Rimbach (Ben-Stadt) in the Odenwald is a municipality in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany.

Owing to its location in Bergstraße district, a mild climate prevails in Rimbach, which often leads to what in Germany is a very early blossoming of the almond trees.

As a result of this court of arbitration, a new boundary description was established, which now also named the most important places within the borders of the Mark Heppenheim, namely Furte (Fürth), Rintbach (Rimbach), Morlenbach (Mörlenbach), Birkenowa (Birkenau), Winenheim (Weinheim), Heppenheim, Besinsheim (Bensheim), Urbach (Auerbach), Lauresham (Lorsch) and Bisestat (Bürstadt).

[4] Another early mention can be found in the Lorsch Codex, when in 877 a Liuthar von Hausen donated the villa Rinthbach to the monastery and received it back as a fief.

In the late 12th century, attempts were made to reorganize the administration by recording the old property deeds (Lorsch Codex).

Nevertheless, in 1232 Emperor Frederick II placed Lorsch Abbey under the control of the Archbishopric of Mainz and its Bishop Siegfried III von Eppstein for reform.

Lower jurisdiction was exercised by the Vogteigericht, whose district included Rimbach as well as Lützel-Rimbach, Ober- and Unter-Mengelbach, Mossbach and Zotzenbach.

The Schenken von Erbach already held the lower court as a Palatinate fief in the oldest documents.

Before the Reformation, the parish of Rimbach belonged to the "Weinheim district chapter" of the diocese of Worms.

In addition to Rimbach, the parish consisted of the villages of Lützel-Rimbach, Münchbach, Zotzenbach, Obermengelbach and two farms in Untermengelbach.

Chroniclers from the region at the time reported: "Plague and famine ravaged the land and decimated the population, often leaving the villages completely empty".

With the Rhine Confederation Act, the County of Erbach was mediatized and incorporated for the most part into the Grand Duchy of Hesse; this also included the "Amt Schönberg", which initially remained as a baronial office.

After the final defeat of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also confirmed that the County of Erbach belonged to the "Principality of Starkenburg" of the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

The conductor of the government commission of the Heppenheim administrative district, Christian Prinz, tried to break up the meeting.

[10] The population and cadastral lists [11] recorded in December 1852 showed that Rimbach[12] was a market town with 1,958 inhabitants.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, referring to December 1867, the market town of Rimbach with its own mayor's office, 183 houses, 1553 inhabitants, the district of Lindenfels, the district court of Fürth, the Protestant parish of Rimbach with the deanery in Lindenfels and the Catholic parish of Mörlenbach of the deanery of Heppenheim are listed.

[14] A further improvement was achieved in 1846 with the opening of the Frankfurt am Main–Heidelberg railway, which initially connected Bensheim with Langen, Darmstadt and Heppenheim and was completed a short time later.

Because of the difficult mountain terrain, the desired west-east connection into the Odenwald was led through the relatively flat Weschnitztal after long discussions.

With the laying of the water pipe in 1909, the introduction of electricity in 1910 and the town's first motor vehicle in 1912, the industrial age also progressed in Rimbach.

The Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were abolished in 1937 following the dissolution of the provincial and district councils in 1936.

In 1933 the Jewish community still consisted of 77 people, many of whom had moved away or emigrated due to increasing disenfranchisement and reprisals.

[17] As the population figures from 1939 to 1950 show, Rimbach also took in many refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern territories after the war.

In the 1960s, the local chronicle recorded: 1962 the inauguration of a new elementary school in Rimbach (since 1996 the Brothers Grimm School); In 1964 the Albersdorf district won the state victory in the "Our village should become more beautiful" competition and in 1965 even the gold medal in the national competition.

In 1972, the new indoor swimming pool was opened and construction began on a Protestant kindergarten in the center of the town.

In 1994, the Odenwaldhalle (large sports hall) and the "Johanniterhaus Weschnitztal" (retirement and nursing home) were inaugurated in Rimbach and the community received a natural gas connection.

[23] He was elected as the successor to Hans-Jürgen Pfeifer (SPD), who did not stand for re-election after three terms in office,[24] on March 4, 2012 in the first ballot with a 57.3% turnout and 69.1% of the vote.

[25] Terms of office of the mayors[26][27] Rimbach lies on the Weschnitztalbahn (railway) from Weinheim to Fürth in the Odenwald.

The Saukopftunnel, dedicated in 1999, made it possible to detour around Birkenau on Bundesstraße 38a, improving Rimbach's road link with Weinheim and the Autobahn network.