Odenwaldkreis

The Odenwald is a district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse. Neighboring districts are in the north of Darmstadt- Dieburg, in the east of Bavaria Miltenberg district in the southeast of Baden- Württemberg Neckar- Odenwald-Kreis, in the south of also Baden-Württemberg Rhein- Neckar-Kreis and the southwest and west of the county mountain road. With a little less than 100,000 inhabitants, it is the least populated district in Hesse.

Geography

The Odenwald is the only county which lies to the entire district area in Odenwald, thus comprises the core area. The central part of the landscape of the Odenwald district is running in the south-north direction Mümlingtal and this accompanying east and west ridges. Along the Mümling the largest cities in the county are lined up: Beerfelden, Erbach, Michel town of Bad König and maximum. In the northwest, the district area extends into a portion of the Gersprenz lowland, and in the south there is the other side of the main watershed of the Main and Neckar some valleys who strive to south the river Neckar: the Finke river, the Gammelsbach, the Sensbach and the Itter.

The highest elevations of the Odenwald district are after a not designated 560.4 meters high elevation in the coal forest northwest of Bullau the Sensbacher height ( 558 meters ) and the Krähberg ( 555 meters ), both in the district top Sensbach. Würzberg and portholes are with 515 meters the two highest villages of the district and the lowest elevation is grove city on the Mümling shortly before the Bavarian border with 143 meters.

History

Until mediatization 1806, the territory of the Odenwald district, was in similar limits as for the district reform, imperial immediacy territory of the Counts of Erbach and then came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. After promulgation of the Constitution of the Grand Duchy on December 17, 1820 was followed on July 14, 1821 a comprehensive administrative reform. Instead of the District Offices districts now were used. These were the forerunners of the circles. In Erbach was founded in 1822 for the Counts Erbachischen and Erbach- Fürstenauischen offices of the chief administrative officer and the judicial district of Erbach. Also in 1822 was a district administrator and district court Breuberg based in New Town ( 1847 ) or Hochst. The Law of 31 July 1848, the administrative units have been enlarged a second time. In place of the circuits and district districts now entered government districts, the former district districts Breuberg and Lauterbach were pooled for the administrative district of Erbach it came up the District Administrator District Wimpfen, an exclave in Baden. Just four years later, but returned to disposition in circles back, which were founded in the circle Erbach, the district Neustadt and the circle Wimpfen. On 1 July 1874, Neustadt district were disbanded and the communities were integrated into the Erbach. Similarly, the circle lime rock was dissolved and gave some municipalities to the county from Erbach.

In the course of reform in 1874 made ​​the Prussian model in the Grand Duchy of Hesse circle Constitution, there was also a new constituency boundaries. The then created division of the Grand Duchy in seven provincial Starkenburgring forming circles ( Bensheim, Darmstadt, Dieburg, Erbach, wholesale Gerau, Heppenheim, Offenbach) had more than six decades of existence. After the 1936 off release of provincial and district councils in the People's State of Hesse nunmehrigen (from 1918) and in 1937 carried out repeal of the three provinces Stark Castle, Upper Hesse and Rhine Hessen, the year 1938 a review of the district boundaries. On November 1, 1938, radical local government reform was carried out in Hesse. In each of the three Hessian provinces Starkenburgring, Rheinhessen and Oberhessen each a circle was disbanded. In Starkenburgring the circle Bensheim was affected. This was for the most part the circle Heppenheim slammed, who also became the legal successor of the circle Bensheim. The new administrative entity was renamed County mountain road.

A few months later, however, the cities of Darmstadt, Giessen, Mainz, Offenbach and Worms were made ​​independent as urban districts. This circuit thus created division of the nation state had initially until the war ended in 1945 inventory.

Ahead of municipal reform in Hesse came on 1 July 1971, the municipality Laudenau from among mountain road to a citizen survey to the district of Erbach, as it the Municipality Reichel (Odenwald ) joined. With the entry into force of the law on the restructuring of the district Erbach the district area enlarged on August 1, 1972 at the communities Fränkisch- Crumbach and Brensbach ( with Wersau ) from the district Dieburg same time, the county was named Odenwald.

Policy

Council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:

District

  • June 21, 1865 - June 20, 1877 County Council Christoph Wilhelm Adolf Freiherr Schenck to pig mountain
  • June 20, 1877 - August 7, 1886: Councilman Johann Karl Jost
  • August 7, 1886 - September 20, 1888: County Council Hermann Georg Friedrich Karl Theodor von Bechtold
  • October 10, 1888 - July 16, 1894 Andreas Wilhelm Martin County Council August Breidert
  • July 16, 1894 - August 19, 1897: Councilman Dr. Gustav Weiprecht Freiherr von Gemmingen -Hornberg
  • September 6, 1897 - September 30, 1901, Councilman Frederick William Fey
  • October 1, 1901 - February 28, 1910: Councilman Karl Christian Ludwig Heinrich Wilhelm Schliephake
  • 1910-1913: County Council Adalbert Karl Ludwig Julius Freiherr Rinck by Starck
  • October 1, 1913 - April 30, 1920: Councilman Dr. Eugen Kranzbühler As a representative of the military service retracted Regional Council:
  • District director Dr. Wilhelm Anton Diehl
  • Senior Government Dr. Hermann Stammler

Coat of arms

Blazon: " On a golden background a black, rooted oak, accompanied by three six-pointed red stars " (Coat of Arms Awards November 20, 1956 )

The oak stands for the forests of the region, which gave the district its name. The three stars were the arms of the Counts of Erbach taken that have dominated this region until 1806.

District Office

The building of the district office was built in 1902-1904 by Wormser city builder and later a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Karl Christian Hofmann (1856-1933), designed in the Renaissance style by the builder and stonemason Adam Hild from Hetzbach. Extensions in 1960 and 1989 required.

At this point there was formerly the site of the court Erbacher center and then a brick hut.

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Cities

Communities

Culture

  • The German Ivory Museum Erbach presented to the public in this important European location of the ivory carving a uniquely comprehensive collection of more than 2,000 exhibits from different backgrounds and time of origin.
  • Breuberg sculptors, the Art Association Breuberg and the Community Foundation invite every year since 2002 sculptor to a meeting in order to create works of art for the sculptures on the field Breuberg floodplain. 2010 were 18 sculptures on the field.
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