Brombachtal 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
The community lies in the centre of the
Odenwald near
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 ...
.
Neighbouring communities
Brombachtal borders in the north and east on 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 town of
Michelstadt
Michelstadt () in the Odenwald is a town in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in southern Hesse, Germany between Darmstadt and Heidelberg. It has a population of 28,629 people.
Geography
Location
Michelstadt is the biggest town in the Odenwaldkr ...
and in the west on the communities of
Reichelsheim and
Brensbach
Brensbach is a municipality in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Brensbach lies in the northern Odenwald in the Gersprenz valley.
Neighbouring communities
Brensbach borders in the north on the towns of Groß-Bi ...
.
Constituent communities
Brombachtal’s five ''
Ortsteil
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
e'' are Birkert, Böllstein, Hembach, Kirchbrombach (the community’s administrative seat) and Langenbrombach.
Politics
The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:
Mayor
At the
runoff election on 11 June 2004, Willi Kredel (SPD) was elected Mayor of Brombachtal with 66.9% of the vote.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
In the centre of Kirchbrombach stands the
Evangelical
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual expe ...
church built in the mid 15th century with its
polyptych
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, or “winged”, altar, built in 1518 and dedicated to
Saint Alban
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. The church belonged until the
Reformation
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...
to
Saint Alban’s Abbey in
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
The community is linked to the long-distance road network by ''
Bundesstraße
''Bundesstraße'' (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.
Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...
n'' 45 (
Hanau -
Eberbach) and 47 (
Walldürn
Walldürn is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 23 km southwest of Wertheim.
The town of Walldürn consists of the ten districts Walldürn-Stadt, Altheim, Gerolzahn, Glashofen, Gottersdor ...
-
Worms Worms may refer to:
*Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs
Places
*Worms, Germany
Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had ...
).
References
External links
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