Wild spots

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '  N , 9 ° 55'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Bad Kissingen
Height :	516 m above sea level NHN
Area :	77.54 km 2
Residents:	2869 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97772
Primaries :	09745, 09749
License plate :	KG, BRK, HAB
Community key :	09 6 72 163
Market structure:	14 districts
Market administration address :	Rathausplatz 1 97772 Wildflecken
Website :	www.wildflecken.de
Mayor :	Gerd Kleinhenz (non-party voters)
Location of the Wildflecken market in the Bad Kissingen district

Wildflecken is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen .

geography

Geographical location

Wildflecken is located in the southern Rhön directly on the Black Mountains nature reserve , around 38 kilometers north of the district town of Bad Kissingen . The place is part of the transnational UNESCO - Biosphere Reserve Rhön . The northern municipal border forms the state border between Bavaria and Hesse .

Community structure

Wildflecken has 14 parish parts:

At the Auersberg Arnsberg Bernhardshof Eckartsroth Maria-Ehrenberg Oberbach Oberwildflecken

Scheibenhof Disk mill Schummhof Veitenhof Wild spots Brick hut Brick hut

Neighboring communities

Wildflecken borders in the north on the city of Gersfeld and the community Ebersburg , both in Hesse , in the east on the city of Bischofsheim idRhön , in the southeast on the community Burkardroth , in the south on the community Riedenberg and in the west on the community Motten , all four in Bavaria . There are further borders with unincorporated areas.

Surname

etymology

The name Wildflecken consists of the Middle High German words wilt , which means wild or distant and vlëcke , for place or place. The explanation is “place in the wilderness”.

Earlier spellings

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

1524 wild spots 1537 Waltflecken 1538 wild spots

1544 Wiltfleken 1575 wild spots 1747 Wildflecken

history

16th Century

The place was created in 1524 as a group of forest settlements at the confluence of the Sinn and Wölbersbach rivers. In 1588 the settlements were given the name Wildflecken.

20th century

In 1908 the place received a train station on the Jossa – Wildflecken railway line .

In 1937 a military training area was set up in the municipality , where a prisoner of war camp was set up during World War II . In 1942, the previously independent communities of Altglashütten, Neuglashütten, Reußendorf, Rothenrain and Werberg were dissolved and merged into the Wildflecken Heeresguts district .

Polish cemetery with the graves of 544 deceased camp residents.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Wildflecken belonged to the American zone of occupation . The American military administration set up a DP camp in the former prisoner of war camp to accommodate so-called displaced persons (DP), the majority of whom were Poles from today's Ukraine . The camp was looked after by UNRRA from October 1945 and then from 1947 by the IRO . The camp, in which at times more than 17,000 people lived, was closed in 1951. In Wildflecken there is a Polish cemetery for deceased camp residents.

On April 1, 1951, the Wildflecken Heeresguts district was dissolved. From then on, his area formed the community of Neuwildflecken .

The area was then used by the US Army as a military training area. Elvis Presley spent some time in Wildflecken during his military service. Shaquille O'Neal spent a few years of his youth in Wildflecken, where his stepfather was stationed as a sergeant in the US Army.

Merger and incorporations

As part of the municipal reorganization of Bavaria, the municipalities of Wildflecken and Neuwildflecken merged on July 1, 1970 to form the new municipality of Wildflecken. On May 1, 1978, the Oberbach market was incorporated into Wildflecken.

Religions

Wildflecken is the seat of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Josef the Bridegroom with the St. Kilian and St. Jakobus the Elder branch in Oberwildflecken. The Oberbach district has its own parish of the Assumption of Mary . The pilgrimage church Maria Ehrenberg is located in the area of ​​the political community Wildflecken, but belongs to the parish of Kothen . All Catholic parishes are part of the Hammelburg deanery of the Würzburg diocese .

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Wildflecken belongs to the Lohr deanery of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . In 1959 the Kreuzkirche was consecrated.

politics

Municipal council

The market council of the municipality of Wildflecken consists of 16 council members. This is the specified number for a municipality with a population between 3001 and 5000. The municipal council is elected for a six-year term.

The first mayor is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality. Since May 1, 2014, this has been Gerd Kleinhenz from the party-free voters Wildflecken (PWW); he was elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 93.5% of the vote.

The last local election on March 16, 2014 resulted in the following:

Political party	Number of seats	change
Party-free voters Wildflecken (PWW)	7th	- 1
CSU / PWG	6th	- 2nd
Districts protect your interests (OWII)	3	+ 3

mayor

In the last mayoral election on March 16, 2014, Gerd Kleinhenz was elected mayor by the party-free voters Wildflecken (PWW) . He won with 58.39 percent of the vote before his opponent Wolfgang Illek from the CSU with 41.61 percent. The turnout was 67.75 percent.

coat of arms

Blazon : Over a silver shield base, inside two crossed red maces, in red a growing silver hunter with golden hair, in his right hand a golden horn, in his left hand holding a silver clearing ax with a golden style.

Coat of arms history: The once independent communities Wildflecken and Markt Oberbach merged in 1978 to form the community of Markt Wildflecken. The two communities were clearing settlements in the early 16th century, which were founded by the forestry masters of Lebenhan with the approval of the prince-bishop in Würzburg in the so-called salt forest. It was charcoal burners, hunters and forest workers who were the first to settle there. The figure of the hunter shown in the coat of arms and the clearing ax indicate this. The maces come from the coat of arms of the forest masters of Lebenhan and draw attention to their importance for the community
.

Culture and sights

Buildings and monuments

The most important architectural monuments of the community are the Catholic pilgrimage church Maria Ehrenberg and the parish church St. Josef in Wildflecken, which is considered a treasure trove of the baroque .

The memorial site The Way of the Cross of the Nations is located near the Wildflecken camp near Oberwildflecken . The path is around 1000 meters long and ends directly at the fence of today's Rhön barracks. It is a memorial against the war and illustrates in an impressive way the blood toll that was demanded of the individual nations in the course of the two world wars.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Wildflecken

societies

The sports club SV Wildflecken 1934 is one of the largest clubs in the Wildflecken market with around 500 members. The popular sports club offers football, table tennis, target shooting , chess, ju-jutsu , volleyball, ladies' gymnastics, athletics , aerobics, as well as children's and mother-child gymnastics.

Events

The summer festival called "Wilder Sommer" has been held annually in Wildflecken since 2005. The three-day event offers a trade show in which local companies provide information about their products and services, as well as musical entertainment. Wild Summer has been part of the SaaleMusicum since the first event. As part of the event, young musicians as well as brass bands from the surrounding villages are offered a stage.

As a sporting component, the people's hiking day through the Wildflecken military training area was part of the event. This will be replaced in 2015 by the RhönBikeKing, a mountain bike race around the Kreuzberg .

Economy and Infrastructure

armed forces

The market town of Wildflecken has been a garrison since 1938. The Wildflecken military training area and the Rhön barracks, which have existed since then, are now used by the Bundeswehr and NATO partners. The Army combat simulation center is located in the Rhön barracks .

It has been known since August 2019 that the Bundeswehr is planning a new data center network and wants to build part of the data center infrastructure at the Wildflecken location.

tourism

The Biosphere Center House of the Black Mountains in Wildflecken-Oberbach is located in the southern part of the transnational UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Rhön. It has existed since May 1997 and is mainly used for environmental education. The exhibition in the house and in the outdoor areas gives insights into the biodiversity of the mountain meadows and the development of the Rhön cultural landscape . The information center, to which a tourist information office and a regional goods store are connected, is operated by the Association for Nature Park and Biosphere Reserve Bayerische Rhön e. V.

On October 29, 2000, the viewing gallery Grube Marie was opened on the Großer Auersberg near Wildflecken-Oberbach. The show tunnel tells the history of mining in the Rhön, where barite , also called barite, was extracted, a mineral that is used in the paint industry and for radiation protection. Barite was mined for around 100 years until operations were discontinued in October 1970 due to a lack of profitability. All tunnels were closed and blown up for safety reasons. In 1999 the idea for the visual gallery project was born. It shows the construction of a tunnel underground, the construction of a heavy spar wall, the laying of a track for tipping lorries and the mining tools used by the miners.

traffic

The state highway 2289 crosses the municipal area from southwest to northeast. The Bad Kissingen district operates local public transport with buses. The Oberbach and Wildflecken stops and the Oberwildflecken and Arnsberg freight stations were on the Jossa – Wildflecken railway line until the line was closed.

education

In Oberbach and Wildflecken there is a kindergarten each, in Wildflecken there is a day-care center (day care center Noah's Ark) and a primary and secondary school (in the Rhön barracks).

literature

• Rhön Biosphere Reserve Bavarian Administration Office (Hrsg.): Historical cultural landscape of the upper Sinntal - Riedenberg municipality and Wildflecken municipality. (= Rhön Historical Cultural Landscape, Volume 3). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-888-0 .
• Jürgen Lieb (Ed.): Steam and Diesel on the branch line Jossa - Bad Brückenau - Wildflecken. 1891–1908 - 2004. Along the Sinntal in the Bavarian Rhön (former route book route 508). 3. Edition. Self-published, Schönderling 2004, OCLC 300088916 .
• Thomas Helfrich: 75 years of the Wildflecken sports club 1934–2009. Rötter Printing and Publishing, Bad Neustadt 2009.
• Adam R. Seipp: Strangers in the Wild Place. Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952. Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 2013, ISBN 978-0-253-00677-6 (English)

Web links

Commons : Wildflecken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Wildflecken  - Travel Guide

• Website of the Wildflecken market
• Wildflecken: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Entry on the Wildflecken coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• The history of the Rhön barracks . In: campwildflecken.heinzleitsch.de

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. ↑ Markt Wildflecken in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on November 13, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{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. 243–244 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ^ ^{A b c} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, municipalities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 426 .
5. ↑ campwildflecken.heinzleitsch.de
6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 738 .
7. ↑ Municipal Code for the Free State of Bavaria (Municipal Code - GO) in the version published on August 22, 1998; Art. 31 - Composition of the municipal council , accessed on August 21, 2014.
8. ↑ The Municipal Council 2014 ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 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. , accessed on August 21, 2014. 
9. ↑ Gerd Kleinhenz wins in Wildflecken , accessed on August 20, 2014.
10. ↑ Way of the Cross of the Nations, accessed on July 13, 2011.
11. ^ SV Wildflecken 1934 - We about us accessed on July 13, 2011.
12. ↑ Wilder Sommer ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2015 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. Retrieved June 2, 2015. 
13. ↑ Bundeswehr gets new data centers in Wildflecken and Roth. August 16, 2019, accessed August 19, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Nature Park and Biosphere Reserve Bayerische Rhön e. V. - Information Center House of the Black Mountains ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on December 21, 2015. 
15. ↑ Viewing gallery “Grube Marie” on the Großer Auersberg accessed on December 21, 2015.