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Mosbach (German: [ˈmoːsˌbax] (listen); South Franconian: Mossbach) is a city in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the seat of the Neckar-Odenwald district and has a population of approximately 25,000 distributed in six boroughs: Mosbach Town, Lohrbach, Neckarelz, Diedesheim, Sattelbach and Reichenbuch.

Mosbach
Town
Location of Mosbach within Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis district
Mosbach
Mosbach
Coordinates: 49°21′8″N 9°8′48″E
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionKarlsruhe
DistrictNeckar-Odenwald-Kreis
Subdivisions6
Government
  Lord mayor (201422) Michael Jann[1] (CDU)
Area
  Total62.23 km2 (24.03 sq mi)
Elevation
156 m (512 ft)
Population
 (2020-12-31)[2]
  Total23,425
  Density380/km2 (970/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
74821
Dialling codes06261, 06263 (Reichenbuch), 06267 (Sattelbach)
Vehicle registrationMOS, BCH
Websitewww.mosbach.de

Geography


Located about 35 km east of Heidelberg, it is situated south of the Odenwald mountains at a height of 134-354m at the confluence of the Neckar and the Elz. The town is part of the conservation area Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald and the UNESCO Geopark Bergstraße-Odenwald.


History


The settlement of Mosbach developed around the Benedictine monastery of Mosbach Abbey ("Monasterium Mosabach"), the first written record of which dates from the 9th century. In 1241 rights and privileges had been granted to Mosbach as an Imperial free city. These rights were lost in 1362 when Mosbach became part of the Electorate of the Palatinate. With the division of the lands of King Rupert in 1410, Mosbach became the capital of a small principality known as Palatinate-Mosbach as the inheritance for his son Otto I. With the death of his brother John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt 1443, the territory of Palatinate-Neumarkt was added in a personal union to Palatinate-Mosbach creating the territory of Palatinate-Mosbach-Neumarkt. This principality was dissolved with the death of Count Palatine Otto II in 1499. The city and adjoining territory reverted to the Electorate of the Palatinate, and Mosbach became the capital of the administrative district of "Oberamt Mosbach". In 1806 the city was made part of the Grand Duchy of Baden. In World War II, the Mosbach area was the location of a Daimler-Benz[3] underground airplane engine factory,[3][4] codenamed "Goldfisch".[3] It was occupied by the 289th Combat Engineer Battalion in the immediate postwar period.


Twin towns and sister cities


Mosbach is twinned with:[5]


Points of interest


Historic sites include:

Mosbach lies on two heritage routes:


See also



References


  1. Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 13 September 2021.
  2. "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2020" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2020] (CSV). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg (in German). June 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  3. "A Year of Potsdam". Office of Military Government. Economics Division. 1946.
  4. Gurney, Gene (Major, USAF) (1962), The War in the Air: a pictorial history of World War II Air Forces in combat, New York: Bonanza Books, p. 220
  5. "Partnerstädte". mosbach.de (in German). Mosbach. Retrieved 2021-02-25.

На других языках


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[ru] Мосбах

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