Ebelsbach

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

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 10 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Hatred Mountains
Management Community :	Ebelsbach
Height :	228 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.76 km 2
Residents:	3749 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	146 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97500
Area code :	09522
License plate :	HAS, EBN, GEO , HOH
Community key :	09 6 74 129
Community structure:	7 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Georg-Schäfer-Str. 56 97500 Ebelsbach
Website :	www.vg-ebelsbach.de
Mayor :	Martin Horn ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Ebelsbach in the Haßberge district

View of the village center from the north. Ebelsberg on the left, the train station on the top right, the church in the middle of the picture.

Ebelsbach is a municipality in the Haßberge district in Lower Franconia . The main town of the same name is the seat of the Ebelsbach administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

The Ebelsbach of the same name flows through Ebelsbach . This rises in Hofstetten and flows into the Altmain after a good 15 kilometers near Eltmann . The Ebelsberg ( 335  m ) bounds the community to the east, the Schönberg ( 340  m ) to the northwest. The Ebelsbach community together with the Breitbrunn , Kirchlauter and Stettfeld communities form the Ebelsbach administrative community .

Community structure

The seven districts are:

• Ebelsbach
• Gleisenau
• Rudendorf
• Schönbach
• Schönbachsmühle
• Schönbrunn
• Steinbach

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (clockwise from the north): Zeil am Main , Kirchlauter , Breitbrunn , Baunach , Lauter , Stettfeld and Eltmann .

history

First mentioned before the Thirty Years War

Ebelsbach was first mentioned in 803 when eight villages were donated to the Fulda monastery, founded in 744 . Ebelsbach is called Ebilbah in this document .

The noble house Rotenhan , which has shaped the village for centuries, is first mentioned in the middle of the 14th century.

The Thirty Years' War had a devastating effect on the area in its second half after the occupation of Franconia by Swedish (Protestant) troops. There were several military conflicts, including on November 23, 1631, when troops of the Bamberg prince-bishop encountered the Swedish military Gustav Adolf in Ebelsbach and plundered the village. Five days later, in revenge, the King of Sweden had the neighboring town of Zeil set on fire and plundered. The town of Eltmann , which was connected to Ebelsbach by a bridge over the Main, was strategically important because it positioned itself with a castle as a loyal (Catholic) bastion. On March 8, 1632, Count Tilly pitched his troop camp between Knetzgau and Ebelsbach. In response, the Swedish Field Marshal Gustaf Horn ordered the destruction of the bridge over the Main, which, however, did not take place. A day later, Tilly's associations beat those of Horn in Bamberg . In 1643 only 11 of 44 houses in Ebelsbach were still inhabited. Until the last year of the war, 1648, the residents of the area suffered from military forces on both sides, who billeted and served themselves as they pleased.

Streets and schools

The first establishment of house numbers goes back to the year 1776. The houses were not numbered according to their position in a street, but according to their age. House 88 was on Gaßweg (today: Maingasse), while house 89 was in what is now Nussacker. In 1955, the municipal council decided to move away from this type of counting for new buildings in the new settlement area and to provide the houses with consecutive numbers alternating on the right and left. However, this did not affect the old buildings. These were re-numbered in 1968. Street names came and went. In the linguistic usage of the inhabitants there was the now unknown street “Am Lochweg”. The Bahnhofstraße goes back to the Ludwigs-Westbahn-Gesellschaft, which connected Ebelsbach to the railway network in 1909. The Berliner Weg got its name in 1961 and was supposed to remind of the building of the wall .

The first mention of a schoolmaster in Ebelsbach comes from the year 1669/70, while the neighboring communities of Stettfeld, Gleisenau and Schönbach only had school buildings in the 18th century. The first school building was also the parish hall and has been documented since 1835. In 1878 there were plans for a new building, namely the school building at the end of the village in the direction of Stettfeld. In 1930 69 pupils attended classes there, compared to 179 in 1943. The refugee camp ran a makeshift school, which in 1949 was incorporated into the Catholic elementary school in Ebelsbach. The Protestant students attended the school in Gleisenau. The new school was built in 1959 and the association school was inaugurated in 1969.

19th century

In 1802 the Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia certified the place with 281 inhabitants in 19 houses, of which the three houses of the "Judenhof" inhabited by Jewish families are listed separately. In 1820 there were three breweries in town, two of them with inns and one with a beer bar only. Around 1850 79 people owned arable land with comparatively few cattle, a cow and a pig.

The former manor of the Lords of Rotenhan, which was also in the Franconian knight circle , was mediatized by Bavaria in 1806 and fell to the latter in 1810 during border purifications between Bavaria and Würzburg. The rights of the Hochstift Würzburg had already passed from Bavaria to the Grand Duchy in 1805 . In 1814 the place became part of Bavaria again . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

There has been street lighting in Ebelsbach since November 30, 1880. The first six petroleum lanterns were donated by the Jewish merchant Seligmann Goldschmiedt, who grew up in the village and who emigrated to Trieste , Italy, on the condition that they be set up within three weeks. The community ordered a lantern lighter that made its rounds in the village every evening.

The municipalities of Bavaria were given a modern right to self-government in 1869. This also introduced a mayor's office in Ebelsbach, which was endowed with considerably more privileges than the local councilors had previously and the village masters in early modern times. The first village masters recorded in the archives around 1590 were Hannßen Schwertfeger and Endreß Härtlein. The first mayor elected in 1869 was Johann Thein. Long-time mayors were Georg Nikolaus Heyn and Friedrich Wacker. The Jewish population in the village was popular. Abraham Bettmann, Moses Rosenbacher and Nathan Fleischmann have been on the local council since 1887. Fleischmann was elected second mayor in 1929. He resigned four years later because of the anti-Semitic developments in the country and criticized the anti-Semitic atmosphere in the village in his resignation. With the first municipal council election on March 5, 1933, a majority of National Socialists took over the offices: Friedrich Wacker, Franz Wacker, Hans Andree and Hans Lorz. A day later, two members of the Bavarian People's Party BVP and the only SPD man, Baptist Hauck, resigned. The NSDAP took over his seat with Wilhelm Baum. Two years later there were no more municipal elections; the mandates were awarded by the NSDAP district leader Hans Laubmeister. The last local councilors to exercise mayor functions during the Second World War were Georg Baum and Johann Lorz.

The first democratic election after the war took place on January 27, 1946 under the rules of the victorious USA. Georg Hartmann became mayor and remained so until 1953, followed by Josef Mantel, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Rotenhan, Emil Däschner, Werner Mantel and Walter Ziegler.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1971, the places Gleisenau, Schönbach and Schönbrunn joined the community of Ebelsbach. On May 1, 1978 Steinbach and Rudendorf were added.

politics

mayor

Martin Horn (SPD) has been mayor since May 1, 2020; he was elected in the runoff election on March 29, 2020 with 55.1% of the vote. His predecessor was Walter Ziegler (* 1950) from the Citizens' List (BNL), who prevailed against his challenger Martin Wasser (CSU) with 61.79% of the votes in 2014 and was in office for 18 years - from May 2002 to April 2020 .

Municipal council

The Ebelsbach municipal council has 16 members (excluding the mayor).

	CSU	SPD	Citizen-friendly list	Free electoral roll	Boy list	total
2014	6th	3	6th	1	-	16 seats
2008	5	2	6th	1	2	16 seats

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2014 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver a blue cross brook from which three green deciduous trees grow upwards and three green conifers downwards."

Culture and sights

Buildings

The castle in Ebelsbach

Rotenhan Castle 2017

There are two castles in the municipality:

• Ebelsbach Castle , built between 1564 and 1569 by Matthäus von Rotenhan on previous buildings, is a former moated castle. It consists of several parts, the actual castle building on Ebelsbach and some farm buildings to the west of it. Originally the castle was surrounded by a deep moat that has served as a garden since it was drained. A small bridge leads over it and thus connects the castle courtyard with the main building. The property has been owned by an investor since 2000 and has been available for purchase via a Würzburg supplementary liquidator since December 2015. On September 10, 2009, a major fire destroyed the Renaissance castle .
• The second Ebelsbach castle, Gleisenau Castle , is located in the Gleisenau district. It comes from the late Rococo and belongs to the Ebelsbach community. It served as a primary school until July 2014 and continued to be the seat of the local government.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Ebelsbach

traffic

Ebelsbach is on federal highway 26 and has a direct connection to federal highway 70 (junction Eltmann ). The state road 2274 leads to Rentweinsdorf and meets the federal road 279 to Ebern .

There is also a connection to the Bamberg – Würzburg railway line with the Ebelsbach-Eltmann stop.

The Franconian Marienweg runs through Ebelsbach .

Daughters and sons of the place

• Kilian Joseph Fischer (1782–1848), theologian
• Hans Hartmann (1863–1942), politician
• Ernst Kern (1923–2014), surgeon, university professor in Würzburg, son of Heinrich Kern (1886–1967), who was born in Gleisenau from 1919 to 1957 as pastor in Gleisenau.
• Dorothee Bär (* 1978), politician, grew up in Ebelsbach

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Ebelsbach  - travel guide

• Ebelsbach community on the domain of the Ebelsbach administrative community
• Ebelsbach: 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. Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Ebelsbach, accessed on June 11, 2020 . 
3. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/170727&attr=OBJ&val= 1627
4. ↑ Note: Ebelsbach is a small community and no more relevant than countless others. However, there is an extensive, solidly researched chronicle of Ebelsbach, on which most of this section is based. The chronicle is in a certain way typical of the development of the neighboring communities in Eastern Lower Franconia and Upper Franconia.
5. ^ Marburg State Archives, K 426, fol. 113v, based on: Roland Mayer , Herbert Roller, Sigbert Mantel (eds.): 1200 years of Ebelsbach. Relocated by the Ebelsbach community in 2004
6. ↑ 1200 years of Ebelsbach - ZVAB. Retrieved December 18, 2018 . 
7. ↑ The "Directory of the business owners located in Ebelsbach" from August 18, 1837 names the three brewers: Georg Schätzlein, Georg Bauerschubert and Anton Fischer.
8. ↑ Marion Merzbacher, who contributed this part to the Ebelsbach Chronicle, speaks of a Kaspar Lochner who lit the street lamps from 1908, probably shortly before the electrification. Lantern lighting was not his main job. Lochner was Wasenmeister, a term for knackers , that is, removers of animal carcasses.
9. ↑ The municipal council of September 28, 1935: Mayor Heinrich Andree, Hans Andree, Friedrich Wacker, Christian Wacker, Georg Baum, Wilhelm Baum, Georg Holland, August Waldhäuser - all National Socialists
10. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 479 .
11. ^ 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. 760 .
12. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of Ebelsbach  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
13. ↑ https://www.merkur.de/bayern/schloss-ebelsbachbrennt-millionenschaden-meta-463916.html