Niederwerrn

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 10 ° 10 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Schweinfurt
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.77 km 2
Residents:	8289 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	848 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97464
Primaries :	09721, 09726
License plate :	SW , GEO
Community key :	09 6 78 160
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Schweinfurter Str. 54 97464 Niederwerrn
Website :	www.niederwerrn.de
Mayoress :	Bettina Bärmann ( FW )
Location of the community Niederwerrn in the district of Schweinfurt

Niederwerrn is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt and borders on the Hainig district of the city of Schweinfurt . Niederwerrn is the second largest municipality in the district (after Werneck ) in terms of inhabitants . The main town Niederwerrn is now a typical residential suburb with large new housing estates and a relatively small town center.

geography

Niederwerrn is a north-western suburb of Schweinfurt in the Main-Rhön region . The place is on the eponymous, but differently spelled Wern . One of the longest and most important streets in Schweinfurt, Niederwerrner Straße, leads to the town.

Geology and natural geographic classification

The community is located in the northwest of the Schweinfurt Basin natural area , a topographically relatively low-lying unit with little relief within the Main Franconian plates . There the upper reaches of the Wern has sunk into the rock of the Middle and Lower Keuper since the Pliocene . Loess was blown in during the Ice Ages , with which fertile soils developed in the Holocene . These have been used intensively for centuries and shape the regional landscape.

According to the BfN's cultural landscape structure , the populated areas of the community still belong to the remote agglomeration area 309 Schweinfurt , and the arable land is part of the 13600 Schweinfurt Basin cultural landscape .

Community structure

Niederwerrn has been made up of the two districts of Niederwerrn and Oberwerrn since May 1, 1978 . The incorporation of Oberwerrn took place in the course of the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria . In addition, Niederwerrn includes the northern part of the former Conn Barracks barracks of the US Army Garrison Schweinfurt, which was dissolved in 2014 .

Niederwerrn is a parish village , Oberwerrn is registered as a church village in the place database.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities are:

Poppenhausen		Dittelbrunn
Euerbach
	Geldersheim	Schweinfurt

climate

The mean annual temperature is 8 ° C, the mean amount of precipitation is 650 mm, the main wind direction is west-southwest.

Surname

etymology

The name Niederwerrn is derived from the Wern River , which flows through the municipality and flows into the Main near Gemünden . The addition Nieder should distinguish the place from the same name, northwest lying village.

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

1123 Werne 1230 Werna 1268 Werne 1327 Unterwerrn 1339 Nidern Werne

1356 Nidernwern 1383 Nydern Wern 1387 Nidern-Werne 1557 Niderwehrn 1820 Niederwerrn

history

Village church in Niederwerrn

Leaded glass window in the village church

Community library in Niederwerrn - former synagogue

St. Bartholomew in Oberwerrn

Until the 19th century

Niederwerrn has been known since the Middle Ages for the Wiesenburg Castle , which is only a ruin. With her, Niederwerrn was first mentioned on June 17, 1137.

While Oberwerrn remained under the rule of the Duchy of Würzburg , Niederwerrn came under the rule of the von Münster family in the 15th century. Baron Eyrich von Münster initiated the Reformation in the village in 1565 or 1566 .

In 1806 the imperial knighthood was dissolved; Niederwerrn came to the Kingdom of Bavaria , but initially only for one year. In 1807, there was incorporated into the newly formed Grand Duchy of Würzburg , with which it fell back to Bavaria in 1814.

Jewish community

At least since the middle of the 18th century there were Jewish families living in the village who formed a Jewish community , set up a school and built a synagogue at Schweinfurter Straße 23 . This church and school were devastated by SA men during the November pogrom in 1938 . After the war, the buildings were acquired by the community and since then the former Jewish school has been used as a town hall and the former synagogue as a library. Memorial plaques on the two buildings remind of this event.

Incorporations

During the regional reform in Bavaria , the Free State had already decided to incorporate Niederwerrn and other suburbs into Schweinfurt. Afterwards, on the instructions of the Niederwerrner native, State Secretary Erwin Lauerbach , the decision was completely reversed.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent neighboring community of Oberwerrn was incorporated.

Population development

year	Residents
1961	3810
1970	4906
1991	6656
1995	7356
2005	7964
2010	7913
2015	7871
2018	7804

politics

mayor

Bettina Bärmann (FREIE VÄHLER / Free Voters Niederwerrn) has been mayor since May 1, 2014. She was re-elected on March 15, 2020 with a voter turnout of 56.9% with 64.0%.

Municipal council

In the 2020 election , the five nominations received the following seats and votes:

	Seats	Share of votes
Free voters	7th	35.26%
CSU	4th	22.73%
SPD	3	15.18%
Green	3	14.16%
Christian voter association Oberwerrn	3	12.68%
total	20th	100.00%

The turnout was 57.07%.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms, adopted in 1961, reads: In blue, a silver diagonal wave bar, covered with two facing wings, alternately divided by red and silver.

The wings are taken from the coat of arms of the Lords of Münster , an old Franconian noble family that ruled the area from 1436 until the end of the Old Kingdom in 1803. The wave bar stands for the river Wern, which flows through the municipality and whose name in the older spelling "Werrn" is also part of the place name.

Partnerships

A partnership with the French municipality of Ifs has existed since 1992.

Inter-municipal alliance

The municipality of Niederwerrn is a member of the Intercommunal Alliance Upper Werntal .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Wiesenburg ruins (remains of a sandstone corner tower)
• Niederwerrn village church (Evangelical-Lutheran)
• St. Bruno Niederwerrn Church (Catholic)
• Church of St. Bartholomäus Oberwerrn (Catholic, with Julius Echter tower )
• synagogue
• New lock
• Wiesmühle
• Paulusmühle
• Several earth stables
• Former train station in Oberwerrn

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Niederwerrn

Museums

• Maul Colonial Goods Museum

Economy and Infrastructure

Jobs

In 2017 there were 566 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 3,166 people were in employment that was subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was exactly 2,600 more than that of in-commuters. 130 residents were unemployed.

Agriculture

In 2016 there were 14 farms.

Public transport

train

In the Oberwerrn district there is a train station on the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line . From here there is also a connection to Bad Kissingen and Gemünden .

Public transport

The community is connected to the city bus network of Stadtwerke Schweinfurt : Lines 22, 24 and 25 run from Schweinfurt city center to Niederwerrn, the latter also to Oberwerrn.

From the Oberwerrn train station, the city center of Schweinfurt can also be reached with the Erfurt Railway (Schweinfurt-Mitte stop).

Road traffic

The B 19 touches the western edge of the Oberwerrn district.
The B 303 touches the southern outskirts of Niederwerrn.
A driveway from the B 303 to the A 71 , the AS 30 Schweinfurt-West , is on the south-western edge of the municipality.

Public facilities

• Niederwerrn community center, cultural facility with stage and side rooms for adult education
• Youth meetings in Niederwerrn and Oberwerrn
• Festival barn in Oberwerrn

education

Passed in 2018

• four day-care centers with a total of 341 approved places and 335 children
• two elementary schools with a total of 390 students, viz
  • Hugo von Trimberg Volksschule Niederwerrn
  • Primary school Oberwerrn

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hugo von Trimberg (around 1230 – after 1313), writer of the late High Middle Ages
• Christian Heinrich Hohmann (1811–1861), composer and music teacher
• Julius Dreschfeld (1845–1907), doctor in Manchester
• Erwin Lauerbach (1925–2000), State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture
• Eddy Hau (* 1952), enduro and motocross racing driver

Web links

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

Wikisource: History of the deposed Feyertage in the knightly Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Obbach, Euerbach, Niederwehrn  - sources and full texts

• Official website of Niederwerrn
• Entry on Niederwerrn's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Niederwerrn: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ↑ bfn.de
3. ^ Historical development of the Oberwerrn part of the municipality . Niederwerrn.de
4. ^ Municipality of Niederwerrn in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 5, 2020.
5. ↑ ^{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. 162–163 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
6. ^ Adolf Schipper: The families of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Niederwerrn 1580-1900. Nuremberg 1999 (Franconian ancestors, 4).
7. ^ Bohrer, Hermann: Niederwerrn. A little local lore. Schweinfurt 1917. p. 39.
8. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 178f.
9. ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: Schweinfurt went empty-handed during the regional reform , February 22, 2012
10. ^ 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. 753 .
11. ↑ Population figures on December 31, 2018. Bavarian State Office for Statistics, accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
12. ↑ [1] , accessed on July 5, 2020
13. ^ Official website of the Maul Grocery Museum
14. ↑ Maul Colonial Goods Museum. In: Museen-in-Bayern.de. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .