Kirchheim (Lower Franconia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '  N , 9 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Wurzburg
Management Community :	Kirchheim (Lower Franconia)
Height :	277 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.98 km 2
Residents:	2126 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	112 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97268
Primaries :	09366, 09336
License plate :	WÜ , OCH
Community key :	09 6 79 153
Community structure:	7 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausstrasse 2 97268 Kirchheim
Website :	www.kirchheim-ufr.de
Mayor :	Björn Jungbauer ( CSU / Free Citizens Kirchh.-Gaub.)
Location of the municipality of Kirchheim in the district of Würzburg

Kirchheim ( listen ^{? / I} ) (colloquially Kihri ) is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg and the seat of the Kirchheim administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Kirchheim belongs to the Würzburg region and is a border municipality between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The eponymous capital is traversed by the Moosbach in a south-south-westerly direction near the eastern edge , which unites on the southern edge of the village with the south-south-west running Rimbach , which borders it in the west, to form the Wittigbach , which continues south.

Community structure

Kirchheim is divided into seven districts:

• Egenburgerhof
• Owl Mill
• Gaubüttelbrunn
• Geiersmühle
• Kirchheim
• Mill (upper)
• Sellenbergerhof

There are districts Gaubüttelbrunn and Kirchheim.

history

Until the church is planted

The first documentary mentions of Kirchheim from 742 are in the Würzburg diocese books. It was part of the Würzburg bishopric ( St. Burkhard Abbey , a Benedictine monastery from the 10th century and a collegiate monastery from 1469 to 1808 ), which belonged to the Franconian Empire . In 1803 the Kirchheim monastery was secularized and Bavaria was added; then left in the Peace of Pressburg in 1805 to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , with which it finally fell to Bavaria in 1814 . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community Gaubüttelbrunn was incorporated.

Population development

• 1961: 2124 inhabitants
• 1970: 2196 inhabitants
• 1987: 2008 inhabitants
• 1991: 2059 inhabitants
• 1995: 2279 inhabitants
• 2000: 2295 inhabitants
• 2005: 2194 inhabitants
• 2010: 2185 inhabitants
• 2015: 2168 inhabitants

politics

City council election 2020

(in %)

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

54.55

29.55

15.90

CSU ^a

SPD ^b

Green

Remarks:

^a CSU including FB

^b SPD including BL

Current distribution of seats in the Kirchheim municipal council (March 15, 2020)

   

A total of 14 seats

• CSU : 8
• SPD : 4
• Greens : 2

CSU including FB; SPD including BL

Municipal council

In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 1,319 of the 1,777 residents eligible to vote in the municipality of Kirchheim exercised their right to vote, bringing the voter turnout to 74.23%.

mayor

Björn Jungbauer ( CSU / Freie Bürger Kirchh.-Gaub.) Has been mayor since May 1, 2014 . He also represents the community as a district councilor in the district council of the Würzburg district. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, he was re-elected with 82.68% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by blue and red; above half a silver lily, below three silver tips. "

Justification for the coat of arms: The silver lily refers to the former rule that St. Burkhard Abbey exercised over Kirchheim and whose coat of arms shows the lily in. Donations from Kirchheim to this monastery are mentioned in a document from the year 832. In church symbolism, both the lily and the color blue are used to refer to Mary (mother of Jesus) . The three silver tips in red are the so-called Franconian rake and stand for the Würzburg monastery , to whose area Kirchheim also belonged, and for Franconia in general . The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality by decree of January 4, 1935 by the Reich governor in Bavaria Franz von Epp .

Culture and sights

Testimonies from the former rural Jewish community

From the 16th century until 1908 there was a small Jewish rural community in Kirchheim. A synagogue , a school and a mikveh (discovered in 1993) were housed in a house built in 1667 (Gartenstrasse 3) . The deceased of the Jewish community were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Allersheim ( Giebelstadt community ). The community dissolved itself through migration to the cities.

Oak at the Egenburgerhof

A pedunculate oak , at least 400 years old and protected as a natural monument since 1968 , with a trunk circumference of 7.54 m (measured in 2015 at chest height).

Oak at the Egenburgerhof

tribe

The oak that is registered in the list of prominent and old tree specimens and is of regional importance stands on private fenced property and is not freely accessible. The trunk is open on one side and partially hollow or rotten up to the base of the crown. The opening reaches down to the floor in a wedge shape. At a height of around three meters, the trunk breaks up into three strong branches, one of which has broken off. A barkless branch of about one meter in length has remained. The oak has a large closed harmonious crown.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Kirchheim

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were seven in the field of agriculture and forestry, 188 in the manufacturing sector and 24 in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. In other economic areas, 53 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 767 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were three companies in the manufacturing sector and one in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 36 farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​1288 hectares, of which 1272 hectares were arable land and twelve hectares were permanent green space.

The community is mainly characterized by the stone industry and is the seat of numerous natural stone companies. Kirchheim is the headquarters of Zeidler & Wimmel , one of the largest stone cutting companies in Germany.

The community has been running an outdoor swimming pool for many years and is supported by the swimming pool association.

traffic

Westfrankenbahn at the stop in Kirchheim

In Kirchheim and in Gaubüttelbrunn there is one stop each on the Frankenbahn Stuttgart – Würzburg. The regional trains of the Westfrankenbahn run approximately every two hours between Lauda and Würzburg .

education

The following institutions exist (as of: 1999):

• 75 places in kindergarten with 65 children
• an elementary school with 15 teachers and 283 students

Personalities

• Steffen Hofmann (* 1980), midfielder at Rapid Vienna, played in youth at 1. FC Kirchheim, TSV Kleinrinderfeld, Würzburger FV and Bayern Munich
• Martha Merz (born December 18, 1916 in Kirchheim), Bavaria's first female registrar. She lived in Kelheim until her death († February 21, 2012)

literature

• Zeidler & Wimmel, quarry and stonemason business, founded in 1776, Berlin, Bunzlau, Düsseldorf, Kirchheim U.-Fr. (= Archive for Industry and Commerce, 1929), Berlin, Adolf Ecksteins Verlag, 1929.
• Jutta Sporck-Pfitzer (author), Würzburg district (publisher), The former Jewish communities in the Würzburg district , Würzburg 1988, on Kirchheim: pp. 67–69.
• Israel Schwierz, Stone Evidence of Jewish Life in Bavaria. A documentation of the Bavarian State Center for Political Education (= Volume A 85), Bamberg, Bamberg, Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, 2nd revised edition 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0 , to Kirchheim: p. 81.
• Hans-Peter Süss, Jewish Archeology in Northern Bavaria. Franconia and Upper Palatinate (= work on the archeology of southern Germany, Volume 25), Büchenbach, Verlag Dr. Faustus, 2010, (also University of Bamberg, Master's thesis, 2008), ISBN 978-3-933474-69-8 , on Kirchheim: pp. 74–76.

Web links

Commons : Kirchheim (Unterfranken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Kirchheim (Lower Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Kirchheim (Lower Franconia): Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.05 MB)
• Kirchheim: Official homepage of the community

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. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/191704&attr=OBJ&val= 1801
3. ↑ ^{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 .
4. ↑ City council election 2020
5. ↑ City council election 2020
6. ↑ Mayoral election 2020
7. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of Kirchheim (Lower Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 8, 2017 .
8. ↑ The original coat of arms of St. Burkhard's monastery shows the lily in gold on a blue field
9. ↑ Joachim Braun (collaboration), article on the history of the Jewish community, synagogue and the discovery of the mikveh. Here also literature and links on the topic
10. ^ "Oak at the Egenburg court" in "Monumentale Eichen" by Rainer Lippert, at www.monumentale-eichen.de