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

Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...

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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 Germany, German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Location The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße Route, Bergstraße and the ''Hessisches Ried' ...

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 th ...

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

), in the south on the town of Eberbach ( Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg) and in the west on the community of Sensbachtal (Odenwaldkreis).

Constituent communities

Hesseneck’s ''

Ortsteil A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located ...

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 ''Castra'' () is a Latin language, Latin term used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire for a military 'camp', and ''castrum'' () for a 'Fortification, fort'. Either could refer to a building or plot of land, used as a fortified milita ...

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 using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

; 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 ''Bundesstraße'' (, ), 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'' are labelled with re ...

'' 45 (

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

– 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