Sommerkahl
Sommerkahl is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg and a member of the administrative community Schöllkrippen.
- 2.1 Etymology
- 2.2 Earlier spellings
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 monuments
- 5.2 Structures
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical Location
Sommerkahl lies in the Bavarian Lower Main region in Kahlgrund on the bacon Kahl.
Community structure
The municipality has two Sommerkahl officially named districts on a district:
East of Sommerkahl are two small enclaves of the municipality in the area of fat bald source. The Schöllkrippener forest is a second, uninhabited district ( not the district ), which is not to be confused with the unincorporated area.
The former districts upper and lower Sommerkahl Sommerkahl are now grown structurally and form the district Sommerkahl.
Neighboring communities
Name
Etymology
The name Sommerkahl derives from the eponymous creek Sommerkahl flowing to the Kahl at Langenborn.
Earlier spellings
Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:
History
The oldest district is sub Sommerkahl. This farming community is mentioned in the 13th century and completed by the mining settlement of Upper Sommerkahl in the late Middle Ages. At the same time was on the mountainside in the 16th and 17th centuries the district " side of the wood " ( Vormwald ).
Policy
Parish council
After the last municipal election on March 2, 2008, the council has twelve members. The turnout was 61.9 %. The choice was as follows:
Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor.
Coat of arms
Blazon In red diagonally crossed a fallen silver mallet and a fallen silver hammer over a lowered narrow silver wave beams, including a horizontally lying golden oak leaf
Coat of Arms history In the upper part of the coat of arms Tools mallets and hammers of the miners recall the copper mines and the iron mining that are documented for the municipality since 1542. 1922 mining was stopped. To commemorate the end of the mining industry, the tools are plunged in the coat of arms. The wave bar represents the geographical location of the village on the river Kahl. The oak leaf indicates the oak range Spessart, where the spot is. The colors red and silver represent the electorate of Mainz, one of the Sommerkahl 982-1803. The coat of arms was awarded on February 7, 1972
Culture and sights
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Sommerkahl
Structures
- Catholic parish church
- Town hall
- Former copper mine pit Wilhelmine. 1542-1922 where copper was first over and since 1871 also mined underground. The mine can be visited by appointment.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Leni Rüth, a resident of the town, was home in the winter of 1944 to 1945, the Jewish born Elfriede Otto Fleischmann and her son Joachim Peter from Jena, who immersed face of their impending deportation, and thus saved their lives.
- From Sommerkahl the " mountain lion " Herbert Stenger originate (* 1948) and the German national football team, Heiko Westermann ( * 1983), which is currently in the service of Hamburger SV.