession , English troops destroyed the church on August 26, 1743.

On July 1, 1862, the district office of Aschaffenburg was formed, on whose administrative area Oberafferbach lay. In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Oberafferbach was now one of the 33 communities in the old district of Aschaffenburg . On July 1, 1972, this merged with the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia to form the new Aschaffenburg district.

The municipality of Oberafferbach decided on April 26, 1878 to found the volunteer fire brigade . With the first voluntary phase of the territorial reform, the formerly independent communities of Breunsberg, Johannesberg, Oberafferbach and Rückersbach merged to form a new community with the name Johannesberg with effect from July 1, 1972 .

Mayor of Oberafferbach

The first known mayor in Oberafferbach was Mayor Andreas Kraus in 1812. His adjunct was called Johann Deller. At that time, apart from the Hagelhof, Gut Rauenthal belonged to Oberafferbach. For 1848 Jacob Sauer is proven as the community leader. In 1867 a Mr. Eisert was the community leader. From 1876 the sequence is complete: Hieronymus Eisert was in office until 1903, followed by Andreas Eisert (1904–1933), Peter Fecher (1933–1945), Karl Bayer (1945–1948) and until 1956 Lothar Stickler. Adam Wombacher was the last mayor until 1972 Oberafferbach was incorporated into Johannesberg.

Population development

(respective reference date: December 31)

year population
1805 239
1812 235
1975 1230
1980 1309
1985 1315
year population
1990 1396
1995 1443
2000 1433
2005 1455

societies

  • Soccer and bowling: FC Oberafferbach 1934 eV
  • Oberafferbach volunteer fire department
  • Schützenverein Grüntal Oberafferbach
  • Angelsportverein Hirschbornquelle eV

Individual evidence

  1. Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 422 .

literature

  • Affolderbach / Johannesberg 800 years of community history 1991