Scheidental

Scheidental municipality Mudau
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 23 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 10 ″  E
Height :	516  (500-520)  m
Area :	12.91 km²
Residents :	460  (2009)
Population density :	36 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	69427
Area code :	06284

Scheidental - consisting of the upper and lower areas - is a district of Mudau in the Odenwald with around 460 inhabitants.

geography

Scheidental is located in northern Baden-Württemberg , in the Odenwald, more precisely in the Baden Odenwald , approx. 6 km from Mudau. Oberscheidental lies on the Elz, which rises here (500 to 520 m above sea level) and is now a clustered village with the center of the village at the church. Differential (approx. 500 m above sea level) is a scattered settlement.

history

Scheidental is mentioned for the first time as "Scheidner", later as "Schedennere". Since 1395, the place appears as "upper" and "differentiating" in the documents. According to information from the General State Archives in Karlsruhe , the official date of the first documentary mention for Scheidental is the year 1310. At the time of the Romans, an important fort village on the Limes stood here . Oberscheidental forms the watershed between the Main and Neckar and probably got its name from this. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the sources repeatedly used the name forms “Scheydenauwe” or “Underschenaw”, but also “Ober-” and “Underscheydenthal”. Like the other places in the area, Scheidental owes its existence to the land development promoted by the Amorbach Monastery in the 10th and 11th centuries, which brought new settlers to the country. Fiefdom was Kurmainz in the 14th century , because according to a document, in the second half of the 14th century the Archbishop of Mainz, Boppo Rüdt von Bödigheim, enfeoffed half of the court that his father had already carried as a fief. According to a directory from 1618, the Rüdt von Bödigheim-Collenberg-Eubigheim had "serfs" in Scheidental. Until 1684, the Würzburg Monastery also had sovereign rights and subjects here. As a result of the exchange contract between Würzburg and Mainz, they came to Kurmainz in the same year, which thus received the entire village. After the Thirty Years War , Differential only had one adult male resident. Unterscheidental belonged with Oberscheidental to the Zent and to the Amtsvogtei Mudau of the Kurmainzer Oberamt Amorbach until it came to the Principality of Leiningen in 1803 , in 1806 Ober- and Unterscheidental became Baden. In 1807 they were assigned to the Buchen district office , which at that time belonged to the Main and Tauber districts. In 1912/13 the village received a regulated water supply. The merger of the communities, which had been separated since the Middle Ages, did not take place until 1935.

Scheidental has been a district of Mudau since January 1st, 1974. Land consolidation has been implemented since 2010.

church

Scheidental Church

In church terms, Scheidental belonged to the Hollerbach mother church in the Middle Ages , but it was already decoupled in the 16th century, because Mudau and twelve other parishes, including Scheidental, formed their own parish. In 1905 Scheidental became a parish curate. Already in 1846 the faithful in Scheidental asked for their own church. But it wasn't until 1868/69 that a church was built, which in November 1944 was so badly damaged by an aerial mine that hit behind the church that it was replaced by a new building in 1965.

In line with the anniversary of the parish fair, the Scheidental tent church was enriched with an organ in the summer of 2015 thanks to a generous donation. The donor is a former orphan who donated the organ as a thank you for his lovely childhood in Scheidental. The instrument, which consists of more than 600 pipes, was made by master organ builder Hans-Georg Vleugels in Hardheim and from then on always ensures special acoustics with its sound during Holy Mass.

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a Roman soldier in blue armor and red undergarment in silver on a green ground, holding a blue lance in his right hand and a blue round shield in his left.

Attractions

• Limes fort Oberscheidental

literature

• 900 years of Mudauer Odenwald, From Fronhofsverband to the Mudau community , Hans Slama, 2002, ISBN 3-929295-88-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Nordbadische Nachrichten, January 4, 2010.
2. ^ Official Journal of the Mudau Municipality, dated February 5, 2010, Association News.
3. ^ District description of the state of BW, Der Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Volume II, ISBN 3-7995-6047-5 .
4. ^ 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. 485 .
5. ^ Gbr Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Mudau e. V. and Association of Local History e. V. Schloßau / Waldauerbach (Ed.): Mudauer Jahrbuch 2015 .

Web links

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