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

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. 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

Sensbachtal 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' ...

and the ''Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald'' at elevations of between 300 and 550 m, 10 km away from Eberbach on the

Neckar The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar ...

Neighbouring communities

Sensbachtal borders in the east on the community of

Hesseneck Hesseneck is a village and a former municipality in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany. With only just over 600 inhabitants, Hesseneck was Hesse’s smallest self-governing community. Since January 2018, it is part of the new town Ober ...

(Odenwaldkreis), in the south on the town of Eberbach ( Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

) and in the west and north on the town 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 ...

(Odenwaldkreis).

Constituent communities

Sensbachtal’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 Hebstahl, Ober-Sensbach and Unter-Sensbach.

Politics

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results: The municipal council is thereby made up exclusively of non-party voter communities. In Hesse, this is otherwise only the case in the community of Antrifttal (

Vogelsbergkreis The Vogelsbergkreis is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the middle of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Schwalm-Eder, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Fulda, Main-Kinzig, Wetteraukreis, Gießen and Marburg-Biedenkopf. History The district was created in ...

Mayor

Egon Scheuermann has been the mayor since 1 January 2008.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The ''Jagdschloss Krähberg'' (“hunting palace”) was built about 1780, and is nowadays privately used.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

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 lies roughly 8 km from the community.

References

External links

{{Authority control Odenwaldkreis Former municipalities in Hesse