Dimbach (Volkach)

Dimbach City of Volkach
Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 55 ″  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 23 ″  E
Height :	222 m
Area :	5.01 km²
Residents :	131  (1987)
Population density :	26 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st October 1977
Postal code :	97332
Area code :	09381
Location of Dimbach (bold) within the Volkach municipality

Dimbach is a district of the town of Volkach in the Bavarian district of Kitzingen in Lower Franconia. Until the voluntary merger with Volkach on October 1, 1977, Dimbach was an independent municipality. For a long time, as a so-called monastery village, it was part of the dominion of the Benedictine monks from Münsterschwarzach. The abbey also set up a provost's office in the village for a while and promoted the pilgrimage to the so-called Madonna of Grace of Dimbach.

This also explains the size of the village church of St. Maria de Rosario, which formed the center of the processions to Dimbach. Dimbach is located away from the major tourist centers on the Mainschleife , as there is no viticulture there.

Geographical location

Geography and natural structure

Dimbach is located in the south of the Volkach municipality. To the north is the town of Volkach , the former corridor of the Ulberg desert and the Mainfranken barracks are closest to the village there, and to the northeast is the Strehlhof on Rimbach . The district of Volkach, Eichfeld, begins further to the east . The Wiesentheid market area begins in the south , with Reupelsdorf closest to Dimbach. The district of Schwarzacher district Gerlachshausen located in the southwest. The west is taken by the community of Sommerach .

The closest larger cities are Kitzingen with a distance of about 12 kilometers and Schweinfurt , which is about 24 kilometers away. The next big city is Würzburg, also 24 kilometers away .

In terms of nature, the area around Dimbach, Reupelsdorf and parts of the Weininsel form a separate sub-unit, which is characterized by large areas of drifting sand. This Dimbacher drifting sand area is part of the Kitzinger Mainebene in the Steigerwald foreland, which is counted among the Main Franconian plates .

The village lies in the Maingau climate zone , which is one of the driest and warmest in Germany. The Main does not touch Dimbach, but flows past as the Main Canal in the west. Several brooks run through the Dimbacher corridors. In the north this is the Ölberggraben as a tributary to the Sommerach . Two more unnamed streams arise in the south. They flow together in the extreme southwest to the so-called Etterswasengraben .

Village structure

The nature reserve on the Dimbacher district

The Dimbacher district covers an area of ​​approx. 5 km². The center is the old street village with the church and the cemetery to the north. The village is densely populated and only has some new development areas from the 20th and 21st centuries in the north and east . In the northwest there is a single unnamed emigrant farm . In the south-west are the sewage treatment plant, which was built in the 20th century, and several smaller lakes.

The populated area is surrounded by forests on three sides , only in the northeast are larger agricultural areas. In particular, the Flur Rotten is used by agriculture. Named forest corridors are the Röhrig in the east, the Hübnerwald in the extreme southeast, the Linkhöftännig in the southwest and the Spessart in the west. The Linkhöftännig corridor refers to the Lindhof desert . Part of the nature reserve Sandfluren near Volkach, Schwarzach am Main and Sommerach also extends there .

See also : Lindhof (desert)  and sand fields near Volkach, Schwarzach am Main and Sommerach

history

Prehistory and early history (up to before 777)

Dimbach has a long history of settlement. As early as the Neolithic Age , wandering arable farmers crossed the region, as evidenced by a number of archaeological finds in the area around the village. Around 2000 BC The population settled down in BC, stone arrowheads are evidence of this process. A drilled stone ax that was found in the hallway of the village indicates cattle breeders and farmers, burial mounds provide information about the permanent settlement. So far, there have been no finds from the Bronze Age .

During the Latène period there was an overlay of population everywhere in the Main loop region. The Celts who moved in displaced the originally resident population. Again finds were made on Dimbacher Flur that indicate a hearth of these Celts. Around 50 BC, Elbe Germanic - Alamanic peoples advanced into the area around Dimbach. The place itself originated as a Franconian clearing place in the 7th or 8th century AD.

The Franks came to the region as conquerors and brought the first administrative structures to Dimbach, as well as promoting Christianization . Like the surrounding villages, the place probably became part of the emerging Volkfeld , a Franconian administrative district. However, this is not certain, as the sources over Dimbach only flow very sparsely during this period. The timing of the first mention is associated with some uncertainty.

The Counts of Castell (until 1306)

Early historiography suspected that Dimbach was first mentioned on January 7, 777. It is said to have come from the royal property to the Fulda monastery . Elsewhere, the village appears as the property of the Mattonen family . Megingaud the Younger, the founder of the Megingaudshausen monastery, would have bequeathed the place to his abbey in 877. Both dates would make Dimbach one of the oldest villages in the area, but are probably due to a typing error.

In contrast, the year 1113 is certain as the year it was first mentioned. At this time, "Tienebach" had come to the original parish of Gerlachshausen as a branch . The village was owned by the Counts of Castell in 1113 , who had risen in the shadow of the Würzburg monastery . However, the noble family is counted among the cognatic descendants of the Mattons, so that a connection to Megingaud cannot be completely ruled out.

The rule of the Casteller lasted until the 13th century. After Ludwig zu Castell died on the fifth crusade in the Holy Land in 1228 , his brother Rupert tried to secure his rights in the Main loop area with a feud against the Würzburg bishop. It failed and had to give up many possessions on the orders of the victorious Hermann I of Lobdeburg in 1230. Dimbach was returned to him, but from then on it was only a fief of the Würzburg monastery.

A few years later the ruling Counts of Castell fell out. The brothers Heinrich II and Hermann belonged to different political camps and decided to divide their dominions. Dimbach was given to the older brother Heinrich II, who sat in the so-called Lower Castle in Castell and whose line was therefore called "Castell- Lower Castle ". The village did not stay there long.

Monastery village and provost (until 1461)

→ Main article : History of the Münsterschwarzach Monastery # The Dimbach Propstei

The church was built in its current form in the 14th century

Before June 23, 1306, the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach , successor to Megingaudshausen Abbey, acquired the bailiwick rights over Sommerach , Nordheim , Dimbach, Düllstadt , Reupelsdorf , Laub , Stadelschwarzach , Järkendorf , Kirchschönbach and Eichfeld . In 1306 the Würzburg bishop Andreas von Gundelfingen confirmed the acquisitions and thereby indirectly approved the change of ownership. The monastery ruled Dimbach until 1803.

Bishop Andreas was also the trigger for the pilgrimage to Dimbach, which dates back to 1312. He is said to have made a barefoot pilgrimage to the Madonna of Mercy in the village because of a famine. After the prelate's prayers were answered, a brisk stream of pilgrims began. This also fits that the village church was built between 1325 and 1334 in its current form. However, recent research has shown that the pilgrimage at this early stage was limited to the other monastery villages in the area.

After the church was built, Abbot Heinrich von Münsterschwarzach planned to establish his own monastery cell in the village. He commissioned two priests in 1335 to take over the pastoral care and a provost to build in Dimbach. On November 17, 1351, the newly created provost's office received confirmation from the Würzburg prince-bishop . From then on there were two Münsterschwarzach monks and a provost who were directly subordinate to the abbot.

The provost's office led to an immense increase in the importance of the small monastery village. At the same time, it was increasingly drawn into the village lords' inner-monastery conflicts. The abbots rewarded deserving monks with the award of the provost's post, and at times they also quartered monks tired of life or unruly monks . In the 15th century, the provost's office served as a retirement home for the abbots of the monastery for a while.

Wars and pilgrimage (until 1803)

A Dimbach court seal from 1615

During the First Margrave War in the 15th century, Dimbach was sacked and many of the provost's buildings were destroyed. In 1462, the monastery had to move the village's tithe because the abbey was heavily in debt. Twenty years later, in 1482, Münsterschwarzach took possession of the tithe again. It was probably also due to the war damage that the provost's office had to be dissolved between 1470 and 1493.

A few years later, the heavy taxes on the respective village lords triggered the German Peasants' War . In 1525 the Dimbachers began to join the crowd in the area. They burned the last remaining building of the provost's office, the so-called Rindthof, and then moved on to Münsterschwarzach. However, there is no information about the punishments of the ringleaders as they have been handed down for other areas.

In the meantime, people in Münsterschwarzach feared that the Reformation might spread from the villages of Eichfeld and Krautheim to Dimbach. Abbot Johannes Burckhardt therefore had the large village church renovated and refurbished in 1593. He was supported by the Würzburg bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . He parish the monastery village, previously provided from Schwarzach, back to Gerlachshausen. The Reformation did not prevail in Dimbach.

In the first half of the 17th century, the Rosary Brotherhood was founded in Dimbach and met once a month in St. Mary's Church. However, the Thirty Years War soon put an end to this foundation. In 1630 Dimbach was burned down by the Protestant Swedes. One story says that two men hid the church bells from the Swedes and were therefore killed by them with the village school name.

After the war, the Rosary Brotherhood was re-established in 1661. Now the pilgrimage, supported by the monastery, revived and attracted people from all over the region to Dimbach. The church was therefore renovated between 1767 and 1769. Dimbach had meanwhile become the seat of a board of trustees and no longer a branch of Gerlachshausen. However, the short flowering phase ended in 1774. The beginning of the reconnaissance ended the pilgrimage abruptly.

In Bavaria (until today)

In the course of secularization , the Münsterschwarzach monastery was abolished in 1803 and the monastery villages became part of the Electoral Palatinate of Bavaria . Dimbach received the monastery forest, several lakes and farmland and was able to enlarge its area. After the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , the village was ruled from Würzburg until 1814. Only after the state structure was incorporated into the newly established Kingdom of Bavaria , Dimbach became a rural community in the Volkach district court.

For Dimbach, the time after the monastery was dissolved was also marked by frequent upheavals in the church. In 1818 the village came to the parish of Stadtschwarzach . The Dimbachers soon demanded their own pastor's office and collected money for this purpose. In 1866, however, the government only allowed the curate to be re-established. Now the citizens were hoping for a local chaplaincy . From 1888/1889 the village was provided from Reupelsdorf .

The formal spin-off from Stadtschwarzach did not take place until 1950. From 1962 monks from the rebuilt Münsterschwarzach Abbey looked after the faithful before Reupelsdorf again became responsible for the village in 1972. In the post-war period, the community forced land consolidation and renewed the streets that lead through the village. On October 1st, 1977 Dimbach was incorporated into Volkach and thereby lost its independence.

Place name

The name Dimbach refers to the natural occurrences around the village. It is a material name, so that a foundation by a specific person can be excluded. The word brook is self-explanatory and goes back to a river near the settlement. In Old High German , dunni meant long, in Middle High German this was then modified to thin . Dimbach can therefore be interpreted as an extensive clearing strip on the stream.

The ending -bach refers to a foundation in the 7th or 8th century AD. The forest around Dimbach was cleared and expanded by the Carolingians . In the following centuries the name underwent some changes. In 1230 the village was called "Tienebach" and in 1306 "Thienebach". In 1326 "Tymbach" appeared. At times, “Dinbach” and, more rarely, “Tunbach” prevailed.

Administration and courts

The following administrative units were superordinate to the municipality of Dimbach. until 1803: Münsterschwarzach Monastery in the Würzburg Monastery Until 1862: District court of the older order Volkach in the Lower Main District , from 1837 Lower Franconia until 1872: Volkach district office in Lower Franconia until 1972: District Office Gerolzhofen , from 1939 District Gerolzhofen in Lower Franconia until 1977: Kitzingen district in Lower Franconia from 1977: District of the city of Volkach, district of Kitzingen in Lower Franconia

Dimbach was judicially subject to the following instances. until 1803: District Court Stadtschwarzach in the Hochstift Würzburg until 1862: District court of the older order Volkach until 1879: Volkach Regional Court to 1966: District Court Volkach in the District Court Schweinfurt until 1973: District court Gerolzhofen in the regional court district Schweinfurt 1973: District Court Kitzingen in the District Court of Würzburg

coat of arms

→ Main article : Coat of arms of the city of Volkach

Blazon : “Split; divided in front by gold and blue, above a blue wave pole, below a silver bar, which is accompanied by three, two to one, six-pointed silver stars; at the back three silver tips in red. "

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms goes back to a seal from 1810, which the community gave itself after secularization. On February 5, 1969 the coat of arms was adopted. As a Franconian rake, the three red tips indicate the Duchy of Franconia, in which Dimbach was for a long time. The silver bar with the three stars, on the other hand, is borrowed from the coat of arms of Judas Thaddäus Sigerst , who, as the last abbot of the Münsterschwarzach monastery before secularization, symbolized the connection to the abbey. The wave post refers to the waters in the Dimbach area.

politics

From mayor to local spokesman

The mayor has played a role in Dimbach's internal organization since the Middle Ages . He was in charge of the citizenship in relation to the authorities , but had no authority over the representatives of the Benedictine monastery. After the abbey was dissolved, the mayor of the place received more rights. In Dimbach, the members of the Bauer family established themselves as the most influential candidates for mayor, they almost always provided the mayor over the course of 100 years.

List of Mayors of Dimbach (selection)
Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Heinz Bauer	around 1804 – around 1840	Economist; first mayor ; from 1803 mayor
Georg Bauer	around 1840-1870	Son of Heinz Bauer
Franz Bauer	1870-1918	also district administrator in the Gerolzhofen district office
Josef Münch	1919-1925	* March 9, 1877; Honorary citizen of the community of Dimbach; † May 6, 1961
Georg Johann Bauer	1925-1945
Heinrich Beck	1945-1956
Otto Beck	1956-1977	2. Mayor Otto Berthold

Due to the small size of the village, Dimbach was obliged by the district administration in the 1970s to look for a partner municipality if it wanted to keep its independence. Due to the historical connections to Sommerach, there were some marriage relationships here in the past , it was initially planned to establish an administrative partnership with the wine-growing community in 1972 .

On April 12, 1976, the local council signed the ordinance on joining the city of Volkach, although connections to Volkach were much less intensive. On October 1, 1977 the incorporation was completed. Dimbach had previously received some privileges from the city that were conditions for joining. The village kept its cattle scales , the construction of a water pipe and the connection to the long-distance water pipe were promised. Hugo Bauer became the first local spokesman in 1978. Since 2014 this has been Alfred Sauer. He was replaced by René Bauer on August 4, 2020.

Population development

Since the second half of the 19th century, there is evidence of specific population figures for Dimbach. Dimbach's population fluctuated around 180 in the 19th century. In the first half of the 20th century, the number sank to below 150, which already shows the incipient rural exodus. With the displaced people who moved in after the Second World War, almost 200 people lived in the village at times. By 1987 the number was reduced to less than 140 inhabitants.

year	Residents	year	Residents	year	Residents
1867	185	1900	149	1961	168
1875	172	1925	149	1970	163
1888	184	1950	199	1987	131

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

See also : List of architectural monuments in Volkach-Dimbach

Maria de Rosario church

The church of St. Maria de Rosario in Dimbach

→ Main article : St. Maria de Rosario (Dimbach)

The church forms the historical center of the place, as early as the 11th century a previous building stood on the site of today's church. In the 12th century, St. Maria de Rosario was incorporated as a branch in Gerlachshausen. The church received its current appearance between the 13th and 14th centuries. The close connection to the Münsterschwarzach monastery subsequently led to the establishment of a provost's office in the village, which was temporarily occupied by three monks.

Some sources place a lively pilgrimage to the church as early as the 11th century. A wolf miracle is said to have occurred. However, recent research assumes that a pilgrimage to Dimbach was limited to processions from other monastery Blackachian villages in the area and that a real pilgrimage can only be assumed in the early 18th century. However, in the course of the Enlightenment , this tradition soon disappeared again.

The pilgrims' destination was the Madonna of Mercy inside the high altar . The figure was created in 1398 and was initially intended as a processional Madonna. The interior of the church still has several valuable pieces of equipment, the so-called crucifixion relief can be dated to around 1070. It is thus one of the oldest Franconian stone sculptures . The rest of the furnishings mostly come from the Baroque period , and the Schwarzach abbots also brought pieces from the monastery church there.

The exterior of the church is also remarkable because it is extraordinarily dimensioned for a village church. It presents itself as a three-aisled basilica with a wide west tower and cites the Gothic style . A five-eight choir closes the building to the east. Inside, rib vaults were installed in the choir, while the so-called tower hall in the west has a cross vault with figural consoles. The nave has a pointed arch vault.

Private houses and yards

Aside from the towering church, only a few historic houses have survived. In the place of the old monastery provosty on the village square is an old farm . It was probably created in the early modern period and was renewed at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. It presents itself as a two-story, gable-independent gable roof building with a plastered half-timbered upper floor. Some windows have drilled frames.

An outbuilding of the courtyard is also classified as a monument. It is closer to the church and has a very elongated floor plan. The house with a half- hip roof , like the main building, was built between the 18th and 19th centuries. Also near the church is a ground floor half-hipped roof house made of quarry stone and decorated with sandstone walls . The house has an arched cellar entrance and was built at the beginning of the 19th century.

Wayside shrines and small memorials

In the Catholic place there are some wayside shrines from different centuries. Originally there were 14 wayside shrines around the village, but the land consolidation reduced this number considerably. The oldest stick is the so-called torture picture in the northwest. It was built around 1600 and, according to the stories of the villagers, is supposed to represent the wolf legend that contributed to the establishment of the pilgrimage.

There is a stone cross in the forest between Dimbach and Gerlachshausen . Its construction time is unclear, but the circumstances that led to the installation are known: Two Dimbach butchers are said to have stabbed themselves in a dispute here ( see also stone cross legend ). Another wayside shrine from the 18th century on the road to Volkach was not re-qualified by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. It shows the Coronation of Mary and the depiction of the Pietà . A memorial stone in the forest also dates from the 18th century.

In 1720 the so-called murder picture stick was created. It was initially set up in front of the former school before it was placed at the entrance to the town as a " visiting card ". It has been in front of the church since the 1980s. A personal tragedy of two pilgrims who made a pilgrimage to Dettelbach is reported . One of the two was shot and the widow suspected the other of murder. Despite an acquittal, she had the stick erected.

An inscription stone in front of the church was also not re-qualified. It was carved in the 19th century. In 1921 another wayside shrine was built on the road to Reupelsdorf. Instead of a simple attachment, the torture was worked with a cast iron relief of the Pietà. Dimbach's youngest floor at the junction to Sommerach was made from limestone in 1930. It was created in the neo-baroque style and shows Mary as Queen of Heaven .

See also : Marterbild (Dimbach)  and Mordbildstock (Dimbach)

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  The choir of the Marienkirche

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  The crucifixion relief in the church

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  The house on the village square

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  The half-hipped roof house in front of the church

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  The so-called torture picture

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  The so-called murder picture stick

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  The wayside shrine from 1921

Rosary Brotherhood

The Processional Pole of the Brotherhood

A specialty in Dimbach is the long veneration of Maria de Rosario ( Mary of the Rosary ), which was also expressed in the patronage of the village church. Already in the Middle Ages, the processions of the befriended monastery villages always led to the village on the great days of Marian veneration. The entire Münsterschwarzach convent visited Dimbach three times a year. The visits of the monks on the day of the Annunciation and on the Assumption of Mary are proven.

After the dissolution of the provosty, a rosary brotherhood was founded in Dimbach in 1630. The male population tried to promote popular piety . However, during the Thirty Years' War and because of the frequent invasions of the Protestant Swedes , the brotherhood soon disbanded. Only after the war, in 1661, was the connection renewed and the church patronage finally fixed on October 7th.

Every month there was a brotherhood Sunday in Dimbach, through which the preservation of the church could be ensured. The brotherhood also survived the secularization and the dissolution of the monastery. However, it was converted into a simple prayer club in the 19th century. In the 1950s, the custom still persisted that a rosary that had already been started was alternately prayed within the family and taken over by the neighbor the next day.

Say

The stone cross in the forest

A stone cross can still be found a little way off the road to Gerlachshausen , which is supposed to remind of an incident. A butcher had bought a head of cattle from a Dimbach farmer. Instead of slaughtering it right away, he left it in the stable for a few more days. Another butcher saw the animal and wanted it too. It offered more than the selling price, but one butcher still refused to sell. When the butcher ran through the forest with his cattle to get to Gerlachshausen, the other one lay in wait for him. A stabbing followed, in which both died.

The heavy owl

A farmer wanted to drive his wagon from Dimbach to Rimbach . A large owl came over and sat on the protruding log of the wagon. The load then became so difficult that the farmer's oxen found it difficult to reach their destination.

The wolf miracle

The legend about the wolf miracle, which is said to have triggered the pilgrimage to Dimbach, exists in several variants. The best known is: The village was very poor and the people were given the right by the feudal lord to read as much wood in the nearby forest as they could carry with their arms. A woman also went into the forest with her first-born and wanted to redeem her right. To do this, she placed the child in a basket at the edge of the forest. Suddenly the child began to scream terribly and when the woman hurried up she saw that a wild wolf had grabbed the boy and disappeared with him into the forest.

The woman, in anger and sadness, ran to the nearby village church and tore the baby Jesus from the arm of the image of Mary in the church. She shouted: "If you want your child back, get mine first with me!" Then the wolf came out of the forest and laid the child at his mother's feet. Overjoyed, the woman also handed the baby Jesus to his mother, but mistook the arm.

The milk thief

In 1336, another church-related miracle occurred. The Marienkirche had just been rebuilt when a thief broke into the church. He broke the windows and got into the church. Then he discovered the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary, which was hung with silver and gold medals . He was about to wrap it up when suddenly the baby Jesus held his arm and didn't let go until morning. The thief was then seized by the Dimbachers.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The small size of the place is responsible for the fact that hardly a company is based here today. Historically, grain cultivation predominated in the village. The viticulture played because no existing suitable acreage a secondary role and has completely disappeared today. A few areas in the Kirchäcker, Zaunäcker and Am Nordheimer Weg corridors were used for fruit tree planting. In 1887 Dimbach exported 100 quintals of fruit.

traffic

The most important traffic connection is the Marienstrasse

Due to its remote location, Dimbach was always insignificant in terms of traffic. Was formed in the past, the border area between the hochstiftischen Office of the City Volkach Wurzburg and the own convent in Münsterschwarzach. The streets around the village were only frequented more frequently during the annual processions in the monastery villages. The traffic did not change due to the incorporation into Volkach.

The most important road connection is the district road KT 10, which runs in the village as Marienstraße. It is the backbone of the typical street village and leads from Volkach in the north towards Reupelsdorf in the southeast. Another connection, but only used by locals, is Gerlachshausener Straße, which leads to the Schwarzach district in the southwest . The local connection towards Eichfeld is poorly developed. It begins in Dimbach as Rhönstrasse.

The only bus stop in the village is on Marienstraße. The Ortsmitte stop is only served by the VGN line 8287 (Volkach – Sommerach – Reupelsdorf– Wiesentheid ). The tourist shuttle on the Main Loop does not go to Dimbach, as there is no viticulture there. However, the city of Volkach has set up a citizens' bus for its districts. The village is served by this bus twice a week.

The Franconian Marienweg runs through Dimbach .

education

List of teachers (until 1888)
1648-1700
Andreas May
Anton Jakob Krämer
Johann Sebastian Sprenger
1700-1803
Lorenz Georg Schnitzer
Anton Jakob Assmann
Lorenz Hellwig
Johann Michael Ibel
Konrad Hackner
Johann Georg Schmitt
Johann Georg Dillinger
Martin Henke
Johann Adam Burkert
1803-1888
Wilhelm Kirchner
Veit Herbert
Johann Adam Lang
Johann Baptist Schad
Adam Bayer
Johann Michael Hofmann
Matthäus Leopold Wagenhäuser
Nikolaus Nusser
Franz Josef Nusser

List of teachers (from 1888)
Surname	Term of office
Johann Kirchheimer	1888-1914
Emanuel Martin	1914-1920
Josef Baumann	1921-1948
Heinz Otte	1949-1969

Due to the affiliation to the Münsterschwarzach monastery, a boys' school was established in the village as early as the Middle Ages . In 1337 the Propsteigebuilding was completed and the monks set up the school in the premises. The boys were taught Latin , singing, reading, writing and arithmetic. Some of them were later accepted into the monastery school in Schwarzach. During the harvest season , classes were suspended because the students had to help out in the fields.

The first schoolhouse , which was built shortly after the Thirty Years' War, was right in front of the church until 1892. In addition to the classrooms, the teacher's apartment was also located there. At the end of the 19th century, the dilapidated property was torn down and today's village square was built there. The new schoolhouse was built at the western exit of the village, the building site was provided by the then mayor Bauer.

In 1969 the school was closed and Dimbach was assigned to the Sommerach school district. Primary school students are taught there up to fourth grade. In the 21st century, elementary education was also given to Volkach. From the fifth grade onwards, the Volksach elementary school takes on teaching. Schoolchildren can complete the qualifying secondary school leaving certificate and, via the so-called M-branch, the secondary school leaving certificate. Adult education is provided by the Volkach Adult Education Center.

The higher education also takes place in Volkach. A girls' secondary school is located there. In addition, in the Volkach district of Gaibach, there is the Franken-Landschulheim Schloss Gaibach, a grammar school with secondary school and boarding school. The Steigerwald-Landschulheim in Wiesentheid is also nearby. In addition, the pupils can visit the private monastery high school in Münsterschwarzach.

Associations and associations

Since Dimbach is one of the smaller Volkach districts, there are only a few clubs in the village. In 1980 the rural women were still organized in the village, today there are only two associations. The oldest is the volunteer fire brigade , which is organized in a fire brigade association. It was founded in 1874 with N. Berthold initially in command . Today the fire brigade has a portable pump vehicle (TSF), the acting commander is Erwin Strobel.

The village community of Dimbach, in which the citizens of the village are organized, is much younger than the fire brigade. The community center was set up for this association on the village square. Until 1947 the center of the village was on the lower church square. There was a 450-year-old linden tree , the crown of which had been cut into four rings. After the tree had to be felled, two new plantings failed to grow.

Personalities

→ Main article : List of personalities of the city of Volkach

The establishment of the Münster-Blackachian provost in the village meant that influential monks of the monastery lived here from 1334. Hildebrand Zollner († 1414) came to the monastery in Schwarzach at a difficult time. The convention wanted to replace the unloved abbot Kraft von Buchheim and Zollner was elected as the abbey’s fortieth abbot. The prelate only remained in office for three years, then was deposed and banished to Dimbach.

Another abbot from Münsterschwarzach was closely associated with Dimbach. Johannes II. Wolf von Karsbach († 1465) took over the monastery from an excommunicated predecessor and quickly began to reunite the divided convent. Under his rule, the still prevailing principle of nobility, according to which only members of noble families could find admission to the monastery community, was abolished.

In 1454 or 1455 Karsbach resigned , the reasons are not known. He retired as provost to Dimbach and spent the last years of his life there. The abbot emeritus died in 1465 and was eventually buried in the Marienkirche in Dimbach. In addition to the monks, the mayor Josef Münch (1877–1961) also made outstanding contributions to the village. He was mayor from 1919 to 1925 and was awarded honorary citizenship .

literature

Literature about Dimbach

• Wolfgang Brückner: miraculous image and legend. Cult change in Dimbach (= country and people) . Wuerzburg 1978.
• Franziskus Büll: Münsterschwarzach and Dimbach - the monastery and its place of pilgrimage . In: Franziskus Büll (Ed.): Magna Gratulatio. 1200 years of Benedictine monastic community from Münsterschwarzach 816–2016 (= Münsterschwarzacher Studien Vol. 55) . Münsterschwarzach 2016. pp. 213–216.
• Barbara Jaeckle: The pilgrimage church of St. Maria de Rosario in Dimbach. Admission work . Wuerzburg 1975.
• Jürgen Julier: Former provost and pilgrimage church of S. Maria de Rosario Dimbach (= Schnell art guide No. 1232) . Regensburg ² 1995.
• Herbert Meyer: The tower knob certificates from Dimbach . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1993-2007 . Volkach 2008. pp. 166-170.
• Herbert Meyer: Propstei and pilgrimage in Dimbach . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Volkach. 906-2006 . Volkach 2006. pp. 229-232.
• Susanne Nitschel: The pilgrimage church Maria de Rosario in Dimbach - changes to the building and the importance of the roof for the church . In: Franziskus Büll (Ed.): Magna Gratulatio. 1200 years of Benedictine monastic community from Münsterschwarzach 816–2016 (= Münsterschwarzacher Studien Vol. 55) . Münsterschwarzach 2016. pp. 217–232.
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Other literature used

• Hans Bauer: The Kitzinger Land. Valuables, monuments, curiosities. Volume I . Volkach 2004.
• Hans Bauer: The Kitzinger Land. Valuables, monuments, curiosities. Volume II . Volkach 2007.
• Hans Bauer: stone crosses and cross stones . In: District Administrator and District Council of the District of Kitzingen (Hrsg.): District of Kitzingen . Münsterschwarzach 1984. pp. 219-221.
• Gerhard Egert: The honorary citizens of the city of Volkach . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1993-2007 . Volkach 2008. pp. 51-58.
• Gerhard Egert: The place names as a historical settlement source. Situation structure and interpretation . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Volkach. 906-2006 . Volkach 2006. pp. 11-17.
• Gerhard Egert: On the history of fruit growing on the Mainschleife 1700–1900 . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1978-1992 . Volkach 2008. pp. 47-58.
• Ute Feuerbach, Christa Volk: Volkach and its districts . Erfurt 2011.
• Johann Ludwig Klarmann, Karl Spiegel: Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald. Reprint of the 1912 edition . Neustadt an der Aisch 1982.
• Erwin Probst: Vogt and Lord of the village and field. Contributions to the history of legal life in the former monastery Blackachian bailiwick villages . In: Studia Suarzacensia. Contributions to the history of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its resettlement (= Würzburg diocesan history sheets 25th vol.) . Münsterschwarzach 1963. pp. 145–168.
• Theophil Steinbrenner, Gerhard Wahler, Auguste Steinberger, Felix von Fokczynski (eds.): Intermediate lights. Traditional stories from the old county of Castell . Albertshofen² 1979.
• Karl Treutwein : From Abtswind to Zeilitzheim. History, sights, traditions . Volkach ⁴ 1987.

Web links

Commons : Dimbach (Volkach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• City of Volkach: Dimbach

Individual evidence

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