Hofheim in Lower Franconia

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 10 ° 32'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Hatred Mountains
Management Community :	Hofheim in Lower Franconia
Height :	265 m above sea level NHN
Area :	56.36 km 2
Residents:	5095 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	90 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97461
Area code :	09523
License plate :	HAS, EBN, GEO , HOH
Community key :	09 6 74 149
City structure:	21 districts
City administration address :	Obere Sennigstr. 4 97461 Hofheim i.UFr.
Website :	www.stadt-hofheim.de
Mayor :	Wolfgang Borst ( CSU )
Location of the city of Hofheim i.UFr. in the district of Haßberge

Hofheim from above (2019)
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Hofheim in Lower Franconia (officially Hofheim i.UFr. , Before 1945 Hofheim in Mainfranken , officially Hofheim i. Mainfr. ) Is a town in the Lower Franconian district of Haßberge and the seat of the administrative community Hofheim in Lower Franconia .

geography

Hofheim is the center of the western Haßberge . The city is located about 25 kilometers northeast of Schweinfurt .

Community structure

There are 21 districts (population figures in brackets):

Aurachsmühle Eichelsdorf (266) Erlsdorf (20) Elevator Fuchsmühle Goßmannsdorf (767) Hessenmühle

Hofheim i.UFr. (2148) Lendershausen (472) Manau (68) Middle mill Mill (lower) Neumühle Ostheim (339)

Reckertshausen (351) Tube mill Ruegheim (650) Bettenburg Castle Castle Mill Sulzbach (115) Sulzenmühle

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  Eichelsdorf

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  Goßmannsdorf

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  Hofheim i. UFr.

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  Ostheim

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  Rügheim

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  Half-timbered house with pharmacy in Hofheim

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Bundorf , Maroldsweisach , Burgpreppach , Königsberg in Bavaria , Riedbach and Aidhausen .

history

Until the 19th century

Some evidence suggests that the place could have been a Carolingian bailiwick before 800 . The first documentary evidence as houeheim dates back to 1108 . An earlier foundation under the name Houfingen is also possible, because this is the name of the city in the older dialect of the area to this day, now mostly transformed into Hofingen in the city itself . There is also the dialect form Hoffinga , which is mainly used by the residents on the other side of the Haßberge. In any case, the Hofheim, located in a particularly fertile plain in front of the Haßberg heights, is one of the original parishes in this region and the patronage of the Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist underscores its importance as a baptistery at least since Carolingian times. From 1500 Hofheim was part of the Franconian Empire . In 1576 the award was made to the town charter by Prince Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . In the 18th century the Lendershäuser Tor and the Goßmannsdorfer Tor were rebuilt. In 1803 Hofheim came under Bavarian administration, from 1806 to 1814 it was under the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , after which it came back to Bavaria . Between 1862 and 1900 it was assigned to the royal district office of Königshofen , and from 1900 Hofheim was an independent district office. In 1892, the connection to the railway network was made possible from Haßfurt . According to data from the Society for Leprosy customer existed in Hofheim since 1597, a leprosarium , which was renewed 1664th

20th and 21st centuries

During the November pogrom in 1938 , the synagogue of the Jewish community at Kirchgasse 11 was looted by SA men , as a memorial plaque behind the town hall commemorates. The synagogue was preserved as a building and is now used as a residential building.

In the course of the Bavarian regional reform, the royal district office established in 1900, since 1938 district Hofheim in Mainfranken, after the war called district Hofheim in Unterfranken , was dissolved on July 1st, 1972. With this, Hofheim lost its importance as Haßfurt became the district town of the new Haßberge district.

The railway connection to Haßfurt was closed in 1995; the tracks were dismantled in 1996/97 and converted into a 15 kilometer long cycle path.

In the 1990s and 2000s, the vacancy rate of buildings in the Hofheim city center increased. In order to stop the associated decline of village structures, the municipality has not designated any new building areas since 2006. In addition, it is actively committed to the existing stock of old buildings: The municipality records all uninhabited buildings, markets them on a website and provides guidance on applying for funding . In 2008 the city of Hofheim and six neighboring communities founded the community alliance Hofheimer Land , which also aims to attract young families to live in Hofheim or in the surrounding villages and thus to reduce the population decline.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities of Erlsdorf and Manau were incorporated. Sulzbach joined on January 1, 1974. The Ostheim market followed on January 1, 1975. The series of incorporations was completed with the incorporation of Eichelsdorf and Lendershausen on January 1, 1978 and Goßmannsdorf, Reckertshausen and Rügheim on May 1, 1978.

politics

City council

The Hofheim City Council has 20 members. In the local elections in 2008 and 2014 , the distribution of seats was as follows

Party / list	2008	2014
CSU	6 seats	5 seats
SPD	2 seats	2 seats
FDP / Free Citizens	1 seat0	1 seat0
Flat share Goßmannsdorf	3 seats	3 seats
WG Rügheim	3 seats	3 seats
Shared apartment in Ostheim	1 seat0	1 seat0
Reckertshäuser BL	1 seat0	1 seat0
Boy list	1 seat0	2 seats
Flat share Lendershausen	2 seats	2 seats
total	20 seats	20 seats

mayor

In addition, the First Mayor is a member of the city council. Since February 9, 2005 this is Wolfgang Borst (CSU). In the 2010 election he was confirmed in office with a voter turnout of 36.6% with 96.0% of the valid votes and was elected for a further six years on November 20, 2016. The predecessor was Hubert Eiring (FDP) since 1993.

coat of arms

Launched by the seal derived crest leadership since the 15th century is as follows described : "Over red sign foot , is three silver peaks in silver semi abdomen of golden haloed St. John the Baptist in fur occupied blue robe, which the on on the right arm carries a red book resting, golden nimbly silver lamb of God and points to it with his left index finger. "

Public facilities

Market square with fountain

railway station

Culture

• Library (in Hofheim and also in the Goßmannsdorf part of the municipality)
• House of the guest
• Schüttbau in Rügheim

education

• Elementary and secondary school
• Jacob-Curio-Realschule (until 2008: Staatliche Realschule Hofheim)
• Specialized Academy for Social Pedagogy (until 2011)
• Vocational schools for geriatric care and geriatric care help
• Community College
• Kindergarten St. Josef
• School camp of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium from Schweinfurt

Medical supplies

• Emergency doctor
• Caritas elderly service center with day care
• Various specialists and general practitioners

Authorities

• Administrative community
• Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry

Attractions

Franconian court

Bettenburg

• Historic old town with Franconian half-timbered houses and old city walls
• Franconian court, half-timbered ensemble (1685–1687), courtyard gate with gate around 1600
• Bettenburg with landscape park
• Eichelsdorf Monastery and the Schwedenschanze observation tower
• Extensive hiking trails and bike paths in the neighboring Haßberge
• The Hofheim karst spring, designated as a natural monument

Museums

• Red Cross Museum in the Goßmannsdorfer Tor
• Railway museum in the station of the former Haßfurt – Hofheim railway line

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Hofheim in Lower Franconia

Leisure activities

• outdoor pool
• Indoor swimming pool
• Tennis courts
• Bowling alley in the Haus des Gastes cultural center, which opened in 1976
• Sports club SV Hofheim 1919 e. V.
• Fanfare and minstrel procession Hofheim

economy

• Agriculture, horticulture and fruit growing
• Small industry, metal processing and textile industry
• Food industry: brewery and dairy plants

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Jacob Curio (1497–1572), doctor and mathematician
• Gottfried Schmitt (1827–1908), lawyer, editor of inheritance law for the drafting of the BGB, President of the Bavarian Supreme Court
• Josef von Schmitt (1838–1907), 1884–1905 district court president, honorary citizen of Bamberg
• Carl Alfred Osann (1859–1923), mineralogist
• Wilhelm Hoffmann (1876–1942), politician born in Eichelsdorf, member of the Reichstag
• Julius Koch (1881–1951), lawyer, Munich police chief
• Artur Heinrich (1904–1975), politician born in Rügheim, Member of the Bavarian State Parliament
• Josef Dünninger (1905–1994), folklorist, Germanist and university professor
• Helmuth Egelkraut (1938–2018), Protestant theologian and professor of theology and missiology

Associated with Hofheim

• Johann Kaspar Borst (born October 10, 1812 in Escherndorf ; † after 1858), politician, Borst was a member of the Bavarian state parliament from 1850 to 1858 for the constituency of Hofheim / Ufr

Web links

Commons : Hofheim in Unterfranken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• City of Hofheim
• Hofheim in Lower Franconia: 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. ↑ Districts. City of Hofheim in Lower Franconia, accessed on August 19, 2020 . 
3. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/202551&attr=OBJ&val= 1632
4. ↑ Michael Wieland: Hofheim. Increased and improved contribution to its history . Hofheim in UFr. 1905, p. 3 .
5. ^ Herbert Kössler: (District) Hofheim . In: Commission for Bavarian State History (Hrsg.): Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . Issue 13. Munich 1964, p. 8-11, 19-21, 52 and a .
6. ↑ Table Medieval Leprosories in Today's Bavaria, Gesellschaft für Leprakunde, Münster 1995, accessed March 7, 2017 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 148
8. ↑ Alexander Haneke, The village center should live, What can a mayor do when vacancies are rampant, the streets are deserted and only the supermarket chains on the arterial road are flourishing? Wolfgang Borst had an idea . FAZ of December 29, 2018, page 5
9. ↑ Anna Reuss: Beautiful desert . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 30, 2016, p. 4.
10. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 486 .
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. 759 .
12. ↑ City Council Hofheim i. UFr. City of Hofheim in Lower Franconia, accessed on August 19, 2020 . 
13. ^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics
14. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Hofheim in Lower Franconia  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
15. ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: From the founder era to the tracing service in World War II. (Das Rotkreuzmuseum Hofheim) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 2, Southern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015. ISBN 978-3-7776-2511-9 , pp. 105-106.
16. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2016 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.