Holzkirchen (Lower Franconia)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Holzkirchen
Holzkirchen (Lower Franconia)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 9 ° 41'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
County : Wurzburg
Management Community : Helmstadt
Height : 198 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.42 km 2
Residents: 950 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 113 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 97292
Area code : 09369
License plate : WÜ , OCH
Community key : 09 6 79 149
Community structure: 2 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Nibelungenstrasse 1
97292 Holzkirchen
Website : www.holzkirchen-ufr.de
Mayor : Daniel Bachmann (Free Voting Community Holzkirchen)
Location of the community of Holzkirchen in the district of Würzburg
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Holzkirchen , also known colloquially as Holzkirchen near Würzburg , is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg . The place of the same name is both the capital and the seat of the municipal administration.

geography

Holzkirchen district
Holzkirchen community

The community is located in the Würzburg region , about 19 kilometers west of Würzburg . The Franconian Marienweg runs through wooden churches .

Community structure

Holzkirchen consists of two districts:

There are the districts of Holzkirchen and Wüstenzell.

Neighboring communities

Surname

etymology

The name Holzkirchen consists of the Old High German words wood (wood, forest) and kirihha (church). The church was named after its location in the forest.

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

  • 775 Holzkiricha
  • 815 wooden kirihha
  • 820 Holzchyricha
  • 1193 Holzchirchen
  • 1259 wooden churches

history

Holzkirchen Monastery

Until the church is planted

The Holzkirchen Monastery, founded before 775, and the place were part of the area of ​​the Würzburg Monastery and fell to the Counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . In return for a pension, however, they sold it to Bavaria in 1803, which they left with Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany in 1805 to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg . With the treaties of Paris in 1814, the Grand Duchy became part of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Wüstenzell was incorporated.

Population development

  • 1961: 0742 inhabitants
  • 1970: 0795 inhabitants
  • 1987: 0945 inhabitants
  • 1991: 0991 inhabitants
  • 1995: 0992 inhabitants
  • 2000: 1000 inhabitants
  • 2005: 0956 inhabitants
  • 2010: 0914 inhabitants
  • 2015: 0963 inhabitants

politics

The community is a member of the Helmstadt administrative community .

City council election 2020
(in %)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
54.31
45.69
UBW
Current distribution of seats in the Holzkirchen municipal council (March 15, 2020)
  
A total of 12 seats
  • FWG : 7
  • UBW : 5

Municipal council

The municipal council has 12 seats. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 619 of the 809 residents in the municipality of Holzkirchen exercised their right to vote, bringing the voter turnout to 76.51%.

mayor

In the local elections on March 15, 2020, Daniel Bachmann (FWG) was elected with 88.99% of the vote. His predecessor was Klaus Beck (Free Voting Association) from May 1, 1996 to April 30, 2020, who was no longer a candidate.

Alliance Waldsassengau

Since November 20, 2014, Holzkirchen has been organized together with twelve other parishes in the Alliance Waldsassengau . The association serves the intercommunal cooperation.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Holzkirchen (Lower Franconia)
 Blazon : “Two golden sloping beams in red, covered as a whole by a growing, polygonal, black church building with silver window openings; A silver label with a continuous black bar cross is placed on top of it. "

Architectural monuments

Soil monuments

education

In 2018 there were the following institutions:

  • 1 day care center with 65 places and 39 children
  • Benediktushof , a non-denominational educational establishment, founded by Willigis Jäger , now managed by Doris Zölls , Alexander Poraj and Fernand Braun

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Sir Hermann David Weber (* 1823 in Holzkirchen, † 1918 in London), doctor at the German Hospital in London, personal physician to Queen Victoria .

literature

  • Michael Mott : Over 1000 years of Fulda / Propstei Holzkirchen: Monastery complex heralds the fame of Fulda / Unique Romanesque cloister. In Fuldaer Zeitung , July 14, 1994, p. 14 (DENK-mal series!)

Web links

Commons : Holzkirchen (Unterfranken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Wooden churches in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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 Holzkirchen. Holzkirchen community, accessed on August 23, 2020 .
  3. ^ Community Holzkirchen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 108 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ 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. 756 .
  6. ↑ City council election 2020
  7. ↑ City council election 2020
  8. ↑ Mayoral election 2020
  9. ^ Alliance Waldsassengau in the west of Würzburg. Society. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 29, 2016 ; accessed on January 20, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allianz-waldsassengau.de
  10. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Holzkirchen (Lower Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History