Garitz (Bad Kissingen)
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Garitz
City of Bad Kissingen
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| Height : | 227 m | |
| Area : | 4.62 km² | |
| Residents : | 4353 (Jan. 1, 2017) [1] (PDF; 18 kB) | |
| Population density : | 942 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 | |
| Postal code : | 97688 | |
| Area code : | 0971 | |
Location of Garitz in Bavaria |
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Garitz is a district of the health resort Bad Kissingen in the Bavarian Lower Franconia , the major district town of the Bad Kissingen district .
geography
Geographical location
Garitz is slightly elevated above the district town of Bad Kissingen, bounded on the north by Staffelsberg and to the west by Wald and Kirchberg. The Marbach flows through Garitz from west to east and flows into the Franconian Saale .
Neighboring communities
Bad Kissingen , Wittershausen , Euerdorf , Aura and Arnshausen
history
Beginnings
First hunters and fishermen settled the Garitz area, later farmers. The first tribes to settle were of Celtic origin; they are said to have built a Fliehburg ( ring wall Altenberg ) on the Garitz Altenberg, the mons antiquus . Various records report the as yet unproven existence of barrows from the Hallstatt period on the western edge of the Garitz corridor marker. The Roman historian Tacitus wrote of an increasing settlement of the area by the Germanic tribes of the Hermunduren and the Chatti ; they became aware of the region through the Kissinger brine springs . During the sixth century, the Franks made themselves at home there.
When Garitz was founded is not exactly known; corresponding sources are missing. However, the period between 1000 and 1200 AD is assumed, so Garitz would be relatively young compared to other towns in the area. The reason for the settlement is assumed to be the wealth of raw materials (wood from the surrounding forest; water from the Marbach); possibly the favorable traffic situation also played a role. Since the church and the nobility were in constant conflict for power at the time, it is possible that the Counts of Henneberg wanted to secure the Garitz area by colonizing them; on the other hand, the Aura Garitz monastery could also have founded in order to get new corporal labor. Documentary evidence shows that Poppo von Irmelshausen acquired Fulda in Garitz by exchanging goods in 1186 . At that time there were the localities of Rumpfes, Bischofswinden and Zehentzüge. A decline in population turned these places into desolation; only Garitz survived.
The place name of Garitz has undergone many changes over time. In various documents, the place "Gerhartis" (when the place went from Abbot Konrad von Fulda to Poppo von Irmelshausen in 1186), "Gaharts" (1325/1326; in the loan book of Bishop Gottfried), "Gahart" (in an Urbarium der Henneberger from the year 1340) "Gahartz" (1465; in regional court protocols of the State Archives of Würzburg ), "Gaartz", "Gaarz", "Gartz", "Garz" (within a single Kissinger document from the year 1517) and "Garetz" and "Garez" (in the registry books of the Catholic parish of Kissingen from 1588); in files from 1745 the spelling is “Garitz” for the first time.
The origin of the name Garitz has created a lot of uncertainty among scholars; a Slavic origin has also been suggested. As the Garitz teacher Heinrich Hack explained, the origin of the name lies in the importance of the forest for the Garitz area. Accordingly, in the form of Gahart, the syllable Ga stands for steep, while hard means forest. Garitz was characterized as a forest settlement on a rising mountain.
middle Ages
According to church records, around 300 to 400 people lived in "Gaartz" in the Middle Ages (this number remained constant for several centuries), who lived from day laborers and hard farm work. They ate rye, oats, cabbage and flax. In the course of time, various regulations on grazing rights emerged, with the help of which several hat disputes , including those with Albertshausen, were settled. Some farmers did serf labor for the Aura monastery; in addition, they had to deliver the fruit tithe and the cattle tithe to the monastery. The citizens of Garitz had to pay several types of taxes, such as the appraisal (property tax intended for the sovereign), the move-in and move-out money (to be paid by people who marry in and move away), the neighbor money (to be paid by any neighbor), the fire bucket money ( to be paid by each newlywed), the arable interest (for taxing arable land), the leaf rate (for the taxation of property), the capital valid (tax in kind ), the confession (for the purpose of building and maintaining communal paths), the shepherd's pound (to remunerate the shepherds) , the neighboring guilders (to cover expenses of the community) and the Leibgeding (pension scheme for fellow Garitz residents). Due to financial hardship, the Aura monastery pledged the Garitz tithe several times; When the monastery was dissolved, its entire property with the tithe income went to the prince-bishop's court chamber.
The required frontline work included army succession and warfare, as well as entrenchment work and the Landwehr. The man's door was for the Aura monastery, for the Kissingen office and for hunting; the community front consisted of manual and tension services as well as village guards.
In addition to a village court exercised by the Abbot of Aura, the Tenth Court of Aura was also responsible for Garitz.
In 1394, the Würzburg prince-bishop Rudolf II von Scherenberg acquired the office of Kissingen and thus (in addition to Hausen , Nüdlingen and Winkels ) also Garitz from his heir, Duke Swantibor of Pomerania . A little later ownership of the area temporarily returned to the Hennebergers, but then finally went to the prince-bishop.
Garitz at the beginning of modern times
During the peasant uprising of 1525 Garitz refused the request of the Kissingen pastor Wüst to take part in the uprising. Therefore, when the uprising was bloodily suppressed a little later, Garitz was spared the worse aftermath.
During the Second Margrave War (1552–1555), Garitz and the Saale valley were also affected by severe arson and devastation. Johannes Fleischmann, abbot of the Aura monastery, pledged the Garitz tithe for 600 guilders to Wolf von Schletten. The abbot was popular with the Garitzers. After his death in 1556 Garitz and other monastery villages asked the Würzburg prince-bishop Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt for a successor for Johannes Fleischmann.
This request was fulfilled, but the Aura monastery had to be dissolved in 1564 due to excessive indebtedness. On this occasion, Garitz received pastoral care from the parish of Kissingen. This condition had existed since 1337 and became final in 1564. When the Kissingen parish was restructured by Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn in 1586, during which many villages were merged into the parishes of Oberthulba and Burkardroth , Garitz remained in the parish of Kissingen together with Arnshausen , Hausen, Reiterswiesen and Winkels; its residents were to attend church services in Kissingen from 1614 onwards.
Garitz was ravaged by the plague several times . The first two plague epidemics spread in 1568/69 and in 1611; the latter claimed 124 deaths out of a population of around 350. The plague victims of the place were buried in Kissingen, first in the cemetery of the Jakobuskirche , then also in the chapel cemetery of the Marienkapelle . The first burial in Garitz is that of a 13-week-old child named Catharina Mez in 1686.
After the Thirty Years War initially spared Garitz, in 1635 Garitz also plagued the place with devastation and looted treasures. During the war there was another plague epidemic in 1634, which killed a total of 71 people; this epidemic was exacerbated by a famine the following year.
There are first indications of a school in Garitz for the year 1686 in the Garitz "AltWEISum", in which the trunk validity for the school clerk was established. The school attendance of the students was impaired because they were urgently needed for field and housework. The school situation improved in 1770 with the establishment of the Würzburg teachers' college. Initially, the Garitz school system was under church supervision. In 1804 a new school building was built, in which more and more classes were taught.
A small Jewish community existed in Garitz from around the 18th century to around 1900. In their residential area, the “Judenhof” in today's Jahnstraße 34-48, there was a synagogue , about which there is no more information today, and a prayer room . In the registration lists from 1817 there are no entries about Jews in Garitz, which suggests that at least at that time there were no citizens of Jewish faith in the village.
In 1745 a long-cherished wish of the Garitz people came true with the construction of a new church. The construction was completed two years later, in 1747; the new church was dedicated to St. John of Nepomuk . There are documentary indications that there was already a place of worship at the site of the St. Nepomuk Church .
In the summer of 1796 a French revolutionary army under General François-Joseph Lefebvre marched into the bishopric of Würzburg as part of the First Coalition War of Napoleon Bonaparte . All male residents between the ages of 16 and 60 were drafted into the defense. The soldiers of Lefebvre's army stole food, clothing and valuables from the Garitz people. An armed peasant crowd, consisting mainly of Garitzers, was able to drive away the French soldiers. A French commissioner who wanted to steal the contribution treasury from the prince-bishop's court chamber and collect war taxes from the surrounding towns was stopped by the peasants from his plan, shot and thrown into the hall . When the French withdrew, there was once more looting not only by French but also by Russian troops; in addition there were epidemics such as leaf and typhus .
Bavarian Kingdom
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As part of the reorganization after the Congress of Vienna (1814 to 1815), the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and with it Garitz became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the years that followed, Bavarian kings visited Kissingen several times, including Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen , the wife of Ludwig I , who repeatedly showed herself to be charitable in the Kissingen region. On July 8, 1836, Garitz took part in a folk festival in Kissingen on the occasion of her 44th birthday. Other prominent visitors were the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy , who had set up a school on his estate Yasnaja Poljana and, during his stay in Kissingen in the summer of 1860, exchanged educational experiences with the Garitz schoolmaster Johann Josef Schmitt and his assistant Josef Reppp. famous Austrian Empress Elisabeth , who bought fresh milk and eggs in Garitz. She appreciated walks on the Altenberg ; a memorial plaque was erected there in her honor.
On the German War (1866) and the Franco-German War (1870-71) also originating from Garitz soldiers participated. In her honor, a war memorial was erected in 1896 at the junction of Baptist-Hoffmann-Strasse and Jahnstrasse; A memorial cross on the Altenberg commemorates three Prussian soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Kissingen . In 1870 the military and comrades-in-arms association was established in Garitz and in 1900 the veterans and warriors association; both had the purpose of promoting camaraderie among the war veterans and holding memorial services for the war victims.
In 1873 the home of the baker Nikolaus Buscham was bought in today's Baptist-Hoffmann-Straße number 29 and converted into a school building. In 1909, today's school building was built at Baptist-Hofmann-Strasse number 14 , where a four-class elementary school started teaching on October 1, 1910. On January 1, 1915, the school inspectorate that had been clerical until then was replaced by a secular one.
The establishment of a local chaplaincy in Garitz, which had been planned since 1909, was implemented in May 1915. The first chaplain was Konrad Weigand, who stayed in Garitz from 1915 to 1920 and then worked in Buch ( Ochsenfurt ); his successor was Josef Brenneis, who worked in Garitz from 1920 to 1926. In the mid-1880s there were serious plans to build a new church. A building fund set up in 1871 already amounted to 39,000 marks in 1895; but the plans could only be realized in the 1960s.
First World War and Weimar Republic
In the summer of 1914 Garitz was hit by war enthusiasm, were called as Garitzer on August 1 men for the military conflict that the First World War was. With a total of 360 conscripts, around 24% of the Garitz population took part in the war. Of them 42 Garitzers fell on the battlefield; the youngest was Gottfried Hering, born on April 9, 1898, who died on November 14, 1914 at the age of 16 near Hollebeke (Belgium). Because the grown men were called up, women, children and old men had to help out with the harvest; Adolescents and those unfit for war had to manufacture war material in the Schweinfurt factories. The food was rationed; there was a ban on slaughter for self-sufficient people. Due to the hardship, the Garitz students were increasingly sent begging by their parents and were absent from lessons; this should be countered by setting up a soup kitchen.
After the end of the war, all surviving Garitz soldiers returned to their hometown by the end of 1918; they were given a solemn reception. Some war returnees who came from abroad also settled in Garitz. The Garitzers, who had become prisoners of war, came home in the course of 1919 and 1920. In 1929 a war memorial was erected in honor of those who fell in the war in today's Kirchbergstrasse in front of the St. Nepomuk Church. In 1933, the military and comrades-in-arms association and the veterans and warriors association merged into a single association.
While the unrest of the Weimar Republic caused by the Spartacus uprising and the Soviet Republic had not yet made itself felt in Garitz, the place was affected by the hunger caused by the turmoil in the years after the end of the war; In addition, due to the rule of the Spartacus uprising in the Ruhr area , there was a lack of coal. Unemployment and devaluation aggravated the situation.
National Socialism and World War II
After the " seizure of power " on January 30, 1933, Garitz became part of the NSDAP local group "Kissingen West". Unions, political parties and local associations were dissolved. By 1936 there was practically no more unemployment in Garitz due to the armament of the Wehrmacht and projects such as the construction of the Reichsautobahn. Jews were forbidden to settle in Garitz; the Jews already living in Garitz emigrated to America. On June 12, 1938, work began on building a Hitler Youth Home at Jahnstrasse 11, the first of its kind in the Bad Kissingen district . The inauguration took place on May 14, 1939.
On the basis of a resolution of the municipal council in 1934, a swimming pool was built in Garitz a year later; However, it had to be closed when its water requirements could no longer be met due to the steady growth of the Garitz population. Under Mayor Hans Heublein, the Garitzer Seeplatz was converted into an ornamental complex in 1938 and was soon given the nickname Garitz Kurgarten . From June 1st of the same year there was electricity in Garitz after an electricity supply contract with Bad Kissingen was concluded; the Garitz local network was created within about seven weeks at the expense of the city's electricity company.
Under the Kuratus Gottfried Mauter, a former town chaplain of Bad Kissingen, who had been active in Garitz since 1926 , the local chaplaincy Garitz was elevated to a parish on January 1, 1940; Gottfried Mauter himself became Garitz's first pastor (Mauter fell ill with a heart condition in 1943 and retired on November 7, 1950, which he spent in Bad Bocklet ; he died a few years later on May 17, 1954. After a transition period between On October 1, 1950 and February 12, 1951, under parish administrator Father Aloys Kerkmann, Benno Stoll was his successor).
In the days before the beginning of the Second World War , this made itself felt in Garitz by calling up soldiers and issuing food stamps ; In contrast to the First World War, there was no enthusiasm for war in the place. On August 25, 1939, the main teachers Hack and Zitzmann were also called up; Overall, the war years were characterized by frequent changes of class and teacher.
On the night of September 4th to 5th, 1940, the British Royal Air Force bombed Garitz. Of the light bombs and the 30 or so incendiary bombs , only one incendiary bomb fell on inhabited areas. This hit an almost empty barn between Baptist-Hoffmann-Strasse and Jahnstrasse, which belonged to the widow Maria Neugebauer. Thanks to the rapid intervention of the fire brigade , the property damage remained low; contrary to a report in the Brussels newspaper , no one was injured.
In the first year of the war (until September 1940) Garitz provided accommodations for evacuated people from the west wall area of the Palatinate ( Pirmasens ). Young people from Garitz were deployed as air force helpers from 1943 to 1945 . Through the use of men in the war, women were employed on a large scale in agriculture, the armaments industry, in the hospital service and for tailoring. Schoolchildren were used for harvesting and for fighting Colorado beetles. Until March 1945, male Garitzers (up to 1929) were drafted for defense purposes.
As part of the implementation of the Nazi policy, one case of “destruction of life unworthy of life” and one of sterility are known from Garitz. Another Garitzer lost his life on March 19, 1940 in the Mauthausen concentration camp because, as a member of Jehovah's Witnesses , he had refused to do military service for reasons of conscience. According to the memories of a Garitz citizen, two Jews lived in the village during the Nazi era. One of them was considered a half-Jew and, after his son tried to embark on an officer career, was deported to a concentration camp, where he lost his life. A Jewish woman from Garitz survived the Nazi era without checking her parentage and died of old age after the end of the war. The memorial book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 lists the Garitz Jew Adolf Schönwiesner, who was born on January 31, 1883 in Budapest and died on February 18, 1945 in Auschwitz .
From March 1945, the cannon thunder of the American troops could be heard in the distance. Anyone who disseminated this news could be prosecuted for decomposing resistance. On the night of April 6th to 7th, 1945, detonations from Rottershausen could be felt in Garitz ; the air force tank farm in Oerlenbach was set on fire. Ammunition and other war-ready supplies were to be removed from the reach of US troops by destruction.
Between March 29 and April 6, 1945, the Garitz schoolhouse was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. After that, it was inhabited by US troops, French civil workers, and Ukrainian families. After their departure, the school building could be used again for teaching from autumn 1945.
After the capitulation on April 7, 1945 Bad Kissingen and Garitz belonged to the American zone of occupation. At the end of the Second World War, Garitz had neither fatalities nor major property damage to complain about. From April 21, rationed food was distributed.
Garitz after 1945
After the end of the Second World War, the refugees from Schweinfurt , Würzburg , Aschaffenburg , Frankfurt and Wiesbaden , who had found refuge in Garitz, returned to their hometowns in mid-May 1945. In return, citizens from Bad Kissingen, among others, moved to Garitz. From June 9, 1945 it was again allowed to enter the forest; now firewood could be collected for the winter.
On June 12, 1945, the first Garitz municipal council after the war with Karl Dück as 1st Mayor and Michael Seufert as 2nd Mayor was installed. On June 30, 1946 the election for the constituent state assembly followed ; with a turnout of 63%, the CSU received 364 votes and the SPD 210 votes. The former Hitler Youth Home at Jahnstrasse 11 was converted into the town hall; on November 18, 1946, the parish chancellery, which had previously been located at 23 Kissinger Strasse, moved here. On December 2, 1946, Bavaria was given a democratic constitution.
After the end of the war, numerous war expellees of German origin came to Garitz. According to an official statement of December 15, 1947, German refugees from areas east of Oder and Neisse (123 people) and from the Sudetenland (108 people) were living in Garitz at that time . By 1950, the proportion of Garitz residents who came from areas east of the Oder and Neisse rivers rose to 244 according to a census. On June 6, 1961, according to another census, there were 473 displaced people living in Garitz (the total number of Garitz residents at that time was 2,587).
With the currency reform of 1948 , in which the " Deutsche Mark " replaced the " Reichsmark " as a means of payment, the black market trade, racketeering and bartering also ended in Garitz.
A communal statement on December 10, 1945 had shown that 189 Garitzers were in captivity . First, the soldiers who were in American captivity were released, and later those from English, French and Soviet captivity. Hermann Werner, the last Garitz prisoner of war, was released on October 7, 1953; he was given a solemn reception.
On November 21, 1954, the new inauguration of the war memorial in front of the St. Nepomuk Church, expanded to include the memory of the victims of the Second World War. The war club, which was formed in 1933 from the merger of the military and comrades 'association and the veterans and warriors' association , was dissolved by the US military authorities after the end of the war, and the association's assets were confiscated.
In October 1966 a gymnasium was added to the Garitz school; it was designed as a multi-purpose hall, including for festive events. Her church consecration took place on January 13, 1968.
In 1960, under Pastor Benno Stoll, the decades-old plans to build a new church were resumed; The site of the Suckfüll-Eisseee was determined as the location for the new church . In 1968 a closer church committee was set up for the purpose of the necessary negotiations with the episcopal ordinariate . After acquiring the necessary land, the construction work began on June 28, 1972 under Pastor Arno Stöcklein, the successor to Benno Stoll, who retired in 1971; on October 16, 1973 the St. Elisabeth Church was consecrated. Arno Stöcklein, who was also responsible for the Bad Kissingen district of Poppenroth from October 1, 1991 , retired in 1999; he was succeeded by Edwin Ziegler.
As part of the municipal reform in 1971, due to the close economic ties between Garitz and Bad Kissingen, the aim was to incorporate the town into the spa town. The Garitzers were proud of their independence, but the Bavarian state promised them financial support of at least 635,624 D-Marks. After a vote among the Garitz citizens on October 10, 1971, of 2,256 eligible voters, only 1,018 (45%) had voted and 577 (57%) of these voted "No", a second was for December 4 and 5, 1971 Vote scheduled. In order to increase the turnout, helpers went from house to house and collected the votes with the help of ballot boxes; In addition, a ballot box was available in the town hall on the afternoon of December 5th. This time 2,106 Garitzers took part in the vote; of them, 1,144 Garitzers (around 70% of the valid votes) were in favor of incorporation. On December 15, 1971, the Garitz municipal council approved the incorporation with a result of 5: 4 votes (two councilors were absent due to illness). The incorporation contract was signed on December 30, 1971 on a raft on Lake Garitz. The incorporation came into force on July 1, 1972.
After the incorporation, the Garitz- Arnshausen - Reiterswiesen school became the second elementary school in Bad Kissingen; on August 14, 1974 it was named Henneberg Elementary School .
The KissSalis Therme was opened on February 28, 2004 . The name of the thermal baths goes back to a suggestion by the then Garitz town councilor Johannes R. Köhler .
Population development
| year | population |
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| around 1600 | 300 to 400 |
| 1800 | 365 |
| 1803 | 350 |
| 1840 | 528 |
| 1900 | 1145 |
| 1910 | 1488 |
| June 16, 1933 | 1674 |
| October 24, 1946 | 2125 |
| 1961 | 2587 |
| January 1, 1970 | 3211 |
| December 31, 1976 | 3414 |
| 1st of January 2014 | 4512 |
politics
mayor
| Surname | Term of office |
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| Johann Michael Sell | 1866-1893 |
| Nikolaus Buscham | 1894-1905 |
| Aquilin stronger | 1906-1911 |
| Johann Thomas Reuss | 1912-1923 |
| Konrad Reuss | 1924-1929 |
| Franz Bömmel († August 19, 1933) | 1930-1933 |
| Michael Drescher | 1933-1937 |
| Hans Heublein | 1937-1945 |
| Karl Dück | 1945–1952 |
| Viktor Metz | 1952-1960 |
| Stefan Brand | 1960-1972 |
coat of arms
The Garitz coat of arms shows a yellow bishop's cap with a red cross, surrounded by five white stars on a red background.
Local chapters
In 1964, the Garitz-Albertshausen CSU local association (as the CSU members from what is now the Bad Kissingen district of Albertshausen were also looked after ) to deal with village matters. After the territorial reform of 1972, the CSU Garitz-Albertshausen provided three city councilors. Plans to incorporate the local branches of Garitz, Hausen and Reiterswiesen into the local branch of Bad Kissingen were soon abandoned.
The beginnings of the SPD district Garitz in the local association Bad Kissingen are in the dark; it is assumed that such documents existed, but were destroyed during the Nazi era. Two SPD members were also represented in the first post-war municipal council set up by the US military government ; after the first free elections in 1948 there were four. In the course of the regional reform, the SPD district joined the Bad Kissingen branch.
Buildings and plants
Altenberg
The Altenberg was created as a circular mountain in a meander of the Franconian Saale . At the time of the Celts , a castle complex is said to have existed here, from whose name Altenburg the name of the Altenberg was derived.
In the 19th century, the Altenberg was redesigned into a park under the royal Bavarian court gardener Jacob Ickelsheimer . In this context, the structural fabric of the Celtic castle complex was filled in on official instructions; Furthermore, the round temple and the sun salette as well as - in memory of the former castle - the Walhalla were created as resting and viewing points .
The march of the Prussian troops via Garitz to Kissingen as part of the German War of 1866 is commemorated by a sandstone memorial cross , on the site of which there were two graves of Prussian soldiers, which have since been destroyed.
In 1907 a plaque was erected on the Altenberg with the Sisi monument in honor of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary , known as "Sisi" , who liked to go for walks on the Altenberg during her stays in Bad Kissingen .
Deserted Bischofswinden
The Bischofswinden desert is located about two kilometers northwest of St. Nepomuk Church. Bishop winds was one of three villages that were on today Garitzer area and in the meantime to deserted villages have become; the other two places were hull and Zehentwinden . The dating of the desert of Bischofswinden is from the High and Late Middle Ages . The first known mention is from 1181; In 1355 at the latest, Bischofswinden was deserted. In 1885 the well system of the place was discovered.
Churches
St. Nepomuk Church
The St. Nepomuk Church was built between 1745 and 1747 on the spot where a small chapel had probably already been added to the neighboring corpse field (a “Notandum” of October 31, 1706 expresses the wish that in Garitz “like one grind in the Place a chapel or church would like to be set up ” ; there are also references to a Garitz church fair in August 1687). The corpse field is still the cemetery in Garitz to this day. The first church bell was put into operation in 1761; a second bell followed in the 19th century. In 1924 a slightly larger tower was added to the church and two more bells were added, which were expanded in 1942 for war purposes. In the spring of 1950 two new bells were purchased from Euphon .
St. Elisabeth Church
The St. Elisabeth Church is part of the parish center of the same name. It goes back to plans made by Pastor Armin Stoll in 1968. After his illness-related retirement on March 31, 1971 (he died of a heart attack on December 24, 1976 at the age of 69), the church was built together with the adjacent rectory between June 21, 1972 and September 16, 1973 under Stoll's successor Arno Sticks; it was built on the bottom of the former Suckfüll ice lake at the Garitz intersection. A copper sleeve was worked into the foundation stone of the church; This contains a Sunday paper from July 30, 1972, an edition of the Saale-Zeitung from July 29, 1972, a Deutsche Mark coin, an Olympic coin and a parchment certificate. In the second construction phase, the St. Elisabeth Kindergarten, which was opened in October 1974, supplemented the parish center.
Chapel at the Seehof
The chapel is located next to the Garitz property "Seehof". It was created in 1868 on the basis of an incident in the “ German War ” of 1866: According to this, the prayer bell of the “Seehof” for the Ave Maria rang while the Prussian troops were approaching . The Prussian soldiers thought that the bell was ringing as an agreed signal to the Bavarian troops and wanted to shoot Halbig, but after a long request he was able to prove his innocence and was spared. Out of gratitude, he and his wife donated the building of the chapel.
In 2008 the chapel was restored through a private initiative.
Maria Immaculate
Maria Immaculata, created by the sculptor Michael Arnold in 1877 and donated by the widow Katharina Zinser, is located on Baptist-Hoffmann-Strasse next to the Volksbank. As part of a renovation in 2001, its location was moved slightly. The statue is considered to be the last work of the sculptor, but this could also apply to the figure of Mary in Bad Bocklet .
War memorials
War memorial 1866–1870 / 71
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In 1896 a war memorial was erected to commemorate the wars of 1866 and 1870/71 . The monument, made of green sandstone , stands at the junction of Jahnstrasse and Baptist-Hoffmann-Strasse; near this point in the local area of Garitz the first Prussian soldier fell victim to the war of 1866. The names of the 17 soldiers from Garitz can be read on the memorial.
In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, 17 men from Garitz fought in the two corps of Generals Ludwig von der Tann-Rathsamhausen and Jakob von Hartmann ; all 17 Garitzers returned alive from the war.
War memorial 1914/1918
On July 30, 1929, Bad Kissingen's parish priest, Susann, consecrated a war memorial erected by the sculptor Bruno Brand for those who fell in the First World War from Garitz; their names were carved on the monument. The monument is in front of the St. Nepomuk Church. It consists of white shell limestone and shows the Archangel St. Michael slaying a dragon and a dragon at his feet. In 1954 the memorial was expanded to include those who fell in World War II .
primary school
Today's Garitz School was built between 1909 and 1910 at Baptist-Hoffmann-Strasse 14 (then Hauptstrasse 158). A teacher's residence that was built at the same time belongs to the school building; Both of the buildings, which were kept in the style of the homeland of that time, are connected by an arcade.
The Garitz gymnasium was built directly adjacent between December 1966 and December 1967 and is still used as a multi-purpose hall to this day.
Garitz Lake
The center of the village is still Lake Garitz on Seestrasse today. The village pond was created as a fire water pond and redesigned in 1938 into an ornamental complex, which at the time was jokingly called the "Garitz spa garden". For the village anniversary in 1986, the Seeplatz was redesigned.
In 1901, a neo-Gothic wayside shrine made of sandstone with a relief representation of the Holy Family in a round medallion was built on Lake Garitz . It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-174 in the Bavarian list of monuments . The wayside shrine is a rectangular housing attachment with a hip-like roof on a square shaft with tracery ornamentation. As part of the organization of the horticultural care of its location, the wayside shrine was extensively renovated in 2011.
The Garitz lake
Wayside shrine at Lake Garitz
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Kreuzkapelle
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In 1957, the Kreuzkapelle was built in the Balzerschlag corridor at the Garitz exit towards Wittershausen . It goes back to the Garitzer Josef Hippler ("Zementjoffer"), who had an accident on the way to the nut mill near Oberthulba in June 1934 and donated a cross carved in 1941 at the location of the chapel out of gratitude for his rescue. However, since the cross had to be renovated again and again, Hippler had the cross chapel built in 1957 and the cross placed on the altar table. In 1958, Hippler had a five-wound path set up on the walk to the Kreuzkapelle .
Path of reflection
At the exit of Garitz in the direction of Wittershausen , the path of contemplation laid out by the local artist Helmut Droll begins , a 2 kilometer long sculpture path that ends at the Heiligenhof educational center. The sculptures are intended to stimulate thought and meditation.
Kolping Chapel
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The Kolping Chapel, inaugurated in 2000, is located at the edge of the Garitz forest near the Path of Reflection .
The construction goes to the Garitz Association Kolping Family Garitz e. V. back. A corresponding proposal from a member of the Kolping family from 1998 was approved in 1999. The topping-out ceremony for the chapel took place on September 5, 1999.
KissSalis Therme
In 2001 the construction of the KissSalis Therme began in Garitz ; the inauguration took place on February 28, 2004. According to a proposal by the then Garitz town councilor Johannes R. Köhler , the name was derived from the syllables Kiss , sal and is the inscription "In Aquis Kissingen salus" ( lat .: "In the waters of Kissingen is salvation") on a historical porcelain owl ) educated.
The thermal baths are divided into a thermal spa landscape , a sauna park , a wellness pavilion and a fitness arena . In a bath test carried out by the radio station Antenne Bayern in 2008, in which 21 Bavarian baths were tested, the KissSalis Therme was named the Hygiene Champion together with the Obermain-Therme in Bad Staffelstein .
Scent forest
From 2001, on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Bad Kissingen, near the Seehof sanatorium at the Garitz exit towards Oberthulba, the scented forest was planted. The scented forest contains around 4,000 forest trees and shrubs of around 50 different species that were planted by Karl-Heinz Knörr. The aim of the scented forest , which is open to the public and can be visited free of charge, is that the visitor can not only experience the trees and shrubs planted there visually, but also with the sense of smell. Explanations about the scented forest can be found on the general display board and on information boards on the individual trees and shrubs.
Club life
Garitz Volunteer Fire Brigade
On October 28, 1869, the Garitz volunteer fire brigade was founded after the mayor had bought Bad Kissingen's fire pressure syringe on August 9. Their statutes of November 7, 1869 received recognition from the highest authority. In 1903 180 volunteers and 30 compulsory firefighters were active for the Garitz Volunteer Fire Brigade ; for the sophisticated equipment found the praise of the district fire department committee. In 1953 a youth group was formed. The 110th anniversary was a special celebration not only for the fire brigade, but for all of Garitz.
Military and comrades-in-arms association and veterans and warrior association
In 1870, on the occasion of the war of 1866, the military and comrades-in-arms association was established . With the veterans and warriors' association , another warrior association was established in 1900. The two became a joint association in 1933, which was dissolved in 1945 after the end of the Second World War on the orders of the US military authorities.
Choral Society 1883 Garitz
On December 9, 1883, the 1883 Garitz Choral Society was founded. If applicants for membership registered, their admission was voted individually. A youth choir (1965) and a children's choir (1971) were founded; both had to be dissolved again in 1982 due to a lack of influx. A women's choir was formed on February 12, 1979.
Smoking club and support association Garitz
The Garitz smoking club and support association came into being in autumn 1891 under the name Wittelsbach Garitz . The purpose of the association, in addition to maintaining pipe smoking, was socializing and financial support for members in the event of illness. In December 1928, sick pay was replaced by a death benefit and the association was renamed the smoking club and death support association . The association makes financial contributions to charitable events. The Bavarian smoking ban of August 1, 2010 did not affect the activities of the association, as it continues to support the bereaved in the event of death.
Sports club Garitz
The first of today's four departments of the Garitz sports club was established in 1896 with the gymnastics department. Its members have always successfully participated in gymnastics festivals as well as in the traditional three-kings gymnastics in the 1950s. With FC Garitz , the football department of the club was created in 1912, which in 1934 joined the gymnastics club Garitz . The successes of the football department include promotion to the A-Class (1950 and 1964) and the District League East (1985). In 1926, the Merkur athletes' club, founded in 1908, became part of the gymnastics club; however, its existence came to an end a few years later. Despite a revival in 1946, the heavy athletics department only lasted until 1960. The table tennis department established in 1946 had to be closed in 1954 due to lack of demand, but was able to be revived in the 1960s. The successes include reaching the 1st district league at the end of the 1960s and later reaching the 2nd district league Lower Franconia East. In the founding year 1967, the women's handball department reached the Lower Franconia district class. In 1970, 1971 and 1972 the department won the Lower Franconian championship and in 1972 reached the top division of the Landesliga Nord.
St. John's branch association
In 1898, the Garitz St. Johannes branch association was established as the builder of a “children's institution”; their aim was to care for toddlers of working mothers. Initially two and later four nuns of the Congregation of the “Daughters of the Divine Redeemer” were responsible for looking after the children. When the little house on the local pond became too small for childcare, the church center was built below the Altenberg in 1974 for this purpose. The “Am See” kindergarten at the local pond is now run by secular educators.
Schützengesellschaft Garitz 1911 e. V.
The exact founding date of the Schützengesellschaft Garitz 1911 e. V. is unknown; its existence in 1911 is only documented by a group photo and a disc of honor from that year. After a wedding that began in 1926, the club's operations came to a standstill due to the synchronization in the Third Reich . After the start of shooting with air rifles in 1954 and the leasing of a new shooting house in 1962, club life developed anew.
Kolping family Garitz
On June 10, 1912, the Kolping Family Garitz was created with the Catholic Burschenverein . After a name change to Catholic Burschen- and men club who had the Promotion of Virtue of the young men the goal of the association in alignment was Kolpingwerk to Kolpingfamilie Garitz . The association was active in church celebrations, charitable events and development aid in Tanzania .
Fruit and horticultural association Garitz e. V.
On December 22nd, 1928 the fruit and horticultural association Garitz e. V. The aim of the association was to improve fruit growing. After the association was dissolved in 1945 due to the Second World War , it was re-established on January 10, 1948. Since the 1950s, the association has been trying to redesign the garden and beautify the village.
Garitz Wattel Club
On January 28, 1963, eight card game friends founded the Garitz Wattel Club . The association grew to more than 100 members in the period that followed. At the beginning of 2013, however, its dissolution was decided after the number of members had fallen from 120 to 37 members due to resignations and deaths.
BTC - Garitz Carnival Society
On September 13, 1963 the BTC Garitz (the abbreviation for “Bier-Tümpel-Club”) was founded in the Garitz “Gasthaus Recreation” ; according to the statutes of November 1963, only men are permitted as members. Since February 4, 1966, the association has held meetings of the penalty council. The association itself, which in 1967 became a member of the Franconian regional association in the “ Bund Deutscher Carneval ”, was renamed “BTC - Garitzer Faschingsgesellschaft” on September 16, 1966. The association has been a non-profit organization since 1967 and promotes artists and young people who do sport and strives to promote the village community.
Rhönklub branch association Garitz
On July 11, 1967, the Garitz Rhönklub branch was established with the aim of opening up the Garitz area as well as the Bavarian Rhön and the Hessian Rhön for hikers and promoting the love of home. In 1972 he joined the “ Internationale Volkssportverband e. V. ".
Garitz Tennis Club 1971
In the summer of 1971 the Garitz tennis club was founded in 1971 . In the summer of 1973 two tennis courts were available; In 1984 there were four. In 1981 the club was accepted as a member of the Bavarian State Sports Association. In the same year, the club provided a men's team at tennis association games; a year later there were two men's and one women's teams.
Social club Garitz
In February 1979, the now no longer existing community association Garitz was created by a few young people who drove through Garitz in a self-designed carnival car on Shrove Monday of the year. While in 1980 the club's first carnival procession aroused little interest among the people of Garitz, this changed for both solstice celebrations in the same year. In 1984 and 1985 there were no moves by the association.
Other clubs
At the beginning of the 20th century, two cycling associations were founded with Vorwärts (1902) and the Radlerclub (1906); they existed until 1945. In 1905 the Beautification Association was founded, but in 1937 it was dissolved. In 1962 the Garitz racing pigeon club took part in the racing pigeon association championship with 38 victories. The Garitz small animal breeders association , which won honorary prizes at the 1957 district rabbit show, joined the small animal breeders association of Bad Kissingen in 1963. In addition, the Harley-Davidson-Club Franken e. V. a motorcycle club in Garitz.
Personalities
mayor
An overview of the Garitz mayors from 1866 to the incorporation in 1972 can be found in the "Politics" section.
Pastor
| Surname | activity |
|---|---|
| Konrad Weigand (born June 5, 1886 in Obernau , † June 17, 1964 in Kleinwallstadt ) | 1915-1920 |
| Josef Brenneis (born June 20, 1889 in Guggenberg , † June 10, 1969) | 1920-1926 |
| Gottfried Mauter (born August 22, 1891 in Haßfurt , † May 17, 1954) | 1926-1950 |
| Benno Stoll (born December 15, 1907, †?) | 1951-1971 |
| Arno Stöcklein (born September 28, 1929) | 1971-1999 |
| Edwin Ziegler | since 1999 |
Sons and daughters of the place
- Baptist Hoffmann (* 1863, † 1937), Royal Prussian court opera singer
- Johannes R. Köhler (* 1933), composer , conductor and poet
- Michl Müller (* 1972), Franconian cabaret artist
Personalities who have worked on site
- Stefan Brand, winner of the Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Bad Kissingen, last Mayor of Garitz
- Heinrich Hack, holder of the citizen medal of the city of Bad Kissingen, archivist and teacher in Garitz
- Hans Maunz, holder of the citizen medal of the city of Bad Kissingen, municipality of Garitz
- Franz Nowak, holder of the citizen medal of the city of Bad Kissingen, teacher in Garitz
- Cölestina Wachter, holder of the citizen medal of the city of Bad Kissingen, child and elderly carer
literature
- Heinrich Hack: Garitz. A home book , Bad Kissingen 1986
- Local associations Garitz (ed.): 800 years Garitz , 1986
- Thomas Ahnert and Peter Weidisch (eds.): 25 years of the large district town of Bad Kissingen - A city magazine , Bad Kissingen, Verlag Stadt Bad Kissingen, 1997. ISBN 3-00-001787-9
- Article by Klaus Werner in: Main-Post from May 6, 2009
Web links
- official homepage
- "Garitz (City of Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen district) - Jewish history" on www.alemannia-judaica.de
- Clubs in Garitz
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Hack: Garitz - Ein Heimatbuch , editor: Stadt Bad Kissingen, 1986, p. 12
- ↑ Cornelia Binder and Michael (Mike) Mence: Last Traces / Last Traces of Germans of Jewish Faith in the Bad Kissingen District , Schweinfurt 1992, p. 177
- ↑ a b c d Garitz (City of Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen district) - Jewish history on www.alemannia-judaica.de
- ^ A b Heinrich Hack: Garitz - Ein Heimatbuch , editor: Stadt Bad Kissingen, 1986, p. 77
- ^ Johann Caspar Bundschuh: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia , 1801, State Archives Würzburg
- ↑ a b c St. Ulrich parish at www.poppenroth.de
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 427 .
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the data come from Heinrich Hacks Garitz - Ein Heimatbuch , editor: Stadt Bad Kissingen, 1986, pp. 117ff.
- ↑ PDF (19 kB)
- ^ Heinrich Hack: Garitz. Ein Heimatbuch , Bad Kissingen 1986, p. 121
- ↑ Denis A. Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: Monuments in Bavaria: City of Bad Kissingen. Edition Lipp, 1998, p. 160.
- ^ Heinrich Hack: Garitz - Ein Heimatbuch , editor: Stadt Bad Kissingen, 1986, p. 60f.
- ↑ New splendor for old chapel: place of prayer at the edge of the forest restored thanks to donors and restorers - "Main Post" article from August 25, 2008
- ^ Heinrich Hack: Garitz - Ein Heimatbuch , editor: Stadt Bad Kissingen, 1986, p. 62f.
- ^ Heinrich Hack: Garitz. Ein Heimatbuch , Bad Kissingen 1986, pp. 74f.
- ^ Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 124 f .
- ^ The wayside shrine at the lake has been redesigned - "Main Post" article from September 25, 2011
- ^ Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, p. 155
- ↑ Path of contemplation: "Walking inward" on an artistic path - The "Path of Contemplation" at www.badkissingen.de ( Memento from November 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Consecrated ten years ago - “Main Post” article from May 11, 2010 on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Kolping Chapel
- ^ Chronicle of the Kolping family Garitz e. V. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The scent forest at the Seehof. In: Main-Post from June 14, 2001 ( online )
- ↑ A true exotic in the club scene: The "Rauchclub Wittelsbach Garitz" has 316 members - tendency: rising - "Main Post" article from November 23, 2011
- ↑ garitz.com - Wattelclub dissolves (January 3, 2013)
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the data come from Heinrich Hacks Garitz - Ein Heimatbuch , publisher: Stadt Bad Kissingen, 1986, p. 101
- ↑ a b c d e www.garitz.com - "The clergy of the Garitz parish"
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