Gorxheimertal

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Lageplan =
Bundesland = Hessen
Regierungsbezirk = Darmstadt
Landkreis = Bergstraße
Höhe = 222
Fläche = 10.46
Einwohner = 4092
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 69515–69517
PLZ-alt = 6946
Vorwahl = 06201
Kfz = HP
Gemeindeschlüssel = 06 4 31 008
Gliederung = 3
Adresse = Siedlungsstraße 35
69517 Gorxheimertal
Website = [http://www.gorxheimertal.de/ www.gorxheimertal.de]
Bürgermeister = Uwe Spitzer
Partei =

Gorxheimertal is a community in the Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany. It is in the Odenwald and the Rhine Neckar Area.

Geography

Location

The community lies along the length of the Grundelbach valley in the Odenwald. The nearest big town is Weinheim, and the way there also marks the division between the Odenwald and the "Hessisches Ried" (part of the Upper Rhine valley), as well as the boundary between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

Through the community’s namesake Gorxheim valley – it is called the "Gorxheimertal" in German – flows the Grundelbach. At the eastern point of the constituent community of Trösel rise the two mountains Waldskopf and Daumberg, which also mark the Gorxheim valley’s eastern limit.

Neighbouring communities

Gorxheimertal borders in the north on the community of Birkenau, in the east on the community of Abtsteinach, in the southeast on the community of Heiligkreuzsteinach and in the south and west on the town of Weinheim (both in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg).

Constituent communities

The community’s "Ortsteile" are Gorxheim, Unter-Flockenbach and Trösel.

History

About 900, Unter-Flockenbach had its first documentary mention as a "Waldhufendorf" (roughly, a “row village”), followed by Trösel’s in 1071 as an "offenes Reihen-Hufendorf" (a similar concept). Gorxheim was first mentioned in 1486 in connection with a copper mine there. Originally the Lorsch Abbey’s holdings, the Archbishopric of Mainz acquired them in 1232, yielding them to Electoral Palatinate in 1463, which in 1623 passed them back to Mainz. In 1803, the valley became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, where it was administered within the Abtsteinach region ("Bezirk").

Amalgamations

In 1971 the communities of Gorxheim and Unter-Flockenbach merged to form the community of Grundelbachtal, which itself then swallowed up the community of Trösel the next year to become today’s community of Gorxheimertal.

Politics

Community council

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

External links

* [http://www.gorxheimertal.de/ Community’s official webpage] de icon