Franconia (Sinzig)
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Association-free city of Sinzig
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 3 ″ N , 7 ° 14 ′ 3 ″ E
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| Height : | 200 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 499 (Jun. 30, 2016) | |
| Incorporation : | 7th June 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 53489 | |
| Area code : | 02636 | |
Location of Franconia in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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Franconia is the southernmost and in terms of population the smallest district of Sinzig in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located away from the city on the edge of the Eifel in the headwaters of the Frankenbach , above the moated Ahrenthal castle . The Marienhof residential area belongs to Franconia .
history
middle Ages
The village of Franconia is probably a Franconian settlement from the Merovingian era . The first mention of the place francs with its church took place on March 31, 1131, when Pope Innocent II. The Bonner Cassius pen possession of the Church in Franconia confirmed: Frankin, ecclesiam cum decimis - "Franks church with the tithe." A total of 30 churches are listed in this document.
In 1147 the ownership of an inheritance went to Maria Laach, and in 1285 to the Steinfeld monastery. In 1295, the German King Adolf von Nassau pledged half of the Sinzig, which formally belonged to the imperial estate, to which Franconia also belonged, to the Count of Jülich. The following King Albrecht again transferred this half to the Archbishop of Cologne , Wigbold . In 1348 King Charles IV confirmed the seizure of half of Sinzig and Franconia to Margrave Wilhelm von Jülich; In this context, Franconia went to the knight Heinrich von Sinzig (1336-1361) and in 1374 to Rolmann von Ahrenthal. In 1376 the rule of Duke Wilhelm von Jülich was transferred to the Margrave Count Wilhelm von Berg .
Early modern age
In 1428, Archbishop Otto of Trier enfeoffed the Salentin von Ahrenthal, a descendant of the Rollmanns, with large parts of the Franconian rule on the basis of the partition agreement of 1388. For four generations the Wiltberg family remained the feudal lords of the other part of Ahrenthal and Franconia.
The last Wiltberg, Adolph von Wiltberg (* 1553) died childless on July 1, 1621. The Hillesheim family came to rule over Ahrenthal and Franconia via a branch line. On January 28, 1641, Wilhelm von Hillesheim was enfeoffed by Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm von Jülich with the house of Ahrenthal and the associated village of Franconia. Until the end of the 18th century, the village of Franconia belonged to the Ahrenthal rule .
After 1794 and the occupation of Germany on the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops, the village of Franconia was added to Mairie Sinzig in the canton of Remagen . Reliable municipal registers were created for the first time. Thus, for 1799 213 inhabitants, for 1809 312 inhabitants. With 9 horses and 294 horned cattle, a relatively large livestock was counted.
Prussian and modern times
By 1840 the population grew to 476 residents who lived in 78 houses. The population was purely Catholic. During the Prussian period, Franconia became an independent municipality and from 1816 belonged to the Niederbreisig mayor , which belonged to the Mayen district and from 1818 to the Ahrweiler district . What is striking, however, is the population decline that characterized the second half of the 19th century and is associated with industrialization and emigration to America. In 1895 the population had dropped to 324 people.
At that time, Franconia was important for its fruit growing. Around 1800 8000 apple and pear trees are counted in the district. In 1913 there were still 4,327 fruit trees planted.
On March 15, 1925, the population fell to just 273 citizens. Compared to other areas of the country, it was possible to identify a “serious productivity deficit”, especially in the field of arable farming. Politically, the National Socialist Party received a clear rebuff in all subsequent elections. By compulsory membership, however, a general synchronization and National Socialist leveling began.
The total number of inhabitants after the Second World War under French occupation (1946) was 303 people. On June 7, 1969, the previously independent community with 373 inhabitants was incorporated into the city of Sinzig.
politics
District
Franconia is one of six districts in the city of Sinzig and includes the area of the formerly independent municipality. The district has its own local advisory board and a local councilor .
Local advisory board
The local advisory board consists of five members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:
| choice | CDU | FWG | SWU | total |
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| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 seats |
| 2014 | 3 | 2 | - | 5 seats |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 | - | 5 seats |
- FWG = Free Voting Group “Bürgerliste Sinzig e. V. "
- SWU = Sinziger voter union
Mayor
Hans-Jürgen Koffer (FWG) became mayor of Franconia in August 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 53.24% of the vote. He narrowly prevailed against the previous mayor Helga Schmitt-Federkeil.
Cultural monuments
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In Franconia there are some cultural monuments that are listed as historical monuments.
- Catholic Parish Church of St. Michael
- The core of the Romanesque tower and the former east choir (now the entrance hall) date from the first half of the 14th century and show remains of original frescoes . The hall is from 1748. In the church there is a font from the middle of the 13th century. In the cemetery five grave crosses from the 18th century. The entire complex with the former rectory, a hipped roof building, partly half-timbered, from the 18th century is protected. The building of the new church and rectory was initiated in the 18th century by the local lord, the Electoral Palatinate Minister Franz Wilhelm Caspar von Hillesheim .
- Half-timbered houses
- Two horse rides from the 18th and 19th centuries; a courtyard with a barn from the 19th century and another half-timbered house from the end of the 17th century (all in Frankenstrasse).
- Ahrenthal Castle
- Moated castle , neo-renaissance , built in 1880, the entire complex with the park is protected; see Ahrenthal Castle .
- Hombüchel farm
- A half- hipped roof building , partly made of timber, at the beginning of the 19th century (state road 82 towards Sinzig).
literature
- Marino Freistedt: Franconia in the mirror of the times . In: Jürgen Haffke / Bernhard Koll (ed.): Sinzig and its districts - yesterday and today . Sinzig 1983, p. 485 ff .
Web links
- Historical information about Franconia at regionalgeschichte.net
- Literature about Franconia in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ structural data . (No longer available online.) City of Sinzig, June 30, 2016, archived from the original on February 4, 2012 ; accessed on February 8, 2018 (residents in the districts).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 4 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ^ Hermann Bauer: The papal bull of 1131 for the Bonn Cassius Foundation. In: Heimatjahrbuch 1980. Ahrweiler district, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Marino Freistedt: Franconia in the mirror of the times. P. 492 ff.
- ↑ Rheinischer Antiquarius, Middle Rhine, III. Abt., 9th vol., Koblenz 1862, p. 47
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 195 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ↑ Main statutes of the city of Sinzig. (PDF) § 4 and 5 June 27, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Franconia. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Franconia. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Franconia. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Hans Jürgen Koffer appointed as the new mayor. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, August 28, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Sinzig, association-free municipality, second line of results. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Ahrweiler district. Mainz 2020, p. 67 f. (PDF; 5.1 MB).
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , p. 282.
- ^ History of Ahrenthal. (PDF; 25 kB) Retrieved on February 8, 2018 (history of the Count families von Hillesheim and von Spee, with information on the construction project in Franconia).
