Wäldershub

Wäldershub community Fichtenau Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 7 ″ N , 10 ° 11 ′ 11 ″ E
Height :	502 m
Area :	2.19 km²
Residents :	258 (Jun 30, 2009)
Population density :	118 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1973
Postal code :	74579
Area code :	07962

Wäldershub 2018

Wäldershub is a hamlet in the municipality of Fichtenau in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg. The place lies on the southern foothills of the Frankenhöhe between Crailsheim and Dinkelsbühl . The next bigger city and the middle center is the former county seat Crailsheim. The Völkermühle, which stands almost 500 meters south of the outskirts by a mill pond and was called the "Wäldershuber Sägmühle" until 1817, has always been part of Wäldershub.

geography

Geographical location

Wäldershub is located in the southern area of the Frankenhöhe on a small cleared plateau between the valley of the upper Reiglersbach in the west, whose outflow runs over the Jagst to the Rhine, and the depression around the uppermost sources of the Rotach in the east, which drains over the Wörnitz to the Danube. The right upper reaches of Gunzenbach, the Rechenberger Rot , which is also called Rot (h) bach after a later and less significant left tributary and which flows above the Reiglersbach to the Jagst, begins near the village .

As the crow flies, the hamlet is about ten kilometers southeast of Crailsheim and west of Dinkelsbühl. The Dinkelsbühl / Fichtenau motorway exit on the A 7 is just under four kilometers from Wäldershub on the road.

Neighboring places and communities

Wäldershub borders on the Fichtenau markings Wildenstein, Krettenbach / Fichtenhof, Lautenbach and Neustädtlein / Rötlein. The community of Kreßberg begins north of Wäldershub and the community of Stimpfach to the west of Wäldershub .

history

The Gunzenbach, which rises near Wäldershub, divides the place into two parts, which were previously called Wäldershub Castle and Wäldershub Weiler. It is an ancient border that was set up as early as the 5th to 7th centuries after the Alamanni were pushed south by the Franks as a result of the battle of Zülpich . In the early Middle Ages, it separated the tribal duchies of Franconia and Swabia; the part of Wäldershub east of the brook belonged to the Swabian Riesgau, the west of the brook to the Franconian Maulachgau . The Gunzenbach was also ecclesiastically the border between the dioceses of Würzburg and Augsburg, so that Wäldershub was ecclesiastically separated between the parishes of Weidelbach and Stimpfach until 1812. The political boundaries were blurring earlier.

The first written mention of Wäldershub dates from June 1, 1319. However, the place is likely to be a few centuries older. With the parish of Stimpfach, the western part of the place already came in the 13th / 14th. Century under the influence of the ecclesiastical prince-provost of Ellwangen. Around 1500 the Dinkelsbühler patrician family of Berlin built a manor in Wäldershub as an Ellwangian fiefdom, which was never incorporated into the imperial knighthood. A moated castle was built around 1561 on the southwest edge of the town. Around 1609 a large part of the population succumbed to the plague, which lasted until around 1614.

After the plague also claimed many victims in the Berlin family, Wolf Dietrich Berlin sold the Wäldershub manor to Georg Wilhelm Rehm von Kölz for 11,150 florins between 1615 and 1617. He was the Öttingischer caretaker of Mönchsroth and ruled the estate from 1617 to 1621 inside. In 1621 he sold it to the Free Imperial City of Dinkelsbühl for 14,500 florins. From her it was acquired by Dr. Jakob Wiedemann, lawyer in Augsburg for 18,100 florins. In 1635 he was a landlord.

After 1635 the manor came to the Catholic Rittmeister Christoph Heinrich Holzapfel at Wäldershub. He was Rittmeister of his Imperial Majesty and of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. During his reign he sold various forest parts of the castle estate to the Dinkelsbühler Rich Almosen (also Reichsalmosen), but reserved his subjects a wood right, which, if it was not redeemed, still exists. He died in 1675. His grave monument is in the sacristy of the Stimpfach church.

Political map of the Crailsheim area between 1700 and 1800. The Ansbach area around Wäldershub lies in the southeastern area. The green-blue color shows the Ansbach and later Prussian possessions

After Holzapfel's death, Hereditary Marshal Ludwig Franz von Pappenheim acquired the castle with the castle property from his heirs. From 1685 to 1687 he also lived in Wäldershub. The entire castle property was sold by him on 20./30. May 1695 to the Hohenzollern Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Wäldershub was added to the Ansbacher Oberamt Crailsheim with the transition to the Margraviate Brandenburg-Ansbach . The margrave leased the Wäldershub estate again in 1689 to a Mr. von Chroneck. On June 28, 1700, the margrave gave part of the castle property of Wäldershub and the castle with 47 acres of property as inheritance to the citizens Hans Neff and Christoph Deuter.

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The castle continued to serve the margrave as a hunting lodge. The Principality of Ansbach also set up a brewery. An undated description of the entire castle property, kept in the Stuttgart State Archives, dates from the period after 1700. According to this, the castle then consisted of a square building, only two stories high, with three thick corner towers. The whole thing was surrounded by a moat, which was quite wide on the east side, so that it could be used as a fish pond. The description distinguishes between an old and a new building. In the old building there was a servants' room, a chamber, a kitchen, two vaults (cellars) and a fairly comfortable horse stable on the upper floor . The new building, which adjoins the old one and had only just been erected at the time, had the departments for several rooms on the upper floor, which had not been expanded at the time the description was written, the lower floor housed the brewer in a living room the brewery with all accessories and had a not too large cellar. The palace complex also consisted of two courtyards, the fairly large inner courtyard with a well, the water of which was quite soft, but was very suitable for brewing beer, and the forecourt with two barns or barns. The access to the entire complex was originally on the south side, where a wall to the inner courtyard formed the end. A wooden bridge led across the moat.

After the abdication of the last Margrave of Ansbach, Karl Alexander, in 1791, Wäldershub became Prussian . During this time the establishment of a branch school of the Weidelbach parish in Wäldershub also falls. In 1806 Prussia ceded the Principality of Ansbach with Wäldershub to Bavaria, and in 1810 a border adjustment agreement between Bavaria and Württemberg with most of the then Oberamt Crailsheim became Württemberg.

Political map of the Württemberg Oberamt Crailsheim from 1810. Wäldershub and Großenhub were combined with Wildenstein to form the municipality of Wildenstein. Instead, the towns of Gunzach, which previously belonged to the Wildenstein manor, now belonged to Matzenbach, Neustädtlein and Rötlein to Lautenbach and Oberdeufstetten to Unterdeufstetten

Württemberg combined the then existing real communities Wäldershub and Großenhub with Wildenstein to form the political community of Wildenstein. With the separation from the parish of Weidelbach, the established school was closed again. It was not until 1914/1915 that a school was built again in Wäldershub, which served as a learning center for the Protestant children from Wäldershub, Großenhub and the Völkermühle. With the closure of the Catholic school in Großenhub during the Third Reich, it was also attended by the Catholic children of the places mentioned. This so-called German elementary school existed until the major school reform in the 1970s.

On January 1, 1973, the new community Fichtenau was formed from the communities Lautenbach, Wildenstein, Unterdeufstetten and Matzenbach.

politics

Wäldershub is now part of the Fichtenau community. According to the main statute of the municipality of Fichtenau, the place is currently entitled to a seat in the municipal council together with Großenhub, since the Fichtenau sub- location has been introduced.

Attractions

The former moated castle built by the Dinkelsbühl patrician family of Berlin , which is now inhabited by several families , still stands on the south-western outskirts of Wäldershub .

The schoolhouse in Wäldershub, built in 1914/15, is well worth seeing, and today it partially houses the village community rooms.

leisure

The Rohrweiher, around 200 meters south-east of Wäldershub, framed by forest and meadows, offers a bathing opportunity. Football, volleyball and badminton can currently be played on a newly built sports ground.

Economy and Infrastructure

The economy is still strongly characterized by agriculture. There is a bakery with a shop and parcel acceptance service on the main road to Crailsheim. For this purpose, a production company and several craftsmen have their headquarters in Wäldershub.

Public facilities

Village community rooms are available in the former schoolhouse. Furthermore, there is a children's playground and a sports field on community-owned land.

culture and education

schools

School and education was the task of the churches and parishes in the past centuries. With the transfer of the margraviate of Ansbach to Prussia in 1791, the Prussian governor who resided in Ansbach, Hardenberg, who later became known as the great Prussian reformer, promoted the school system in particular, so that at that time the Weidelbach parish established a school in Wäldershub. In the years 1804 to 1805 the "Huber Schulklagsach" was pending at the Prussian "Kreisdirectorium" in Crailsheim. The Weidelbach parish was not responsible for the residents on the castle side of Wäldershub. However, they also wanted to send their children to the local school. The Wildenstein parish then filed a lawsuit against this. It was finally decided that only the younger children up to 9 years of age were allowed to attend the Wäldershuber School, but not the older 10 to 12 year olds who had to go to Wildenstein. After the transition to Württemberg in 1810 and the resulting parish change to Wildenstein, the Wildenstein parish closed this school in 1813.

In the years 1913 to 1915, despite opposition from the Wildenstein municipal council, a school for Protestant children from Wäldershub, Großenhub and the Völkermühle was rebuilt in Wäldershub, which then became responsible for these children after the Catholic school in Großenhub was closed during the Nazi era. This was then closed in the course of the major school reform at the beginning of the 1970s and concentrated centrally in Unterdeufstetten for the newly established community of Fichtenau.

Due to the traffic connections, the city of Crailsheim is the only possibility to attend secondary general education schools. The secondary school at Karlsberg and the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium are responsible for Wäldershub.

Religions

In Wäldershub there used to be a chapel in the northwest corner of the castle. Wäldershub was divided between the parishes of Weidelbach and Stimpfach until 1810/1812 (see Wildenstein parish ). The border was formed by the Rothbach, which runs through the middle of Wäldershub. Since the Stimpfach parish was not affected by the Reformation, the Evangelicals to the west of the brook were able to stick to the nearest Evangelical parishes in Weidelbach or Waldtann. From 1668 onwards they kept primarily to the newly established parish of Wildenstein, although attempts were also made in 1740/1742 to include the parishioners in Wäldershub outside the Wildensteiner manor in their costs. The residents east of the brook belonged to the Weidelbach parish until the transition to Württemberg in 1810/1812 and were then also (officially only since 1825) parish into Wildenstein. Until the transition to Württemberg, the Weidelbach parish also had a school in Wäldershub. Around three quarters of the population of Wäldershub is Protestant today, a quarter belongs to the Catholic denomination and is part of the Catholic parish in Großenhub.

Before the Thirty Years' War, the manor also settled Jews in Wäldershub. After the turmoil and losses of this war, there was no longer a Jewish population in Wäldershub.

Individual evidence

^ Walther Schultze: The Franconian counties of Rheinbaiern, Rheinhessen, Starkenburg and the Kingdom of Württemberg. Volume 2. Verlag Pass & Garleb, Berlin 1897, p. 424. ( archive.org ).
^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 , p. 394.
↑ List of owners of the manor (archive version of the website) ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
↑ Manfred Hörner (edit.): Bavarian Main State Archives, Reich Chamber of Commerce . Volume 13. General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-921635-88-8 , p. 231.
^ Border treaty between Bavaria and Württemberg from 1810. Wikisource.
↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Fichtenau ( Memento from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), page 4.
↑ Peter Müller, Reiner Ziegler: Archive of the Barons Hofer von Lobenstein, Wildenstein Castle (= inventories of the non-state archives in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 21). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-17-013159-1 , p. 105.
^ Gerhard Taddey: No small Jerusalem. History of the Jews in the Schwäbisch Hall district. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1992, ISBN 3-7995-7636-3 , p. 41.