Waldbrunn (Lower Franconia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '  N , 9 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Wurzburg
Height :	315 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.62 km 2
Residents:	2852 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	431 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97295
Area code :	09306
License plate :	WÜ , OCH
Community key :	09 6 79 204
Community structure:	1 district
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 2 97295 Waldbrunn
Website :	www.gemeinde-waldbrunn.de
Mayor :	Markus Haberstumpf ( CSU )
Location of the community Waldbrunn in the district of Würzburg

Waldbrunn is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg .

geography

Panorama view of Waldbrunn

Waldbrunn is about twelve kilometers west of Würzburg . There is only the district Waldbrunn. It borders on Eisingen , Waldbüttelbrunn and the community-free area " Irtenberger Wald ".

Surname

etymology

The name Waldbrunn consists of the Old High German words wallen and brunno . They mean “gush” and “spring”. The place was therefore built on a bubbling spring. But ahd. Walt (forest) can also be used as a determinant . In this case you would have to the failure of the Dentals t accept because of Mehrkonsonanz.

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

1164 whale fountain 1182 whale fountain 1208 whale runs 1465 whale fountain

1655 Walbrunn 1719 Waltbrun 1791 Waldbrun 1804 Waldbrunn

history

The name of the settlement is first attested in 1164 as "whale fountain" in a document. As part of the Hochstift Würzburg ( Oberzell Monastery ), which belonged to the Franconian Empire , Waldbrunn was secularized in 1803 in favor of Bavaria, then in the Peace of Pressburg (1805) left to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , with which it finally fell to Bavaria in 1814 . In 1818, as part of the Bavarian administrative reforms, the political municipality was created.

Population development

• 1910: 0591 inhabitants
• 1950: 873 inhabitants
• 1961: 903 inhabitants
• 1970: 1129 inhabitants
• 1987: 2061 inhabitants
• 1991: 2264 inhabitants
• 1995: 2484 inhabitants
• 2000: 2566 inhabitants
• 2005: 2557 inhabitants
• 2010: 2615 inhabitants
• 2015: 2707 inhabitants
• 2020: 2887 inhabitants

politics

Local election 2020

Turnout: 61.76%

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20th

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50.54%

30.19%

19.27%

CSU

UBG

SPD

mayor

Ludwig Götzelmann (UBG) was mayor from 2002 to 2008, and in 2002 he succeeded Arnulf Wilhelm (Independent Citizens' Community). Hans Fiederling (Independent Citizens' Community) held this office from 2008 to 2020. Markus Haberstumpf (CSU) has been Mayor of Waldbrunn since May 1, 2020; with a turnout of 62.1%, he was elected without an opponent on March 15, 2020 with 90.6% of the vote.

Municipal council

The community council of Waldbrunn has 14 members. The election on March 15, 2020 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

	Seats
CSU	7th
Independent community of citizens	4th
SPD	3
total	14th

coat of arms

The description of the municipal coat of arms, introduced in 1958, reads: "In blue a golden draw well with a tiled roof, each with a rooted silver deciduous tree."

Alliance Waldsassengau

Since November 20, 2014, Waldbrunn has been organized together with twelve other municipalities in the Alliance Waldsassengau . The association serves the intercommunal cooperation.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Waldbrunn

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 328 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 1120 people were in employment that was subject to compulsory insurance. The number of out-commuters was 792 more than that of in-commuters. 25 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were four farms.

traffic

There is a transport connection to the federal motorway 3 from Frankfurt to Würzburg via the Helmstadt junction and a direct bus connection to Würzburg. Waldbrunn is connected to several regional cycle paths: Romantic Road , Aalbachtal cycle path , Franconian Marienweg and Würzburg - Wertheim .

education

There are the following institutions (as of 2020):

• 2 day care centers + forest kindergarten: approx. 200 kindergarten places
• primary school

Web links

Commons : Waldbrunn (Unterfranken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the community of Waldbrunn
• Entry on the coat of arms of Waldbrunn (Lower Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Waldbrunn (Lower Franconia): Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.05 MB)
• Waldbrunn community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 233 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ^ Horst-Günter Wagner : The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 396–426 and 1298–1302, here: p. 425 (source: Bavarian State Office for Statistics, municipal data).
4. ↑ 2020 municipal council election , accessed on July 14, 2020
5. ↑ 2020 municipal council election , accessed on July 14, 2020
6. ^ Alliance Waldsassengau in the west of Würzburg. Society. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 29, 2016 ; accessed on January 20, 2016 . 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.