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Oberzent (, ) is a town in the district of Odenwaldkreis, in Hesse, Germany. It was created with effect from 1 January 2018 by the merger of the former town Beerfelden and the former municipalities of Hesseneck, Rothenberg and Sensbachtal.

Key facts

German location.type
Stadt
German location.image_coa
Oberzent Wappen.png
German location.image_plan
Oberzent in ERB.svg
German location.state
Hessen
German location.region
Darmstadt
German location.district
Odenwaldkreis
German location.elevation
415
German location.area
165.61
German location.postal_code
64760
German location.area_code
06068, 06276, 06275
German location.licence
ERB
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
06 4 37 016
German location.divisions
19 quarters
German location.mayor
Christian Kehrer
German location.leader_term
2024–30

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  • Geography
  • Neighbouring communities
  • Constituent communities
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Oberzent (, ) is a town in the district of Odenwaldkreis, in Hesse, Germany. It was created with effect from 1 January 2018 by the merger of the former town Beerfelden and the former municipalities of Hesseneck, Rothenberg and Sensbachtal.

==Geography== ===Neighbouring communities=== Oberzent borders in the north on the municipality of Mossautal, the town of Erbach and the municipality of Kirchzell (Miltenberg district in Bavaria), in the east on the municipality of Mudau (Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg), in the south on the towns of Eberbach (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg) and Hirschhorn (Neckar) (Kreis Bergstraße) and in the west on the municipality of Wald-Michelbach (Kreis Bergstraße).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oberzent” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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