Bowiesen

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Bowiesen
community Igersheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 55 ″  E
The Igersheim exclave Bowiesen in the Ochsenfurt Gau
The Igersheim exclave Bowiesen in the Ochsenfurt Gau

Bowiesen is an exclave and a hamlet in the Igersheim district of Bernsfelden in the Main-Tauber district in the Franconian north-east of Baden-Württemberg .

geography

The Wowiesen exclave covers an area of ​​around 100 hectares. Probably the place was originally about 300 meters further west. The hamlet is still separated from the main town of Bernsfelden by Bavarian territory and, as a former Württemberg district, is enclosed by the former Baden Vilchband.

history

middle Ages

The hamlet of Bowiesen was first mentioned as Wag (en) wiesen in 1375 . It may also be a personal name, because Count Wago from Gut Üttingshof once ran a sheep here. The place name "Bowiesen" was probably derived from the noble lord ( meadows of the Wago ). The place originally belonged to the tithe Bütthard . Bowiesen was inherited from the Counts of Rieneck in Würzburg . From these the court was loaned to the customs officers (possibly from Mergentheim) who sold it to the Teutonic Order in 1375 with the consent of the feudal lord . Since then the hamlet has been assigned to the Balbach Order of the German Order.

Modern times

Bowiesen was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years War between 1618 and 1648. The devastated settlement was probably about 300 meters further west than the present hamlet. With the office of Balbach, the hamlet became part of Württemberg in 1809. Bowiesen was now wedged between Baden and Bavarian territory and belonged to the municipality of Bernsfelden, from which it was spatially separated, from 1809 to the Mergentheim District Office , from 1934 to the district and from 1938 to the Mergentheim district .

The small town did not survive the Second World War unscathed. Two SS men had holed up in the village in 1945 and wanted to hold the position. Before the approaching Americans, however, they fled and left the residents with damage. A chapel was built by the local residents in 1955 to thank them for having survived the war.

In 1956 the residents voted to keep the territorial situation as the exclave of Bernsfelden. On January 1, 1972, the municipality of Bernsfelden including Bowiesen joined the municipality of Igersheim. Since the creation of the Main-Tauber-Kreis in 1973, Bowiesen is no longer separated from the rest of the district, but it is still separated from the rest of the municipality.

Population development

The population of Bowiesen developed as follows:

year total
1880 39
2019 16

religion

Ecclesiastically, Bernsfelden belonged to the parish of Vilchband until 1809. One tradition is still held today: three times a day, the bell of the small chapel for the Angelus prayer is rung by one of the local families, alternating weekly.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

The cultural monuments in the area of ​​the residential area are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Bernsfelden . At the end of the village in the direction of Vilchband , just before the Igersheim-Wittighausen boundary, there is a wayside shrine.

chapel

There is a small chapel in Bowiesen. In 1955 the residents financed this church building together. The deed of foundation reads:

““ We hereby announce to the next generation and to know that the four farm farmers Anton Trunk, Edwin Schmitt, Josef Nebl, Ludwig Leonhard Stattelmann and their relatives built a new chapel in honor of 'Our Lady of Fatima', the Rosary Queen and Queen of Peace and in honor of the saint of peace 'Nikolaus von Flüe' built and dignified ""

- Bowiesen residents, 1955

In 1992 the chapel was completely renovated. The 40-year chapel festival was celebrated in the summer of 1996.

Dreiländerstein

The so-called “Dreiländerstein”, which marks the historical border between the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Kingdom of Württemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden, is still located in the Bowiesen district.

Three-country meeting and three-country view

In the 1960s "three-country meetings" were held in Bowiesen, in which all localities in the area took part. Until 1976 there was also the inn "Zum Dreiländerblick".

Cultural cycle path

Bowiesen lies on a cultural cycle path that begins in Bütthard and crosses the border to Baden-Württemberg at Tiefenthal . The cycle path leads via Simmringen , Bernsfelden and Oesfeld directly through the hamlet of Bowiesen.

traffic

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f LEO-BW.de: Bowiesen - living space . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Franconian news : Igersheim. Bowiesen. With the opening of the new cultural cycle path on Sunday, June 30th, the idyllic hamlet is suddenly in the public eye. An oasis of silence in the technological world . June 24, 2019. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  3. ^ A b Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): The state of Baden-Württemberg: official description by districts and communities, Volume 4 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1980
  4. ↑ a b The Mergentheim district , Konrad-Theiss-Verlag, 1966
  5. ↑ Common Official Gazette for Baden-Württemberg 1972, p. 92