Maßbach

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Bad Kissingen
Management Community :	Maßbach
Height :	284 m above sea level NHN
Area :	59.3 km 2
Residents:	4334 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97711
Primaries :	09735, 09733
License plate :	KG, BRK, HAB
Community key :	09 6 72 131
Market structure:	15 districts
; Market administration address :	Marktplatz 1 ; 97711 Maßbach
Website :	www.massbach.de
Mayor :	Matthias Klement ( CSU )
Location of the Maßbach market in the Bad Kissingen district

St. Barholomew

Maßbach is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen and the seat of the Maßbach administrative community . It is located 15 km north of Schweinfurt .

The Schloss Maßbach Theater is the longest existing state-subsidized private guest theater in Germany and fulfills the functions of a state stage.

geography

Geographical location

The community lies between the Bavarian Rhön and Haßberge an der Lauer nature parks . The southern municipality belongs to the Schweinfurt Rhön .

Neighboring communities

(starting clockwise in the north; the communities belong to the Bad Kissingen district , unless otherwise stated)

Nüdlingen , Münnerstadt , Thundorf , Stadtlauringen ¹, Üchtelhausen ¹ and Rannungen
¹ district of Schweinfurt

The communities of Rannungen and Thundorf, including the districts of Theinfeld and Rothhausen, together with the Maßbach market, form the Maßbach administrative community , whose headquarters are in Maßbach.

Community structure

Maßbach is divided into 15 districts:

history

8th to 14th century

Archaeological finds have proven that people have settled in the area of today's Maßbach market. Written records of donations to the Fulda monastery mention the place for the first time around 770 AD.

Around the year 825, the Massbach belonging to Maßbach and 899 the place Poppenlauer were also mentioned for the first time. The district of Volkershausen was first documented in 1198. Most of what is now northern Lower Franconia with Maßbach and its surroundings was part of the feudal area of the Counts of Henneberg . The lords of Maßbach were their vassals. By the year 1100 Maßbach already had market rights . Maßbach was from the beginning a Henneberg center for Maßbach, Poppenlauer, Thundorf, Theinfeld, Rothhausen, Stadtlauringen, Reinhardshausen, Ballingshausen, Ebertshausen, Hoppachshof, Madenhausen, Volkershausen and the submerged towns of Ransbach, Weissensee and Stündingshausen. Zent Maßbach had its heyday in the 12th – 14th centuries. Century. During the time of the tribal duchies, Maßbach was in the Duchy of Franconia .

15th to 18th century

The properties in Maßbach were pledged or resold several times due to financial difficulties. In 1408 the brothers Eberhard and Albrecht von Maßbach bought back the Maßbach Castle with its central and village court from Prince Wilhelm von Henneberg-Schleusingen for 2000 Rhenish guilders. When the line of the Henneberg family died out in 1583, the Saxon dukes and the Saxon elector, as heirs of the Henneberg family, received part of the Maßbach estates that they jointly administered from Meiningen. The prince-bishop of Würzburg exchanged the other part and other goods for the area around Meiningen. As a result, there were two village lords in Maßbach, the Wettin dukes of Saxony and the prince-bishop of Würzburg .

Since the Reformation had already been introduced in Maßbach before that time , the Saxon princes retained their sovereignty in spiritual matters. When Count Melchior von Hatzfeld received the Saxon fiefdom in Maßbach as a gift before the Elector of Saxony in 1637, this was done with the proviso that the Saxon church sovereignty would not be affected. The Hatzfeld era ended in Maßbach in 1699, when the Lords of Rosenbach, who had already acquired the Thundorf estate and palace in Maßbach in 1676, including the Schaumberg subjects, bought the property of the Hatzfeld counts for 55,000 guilders.

When the Henneberg inheritance was divided into the individual lines of the House of Wettin (1660), the Saxon possessions in and around Maßbach fell, as well as the feudal lordship over goods and rights in the vicinity to Saxony-Altenburg or after this line had expired (1672) Saxony-Eisenach . After the Saxon-Eisenach family died out in 1741, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach took over the rights. At that time, the area belonged to the back court of the Lichtenberg district as an exclave .

19th century to the present

St Alfons, neo-Gothic 1867

With the political reorganization of the empire at the beginning of the 19th century, the rule of the Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in the rule of Maßbach also ended. However, in 1806 the duke was able to withdraw the fiefdoms that had fallen back due to the expiry of the barons of Rosenbach. The sovereign was the Elector of Bavaria from 1802 to 1806, the Grand Duke of Würzburg from 1806 to 1815 , and from 1816 the King of Bavaria .

When the landlord's burdens were removed, the Grand Duke only had the Kammergut zu Maßbach, which was acquired in 1872 by the ironworks owner Benckiser from Pforzheim. It is still owned by the family today. At the end of the 19th century, the Benckiser family built a castle, called "Villa", on the Schalksberg, which today houses the Franconian Theater , which is well known in southern Germany . The Franconian Theater opened a heated open-air stage in the courtyard in 1960, on which open-air performances take place in the summer months of June, July and August in front of the castle's backdrop.

Maßbach already had 1245 inhabitants in 1939 and, thanks to its property as a former headquarters, formed the central community in the upper Lauertal with a large number of trading and handicraft businesses. But at that time agriculture was still the main source of income for the population. With the admission of displaced persons, the number of inhabitants rose to over 2000 in 1949. The population of Poppenlauer also grew to over 2000. Gradually, a structural change also began from a purely agricultural community with trade and craft businesses to a community predominantly inhabited by workers with a commercial center function.

Since the territorial reform of 1972, the towns of Poppenlauer, Volkershausen and Weichtung belong to Markt Maßbach.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Poppenlauer, Theinfeld, Volkershausen and Weichten were incorporated.

Outsourcing

On May 1, 1978 Theinfeld was ceded to the neighboring community of Thundorf in Lower Franconia .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 16 members. The local elections on March 16, 2014 brought the following results with a turnout of 86.58%:

	CSU	3 seats
	SPD	3 seats
	Citizen block Poppenlauer	3 seats
	For citizens and the environment	1 seat0
	Poppenlauer community of voters	3 seats
	Christian voter directions	2 seats
	Free voters Volkershausen	1 seat0

Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor Matthias Klement. He has been in office since May 1, 2014 and was confirmed for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 93.1% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon: Split of silver and red with a continuous tip in mixed up colors.

Coat of arms history: The coat of arms of the municipality of Maßbach is identical to the family coat of arms of the Counts of Massbach, who owned the local rule until it died out in 1637. There have been seal impressions of this coat of arms since the 14th century. The coat of arms has been used by the municipality since the end of the 19th century. However, color information from this time does not exist. In the illustrations the silver coat of arms surfaces are cross-hatched. The municipality applied for the coat of arms to be awarded as early as 1937, but this was not dealt with any further because of the outbreak of war in 1939.

The current coat of arms was awarded on April 14, 1949 by the Ministry of the Interior.

Referendum

On August 2, 2009, a referendum took place with the question: "Are you in favor of stopping the planning and construction of the parking barn (parking garage) between the town hall and the church?" 61.9% voted for the referendum (1255 ) of voters and 38.1% (772) against. The turnout was 54.08%. The referendum was initiated by the referendum No park barn between town hall and church in Maßbach . 653 signatures were submitted for the referendum.

Intercommunal alliance Schweinfurter OberLand

The municipality has been a member of the Intercommunal Alliance Schweinfurter OberLand since July 2012, which also includes the municipalities of Rannungen , Thundorf in Lower Franconia , Üchtelhausen , Schonungen and Stadtlauringen (see also Schweinfurt Rhön ).

Partner communities

Cingal (since 1989/90)

The market Maßbach maintains a town partnership with its four districts with 13 places of the " Communauté de communes du Cingal" near Caen in France . The headquarters of the Communauté de communes is in Bretteville-sur-Laize .

Culture and sights

theatre

Tree passage near Maßbach

Franconian Theater Maßbach Castle . The Franconian Theater Schloss Maßbach is the longest-running state-subsidized private guest theater in Germany and fulfills the functions of a state stage.

Museums

Local history museum in Schrimpfschen Castle in Poppenlauer

graveyards

In the cemetery of the Jewish community of Maßbach in the Upper Cemetery Street are 41 grave stones; the last burial took place in 1945.

Architectural monuments

St. Barholomew

societies

Football clubs

Every district in Markt Maßbach has a football club. Men's teams have FC Eintracht Poppenlauer, TSV Maßbach and DJK Weektiven. The youth teams of FC Eintracht Poppenlauer and DJK Weektiven form syndicates. The youth teams of TSV Maßbach play in the JFG Wern-Lauertal. VfB Volkershausen does not take part in active football matches.

Other clubs

Fishing club Wannig, Poppenlauer
Forelle fishing club, Poppenlauer
Cycling club Lauertal 1921, Maßbach
Roly Poly Squares
Massbach Chess Club 1951
Maßbach shooting club
Sports shooting club Lauertal, Poppenlauer
Gymnastics Club Poppenlauer

Infrastructure and education

traffic

Public bus transport with connections to the cities of Schweinfurt , Bad Kissingen and Bad Neustadt is available.
The next train station is in Münnerstadt ( Schweinfurt - Erfurt line ), the Rottershausen – Stadtlauringen railway line with Maßbach station has been dismantled.
The Maßbach market has a junction with the A 71 .

education

Poppenlauer primary school
Maßbach elementary school ( middle school )

Personalities

Judas Thaddäus Sigerst (Poppenlauer, 1735–1806), Abbot of Münsterschwarzach
Leo Katzenberger (1873–1942), co-owner of the Springmann shoe store
Father Lucius Roth (February 19, 1890, † October 3, 1950), Christian martyr in Korea
Josef Filbig (1891–1963) politician of the NSDAP and the DG , Lord Mayor of Amberg

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).

↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=+20111111/230101&attr=OBJ&val= 1570

^ The rule of Maßbach in the Thuringia archive portal

^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 427 .

^ 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. 739 .

↑ Members of the Maßbach municipal council for the 2014/2020 electoral period ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2014 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. . Homepage of the Maßbach market. Retrieved November 4, 2014. @1@ 2

↑ The decision will be made on Sunday. July 28, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2011 .

↑ Result of the referendum: Park barn will not be built. August 2, 2009, accessed July 20, 2011 .

↑ Park barn: 653 signatures. May 13, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2011 .

↑ http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/bayern-bavaria/massbach.html

↑ RolyPolySquares. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .

↑ Biography of Bernhard Schweßinger Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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@ 2

Web links

Commons : Maßbach - collection of images, videos and audio files

Portal of the local information system (LIS) of the districts of Rhön-Grabfeld and Bad Kissingen
Technical work on the development of Maßbach since 1980
Old postcards from Maßbach
Lots of data about Maßbach
Entry on Maßbach's coat of arms in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Maßbach: Official statistics of the LfStat

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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] ttp://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=+20111111/230101&attr=OBJ&val= 1570

[3] The rule of Maßbach in the Thuringia archive portal

[4] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 427 .

[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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 739 .