Heinrichsthal
Heinrichsthal is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg and a member of the administrative community Heigenbrucken. It is the highest village in the entire Spessart and the smallest independent municipality in the district of Aschaffenburg.
- 2.1 Etymology
- 2.2 Earlier spellings
- 3.1 Population development
- 4.1 municipal
- 5.1 monuments
- 6.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
- 6.2 Education
- 6.3 telecommunications
Geography
Geographical location
Heinrichsthal lies in the Bavarian Lower Main region at the upper end of the Lohrbachtals.
Community structure
The municipality Heinrichsthal has three officially named districts on a district:
- Heinrichsthal Upper Lohr reason
- Under Lohr reason
Townscape
Thanks to its plateau location Heinrichsthal has an unusual for the Spessart Towns image and is not - as the name suggests - in a typical Spessarttal. The streets go star-shaped from the village square in the comparatively gentle elevations of the place. As tourism in Heinrichsthal never played a role in the townscape is mainly characterized by one-and two -family homes.
Neighboring communities
Name
Etymology
The name Heinrichsthal goes to the personal name Henry Fleckenstein, the first glassmaker in place back. The basic words in place names, both the landscape designation valley and occasionally the hut.
Earlier spellings
Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:
History
In 1636, first appeared on the name of the master of a glassworks, which was in this region. Henry Fleckenstein of the glassworks in Woller book. Also in 1639 is another overseer named Jacob Fleckenstein. 1647 was Heinrich Fleckensteins glassworks in Lohr reason, but not burned through 34 weeks. From an account book from 1652 shows that Henry and Jacob were brothers. In 1664 appeared the first time the two place names " Henry Grundt andt Jacobs Thael " as the layer name on. The latter became the present-day town Jakobsthal. With the 1678 enters a new stage of history, because this year Heinrichsthal is called for the first time as a village. For 7 homes and 10 cattle the first tax had to be paid.
As part of the archbishopric of Mainz Heinrichsthal fell in the secularisation of 1803 to the newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg the Prince Primate von Dalberg, with which it passed in 1814 (now a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ) came to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. Until the Bavarian municipal reform in 1972, the community Heinrichsthal was part of the district Alzenau, which was dissolved with the reform and added to the present district of Aschaffenburg. Thus Heinrichsthal belongs to the extended circle Aschaffenburg.
Today you can still find the initials of Henry Fleckenstein in Heinrichsthaler crest.
Population Development
Policy
Parish council
After the last municipal election on March 2, 2008, the council has eight members, all stood as candidates on a common list. The turnout was 64.9 %. Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the directly elected mayor. Incumbent Guido Schramm ran again in 2008 on the list of " Independent Citizens " and was re-elected. He had no rival candidates.
Culture and sights
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Heinrichsthal
Economy and infrastructure
The municipal tax revenue amounted in the year 2009 692.000 €, of which amounted to the trade tax revenues ( net) € 270,000 and the municipality share of the income tax € 323,000. The community share of the sales tax amounted to € 13,000.
Economy, agriculture and forestry
It was in 2009 according to official statistics 87 employees at the workplace. Including manufacturing 56, in the area of trade, transport and hospitality 5 and corporate services 10 social insurance contributions. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 318 This results in a commuter outflows, ie 231 more off than commuters. In Heinrichsthal 2009, there were no establishments with 20 or more employees.
In addition, in 2009 there were 8 farms with an agricultural area of 267 ha, of which 186 ha of arable land and 81 ha of permanent grassland.
Education
There are the following facilities (as of 2010):
- Kindergarten: 28 kindergarten places with 19 children