Hesseneck is a village and a former municipality in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

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. With only just over 600 inhabitants, Hesseneck was Hesse’s smallest self-governing community. Since January 2018, it is part of the new town

Oberzent Oberzent is a town in the district of Odenwaldkreis, in Hesse, Germany. It was created with effect from 1 January 2018 by the merger of the former town Beerfelden and the former municipalities of Hesseneck, Rothenberg and Sensbachtal. Geography ...

Geography

Location

The community lies in the southern

Odenwald The Odenwald () is a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Location The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße and the ''Hessisches Ried'' (the northeastern section ...

at the foot of the Krähberg at elevations of 230 to 500 m. It lies at the three-state common point shared by Hesse,

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and

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. The community's name itself means "Hesse Corner". The outlying centre of Hesselbach has no road link to Hessian territory and can only be reached through Baden-Württemberg.

Neighbouring communities

Hesseneck borders in the north on the towns of

Beerfelden Beerfelden (pronunciation: ˈbeːɐˌfɛldən) was a town in the Odenwald in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany, 28 km northeast of Heidelberg. On 1 January 2018 Beerfelden, Hesseneck, Rothenberg and Sensbachtal merged to create ...

and Erbach (both in the Odenwaldkreis) as well as the market town of

Kirchzell Kirchzell is a market community in the Miltenberg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. Geography Location This community in the Odenwald lies at the three-state common point shared b ...

( Miltenberg district in Bavaria), in the east on the community of Mudau (

Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from east clockwise) Main-Tauber-Kreis, Hohenlohe-Kreis, Heilbronn, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Odenwaldkreis (Hesse) and Landkre ...

), in the south on the town of Eberbach (

Rhein-Neckar-Kreis The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is a district in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The administrative headquarters are based in the city Heidelberg, which is a district-free city. As of 2019, the district is the most populous in Baden-Württe ...

in Baden-Württemberg) and in the west on the community of

Sensbachtal Sensbachtal is a village and a former municipality in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany. Since January 2018, it is part of the new town Oberzent. Geography Location Sensbachtal lies in the southern Odenwald and the ''Geo-Naturpark B ...

(Odenwaldkreis).

Constituent communities

Hesseneck’s ''

Ortsteil A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population t ...

e'' are Hesselbach, Kailbach and Schöllenbach (the community’s administrative seat)

Politics

The municipal election held on 6 March 2016 yielded the following results: *CDU: 3 seats *SPD: 8 seats

Mayor

Mayor Thomas Ihrig (SPD) was reelected in the first vote held on 12 June 2005 with 71.7% of the vote, he was also reelected in 2011.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

*Worth seeing is the course of the Neckar-Odenwald Limes through the outlying centre of Hesselbach with the like-named castrum and the watchtower foundation as well as the ''Quellkirche'' (church) at Schöllenbach (built in 1465). *Near Kailbach is found the ''Haintalviadukt'' on the ''Odenwaldbahn'' (

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

; RMV Line 65). It has nine arches each with a 15 m span, and is 173 m long and 30 m high.

Nature

*Eutersee (lake with bathing)

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Hesseneck is linked to the long-distance road network by '' Bundesstraße'' 45 (

Hanau Hanau () is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ...

– Eberbach), with Erbach lying 9 km along the road. The ''Odenwaldbahn'' serves the community with two halts in Kailbach and Schöllenbach.

References

{{Authority control Odenwaldkreis Former municipalities in Hesse