Donnersdorf

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Donnersdorf (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '  N , 10 ° 25'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Schweinfurt
Management Community :	Gerolzhofen
Height :	251 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.97 km 2
Residents:	1971 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97499
Area code :	09528
License plate :	SW , GEO
Community key :	09 6 78 124
Community structure:	9 districts
Association administration address:	Brunnengasse 5 97447 Gerolzhofen
Website :	www.donnersdorf.de
Mayor :	Klaus Schenk (CSU / Free electorate)
Location of the community of Donnersdorf in the district of Schweinfurt

Donnersdorf is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt and a member of the Gerolzhofen administrative community .

geography

The community is located in the Main-Rhön planning region .

The Zabelstein is in the municipality , at 489 meters the highest point in the northern Steigerwald .

Community structure

There are nine parts of the municipality (population figures in brackets):

Donnersdorf (962) Falkenstein (69) Fall Mill Kleinrheinfeld (101) Middle mill

Pusselsheim (232) Riedmühle Traustadt (524) Tugendorf (6)

There are the districts Donnersdorf, Falkenstein, Kleinrheinfeld, Pusselsheim, Traustadt and Tugendorf.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Theres , Wonfurt , Knetzgau , Michelau im Steigerwald , Dingolshausen , Sulzheim and Grettstadt .

history

Until the church is planted

As part of the Hochstift Würzburg, Donnersdorf belonged to the Franconian Empire . It was secularized in 1803 in favor of Bavaria and fell to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany in the Peace of Preßburg in 1805 to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , with which it finally returned to Bavaria in 1814. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

The most famous son of the village was the sculptor Johann von Halbig , professor in Munich , among other things the creator of the Lindau harbor lion . His older brother Andreas, who u. a. worked in Würzburg , Munich and Vienna , was a well-known sculptor.

The place Donnersdorf at the foot of the Zabelstein , the northwest corner pillar of the Steigerwald, and halfway between Gerolzhofen and Haßfurt, controlled, reinforced with walls and gates, as an early medieval royal court and later high court in the Old Kingdom , controlled the entire traffic volume on the Würzburg-Bamberg route ( via Volkach, Gerolzhofen and Haßfurt).

The place Damphesdorf (Damphahesdorf) was mentioned for the first time in a document of the Fulda monastery from 779.

Old High German damph = steam, haze, smoke; aha = water, flood, river; Village = farm, estate, settlement: Donnersdorf = settlement on the hazy water

Donnersdorf has been the seat of its own parish and a high court (13th Würzburgische Landcent) of the Duchy of Würzburg in the Zabelstein district since 1000 . A city wall with three city gates, two of which were inhabited, surrounded the place.

Incorporations

In 1861 Tugendorf came to Donnersdorf under administrative law. On July 1, 1972, the formerly independent municipalities Falkenstein and Pusselsheim were incorporated. Traustadt (with the Kleinrheinfeld incorporated on July 1, 1972) was added on May 1, 1978.

Administrative community

Since May 1, 1978 Donnersdorf has been part of the Gerolzhofen administrative community.

Population development

• 1961: 1617 inhabitants
• 1970: 1638 inhabitants
• 1987: 1699 inhabitants
• 1991: 1787 inhabitants
• 1995: 1840 inhabitants
• 2000: 1901 inhabitants
• 2005: 1933 inhabitants
• 2010: 1945 inhabitants
• 2015: 1946 inhabitants
• 2016: 1952 inhabitants
• 2018: 1945 inhabitants

politics

Town hall in Donnersdorf, Kirchstrasse 1

mayor

Mayor has been Klaus Schenk (CSU / Free Voters) since February 1, 2010; he was elected on March 15, 2020 with 87.9% of the vote for a further six years. His predecessor from 1990 to 2009 was Gerhard Eck (CSU), who moved to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior as State Secretary.

Municipal council

The local elections in 2008 , 2014 and 2020 resulted in the following allocation of seats:

	2008	2014	2020
CSU / Free electorate	5	5	4th
SPD / Free Citizens Donnersdorf	1	1	2
Traustadt voter community	4th	3	2
Pusselsheim voter community	1	2	2
Kleinrheinfeld voter community	1	1	1
Citizens' forum Traustadt	n / A	n / A	1
total	12	12	12

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red over a golden bishop's staff growing out of a silver battlement wall, a silver balance beam."

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Parish church of St. Johannes Baptistae with partially preserved fortification ring and moat enclosed
• Baroque town hall from 1740
• Rococo Way of the Cross in the cemetery
• Marian column from 1871

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Donnersdorf

Natural monuments

• The Gründleinsloch , a spring in the crevice

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 584 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 915 people were in employment subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 331 more than that of in-commuters. 18 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were 41 farms.

education

There are the following institutions (as of 2018):

• two day-care centers with 120 places and 91 children
• a primary school with 11 teachers, 9 classes and 202 students (in Traustadt)

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• Andreas Halbig (1807–1869), German sculptor
• Johann von Halbig (1814–1882), German sculptor

Other known people

• Gerhard Eck (* 1960), MdL , State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and Mayor from 1990 to 2009
• Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), pioneer of worldwide nature conservation , had his retirement home in Mittelmühle near Donnersdorf

literature

Longin Mößlein : Donnersdorf am Zabelstein. 779-1979; Pictures from the history of a Franconian court village. Donnersdorf 1979

Web links

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

• Donnersdorf municipality
• Donnersdorf: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ^ Greetings from the 1st Mayor of Donnersdorf. Donnersdorf community, accessed on June 10, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Population figures ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/203206&attr=OBJ&val= 1754
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 471 .
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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. 754 .
7. ↑ Population figures on December 31, 2018. Bavarian State Office for Statistics, accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
8. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Donnersdorf  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
9. ↑ 100th birthday of Bernhard Grzimek: Researcher retired in Steigerwald  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.