Brensbach is a municipality in the
Odenwaldkreis
The Odenwaldkreis is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Darmstadt-Dieburg, Miltenberg, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis and Kreis Bergstraße. ''Odenwaldkreis'' belongs to the Rhine Neckar Are ...
(district) in
Hesse
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,
Germany
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.
Geography
Location
Brensbach lies in the northern
Odenwald in the Gersprenz valley.
Neighbouring communities
Brensbach borders in the north on the towns of
Groß-Bieberau
Groß-Bieberau is a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated 15 km southeast of Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (F ...
and
Reinheim
Reinheim is a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated southeast of Darmstadt.
International relations
Twin towns - Sister cities
Reinheim is twinned with:
* Licata, Italy (since 29.6.2001)
* Cestas, France ...
(although this boundary is quite short) and the community of
Otzberg
Otzberg is a municipality in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg, located in the Odenwald forest region of Germany. It was founded in 1972 by the merger of six former independent municipalities.
Otzberg consists of seven villages: Habitzheim, Herin ...
(all in
Darmstadt-Dieburg
Darmstadt-Dieburg is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Offenbach, Aschaffenburg, Miltenberg, Odenwaldkreis, Bergstraße, Groß-Gerau, and the district-free city of Darmstadt, which it surrounds.
Histor ...
), in the east on the community of
Höchst and the town of
Bad König
Bad König () is a town and resort ('' Kurort'') in the central Odenwald in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany, 29 km southeast of Darmstadt.
Geography
Neighbouring communities
Bad König borders in the north on the communiti ...
, in the south on the communities of
Brombachtal and
Reichelsheim and in the west on the communities of
Fränkisch-Crumbach
Fränkisch-Crumbach is a municipality in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Fränkisch-Crumbach lies in the middle Odenwald on the Gersprenz, which empties into the Main near Stockstadt am Main.
Neighbouring com ...
(all in the Odenwaldkreis) and
Fischbachtal (Darmstadt-Dieburg).
Constituent communities
Brensbach’s ''
Ortsteil
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e'' are Affhöllerbach, Bierbach, Brensbach, Hippelsbach, Höllerbach, Kilsbach, Mummenroth, Nieder-Kainsbach, Stierbach, Wallbach and Wersau.
Politics
The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:
Coat of arms
The community’s
arms
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*Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body
Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to:
People
* Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader
Coat of arms or weapons
*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
bear three
charge
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Music
* ''Charge'' (David Ford album)
* ''Charge'' (Machel Montano album)
* ''Charge!!'', an album by The Aqu ...
s on a white (silver) background: in the foot of the
escutcheon are some blue waves, above which is a red fire, over which is an arc of five six-pointed stars. The arms are
canting
' (IPA: , VOS Spelling: ''tjanting'', jv, ꦕꦤ꧀ꦛꦶꦁ, Tjanting) is a pen-like tool used to apply liquid hot wax ( jv, ) in the batik-making process in Indonesia, more precisely ''batik tulis'' (lit. "written batik"). Traditional '' ...
, suggesting the community’s name: the verb ''brennen'' means “burn” in
German
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** Germania (historical use)
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**Ge ...
, and ''Bach'' means “brook”. According to legend, the namesake brook, when seen under starlight, looked as though it might be burning. Likelier, though, it looked so at sunset rather than at night, since stars would not be bright enough to produce such an effect.
Town partnerships
The community of Brensbach has maintained a partnership arrangement since 1978 with the
French community of
Ézy-sur-Eure in the
Eure department in
Normandy
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.
References
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