Breitenau (Bad Rodach)

Breitenau City of Bad Rodach Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 57 ″ N , 10 ° 50 ′ 12 ″ E
Height :	320 m above sea level NN
Residents :	196 (2004)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	96476
Area code :	09564
	Former school house

Breitenau is a district of the Upper Franconian town of Bad Rodach in the Coburg district .

geography

The street village of Breitenau is located about twelve kilometers northwest of Coburg on the wide Aue immediately south of the approximately 345 meter high Fuchsberg. The church and the neighboring manor stand on the rising edge of the hill.

history

Breitenau has existed since the 9th century at the latest , but is likely to have originated earlier. The first written mention was in a document dated February 6, 1231 in the Breitenau as Breitenowe was mentioned. Ulrich III. von Callenberg sold the place to the Hochstift Würzburg at that time .

Former manor house

Closely linked to the history of the village is that of the manor, which was first mentioned in 1289 when Margrave Hermann gave it to Vogt Christian zu Coburg. The lords of the manor, located next to the church, changed several times in the following centuries. They were church patrons and village lords with their own jurisdiction. The owners were among others from 1911 to 1951 the Fromm family with Kurt Wilhelm Fromm as manager of the property.

In 1353 the place with the Coburg Land came by inheritance to the Wettins and was thus part of the Electorate of Saxony from 1485 , from which the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg later emerged.

During the Thirty Years War , imperial troops under General Count Lamboy plundered the village. In 1618, Breitenau still had 100 residents and 20 houses. In 1650 the place was desolate, in 1693 there were again 46 inhabitants.

In 1464, Breitenau, which had previously belonged to the parish of Oettingshausen or the original parish of Heldburg , became an independent parish. In 1873 there was a merger with the parish of Großwalbur , which ended in 1999 after a new merger with the parish of Gauerstadt .

In 1752 a house in the village was rented for school lessons, and in 1785 a schoolhouse was built. A new building was inaugurated in 1865 and the school was closed in 1964.

The place got a fire brigade in 1874. Since 1892 there has been a connection to the railway network with the train station in Großwalbur on the Coburg – Bad Rodach railway line, about two kilometers away .

In a referendum on November 30, 1919, seven citizens of Breitenau voted for the Free State of Coburg to join the Thuringian state and 42 against. Thus, from July 1, 1920, Breitenau also belonged to the Free State of Bavaria .

Seven Breitenauer lost their lives in World War I and fourteen in World War II. There are monuments to the fallen by the church. In 1923 the place was connected to the power grid.

On May 1, 1978, Breitenau was incorporated into Rodach near Coburg.

The company Schink, Blechverarbeitung und Metallbau, based in Breitenau, was founded in 1995 and has almost 50 employees (as of 2017).

Population development

year	population
1445	20th
1618	100
1693	46
1765	143
1856	188
1885	163
1910	145
1933	173
1939	136
1949	260
1970	204
2004	196

church

Marienkirche

The core of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mary comes from a church that was built in 1298. Today's gable roof was built in the late 17th or early 18th century. The 32 meter high church tower with a round, slate-covered dome is striking.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Müller's Large German Local Book 2007. Verlag de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-00-042206-5 .
^ Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg . E. Riemann'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1956, p. 44
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l www.breitenau.net: Ortschronik
^ Michael Höchstädter: Breitenau . In: Eckhart Kollmer (ed.): Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region . Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 107
^ Coburger Zeitung, issue no.280 from December 1, 1919
↑ ^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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 679 f .
↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bay_coburg.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[mü-1] Müller's Large German Local Book 2007. Verlag de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-00-042206-5 .

[2] Richard Teufel : Architectural and art monuments in the district of Coburg . E. Riemann'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1956, p. 44

[chronik-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l www.breitenau.net: Ortschronik

[Ruge-4] Michael Höchstädter: Breitenau . In: Eckhart Kollmer (ed.): Evangelical parishes in the Coburg region . Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission Erlangen, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-202-X , p. 107

[5] Coburger Zeitung, issue no.280 from December 1, 1919

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-6] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 679 f .

[7] www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de

[vg-8] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bay_coburg.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).