Ruppertshütten

Ruppertshütten City of Lohr am Main Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 54 ″ N , 9 ° 32 ′ 42 ″ E
Height :	340 m
Area :	4.29 km²
Residents :	770 (June 1, 2015)
Population density :	179 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	97816
Area code :	09355

Ruppertshütten is a district of Lohr am Main and has around 800 inhabitants on an area of 429 hectares. The district is the northernmost of Lohr am Main and an exclave surrounded by the Ruppertshütten forest .

geography

" Bavarian Schanz "

The place is in the Bavarian , Lower Franconian part of the Spessart in the forest-surrounded Sindersbach valley .

Ruppertshütten also includes the former customs station, located 3 km north directly on today's Bavarian-Hessian border, later a forester's house and the current Bavarian Schanz forest restaurant complex . This is where the borders between Kurmainz , the County of Rieneck and the County of Hanau once met . Like Ruppertshütten, the Bavarian Schanz is located on the MSP 19 district road. It is also reached by a hiking trail from Ruppertshütten across the cultivated and orchard meadow landscape on the Märzenrück (500 m); From this height it is another 2.6 km over the old trading route Birkenhainer Straße .

To Gemünden am Main it is about 13 km east- south- east from Ruppertshütten and about 4 km as the crow flies to Frammersbach in the west and Partenstein in the south-west.

history

The place emerged in the 16th century from a glassmaking settlement . The Wertheim Glass Museum houses a few shards of forest glass from the glassworks (around 1700). Another historical document from this time is a sandstone cross with the inscription "Lorentz Wentzel 1671 Glasmacher". A thread glass is depicted on the cross, which comes from a grave in Ruppertshütten, but is now kept in the Spessart Museum in Lohr. The glassworks worked until the 18th century.

The first documentary mention is found in 1502. After the dynasty of Rieneck died out, the place fell to Kurmainz in 1559 , to the Principality of Aschaffenburg in 1803, to the primate state of Carl von Dalberg in 1806, to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in 1810 and finally to the on June 26, 1814 Kingdom of Bavaria, where it belonged to the administrative area of the Lohr Regional Court. The 19th century was marked by impoverishment because agriculture could not feed the population. In the 1860s, the village church was still a wooden building - the chimney-free houses were blackened with smoke.

In 1862 the district office Lohr am Main was formed, on whose administrative area Ruppertshütten was located. In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Ruppertshütten was now one of the 26 municipalities in the district of Lohr am Main (later license plate LOH ). When the Lohr district was dissolved in 1972, Ruppertshütten became part of the newly formed Main-Spessart district (later the license plate number MSP ).

The place was incorporated into Lohr on January 1, 1972 as part of the regional reform. There is only one public, unpaved road (Lehngrundstraße) to the city center of Lohr within the municipality via the Katharinenbild to the Rote Mühle between Partenstein and Lohr on the B 276 .

Worth seeing

The church in Ruppertshütten was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1874 and is dedicated to St. Wendelin . The old church, built during the Counter Reformation on the initiative of the Capuchin Father Martin von Cochem (1634–1712), was converted into a residential building due to recurring flood damage. In 2001, plans were found of their original appearance.

Oddities

In the 19th century there was a second inn, the "Hessen Schanz", about 1 km north of the Bavarian Schanz directly behind the border: It was built and managed by a Catholic family who immigrated from Mainz. In 1855 a certain Amend, Joseph, vulgo Schanzlang or Knallhans from the Hessenschanze was also on record in Bavaria.

Web links

Ruppertshütten on the Lohr website
Kulturwanderweg Archaeological Spessart Project

Individual evidence

↑ Ruppertshütten. Lohr am Main, accessed on May 7, 2016 .
^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 514 .
^ New Church: Martin von Cochem - founder of the Ruppertshüttener Church. Retrieved May 7, 2015 .

[1] Ruppertshütten. Lohr am Main, accessed on May 7, 2016 .

[2] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 514 .

[3] New Church: Martin von Cochem - founder of the Ruppertshüttener Church. Retrieved May 7, 2015 .