Haisterbach is a village in Erbach im Odenwald

Erbach im Odenwald

-Location:The town lies in the Odenwald at elevations between 200 and 560 m in the valley of the Mümling.-Neighbouring communities:Erbach borders in the north on the town of Michelstadt, in the east on the market town of Kirchzell , in the south on the community of Hesseneck and the town of...

, 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...

. im hessischen Odenwaldkreis

Odenwaldkreis

The Odenwaldkreis is a Kreis 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 Area.-History:...

. It also incorporates the hamlet of Marbach.

Haisterbach lies 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...

, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) southeast of city center. It was first mentioned in 1353. In 1939 the village had a population of 232.

The bus line 34 of the Odenwald-Regional-Gesellschaft (OREG) serves this village. It could also be reached via the Bundesstraße 45.

Names

The name has changed over the years:

• Heysterbuch (1353)
• Heisterbuch (1414)
• Hesterbuch (1434)
• Heysterbuch (1443)
• Heisterbach (1484)

External links

• Infos auf der Homepage der Stadt Erbach
• Ortslexikon von Hessen