Grasellenbach Travel Guide
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Grasellenbach Overview
The community lies in the Odenwald and the UNESCO Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald at elevations between 420 and 580 m above sea level. The southern Odenwald’s two most important brooks, the Ulfenbach and the Weschnitz, which both rise in the constituent community of Hammelbach where the Neckar-Rhine watershed runs, flow through the community’s several centres.
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Things to See in Grasellenbach
Evangelische Kirche Hammelbach
Katholische Kirche Hammelbach
Rathaus
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Maps and Driving Directions to Grasellenbach
Grasellenbach is linked with Autobahn A 5 by Bundesstraße 460.
Burgruine Lindenfels
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- Homepage of Grasellenbach: Grasellenbach (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Grasellenbach
More about the History of Grasellenbach
The community of Grasellenbach took its current form in 1972 through the merger of the formerly self-governing communities of Hammelbach (Litzelbach), Gras-Ellenbach, Wahlen and Scharbach.
These centres had already had a bond lasting from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century when they were all in Electoral Palatinate’s Aicher Cent (tithing area). Only Litzelbach belonged to the Abtsteinach tithing area in the Archbishopric of Mainz (Mainz vacation rentals | Mainz travel guide). The Cent – an administrative division similar to a community today – bore the name Aicher or Hammelbacher Cent. The name Aicher Cent it got from the court’s location, which lay where a Gefehlte Aiche – an oak with many trunks – stood. Hammelbach’s first documentary mention goes back to the year 795, while the other constituent communities had theirs about 1300. Electoral Palatinate’s and Mainz’s overlordship in the area lasted until 1802, when under the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss they all became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
The village, whose livelihood originally came from craftsmen and farmers, experienced an upswing in the 19th century owing to the boom in new red sandstone processing. In the 20th century, tourism grew in importance, earning an especially prominent place in Gras-Ellenbach’s local economy. The community of Grasellenbach as a whole nowadays has roughly 4,000 inhabitants.
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