Rottenberg (Hösbach)

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Rottenberg
Market Hösbach
Rottenberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 22 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 278 m
Residents : 1616  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 63768
Area code : 06024
Parish church of St. Anthony of Padua in Rottenberg

Rottenberg has been part of the Hösbach market in the district of Aschaffenburg in the Bavarian region of Vor Spessart since 1978 .

geography

Rottenberg lies between Sailauf and Feldkahl at 278  m above sea level. NN and has 1661 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011) . The topographically highest point of the village mark is the summit of the Rottenberg northeast of the village at 408  m above sea level. NN , the lowest is on Güntersbach at 180  m above sea level. NN . The Degen-Weg leads through the village .

Surname

etymology

The name Rottenberg consists of the Middle High German words rode and bërc and goes back to the clearing of the forest . It means place on the cleared mountain . The nearby town of Rothengrund and the abandoned Rothenberg homestead also have the same origin . The place is popularly called "Rollmisch".

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

  • 1562 Rodenberg
  • 1836 Rotenberg
  • 1860 Rottenberg

history

In the first written mentions, the place is listed as Rodinberch . Rottenberg probably originated as a servant settlement of the vassal castles on the Graefenberg (364 m) ( Burg Graefenberg ) and Klosterberg (383 m), which were built around 1200 by the Counts of Rieneck . In 1229 Rottenberg belonged to the parish of Bessenbach and from 1480 to Sailauf . In 1632 the plague raged in Rottenberg, and the few survivors built a plague chapel on the Sailauf border ⊙ .

At the end of the 17th century, another chapel was built in Rottenberg, which was consecrated to Saint Anthony of Padua . This had to be completely rebuilt in 1789 as it threatened to collapse. In 1827 the nave was extended. In 1904, construction work on the new parish church began on the outskirts of the village. The old chapel later served as a school house, as the school house built in 1818 was converted into the town hall.

In 1784 Rottenberg belonged to the district bailiwick of Kaltenberg in the area of ​​the Vizedomamt Aschaffenburg in the Electorate of Mainz. In 1812 Rottenberg, with its 46 fireplaces and 269 souls (inhabitants), belonged to the Kaltenberg District Fair in the Aschaffenburg department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, which had replaced the Kaltenberg Bailiwick. Mayor was Heinrich Steigerwald, adjuncts were the Municipale Steigerwald and Bergmann. After the transfer to the Crown of Bavaria, Rottenberg belonged to the second class district court Kaltenberg, which was established on October 1, 1814. After the resolutions of June 30, 1828 and January 8 and 14, 1829, the Kaltenberg Regional Court was dissolved. Rottenberg came to the Aschaffenburg district court. In 1833 the church village Rottenberg consisted of 50 houses, 370 residents and a brick factory. On September 3, 1858, the district court Schöllkrippen was re-established. Rottenberg, among others, was affiliated to this from the Aschaffenburg district court. On July 1, 1862, the district court district of Schöllkrippen was incorporated into the district office of Alzenau , which was created on that day . This district office was renamed on January 1, 1939 in the district of Alzenau in Lower Franconia . With the dissolution of the Alzenau district in 1972, Rottenberg came into the newly formed Aschaffenburg district .

At the beginning of the regional reform in Bavaria, Rottenberg was supposed to form a separate municipality together with Eichenberg , but this did not materialize. Subsequently, incorporations to Sailauf or to Hösbach were up for grabs. The Rottenberger decided with over 90% of the vote in favor of incorporation into Hösbach, which came into force on May 1, 1978.

chapel

Rottenberg Chapel

Today's Rottenberger Marienkapelle, hidden in a small oak grove on the road to Sailauf (former Kirchweg), dates from 1785 and replaces the original plague chapel. It houses a Pietà of unknown provenance and dating. Your new stained glass windows (May 2006) were designed by Margareta Weigel from Willmersbach and depict Mary, the Mother of God, as well as the Saints Juliana of Liège , Joseph of Nazareth and Rottenberg's patron Antonius of Padua.

A large wooden relief with a monk scene in front of the chapel reminds of a hermitage that existed nearby until 1782. The relief bears the inscription: "In the noisy world God is silent. But in silence you can hear him".

The chapel is also a stop on one of the cultural trails of the Archaeological Spessart Project . Hiking trails connect them with Sailauf and its orchards as well as the Eichenberg (408 m) and the village of the same name .

Soil monuments

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided and divided up front in red a sechsspeichiges silver wheel , down five times split of red and gold ; behind in silver on a green three-mountain a red tin tower.

Significance : In the heraldic right upper half of the coat of arms , with the Mainz wheel and below with the coat of arms colors of the Counts of Rieneck (multiple division of gold and red, but not in full number), the rulership in the place is indicated. The Zinnenturm and the Dreiberg are reminiscent of the former Landesehre castle and the three mountains Graefenberg , Klosterberg and Rottenberg in the district . The decision of the municipal council to apply for a coat of arms dates back to December 13, 1966. The Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior issued a permit to use the coat of arms on June 15, 1967.

literature

  • Edited on behalf of the local government by Ernst Pfahler: Rottenberg, history of a village in the Vorspessart. Rottenberg 1978.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
  2. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1980 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  3. ^ Spessart map by Paul Pfinzing
  4. ↑ The Lower Main District
  5. ^ Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Bavaria on this side of the Rhine. Sheet 10 Orb
  6. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1962 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  7. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1984 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  8. ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1968 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN  0933-1328 .
  9. ^ 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. 736 .
  10. ↑ According to the letter of the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich, of January 30, 1967, from Rottenberg, Geschichte einer Dorfes im Vorspessart , Rottenberg 1978, p. 6
  11. ↑ Rottenberg, History of a Village in the Vorspessart , p. 6