Rossbach (Erbach)

Rossbach City of Erbach Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	355 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	April 1, 1953
Postal code :	64711
Area code :	06062
	Aerial view of Roßbach (bottom left), with Mossau valley behind

Roßbach is a district of Erbach in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

Roßbach is a hamlet that essentially consists of the Roßbacher Hof , a large agricultural homestead, and around 15 inhabited properties. It is located in the Erbach district a good three kilometers west of the city center in the red sandstone area of the Odenwald in a wide, forest-free hollow in the headwaters of the Roßbach, which as a left western tributary flows through the wooded valley of the Brudergrund towards the Mümling . In 1854 the district area was 533 acres , of which 474 mg were arable and 59 mg were meadows. The forest-free areas around Roßbach in the Erbacher district are measured today on around 1.19 square kilometers, which corresponds to the above-mentioned 533 Mg. The field markings extend from north to south-west as far as a ridge that curves around Roßbach at a constant 415 meters high. The closest localities are the core town of Erbach in the east, Steinbuch in the north, Ober-Mossau in the north-west, Unter-Mossau in the south-west and Elsbach in the south-east.

history

The hamlet of Rossebuoch was first mentioned in a document in 1095 in the Lorsch Codex . In 1806 the place came with the county of Erbach to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and in 1840 received the status of an independent district . In 1856 the place had 58 inhabitants and belonged to the district of Erbach . With effect from April 1, 1953, the independent district Roßbach was dissolved by a resolution of the Hessian state government at the same time as a number of other independent districts. Roßbach was incorporated into the city of Erbach. This cabinet resolution, which was apparently inadequate from a legal point of view, was confirmed retrospectively by the law on the incorporation of parish-free land in the Darmstadt administrative region of July 4, 1966 (GVBl. I p. 177).

traffic

The district road K 49 from Erbach to Unter-Mossau turns at the upper exit of the Brudergrund to the south-west and leads south past Roßbach. Shortly before the bend in the K 49, the street Zum Roßbacher Hof branches off to the right, thus opening up the town.

Web links

Roßbach district. In: Internet presence. City of Erbach; accessed in September 2018
Roßbach, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Literature about Roßbach in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 141, October 27, 1095 - Reg. 3628. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 194 , accessed on June 11, 2018 .
↑ Dissolution of the independent districts and land in the administrative district of Darmstadt, here district of Erbach (point 486) from April 24, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1953 No. 19 , p. 417 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,4 MB ]).
↑ Law on the incorporation of parish-free land in the Darmstadt administrative region (§ 23 and § 40) of July 4, 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1966 No. 20 , p. 177 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 939 kB ]).

[1] Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 141, October 27, 1095 - Reg. 3628. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 194 , accessed on June 11, 2018 .

[2] Dissolution of the independent districts and land in the administrative district of Darmstadt, here district of Erbach (point 486) from April 24, 1953 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1953 No. 19 , p. 417 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,4 MB ]).

[3] Law on the incorporation of parish-free land in the Darmstadt administrative region (§ 23 and § 40) of July 4, 1966 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1966 No. 20 , p. 177 ff . ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 939 kB ]).