Rothenberg

Rothenberg is the southernmost municipality in the Odenwald district, in Hesse.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 Municipal Council
• 3.2 Mayor

Geography

Rothenberg is located on the Neckar in 200-550 meters altitude in the southern Odenwald and the Geo - Bergstraße -Odenwald, 5 km north of Hirschhorn. The main village is located south of the district as a hilltop settlement in a clearing in 430 meters altitude on the back of the otherwise wooded Hirschhorner height. The district extends elongated along the Finke Bach to the northwest.

Neighboring communities

Rothenberg is bordered to the north by the city of Beer Rheinfelden ( Odenwald ), to the east by the city of Eberbach (Rhein- Neckar-Kreis in Baden -Württemberg), in the south on the town Hirschhorn ( circle mountain road ) and in the west on the town of Eberbach (district Brombach ) and the Wald- Michel Bach ( circle mountain road ).

Structure

The municipality consists of the villages Finke Bach, Hinterbach, Kortelshütte, top Hainbrunn, Raubach and Rothenberg.

History

Rothenberg came as Rodenberg in 1535, with the villages of upper - and lower - Hainbrunn Finkenbach and advocacy rights in Moosbrunn as an imperial fief to the Lords of Hirschhorn. After they died in 1632 the property went to Otto von Kronberg and after the extinction of the Counts of Kronberg 1704 the barons of Degenfeldstrasse - Schonenburg. About a wedding got possession of 1786-1801 to the Counts of Erbach- Fuerstenau. By the Act of Confederation came Rothenberg and the villages without Moosbrunn with the County of Erbach in 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Hesse -Darmstadt. 1835 Rothenberg with 1098 inhabitants was the third largest town of the District district. When in the course of industrialization, the roads were expanded, got the craftsman and market town, his transport unfavorable altitude disadvantage. An industrial development did not take place and the population declined. The townscape is dominated by agriculture until today. In 1971, the formerly independent municipalities upper Finke Bach and Raubach were incorporated. The hamlet Kortelshütte and Hinterbach were carried out in the 18th century settlement of foundations for new settlers and landless. Kortelshütte has evolved from the early 20th century by opening up a country road and designation of development areas to a spa resort. Hinterbach gained importance in the 1930s by its mineral springs.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1971, until then independent municipality Finkenbach was incorporated. Raubach was added on 1 August 1972.

Policy

Municipal council

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

Mayor

The independent mayor Hans Heinz Keursten was re-elected in the first ballot on 18 September 2005 with 91.5 % of votes.

Cultural monuments

Rothenberg and its associated villages are rich in cultural monuments. In addition to the Evangelical Lutheran Black Church from 1880 and the Lutheran parish church from 1883 in particular are several half-timbered houses as the forester's house to call Saubuche the district Raubach, also many small monuments such as wells, landmarks and parking stone rows, including the setting stone row in the upper Hainbrunn.

Around the turn of the century the accumulated grievances of the Rothenberger Upper villagers about deficiencies in the water supply. The source of great fountain on the slope of Gammelsbachtals poured enough water. The country's authorities in the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt entrusted the culture inspection and found the solution to the water supply with two water engines, supplied by the Zurich Maschinenfabrik Schmid. Each of the technically interesting motors drives a three-cylinder pump. One Drilling pump comes from the year 1902, the other is two years younger. Holdings is the historic pumping station between Kortelshütte and Rothenberg today of a circle technically enthusiastic idealists.

In counting to Rothenberg hamlet Hinterbach is also home to the last remaining hydraulic ram in the Odenwald.