Fränkisch-Crumbach

Fränkisch- Crumbach is a municipality in the Odenwald district, in Hesse ( Germany ).

• 3.1 Municipal Council
• 3.2 Mayor

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Sport

• 5.1 traffic

Geographical location

Fränkisch- Crumbach located in the Near Odenwald both sides of the Crumbachs, a left tributary of the western Gersprenz that flows at floor city in the Main. The over 16 square kilometers, quite a large district, including forested 524 acres, ranging from Gersprenz shore in the east to Rimdidim ( 499 m ) in the west and excludes a the ruins of Castle Roden stone and a number of hamlets and residential places, such as beer Bach, Eberbach, Eger, Guttersbach, Höller rear, wood meadow, dairy, Michel Bach, Rodensteinstrasse and fog stream.

Community structure

Fränkisch- Crumbach is the only municipality in the Odenwald region without inserting affiliated districts. It has not changed in the course of municipal reform in Hesse.

Neighboring communities

Fränkisch- Crumbach borders in the north on the community Brensbach, in the east and south on the community Reichel home (both in the Odenwald region ) and in the west on the town Linde rock ( circle mountain road ) and the community Fischbachtal (Darmstadt- Dieburg ).

History

The oldest surviving written mention as Crumbach dated from the year 1148. A later form of the name is, among other Crumpach. Since 1822 the form Fränkisch- Crumbach in use.

Until Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1806 the place belonged as a rule to Crumbach Rodensteiner Mark and initially belonged to the lords of Rodensteinstrasse who called Lords of Crumbach before construction of the castle Rodensteinstrasse. After their extinction in the late 17th century Frankish -Crumbach came to Hesse- Darmstadt 1806 in the Grand Duchy of Hesse came up.

Until the municipal reform in Hesse, the village belonged to the county Dieburg. On August 1, 1972 Fränkisch- Crumbach became integrated with Brensbach in the Odenwald.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal election held in 2011 yielded the following results:

Mayor

Eric Engels ( CDU ) was elected in the runoff election on April 10, 2011, 52.1 % of the vote for mayor. He took office on July 1, 2011, succeeding Gerhard Maser ( SPD ), who did not run.

Culture and sights

Structures

• The Evangelical Church of St. Lawrence was built in the 12th century in the Romanesque style. She received in 1485 a tower and a late Gothic choir with ribbed vaults. Noteworthy are the epitaphs of the Lords of Roden stones that come in part from the Renaissance.
• The Roden stone castle was built outside the town, in a tributary of the Gersprenz Valley around the year 1250 and fell into disuse after the death of the last Roden Steiner and subsequent use as a quarry from 17-18. Century ruin.
• The mansion of the Lords of Gemmingen -Hornberg was built in the late 16th century by the Roden Steinern a stately home in the village and is located since the late 17th century in the possession of the Barons of Gemmingen.
• The town hall was built in 1719 on the site of an older aristocratic possession of Johann Rudolf Victor von Pretlack as a palace of the family of Pretlack. It is since 1860 owned by the community and in 1968 was converted into a town hall.
• The Sarolta Chapel was built in 1892 by Adolph von Gemmingen as a mausoleum for his wife Sarolta. Your upper floor serves as a Catholic Chapel. In the crypt in the basement of the building owner and his wife are buried, also there are plaques commemorating the couple's children. A grave lay the barons of Gemmingen is also located on the cemetery, next to an older crypt chapel of the Barons of Pretlack.

Sports

Since 2003, every year in Frankish -Crumbach a hammer throw Meeting held on an international level.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Through the federal highway 38 ( Weinheim Roßdorf ) the community is connected to the transport network.