Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld

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Coat of arms of the city of Bad Königshofen in the grave field
Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld
Map of Germany, position of the city Bad Königshofen highlighted in Grabfeld

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '  N , 10 ° 28'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
County : Rhön-Grabfeld
Height : 275 m above sea level NHN
Area : 69.52 km 2
Residents: 6013 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 86 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 97631
Area code : 09761
License plate : NES, CAN, MET
Community key : 09 6 73 141
City structure: 17 districts

City administration address :
Marktplatz 2
97631 Bad Königshofen i.Grabfeld
Website : www.badkoenigshofen.rhoen-saale.net
First Mayor : Thomas Helbling ( CSU )
Location of the city of Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld in the Rhön-Grabfeld district
Fladungen Hausen (Rhön) Bundorfer Forst Burgwallbacher Forst Forst Schmalwasser-Nord Forst Schmalwasser-Süd Mellrichstadter Forst Steinacher Forst rechts der Saale Sulzfelder Forst Weigler Willmars Nordheim vor der Rhön Sondheim vor der Rhön Stockheim (Unterfranken) Mellrichstadt Mellrichstadt Ostheim vor der Rhön Oberelsbach Bischofsheim in der Rhön Bischofsheim in der Rhön Sandberg Schönau an der Brend Hohenroth Niederlauer Burglauer Strahlungen Salz (Unterfranken) Bastheim Oberstreu Unsleben Wollbach (Unterfranken) Bad Neustadt an der Saale Heustreu Hendungen Hollstadt Rödelmaier Wülfershausen an der Saale Höchheim Saal an der Saale Aubstadt Herbstadt Trappstadt Großeibstadt Großbardorf Sulzfeld (im Grabfeld) Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke Thüringen Landkreis Haßberge Landkreis Schweinfurt Hessen Landkreis Bad Kissingenmap
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Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld (officially: Bad Königshofen i.Grabfeld ) is a small town in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld . The spa town on the Franconian Saale lies in the Grabfeld at the foot of the Haßberge and is surrounded by the Rhön and Thuringian Forest nature parks .

geography

Districts

There are 17 districts:

Markings

There are the districts Althausen, Aub, Bad Königshofen i.Grabfeld, Bundorfer Forst, Eyershausen, Gabolshausen, Ipthausen, Merkershausen and Untereßfeld.

history

Until the 18th century

The place was first mentioned in a document in 741. However, it was already settled significantly earlier. This was shown by grave finds from around 600 in the area of ​​today's fortress road. There are partly Christian and partly pagan burials in the cemetery. The grave goods included a long sword and various pottery. An even older settlement, which was inhabited in the 4th century, was found on Bamberger Straße.

During the time of the tribal duchies , the place was in the Duchy of Franconia . The city charter was granted around 1235. Königshofen was owned by the Counts of Henneberg from 1200 and came through two divisions of the Henneberg-Schleusingen line in 1347 and 1353 to the heiress Elisabeth von Henneberg-Schleusingen († 1389), who was married to Count Eberhard II of Württemberg . He sold the place in 1354 to the Würzburg monastery . The Würzburg bishops expanded Königshofen into a fortress .

The Counts of Henneberg- (Aschach-) Römhild acquired the castle and the Königshofen office in 1400 as a pledge, and in 1412 through purchase from the Würzburg monastery. In 1485 the first division in the Römhild line took place, whereby Königshofen fell to the Romanhildic part under Count Friedrich II of Henneberg-Aschach († 1488). The place was later returned to the Würzburg Monastery by redeeming the pledge. Then the city became the seat of an episcopal bailiff. There is evidence of a medieval leprosy in Bad Königshofen in 1603 , which was called the Siechhaus.

In the years 1631 to 1635 Königshofen was occupied by the Swedes . After 1650 the city was expanded into a strong bastionary fortress.

19th and 20th centuries

As part of the Hochstift Würzburg , which belonged to the Franconian Empire , the office of Königshofen was secularized in 1803 in favor of Bavaria and left to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg in the Peace of Pressburg (1805) . With this it finally fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814 .

In 1893 the city was connected to the railway network with the Grabfeldbahn . Königshofen had been a Bavarian district town and seat of a royal regional court since the beginning of the 19th century. The synagogue was desecrated during the November pogrom in 1938 and largely demolished after the war. On July 1, 1972, the Königshofen district was dissolved. On September 14, 1974, the city was elevated to a bath .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Gabolshausen, Ipthausen and Untereßfeld were incorporated. Eyershausen was added on April 1, 1972. Althausen followed on July 1, 1972. Merkershausen was incorporated on July 1, 1976. The series of incorporations was completed with the incorporation of Aub on May 1, 1978.

Population development

Population numbers
year 1840 1900 1939 1950 1961 1970 1987 1991 1995 2005 2010 2015 2018
Residents 3840 3895 4231 6231 5610 5715 5901 6540 6946 7063 6907 6034 5984

politics

City Councilor and Mayor

The local elections on March 16, 2014 resulted in the following composition of the Bad Königshofen City Council:

Bad Königshofen town hall
Party / list Share of votes Seats G / V
CSU 24.4% 5 - 2
SPD 9.8% 2 ± 0
Green 4.2% 1 + 1
Block of Free Voters 12.6% 2 - 1
List Merkershausen 10.9% 2 ± 0
Citizens' block of the districts 9.1% 2 - 1
List Eyershausen 8.4% 2 + 1
List of Althausen 6.9% 1 + 1
List of Untereßfeld 5.8% 1 + 1
Boy list 4.4% 1 ± 0
Active citizens of Bad Königshofen 3.3% 1 ± 0

P / L: gain or loss compared to 2008 election

Mayor is Thomas Helbling (CSU). In the election on March 16, 2014, it achieved 87.2% of the valid votes cast.

Community finances

In 2012 the municipal tax revenue amounted to 5,112,000 euros, of which 2,326,000 euros were trade tax revenue (net).

Town twinning

School partnerships of the Bad Königshofen high school exist with Louth ( United Kingdom ), Laon and Montcornet (both France ) and Chianciano Terme ( Italy ).

Municipal alliance

The city of Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld is a member of the municipal alliance Fränkischer Grabfeldgau .

Culture and sights

Leisure and attractions

City parish church of the Assumption

Architectural monuments

Museums

  • Museums in the Schranne
  • Tower museum in the parish church of the Assumption
  • Village museum in the Radlerheim in Untereßfeld

Ipthausen Jewish cemetery

In the district of Ipthausen there has been a Jewish cemetery since 1920 , where the local Jewish families from Königshofen and the surrounding area buried their deceased. A memorial opposite the entrance commemorates Jewish life and the persecution and murder of the Jewish residents in the Shoah .

Others

  • Das Grabfeld is an annual home page for culture, history and customs in the Grabfeld
  • The association Spitalhof e. V. organizes concerts with local artists, cultural round tables, etc. at regular intervals.

Sports

The table tennis department of TSV Bad Königshofen rose to the table tennis Bundesliga for the 2017/18 season .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The spa and leisure center FrankenTherme with the healing springs Urbani and Regius as well as hotels, restaurants and pensions are of considerable economic importance in the spa town.

According to official statistics, there were 47 employees at the place of work in the field of agriculture and forestry, 1159 in the manufacturing sector and 404 in the trade, transport and hospitality sector. In other economic sectors, 863 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 1980 employees at the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. There were nine companies in the manufacturing sector and eight in the construction sector. In the year there were 105 farms with an agricultural area of ​​4632 hectares, of which 4106 hectares were arable land and 521 hectares were permanent green space.

Bad Königshofen was the end point of the Bad Neustadt – Bad Königshofen railway line, which was closed in 1995 .

education

The following educational institutions exist (as of 2019):

  • the "Kinderland Bad Königshofen" with day care center and kindergarten
  • three elementary schools
  • a secondary school
  • a linguistic / scientific-technological / humanistic grammar school
  • the vocational school for music
  • the district music school
  • the Adult Education Center Rhön and Grabfeld
  • the city library

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the place

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Johann W. Rost: attempt of a historical-statistical description of the city and the former fortress Königshofen and the royal district court district Königshofen. Stahel, Würzburg 1832 ( digitized version ).
  • Valentin Hummel: The traditional costumes of the Grabfeld district. In memory of the agricultural district festival on September 12, 1852 in Königshofen in the Grabfelde. Königshofen 1852. (Reprint: Frankonica, Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld / Würzburg 1981, ISBN 3-922092-06-3 ).
  • Carl Wilhelm Eulenhaupt: Brief description of the Royal District Office Königshofen. Stahel, Würzburg 1877.
  • Hans Karlinger: The art monuments of Lower Franconia & Aschaffenburg. Volume 13: District Office Königshofen. Munich 1915. (Reprint: Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-486-50467-3 ).
  • Alois Hippeli: Königshofen, the metropolis of the grave field. (= Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the city of Königshofen in Franconia). Hofheim 1930.
  • Adolf Beckerle: Königshofen and the grave field, a sketch of the local history. Koenigshofen 1937.
  • Josef Braun: District of Königshofen in the Grabfeld. In: Historical book of place names of Bavaria / Lower Franconia. Volume 1: Königshofen district in Grabfeld. Lassleben, Kallmünz 1963, DNB 365353140 .
  • Erich Keyser, Heinz Stoob (ed.): German city book - manual urban history. Volume 5: Bavaria. Part 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1971, DNB 456437711 , pp. 307-309.
  • Josef Sperl: City and fortress Königshofen in the grave field. A historical outline. City of Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld, Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld 1974, DNB 760514275 .
  • Reinhold Albert : History of the Jews in the grave field. (= Series of publications by the Association for Local History in Grabfeld eV, Volume 2). City of Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld, Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld 1990, DNB 910770751 .
  • Leo Walter Hamm: The royal court in the grave field from the beginning to the founding of the empire. (= Series of publications by the Association for Local History in Grabfeld eV, Volume 3). City of Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld, Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld 1991, DNB 946858918 .
  • Eugen Schöler: Franconian coats of arms tell history and stories. (= The bibliophile series at Degener. Volume 1). Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1992, ISBN 3-7686-7012-0 , pp. 155–156.
  • Reinhold Albert : End of the war in 1945 and the post-war period in Königshöfer Grabfeld. Contemporary witnesses report. (= Series of publications by the Association for Local History in Grabfeld eV, Volume 7). City of Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld, Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld 1995, DNB 946861382 .
  • Reinhold Albert : History of the Capuchin monastery and the monastery church Königshofen i. Size (= Series of publications by the Association for Local History in Grabfeld eV, Volume 12). Monastery church administration, among others, Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld 1997, DNB 952803933 .
  • Detlev Pleiss, Leo Walter Hamm: The Thirty Years War in Königshöfer Land-Königshofen under the Swedish occupation 1631-1635. City of Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld, Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld 1997, DNB 952899442 .
  • Georg Dehio , Tilmann Breuer: Handbook of German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia - The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , pp. 72–74.
  • Hanns Friedrich: Beautiful Königshofen. Association for local history in Grabfeld, Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld 2005, DNB 1128346702 .
  • Otto Meyer, et al. a .: The Christianization of Franconia: Saint Kilian against the background of the Irish influence on early medieval Europe . In: Publications of the Society for Franconian History. No. 47/2006. Würzburg 2006, p. 45 f.
  • Annette Faber: Assumption of the Virgin in Bad Königshofen. (= Small art guide. No. 240). 6th, revised edition. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-4199-9 .
  • Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 , pp. 40-47.

Web links

Commons : Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld  - sources and full texts

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. ^ Community of Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld: Mayor. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  3. http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html?val=1600&attr=OBJ&modus=automat&tempus=20111120/173512&hodie=20111120/173512
  4. ^ Text and translation of the document of Emperor Ludwig the Pious from 822
  5. Mainpost: BAD KÖNIGSHOFEN graves are around 1400 years old updated: November 4th 2011
  6. ^ The Counts of Henneberg, p. 106
  7. Königshofen in the Rhön Lexicon
  8. See data from the Society for Leprosy under Archived Copy ( Memento from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 740 and 741 .
  10. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 499 .
  11. Municipal statistics 2013
  12. Results of the city council election 2014
  13. ^ Website of the Stadtsaal Lichtspiele
  14. ^ Website of the FrankenTherme
  15. ^ Website of the fairy tale forest Sambachshof
  16. Pilgrimage Church of the Birth of Mary in Ipthausen. In: Wallfahrt.Bistum-Wuerzburg.de. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
  17. Speaking Beos in Lower Franconia. In: Sueddeutsche.de. June 30, 2012, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  18. Michael Petzold: A new home for the flock of birds. In: Mainpost.de. December 3, 2018, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  19. Museums in the Schranne. In: Museen-Rhoen-Saale.de. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  20. ^ Website of the Archaeological Museum Bad Königshofen
  21. ^ Website of the museum for cross-border commuters
  22. Tower Museum. In: BadKoenigshofen.Rhoen-Saale.net. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  23. Village museum in the Radlerheim. In: BadKoenigshofen.Rhoen-Saale.net. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  24. Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation , volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn, 1995, p. 117. ISBN 3-89331-208-0
  25. Dr.-Karl-Grünewald-Schule Website of the Bad Königshofen secondary school
  26. Zz: Gabolshausen (HG) / A masterpiece of its time / After five years, one of the most beautiful Rococo wayside shrines in Lower Franconia is back in its place in Gabolshausen on the Main-Post page of August 8, 2000, updated on December 3, 2006
  27. Main Post of November 12, 2007: Traces of the RAF in Haßgau and in Grabfeld | MAIN-POST news for Franconia, Bavaria and the world