Lauda (Lauda-Koenigshofen)

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Lauda
Coat of arms of Lauda
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 58 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 24"  E
Area : 12.55 km²
Residents : 5814  (Feb. 2015)
Population density : 463 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 97922
Area code : 09343
Lauda, ​​view from the Mount of Olives to the old town
Lauda, ​​view from the Mount of Olives to the old town

Lauda is a district of Lauda-Königshofen and used to be an independent town.

geography

It is located in the Main-Tauber district , the northernmost district of Baden-Württemberg in the region historically known as Tauberfranken . Lauda has 6,356 inhabitants and covers an area of ​​12.55 km².

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving documentary mention of Lauda comes from the year 1150. At that time, Lauda was the property of the noblemen of Luden (d. I. Lauda), who lived at Lauda Castle . Karl Schreck derives the place name from Celtic ( Lutuhezi ) and thus refers to a settlement that was possibly much earlier.

In 1169 Heinrich von Lauda awarded his share of the castle to the Würzburg monastery . After that, Lauda changed hands several times: It came first to the County of Rieneck , then the Counts of Wertheim, the Lords and later Counts of Hanau , the Lords of Hohenlohe and the Palatinate . Lauda was the seat of a penny court . Viticulture and wine trade in Bavaria, Saxony and Swabia have been attested as the main branches of business since the 13th century. On January 21, 1344, Lauda, ​​which had been the seat of an office in the County of Rieneck since 1312, was granted city rights under Rothenburg law by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian .

Modern times

In 1506, Lauda was reacquired by the Würzburg monastery and became the capital of the Lauda office of the monastery. From 1506 until the secularization in 1802, Lauda remained, apart from a brief pledge to Rieneck in the 16th century, as the Oberamtsstadt near Würzburg.

Numerous artistically significant wayside shrines from the 16th century, the town hall from 1561 and half-timbered houses from the 16th century indicate a considerable prosperity in Lauda. In 1714, a " weather cross " was erected as an "eternal memory" of a major storm damage , which is shown on many hiking maps. This weather cross forms the boundary stone to the districts of five old communities ( Distelhausen , Dittigheim , Dittwar , Oberlauda and Lauda), whose coats of arms are depicted on it.

As part of the secularization due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Lauda came to the Principality of Leiningen , where Lauda became the seat of an office. After the principality was dissolved in 1806 as part of the Rhine Confederation Act , it was then added to the Grand Duchy of Baden . A Lauda district office was set up there, but it was dissolved again in 1813. Due to the attack in Baden in an initially unfavorable peripheral location, viticulture and wine trade came to an almost complete standstill. Only after the mid-19th century Lauda regained its convenient location by being the junction of three railways, the railway line Heidelberg-Würzburg , the railway Crailsheim-Wertheim and the line Würzburg-Stuttgart . Lauda received a major depot , a major employer for the city that contributed significantly to population growth. A class 50 steam locomotive erected as a monument near the secondary school commemorates this time. As a result of the construction of the railway, more and more Protestant Christians moved to the Roman Catholic city from the second half of the 19th century . Lauda initially owned a Roman Catholic church, St. James' Church , which was built from 1322 to 1333. In 1906/07 a Protestant church was also built in Lauda. The congregation got its own parish office from 1930, before it was looked after from Tauberbischofsheim .

In 1913 the football club "FV Lauda 1913" was founded, the first team of which had played in the Baden-Württemberg football league for several years .

On January 1, 1972, as part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg, the municipality of Oberlauda was incorporated into Lauda. On January 1, 1974, the city of Lauda and the communities Beckstein , Gerlachsheim and Heckfeld were united to form the new city of Lauda. On January 1, 1975, the city of Lauda merged with the city of Königshofen and the community of Unterbalbach to form the city of Lauda-Königshofen. Marbach and Oberbalbach were added.

religion

The Catholic churches in the Lauda district belong to the Lauda-Königshofen pastoral care unit in the Tauberbischofsheim deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

  • Historic old town with half-timbered buildings and remains of a medieval city wall
  • Upper gate from 1496
  • Powder tower
  • Gothic Tauber Bridge from 1512 with a statue of Nepomuk and wayside shrines
  • Catholic Marienkirche from 1613
  • Catholic parish church St. Jakobus from 1698 with Renaissance portal from 1606
  • Catholic Holy Blood Chapel or Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher from 1283
  • High Baroque Stations of the Cross in the cemetery wall of the city cemetery from 1782 at the Marienkirche.
  • Local museum
  • Steam locomotive monument (class 50 locomotive)

Biking and hiking trails

Lauda is on the Taubertal Cycle Path . The Taubertal Panorama Trail and the approximately 180-kilometer-long Jakobsweg Main-Taubertal also pass through Lauda.

traffic

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Lauda  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Lauda in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As of the beginning of 2015 according to Lauda-Königshofen in figures (accessed on May 17, 2019).
  2. ↑ Handbook of Historic Places in Germany, Volume 6, Baden-Württemberg . Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner. 2nd edition, 1980, ISBN 978-3-520-27602-5 . Pp. 452-453
  3. ^ A b Karl Schreck: Lauda. The fate of a former Franconian city . City of Lauda, ​​Lauda 1973
  4. ↑ Fränkische Nachrichten: 300 years of the Wetterkreuz: Star march from the neighboring communities of Oberlauda, ​​Lauda, ​​Distelhausen, Dittigheim and Dittwar as well as Heckfeld: The response exceeded all expectations . September 16, 2014. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  5. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 480 .
  6. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 469 .
  7. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 469 f .
  8. ↑ "The Classic" - Tourist Association of Liebliches Taubertal. In: liebliches-taubertal.de. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 2nd day stage - Weikersheim via Bad Mergentheim to Tauberbischofsheim - Liebliches Taubertal Tourist Association. In: liebliches-taubertal.de. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Panoramaweg Taubertal - Tourist Association Liebliches Taubertal. In: liebliches-taubertal.de. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Taubertal panorama hiking trail (long-distance hiking trail) - wanderkompass.de. In: wanderkompass.de. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Jakobsweg Main-Taubertal (pilgrimage route) - wanderkompass.de. In: wanderkompass.de. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .