Pfaffen-Beerfurth

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Pfaffen-Beerfurth
Community Reichelsheim
Coat of arms of Pfaffen-Beerfurth
Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 16 "  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 57"  E
Height : 195 m above sea level NN
Area : 1.86 km²
Residents : 606  (1970)
Population density : 326 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1970
Incorporated into: Beerfurth
Postal code : 64385
Area code : 06164

Pfaffen-Beerfurth is a village with its own boundary in the Odenwald and, together with Kirch-Beerfurth, forms the district of Beerfurth of the Reichelsheim community in the Odenwald district in southern Hesse .

geography

Pfaffen-Beerfurth located in the Middle Odenwald counting Gersprenz valley northeast of the main town Reichelsheim. The largely agriculturally used district of Pfaffen-Beerfurth lies to the west and left of the Gersprenz, exactly opposite Kirch-Beerfurth on the east side of the valley. Both places have grown together along Brückenstrasse . To the west of Pfaffen-Beerfurth, in the center of the district, the highest point is the Hasenbuckel, which consists of several hectares of forest and is 277 meters high . In the valley between the Hasenbuckel and the neighboring Reichenberg Castle to the south, the brook rises at the Ratzenbrunnen on the lake bottom and flows into the Gersprenz in the center of Pfaffen-Beerfurth.

The closest localities are the core community Reichelsheim in the southwest, Eberbach in the west, Michelbach in the northwest, Fränkisch-Crumbach and Gersprenz in the north, Kirch-Beerfurth in the southeast, Bockenrod and Frohnhofen in the south .

history

The earliest surviving documentary evidence proves the existence of the place Berenforte since 1324 and Bernffurt hiedisseyte the brook since 1443. The name Pfaffen-Beerfurth has been documented since 1650. The rulership of the two districts to the left and right of the Gersprenz diverged early on. The division became final when the village on the west bank was sold to the monastery of the Holy Spirit Heidelberg in 1478 , while the east remained under the rule of Erbach-Erbach and Löwenstein-Wertheim.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipalities of Kirch-Beerfurth and Pfaffen-Beerfurth voluntarily merged on December 1, 1970 to form the new municipality of Beerfurth. At that time the suburb had 606 inhabitants. Since the cancellation by law integrating the new community created to Reichelsheim on August 1, 1972 priests-Beerfurth and Kirch Beerfurth together form the local district Beerfurth with town council and mayor .

traffic

Pfaffen-Beerfurth is located away from the regional road network and is only connected to it via Brückenstraße . This leads over the Gersprenz to Kirch-Beerfurth. Here there is a connection to the core community of Reichelsheim on federal road 47 / federal road 38 . There is also a connection with Bensheim an der Bergstrasse in the west and in the east via Ober-Gersprenz with Michelstadt and Erbach . The B 38 leads to the north in the direction of Dieburg and Darmstadt , and to the south through the Weschnitzsenke to Weinheim and Heidelberg .

Personalities

  • Philipp Ripper (1850–1907), Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, born in Pfaffen-Beerfurth

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b [LAGIS]
  2. ^ Trade association Beerfurth: History of Beerfuth ( Memento from February 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The congregations of Kirch-Beerfurth and Pfaffen-Beerfurth in the Erbach district merged to form the new “Beerfurth” congregation on November 16, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1970 No. 48 , p. 2253 , point 2250 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).

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