Gorxheimertal

Gorxheimertal is a municipality in the Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany. It is in the Odenwald and the Rhine Neckar Area.

Gorxheimertal
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Gorxheimertal within Bergstraße district
Gorxheimertal Gorxheimertal
Coordinates: 49°32′N 8°44′E
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Bergstraße
Subdivisions	3
Government
• Mayor (2023–29)	Frank Kohl
Area
• Total	10.46 km2 (4.04 sq mi)
Elevation	222 m (728 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	4,156
• Density	400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	69517
Dialling codes	06201
Vehicle registration	HP
Website	www.gorxheimertal.de

Geography

Location

The community lies along the length of the Grundelbach valley in the Odenwald. The nearest big town is Weinheim, and the way there also marks the division between the Odenwald and the Hessisches Ried (part of the Upper Rhine valley), as well as the boundary between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

Through the community’s namesake Gorxheim valley – it is called the Gorxheimertal in German – flows the Grundelbach. At the eastern point of the constituent community of Trösel rise the two mountains Waldskopf and Daumberg, which also mark the Gorxheim valley’s eastern limit.

Neighbouring communities

Gorxheimertal borders in the north on the community of Birkenau, in the east on the community of Abtsteinach, in the southeast on the community of Heiligkreuzsteinach and in the south and west on the town of Weinheim (both in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg).

Constituent communities

The community’s Ortsteile are Gorxheim, Unter-Flockenbach and Trösel.

Daumberg in the Gorxheimertal

Waldskopf in the Gorxheimertal

History

About 900, Unter-Flockenbach had its first documentary mention as a Waldhufendorf ("forest village"), followed by Trösel’s in 1071 as an offenes Reihen-Hufendorf (a similar concept). Gorxheim was first mentioned in 1486 in connection with a copper mine there. Originally the Lorsch Abbey’s holdings, the Archbishopric of Mainz acquired them in 1232, yielding them to Electoral Palatinate in 1463, which in 1623 passed them back to Mainz. In 1803, the valley became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, where it was administered within the Abtsteinach region (Bezirk).

Amalgamations

In 1971 the communities of Gorxheim and Unter-Flockenbach merged to form the community of Grundelbachtal, which itself then swallowed up the community of Trösel the next year to become today’s community of Gorxheimertal.

Politics

Community council

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:

Parties and voter communities		% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	37.4	6	53.9	12
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	33.3	6	46.1	11
Pro-Tal	Pro-Gorxheimertal	29.3	5	–	–
Total		100.0	17	100.0	23
Voter turnout in %		41.4		46.7

External links

• Community’s official webpage (in German)