Johannes Jurg Kunkel

In 1349, Neuhütten had its first documentary mention in a Mainz document as one of the glass works in the Spessart. Only in 1513 was Neuhütten used for the first time as a place-name. As part of the Archbishopric of Mainz, Neuhütten passed with the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to Prince Primate von Dalberg’s newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the Gemeindeedikt (“Municipal Edict”) of 1818.

The community’s arms might be described thus: Gules in chief three hexagonal prisms pointed at each end palewise in fess, in base a wheel spoked of six argent.

Neuhütten belonged until 1803 to the Archbishopric of Mainz, to which the wheel (Wheel of Mainz) refers. The name Neuhütten itself refers to the glass works – Hütte can mean a mill of some kind in German – named in written sources as early as 1477. It is these to which the three glass prisms (not quartz crystals, apparently, their shape notwithstanding) refer.
The arms were approved by the Government of Lower Franconia and have been borne since 2 September 1976.===

Earlier spelling of Neuhütten on historical maps and documents:

• 1432 Breydenstein
• 1513 Newhutten
• 1526 Newenhutten
• 1649 Neühütten
• 1694 Newhutt
• 1820 Neuhütten

1349 findet sich die erste Erwähnung als Breydenstein in einer Mainzer Urkunde als eine von vier Glashütten im Spessart. Erst 1513 wurde Neuhütten erstmals als Ortsname verwendet. Als Teil des Erzstifts Mainz fiel Neuhütten im Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 an das neu gebildete Fürstentum Aschaffenburg des Fürstprimas von Dalberg, mit welchem (nun ein Departement des Großherzogtums Frankfurt) es 1814 zu Bayern kam. Im Zuge der Verwaltungsreformen in Bayern entstand mit dem Gemeindeedikt von 1818 die heutige Gemeinde.

Frühere Schreibweisen des Ortes aus diversen historischen Karten und Urkunden:

• 1432 Breydenstein
• 1513 Newhutten
• 1526 Newenhutten
• 1649 Neühütten
• 1694 Newhutt
• 1820 Neuhütten

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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 9 2016, 19:53:56 UTC