Rimbach (Odenwald)

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Rimbach (Odenwald)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 8 ° 46'  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
Circle : Mountain road
Height : 174 m above sea level NHN
Area : 23.16 km 2
Residents: 8610 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 372 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 64668
Area code : 06253
License plate : HP
Community key : 06 4 31 019
LOCODE : DE RIM
Community structure: Core community, 5 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 1
64668 Rimbach
Website : www.rimbach-odw.de
Mayor : Holger Schmitt (PuB)
Location of the municipality of Rimbach in the Bergstrasse district
Groß-Rohrheim Zwingenberg (Bergstraße) Biblis Viernheim Lampertheim Bürstadt Einhausen (Hessen) Lorsch Bensheim Lautertal (Odenwald) Lindenfels Heppenheim (Bergstraße) Heppenheim (Bergstraße) Fürth (Odenwald) Grasellenbach Rimbach (Odenwald) Mörlenbach Wald-Michelbach Birkenau (Odenwald) Abtsteinach Gorxheimertal Hirschhorn (Neckar) Neckarsteinach Michelbuch (gemeindefreies Gebiet) Rheinland-Pfalz Baden-Württemberg Kreis Groß-Gerau Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg Odenwaldkreismap
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Rimbach is a municipality in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse .

geography

location

The community is located in the Odenwald about 30 km northeast of Mannheim and about 35 km north of Heidelberg . It is located on the B 38 and the Weschnitz flows through it.

Neighboring communities

Rimbach borders in the north on the municipality of Fürth , in the east on the municipality Grasellenbach , in the southeast on the municipality Wald-Michelbach , in the south on the municipality Mörlenbach and in the west on the city of Heppenheim .

Community structure

According to the main statute, local districts with a local advisory board and mayor were set up for the districts of Albersbach (including the Helmsberg homestead group ), Lauten-Weschnitz , Mitlechtern and Zotzenbach (with the hamlet of Unter-Mengelbach ) , but not for Rimbach-Mitte and the Rimbach area Hamlet Münschbach .

climate

Due to its close location to the Bergstrasse, Rimbach has a mild climate , which is often visible in an almond tree blossom, which is early in Germany .

history

From the beginning to the 18th century

Rimbach probably goes back to a Franconian settlement that arose in the course of the Franconian conquest from the 5th century AD. The oldest surviving documentary mention of Rimbach was in the Lorsch Codex in 795 and is related to the donation of Mark Heppenheim by Charlemagne to Lorsch Abbey . The Mark Heppenheim encompassed most of today 's Bergstrasse district and large parts of the Odenwaldkreis . In connection with this donation, border disputes developed between the Lorsch monastery and the diocese of Worms , which led to the convening of an arbitration tribunal in 795 on the Kahlberg near Weschnitz, an old meeting place and court not far from today's Walburgis Chapel . As a result of this court of arbitration, a new boundary description was established, which now also named the most important places within the boundaries of the Mark Heppenheim, namely Furte (Fürth) , Rintbach (Rimbach), Morlenbach (Mörlenbach) , Birkenowa (Birkenau) , Winenheim (Weinheim) , Heppenheim , Besinsheim (Bensheim) , Urbach (Auerbach) , Lauresham (Lorsch) and Bisestat (Bürstadt) .

Another early mention can be found in the Lorsch Codex , a list of the property of the Lorsch Monastery, when in 877 a Liuthar von Hausen donated the villa Rinthbach to the monastery and received it again as a fief . Supported by many other donations, the monastery belonged to the 9th-12th centuries. Century one of the largest and most powerful Benedictine abbeys in Germany. The heyday of the Lorsch Monastery was followed by its decline in the 11th and 12th centuries. During the investiture dispute - from 1076 (Reichstag in Worms) to 1122 (Worms Concordat) - many possessions had to be surrendered to the nobility. In the late 12th century an attempt was made to reorganize the administration by recording the old title deeds (Lorsch Codex). Nevertheless, in 1232, Emperor Friedrich II subordinated the imperial abbey of Lorsch to the Archdiocese of Mainz and its bishop Siegfried III. von Eppstein on reform. At that time, the area of ​​the later office of Schönberg , to which Rimbach later also belonged, was owned by the Count Palatine . However, in 1409 the Archbishop Johann von Mainz enfeoffed the donor Konrad von Erbach with the house and Burgstadel von Rimbach. However, all other feudal deeds to the Erbach taverns were issued by the Count Palatine. In 1385, Count Palatine Ruprecht approved the donor Eberhard von Erbach to pledge the villages of Rimbach and Zotzenbach to Hanemann von Sickingen , Vogt zu Lindenfels and Hennel von Mosbach , Vogt zu Heidelberg.

The village emerged as a closed cluster village with a one-sided valley location. The high jurisdiction over the place was exercised by the Zent Heppenheim , whose highest judge was the burgrave on the Starkenburg (over Heppenheim), first mentioned in 1267 . The lower jurisdiction lay with the Vogteigericht , whose district included Rimbach, Lützel-Rimbach, Ober- and Unter-Mengelbach, Mossbach and Zotzenbach. The Erbach taverns already owned the lower court in the oldest documents as a Palatine fiefdom. Due to the freedoms of the Reichskloster Lorsch, the monastery governors were administrators and judges within the monastery property. This office came into the possession of the Count Palatine as early as 1165. Economically, the place was shaped by the three-field economy of the landlords and the village cooperative until the 18th century . Were grown rye , spelled , oats , spring barley , millet and other crops.

A number of other landlords have come down to us from the Middle Ages . The noble families Betzer von Rimbach, Rauch von Rimbach, Jude vom Stein, Beyer von Boppard and the Lords von Rodenstein appeared as fiefs of the Counts of Erbach or the Count Palatine. The county of Erbach belonged to the Franconian Empire from 1500 , and the taverns in Erbach were raised to the status of imperial count in 1532. During the Erbach rule over Rimbach, the place was assigned to the office of Schönberg . The tithe in Rimbach was half the parish Rimbach and half to the lord of Dalberg, who had this to entertain the nave of the church.

In the 16th century, the Reformation also found its way into the Odenwald. By 1544 the Counts of Erbach had introduced the Lutheran creed for their county , and the rulers of the Palatinate openly sympathized with the Lutheran faith; But it was not until Ottheinrich (Elector from 1556 to 1559) that the official transition to Lutheran teaching took place. At that time the subjects also had to follow their rulers in matters of faith. Before the Reformation, the parish of Rimbach belonged to the “Weinheimer Landkapitel” of the diocese of Worms. The patronage was held by the Erbach counts from the Erbach-Fürstenau line, who owned it as a Palatinate fief. In addition to Rimbach, the parish consisted of the places Lützel-Rimbach, Münchbach, Zotzenbach, Obermengelbach and two courtyards in Untermengelbach. Before 1516 included the Palatine for proportion of Reichenbach be exchanged places Mittelhausen Scheuerberg, Mitlechtern, Knoden, Schannenbach, Ober-Laudenbach and Scharbach, and the replaced with the Ullnern of Dieburg Igelsbach Parish.

In 1618 the Thirty Years' War began , from which the office of Schönberg also suffered in 1622 at the latest, when League troops attacked and plundered it several times. In the mid-1630s, the Swedish-French War was the bloodiest chapter of the Thirty Years' War. The chroniclers of that time reported from the region: “Plague and hunger rage in the country and decimate the population, so that the villages are often completely empty”. When peace was signed in 1648, the population in the region had shrunk to a quarter, and many villages were deserted for years. After a short period of peace, the French Reunion Wars followed , which brought new afflictions to the region. In the autumn of 1696, during the War of the Palatinate Succession, Schönberg Palace was attacked. It was not until the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697 that the French withdrew behind the Rhine.

Early 18th century were together 34 cents men and 5 in the places Rimbach, Lützel Rimbach and Münschbach sojourners counted. Agriculture was enriched by the cultivation of legumes such as alfalfa or saspars , but also potatoes ; The cultivation of potatoes in Zotzenbach is documented as early as 1769. In 1717 the Erbacher Grafenhaus was divided, and Schönberg Palace became the seat of the younger line Erbach-Schönberg under Count Georg August zu Erbach-Schönberg . This received the offices of Schönberg and König and half of the reign of Breuberg . The Erbach-Schönberg line made the castle their place of residence, which gave it its current castle character.

From the 19th century until today

Rimbach becomes Hessian

The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) was reorganized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803. This last set of laws of the old empire implemented the provisions of the Peace of Luneville and ushered in the end of the old empire. Under pressure from Napoléon , the Confederation of the Rhine was founded in 1806 , this happened with the simultaneous withdrawal of the member territories from the Reich. This led to the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806, with which the old empire ceased to exist. On August 14, 1806, Napoleon elevated the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt to the Grand Duchy , against joining the Confederation of the Rhine and placing high military contingents in France , otherwise he threatened an invasion. The County of Erbach was mediatized by the Rhine Federation Act and largely incorporated into the newly founded Grand Duchy of Hesse; this also included the "office of Schönberg", which was initially retained as a civil status.

As early as December 9, 1803, the judicial system in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt was reorganized through an executive order. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg . The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords . The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate . With this the Zente and the associated central courts had lost their function. The regulations also applied in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, founded in 1806.

After Napoleon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also regulated the territorial situation for Hesse and confirmed the affiliation of the County of Erbach to the “Principality of Starkenburg” of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. As a result, provinces were formed in the Grand Duchy in 1816 and the area previously known as the “Principality of Starkenburg” was renamed “Province of Starkenburg” . In 1814 serfdom was abolished in the Grand Duchy; With the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse introduced on December 17, 1820, it was given a constitutional monarchy , in which the Grand Duke still had great powers. The remaining civil rights magnificent as Low jurisdiction , tithes, ground rents and other slope but remained partially until 1848 exist.

In 1821/22, as part of a comprehensive administrative reform, the district bailiffs in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy were dissolved and district councils were introduced, with Schönberg being assigned to the district of Lindenfels in 1822 . As part of this reform, regional courts were also created, which were now independent of the administration. The district court districts corresponded in their scope to the district council districts, for the district district Lindenfels the district court of Fürth was responsible as the court of first instance. For the office of Schönberg, the lower jurisdiction was exercised in the name of the landlords by the district administrator. It was not until 1826 that all functions of the former rulers' office in Schönberg were transferred to the state institutions. This reform also arranged the administrative administration at the municipal level. The mayor's office in Rimbach was also responsible for Litzelrimbach (settlement in the Rimbach area) and Mönsbach (now a hamlet in the Rimbach area as Münschbach). According to the municipal ordinance of June 30, 1821, there were no longer appointments of mayors , but an elected local council, which was composed of a mayor, aldermen and council.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Rimbach in 1829:

»Rimbach (L. Bez. Lindenfels) Lutheran parish village; is located on the Weschnitz 1½ St. von Lindenfels and 1 1/4 St. from Fürth and belongs to the Count of Erbach-Schönberg. The place has 129 houses and 1229 inhabitants, up to 55 Cath., 23 Reform. and 129 Jews are Lutheran. Among these are 15 farmers, 99 in civil trades and 75 day laborers. There are 2 grinding mills, with which 1 oil mill is connected, 1 cutting mill and two brick huts. 8 cattle markets are held annually. The church, built in 1590, has a very friendly location and is surrounded by tall poplars. - The place was donated to Lorsch Abbey in 773. In 1409 Mainz gave its "Haus und Burgstadel" in Rimbach to the donor Conrad von Erbach as a fief. But subsequently Erbach and the whole village were always enfeoffed by the Palatinate. On May 30, 1622, the village was set on fire by the Spanish. Under Hess. Your Highness came to Rimbach in 1806. "

In 1832 the administrative units were further enlarged and districts were created. After the reorganization announced on August 20, 1832, there should only be the districts of Bensheim and Lindenfels in the future in Süd-Starkenburg; the district of Heppenheim was to fall into the Bensheim district. Before the ordinance came into force on October 15, 1832, it was revised to the effect that instead of the Lindenfels district, the Heppenheim district was formed as the second district, to which Rimbach now belonged, alongside the Bensheim district .

In 1835 the first doctor with academic training practiced in Rimbach. During these years a synagogue was built by the Jewish community, which in 1846 also laid out a cemetery .

In the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the tax system was reformed in 1842; the tithe and the basic rents (income from property) were replaced by a tax system, the main features of which still exist today.

The following entry can be found in the latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states from 1845:

“Rimbach near Lindenfels. - market town with luther. Parish church, belonging to the parish Mörlenbach with regard to the Catholics. - Pop. 129 H. 1229 (mostly Protestant) - Grand Duchy of Hesse. - Starkenburg Province. - Heppenheim district. - Fürth district court. - Darmstadt Court of Justice. - The market town of Rimbach, located on the Weschnitz, belongs to the estate of the Count of Erbach-Schönberg and has 2 grinding mills with 1 oil mill, 1 cutting mill and 2 brickworks. The church has a friendly location and is surrounded by tall poplars. The inhabitants, among whom there are about 130 Jews, are engaged partly in economy and partly in civil trade; several also live only on daily wages. The place has 8 cattle markets. - Rimbach has only belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse since 1806. «

The years 1846/49 were marked by social unrest, many Rimbach residents took part in the popular assembly in Ober-Laudenbach , from which the so-called Ober-Laudenbach battle developed. On May 24, 1849, more than 4,000 farmers from the Odenwald met in Ober-Laudenbach . They held a popular assembly to stand up for their constitutional rights. The meeting ended bloody when they faced 600 to 700 Hessian soldiers under government commissioner Christian Prinz. Prince declared the people's assembly illegal and demanded its dissolution. What exactly triggered the violence was never clarified; the result was a skirmish with several dead, including Christian Prinz, and with the capture of 107 men by the military. 15 of the participants in the meeting were sentenced to long imprisonment in some cases in 1851.

As a result of the March Revolution of 1848, with the "Law on the Relationships of the Classes and Noble Court Lords" of April 15, 1848, the special rights of the class were finally repealed. In addition, in the provinces, the districts and the district administration districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by "administrative districts", whereby the previous districts of Bensheim and Heppenheim were combined to form the administrative district of Heppenheim . Just four years later, in the course of the reaction era, they returned to the division into circles, and Rimbach became part of the newly created Lindenfels district .

The population and cadastral lists recorded in December 1852 showed for Rimbach: a market town with 1958 inhabitants. These include the Hof im Hopper, the Neumühle (Weschnitzmühle) and two brick huts. The district consists of 4,274 acres , of which 2,455 acres are arable land, 638 acres are meadows and 1,037 acres are forest.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the market town of Rimbach with its own mayor's office, 183 houses, 1553 inhabitants, the Lindenfels district, the Fürth district court, the Protestant parish Rimbach with the deanery in Lindenfels and the Catholic parish Mörlenbach des Deanery Heppenheim, indicated. The mayor's office is also for the hamlets of Helmsberg (2 houses, 9 inh.), Münchbach (8 houses, 67 in.), Steckerts (berg) (3 houses, 18 in.) And Lützel-Rimbach (3 houses, 13 in. ), the farms Gertelsklinger (1 house, 7 inh.), Bückerts (1 house, 9 in.) and Hopper (1 house, 13 in.) and Steinertswiese (1 house, 4 in.), as well as the Ziegelhütte (2 houses , 10 pop). All settlement areas are in the Rimbach district. The responsible tax commissioner was Zwingenberg of the Birkenau district revenue and Bensheim district revenue. The domain administration consisted of the Lindenfels Rent Office, the Wald-Michelbach Forestry Office with the Rimbach Forestry Office.

During this time, Rimbach developed into the largest market in the Weschnitz Valley , with 12 cattle and 4 annual markets held in 1845 . The traffic connection improved through the expansion of the Weschnitztalstraße to Provinzialstraße (1840–43) between Fürth and Weinheim. A further improvement was achieved with the opening of the Main-Neckar Railway in 1846, which initially connected Bensheim with Langen , Darmstadt and Heppenheim and a little later extended to Frankfurt and Mannheim . In 1869, Bensheim was connected to the Riedbahn to Worms by the Nibelungen Railway via Bürstadt and Lorsch . Because of the difficult mountain terrain on the edge of the Odenwald, the desired west-east connection into the Odenwald was led through the relatively flat Weschnitz Valley after long discussions. With the construction of the Weschnitz Valley Railway from Weinheim via Rimbach to Fürth, which went into operation on July 1, 1895, Rimbach was directly connected to the Rhine-Main-Neckar area.

In 1870, the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck provoked the Franco-German War with the so-called Emser Depesche , in which the Grand Duchy of Hesse took part as a member of the North German Confederation on the side of Prussia . Before its official end on May 10, 1871, the southern German states joined the North German Confederation, and on January 1, 1871 its new constitution came into force, with which the North German Confederation became the German Empire . On the German side, this war claimed around 41,000 deaths.

In the period up to the First World War, Rimbach experienced further economic and structural improvements. In 1870, a second class postal expedition was set up and an agency for the Heppenheim district savings bank was opened in 1873, followed by the establishment of the savings and credit association in 1875. In 1876 the foundation stone for a new school building was laid and in 1877 Rimbach received the first telegraph. In 1887, the Rimbach Higher Citizens School was founded, which was given its own school building in 1897 (today's Martin Luther School ). Rimbach received its first street lighting in 1895 using petroleum lamps. From 1876, the approval ( award ) for several ore mines in the Zotzenbach district was granted. (see also list of mines in the Odenwald ).

Further infrastructure improvements were reported for 1900, so near Worms both the Ernst Ludwig Bridge for road traffic and the railway bridge over the Rhine were opened to traffic. On January 1, 1900, the Civil Code came into force throughout the German Empire . With the laying of the water pipeline in 1909, the introduction of electricity in 1910 and the town's first motor vehicle in 1912, the industrial age also advanced in Rimbach. The numbers of emigrants show that the times were also marked by a lot of poverty. From 1881 to 1900, 529,875 German emigrants were counted.

Time of world wars

On August 1, 1914, the First World War broke out, which put an end to the positive economic development throughout the German Empire . When the armistice was signed after the German defeat on November 11, 1918, Rimbach also had many casualties, while the war cost a total of around 17 million human victims. The end of the German Empire was thus sealed, and the troubled times of the Weimar Republic followed. In the period from 1921 to 1930, there were 566,500 emigrants in Germany who tried to escape the difficult conditions in Germany. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, which marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship.

The Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were abolished in 1937 after the provincial and district assemblies were dissolved in 1936. On November 1, 1938, a comprehensive regional reform came into force at the district level. In the former province of Starkenburg, the Bensheim district was particularly affected, as it was dissolved and most of it was added to the Heppenheim district. The district of Heppenheim also took over the legal successor to the district of Bensheim and was given the new name Landkreis Bergstrasse .

In November 1938 the so-called Reichskristallnacht brought hardship and misery to the Jewish fellow citizens. The Rimbach synagogue was burned down and the homes and businesses of Jewish families were devastated. Eight Jewish merchants had already been deported to the Osthofen concentration camp . In 1933 the Jewish community still consisted of 77 people, many of whom moved away or emigrated due to increasing disenfranchisement and reprisals. In 1941 the remaining Jewish residents had to move in together. At the beginning of the deportations in 1942, ten Jewish Rimbachers still lived in the village. Of the people born in Rimbach or who lived here for a long time, 54 died as a result of the Nazi regime.

On September 1, 1939, when German troops marched into Poland, the Second World War began , the effects of which were even more dramatic than the First World War and the number of victims estimated at 60 to 70 million people. In the final phase of the Second World War in Europe, the American units reached the Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim in mid-March 1945. On March 22nd, the 3rd US Army crossed the Rhine near Oppenheim and occupied Darmstadt on March 25th. In the first hours of March 26, 1945, American units crossed the Rhine near Hamm and south of Worms, from where they advanced on a broad front towards the Bergstrasse. On March 27, the American troops were in Lorsch, Bensheim and Heppenheim and a day later Aschaffenburg am Main and the western and northern parts of the Odenwald were occupied. The war in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of all German troops, which came into effect on May 8, 1945 at 11:01 p.m. Central European Time.

The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a member state of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866 and then a federal state of the German Empire . It existed until 1919, after the First World War, the Grand Duchy for was republican written People's State of Hesse . In 1945 after the end of the Second World War , the area of ​​today's Hesse was in the American zone of occupation and by order of the military government, Greater Hesse was created , from which the state of Hesse emerged in its current borders.

Post-war and present

As the population figures from 1939 to 1950 show, Rimbach also had to cope with many refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern regions after the war . The first Rimbach Whitsun Market took place in 1950 . Other communal events in the 1950s were the inauguration of a new schoolhouse in today's Albersbach district (1953) and the construction of a village community center (1956), as well as the inauguration of the newly built gymnasium and festival hall of the Martin Luther School.

In 1961 the size of the district was given as 1069  hectares , of which 266 hectares were forest. In the 1960s the local chronicle recorded: 1962 the inauguration of a new elementary school in Rimbach (since 1996 Brothers Grimm School); In 1964 the Albersdorf district won the competition "Our village should be more beautiful" and in 1965 even the gold medal in the national competition.

In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Albersbach joined the municipality of Rimbach on January 1, 1969 . On December 31, 1971 Zotzenbach followed with the hamlet of Unter-Mengelbach and Lauten-Weschnitz and Mitlechtern . For the last two municipalities mentioned, it was a majority decision. The alternative proposal to join forces with the community of Fürth was overruled.

In the 1970 / 80s, the municipality was able to achieve further infrastructure improvements. In 1972 the new indoor swimming pool was ready for use and the construction of an evangelical kindergarten began in the center of the village. In 1977 Rimbach received a new fire station and in 1978 the sports center was handed over to its intended use. In 1981 the community kindergarten started operations and in 1982 the newly built drum hall in the Zotzenbach district was inaugurated, which serves as a sports and multi-purpose hall as well as a fire brigade base. The hall was followed in 1988 by a sports facility for the district. In 1987 the newly designed and traffic-calmed Rathausstrasse was handed over to the population.

The local history can report further events for the 1990s. In 1992, Rimbach became the seat of the youth music school of the communities in the Überwald and Weschnitz Valley. ( see also Burgstadel Rimbach ); In 1994 the Odenwaldhalle (large sports hall) and the "Johanniterhauses Weschnitztal" (retirement and nursing home) in Rimbach were inaugurated and the community received a natural gas connection. In 1995 the community celebrated its 1200th anniversary and the indoor swimming pool was destroyed by the flood of the Weschnitz.

In 1999/2000 the school building in the Albersbach district was converted into a community center and since 1999 the community has been presenting itself on the Internet.

Courts in Hessen

The competent jurisdiction was the municipal office of Schönberg until 1822, while it was part of Hesse . From 1822 to 1826 Rimbach then belonged to the regional court district of Schönberg in which the lower jurisdiction was exercised by the district administrator on behalf of the landlord. From 1826 these functions were assigned to the Fürth district court . On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts functioned as higher courts. As a result, it was renamed the Fürth District Court and assigned to the district of the Darmstadt Regional Court .

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1961: 2761 Protestant (= 79.84%), 626 Catholic (= 18.10%) residents
Gronau: Population from 1829 to 2015
year     Residents
1829
  
 1,229
1834
  
 1,395
1840
  
 1,779
1846
  
 2,208
1852
  
 1,958
1858
  
 2,046
1864
  
 1,716
1871
  
 1,703
1875
  
 1,753
1885
  
 1,787
1895
  
 1,728
1905
  
 1,886
1910
  
 2,004
1925
  
 2.174
1939
  
 2.129
1946
  
 2,998
1950
  
 3,064
1956
  
 3,193
1961
  
 3,458
1967
  
 3,871
1970
  
 4,048
1972
  
 6,770
1976
  
 7,621
1984
  
 8,182
1992
  
 8,000
2000
  
 8,400
2010
  
 8,545
2015
  
 8,600
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2000: 2015; 2010:
The figures from 1972 onwards include the places incorporated into Hesse as part of the regional reform .

politics

Community representation

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council 2016
     
A total of 23 seats
Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 38.0 9 42.6 11 52.1 16 46.3 14th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 23.8 5 25.5 6th 23.2 7th 25.2 8th
GREEN Alliance 90 / The Greens 8.9 2 13.8 4th 5.4 2 5.0 2
FW Free community of voters 17.7 4th 13.8 3 9.0 3 9.9 3
FDP Free Democratic Party 11.5 3 4.4 1 5.8 2 6.1 2
UBL Independent Citizens List - - - - 4.5 1 7.6 2
total 100.0 23 100.0 25th 100.0 31 100.0 31
Voter turnout in% 50.1 52.7 64.2 57.6
town hall

mayor

The mayor is elected directly every six years. After the Second World War, the mayors in Rimbach were consistently provided by the SPD. In the 2012 election, Holger Schmitt prevailed with 69.1 percent. He took office on August 1st. In the 2018 election, Holger Schmitt prevailed again with 78.2 percent. The turnout was 60.5 percent.

  • 1945–1946 Ludwig Nikolaus Spilger (SPD)
  • 1946–1971 Adam Schmitt (SPD)
  • 1971–1981 Georg Adam Schmitt (SPD)
  • 1981–1994 Erich Nauth (SPD)
  • 1994–2012 Hans-Jürgen Pfeifer (SPD)
  • Since 2012 Holger Schmitt (PuB)

badges and flags

Banner Rimbach (Odw) .svg

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the municipality of Rimbach

Blazon : "Shield divided and split at the bottom, blue scales in silver at the top, two silver bars in red at the bottom, divided by red and silver at the back, two at the top and a star at the bottom in mixed colors."

The RIMBACH VND ZOTZENBACHER COURT SIGEL IN AMBT SCHÖNBERG 1718 shows a full coat of arms, in the shield the inverted Erbach shield, above one and below two stars, on the helmet a growing Justitia with scales and sword. On the basis of this seal, the municipality was officially awarded the above coat of arms in 1926, in which the silver bars in red symbolize the rule of Breuberg and the scales symbolize Justitia.

flag

The flag was approved on June 6, 1977 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Flag description: "On the red and white flag cloth with five equally wide strips (middle and outer strips red) the municipal coat of arms placed on the middle strip."

Town twinning

Partnerships have been cultivated with Colwich-Haywood in England and Thourotte in France since 1983.

Culture and sights

Protestant church
Former synagogue , now the Catholic Church of St. Elisabeth

theatre

  • KUSS - student stage of the Martin Luther School
  • Youth stage - pupil stage of the Martin Luther School
  • Center Stage - English Theater - student stage of the Martin Luther School
  • Green Theater - KSG Mitlechtern

Regular events

  • Rimbacher Kerwe
  • Rimbach Whitsun Market
  • Rimbach autumn
  • Rimbach spring
  • Black salsify fast night in Rimbach
  • Nicholas party in Rimbach
  • Cool-tur
  • Rimbacher Snuff Championship

Youth groups

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Railway Station (2010)

Rimbach is located on the Weschnitz Valley Railway from Weinheim to Fürth in the Odenwald , from which the Überwald Railway branched off in Mörlenbach to Wald-Michelbach . On June 10, 1932, the Rimbach station was converted into a railway agency , but this was reversed on March 1, 1935.

The federal highway 38 continues through Rimbach. The Saukopftunnel , inaugurated in 1999, made it possible to bypass Birkenau and improved the connection between Rimbach and Weinheim and the motorway network. However, Mörlenbach has now developed as a new bottleneck and a bypass is being planned.

Martin Luther School (grammar school)

education

  • 5 kindergartens
  • 2 day nurseries
  • 3 primary schools
  • 1 secondary and secondary school
  • 1 grammar school ( Martin Luther School )

Personalities

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Main statutes , local advisory boards see § 6, PDF file 2.3 MB
  3. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), transcript from mid-August 795. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 59 , accessed on February 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Regests of the city of Heppenheim and Starkenburg Castle until the end of Kurmainzer rule (755 to 1461) . No. 5a ( digital view [PDF; 2.0 MB] - compiled and commented on by Torsten Wondrejz on behalf of the Heppenheim City Archives).
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  13. ↑ 175 headlines: The anniversary series "175 Years of Bergstrasse Advertisement". (PDF 8.61 MB) Battle near Ober-Laudenbach. P. 19 , archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Law on the Conditions of the Class Lords and Noble Court Lords of August 7, 1848 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1848 no. 40 , p. 237–241 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 42,9 MB ]).
  15. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Grand Duchy into circles of May 12, 1852 . In: Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1852 No. 30 . S. 224–229 ( online at the Bavarian State Library digital [PDF]).
  16. ↑ Wolfgang Torge : History of geodesy in Germany . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2007, ISBN 3-11-019056-7 , pp. 172 ( partial view on google books ).
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  18. ↑ Alphabetical list of places to live in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , 1869, p. 74 ( online at google books )
  19. ↑ a b c d e f g Chronology of the municipality of Rimbach on the municipality's website ( Memento from November 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ 175 headlines: The anniversary series "175 Years of Bergstrasse Advertisement". (PDF 8.61 MB) A terrible path through the valley. P. 38 , archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 .
  21. ^ Lists of casualties of the German army in the campaign 1870/71. In: Online project fallen memorials. Archived from the original on May 6, 2015 ; accessed on May 10, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Timeline on the website of the municipality of Biblis , accessed on December 1, 2014
  23. ↑ 175 headlines: The series for the anniversary. (PDF; 9.0 MB) 175 headlines: The series for the anniversary "175 Years of Bergstrasse Advertisement". 2007, p. 109 , archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; Retrieved February 9, 2015 .
  24. ↑ a b c d Rimbach, Bergstrasse district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on June 8, 2018 .
  25. ^ History of the Jewish community in Bensheim on "Alemannia Judaica" (accessed December 10, 2014)
  26. ↑ Incorporation of the Albersbach community into the Rimbach community, Bergstrasse district (point 8) on December 20, 1969 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1969 No. 1 , p. 6 ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).
  27. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 349 .
  28. ^ Ordinance on the implementation of the German Courts Constitution Act and the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act of May 14, 1879 . In: Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (ed.): Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette. 1879 no. 15 , p. 197–211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 17.8 MB ]).
  29. ^ Local elections 1972; Relevant population of the municipalities on August 4, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No.  33 , p. 1424 , point 1025 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  30. ↑ Local elections 1977; Relevant population figures for the municipalities as of December 15, 1976 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1976 No.  52 , p. 2283 , point 1668 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 10.3 MB ]).
  31. ^ Local elections 1985; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 30, 1984 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1984 No.  46 , p. 2175 , point 1104 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).
  32. ↑ local elections 1993; Relevant population of the municipalities as of October 21, 1992 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1992 No.  44 , p. 2766 , point 935 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).
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  35. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  36. ^ Result of the municipal elections on March 27, 2011. Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt.
  37. ^ Hessian result of the municipal election on March 26, 2006. Hessian State Statistical Office.
  38. ^ Firmly in the hands of the SPD . Echo Online March 5, 2012 ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  39. ↑ Clear victory for Holger Schmitt . Echo Online March 5, 2012 ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  40. ^ Matthias Rebsch: Mayoral election in Rimbach from March 4, 2018 in Echo Online; accessed on March 6, 2018. As well as in the Darmstädter Echo , Monday, March 5, 2018, p. 5.
  41. ↑ Mayoral election in Rimbach. Hessian State Statistical Office , accessed in May 2019 .
  42. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt and Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 141.
  43. ^ Approval of a flag for the municipality of Rimbach, Bergstrasse district of June 6, 1977 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1977 No. 26 , p. 1270 , point 858a ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 8,8 MB ]).
  44. ↑ town twinning. In: website. Rimbach municipality, accessed in May 2019 .
  45. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of June 11, 1932, No. 24. Announcement No. 337, p. 134.
  46. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of February 9, 1935, No. 7. Announcement No. 68, p. 25.

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