Roßbach (Biebergemünd)

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Rossbach
Biebergemünd municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 44 ″  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 192  (189-217)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.14 km²
Residents : 745
Population density : 92 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1971
Incorporated into: Beaver
Postal code : 63599
Area code : 06050
Aerial view of Lützel, Breitenborn, Lanzingen, Roßbach, Bieber
Aerial view of Lützel, Breitenborn, Lanzingen, Roßbach, Bieber

Roßbach is a district of the municipality of Biebergemünd in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district in Germany .

Geographical location

Roßbach is located in the Spessart Nature Park at the foot of the Kerkelberg at an altitude of 194  m above sea level. NHN , 8.5 km southeast of Gelnhausen . The federal road 276 , the German Alps – Baltic Sea holiday route , runs northeast of the village . In Roßbach the large and small Roßbach flow into the Bieber .

history

The oldest surviving mention of the place comes from the year 1339. The spelling of the place name developed from Rossebach (1339) and Rospach (1598) to today's Roßbach .

Rossbach belonged to the Bieber office , a fiefdom of Kurmainz , initially to the Counts of Rieneck . Half of the office - including Roßbach - passed to the Lords of Hanau through inheritance in 1333 . So a condominate was created . When the County of Hanau was divided in 1458, the Hanau half of the condominium came to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg . In 1559 the Counts of Rieneck died out. Their rights reverted to Kurmainz. Roßbach was now in a condominium shared between Kurmainz and the County of Hanau-Munzenberg, with the Hanau half still being a fiefdom of Kurmainz.

The village belonged to the parish of Bieber and became Lutheran during the Reformation . In 1684 the condominium between Mainz and Hanau was dissolved by a contract: The Bieber office - and with it Roßbach - was completely transferred to Hanau together with the Lohrhaupten office . Mainz received the joint office of Partenstein in full. The office of Bieber remained a fiefdom of Mainz.

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last Count of Hanau and the county of Hanau-Munzenberg fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel . In 1821 there was a fundamental administrative reform in the former Landgraviate, now known as the “ Electorate of Hesse ”. The Bieber office was dissolved, and its communities were added to the newly formed Gelnhausen district.

The narrow-gauge Spessart Railway was put into operation in 1885 to promote ore mining in the Biebertal . It led from Gelnhausen train station via Wirtheim to Lochborn. In 1951 it ceased operations. Part of the railway line has been preserved as a hiking and cycling path.

On October 1, 1971, Roßbach became part of the municipality of Bieber as part of the regional reform in Hesse , which in turn merged with Biebergemünd on July 1, 1974. On the same day, the district of Gelnhausen became part of the Main-Kinzig district .

The area of ​​the former community Roßbach was 8.14 km².

Until 2012, Roßbach was a state-approved resort .

Population development

  • 1598: 037 households
  • 1633: 034 households
  • 1753: 045 households with 236 people
  • 1895: 355 inhabitants
  • 1939: 369 inhabitants
  • 1961: 457 inhabitants
  • 1970: 487 inhabitants
  • 2012: 755 inhabitants

Cultural monuments

See: List of cultural monuments in Roßbach

societies

  • Roßbach volunteer fire department
  • RFC "Freewheel" Roßbach
  • Shooting club "Waidmannsheil" Roßbach e. V.
  • Senior Circle Roßbach
  • TTG Biebergemünd 1956 e. V.
  • Galaxy Roßbach (soccer team)

literature

  • Heinrich Reimer: Historical local dictionary for Kurhessen . Marburg 1926., p. 405.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.biebergemuend.de/seite/de/spessart/0454:38/tn_38/Zahlen_Daten_und_Fakten.html
  2. ^ Theodor Ruf: Hanau and Rieneck. About the changeable relationship between two neighboring noble families in the Middle Ages . In: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte, 8th vol., No. 6, pp. 300-311 (305ff).
  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. 362 .
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Final results after the census of September 13, 1950 (=  Statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 33 ). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Cologne 1952, p. 105 ( digital version [PDF; 27.1 MB ]).
  5. ↑ 78th meeting of the specialist committee for health resorts, recreational areas and healing fountains in Hesse on November 15, 2012 . In: State pointer for the state of Hesse . No. 7 , 2013, ISSN  0724-7885 , p. 309 .