Oberseelbach

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Oberseelbach
Community Niedernhausen
Coat of arms of Oberseelbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 343 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.92 km²
Residents : 450  (2003)
Population density : 154 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 65527
Area code : 06127
Hofanlage Hauptstraße 6, in the background the town hall and bakery
Oberseelbach fountain
Old fire station

Oberseelbach has been part of the community of Niedernhausen in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse since 1977 and is located in the Rhine-Taunus Nature Park .

geography

Oberseelbach is located just north of the wooded Hohen Taunus on a road over the Seelbach , a left tributary of the Daisbach coming from Lenzhahn . The lowest road crossing at 365 meters over the Taunushauptkamm and thus over the watershed between the Main and Lahn is just under a kilometer northwest of the town on the boundary with Dasbach , which roughly corresponds to the course of the Limes . The highest point of the district is located southeast of the locality on the hollow stone at an altitude of 475 meters.

history

The oldest surviving documentary mention as superior Selebach dates from the years 1226–1239. The Seelbach was long regarded as a boundary between the demands of the Counts of Nassau in the north and the Lords of Eppstein or later the Mainz Electorate in the south. Depending on the location of the properties, the residents had to pay their taxes to one or the other rulership. After the Thirty Years' War one household and 14 survivors are said to have been counted.

At the time of the Duchy of Nassau Oberseelbach belonged to the Idstein office . After the annexation by Prussia, it was assigned to the Untertaunuskreis in the Wiesbaden administrative district in 1867 .

On January 1, 1977, as part of the regional reform in Hesse , the previously independent communities of Niedernhausen, Engenhahn, Niederseelbach, Oberseelbach and Oberjosbach became the new community of Niedernhausen by state law. At the same time, the community became part of the Rheingau-Taunus district with the district town of Bad Schwalbach , which was newly founded on the same date . Before that, Niedernhausen belonged to the Main-Taunus-Kreis . For Oberseelbach, as for the other districts, a local district with a local advisory board and local council was formed. The seat of the municipal administration remained in Niedernhausen.

Culture and sights

The town hall and bakery in Hauptstrasse is a listed building. It is part of a building group built in the late 18th century with a barn from 1808. The council and bakery has a timber-framed upper floor (council chamber) over a low solid ground floor (bakery). The clock roof rider with onion dome forms the conspicuous tip of the structure. In the center of the village opposite is a cast-iron running fountain from around 1900, which is designated as a cultural monument. The rectangular trough, structured by attached bridges and rosettes, may have come from the Michelbacher Hütte . The current location is on the Seelbach, which is not visible because it is cased here. See also cast iron fountains in the Taunus . Opposite the fountain is another cultural monument, the Hofanlage Hauptstrasse 6. The plastered house with a crooked hip roof from the first half of the 19th century is between the style of a baroque farmhouse and a Biedermeier house type with a strict facade order and central entrance.

Another cultural monument is the old fire station , a small half-timbered building from the 19th century.

traffic

Oberseelbach is located on the L 3026 state road, which passes the town as a western bypass and connects Idstein in the north with the core town of Niedernhausen in the south. Here it crosses the L 3273 state road, which runs parallel to the Taunus ridge from Heftrich in the northeast through the town center and on via Niederseelbach to Neuhof in the southwest.

Web links

Commons : Oberseelbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oberseelbach, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the Rheingau district and the Untertaunus district (GVBl. II 330-30) of June 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 312 , §§ 6 and 13 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 371 .
  4. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 90 kB) §; 6. In: Website. Niedernhausen community, accessed February 2019 .