Altenstein (Maroldsweisach)

Altenstein Maroldsweisach market Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 20 ″ N , 10 ° 44 ′ 2 ″ E
Height :	445 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.56 km²
Residents :	290 (2008)
Population density :	64 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1976
Postal code :	96126
Area code :	09535

Altenstein is a district of the Lower Franconian market Maroldsweisach in the Haßberge district .

geography

The parish village is located in the northeastern part of the Haßberge district in an exposed location around 140 meters above the Weisachgrund. The Altenstein castle ruins characterize the townscape . Local roads provide the connection to the federal highways 279 and 303, which are around two kilometers away . Altenstein has grown together with the neighboring village of Ebene.

history

In the vicinity of Altenstein is the old castle , a ring rampart probably from the early Middle Ages . The year Schmiedel was first mentioned is 1126, when “liupoldi de stein” was mentioned as a witness in a Banzer document . Lipp and Berninger give the year 1178, when Tageo and Merboto von Stein ("de petra") were named as witnesses. From 1225 Marquart the Great of the Old Stone ("magnus de antiquo lapide") lived in the castle. The first direct mention as a castle with a church ("castrum cum ecclesia") was 1232. In 1296 eight families lived there. The castle, located in the eastern border region of the Würzburg monastery , was the ancestral seat of the Lords of Altenstein for centuries . Farmers stormed them and burned them down on May 14, 1525 during the Peasants' War . From 1549, the Stein zu Altenstein had the lower jurisdiction in addition to the high jurisdiction . In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War , the castle was again destroyed, and the rectory and 26 houses in the village were burned down.

As a result, the von Stein zu Altenstein family failed to rebuild and instead built a new castle in Pfaffendorf. Up until 1790 she only maintained a few provisional kemenaten at the family castle . In 1859 the Counts of Linden and then in 1895 the barons of Rotenhan took over the castle ruins, which they bequeathed to the district of Ebern in 1972 .

A Jewish community presumably existed in Altenstein until the end of the 19th century. In the 1830s about 70 Jewish people lived in the place, which at that time had 512 inhabitants. In 1808 the Jewish community converted a house into a synagogue . After the dissolution of the Jewish community, the synagogue was demolished at the beginning of the 20th century. The new Protestant church was built on the property. The mikvah remained.

In 1862 the rural community of Altenstein, consisting of the parish village of Altenstein and the hamlet of Ebene, was incorporated into the newly created Bavarian district office of Ebern . In 1871 the place had 350 inhabitants and 154 buildings. He had his own evangelical school. The Catholics belonged to the district of the Catholic parish in Pfarrweisach, 4.5 kilometers away . The responsible Catholic school was in Pfaffendorf, 1.5 kilometers away. In 1900 the rural community had 342 residents, of whom 324 were Protestants, 17 Catholics and one Israelite, and 76 residential buildings. 297 people lived in 65 residential buildings in the village. In 1925 Altenstein had 250 residents and 63 residential buildings.

In 1950 there were 58 residential buildings with 318 residents in the parish village. In 1970 Altenstein had 255 and the community 323, in 1987 the community had 307 residents and 102 houses with 120 apartments. The parish village of Altenstein and the north-eastern hamlet of Ebene had now grown together.

On July 1, 1972, the district of Ebern was dissolved and Altenstein came to the Haßberg district. On January 1, 1976, the town was incorporated into Maroldsweisach.

In 1971 the CVJM Altenstein, founded in 1965, inaugurated the first construction phase of a leisure and conference center. In 1973 the community opened an outdoor swimming pool on the edge of the forest on the southern slope in the neighborhood. Altenstein, which then had around 20,000 overnight stays a year, has been a state-recognized resort since 1974 . After 1984, a commercial area was created away from the historic old town area of Altenstein, in which 17 commercial and handicraft businesses were located in 2008, employing 60 people. At that time there was a full-time farm and two part-time farms in agriculture.

Attractions

The castle ruins are part of a castle museum that is attached to the castle information center in the old school.

Evangelical parish church

A castle chapel is documented for the year 1232. The Reformation was introduced under Wilhelm von Stein in 1552. A small Gothic church outside the castle complex was consecrated in 1561. It was one of the first newly built Protestant churches. The dilapidation of the old church led to the reconstruction of the parish church, which was inaugurated on November 24, 1910 after around two years of construction. The neo-Romanesque hall church with two aisles has a gable roof and a retracted apse . In the northwest corner there is a 39 meter high church tower. On the west gallery there is an organ with 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The organ builder Strebel from Nuremberg set up the instrument .