Buchen
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Buchen is a town in Germany Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg
, Germany
. It is situated in the Odenwald
low mountain range, 23 km northeast of Mosbach
.
and the Bauland area, along the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes
. It lies geographically in the triangle formed by the cities of Mannheim
, Würzburg
and Heilbronn
. The precincts of the municipality lie in the Natural Park of the Neckar
Valley and the Odenwald and in the Geo-Natural Park of Bergstrasse-Odenwald, at an altitude of between 250 and 500 metres.
To the city area of Bödigheim belong the village of Bödigheim, the farms of Faustenhof, Griechelternhöfe, Rosshof and Sechelseehöfe and the Sägmühle House. To the city area of Buchen-Stadt belongs the town of Buchen (Odenwald). To the city areas of Eberstadt, Götzingen, Hettigenbeuern, Hettingen, Hollerbach, Oberneudorf und Stürzenhardt belong all the villages of the same names. To the city area of Einbach belongs the village of Einbach and the farmstead of Einbacher Mühle. To the city area of Hainstadt belong the village of Hainstadt and the land covered by the Hainstadt train station. To the city area Unterneudorf belong the village of Unterneudorf and the house Unterneudorfer Mühle. To the city area of Waldhausen belong the village of Waldhausen the farmstead Gehöft Glashof.
In the city area of Eberstadt lie the deserted medieval towns of Klarenhof and Reinstadt and in the city area of Götzingen the deserted towns of Rönningen and Buklingen.
times, a wall known as the Limes Germanicus
was built in the area as a fortification. Many stretches of this wall are still visible today.
Buchen was first mentioned in the Lorscher Codex, the deeds of the Lorsch Monastery, where it appears as Buchheim, and makes a number of donations to the monastery in the year 773. The location was already populated in prehistoric and in Roman times and in Carolingian
times it was under the influence of the Amorbach Monastery, the Reeves (Vogt
) of which, the Lords of Dürn, held the rights of jurisdiction over Buchen. In the second half of the 13th Century Buchen was given the right to call itself a city. On the fall of the Lords of Dürn, Buchen was sold in 1303/1309 to the Archbishop of Mainz and remained his territory for 500 years. In 1346 Buchen formed the Federation of Nine Towns ( Neunstädtebund) along with Amorbach, Aschaffenburg, Dieburg, Külsheim, Miltenberg, Seligenstadt, Tauberbischofsheim and Walldürn.
In 1382 the Elector Ruprecht I. failed in an attempt, to break the town during a battle with the Mainz Electorate. The already formidable medieval town fortifications were again strengthened in about 1490 and now even enclosed the western suburbs. During the course of the town’s expansion in 1492 the so-called Wartturm on the Wartberg was built higher, and in the same year the so-called Steinerne Bau or ‘Stony Building’ took its place as the seat of the Official belonging to the Electorate of Mainz. The town had early importance as a market town. Alongside the four great Yearly Markets (Shrove Tuesday
Market (Fastnachtsmarkt), the May Market, the Jakobi Market und Martin Market) were especially the Yarn, Cloth and Horse Markets as well as the ‘Weekly Market, held every Monday.
During the Peasants' Revolt
in 1525 Götz von Berlichingen
was forced to become the leader of the Peasant mob in the courtyard of the Steineres Haus ‘the Stony House’ (nowadays the Museumshof). After the defeat of the Peasants the Nine City Federation of the provincial administration was in fact dissolved, and Buchen lost its right to self-government.
In the Thirty Years War the place was now conquered by the Swedes. These had to yield, however, about 1634 royal troops. On this occasion a great fire broke out in the town, in which 153 houses were sacrificed. The church, the Parsonage, the Upper Mill, the Hausener Court and probably the castle was also destroyed here. Further sacrifices had to be suffered with the arrival of famines and epidemics. Out of 215 citizens and 16 Jews only 29 citizens, 5 widows und 26 houses survived. The fields were poisoned.
In 1688 French troops beset the town As a result of a lightning strike in 1717 a new catastrophic fire occurred in the centre of town, to which about half of the buildings fell victim, among which were the old Town Hall and the church.
In 1803 after the dissolution of the electorate of Mainz and as a result of decisions made by national deputies, Buchen was assigned to the Principality of Leiningen, which had been resettled on the orders of Napoleon, 1806 it was then switched to the Grandduchy of Baden
. 1815 three of the city towers were torn down, only the western gate was retained (the Mainzer Tor). The Baden Revolution of 1848/49 also found support in Buchen, and some of its citizens burned the records of the Leiningen rent offices. Despite the failure of the revolution, the citizens retained some of the rights they had fought for.
Buchen was already the seat of a district office (Amt) in the Prince Elector Era of Mainz. This position as centre of administrative power kept the city under the rule by Leining and Baden. In 1938 the Bezirk administration of Buchen became the Landkreis of Buchen.
On Kristallnacht 1938 the synagogues in Buchen and Bödigheim were desecrated. In the following deportations of the 34 inhabitants of Jewish belief who had been living in Buchen in 1933 at least 13 were killed. The former common cemetery in Bödigheim still bears testament to earlier Jewish community life in the close-knit, surrounding area, which was staunchly catholic.
During the course of the district reforms in 1973, the Buchen district was dissolved and the city was made a member of the Neckar-Odenwald-District.
(since February 1991). The former mayor of Buchen became a county commissioner (Landrat) for the NOK in Mosbach.
ing of the coat of arms
says: 'In silver on a green hill with three peaks, on the outer knoll of which is a green branch leaning outwards, a green beech, the trunk of which has a stapled red shield leaning on it, on which there is a silver wheel with six spokes.'
The District Hospital in Buchen serves the whole area, and there are also a number of old people’s homes. Buchen had one of the first housing facilities in the whole country based on the model of assisted living.
The Buchen (Odenwald) Railway Station lies on the stretch of rail going from Seckach to Miltenberg (KBS 709, also called the Madonnenlandbahn), which has a further stop in East Buchen (Buchen Ost). Railway services are run by the Westfrankenbahn. The ÖPNV (Open Personal Suburban Transport) provides buses in the Rhine-Neckar transport area.
Stuttgart Airport
and Frankfurt (am Main) Airport
are both about 100 km away. The aerodrome is the Walldürn Airfield. The nearest inland port is Wertheim am Main
.
), which belongs to the court circuit of Mosbach
. Furthermore, in Buchen-Hainstadt is the headquarters of the regional office of the Archbishopric of Freiburg
for the region of Odenwald-Tauber, to which belong the Deanery of Mosbach-Buchen and the home of the Bishop of Tauber
.
Buchen has a correspondent's office of South-West Broadcasting (Südwestrundfunk) and since 1951 there has been a transmitter for the company (the Buchen-Walldürn transmitter) in the north-west of the city, in Walldürne Strasse. Until 1993, the first station of South-West Broadcasting was being broadcast over this transmitter on the middle-wave frequency 1485 kHz, although the support for the antenna was a 60 metre high unharnessed, steel framed mast, that served as a self-beaming mast fed from the nadir and insulated against earthing. 1993 the medium wave service was tweaked and the ultra short wave antenna on its tip was expanded. As a result it was not only increased in height, but also made to cover a greater area. Since there were no more plans to receive the medium wave transmissions, the guy-wires of the uppermost level were not provided with isolators.
Frequencies
The Stalactite
Cave (Tropfsteinhöhle) in Eberstadt is approximately 600 metres long and between one to two million years old. Since 1973 tourists have been shown round it. (It forms part of the Geo-Naturpark Bergstrasse-Odenwald). It contains a rich range of stalactites, including very slender examples and extremely conical stalagmites, flags of calc-sinter, terraces of calc-sinter and crystals. Since the cave remained sealed after its discovery and tours took place from the very beginning using electric light, the stalactites are still predominantly as white as chalk, as opposed to most of the older German caves that are shown to the public, where the use of candles and flaming torches caused the stalactites to go blackish.
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is situated in the Odenwald
Odenwald
The Odenwald is a low mountain range in Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Location :The Odenwald lies between the Upper Rhine Rift Valley with the Bergstraße and the Hessisches Ried in the west, the Main and the Bauland in the east, the Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin – a subbasin of...
low mountain range, 23 km northeast of Mosbach
Mosbach
Mosbach is the capital of the Neckar-Odenwald district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 58 km east of Heidelberg. Its geographical position is 49.21'N 9.9'E....
.
Geography
Buchen is situated on the seam between the south-eastern OdenwaldOdenwald
The Odenwald is a low mountain range in Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Location :The Odenwald lies between the Upper Rhine Rift Valley with the Bergstraße and the Hessisches Ried in the west, the Main and the Bauland in the east, the Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin – a subbasin of...
and the Bauland area, along the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes
Limes Germanicus
The Limes Germanicus was a line of frontier fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, dividing the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes from the years 83 to about 260 AD...
. It lies geographically in the triangle formed by the cities of Mannheim
Mannheim
Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....
, Würzburg
Würzburg
Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....
and Heilbronn
Heilbronn
Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is completely surrounded by Heilbronn County and with approximately 123.000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state....
. The precincts of the municipality lie in the Natural Park of the Neckar
Neckar
The Neckar is a long river, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, but also a short section through Hesse, in Germany. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the River Rhine...
Valley and the Odenwald and in the Geo-Natural Park of Bergstrasse-Odenwald, at an altitude of between 250 and 500 metres.
Structure of the city
The municipality of Buchen (Odenwald) consists of 14 city areas Bödigheim, Buchen-City (Buchen-Stadt), Eberstadt, Einbach, Götzingen, Hainstadt, Hettigenbeuern, Hettingen, Hollerbach, Oberneudorf, Rinschheim, Stürzenhardt, Unterneudorf and Waldhausen. The city areas cover the same areas that were occupied by the former townships with the same names, with the exception of the city area called Buchen-Stadt which is officially designated 'Buchen (Odenwald) - …. The city areas are, at the same time, subdivided into 13 residential districts (Wohnbezirke) in terms of the arrangement of municipalities in Baden-Württemberg, whereby the city areas of Buchen-Stadt and Hollerbach are joined together into one residential district. With the exception of the city area of Buchen-Stadt, all city areas contain towns (Ortschaften) in terms of the Baden-Württemberg arrangement of municipalities, each having its own town council (Ortschaftsrat) and provost..To the city area of Bödigheim belong the village of Bödigheim, the farms of Faustenhof, Griechelternhöfe, Rosshof and Sechelseehöfe and the Sägmühle House. To the city area of Buchen-Stadt belongs the town of Buchen (Odenwald). To the city areas of Eberstadt, Götzingen, Hettigenbeuern, Hettingen, Hollerbach, Oberneudorf und Stürzenhardt belong all the villages of the same names. To the city area of Einbach belongs the village of Einbach and the farmstead of Einbacher Mühle. To the city area of Hainstadt belong the village of Hainstadt and the land covered by the Hainstadt train station. To the city area Unterneudorf belong the village of Unterneudorf and the house Unterneudorfer Mühle. To the city area of Waldhausen belong the village of Waldhausen the farmstead Gehöft Glashof.
In the city area of Eberstadt lie the deserted medieval towns of Klarenhof and Reinstadt and in the city area of Götzingen the deserted towns of Rönningen and Buklingen.
History
In RomanAncient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
times, a wall known as the Limes Germanicus
Limes Germanicus
The Limes Germanicus was a line of frontier fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, dividing the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes from the years 83 to about 260 AD...
was built in the area as a fortification. Many stretches of this wall are still visible today.
Buchen was first mentioned in the Lorscher Codex, the deeds of the Lorsch Monastery, where it appears as Buchheim, and makes a number of donations to the monastery in the year 773. The location was already populated in prehistoric and in Roman times and in Carolingian
Carolingian
The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD. The name "Carolingian", Medieval Latin karolingi, an altered form of an unattested Old High German *karling, kerling The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the...
times it was under the influence of the Amorbach Monastery, the Reeves (Vogt
Vogt
A Vogt ; plural Vögte; Dutch voogd; Danish foged; ; ultimately from Latin [ad]vocatus) in the Holy Roman Empire was the German title of a reeve or advocate, an overlord exerting guardianship or military protection as well as secular justice...
) of which, the Lords of Dürn, held the rights of jurisdiction over Buchen. In the second half of the 13th Century Buchen was given the right to call itself a city. On the fall of the Lords of Dürn, Buchen was sold in 1303/1309 to the Archbishop of Mainz and remained his territory for 500 years. In 1346 Buchen formed the Federation of Nine Towns ( Neunstädtebund) along with Amorbach, Aschaffenburg, Dieburg, Külsheim, Miltenberg, Seligenstadt, Tauberbischofsheim and Walldürn.
In 1382 the Elector Ruprecht I. failed in an attempt, to break the town during a battle with the Mainz Electorate. The already formidable medieval town fortifications were again strengthened in about 1490 and now even enclosed the western suburbs. During the course of the town’s expansion in 1492 the so-called Wartturm on the Wartberg was built higher, and in the same year the so-called Steinerne Bau or ‘Stony Building’ took its place as the seat of the Official belonging to the Electorate of Mainz. The town had early importance as a market town. Alongside the four great Yearly Markets (Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday is a term used in English-speaking countries, especially in Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Germany, and parts of the United States for the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season of fasting and prayer called Lent.The...
Market (Fastnachtsmarkt), the May Market, the Jakobi Market und Martin Market) were especially the Yarn, Cloth and Horse Markets as well as the ‘Weekly Market, held every Monday.
Peasants' Revolt
The Peasants' Revolt, Wat Tyler's Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381 was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a major event in the history of England. Tyler's Rebellion was not only the most extreme and widespread insurrection in English history but also the...
in 1525 Götz von Berlichingen
Götz von Berlichingen
Gottfried "Götz" von Berlichingen and also known as Götz of the Iron Hand, was a German Imperial Knight and mercenary....
was forced to become the leader of the Peasant mob in the courtyard of the Steineres Haus ‘the Stony House’ (nowadays the Museumshof). After the defeat of the Peasants the Nine City Federation of the provincial administration was in fact dissolved, and Buchen lost its right to self-government.
In the Thirty Years War the place was now conquered by the Swedes. These had to yield, however, about 1634 royal troops. On this occasion a great fire broke out in the town, in which 153 houses were sacrificed. The church, the Parsonage, the Upper Mill, the Hausener Court and probably the castle was also destroyed here. Further sacrifices had to be suffered with the arrival of famines and epidemics. Out of 215 citizens and 16 Jews only 29 citizens, 5 widows und 26 houses survived. The fields were poisoned.
In 1688 French troops beset the town As a result of a lightning strike in 1717 a new catastrophic fire occurred in the centre of town, to which about half of the buildings fell victim, among which were the old Town Hall and the church.
In 1803 after the dissolution of the electorate of Mainz and as a result of decisions made by national deputies, Buchen was assigned to the Principality of Leiningen, which had been resettled on the orders of Napoleon, 1806 it was then switched to the Grandduchy of Baden
Baden
Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....
. 1815 three of the city towers were torn down, only the western gate was retained (the Mainzer Tor). The Baden Revolution of 1848/49 also found support in Buchen, and some of its citizens burned the records of the Leiningen rent offices. Despite the failure of the revolution, the citizens retained some of the rights they had fought for.
Buchen was already the seat of a district office (Amt) in the Prince Elector Era of Mainz. This position as centre of administrative power kept the city under the rule by Leining and Baden. In 1938 the Bezirk administration of Buchen became the Landkreis of Buchen.
On Kristallnacht 1938 the synagogues in Buchen and Bödigheim were desecrated. In the following deportations of the 34 inhabitants of Jewish belief who had been living in Buchen in 1933 at least 13 were killed. The former common cemetery in Bödigheim still bears testament to earlier Jewish community life in the close-knit, surrounding area, which was staunchly catholic.
During the course of the district reforms in 1973, the Buchen district was dissolved and the city was made a member of the Neckar-Odenwald-District.
Incorporation of new areas
Thirteen new localities were incorporated into Buchen as a result of the municipality reforms up to 1975: Stürzenhardt in 1971; Unterneudorf in 1972; Oberneudorf, Bödigheim, Waldhausen and Einbach in 1973; Götzingen, Hainstadt, Hettigenbeuern, Hettingen and Rinschheim in 1974; and, finally, Eberstadt and Hollerbach in 1975. In 1986 the 'Home Days' for Baden-Württemberg took place for the first time.The Municipal Council
The local elections of the 13th of June 2004 produced the following results:| Party | Votes | Seats | ||
| CDU (Christian Democratic Union Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum... ) |
64,0 % | (+1,8) | 18 | (+1) |
| FWV (Free Voters Free Voters Free Voters is a German concept in which an association of persons participates in an election without having the status of a registered political party. Usually it is a locally organized group of voters in the form of a registered association . In most cases, Free Voters are active only at the... ' Union) |
21,8 % | (−0,2) | 7 | (=) |
| SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... ) |
14,2 % | (+1,4) | 4 | (=) |
| Others | 0,0 % | (−3,0) | 0 | (=) |
Mayor
Since February 2006 Roland Burger has been the mayor of the city of Buchen. He had previously been the mayor of the city of OsterburkenOsterburken
Osterburken is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 28 km southwest of Tauberbischofsheim, 50 km northeast of Heilbronn, 90 km east of Heidelberg, 60 km southwest of Würzburg and 30 km east of Mosbach...
(since February 1991). The former mayor of Buchen became a county commissioner (Landrat) for the NOK in Mosbach.
The Coat of Arms
The blazonBlazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image...
ing of the coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
says: 'In silver on a green hill with three peaks, on the outer knoll of which is a green branch leaning outwards, a green beech, the trunk of which has a stapled red shield leaning on it, on which there is a silver wheel with six spokes.'
Coats of Arms of the Former Townships
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Economy and Infrastructure
Since Buchen is midway between the rivers Neckar and Main an economic structure developed based on production, trade, handicrafts, and service providers and people settled in the industrial areas.The District Hospital in Buchen serves the whole area, and there are also a number of old people’s homes. Buchen had one of the first housing facilities in the whole country based on the model of assisted living.
Communications
Buchen can be reached by the Bundesautobahn 81, Exit Adelsheim/Osterburken, the main road (from the south) or from the Exit Tauberbischofsheim, Bundesstrasse 27 (from the north); as well as from the A 6, Exit Sinsheim, B 292 and B 27 (from the south-west).The Buchen (Odenwald) Railway Station lies on the stretch of rail going from Seckach to Miltenberg (KBS 709, also called the Madonnenlandbahn), which has a further stop in East Buchen (Buchen Ost). Railway services are run by the Westfrankenbahn. The ÖPNV (Open Personal Suburban Transport) provides buses in the Rhine-Neckar transport area.
Stuttgart Airport
Stuttgart Airport
Stuttgart Airport is an international airport located approximately south of Stuttgart, Germany....
and Frankfurt (am Main) Airport
Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport may refer to:Airports of Frankfurt, Germany:*Frankfurt Airport , the largest airport in Germany*Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, a general aviation airport*Frankfurt-Hahn Airport , a converted U.S...
are both about 100 km away. The aerodrome is the Walldürn Airfield. The nearest inland port is Wertheim am Main
Wertheim am Main
Wertheim is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg with a population of 24,202. It is located on the confluence of the rivers Tauber and Main.It is known for its wine, castle and medieval town centre.-Geography:...
.
Authorities, Courts and Public Establishments
Buchen is the seat of a local court (AmtsgerichtAmtsgericht
Amtsgericht is German for Local District Court, situated in Germany in almost every larger capital of a rural district.It mainly acts in Civil and Criminal law affairs. It forms the lowest level of the so-called ordinary jurisdiction of the German judiciary , which is responsible for most criminal...
), which belongs to the court circuit of Mosbach
Mosbach
Mosbach is the capital of the Neckar-Odenwald district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 58 km east of Heidelberg. Its geographical position is 49.21'N 9.9'E....
. Furthermore, in Buchen-Hainstadt is the headquarters of the regional office of the Archbishopric of Freiburg
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
for the region of Odenwald-Tauber, to which belong the Deanery of Mosbach-Buchen and the home of the Bishop of Tauber
Tauber
For the singer, see Richard Tauber.For the mathematician, see Alfred Tauber.The Tauber is a river in Franconia, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Main and is 122 km in length...
.
Educational institutions
Buchen has a wide variety of schools, as a result of which many students commute daily to the former county town. There is a technical vocational school, with a high school for those who want to specialize in engineering or information technology; a high school for general education; a technical school for social education; a home economics school; as well as several secondary modern schools, junior schools, primary schools and special schools.Media
- Fränkische Nachrichten (Franconian News), issued in Buchen/Walldürn, edited in Buchen
- Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (Rhine-Neckar Newspaper), issued as Nordbadische Nachrichten, edited in Buchen
- South-West Broadcasting, office Buchen
Buchen has a correspondent's office of South-West Broadcasting (Südwestrundfunk) and since 1951 there has been a transmitter for the company (the Buchen-Walldürn transmitter) in the north-west of the city, in Walldürne Strasse. Until 1993, the first station of South-West Broadcasting was being broadcast over this transmitter on the middle-wave frequency 1485 kHz, although the support for the antenna was a 60 metre high unharnessed, steel framed mast, that served as a self-beaming mast fed from the nadir and insulated against earthing. 1993 the medium wave service was tweaked and the ultra short wave antenna on its tip was expanded. As a result it was not only increased in height, but also made to cover a greater area. Since there were no more plans to receive the medium wave transmissions, the guy-wires of the uppermost level were not provided with isolators.
Frequencies
| Frequency | Station | ERP |
|---|---|---|
| 91,9 MHz | SWR 1 | 100 W |
| 94,1 MHz | SWR 3 | 50 W |
| 97,1 MHz | SWR 2 | 100 W |
| 100,6 MHz | DasDing | 100 W |
| 107,5 MHz | SWR 4 | 25 kW |
Culture and sights
Buchen lies on the Siegfried Way (Siefriedstrasse), a tourist road, which takes people to many worthwhile sights.Theatres
- Productions of the Baden County Stage
- The concert series known as ‘Buchen in concert’
Museums and cultural institutions
- The Regional Museum of Buchen (with the Joseph Martin Kraus Memorial Place)
- The Culture Forum Vis-à-Vis (presenting, among other things, exhibitions of the Neckar-Odenwald Art Society).
- The City Library
- The Adult Education Centre
- The City Joseph Martin-Kraus Music School
- The City Home Library ‘Between the Neckar and the Main“
- The Library of Judaism
- The Hermann Cohen Academy for Religion, Science and Art
- The International Joseph Martin Kraus Society
- The memorial marking the former Synagogue
- The City Archives
- The commemorative plaque for the victims of fascism in the old Jewish cemetery, with the names of eight Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Kleineichholzheim
- A memorial plaque at number 35 Vorstadtstrasse, commemorating the Synagogue destroyed during the National-Socialist Era
- Faschenachtsmuseum – a small display of carnival characters and memorabilia in the Guildhall of the Fasenachtsgesellschaft Narrhalla, open by appointment
The stalactite cave in Eberstadt
Stalactite
A stalactite , "to drip", and meaning "that which drips") is a type of speleothem that hangs from the ceiling of limestone caves. It is a type of dripstone...
Cave (Tropfsteinhöhle) in Eberstadt is approximately 600 metres long and between one to two million years old. Since 1973 tourists have been shown round it. (It forms part of the Geo-Naturpark Bergstrasse-Odenwald). It contains a rich range of stalactites, including very slender examples and extremely conical stalagmites, flags of calc-sinter, terraces of calc-sinter and crystals. Since the cave remained sealed after its discovery and tours took place from the very beginning using electric light, the stalactites are still predominantly as white as chalk, as opposed to most of the older German caves that are shown to the public, where the use of candles and flaming torches caused the stalactites to go blackish.
Further sights and buildings
- The Roman Upper Germanic-Rhaetian LimesLimes GermanicusThe Limes Germanicus was a line of frontier fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, dividing the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes from the years 83 to about 260 AD...
, the greatest ground monument in Europe runs round the edge of the city area Walldürn through Buchen, in the direction of OsterburkenOsterburkenOsterburken is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 28 km southwest of Tauberbischofsheim, 50 km northeast of Heilbronn, 90 km east of Heidelberg, 60 km southwest of Würzburg and 30 km east of Mosbach...
. Until around the year 260 the Romans used the Limes as a protective wall keeping them safe from the AlamanniAlamanniThe Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic tribes located around the upper Rhine river . One of the earliest references to them is the cognomen Alamannicus assumed by Roman Emperor Caracalla, who ruled the Roman Empire from 211 to 217 and claimed thereby to be...
and from other Germanic tribes. They built it all the way from RheinbrohlRheinbrohlRheinbrohl is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. A reconstructed Roman watchtower marks the beginning of the Germanic limes....
a distance of 500 km up to the DanubeDanubeThe Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway.... - One of the original buildings by the architect Egon EiermannEgon EiermannEgon Eiermann was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century....
, the annex to the Hotel Prinz Carl built in 1967, in which the rooms and features created by him are still in use (since then it has been ascribed as belonging to the classical modern style) - Where the present-day town of Bödigheim now stands the knight Wiprecht Rüdt built a castle in the year 1286; at the end of the 16th Century it was upgraded into a Renaissance palace. Between 1712 and 1720 the new Castle (Schloss) of Rüdt von Collenberg was built by Johann Jakob Rischer in Bödigheim
- The ruins of a Jewish Mikveh in Bödigheim
- The Old Town Hall (Hallen-Rathaus) in the centre of the old town
- The Wartberg-Tower (on the hill called the Wartberg)
Regular Events
- FastnachtFastnachtThe Swabian–Alemannic Fastnacht is the pre-Lenten carnival in Alemannic folklore in Switzerland, southern Germany, Alsace and western Austria....
(Shrove Tuesday Night): the Buchen 'Faschenacht' is a region-wide attraction, which has brought thousands of visitors to the area every year for as long as anyone can remember. During the annual 'Fasching' pageant it is compulsory at least to kiss the behind of the symbolic figure, whose origins date back to the Middle Ages, the Buchen Blecker - Goldener Mai (Golden May)- Jazz-Sessions in the whole of the municipal region. On the first Saturday in May
- The Pre-Summer Festival – Brass bands in the courtyard of the museum (Museumshof) on a weekend in the middle of June – including the Cellerbar ('Zeitmaschine': Time-machine) on the Saturday. Organized by the City Band and the Catholic Church Choir
- The Shooting Market (Schützenmarkt), a traditional festival in the first week of September every year. (A market for shopping and amusement)
- The Buchen Cult-Night
- Ow-art (Art from the Odenwald), the Odenwald art fair, brought to life by the artist Patris Semma. This takes place in the Frankenlandhalle
Sons and Daughters of the City
- 13th Century, Albrecht Pilgrim von Buchheim, Minnesinger (mentioned in the Codex Manesse)
- 1460, Konrad WimpinaKonrad WimpinaKonrad Wimpina was a German Roman Catholic theologian and humanist of the early Reformation period. He was a quiet and stubborn conservative, considered quiet but somewhat narrow...
, died 17 May 1531 in Amorbach, Roman Catholic Theologian - 1672, Gottfried BesselJohann Franz BesselJohann Franz Bessel was a German Benedictine abbot and historian.-Life:...
, died 1749 in Göttweig, abbot and scholar - 1765, Marianne Kraus, painter and lady-in-waiting, sister of Joseph Martin KrausJoseph Martin KrausJoseph Martin Kraus , was a composer in the classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Germany. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm...
- 1830, 20 May, Wilhelm EmeléWilhelm EmeléWilhelm Emelé was a German painter of horses, military scenes and hunting scenes.-Biography:...
, died 11 October 1905 in FreiburgFreiburgFreiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
in the BreisgauBreisgauBreisgau is the name of an area in southwest Germany, placed between the river Rhine and the foothills of the Black Forest around Freiburg im Breisgau in the state of Baden-Württemberg. The district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, which partly consists of the Breisgau, is named after that area...
, German battle painter - 1866, 24 March, Franz Josef Wittemann, died 10 September 1931 in KarlsruheKarlsruheThe City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
, German politician (centre), member of the LandtagLandtagA Landtag is a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority.- Name :...
(Baden), State President of BadenBadenBaden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany.... - 1892, 30 June, Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, died 12 April 1966 in Karlsruhe, painter
- 1897, 10 July, Ludwig Schwerin, died 2 July 1983 in Ramat Gan, painter
- 1950, 21 September Wunibald Müller, German writer and pastoral psychologist
- 1952, 5 June, Heinz Fischer-Heidlberger, President of the Bavarian Chief Audit Office
- 1965, 17 September, Ulrike Ballweg, Co-trainer of the German Women's National Football Team
Other personalities, who worked in Buchen
- Joseph Martin KrausJoseph Martin KrausJoseph Martin Kraus , was a composer in the classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Germany. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm...
, (1756–1792), composer - Juliana von Stockhausen (1899–1998), writer
External links
- Buchen, the City’s official internet site.
- Bezirksmuseum Buchen, The official web-presence of the Buchen County Museum (Bezirksmuseum Buchen)
- Buchen, description and illustration of the historical Buchen on a private website
- Schloss Bödigheim- Illustrated presentation of the complex, an abbreviated history of the Baron Rüdt von Collenberg, the relations of the present occupiers and how it is currently used on the Website of the Freiherrlich Rüdt von Collenberg Castle Society.
- Synagogue, the Jewish History of the City Districts Bödigheim and Eberstadt in the web-presence of Alemannia Judaica – A working group for research into the history of the Jews in area of South Germany, and neighbouring regions.