Arnstein (Weismain)

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Arnstein
City of Weismain
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 463  (455-475)  m
Residents : 136  (Jan 1, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 96260
Area code : 09575
Arnstein (Bavaria)
Arnstein

Location of Arnstein in Bavaria
Local panorama of Arnstein, view from the southwest

Arnstein ( pronunciation ? / I ) is a district of Weismain in the Lichtenfels district with 136 inhabitants. Audio file / audio sample

Geographical location

Arnstein is located on a plateau that belongs to the foothills of the northern Franconian Jura in the Franconian Switzerland - Franconian Jura Nature Park . To the east of the village the plain falls into the Kleinziegenfelder valley and to the north into its side valley, the Köttler Grund . The place is located at 455-475 m above sea level. Sea level . The official height is 461  m above sea level. NN specified.

geology

The plateau consists of limestone from the Malm . In the two upper layers, the Malm γ and the Malm δ, there is a small sinkhole field between Arnstein and Bojendorf . This is partially filled, but still has the protection status of a natural monument and is classified as geoscientific valuable by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment .

history

Arnstein's early history up to the late Middle Ages

The aristocratic von Arnstein family was first mentioned in writing at the beginning of the 12th century. Your Arnstein Castle was probably located northwest of today's outskirts on a slightly elevated group of rocks. The place appeared for the first time in Bamberg documents in 1189 as “Arenstein”. Not far from Arnstein, on the Heideknock, at the beginning of the 13th century there was a castle stable with section fortifications called the Old Castle . This was probably the seat of the noble von Leuchnitz family.

When the noble family von Arnstein died out with Hermann von Arnstein in 1244, Otto II of Meranien acquired the property and the rule, so that the place and the castle belonged to the Andechs-Meranians from then on . Since Otto died in Niesten Castle in 1248 , Arnstein and the surrounding property belonged to the von Truhendingen family through the marriage of Otto's sister .

Castle hill of the former Rauschenstein castle stable; behind the bushes is today's cemetery. View from the south from the spur of the Victoria Rock.
The Viktoriafelsen on the eastern outskirts of Arnstein

In the middle of the 13th century, the Burgstall Rauschenstein was built in the area of ​​today's cemetery in the east of the village . The associated St. Mauritius chapel was demolished in 1756/57, of which wooden figures may have been preserved in the parish church of Arnstein and in the chapel in Eichig . In 1394, the Arnstein Castle and surrounding goods fell to the Bamberg Monastery . The spelling “Marnstein” has also been handed down from the 14th century. Around 130 years later, Arnstein Castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War of 1525 . During the Thirty Years War in 1641, several houses in Arnstein, including the rectory, were burned down by enemy troops . The parish expanded its parish in the following years, which reached its maximum size in 1658. At that time, the parish of Arnstein belonged to the Weihersmühle , the Waßmannsmühle and the towns of Großziegenfeld , Moraviahüll , Eichig , Bojendorf , Mosenberg and Wallersberg .

Arnstein in the early modern period

The Arnstein church “St. Nikolaus ”from the east from Viktoriafelsen
The church “St. Nikolaus "in Arnstein, north-west view (front)

The still existing church of St. Nikolaus was built in the years 1732–1734 according to the plans of the builder Balthasar Neumann , by the craftsmen Paulus Mayer and Joseph Gruber. Legend has it that Balthasar Neumann ate while passing through in Arnstein and as thanks for the tasty food he made the construction plans and left them to the villagers before he left. The church was consecrated shortly after the construction work was completed in 1734. The first pastor was Johann Dominikus Lorenz Steinmetz from Bamberg , who had already helped with the construction. In the Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia Arnstein is described by Johann Caspar Bundschuh in 1799 as follows:

“Arnstein, Arolfstein, Arnesta, Arnostenum, Arnoldstenum. Village with a devastated castle, two hours from Weißmayn towards Bamberg, in the Scheßlitz district. The parish belongs to the Bamberg church district and the Lichtenfels district. In 1385 it was bought by Count Johann zu Truhendingen. This place is subject to the Hochstifte Bamberg with the sovereignty and all types of jurisdiction. The subjects nourish themselves from agriculture and have a considerable amount of food. Arnstein also made a special office in earlier times, until such was incorporated into the Scheßlitz office. "

- Johann Caspar Bundschuh

The night watchman service was introduced in Arnstein on January 2, 1842. In 1860 a well was drilled with which water could be pumped from the bottom of the Kleinziegenfelder valley to Arnstein. A year later a new school house was built. There were also initial proposals for a water pipe in Arnstein. First of all, in the years 1866 and 1867, a well with pressure mechanism was drilled in the eastern part of the village and a pipe was laid to the “lower well” in the western part of the village. Around 20 years later, in 1888, it had to be repaired by the IA Hilpert company from Nuremberg .

Today's fire station of the Arnstein volunteer fire department

The volunteer fire brigade was founded in Arnstein in 1885 . In the following years until 1898 the waterworks and the pumping station were slightly rebuilt and improved several times.

In 1864, parts of the area were ceded to form the new Rothmannsthal community.

20th century

On July 5, 1906, during a severe thunderstorm, lightning struck a barn at the western end of the village. A house and three barns burned down. A major destruction of Arnstein could be prevented by heavy rain and the intensive use of the fire brigade. After the district office had ordered the redevelopment of the street on Arnsteiner Berg as early as 1894, it was rebuilt in 1914 after several years of protest by the Arnstein population. The road, which was previously dangerous due to its steepness, was defused by extensive serpentines.

As in the surrounding villages and communities, the Second World War could also be felt in Arnstein. Franz H. Filsners wrote a detailed description of the Allied invasion:

“Shortly before the end of the war, on February 20, 1945, bombs fell between Weiden and Modschiedel as well as near Arnstein. A bomb almost claimed human lives: In the hallway “Hasenecke” a bomb fell in the middle between two chopping sticks on which the farmers were chopping Motschenbacher kindling. Arnstein served as a transit camp, so to speak. There were many members of the Wehrmacht in the village; During the day, fleeing soldiers drove down the village street in the direction of Weihersmühle. The houses were occupied by more refugees and displaced persons from East Prussia and Silesia than locals. On Friday, April 13th, it was also said in Arnstein: “The Americans are coming.” From Bojendorf the Americans moved into the village with tanks and immediately positioned themselves unequivocally, each tank pointing its cannon at a house. Therefore, the soldiers in Arnstein were received with signs of devotion. Many residents waved white towels from the windows and had raised white flags. All houses were searched for weapons. Otherwise, the American soldiers were friendly and generous. So they threw chocolate and cigarettes from their monsters. - Incidentally, many of them were colored, so that most Arnsteiners saw negroes for the first time. "

- Franz H. Filsners

After the Second World War, the church was extensively renovated inside and outside from 1950 to 1953 and received its current appearance. Club life flourished in 1968 with the establishment of the Jura Arnstein sports club. Despite many critical voices, this was able to establish itself especially with the youth and developed successfully in the following years. In June 1969 the club got its own sports field.

In the course of the regional reform , the formerly independent municipality of Arnstein was incorporated into Weismain on January 1, 1977. The interior of the church was renovated in 1984 for the 250th anniversary of the Church of St. Nicholas; Among other things, paintings on the windows were uncovered that date from the years 1780/90. In 1985, the District Fire Brigade Day took place in Arnstein, at which a big party was celebrated together with the 100th anniversary of the Arnstein Volunteer Fire Brigade. The horticultural association Arnsteiner Gartenfreunde was founded on November 17th, 1986. The number of members has more than quadrupled from 24 to 110 today. The youth group "Apollofalter" was founded in 1998.

The turn of the millennium until today

The kindergarten opened on January 1, 1998. Due to the cold winter weather at the opening, the only group in the kindergarten was given the name "polar bear group". Construction of the fire station began on September 7, 2001 and was completed in May 2004. The community hall was inaugurated during the first Arnstein village festival on June 22nd and 23rd, 2002. The fire in the sports home in May 2003 caused damage of around 150,000 euros. Another renovation of the church took place in 2004. Also in 2004 the main axis of the drinking water supply and waste water disposal Jura Süd was built, which brought the partly outdated pipeline system around the Kleinziegenfelder valley up to date. In the competition Our village has a future - Our village should become more beautiful , Arnstein was one of the four district winners in 2005.

In May 2010, the Arnstein volunteer fire brigade celebrated its 125th anniversary with a big party from May 28th to 30th.

Arnstein was the first district of Weismain to receive broadband in mid-September 2010 . This was implemented using the CS-Airnet radio technology from CS-Telecom as a registered provider of the Bavarian Broadband Initiative. The city of Weismain received a total of 31,100 euros in funding for this. This should also partially finance broadband access in the districts of Frankenberg , Mosenberg , Modschiedel , Schrepfersmühle , Wallersberg , Weiden , Weihersmühle and Wunkendorf .

Population development

The table shows the population development of Arnstein based on individual data.

year Residents source
1820 151
1833 171
December 01, 1910 167
1933 156
1939 142
2011 145
2012 139
2013 144
2015 136

societies

  • Arnstein Volunteer Fire Brigade, founded in 1885
  • SC Jura Arnstein e. V., founded in 1968
  • Fruit and horticultural association Arnstein with the youth group "Apollofalter Arnstein", founded in 1986
  • Stammtisch "Monstaane Robber Knights", founded in 1987

education

There is a kindergarten in Arnstein, where pre-school classes also take place.

Honorary citizen

The following list shows the honorary citizens of the former municipality of Arnstein. The date given is that of the award of honorary citizenship.

  • December 1921: Otto Mayer (pastor)
  • December 1921: Jakob Eberth (pastor)
  • December 1921: Franz Meth (teacher)

Personalities

literature

  • Andraschke, Joachim: The desert on the mountains - settlement history of the missing parish village Leuchnitz . In: Heimatgeschichtliche Zeitschrift für der Landkreis Lichtenfels , Volume 11 - 2002, Verlag Vom Main zum Jura, Eggolsheim 2002, pp. 16–33.
  • Jutta Böhm: Mill bike tour. Routes: Kleinziegenfelder Tal and Bärental , Weismain environmental station in the Lichtenfels district, Weismain / Lichtenfels (Lichtenfels district), 2000, 52 pages (numerous illustrations, canton)
  • Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Arnstein . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 1 : A-egg . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1799, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753073 , Sp. 169-173 ( digitized version ).
  • Filsner, Franz H .: From the parish history of Arnstein , Feulersdorf, 1984
  • George, Dieter: Celtic, Germanic-German or Slavic? . In: Heimatgeschichtliche Zeitschrift für der Landkreis Lichtenfels , Volume 12 - 2003, Verlag Vom Main zum Jura, Eggolsheim 2003, pp. 101–111.
  • Hetz, Karlheinz: Stations at the end of the war in 1945 in Wallersberg, Arnstein and the Weihersmühle . In: Heimatgeschichtliche Zeitschrift für der Landkreis Lichtenfels , Volume 19/20 - 2010/11, Verlag Vom Main zum Jura, Eggolsheim 2011, pp. 52–63.
  • Motschmann, Josef: Maachich, Meelich and Monschdaa - Eichig, Erlach and Arnstein in dialect . In: Heimatgeschichtliche Zeitschrift für der Landkreis Lichtenfels , Volume 19/20 - 2010/11, Verlag Vom Main zum Jura, Eggolsheim 2011, pp. 103-104.
  • Söhnlein, Georg: Arnstein - three castles once greeted the valley below . In: 2. Encounter with Franconia, Heinrichs-Verlag, Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89889-132-5 , pp. 10-11.
  • Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Arnstein . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 651 ( digitized version ).
  • Urban, Josef: Did that have to be? - The demolition of the Viktoriafelsen on Arnsteiner Berg 40 years ago . In: Heimatgeschichtliche Zeitschrift für der Landkreis Lichtenfels , Volume 14 - 2005, Verlag Vom Main zum Jura, Eggolsheim 2005, pp. 32–36.

Web links

Commons : Arnstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Distribution of residents in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2016 , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on April 30, 2016
  2. ↑ Arnstein in Bayernviewer ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 29, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geodaten.bayern.de
  3. ↑ Geotopenbeschreibung of sinkholes between Arnstein and Bojedorf in Geotopkataster Bayern , lfu.bayern.de, accessed 29 December 2011
  4. ↑ Söhnlein (2008), pp. 10-11.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Chronik von Arnstein , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on April 30, 2016
  6. ^ History of the place Großziegenfeld , gross-ziegenfeld.de, accessed on December 29, 2011
  7. ↑ a b Böhm (2000), p. 27.
  8. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 512 .
  9. ↑ a b Josef Urban: Leafed through the history books: Stations in the history of Wallersberg, Mosenberg and Weihersmühle . In: Markus Hatzold: Festschrift der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Wallersberg-Mosenberg , Weismain 2009, p. 37
  10. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 695 .
  11. ↑ Voluntary fire brigade Arnstein celebrates its 125th anniversary ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 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. , econtent.oberesmaintal-coburgerland.com, accessed on December 29, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / econtent.oberesmaintal-coburgerland.com
  12. ↑ a b Press report on Arnstein's broadband connection in September 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.obermain.de, accessed on December 29, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.obermain.de  
  13. ↑ AH Hönig: Topographical-alphabetical handbook on the cities, markets, villages, hamlets, mills and wastelands in the Upper Main District . Bayreuth 1820 ( full text in the Google book search).
  14. ^ Joseph Anton Eisenmann: Geographical description of the Archdiocese of Bamberg: together with a short overview of the suffragan dioceses: Würzburg, Eichstätt and Speyer . Bamberg 1833, p. 511 ( full text in Google Book Search). , P. 484
  15. ^ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Lichtenfels district office , gemeindeververzeichnis.de, accessed on February 13, 2014
  16. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Lichtenfels district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  17. ↑ Distribution of residents in the city of Weismain on January 1st, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 29, 2011 (offline)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-weismain.de  
  18. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2012 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Population distribution in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2013 ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2015 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )