Ostheim (Westheim)

Ostheim Municipality West Home
	Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '22 " N , 10 ° 41' 28" E
Height :	465 (461-476) m
Residents :	391 (May 27 1970)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91747
Area code :	09833
Location of Ostheim in Bavaria

Ostheim is a district of the municipality of Westheim in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Middle Franconia .

geography

The parish village is on the edge of the Hahnenkamm , about 12 km south of Gunzenhausen . The Bruckbach , a left tributary of the Wörnitz , flows through it. About a kilometer southeast of the village is the Rechenberg , where iron ore was mined in the 19th century. Numerous smaller streams arise in the vicinity. The federal highway 466 runs through the village .

history

Similar to Hüssingen , traces of settlement from the Neolithic Age can also be found in the area around Ostheim . Around 90 AD a connecting road was built by the Romans, which corresponds to the current route of the federal highway 466 from Oettingen to Gnotzheim . The Franks founded Ostheim on this street in the 7th or 8th century, which was first mentioned in documents around 750. Around 800 it belonged with Westheim and Geilsheim to a royal march of Charlemagne .

From the middle of the 12th century a local nobility was resident in Ostheim, but its name has not been passed down. This is followed by the Lords of Rechenberg , who are the Truchsess of the Counts of Truhendingen . They built Rechenberg Castle on a nearby mountain, which is now called Rechenberg . After the Rechenbergs died out, ownership passed to the Margraves of Ansbach . Today only the foundation remains of the castle.

Ostheim has had a church since the 14th century, which was built as a choir tower church and dedicated to Mary , the Mother of God . In 1405 the Burgrave of Nuremberg enfeoffed his Truchsessen zu Rechenberg with the patronage right of this church. When the local lords of Ostheim, the Fuchs family from Bimbach zu Mörn, sold it to the Principality of Ansbach in 1630, the church became Protestant.

During the Peasants' War there was a great battle near Ostheim on May 7, 1525, in which rebellious peasants were defeated by the soldiers of Margrave Casimir from Ansbach.

With the Bavarian municipal edict (1808) Ostheim became a political municipality. This was incorporated into Westheim on May 1, 1978 on the occasion of the regional reform .

In 1987 Ostheim received a bronze medal in the national competition “ Our village should be more beautiful ”.

From 1996 to 1999 as well as 2001 and 2003, young people from Ostheim organized the Open Air Festival Hippie-Fete . Ostheim has been a bioenergy village since 2009.

Population development

Ostheim from the southeast towards Hesselberg

1910: 476 inhabitants
1933: 423 inhabitants
1939: 403 inhabitants
1961: 460 inhabitants
1970: 391 inhabitants

Economy and Infrastructure

The youth center of the Dean's Heidenheim is located in the former rectory .

traffic

The B 466 runs through Ostheim and leads to Westheim and Gnotzheim . The state road St 2218 leads to Geilsheim and Heidenheim , the district road WUG 29 to state road St 2384 near the Balsenmühle .

Sons and daughters of the place

Georg Rosenbauer (* 1941), CSU politician, Bavarian member of parliament and former district administrator in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Ostheim . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 4 : Ni-R . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753101 , Sp. 305 ( digitized version ).
Gottfried Stieber: Ostheim . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 616-619 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Ostheim on the homepage of the community Westheim

Individual evidence

↑ Pastoral Journal of the Diocese of Eichstätt , 5 (1858), p. 97
↑ ^a ^b ^c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for 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. 731 .
^ Bioenergiedorf Ostheim eG
↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Kingdom of Bavaria - District Middle Franconia - District Office Gunzenhausen. On: gemeindeververzeichnis.de
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Gunzenhausen district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[1] Pastoral Journal of the Diocese of Eichstätt , 5 (1858), p. 97

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for 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. 731 .

[3] Bioenergiedorf Ostheim eG

[4] Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Kingdom of Bavaria - District Middle Franconia - District Office Gunzenhausen. On: gemeindeververzeichnis.de

[5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Gunzenhausen district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).