Olfen (Oberzent)

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Olfen
City of Oberzent
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 25 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 366  (353-525)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.4 km²
Residents : 326  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 74 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Incorporated into: Beerfelden
Postal code : 64760
Area code : 06068

Olfen is a district of Oberzent in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse and has around 330 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The Waldhufendorf Olfen is the most northwestern part of the new town of Oberzent. Olfen is located in the Buntsandstein-Odenwald at 396  m above sea level. NHN in a cleared island as an open village with a random floor plan in the headwaters of the Hinterbach, heading south towards the Neckar . It rises north of the village in the protected high moor Am Roten Wasser . Further down in Finkenbach , it merges from the right with the Falkengesäßerbach , named after its valley town, Falken-Gesäß , to the Finkenbach . Here the official names were used for the streams, each of the two source streams is also called the (!) Finkenbach in some places , the Olfeners, for example, only call the stream Finkenbach because of their own place .

The state road 3120 Affolterbach- Beerfelden crosses the place in the north. This is also where the irregular settlement of Olfener Hof is located north of Olfen in the Olfen district , known as Ulvenhöfe since 1787 .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1398 as a fiefdom of Count Palatine Ruprecht to Schenk Eberhard von Erbach . The place name was then Ulfen . Mainly shepherds lived in the village. 1438 enfeoffed Palatine Otto Schenk Otto von Erbach with 1/4 of the village and its accessories. In 1488 two manorial estates are mentioned. In 1513 Count Palatine Ludwig renounced the hunt from the Olfener Wiesen to the Hinterbach in favor of Schenk Eberhard von Erbach and gave him the Herzogengut zu Olfen. After the Thirty Years War , Swiss settled the deserted village in 1658. In 1806, the place with the Freienstein office came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In 1939 Olfen had 199 inhabitants and belonged to the district of Erbach . Olfen has been part of the Güttersbach parish since the 16th century.

Ahead of the municipal reform in Hesse , the previously independent community Olfen was on 1 July 1971. on a voluntary basis in the city Beerfelden incorporated , in turn, with other municipalities formed the city Oberzent on 1 January 2018th Olfen became a separate district of the new town of Oberzent.

Until 2014 the place was a recognized resort .

Partnerships

The French community of Trévignin in the Savoie department has been related to Olfen since 1966. First contacts were made in 1963. The sisterhood is considered the smallest in Europe and has been awarded the European flag.

Culture and sights

The male choir "Singer Association 1911" Olfen and the theater group THEO, the children's theater group, the gymnastics group, the ski club and the Dorfgemeinschaft Olfen eV with their village meeting enrich the cultural life in the village. Since 1961, Olfen has had a self-help community center built in the Hessen program "Social Arming of the Village". It was renovated in 2009 and is barrier-free. The center of the village also offers space for the Olfen volunteer fire brigade and the youth club. It has a village press.

Personalities associated with the place

  • Horst Schnur (* 1942), former district administrator of the Odenwald district

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olfen, 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. ↑ History of Olfen ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the city of Beerfelden, accessed on November 13, 2016
  4. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1971 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1971 No. 28 , p. 1117 , item 988; Paragraph 14. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  5. ^ 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. 358 .
  6. ↑ 79th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreational areas and healing wells in Hesse on November 21, 2012 . In: State pointer for the state of Hesse . No. 9 , 2014, ISSN  0724-7885 , p. 187 .

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