Brachttal

Brachttal
Brachttal
	Coat of arms
	Location of Brachttal within Main-Kinzig-Kreis district
	Brachttal Brachttal
	Coordinates: 50°18′12″N 9°17′52″E
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Main-Kinzig-Kreis
Subdivisions	6 districts
Government
• Mayor	Wolfram Zimmer (CDU)
Area
• Total	30.85 km2 (11.91 sq mi)
Highest elevation	315 m (1,033 ft)
Lowest elevation	157 m (515 ft)
Population (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	5,068
• Density	160/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	63636
Dialling codes	06053 and 06054
Vehicle registration	MKK
Website	www.gemeinde-brachttal.de

Brachttal is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district, in Frankfurt Rhine-Main in Hesse, Germany.

Districts

The Bracht, a tributary of the Kinzig, flows through the Tal (valley) so the municipality got the name Brachttal.

Brachttal consists of six parts:

Schlierbach
Neuenschmidten
Hellstein
Spielberg
Udenhain
Streitberg

Schlierbach is the biggest part of Brachttal and also the most people live there. The administration and the tourist information of Brachttal (Gemeindeverwaltung Brachttal) are located in Schlierbach.

Schlierbach is well known for its ceramic manufacture, the Waechtersbach ceramics. Next to the manufacture there is a tegut-market, the only supermarket in Brachttal.

In Spielberg and Streitberg there are ceramic museums. In Neuenschmidten is Schloss Eisenhammer and an old big oak with a scope of 7.88 meters (25.853 ft) in 2014.[2] Today the Schloss is empty and it is offered for sale.

The famous Vogelsberger Südbahnradweg leads through Schlierbach and Hellstein. This cycle track is built on a closed railway, the Vogelsberger Südbahn which was a rail connection between Wächtersbach and Hartmannshain.

There is a buslinie to Schlierbach which starts at Wächtersbach station. The busstop Schlierbach Rathaus is in front of the administration (Gemeindeverwaltung Brachttal). More information is available by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund.

Politics

Sister cities

Rybachy, Russia – since March 2015

Coordinates/Maps of POI

Administration/Tourist Information of Brachttal (Gemeindeverwaltung Brachttal): 50.303001°N 9.298066°E / 50.303001; 9.298066
Ceramics museum Spielberg: 50.308334°N 9.270442°E / 50.308334; 9.270442
Ceramics museum Streitberg: 50.323126°N 9.257525°E / 50.323126; 9.257525
Waechtersbach ceramics factory outlet: 50.303104°N 9.301107°E / 50.303104; 9.301107
Schloss Eisenhammer: 50.321491°N 9.283791°E / 50.321491; 9.283791
Big old oak: 50.31942°N 9.28474°E / 50.31942; 9.28474
Public kneipp basin: 50.320582°N 9.281455°E / 50.320582; 9.281455

Waechtersbach ceramics - ceramic manufacture
Waechtersbach ceramics - administration buildings
Schloss Eisenhammer in Neuenschmidten
The Vogelsberger Südbahnradweg
The old locomotive in Birstein next to the cycle track

References

"Bevölkerungsstand am 31.12.2019". Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt (in German). July 2020.
"Neuenschmidten - Eine Auflistung der Monumentalsten Eichen in Deutschland. Mit Messwerten zu den einzelnen Eichen und weiteren Informationen". www.monumentale-eichen.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-01-23.

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[1] "Bevölkerungsstand am 31.12.2019". Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt (in German). July 2020.

[2] "Neuenschmidten - Eine Auflistung der Monumentalsten Eichen in Deutschland. Mit Messwerten zu den einzelnen Eichen und weiteren Informationen". www.monumentale-eichen.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-01-23.