Buchen

Buchen is a town in Germany Neckar Odenwald district, in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany. It is situated inside the Odenwald low mountain variety, 23 km northeast of Mosbach. In Roman times, a wall known as the Limes Germanicus was constructed in the vicinity as a fortification. Many stretches of this wall are nonetheless visible nowadays. Buchen was first referred to in the Lorscher Codex, the deeds of the Lorsch Monastery, where it appears as Buchheim and makes a number of donations to the monastery within the year 773.

The vicinity become already populated in prehistoric and in Roman times and in Carolingian times it become below the impact of the Amorbach Monastery, the Reeves of which, the Lords of Durn, held the rights of jurisdiction over Buchen. In the second half of the 13^th Century Buchen changed into given the right to name itself a city. On the autumn of the Lords of Durn, Buchen turned into offered in 1303 to 1309 to the Archbishop of Mainz and remained his territory for 500 years.