Rothenberg

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Rothenberg
City of Oberzent
Rothenberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 420 m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.06 km²
Residents : 871  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2018
Postal code : 64760
Area code : 06275

Rothenberg is a district of Oberzent in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse . Until December 31, 2017, Rothenberg was the administrative seat of the previously independent municipality of Rothenberg.

geography

Rothenberg is located 170 to 495 meters above sea level in the southern Odenwald and the Geo-Nature Park Bergstrasse-Odenwald , five kilometers north of Hirschhorn am Neckar . The main town is located in the south of the municipality as a hillside settlement in a clearing at 420 meters above sea level on the back of the otherwise wooded Hirschhorner Höhe . The district stretches along the Finkenbach to the northwest. The district area is 1506 hectares (1961), of which 938 hectares are forested.

Neighboring places

Rothenberg borders in the north on Beerfelden (Odenwaldkreis), in the east on the city of Eberbach ( Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg ), in the south on the city of Hirschhorn ( district Bergstrasse ) and in the west on the city of Eberbach (district Brombach) and the community of Wald-Michelbach (Bergstrasse district).

structure

The district Rothenberg also includes Kortelshütte and upper grove Brunn . These have been Oberzent's own districts since 2018.

history

Rothenberg came as Rodenberg in 1535 with the villages of Ober-Hainbrunn and Unter-Finkenbach and Vogteirechten in Moosbrunn as an imperial fiefdom to the Lords of Hirschhorn . After their extinction in 1632 the property passed to Otto von Kronberg and after the death of the Counts of Kronberg in 1704 to the barons of Degenfeld-Schonburg . The property was bought by the related Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau from 1786–1801. Through the Rhine Confederation Act , Rothenberg and the villages without Moosbrunn with the County of Erbach came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 . In 1835 Rothenberg was the third largest village in the district with 1,098 inhabitants. When the traffic routes were expanded in the course of industrialization, the location of the craftsmen and market place was at a disadvantage because of its altitude, which is not ideal for traffic. Industrial development did not take place and the population declined. The townscape is still strongly characterized by agriculture. In 1971 the previously independent communities of Ober-Finkenbach and Raubach were incorporated. The hamlets of Kortelshütte and Hinterbach were settlements for new settlers and the dispossessed in the 18th century. From the early 20th century onwards, Kortelshütte developed into a climatic health resort after opening up a country road and designating new building areas. Hinterbach gained importance in the 1930s for its mineral springs.

Expansion of the municipal area from 1972 to 2017

In the run-up to the regional reform in Hesse , on July 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Finkenbach with the district Hinterbach was incorporated into the municipality of Rothenberg on a voluntary basis . Raubach joined on August 1, 1972. After the regional reform, the community of Rothenberg covered an area of ​​30.48 km² with 2265 inhabitants on December 31, 2015.

Declining population numbers and economic reasons led to efforts to merge the communities of Hesseneck , Beerfelden , Rothenberg and Sensbachtal into one community with the name Oberzent on January 1, 2018 . In referendums on March 6, 2016, the majority of the citizens of the four municipalities each voted in favor. With a participation of 70.4% in the vote, the majority in Rothenberg was 71.4% of the citizens voting. The former postal code 64757 for Rothenberg has only been used by the Hirschhorn district of Unter-Hainbrunn since the merger , which is now the smallest village in Hesse with its own postal code.

Population development

The population of the municipality developed over time as follows (unless otherwise noted, taken from the publications of the Hessian State Statistical Office):

month and year population   month and year population
June 1976 2246   December 2012 2302
December 2009 2389   December 2013 2266
December 2010 2382   December 2014 2233
December 2011 2364   December 2015 2265

politics

Former community council

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 15 seats
  • SPD : 4
  • CDU / BuLiRo : 2
  • WGR : 9
 Parties and constituencies %
2016 		Seats
2016 		%
2011 		Seats
2011 		%
2006 		Seats
2006 		%
2001 		Seats
2001
WGR Voters' association community Rothenberg 58.2 9 54.8 8th 52.0 8th 45.5 7th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 26.8 4th 29.0 4th 35.1 5 41.5 6th
CDU / BuLiRo Christian Democratic Union of Germany / Bunte Liste Rothenberg 15.0 2 - - - - - -
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany - - 16.1 3 12.8 2 13.0 2
total 100.0 15th 100.0 15th 100.0 15th 100.0 15th
Voter turnout in% 70.5 57.2 63.3 72.4

mayor

After the Hessian municipal constitution is the Mayor Chairman of the Municipal Board , the volunteer next to the mayor five in the municipality Rothenberg councilor belonged. The last mayor was Hans Heinz Keursten (* 1952 in Wankum , † June 1, 2019 Oberzent) from February 2000 until the dissolution of the municipality . His directly elected predecessors were:

  • 1994 to 2000 Willi Menges, (SPD)

badges and flags

Banner Rothenberg (Odw) .svg

coat of arms

Rothenberg coat of arms
 Blazon : “ In a split shield above in gold a growing Black Imperial Eagle , below in red a golden acorn, each with a golden stag pole. "

The coat of arms of the community of Rothenberg was approved on July 16, 1979 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior . It was designed by the Bad Nauheim heraldist Heinz Ritt .

flag

The flag was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on October 7, 1981 and is described as follows:

"The municipal coat of arms is placed on the red / gold flag web in the upper half."

Cultural monuments

In Rothenberg and the associated localities, there is a considerable number of cultural monuments worth seeing . In addition to the Evangelical Lutheran Black Church from 1880 and the Evangelical Parish Church from 1883, several half-timbered houses in particular , as well as numerous small monuments such as six fountains, boundary stones and rows of positioning stones , have been awarded.

At the turn of the century, complaints from residents of Rothenberg about deficiencies in the water supply increased. The source of the Great Fountain on the slope of the Gammelsbach valley poured enough water. The state authorities in the Grand Duchy of Hesse entrusted the Darmstadt Cultural Inspectorate and they found the solution to supply water with two water motors , supplied by the Schmid machine factory in Zurich. Each of the technically interesting motors drives a three-cylinder pump . One of the triple pumps dates from 1902, the other is two years younger. The historic pumping station between Kortelshütte and Rothenberg is operated today by a group of technically enthusiastic idealists.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rothenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rothenberg, 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. ^ 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; Para. 15. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the district of Erbach (GVBl. II 330–16) of July 11, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1972 No. 17 , p. 224 , § 7 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1,2 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 358 f .
  6. ↑ Citizens' decision on March 6, 2016 in Rothenberg. In: www.statistik-hessen.de. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on March 6, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Statistical reports from the Population Department 2009–2015 , accessed on January 3, 2018
  8. ↑ 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 ]).
  9. ^ Result of the municipal election on March 6, 2016. Hessian State Statistical Office, accessed in April 2016 .
  10. ↑ Ex-Mayor Hans Heinz Keursten is dead , online edition of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung www.rnz.de ; accessed on July 31, 2019
  11. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: direct elections in Rothenberg
  12. ↑ Hans Heinz Keursten goes to www.eberbach-channel.de from September 25, 2011 in his third term of office .
  13. ↑ Echo online from April 30, 2016: Jubilee. Rothenberg's Mayor Keursten has worked in the public service for 50 years. Accessed January 2018.
  14. ↑ Approval of a coat of arms and a flag of the community of Rothenberg, Odenwaldkreis from June 16, 1979 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1979 No. 32 , p. 1611 , point 870 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.4 MB ]).
  15. ↑
  16. ^ Approval of a flag for the community of Rothenberg, Odenwaldkreis from October 7, 1981 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1981 No. 43 , p. 2008 , item 1211 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 7,8 MB ]).