Aschach (Bad Bocklet)

Aschach Bad Bocklet market
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 40 ″  E
Height :	219 m above sea level NN
Area :	7.11 km²
Residents :	1019  (June 30, 2012) [1]
Population density :	143 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	97708
Area code :	09708
Location of Aschach in Bavaria

Aschach in Lower Franconia (dialect pronunciation: Öschich) in the Bad Kissingen district is a district of the Bad Bocklet market in Lower Franconia .

Geographical location

The village is located two kilometers west of Bad Bocklet and nine kilometers north of Bad Kissingen at the foot of the Rhön . In Aschach the stream of the same name flows into the Franconian Saale .

The St 2430 running through Aschach joins the St 2290 westwards to Lauter (district of Burkardroth ) and Burkardroth. The St 2292 running through Aschach leads northwards to Hohn and Steinach and southwards via Großenbrach via the Bad Kissingen districts of Kleinbrach and Hausen to Bad Kissingen. Aschach is connected to Bad Bocklet to the east via KG 16 . The Franconian Marienweg leads through Aschach .

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Panorama of Aschach - Photographed from the new sports field

history

Local history

Beginnings

It is believed that the Aschach area of ​​today was already settled by Alamanni during the Roman Empire and in the 4th and 5th centuries AD .

The time of origin of the place itself is uncertain. The first documentary evidence could be a document from 867, through which a person named Betilo donated several fields in Ascha to the Fulda monastery . Aschach may have existed before; However, the "Ascaha" mentioned several times in Fulda documents is probably not referring to Aschach. The first reliable evidence of Aschach is a document from 1244, which documents the donation of the mill on the Saale to the Frauenroth monastery by Otto von Botenlauben and proves the existence of a settlement at the location of today's Aschach.

The name Aschach (Ascha, Aschaw, Waldaschach) comes from the Celtic Ascaha and means ash water .

Two parts soon formed out of the village of Aschach: one part with the name Schach was formed around the church, the other part with the castle as the center was called Neuseß. The name of the latter changed to "Nuseß" (1413), "Newsezs zu Ascha" (1458) and "Neuses bei Ascha" (1512). The first known mayor of Aschach was Paul Herterich (first mentioned in 1582). The first known village order from 1612 comes from the time of Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , but is probably the further development of an older village order. The rug court , with which every year at Kathedra Petri on February 22nd, the parish accounts were filed, current legal provisions were announced and, among other things, were of greater importance . a. Village masters, field and forest rangers were appointed.

middle Ages

In 1165 who built Henneberger the Castle Aschach first as a castle. The earliest evidence for the existence of the Saalmühle dates back to 1244; the first miller known by name was Kaspar Krauss (around 1583).

For the beginning of the 14th century an Aschach plebanus of unknown name for the place, which was initially part of the parish of Brend (part of Brendlorenzen , a current part of Bad Neustadt an der Saale ), has been handed down. On behalf of the Würzburg bishop Wolfram Wolfskeel von Grumbach, he had the ban on Count Heinrich von Henneberg lifted in order to obtain the release of the imprisoned clergyman Heinrich von Rieneck. In the second half of the 15th century, the parish of Aschach , which belonged to the diocese of Würzburg and the archdeaconate and chapter of Münnerstadt and possibly also to the Bildhausen monastery for a few decades, consisted of the branches Burkardroth , Stangenroth and Wollbach .

The earliest with the time of origin of the castle Aschach created the Office Aschach ; the first known Aschach magistrate is known as Hermann von Wenkheim for the year 1320 and the first written mention of an Aschach court (as Cent Aschaw ) for the year 1355. The prince-bishop had the Fraiss (the right to judge life and death) and appointed the centgraves , who appointed the lay judges. For the year 1422, due to border disputes at that time, the offices of Schildeck (Geroda) and Trimburg are known as neighboring offices of Aschach. The office was dissolved in 1804 due to the restructuring of the land offices and Aschach was compensated in return with a Rentamt Kissingen-Aschach, which, however, was moved to Kissingen in 1865 .

According to an inscription on the St. Trinity Church in Aschach, it was built in 1447. It is not certain whether there was a church in Aschach before that.

Aschach at the beginning of modern times

In the course of the peasant uprising of 1525 , Aschach was mainly threatened by the Bildhäuser Haufen, to which farmers around the Münnerstadt monastery Bildhausen had come together. The Aschach magistrate Eyring von Rotenhan, who was responsible for the Hausen Abbey , the Frauenroth Abbey and the Aschach Castle , succeeded in persuading the rebels to give up, whereupon Prince-Bishop Konrad II von Thüngen promised to respond to the farmers' demands. Nevertheless, the rebellious peasants occupied Aschach Castle and set it on fire; Officials Eyring von Rotenhan and eight other nobles were deported to Schweinfurt . After the suppression of the peasant uprising, fines were imposed on 411 subjects of the Aschach office as well as farmers of the Trimberg office for reconstruction and the like in the course of the criminal court carried out by the prince-bishop. a. of the Aschach Castle.

The 1,552 to 1,554 by Margrave Albrecht II. Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach initiated Markgräfler War had an impact on Aschach, was set as the castle Aschach according to an inscription above the entrance of the main building on November 9 in 1553 by Alcibiades on fire and completely destroyed . This was the reason for the complete rebuilding of Aschach Castle in its current concept.

The baptismal register of Aschach says that the pastor Heinrich Niemant, who worked in Aschach from 1580 to 1588, baptized about six of his sons. This suggests that he was a Lutheran and that the Aschach population may have turned to the denomination of their clergy . Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn's countermeasures to restore Catholicism in the town were only able to take hold gradually. At that time, Großenbrach and the district of Neuses also belonged to the parish of Aschach. In the 1590s, the Aschach pastor was also responsible for Bocklet; later this also applied to Haard , Hausen and Nüdlingen .

The earliest known documentary evidence of a teacher in Aschach for the children from Aschach and Großenbrach dates back to 1584, but it is possible that the Counts of Henneberg financed teaching positions in the village. The first school foundation in the village was established in the will of 1594 by Würzburg Cathedral Vicar Nikolaus Grob, who made a fortune of 300 guilders available to finance a teacher from the interest of 15 guilders for 5 guilders, while the remaining 10 guilders for church and school purposes were intended. Another source of finance in 1643 was the interest from the twenty guilders made available by Sebastian Herterich. From the beginning of the 17th century, in addition to the teacher, there was also a cantor , who was also the church organist .

To Kathedra Petri in 1601, the parish of Aschach under Pastor Christoph Grospitsch sold 31 acres and 25 crops of arable land, which, according to the sales deed , was a bad deal; the sales proceeds were awarded with interest. In 1746 the parish of Aschach received 426 guilders from the sold fields according to memorale .

During the Thirty Years' War the troops of the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf reached Aschach on October 12, 1631. He gave Aschach Castle and the Aschach Office to Colonel Count Brandenstein as a gift. The Aschach office was one of several offices that had to accommodate a cavalry regiment and two infantry regiments in winter and which also had to pay 20,000 thalers.

A detailed report on the Thirty Years' War can be found in the history of the market in Aschach in Lower Franconia , written by Pastor Karl Rützel and high school professor Ludwig Böhm . As a result, four of the five couples were married abroad in 1633 due to the circumstances. Country pastor Valentin Katzenberger had to flee from the riots, Aschach Centgraf March was killed in the fighting. In 1634 the Swedish attackers were repulsed. The plague broke out on August 31, 1634, from which the Kissingen city prefect and his family sought protection in Aschach. In 1638, after the war, plague and famine, the situation in Aschach had calmed down so much that the Würzburg Chamber Secretary Pet Brückner took a spa stay there. In September 1639, the population of Aschach had to defend themselves again against invading Swedish troops who stole cattle. In June 1640 the setting up of guards at the office cellar prevented further attacks. Around August 10 of the same year, Johann von Sporck's equestrian companies passed the town. However, due to the occupation of Aschach Castle by Swedish soldiers, the place was spared from looting. Benefiting from this, residents from the surrounding villages as well as Kissingen and Bischofsheim sought refuge in Aschach; further flows of refugees followed at the end of March 1646 and in February 1647. In 1648 there was looting in Aschach, during which many residents of the town were mistreated and killed. Many people from Aschach sought protection in the forests. A boy from Aschach who got lost in the forest was found dead after six weeks. Some Aschach people fled to more distant places, as well as many foreigners fled to Aschach. Some of these married in Aschach and had their children baptized there.

An extract from the description of the parish from 1669, which has been preserved in the Aschach municipal archive, documents the existence of a two-storey rectory for this time, but there was no road to the rectory. According to the mayors of Aschach and Großenbrach at the time, two thirds of the construction of the rectory was financed by Aschach and one third by Großenbrach. Pastor Melchior Beck's application for Bocklet to participate financially in the construction and repair work on the rectory was initially approved, but the approval was then withdrawn. In 1858, major construction work was carried out on the rectory, which was replaced by a new building in 1968/69.

By decree of Prince-Bishop Johann Gottfried von Guttenberg of November 14, 1698, Aschach was allowed to hold five markets a year, namely on Shrove Sunday, the Sunday after Trinity , on the Sunday after Kiliani , on the Sunday after Michaelis and on the Sunday after the Sacrifice of Mary . On this occasion the name "Markt Waldaschach" was created.

The Aschach Forestry Office was established no later than the 16th century under Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , who initially entrusted the officials with the inspection of the forest. Due to the specialization of this task over time, a game master was appointed in 1582; The use of forest masters is known from the beginning of the 17th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, forestry and game master Zacharias Kießling was the last to carry out this task. In 1824 the Aschach Forestry Office was assigned to the Hammelburg Forestry Office and the Claushof; a year later it was dissolved.

In 1731 it was possible to finance masses for the Aschach Brotherhood of the Holy Rosary from the estate of the late Aschach pastor Johann Michael Metz and later also of Johann Kirchner, who died in 1821. Because of additional funds needed, Rosary Brotherhood devotions were held on the first Sunday of each quarter, financed in 1843 from the estate of a certain Hofmann.

The first known evidence of a new school building dates from 1766; this first school in town was located behind the rectory. The mention of an industrial teacher from Aschach in 1791 suggests the existence of an industrial school in the village.

Bavarian Kingdom

After 1804 the Aschach cemetery was built. Before that, the deceased had been buried at the St. Trinity Church in Aschach . In 1855, a sum donated by Anna Maria Weidmann in the previous year was able to finance an expansion of the cemetery. In 1866, a cross donated by the Großenbrach citizen Peter Hein and designed by the Bockleter sculptor Michael Arnold was erected in the cemetery.

On August 21, 1807 Cantor Johann Bonfig protested against the accusation that he had pushed through the relocation of the Aschach cemetery and complained about the residents who, on this pretext, refused him the wood rations that were usual for his services. After Bonfig fell ill, another cantor was to be employed in 1813. In 1821 the cantor was replaced by a second teacher (school administrator).

In 1828, due to new requirements, the school building was replaced by a new building with a teacher's apartment on part of the old cemetery; A school garden was created on the old cemetery grounds. On March 21, 1862, the municipality of Aschach had to apply to the Kissingen district office for support to finance the teaching position and until the beginning of the 20th century was dependent on government grants for school purposes. After initial plans from 1783, Großenbrach finally got its own school in 1852 and a school administrator as a teacher.

As part of the German War of 1866, on July 10, 1866, Major von Moor's Bavarian 1st Battalion fought against the fusilier battalion of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel von Cranach, who was finally able to report the occupation of Aschach to Colonel von Hanstein. On July 12, 1866, the three Bavarian soldiers killed in action were buried in the Aschach cemetery. On July 13, 1891, a church service organized by the parish office and the board of the Aschach Warrior Association took place on the 25th anniversary of the war. In this context, a memorial donated by the community and benefactors was erected in the cemetery, which bears a dedication with the names of the fallen.

22 soldiers from Aschach took part in the fighting of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. They all returned to Aschach unscathed from the war. In honor of her healthy return home, an "uplifting celebration with office and Te Deum and various ceremonial acts" was held in August 1871.

At the beginning of August 1878 an information conference for elementary school teachers took place in Aschach regarding the introduction of physical education in elementary schools. In a letter dated February 8, 1911, the Royal Government of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg promoted gymnastics lessons and the like. a. with further training measures for the teachers. Attending drawing lessons became mandatory as early as September 1902.

In the autumn of 1897, the second teacher, Othmar, was released from lessons in the girls' Sunday school and replaced by the first teacher because, according to rumors, one of his pupils should have become pregnant; Othmar has now been entrusted with teaching at the boys' Sunday school. The royal government of Lower Franconia emphasized that it saw no reason to believe the rumors, but that it was because of the reputation of the school administrator, Othmar, that it was motivated to take these measures.

Mortuary of the Aschach cemetery.

In January 1904, the Royal Councilor Dr. Werner proposes to build a new (iron) bridge over the Aschach . In its rejection, the district council referred to the structural condition of the existing stone bridge, according to the district technician's report. Although the district was legally obliged to maintain the district roads including local traverses and bridges, the district council designated the municipality of Aschach as responsible for this.

On January 22, 1905, the community passed a resolution to move the cemetery cross; The restoration and relocation of the cross took place in 1906. Plans drawn up in 1912 to build a morgue were implemented the following year. In 1952 the structural condition of the morgue u. a. a renewal of the plaster and a repainting of the doors required; a redesign of the morgue took place in 1994.

In 1907, Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör made a visit to Aschach. On this occasion it was determined that the entrance to the rectory, which was unusable in rainy weather, had to be drained; On this occasion, a meeting took place in Aschach on October 27, 1907 with the participation of the community administration members from Aschach and Großenbrach.

From 1921 to 1946, the Großenbrach students were taught in Großenbrach in Aschach due to insufficient student numbers.

First World War and Weimar Republic

The outbreak of the First World War initially sparked enthusiasm for war in Aschach. This was followed by disillusionment until 1916, when the shortage of men drafted into the war became noticeable, the first of whom had already fallen. The bread was rationed to 250 grams per head per day, meat was not available at all despite meat brands; the children had to wear wooden shoes and patched pants. In 1922 , a Madonna commissioned by the Aschach Warriors and Soldiers and made by sculptor Balthasar Schmitt was erected in front of the St. Trinity Church in Aschach to commemorate those who fell in World War I.

After there had been isolated electricity in Aschach as early as 1900, such as in the Stolle brewery (power generation by steam engine ) and in the Gräflich-Luxburgische Mühle an der Saale (power generation by hydropower ), a power grid was established throughout the town in 1920; a contract was signed with Friedrich Graf von Luxburg to generate electricity in the Count's Luxburg mill. Wherever possible, electricity stands were installed on the houses. In 1927, when some electricity pylons were damaged, they were replaced as far as possible by iron posts. With the conclusion of the contract on September 27, 1929, the power supply of the place was transferred from Friedrich Graf von Luxburg to the Kreis AG Würzburg; the connection to the new electricity supplier took place on December 31, 1929 at 4 p.m.

In response to the visitation by Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried questionnaire collected in 1928 revealed »Dresses splendor" and "hedonism" as "Actual error", but overall a good state of Aschacher parish.

National Socialism and World War II

On August 28, 1934, the Aschach community council members as well as the community clerk, the field and forest rangers and the community servants were sworn in to Adolf Hitler . As early as July 1934, the gendarmerie sergeant reported to his superiors about the popular mood in the village. The Nazi regulations aimed at restricting the Catholic Church were received negatively; for example, in June 1936 the ban on the Corpus Christi procession caused displeasure. In December of the same year, the gendarme master took the view that the bishops' warnings would be superfluous if the anti-clerical measures were ended. In January 1938, Gendarmeriemeister Lechner described the popular mood as clouded by the criticism from Aschach parents that their children should no longer receive religious instruction in their own denomination, but in that of the teachers.

On March 3, 1934, the Aschach municipal council decided to build a water pipe for the purpose of group water supply via the Rhön-Maintal group. The project was started in the spring of 1935. The water pipe replacement fee caused resentment among the population, as it exceeded the financial means of most homeowners at 360 RM per person; The promise given to the homeowners to work off the fee by personally helping to build the water pipe was not fulfilled when emergency workers were deployed instead.

From September 1938, the Gendarmerie Master Lechner reported that a certain fear of war was spreading among the population of Aschach. The reaction to the Reichskristallnacht was cautious, since its effects were believed to be incompatible with the four-year plan put to the population . According to the municipality's log book, the Reichskristallnacht did not have any direct effects, as there were no Jews living in the village.

After the outbreak of war, the prevailing opinion was that people were being misled about the real losses in the war. In addition, the accommodation of refugees with the families represented a financial burden, especially since the breadwinners were missing after the husbands and sons moved in; in addition, even older cohorts who had already served in the First World War were drafted . In the autumn of 1940, the Aschach area was overflown several times by enemy aircraft, which terrified the population. In addition to a "parachute rocket bomb" dropped on a field between Bad Bocklet and Windheim in the night of September 4th to 5th, 1940 , which caused no further damage, there were no incidents. In the course of the next few years there were repeated shortages in the supply of the population, but the situation remained calm and public safety was guaranteed.

On Easter Sunday 1945, NSDAP local group leader Franz Bayer had Aschach men who were able to fight erect and defend tank barriers in the village. A special command provided the Aschach bridges on the Saale (the bridge to Aschach Castle , the bridge to Bad Bocklet and the bridge between Großenbrach and Kleinbrach ) with explosive charges. The day before the US soldiers arrived, the German soldiers were able to flee, only the bridge detonation squad and individual German soldiers were still in the area. On the night of April 6th to 7th, 1945 there was a fight between two scouting parties on both sides. When the MUNA explosions could be heard from Rottershausen , the bridge to Aschach Castle was blown up.

On the morning of April 7, 1945, Aschach was occupied by US soldiers, and four or five German soldiers were killed; they were buried in the Aschach cemetery on the orders of the US occupation forces. The Americans arrested German soldiers, police officers and members of the Volkssturm and took them to various camps; a curfew was also imposed. The blown castle bridge had to be temporarily replaced in order to supply the US units. The fact that the German troops could not offer any resistance due to a lack of petrol and ammunition may have prevented the site from being destroyed. After an occupation of about two to three weeks, the American soldiers withdrew.

After the Second World War, Aschach had a total of 26 fallen or missing persons. In her honor, the Aschach Warrior and Soldier Comradeship commissioned the erection of a monument in front of the Aschach St. Trinity Church on December 3, 1958 . The monument created by the Aschach sculptor Ludwig Bauer was inaugurated during the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the comradeship and merged into a single unit with Balthasar Schmitt's Madonna figure, which commemorates the victims of the First World War.

Aschach after 1945

The Aschach elementary school was opened on October 1, 1945. Even if the Großenbrach pupils left the elementary school at the beginning of 1946 because their own school was set up in Großenbrach, on February 19, 1946, a second teacher could be hired in the Aschach elementary school. From 1951, the elementary school was temporarily attended by the eighth grade of the Großenbrach elementary school due to the lack of space there, which required a new school to be built in Großenbrach.

From August 1949, the Aschach power supply needed renovation. However, since the community could not afford the necessary costs of 6,000 to 8,000 DM and no credit could be obtained, a citizens' meeting decided on March 18, 1950 to cede the local electricity network to the overland plant. On March 21, 1950, the handover of the power grid for a price of 26,900 DM was entered in the decision book. Some citizens of Aschach, since they had waived some rights when the local network was set up, demanded a share of the purchase price paid by the overland plant, but were unsuccessful.

In May 1951, a citizens' meeting took place in Großenbrach regarding the planned redesign of the Aschach cemetery used by Aschach and Großenbrach. The plans to re-bed individual graves in order to restructure the road network in the cemetery or, if this was not possible, to level them, caused outrage and dissent between the two places. In 1952, the Großenbracher Friedhof was built, where some of the dead from the Aschacher Friedhof were reburied.

After the first plans to renovate the school building in 1951 failed due to a lack of state subsidies, the municipal council decided in 1960 to implement the plans due to the hygienic conditions of the school building. On July 18, 1962, work began on a complete renovation of the school. On January 6, 1964, the inauguration of the newly designed school took place after completion of the construction period.

With the decision of the government of Lower Franconia on May 11, 1966, the elementary schools in Bad Bocklet, Aschach, Großenbrach and Hohn were abolished with effect from August 1, 1966 and replaced by an association school in the places concerned; Bad Bocklet became the seat of the association school. The association school was again replaced in 1969 by the Bad Bocklet - Aschach - Großenbrach - Hohn - Steinach ad Saale elementary school.

For May 14, 1966, the protocol book of the "1890 Aschach Choral Society" reports a visit by Bishop Josef Stangl , who was given a formal reception. The report of the authority of the bishop deplores the declining participation in sacramental and ecclesiastical life on the part of the population and advocates targeted education in the Eucharist and liturgy.

In 1967 the decision was made to rebuild the rectory. Two thirds of the costs, which according to the cost estimate were estimated at 168,000 DM, were to be raised by Aschach and one third by Grossenbrach; Part of the cost was covered by a grant from the Diocese of Würzburg amounting to DM 80,000. Aschach and Großenbrach raised their share through a loan from the church foundation in the amount of 90,000 DM. After the previous building was demolished, the new rectory was built from 1969 to 1969. However, because the costs increased by 50,000 DM, the Diocese of Würzburg contributed a further grant of 25,000 DM.

On June 21, 1971, the land consolidation procedure Aschach was ordered. The preliminary surveys revealed a high degree of ownership fragmentation of the affected land area of ​​810 hectares , including 427 hectares of usable agricultural area and 299 hectares of forest area. With the planning approval issued by the Würzburg Land Consolidation Directorate on March 31, 1976, the implementation of the land consolidation measures began. 2.6 kilometers of bitumen roads and 6.3 kilometers of gravel roads were expanded; the new network of paths to develop the corridor area, which is now divided into tubs , was 30 kilometers long. In autumn 1979 the ownership structure could be reallocated. The 28 landowners, who each cultivated more than two hectares of agricultural land, no longer had 441 but only 113 individual areas to manage; Individual areas of less than two hectares had to be disregarded. As part of the process, 2,700 trees and 6,500 shrubs were planted. There were hiking trails of 1.3 kilometers in length as well as new construction area for the sewage treatment plant, the sports field and the cemetery expansion; in addition, the state road could now be expanded. The total costs for the land consolidation procedure amounted to 1.63 million DM and were largely covered by state aid amounting to 1.41 million DM.

On January 1, 1972, Aschach was incorporated into the Bad Bocklet community.

After initial plans for a parish home in Aschach under Pastor Anton Zink (1934–1967), the first concrete plans were undertaken around 1985. The parsonage, now between the church and the parsonage, was inaugurated on February 7, 1988.

Population development

Population development

year	population	households
1574	478	104
1618	603	131
1623	630	137
1673	453	103
1703	352	75
1731	465	99
1748	469	102
1768	504	109
1800	678	100
1815	635	113
1834	696	124
1871	817	193
1900	763	180
1961	756	-
1970	777	-
1974	869	-
1978	777	-
1982	889	-
2016	1070	-

Buildings and plants

Aschach Castle

Aschach Castle

The most important building and the town's landmark is Aschach Castle , which was built by the Hennebergers in the 12th century and has belonged to the Lower Franconia district since 1955 after a very eventful history of ownership . The current structure goes back to the 16th century. The castle houses the Graf Luxburg Museum. The Counts of Luxburg collected works of art from all over the world that form the core of today's museum. In addition, the interior of the castle, where Bismarck was a regular guest during his spa stays in Bad Kissingen, has been completely preserved. A small school museum has been set up in the former home of the palace gardener on the site. In the mill of the castle there is also a hydroelectric power station with a weir.

Parish Church of St. Trinitas

The parish church of St. Trinitas in Aschach.

According to an inscription on the church building, the St. Trinity Church in Aschach was built in 1447. There may have been a previous church in Aschach.

As the coats of arms on the choir vault suggest, the new building was initiated in 1447 by Count Georg von Henneberg and his wife Johanna von Nassau. Under Prince Bishop Konrad II. Von Thüngen was the loft or was at least renovated while Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn that in 1609 the tower and in 1615 the nave was larger.

The first known evidence of St. Trinitas ( Most Holy Trinity ) as the patroness of the Aschach Church dates from 1669. In 1732/33 the church was renovated and in 1837, 1894 and 1895 additional bells were added. Further renovations took place in 1790 and 1876. The Aschach sculptor Balthasar Schmitt donated a statue of Our Lady and the fresco The Holy Family , which had to be whitewashed in the meantime.

During the Second World War , the three church bells had to be delivered; were replaced by four new bells in 1949.

In 1959 the neo-Gothic altars were repaired and in August and September 1964 the previous sacristy was replaced by a more spacious one. In the 1970s, the church was adapted to the requirements of the Second Vatican Council . In 1971 repairs were made to the organ. In 1990 the church was renovated and in March 1995 a radio clock was installed.

In the church there are several valuable grave monuments from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Ornithology path

On October 23, 1970, after two years of preparation, the ornithological trail was opened. The path was created on the initiative of the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park at the Bad Neustadt District Office, the Aschach elementary school, the Aschach Home and Hiking Association with the support of the Bad Kissingen District Office. As part of the 20th anniversary, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called “Bavaria's first ornithological path” in an article on August 7, 1990 as “exemplary” and highlighted the aviaries and enclosures that are used to care for sick and injured birds.

Others

In the center of Aschach there is a restored war memorial with an old linden tree and some restored historic houses, in the local area three oaks that are around 350 years old and registered as natural monuments, with the Trinity oak having the largest trunk circumference.

Club life

Aschach volunteer fire department

After the fire regulations for fire prevention and fire fighting issued in the Würzburg monastery in 1721 and 1783 had proved impractical, at the request of the royal fire inspector and commander of the Bad Kissingen volunteer fire brigade Martin, after preparations, the doctor Dr. Werner founded the Aschach Volunteer Fire Brigade on October 29, 1869 , one of the first fire departments of its kind in what is now the Bad Kissingen district . Dr. Werner became a commandant.

After the initial enthusiasm, however, over time, u. a. Due to the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871 , fewer and fewer members participated in the exercises. On April 27, 1873, Aschach was again the venue for the Gauverbandtag, u. a. with the participation of the fire brigades from Fuchsstadt and Mellrichstadt .

In the autumn of 1877 the Aschach volunteer fire brigade received new helmets and the guild flag of the bricklayers and carpenters. In 1891, measures were taken in cooperation with the mayor to ensure the supply of extinguishing water in the arid parts of the village in the event of a fire. In the same year the now outdated and damaged fire brigade syringe was replaced by a new one; in 1898 a butt syringe was purchased.

Due to the First World War , there were initially no further meetings after the General Assembly on April 10, 1913; The next meeting is not recorded in the minutes until February 24, 1918.

On October 12, 1919, the 50th anniversary of the founding was celebrated with the participation of the fire brigades from Frauenroth , Großenbrach , Bad Kissingen and Kleinbrach . On February 12, 1921, Dr. Werner was replaced by main teacher Zimmermann as a member of the board for health reasons and made an honorary board member.

As part of the DC circuit of the Nazi commander Georg Götz was replaced on 18 March 1934 Commander George Mahlmeister, the Aschacher firefighters on Adolf Hitler einschwor. After January 27, 1942, the next General Assembly did not take place again until April 14, 1946 - with still sparse participation - to reorganize the fire brigade after the end of the Second World War ; the necessary new elections took place on May 5, 1946.

The new flag was consecrated at the 80th anniversary celebration after the old one was stolen during the American invasion. A new Magirus TS 8 motorized sprayer was purchased in 1951, and a hose drying tower was built in 1953. One year later, the new LF 8 fire fighting vehicle on a Ford chassis followed, which turned the Aschach fire brigade into a support fire brigade in the Bad Kissingen district . In the autumn of 1963, the outgoing district fire inspector Kiesel, since 1953 Honorary Commander of the Aschach Volunteer Fire Brigade, was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his services in fire extinguishing . A new TS 8 portable pump was purchased in April 1966 and a new fire station was built on Seegarten in 1968 . The celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the foundation took place on January 21st and 22nd, 1969.

At the request of the fire brigade, an annual fire protection fee of 15 DM was introduced in the village from January 1, 1970 for all male Aschachers between 18 and 60 years of age. In 1973 the Aschach fire brigade received a new Opel LF 8/8 fire fighting vehicle. On January 5, 1988, the statutes of the Aschach Volunteer Fire Brigade, which are still valid today, were adopted. On October 9, 1993, the inauguration of the fire station, which took one year of work, took place. On the weekend of Pentecost in 1994, a four-day festival was held with a two-kilometer procession and the participation of forty fire departments for the 125th anniversary of the Aschach fire department.

Aschach music band

The Aschach Music Band , which was part of the Aschach Volunteer Fire Brigade before it became independent , was founded in 1877. Only two log books have survived, covering the years 1976 to 1984.

The 100th anniversary celebrations on June 25th and 26th, 1977 turned into an atmospheric event. The village music festival from 19 to 21 August 1978 in the parking lot of the Europa Center is considered the absolute highlight in the history of the brass band. Another highlight is a pilgrimage to Rome, which was carried out from October 6th to 13th, 1980 on the occasion of the ordination of Wolfgang Berka. The band played at a general audience of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square ; Conductor Georg Mahlmeister had the opportunity to speak briefly with the Pope. After their return, the band said goodbye to the departing Pastor Michael Wack on July 6, 1981 with a serenade.

Credit Association Aschach

According to the statutes of the Credit-Verein Aschach , drawn up on March 1, 1871 and preserved in the Aschach municipal archive, its members undertook to mutually “provide the cash required for commercial and economic purposes”.

Warrior and soldier comradeship in Aschach

War memorial in front of the St. Trinitas parish church.

A community of soldiers that had formed in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 officially joined forces on April 2, 1882 to form the Aschach Warrior and Soldier Comradeship . The flag acquired in autumn 1883 was consecrated on September 21, 1884.

In 1892 the association had 61 members. The association's statutes also provided for financial support from the association's coffers for sick association members or the surviving dependents of deceased members. On September 1, 1895, the association organized a parade to mark the 25th anniversary of Sedan Day .

In 1904, 1911, 1965 and 1975, damage to the club flag, which could be saved from confiscation by US troops at the end of World War II , had to be repaired. In August 1907 the association decided to erect a memorial for the veterans of the Franco-German War ; On September 3, 1911, the Victory Column made by the sculptor Balthasar Schmitt with the bronze Siegfried and the names of the war participants from Aschach was inaugurated on the bark of the Upper Rhine .

Due to the First World War, there were no general assemblies between October 6, 1914 and February 6, 1919. A Madonna made in 1922 by Balthasar Schmitt and placed in front of the parish church commemorates the fallen of this war.

Between 1933 and 1945 the association was run as a warrior and military comradeship of the German Reich Warrior League ; Documents from this period are missing. After the association was banned at the end of the Second World War, the association was able to resume operations on October 20, 1953. According to a corresponding decision of December 3, 1958, during the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the association, next to the Madonna, which commemorates the victims of the First World War, the inauguration of a memorial created by the Aschach sculptor Ludwig Bauer to commemorate the victims of the Second World War took place ; According to the plans, both monuments were merged into one unit. The municipality of Aschach assumed responsibility for the construction and maintenance costs of the monument.

On December 10, 1966, the Aschach Warrior Association was renamed Warrior and Soldier Comradeship; on December 9, 1967, he joined the German Soldiers and Warriors Union (DSKB).

St.Johannis branch association Aschach

On December 8, 1887, the St.Johannis Aschach branch was established with 48 founding members and was accepted by the Central Chapter in Munich on April 28, 1888. The purpose of the association based in Aschach was to care for the poor in Aschach, Bad Bocklet and Großenbrach .

On December 15, 1887, the handicraft school opened, and on May 1, 1888, the children's institution. In 1888 the association had 93 members. In 1912 a celebration was held to mark the 25th anniversary of the association. On January 24, 1920 the entry in the register of associations took place.

Because of the recall of the nuns, the kindergarten had to close in September 1966 and could only be operated again on May 2, 1968 when a kindergarten teacher was recruited. After their departure on August 1, 1971, their position could only be filled with a half-day employee on November 1, 1972. After they passed on December 15, 1982, two young kindergarten teachers took over the educational work in the kindergarten.

As part of the celebrations from June 27th to 29th, 1987 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the club, a club chronicle was created.

In 1991, the plans for the renovation or expansion of the kindergarten began with the assumption of two thirds of the costs by the Bad Bocklet community; the renovation work itself began in 1993. Due to financial problems on the part of the association, the kindergarten was taken over by the Catholic Church Foundation. Two thirds of the costs were covered by the Bad Bocklet market. On September 4, 1994, the rebuilt kindergarten was blessed by the Cathedral Chapter Hartmut Wahl.

Choral Society 1890 Aschach

On October 24, 1890, the 1890 Aschach Choral Society was founded with the election of a provisional board. The actual board of directors was elected on January 1, 1891; the association's statutes were drawn up on the same day.

Twelve club members were drafted into the First World War; one of them succumbed to his war injuries in a Würzburg military hospital on September 22, 1914. The association organized a charity concert that brought in 105 marks for the local committee for war aid. Due to the war, there were temporarily neither board elections nor singing rehearsals. The first general assembly after the war took place on January 19, 1919.

On December 23, 1933, the choral society joined the Franconian Singing Association . During the time of National Socialism was on a DC circuit of the club dispensed with since the national sentiments and the Third Reich inclined attitude were seen by the Executive Board. For the Nazi era, only entries in the log book of January 12, 1935 and December 22, 1939 (acceptance of five new members) are known.

After a meeting on October 9, 1945 regarding the association's assets, new association statutes were drawn up on January 20, 1947 in order to have them approved by the American military government .

On July 1 and 2, 1950, the 60th anniversary celebration of the foundation took place in Aschach Castle with guests of honor such as Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia .

From April 26, 1970, the newly inaugurated multi-purpose hall served the choral society, which had previously met in the “Zum Hirschen” restaurant, as a new club bar. In 1974 it was decided to put the club on hold for the time being due to a lack of participants in the singing rehearsals. On January 2, 1975 the post of conductor was filled.

On 22 October 1983, the glee club sang during the visit of the then Federal Postmaster Christian Schwarz-Schilling to Aschach Castle .

On February 22, 1985 the association's children's choir was formed; on February 15 of the following year, the association's statutes, which had been in effect until then, were replaced by today's association statutes. In the general assembly of July 4th or 5th, 1990, a woman was elected for the first time for the post of the first board of the association. The 100th anniversary of the choral society was celebrated with a gala evening on June 15, 1991 and a foundation festival from July 5 to 6, 1991.

Aschach Casino Company

Probably the oldest and best-known evidence for the Aschach Casino Society is the list for collecting the Aschach Casino contributions in 1893 with the names of 36 members; the circumstances of the establishment and the dissolution are unknown due to a lack of documents.

There are references to the organization of a sedan celebration with dance entertainment and family entertainment with theater and dance (both without a year) as well as a request for police hours to be extended for another family entertainment on January 15, 1898. The invitation to a general assembly on December 2, 1897 was also received receive.

Racing and touring club "Bavaria" in Aschach

The only known documents about the racing and touring club "Bavaria" in Aschach show that it was accepted as a member on January 12, 1902 by the North Franconian Cyclist Association.

Borromeo Association of Aschach

Little is known about the Borromeo Association in Aschach , the purpose of which was to enable its members to borrow books. A membership card issued to main teacher Ambros Schmitt in 1914, which also served as a receipt for payment of the membership fee and as a loan card, is one of the few known documents of the association.

Bocklet-Aschach water cooperative

The statutes of the resolution adopted on 19 February 1914 Wassergenossenschaft Bocklet-Aschach , which was established on the basis of the Water Act of 23 March 1907, based in Bad Bocklet, regulated, had in which hall departments and under what cost distribution cooperative to carry out the maintenance of the grave runs, which the property owners were not allowed to do themselves.

Association of war invalids, social pensioners and survivors

The Association of War Disabled, Social Pensioners and Survivors ( VdK ) was founded in November 1946. The Aschach local association was part of the Bad Kissingen district association. The association took care of the financial security of war victims, orphans, widows, etc. and supported them in contacting the authorities in this regard. On January 1, 1972 or 1992 (the details differ in this regard) the VdK local associations Aschach and Steinach merged.

TSV Aschach

After 1. FC 1919 Aschach, founded in 1919, and a successor club founded later failed due to a lack of a suitable sports field, the gymnastics and sports club Aschach was founded on November 16, 1946 with 56 founding members. After naming two guarantors, the association was approved by the American military government ; a little later another 30 members joined the association.

The 18 club members between the ages of 16 and 18 formed the club's youth group. A meadow was leased by the community for the football department, while the gymnastics department found its accommodation in the hall of the community center. The founding ball was held on February 18, 1947, the first general assembly on January 2, 1948.

The currency reform of 1948 affected the association's assets in the amount of RM 1,230 (as of June 20, 1948).

On June 3, 1950 or 1951 (the information is uncertain here), the town's new swimming pool, built by the community, was handed over to the association, where a swimming festival was held on August 19, 1951. Because of dilapidation, the swimming pool was returned to the community in 1958; on May 31, 1967, its demolition had to be decided.

Due to disputes in the club after the municipal elections in March 1952, the participation of the soccer department in the point games almost failed, but was then guaranteed thanks to the older soccer players in the club. On June 3 and 4, 1956, the “Group Tower Festival 'South' of the Rhön-Saale-Turngau” took place in the Aschach Castle Park with the participation of the association.

The construction of the new road in 1961 led to the relocation of the sports field, which was also enlarged in area. After many years, construction work on a clubhouse or gymnasium in cooperation between the club and the community could not begin until September 21, 1968. The land consolidation in Aschach enabled the construction of the new sports field from 1989, which was inaugurated from July 13th to 16th, 1990.

Heimat-, Wander- und Gartenbauverein e. V. Aschach

After a hike to Windheim (now part of Münnerstadt ) on May 29, 1966 , the Aschach participants expressed their desire to hike again. Due to the weather, this could only take place on Whit Monday 1967, but was so popular that Aschach's mayor Gerold Lösel suggested the establishment of a local and hiking club. On January 12, 1968 (or 1969; the information in the log book is uncertain) the first community meeting of the Heimat-, Wander- und Gartenbauverein e. V. Aschach .

In 1969 there were only two hikes, namely to Gefäll and through the Red Moor . On March 21, 1970, a general assembly took place at which the association's statutes were changed, which are still valid today and were only supplemented on March 15, 1991. At the same time the entry in the register of associations was decided and made on November 20, 1970. On November 29, 1975, there were 208 members.

On December 28, 1980, the association welcomed Federal President Karl Carstens , who was just going on a hike through Germany.

From the 1980s onwards, the association made a contribution to the restoration of wayside shrines and other works of art in Aschach. At the general assembly on January 6, 1990 the idea arose that the association could initiate the creation of a wayside shrine itself; The Aschach sculptor Ludwig Bauer chose the theme "Kreuzberg pilgrimages" and presented four models to choose from, two of which were from Bauer's sons. The board of the association finally decided in favor of the Ludwig Bauer jun. created model. The wayside shrine, made for 15,000 DM, was set up on the ornithological path in September 1990 and blessed by Pastor Hugo Link.

During a festival with a standard celebration on May 30th and 31st, 1992 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the association, 42 members were honored for 25 years of association membership and 39 founding members.

"Gut Holz" bowling club in Aschach

On May 2nd, 1970 the bowling club "Gut Holz" Aschach was founded by 37 men. Women were not admitted as members until 1976; a year later the women's group was formed. The association participates in championships, Christmas and carnival celebrations as well as in the past in the parish dance and the Aschach carnival parades; Carnival dances and maypole displays are also organized.

Aschach Hunting Association

On January 25, 1971 and March 27, 1979, the community hunting ground for which the Aschach Hunting Association was responsible was reorganized by the Bad Kissingen district office. Later the members of the hunting association decided to use the income from the hunting lease mainly for the construction of field and forest paths. In 1980 the Aschach kindergarten was also subsidized from the hunting lease schilling. On November 5, 1981, the District Office of the hunting association approved the construction of a fallow deer enclosure.

FC Bayern Fan Club Aschach 06

On November 11, 2006, the FC Bayern Aschach 06 fan club was founded. Since 2008 there have been regular trips to the Allianz Arena in Munich . The fan club currently has around 60 members.

Personalities

mayor

Mayor of Aschach from 1582 to 1971

Surname	Term of office	Official title
Paul Herterich	around 1582	Mayor
Johann Beimer	around 1692
Jörg Paul Mahlmeister	around 1743
Johann Helbig	around 1794
Sebastian Derlet (h)	since 1806
Joseph Neugebauer	1818-1827	Local board
J. Burkert	1828-1832
Weidmann	1832-1836
Laudensack	1836-1844	Mayor
Sebastian Hochrein	1845-1880
Farmer	1880-1887	mayor
Citizen	1888-1893
Georg Vey	1894-1905
Michael Joseph Engelbreit	1905-1911
Johann Bauer	1912-1919
Heinrich Schäfer	1919-1945
Josef Katzenberger	1945–1966
Gerold Lösel	1966-1972

Pastor

Pastor of Aschach

Surname	Term of office
Mention of a plebanus ; Pastor's name unknown	1326
Conradt Schedel	1334-1337
Heinrich Monch, plebanus in Ascha	1421
Mathias Iring and Eyringk	1458
Mention of a chaplain	1497
Johann Ruthart	1498
Georgius Fiedler	1574
Heinrich Niemant ("Nemo")	1580
Michael Feuerlein	1588
Christoph Grospitsch (Graspitsch)	1595
M. Johann Edelmann from Nüdlingen	1608
Valentin Katzenberger from Nordheim before the Rhön († 1639 in Aschach)	1628
M. Melchior Beck (Pistor, Pistorius) from Retzbach († 1666)	1639
M. Johann Balthasari from Merkershausen in the grave field	1666
Laurentius Schmidt (Faber) from Wollbach	1668
M. Andreas Weisenseel from Zahlbach	1672
M. Johann Kaspar Landgraf from Münnerstadt	1683
Christian Bulmann from Westphalia	1685
Valentin Hoffmann from Nüdlingen († 1720)	1691
Johann Georg Schöpner (Schöppner) from Unterweißbrunn († 1727 at Kreuzberg )	1720
Johann Michael Metz († 1731 in Aschach)	1727
Vitus Theodor Stecher from Würzburg († 1731)	1731
Benignus Christoph Joseph Eberth from Haßfurt († 1758)	1744
Johann Valentin Geis (Geys) from Schmallwasser († 1777)	1758
Johann Andreas Weber from Grettstadt († 1806)	1777
Johann Adam Roth from Kleinsassen († 1832 in Aschach)	1806
Matthäus Nebel from Aschaffenburg († 1857 in Aschach)	1832
Franz Forster	1858 (February 4)
Karl Hofmann	1874
Max Joseph Rudolph Strobl	1881
Karl Rützel from Kitzingen	1886-1916
Johann Kreß	1917
Anton Zink	1934
Michael Wack	1967
Hugo Link	1981

Sons and daughters of the place

• Franz Rudolph von Hettersdorf (1675–1729), cathedral chapter in Worms and canon in Würzburg
• Balthasar Schmitt , (* 1858; † 1942), sculptor

Personalities who have worked on site

• Friedrich Reinhard Karl Ludwig Count of Luxburg (1829–1905), District President; bought Aschach Castle in 1874 and converted it into a museum
• Franz Michael Werner (1838–1921), councilor, district doctor in Aschach
• Bernhard Graf von Bylandt-Rheydt (1905–1998), sculptor, spent his twilight years in Aschach

literature

• Josef Wabra: Guide through the Kissinger Rhön, Landeskundliche Schriftenreihe for northern Lower Franconia , issue 10, published by the Bad Kissingen district and the district home nurse of Unterfranken, Bad Kissingen, 1968, 158–171
• Herbert Schultheis: Bad Bocklet - history of the districts of Aschach and Großenbrach (= Bad Neustädter contributions to the history and local history of Franconia, volume 6) . Bad Neustadt ad Saale 1996.

Web links

• Aschach near Bad Kissingen
• Private website about Aschach
• Aschach at www.badbocklet.de
• Information on the history of Aschach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see the Markt Bad Bocklet website
2. ^ Würzburger Chronik (new edition at Bonitas Bauer), Volume 2, p. 231
3. ↑ Reinhard Weber: Würzburg and Bamberg in the Thirty Years War , Würzburg 1979
4. ↑ Archives of the histor. Association VIII, 1st H., 1 ff.
5. ^ Karl Rützel, Ludwig Böhm: History of the market Aschach in Lower Franconia , p. 103.
6. ^ " Saale-Zeitung " No. 176 (1871)
7. ^ State Archives Würzburg, LRA Bad Kissingen 1154
8. ↑ Aschach community archive II / 67: Protocol book of the community 1925–1935: Entry from October 23, 1928
9. ^ Unpublished "Chronik des Landpolizeipostens Aschach", p. 45
10. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 426 .
11. ^ Herbert Schultheis: Bad Bocklet - history of the districts of Aschach and Großenbrach (= Bad Neustädter contributions to the history and local history of Franconia, volume 6) . Bad Neustadt ad Saale 1996., p. 76
12. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 738 .
13. ↑ www.badbocklet.de
14. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich): On unusual ways. Bavaria's first bird path. , August 7, 1990
15. ^ Herbert Schultheis: Bad Bocklet - history of the districts of Aschach and Großenbrach (= Bad Neustädter contributions to the history and local history of Franconia, volume 6) . Bad Neustadt ad Saale 1996., p. 95ff.
16. ^ Herbert Schultheis: Bad Bocklet - history of the districts of Aschach and Großenbrach (= Bad Neustädter contributions to the history and local history of Franconia, volume 6) . Bad Neustadt ad Saale 1996., pp. 179-186