Bibergau

Bibergau City of Dettelbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 20 ″  E
Residents :	650
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	97337
Area code :	09324
Location of Bibergau (bold) in the Dettelbach municipal area

With approx. 650 inhabitants, Bibergau is the largest district of Dettelbach in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen . Bibergau is located west of Dettelbach with a connection to the federal highway 22 .

Geographical location

Bibergau is located in the west of the Dettelbach municipal area. In the north is Euerfeld , with which Bibergau is connected via the KT28 district road. Dettelbach is to the east. The south is taken by the federal highway 3 , further south begins the municipality of Mainstockheim . To the southwest is the Dettelbacher Bahnhof with the district of the same name . Effeldorf is in the west.

An extensive bird sanctuary begins north of Bibergau and offers places of refuge for endangered bird species in the typical Gäu landscape .

In terms of nature, Bibergau are located on the so-called plateaus in the southern Maindreieck , which are counted among the Gäuf areas in the Maindreieck. Typical are the approximately 300 m high areas that slope steeply towards the Main.

The Franconian Marienweg runs through Bibergau .

history

Local history

Bibergau has a very long history of settlement. Already in the Neolithic Age , people of the ceramic band culture settled at the place where the village is today . The present village was probably created during the Franconian conquest of the region in the 8th and 9th centuries. The place name with the ending -gau either refers to the earlier division of the area into Gaue or refers to the location in the fertile Gauland. The prefix beaver alludes to the animal.

In the Middle Ages, the village was divided into a manorial, so a so called Ganerbendorf . There the Kitzingen Benedictine nuns , the Würzburg bishopric and the Counts of Castell had income and possessions. With the 15th century these great landlords largely withdrew. The Castellers sold their share in the village to the Johanniter, the Benedictine monastery was replaced by the Würzburg St. Stephan Abbey in 1475.

The manorial residence on the outskirts of the village was the ancestral seat of the Knights of Bibergau , a ministerial family of the Würzburg bishopric. Her family was first mentioned in 1280 when Heinrich von Bibergau sold some fields to the Agneskloster from Würzburg. After the family died out in 1516, the castle owners changed frequently. After the Lords of Zobel , the Fronhofen, the Fuchs von Dornheim and the Mauchenheim family, called Bechtolsheim, the rights and the castle came to the University of Würzburg in 1746.

Reichsrat von Deuster acquired the castle in the 19th century. Bibergau had meanwhile become an independent rural community in the Kingdom of Bavaria . At the beginning of the 20th century, the village ceded some areas to the Reichsbahn, where the Würzburg-Nuremberg line was built . In the 1930s the place received a sewer system. After the Second World War, expellees were settled in Bibergau Castle.

The first association school in the Kitzingen district was established between Bibergau and Effeldorf in 1963. In the same year the construction of a central water supply in the village began. In the course of the municipal reform in Bavaria , the municipal council members discussed in 1971 and 1972 the connection to the Würzburg district and the formation of an administrative community. Ultimately, however, it was decided to incorporate it into Dettelbach, which came into force on July 1, 1972.

Seeheim desert

→ Main article : Seeheim (desert)

Until the 14th century, the village of Seeheim was located in what is now Bibergau. It was founded in the 6th century and first mentioned in 1174. The village was deserted as early as 1318 and has only been handed down as a field name in the Bibergau district.

Jewish community

→ Main article : Bibergau Jewish community

A Jewish community existed in Bibergau until 1907. Its origins go back to the 17th century. In 1691 the Jews of Bibergau and Schernau were suspected of ritual murder. The Würzburg prince-bishop Johann Gottfried von Guttenberg , however, protected the Jews of the two places from unjustified attacks by the Christian population. The bloody act against the child remained unexplained. The heyday of the Jewish community was in the 18th and up to the middle of the 19th century. The following numbers of Jewish residents are available: 1816 131 (26.2% of the total population of 499 people), 1833 33 Jewish families, 1867 91 people (16.6% of 549), 1871 77, 1880, 46, 1890 26, 1900 12 .

Since the middle of the 19th century, the number of Jewish community members had fallen sharply due to emigration and emigration. At the time of the dissolution of the Jewish community (1907) there were only a few Jewish people in Bibergau (1910: 6, i.e. 1.2% of the total population of about 500 inhabitants, in 1925 also 6). At the beginning of the Nazi era there were still five Jewish people living in Bibergau. They belonged to the Jewish community in Dettelbach. One left the village before 1939, two were deported on April 24, 1942 via Würzburg to the Izbica ghetto near Lublin. On September 10, 1942, the last two Jewish residents were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Of the Jewish people who were born in Bibergau and / or who lived there for a long time, died during the Nazi era (information from the lists of Yad Vashem , Jerusalem): Alfred Hennochstein (* 1910), Lina Hennochstein (* 1878), Moritz Laubheim (* 1866), Rosa Laubheim (* 1872) and David Maij (* 1912).

politics

Mayor and City Councilors

Representative in the Dettelbach city council
Surname	Term of office
Richard Konrad	1972-1974
Reinhold Kuhn	1972-1974
Ernst Öhrlein	1972-1974
Reinhold Kuhn	1974-1988
Rudolf Schmitt	1978-1984
Reinhold Kuhn	1978-1984

List of mayors in Bibergau (selection)
Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Georg blackheads	1900-1905	Alderman Bonaventure Kuhn
Kilian Eberth	1906-1911	Alderman Andreas Stühler
Georg blackheads	1912-1919	Alderman B. Eberth
Georg Felix Schmitt	1919-1924	Second Mayor N. Ebert
Johann Christoph Hack	1925-1932	Second Mayor Georg Göbel (1925–1929), Josef Konrad (1929–1932)
Josef Konrad	1932-1932	Second Mayor Georg Krönert
Heinrich Schmitt	1945-1956	Second Mayor J. Schmitt (1945–1948), Edmund Gehring (1948–1956)
Josef Steinmüller	1956-1960	Master builder, Second Mayor Martin Maag
Josef Steinmüller	1960-1963	Coal trader, Second Mayor Walter Tietze
Richard Konrad	1963-1972	Second Mayor Walter Tietze

Population development

year	1803	1818	1870	1950	1970
Residents	499	572	553	696	673

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split by silver and red; in front a red cross with paws, behind a jumping silver beaver with a golden rod in the front paws. "

Founding of the coat of arms: The municipal coat of arms is shown for the first time on a certificate from 1650. This was followed by a document from 1710. In 1967 the municipality applied for a coat of arms. The paw cross indicates the Order of St. John, while the beaver represents the place name. The staff in the front paws is to be interpreted as a judicial staff . With the tincture are Frankish colors silver Red introduced.

Attractions

Architectural monuments

In Bibergau there is a moated castle that was built in the 16th century by a local nobleman. In the 17th century the complex was expanded and then had changing owners.

The parish church of St. Simon and Jude has a graceful Rococo interior .

The village is home to an airfield for ultralight paragliders .

Regular events

• Mountain festival: The traditional mountain festival is the highlight in Bibergau. Every year on the last weekend of the summer holidays, the Bibergauer Musikverein ( Die Bibergauer ) organizes this two-day festival with live music in the festival hall. The mountain festival is very popular in the region.
• Sports festival: The VfR Bibergau invites you to a sports festival every year.
• Other Events:
  • The Bibergau volunteer fire brigade contributes to village life with two festivities every year, these are: on May 1st the erection of the maypole , more recently in September the kettle meal.
  • The "Muckengasse Festival" takes place in Muckengasse every year. On April 30th, a maypole will be erected in Muckengasse.
  • At Easter there is a decorated Easter fountain with hundreds of self-painted eggs.

economy

Today there is very little viticulture in Bibergau. The wine is marketed under the name of the single location Dettelbacher Honigberg . Only one winery is located in Bibergau.

Personalities

• Norbert Eder (1955–2019), national soccer player; born in Bibergau

literature

• o. A .: Bibergau 1994. A village introduces itself . Markt Erlbach 1994. ( various essays on village history )
• Reinhold Kuhn: From the history of the Bibergau district 1900–1984 . In: City of Dettelbach (ed.): Dettelbach 1484–1984. Festschrift and small characteristics of a 500 year old city . Dettelbach 1984. pp. 258-264.
• Fritz Mägerlein: Bibergau . In: In the spell of the Schwanberg 1971. Heimat-Jahrbuch for the district of Kitzingen . Kitzingen 1971. pp. 195-199.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mägerlein, Fritz: Bibergau . P. 196.
2. ↑ Mägerlein, Fritz: Bibergau . P. 197.
3. ^ Kuhn, Reinhold: From the history of the district Bibergau 1900-1984 . P. 260.
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 497 .
5. ↑ above: Bibergau until 1994 . P. 95 ff.
6. ↑ Mägerlein, Fritz: Bibergau . P. 198.
7. ↑ oA: Bibergau 1994 . P. 94.