Mespelbrunn

This article deals with the community of Mespelbrunn. For people see Echter von Mespelbrunn .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '  N , 9 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Aschaffenburg
Management Community :	Mespelbrunn
Height :	269 ​​m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.53 km 2
Residents:	2194 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	141 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63875
Area code :	06092
License plate :	AB , ALZ
Community key :	09 6 71 141
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 81 63872 Heimbuchenthal
Website :	www.mespelbrunn.de
Mayor :	Steffi Fuchs ( CSU )
Location of the community Mespelbrunn in the district of Aschaffenburg

Hessenthal

Mespelbrunn is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg and a member of the Mespelbrunn administrative community based in Heimbuchenthal .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in the middle of the Spessart in the upper Elsava valley . State road 2308 runs through the village . The topographically highest point of the municipality is at 486  m above sea level. NN (location) near the Echterspfahl , the lowest is south of Mespelbrunn on the Elsava at 242  m above sea level. NN (location) .

Community structure

Mespelbrunn has three officially named parts of the municipality in two districts :

• Hessenthal
• Mespelbrunn (formerly Neudorf)
  • Mespelbrunn (Mespelbrunn corridor with Mespelbrunn Castle )
  • Mespelbrunn (formerly Neudorf)

The former districts of Oberneudorf and Untersteudorf are today structurally grown together and form the district of Mespelbrunn.

Neighboring communities

Community Bessenbach		Waldaschaffer Forst (community-free area)
Forst Hohe Wart (municipality-free area)		Rohrbrunner Forst (municipality-free area)
Community Leidersbach	Community Heimbuchenthal

Surname

Origin of name

The community of Mespelbrunn used to be called Neudorf , which occurs very often in the German-speaking area. The name consists of the Middle High German words niuwe , which means "new" and village . The place was divided into Ober - and Untereudorf . On August 1, 1938, the place was given the name of the nationally known moated castle Mespelbrunn , the district of which was added to the then municipality of Neudorf in 1842. The name of Mespelbrunn Castle goes back to the source ( mhd . Burn ) of the Krebsbach , which was probably surrounded by aspen (mhd. Espin ) or medlars . It was given the name Espinburn , which then passed on to the castle and later as Mespelbrunn to the community.

Earlier spellings

The earlier spellings from various historical maps and documents refer to Mespelbrunn Castle and previously to the water source.

1359 Espilburn 1412 Espelborn 1435 Messpelbron 1510 Mespelborn

1561 Mespelbrun 1562 Messelbrun 1601 Mespelbrunn

history

Neudorf

Mespelbrunn used to be called Neudorf. On August 1, 1938, the community took over the name of the palace and the corridor Mespelbrunn.

The village was first mentioned in writing in a tax list in the middle of the 13th century as "nova villa" (Neudorf). The place probably goes back to hamlet-like extensions of the village Hessenthal on the east side of the Elsava, which were combined to form a new village.

Administrative history

In 1812 Mespelbrunn, at that time under the name Mairie Neudorf, with the Graflich von Ingelheim's castle and the hunter's house Mespelbrunn as well as a grand ducal forester's house with a total of 79 fireplaces and 637 inhabitants belonged to the Rothenbuch district fair of the Aschaffenburg department in the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . Mair was Johann Maier. His adjuncts were Adam Rothaug and Johann Wohnalter. The school teacher's name was Georg Stein. The castle and the hunter's house also belonged to the Ingelheim patrimonial office of Unterhausen.

In 1814 Mespelbrunn came to the Kingdom of Bavaria, where it was in the district court of the older order Rothenbuch from October 1st. On July 1, 1862, the Aschaffenburg district office was formed from the older district courts of Aschaffenburg and Rothenbuch, and Neudorf was now located on the administrative area.

In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Mespelbrunn was now one of the 33 communities in the old district of Aschaffenburg . On July 1, 1972, this merged with the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia to form the new Aschaffenburg district.

Incorporations

The community was formed on July 1, 1972 through the merger of the former communities of Hessenthal and Mespelbrunn.

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council of the municipality of Mespelbrunn consists of 14 council members. This is the fixed number for a municipality with a population between 2001 and 3000. The municipal council is elected for six years.

The first female mayor is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality. This is Stephanie Fuchs from the CSU.

The last local election on March 16, 2014 resulted in the following:

Political party	Number of seats	change
CSU	8th	± 0
Free Citizens 84	4th	± 0
SPD / Free Voters	2	± 0

Mayoress

Steffi Fuchs from the CSU has been the first mayor of the Mespelbrunn community since March 28, 2018.

coat of arms

Blazon : in red the silver palace portal of Mespelbrunn, topped with a blue shield, inside a silver sloping bar, covered with three blue rings; in the portal opening a silver hazelnut branch with a nut and two leaves growing out of the lower edge of the shield.

Coat of arms history: The coat of arms was awarded in 1986 and shows the castle portal of the Echter family with the family coat of arms . The hazelnut branch stands for Hessenthal, which is derived from "Haseltal". Silver and red are the colors of the state of Mainz.

Culture and sights

Mespelbrunn moated castle

Mespelbrunn lives mainly from tourism and is known for the romantic Mespelbrunn moated castle (expanded by the Echter family from 1551). Several scenes from Das Wirtshaus im Spessart , a German film classic from the 1950s, were shot in Mespelbrunn and at the Wasserschloss .

Another major attraction is the in the district Hessenthal located three-nave sanctuary with

Crypt chapel of the Counts of Ingelheim from 1875

• the Gothic pilgrimage chapel (grave of the Echter with a Renaissance tomb of Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn's parents and siblings ),
• a grace chapel with a late Gothic Pietà as a miraculous image and
• with a crucifixion group by Hans Backoffen and a Lamentation of Christ ascribed to Tilman Riemenschneider in an extension by Hans Skull from the 1950s.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Mespelbrunn

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Mespelbrunn

Sons and daughters of the place

• Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (1545–1617), Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Duke of Franconia .
• Valentin Echter von Mespelbrunn (1550–1624), Reichshofrat and bailiff
• Jakob Brand (1776–1833), first bishop of the Limburg diocese
• Gustav Ruhland (1860–1914), political economist and agricultural politician.
• Albrecht Graf von Ingelheim (1944–2006), local politician and owner of Mespelbrunn Castle
• Felix Ruckert (* 1959), dancer and choreographer.

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]/171140&attr=OBJ&val= 1548
3. ↑ Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Bavaria on this side of the Rhine from 1859
4. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 422 .
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Aschaffenburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ^ Günter Christ: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Part Franconia, Series 1, Issue 12: Aschaffenburg . - Munich: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1963, p. 233
7. ↑ ^{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. 147 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
8. ↑ Municipal Code for the Free State of Bavaria (Municipal Code - GO) in the version published on August 22, 1998; Art. 31 - Composition of the municipal council , accessed on July 11, 2014
9. ↑ Preliminary result of the 2014 local council election in Mespelbrunn on March 16, 2014 - Mespelbrunn community , accessed on July 11, 2014

Web links

Commons : Mespelbrunn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage castle
• Entry on the coat of arms of Mespelbrunn  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Mespelbrunn: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Entry on Sankt Johannes Evangelist - Organ (Niederweis) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .