Leidersbach - History

History

The Schlossbuckel, a ridge within the outlying centre of Ebersbach and Soden, one of neighbouring Sulzbach’s outlying centres, had already been settled before the Christian era, as witnessed by finds there. In Roman times, likely in the 2nd century, a Celtic refuge fort – for the protection of civilians in time of war – was built, which in the Middle Ages was reinforced with a stone castle. This castle, however, fell into disrepair and was in the course of the 19th century cleared away, so that only the circular rampart can be seen today. Nonetheless it is a popular outing destination, for throughout Germany only three Celtic circular ramparts still exist.

The founding of the community itself came about in the Middle Ages. By comparing the place with other places with similar name origins, it can be inferred that the places ending in —bach (meaning “brook” in German) were likely founded in Carolingian times in the late 8th century. Ebersbach had its first documentary mention in 1183, and Leidersbach and Roßbach had theirs in 1200. Volkersbrunn’s first written reference is from 1248.

Already by this time, these villages belonged to Electoral Mainz. When this state was dissolved by the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, the villages passed to the newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg, with which they passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria.