Münnerstadt

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Münnerstadt
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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '  N , 10 ° 12'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Franconia
County : Bad Kissingen
Height : 235 m above sea level NHN
Area : 93.11 km 2
Residents: 7598 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 82 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 97702
Primaries : 09733, 09708, 09766
License plate : KG, BRK, HAB
Community key : 09 6 72 135
LOCODE : DE MNR
City structure: 19 districts

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 1
97702 Münnerstadt
Website : www.muennerstadt.de
Mayor : Michael Kastl ( CSU )
Location of the city of Münnerstadt in the Bad Kissingen district
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Münnerstadt with parish church, tithe barn (left) and Jörgentor (right)

Münnerstadt is a city in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen .

Market square with Hotel Bayerischer Hof
Jörgentor (around 1348) with front gate

geography

Geographical location and geology

Münnerstadt is located in the Bad Kissingen district , in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia , 23 km north of the regional center of Schweinfurt . The city is surrounded in the west by Schindberg and Michelsberg, in the south by Karlsberg and in the east by the Zent. The wide Lauertal opens up in the north. The town lies on the limestone - Escarpment that there in the southern Vorrhön runs approximately north-northeasterly direction. This layer level is in Münnerstädter urban area of the Lauer breached that at east Oberlauringen the territory of the Keuper -Sandstein Escarpment (see also Hassberge ) or gypsum Keuper-plateau rises a few kilometers downstream from Münnerstadt at Niederlauer in the Franconian Saale opens . To the north-west, the red sandstone plateau closes with the valleys of the Franconian Saale and its tributaries. The Muschelkalk plateau extends southeast of Münnerstadt, where it merges into the Gips-Keuper plateau in the east / southeast, which in turn is bounded by the Keuper sandstone layer.

Calcareous, often quite fertile soil types in the vicinity of Münnerstadt are the result of these geological conditions. The soils are mainly loamy floodplain soils in the valley fill, parabrown soils on the Muschelkalk plateau, thin, stony rendzines on the steep slopes of this layer level and brown soils in the north-western areas where there is red sandstone.

The local geology is also responsible for the fact that one of the most important groundwater resources in Northern Bavaria is located there. This is only apparently a contrast to the dry valleys in the area (Maital, Michelsgrund, Goldgrund etc.) and the widespread dry biotopes ( juniper heaths , grasslands ) that have developed on the thin, dry sloping soils.

Neighboring communities

City structure

Münnerstadt has 19 districts:

Population of the core city and the districts

  • Münnerstadt (core city) (3705 inhabitants)
  • Althausen (296 inhabitants)
  • Brno (152 inhabitants)
  • Burghausen (294 inhabitants)
  • Fridritt (220 inhabitants)
  • Großwenkheim (725 inhabitants)
  • Kleinwenkheim with Maria Bildhausen Monastery (500 inhabitants)
  • Reichenbach (708 inhabitants)
  • Seubrigshausen (500 inhabitants)
  • Wermerichshausen (227 inhabitants)
  • Windheim (343 inhabitants)

Population figures: November 2013 Source: Münnerstadt municipal administration

history

St. Michael monastery church and renovated half-timbered house
Der Anger , looking east to the parish church of Maria Magdalena
Central nave and choir of the parish church

Neolithic

The area of ​​today's city of Münnerstadt is an ancient settlement area. Rich finds from the Neolithic Age (4500–2100 BC) to the Hallstatt Period ( from 750 BC) prove that thousands of years ago people cleared forests, tilled fields and traded there. Especially in the eastern part of the city, in the vicinity of the districts of Großwenkheim, Maria Bildhausen and Althausen, the Celtic settlers worked the fertile soil of the burial ground .

8th to 11th centuries

The Thuringians , followed by the Franks , pushed into the area around Münnerstadt after the birth of Christ. They used the Michelsberg east of Münnerstadt as a refuge for the surrounding population in times of danger. This Grapfeldonoburg (the main people's castle of the Grabfeldgau residents) is likely to have been built in the 5th century and with it a village at their feet on the Lauer. On December 28, 770 Egi and Sigihilt bequeathed their entire property (including vineyards) to the Fulda monastery at Munirihestat ; this was also the first written mention of the city. From a little over 100 years between 770 and 876 there are 18 documents that name Münnerstadt. This proves that the place was of great importance in Carolingian times. The oldest provable district court hearing in all of Eastern Franconia took place on May 3rd, 800 in Münnerstadt.

12th to 18th centuries

In 1156, Hermann von Stahleck donated the important Cistercian monastery of Bildhausen in the eastern part of the city. The Counts of Henneberg increased their property in the Münnerstadt area. In the 12th century they built a valley castle at the confluence of the Lauer and Talbach rivers. The residents of the old town of Münnerstadt left their poorly protected houses and settled in the shadow of the castle. Around the year 1230, the fortified city (oppidum) of Münnerstadt developed with a city wall (mentioned 1251) and four city gates, a market (1272), city court, city council (1279) and city seal (1287). Trade and handicrafts flourished. The Münnerstadt grain measure was valid in 38 places in northern Lower Franconia. Around 1231 the Teutonic Order took over the parish of Münnerstadt. With the "Hennebergischen Hauptteil" in the year 1274 half the town came to the county Henneberg- Hartenberg, which sold this share in 1371 to the line Henneberg-Aschach. The other half came to the Henneberg-Schleusingen line after 1315 as part of the New Rulership of Henneberg . In 1279 the Augustinians founded a monastery in the city at the request of the citizens . In 1340 there was evidence of a medieval leprosy that was "in front of the city".

The Counts of Henneberg promoted trade and craft. Due to their influence, Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian granted the flourishing town its city ​​rights on July 3, 1335 . The well-fortified city became an important base against the powerful Würzburg prince-bishops . Inheritance and financial problems made it possible for the clergymen to take possession of the part of the town that belonged to the Henneberg-Schleusingen line from 1354 onwards. The citizens wanted to shake off the rule of both city lords and become free of the empire. An uprising failed, and from 1385 a new city order regulated life within the walls. In 1434 the Counts of Henneberg-Aschach acquired the pledge for the Würzburg half of the city. Through an inheritance from the county of Henneberg-Aschach in 1468, Münnerstadt passed to Count Otto III. von Henneberg-Aschach († 1502). In 1483 the Würzburg bishop tried to redeem his pledged share in the city. This only succeeded around 1490. The Henneberg half went to Otto's nephew, Count Hermann VIII von Henneberg-Aschach († 1535), the heir of the "Römhilder part" of the county of Henneberg-Aschach.

34 original parishes between the Rhön and the Franconian Forest belonged to the Archdiakonat Münnerstadt. Once a year the clergy met in the mighty parish church in Münnerstadt. The craftsmen formed 24 guilds . The wealthy citizens (“ Münnerstadt has money ”) confidently commissioned important artists to design their church. In 1492 Tilman Riemenschneider built his first large winged altar there , an important work of the Gothic . In 1504 the famous Veit Stoss painted this altar and made the four panels of the legend of Kilian .

The thoughts of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther from Wittenberg fell on fertile ground among the farmers and citizens. They banded together against the powerful abbot of Maria Bildhausen and burned the monastery down in 1525. But the uprising of the Bildhäuser Haufen , like the entire peasant war , quickly collapsed under the hard blows of the princes. The year 1552 brought a lot of changes: the first Protestant pastor moved into the parish church, the Augustinians had to leave the city, the mercenaries of the Ansbach margrave sacked parts of the city.

The sons of Hermann VIII, Berthold XVI. († 1549) and Albrecht († 1549) shared the inheritance in 1532. A quarter of Münnerstadt went to Berthold XVI. from Henneberg – Römhild. In 1548 he sold the share to his brothers-in-law, the Counts of Mansfeld, and these to Würzburg in 1552. The other quarter of Münnerstadt came to Albrecht von Henneberg-Schwarza in 1532. With his death in 1549, the Henneberg-Schwarza line became extinct. This quarter of Münnerstadt was inherited by the Counts of Stolberg . However, the Counts of Henneberg-Schleusingen took possession of it, whereby this share fell under common Saxon administration according to the Kahla Treaty after the Hennebergs died out in 1583.

Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn acquired through the Schleusinger Treaty in 1585 that part of the city that had not yet belonged to the clergymen from Würzburg. As lord of the city, he carried out the Counter Reformation in “his” city. About 400 Protestants had to leave the city. It was primarily craftsmen who turned their backs on Münnerstadt. The church was extensively remodeled. A grammar school should serve to train the next generation of priests. But it was not until 1660 that one of his successors was able to realize this intention. The terrible years of the Thirty Years' War hit the city and region hard. In 1631 the Swedes conquered the city, in 1641 a miracle is said to have saved the citizens and Munich city from great disaster. Now the Augustinians returned (1652), rebuilt their monastery and in 1685 took over the parish and grammar school.

19th century to the present

Napoleon also changed Franks . The town and office of Münnerstadt became Bavarian for the first time in 1803 . The Maria Bildhausen Abbey was secularized , the monks were expelled, some of the buildings were demolished and others were sold. In 1804 Münnerstadt became the seat of a regional court . The Teutonic Order had to leave Münnerstadt, its property fell to the state. In 1805 Münnerstadt fell to the newly created Electorate and from 1806 to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg under the Habsburg-Lothringen Archduke Ferdinand . The Congress of Vienna finally added the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and thus Münnerstadt to the new Kingdom of Bavaria . The city became the administrative center for the rural surroundings, but lost more and more of its former importance and in the early 20th century it became a small country town in the new Bad Kissingen district .

Emergency money 1920, 50 pfennig note

In 1874 the railway line Würzburg / Schweinfurt - Meiningen / later Erfurt was opened, Münnerstadt became a station on the Stuttgart - Berlin connection , and at times a stop on the Stuttgart - Berlin express train connection.

Bombing and shelling during World War II changed the cityscape significantly. Valuable building fabric was lost (Marienkapelle, residential houses, one of the four city gates). After the division of Germany, Münnerstadt was on the inner-German border , old connections to southern Thuringia were interrupted for decades. Companies, especially from the east of Germany, settled in the city. The bourgeois community became a location for companies with nationwide importance. On January 1, 1972, the city with ten municipalities from the surrounding area formed today's city of Münnerstadt on a voluntary basis, with an area of ​​approx. 95 km² and around 8300 inhabitants. Money flowed into the new parts of the city for the construction of water supply and sewage disposal facilities, roads and community halls as well as for village renovations (Brno, Kleinwenkheim, Großwenkheim, Wermerichshausen). From 1990 onwards, the increasing traffic could be directed over a relief road around the old town, the railway line to Meiningen and Erfurt , which had been interrupted for almost 50 years by the German division between Mellrichstadt and Rentwertshausen , was reopened as a single track in 1991.

religion

The majority of the population is Roman Catholic. Within the Catholic community there is a group that celebrates worship according to the Byzantine rite . Almost 20% of the population are Protestant, mainly Protestant-Lutheran. A few belong to other religions or are without a denomination.

politics

City council

Munnerstadt town hall

After the local elections in Bavaria 2020 on March 15, 2020, the 20 seats of the city council will be distributed as follows:

Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) 7 seats
Free voters Bavaria (FREE VOTERS / FW MÜNNERSTADT) 4 seats
Alliance 90 / The Greens (GREENS) 2 seats
Active forum Münnerstadt and districts (active forum) 2 seats
New ways (NW) 2 seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 2 seats
The PARTY Münnerstadt (The PARTY) 1 seat

mayor

The first mayor is Michael Kastl (CSU), first elected on March 15, 2020 with 51.4%. The deputies are Andreasträger (Free Voters) and Axel Knauff (SPD).

Town twinning

Culture and sights

theatre

  • The patroness of Münnerstadt (Franconian home game from the time of Sweden): The legend of the miraculous rescue of the city, which originated 300 years ago, comes back to life every year at the end of August and beginning of September. More than 200 citizens in colorful costumes present the gripping story on an open-air stage on the Anger.

Museums

music

  • music school
  • City Chapel
  • Big Band of the Johann-Philipp-von-Schönborn-Gymnasium
  • Ensemble Vokal Münnerstadt, head of regional cantor Peter Rottmann
  • Concert series "Klangraum Stadtpfarrkirche Münnerstadt"

Buildings

Churches

Riemenschneider altar in the parish church of St. Maria Magdalena, including the depiction of the banquet in Simon's house

Secular buildings

City gates
The "Jörgentor" with its half-timbered structure from 1570
  • Jörgentor (city gate to the east), Jörgentorgasse / Friedhofstraße, today the domicile of the Rhönclub branch association Münnerstadt
  • Oberes Tor (city gate to the south), Kissinger Strasse / Veit-Stoss-Strasse, 35 meters high, built in the middle of the 13th century
  • Dicker Turm (city gate towards north-west), oldest city gate (around 1240), later a hole prison, today part of the monastery / youth center at the Dicken Turm
  • Unteres Tor (city gate to the north), Riemenschneiderstraße / Meininger Straße, at Café Tilman. This city gate was blown up by the US armed forces at the end of the Second World War in order to create a passage for tanks into the otherwise inaccessible city wall ring.
Cityscape
  • Medieval cityscape with many half-timbered houses
  • Largely preserved city wall
  • Teutonic Order Castle: Deutschherrnstrasse / Schwesterngasse, former commander of the Teutonic Order , since 1923 it has housed the Henneberg Museum
  • Town hall on the market square, historical town hall in half-timbered construction and wind vane with directional designation WOSN, built around 1469, known from the local legend of the Münnerstadt Nägelsiedern
  • Tithe barn on the harbor market, tithe barn of the Würzburg bishops, magnificent stepped gable, built 1648–1699 with the stones of the Talburg of the Henneberg counts, which stood on the heaped hill from 1100, today houses the city music school, the home playing community, the city band and the volunteer fire brigade Münnerstadt. The primary school and the Red Cross rescue station used to be here
  • District court building on the Anger, from 1588 seat of the bishop of Würzburg, rebuilt in 1744/48 in baroque style, seat of a local court until 1973
  • Heimatspielhaus, Am Anger, essentially Gothic building, half-timbered facade from 1800
  • Henneberger Hof, Jörgentorgasse, home of the Henneberg bailiff with the Henneberg coat of arms above the gate and a large tithe barn with a newly designed passage, seat of the pastor from 1600 to 1689, seat of the grammar school from 1660 to 1689, now home
  • Juliusspital, founded in 1280, formerly old people's and infirmary home (1345 leprosy or special infirmary house), now old people's home, roof turret
  • Kelterhalle, former wine press building of the monastery, built in the middle of the 16th century, then beer cellar, until 1349 the synagogue of the Münnerstadt Jews stood here, from 1351 the city's first town hall
  • Old auditorium of the former grammar school (1689) with an excellent baroque stucco ceiling by Zeni (1692/93), today branches of the city administration and public library.
  • Schlegelwarte, a 12-meter-high former watch tower northeast of Münnerstadt, which is now accessible as a lookout tower

Architectural monuments

Parks

  • Hindenburgpark, Friedrich-Abert-Straße / Maitalweg, idyllic park under giant old trees, children's playground
  • Jörgentorpark, Friedhofstraße / Leitschuhweg, park at Jörgentor, at the confluence of the Thalwasserbach and Lauer -Nebenarm, children's playground

Sports

The strongest institution in the field of sports is TSV Münnerstadt, which offers a wide range of activities from athletics to tennis and soccer. The Braveheartbattle took place annually from 2010 to 2015 .

Münnerstadt is home to one of the oldest shooting clubs in Bavaria, the kgl.priv. (royally privileged) shooting association Münnerstadt, founded in 1356, resident.

Since 1991, Münnerstadt has also been the headquarters of the first Hornusser company outside of Switzerland .

Numerous paths around Münnerstadt invite cyclists, runners and inline skaters to small and large tours.

The municipal indoor pool was shut down in 2010 due to structural defects and cost reasons; In 2016 the city council decided to demolish it.

Culinary specialties

  • “Mürschter Urstoff”: monastery beer in a swing-top bottle
  • various fruit brandies from a local family distillery

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

German Unity Transport Project No. 16, Thuringian Forest Autobahn A 71 Erfurt – Schweinfurt, 2002 under construction

Münnerstadt is on the federal highway 287 ( Hammelburg - Bad Kissingen - Munnerstadt), formerly the federal highway 19 ( Eisenach - Kleines Walsertal ), and on the federal highway 71 ( Erfurt - Schweinfurt ), with the Lauertal bridge two kilometers to the east . The entire length of the motorway from Schweinfurt to Erfurt was opened to traffic on December 13, 2005 as the German Unity Transport Project No. 16. The city has an exit named after it north of the old town, 200 m east of the historic Spitalmühle an der Lauer, connected to the B 287.

Münnerstadt is located on the historic Chaussee Würzburg – Meiningen from 1796. The street later became a section of Reichsstraße 19 from Berlin to the Kleiner Walsertal and then a section of the shortened federal highway 19 . With the construction of the A 71 from Schweinfurt to Erfurt, the main road in the greater Schweinfurt area became meaningless and downgraded in sections, right up to the district road . Characteristic of the Chaussee near Münnerstadt (5 km south) is the so-called Lange Schiff , a straight stretch of route that crosses a wide valley. Also called heavenly ladder because of a special optical effect when driving through .

Münnerstadt is also located on the formerly double- track Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line , which was dismantled to one track after the Second World War and was interrupted until 1991 because of the division of Germany between Mellrichstadt and Rentwertshausen . Today, Deutsche Bahn offers fast connections with tilting technology trains of the 612 series (Regio-Swinger) every two hours between Würzburg and Erfurt on the route, which has now been expanded to 160 km / h . The Erfurt Railway supplemented the offer with its regional shuttle railcars of the type RS1, called Unterfranken-Shuttle , between Schweinfurt and Meiningen , so that (as of 2020) Münnerstadt can be reached several times an hour by train.

Münnerstadt is mainly served by bus route 8147 Bad Kissingen –Seubrigshausen. Other lines lead to Bad Neustadt an der Saale and towards Bad Bocklet , as well as to Maßbach . However, these are mainly designed for school transport and are not clocked.

Münnerstadt is connected to the cycle path network with routes of different lengths and degrees of difficulty, including the Lauertal cycle path. The Franconian Marienweg leads through Münnerstadt .

education

In addition to the Johann-Philipp-von-Schönborn-Gymnasium , which was founded in 1660 by the Würzburg prince-bishop, there is a primary and secondary school as well as a vocational training center and a music school in Münnerstadt.

In February 2005, the federal training center for undertakers was opened in Münnerstadt. This facility, which was made necessary by the creation of the training profession of undertaker in 2003, together with the educational cemetery, which was established in 1994, is unique in the world.

Wind turbine of the Langes Schiff wind farm

energy

There are two wind farms in the municipality of Münnerstadt: the Windheim wind farm with two Nordex N117 turbines (hub height: 140.6 meters, rotor diameter: 116.8 meters, power: 2400 kW), which were built in 2015 and with four Vestas turbines V112 (hub height: 119 meters, rotor diameter: 112 meters, power: 3000 kW), which were built in 2014. Another wind farm on the “Long Ship” consists of five Vensys VE112 wind turbines with a hub height of 140 meters, a rotor diameter of 112.5 meters and an output of 2500 kW. It was built in 2014. The electricity generated is fed into the 110 kV line Oerlenbach – Bad Neustadt via a substation.

Telephone prefixes

Münnerstadt can be reached via the area code 09733. Windheim (09708) and Großwenkheim, Kleinwenkheim, Seubrigshausen and Wermerichshausen (09766) have different area codes.

sons and daughters of the town

Honorary citizen

  • 1949: August Neumann (1875–1956), businessman
  • 1978: Alfred Neumann (1902–1980), local politician
  • 1983: Anton Schlembach (1932–2020), Bishop of Speyer
  • 1987: Friedrich Philipp von Abert (1852–1912), Archbishop of Bamberg
  • 1996: Ferdinand Betzer (1933–2013), Mayor of Münnerstadt (1972 to 1996)

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Nikolaus Reiniger: Münnerstadt and its immediate surroundings depicted according to the oldest archival news, especially in its church, religious and school conditions. Self-published, Würzburg 1852 ( digitized from Google Books ).
  • Georg Dehio , Tilmann Breuer: Handbook of German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia - The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , pp. 643–647.
  • Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 , pp. 212-235.

Web links

Commons : Münnerstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Münnerstadt  - travel guide
Wikisource: Münnerstadt in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 427 .
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  6. ^ The patroness of Münnerstadt. In: Heimatspiel-Muennerstadt.de. Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  7. ^ Henneberg Museum in the Teutonic Order Castle. In: Muennerstadt.de. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  8. ^ Henneberg Museum in the Teutonic Order Castle. In: Museen-Rhoen-Saale.de. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
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  11. ↑ RoA Rongen Architekten: Swimming Münnerstadt: Recording the rehabilitation costs of the currently disused indoor swimming pool. In: www.muennerstadt.de. November 2018, accessed March 4, 2019 . (PDF document)
  12. ↑ Demolition information Städt. Indoor swimming pool. In: www.muennerstadt.de. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ "City honors its deserving citizens" on infranken.de from December 4, 2019, accessed on June 16, 2020
  14. ↑ Dieter Britz: The book about Münnerstadt and its mysterious way to Harvard University. In: Saale-Zeitung (inFranken.de). February 5, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 .