Oberwaldbehrungen

Oberwaldbehrungen City of Ostheim vdRhön Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 58 ″ N , 10 ° 10 ′ 39 ″ E
Residents :	204 (1987)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	97645
Area code :	09777
Location of Oberwaldbehrungen in Bavaria

Oberwaldbehrungen is a district of the town of Ostheim vor der Rhön in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld ( Bavaria ).

geography

Oberwaldbehrungen is located in the southern foreland of the Rhön in Besengau .

history

Ober- and Unterwaldbehrungen are probably the oldest settlements in the Besengau. They were mentioned in a document as early as 795 and originally formed a community called Waldbaring. The local ending ... ing suggests a Thuringian foundation.

Oberwaldbehrungen, located on the edge of the area of the Hochstift Würzburg , was given to the lords of Tann as a fief in 1480 , making it an exclave of the Tann lordship . The Lords of the Tann introduced the Reformation in 1553/1554 . Until 1670 the place was an ecclesiastical branch of the evangelical neighboring town of Urspringen, which was already in the Henneberg and later the Saxon office of Lichtenberg .

After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the imperial-free rule of Tann was mediated with Oberwaldbehrungen in 1803 and came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Due to the Napoleonic Wars , the area came to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg with the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806 . According to the provisions of the Congress of Vienna , the territory belonged to Bavaria again from 1814 and was incorporated into the Lower Main District . While the former rule of Tann came to the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau as a result of the German War of 1866 , Oberwaldbehrungen remained with Bavaria.

On July 1, 1972, until then independent municipality Oberwaldbehrungen into town Ostheim vor der Rhoen was incorporated .

Culture and sights

Jewish Cemetery

Architectural monuments

see the list of architectural monuments in Ostheim before the Rhön

Religions

The Protestant community in the village belongs to the parish of Urspringen in the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Bad Neustadt an der Saale .