Pfaffenwiesbach

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Pfaffenwiesbach
Municipality Wehrheim
Coat of arms of Pfaffenwiesbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 48 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 279 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.61 km²  [LAGIS]
Residents : 1611  (Feb. 28, 2019)
Population density : 212 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 61273
Area code : 06081
Pfaffenwiesbach as graffito (for the village anniversary 2017)

Pfaffenwiesbach is a district of the municipality of Wehrheim in the Hochtaunus district in Hesse .

geography

At the northeastern end of a long flood plain and at the foot of the last great Taunus ridge before the wide Wetterau plain lies the old village of Pfaffenwiesbach - 4 km northeast of Wehrheim, to which the village belongs today as a district, and 5 km east of the old district town Usingen . The eponymous Wiesbach rises with several arms of the spring about two kilometers south of Pfaffenwiesbach in the districts of Haubergsgrund and Streicker . It then flows through the so-called Aar , joins another stream ( Pfingstborner Bach ) in the local area of ​​Pfaffenwiesbach , then continues through the Wiesbach valley towards Kransberg and finally flows into the United States .

history

Town view with church and stone head tower to the east 2018

The beginnings of the village are largely in the dark. Old traces of settlement such as B. Finds from barrows or shards from the time of the Roman Empire indicate, however, that the area was settled long before Christianization (probably by hunters ). After the 9/10 The place was founded in the 19th century as a clearing settlement near a rich brook or at a brook crossing in connection with an old traffic route network, the place is said to have belonged to the Comitat Malstatt in the district of Wettereiba ( Wetterau ) as early as 1040 , from which in 1043 at least part of the count's rights to the Imperial Abbey of Fulda fell. Probably as a result of the investiture dispute as well as the simultaneous rise of the diocese of Würzburg to the territorial principality. In the 19th century, a basilica including the associated properties fell to the Schlüchtern Benedictine monastery . In 1167 this (easternmost) administrative seat of the monastery ( Villication ) was first mentioned as Wisenbach in a deed of donation from the Würzburg bishop Herold von Höchheim .

In the course of a political, economic and ecclesiastical reorganization in the Wetterau, the area of ​​Wisenbach gradually fell to the Lords of Cranchesberg (1216–1221) between 1216 and 1221 . In the period that followed, prefixes in the place name were used to distinguish precisely between ecclesiastical (e.g. Pfaffinwiesbach ) and secular property (e.g. Erwitzenbach ). In 1297 a so-called Vronehof fell to the Seligenstadt Abbey . The Teutonic Order , which probably received parish patronage in the 14th century via detours (which are no longer precisely traceable today) and which it held into the 16th century, had acquired possessions in Pfaffenwiesbach since around 1300.

From the 14th to the 1st half of the 20th century, the village then shared the fortunes of what was later known as the “Herrschaft Kransberg ”. Connections to the Wetterau remain ecclesiastical until 1609 (incorporation into the Königstein regional chapter), politically until 1654 ( assumption of rule by the Lords of Walpott in Bassenheim in the "Herrschaft Kransberg") and economically (in the form of a forest community in the Mörler Mark ) until 1743 . After the secular property of the Cranchesbergers gradually (1316-1356) in the course of the 14th century to the Falkensteiner for the purpose of rounding off property and after their extinction first to the Eppsteiner in 1419 , then to the Eppstein-Münzenberg line in 1433 and finally gradually (1478 –1521) had gone to the Eppstein-Königstein line, Count Ludwig von Stolberg inherited the town of Pfaffenwiesbach in 1535 with the rule of Kransberg. In 1541 he introduced the Reformation in Pfaffenwiesbach according to the Confessio Augustana .

After the property came to Kurmainz in 1581 , it took place from 1606 with great effort and against z. Sometimes violent opposition to the re-Catholicization of the parish, which, however, dragged on until 1614. The Thirty Years' War brought with entry into the war of Sweden (from 1632) not only multiple domain and (forced) change of confession, but also left a devastated to a large extent and depopulated village and an economically and socially completely prostrate land. After the war, however, an economic, social and ecclesiastical (Catholic) boom began when the Lords of Walpott came to power in Bassenheim (1654), who took over the Kransberg area from Kurmainz with a deed of assignment.

As a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803, the Bassenheim class rule Kransberg fell to the newly established Duchy of Nassau or Nassau-Usingen . The struggle for liberation from the labor, bitter poverty and numerous epidemics of disease shape this century; Only at the end of the 19th century did the situation improve again. In 1866 (1867) the village was then assigned to the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau; From this time on Pfaffenwiesbach belonged alternately to the Obertaunus district (1866, 1932) and the district of Usingen (1886, 1933).

The place survived the Second World War relatively unscathed. Since then, the traditional village structure has been changing increasingly due to the arrival and proximity to the Rhine-Main conurbation. On December 31, 1971 Pfaffenwiesbach joined the civil parish of Wehrheim on a voluntary basis as part of the regional reform in Hesse and became one of its four districts; a year later it was assigned to the Darmstadt administrative district or the Hochtaunus district . In 1987 Pfaffenwiesbach was registered for the “Renewal of Hessian Villages” program and recognized as a funding priority within the framework of the village renewal program by the State of Hesse; From 1991 onwards, 33 public (municipality and district) and 81 private building projects with an estimated investment volume of 7,385,840 DM were carried out within nine years. In recent years the village has participated several times (often successfully) in the competitions " our village ”and“ children in the village ”participated. In 2017, the 850-year first mentioning anniversary was celebrated with many events (theater play, parade, festival and much more).

A certain decline in village life has been noticeable for a long time, so that in 2019 not only two associations (choir association and Wiesbachtaler Musikanten) have (largely) stopped their activities, but the small village shop has also closed.

Attractions

Numerous half-timbered houses that have been lovingly restored in recent years characterize the old town center.

  • House Borngasse 1

  • Old rectory at Kapersburgstrasse 13

  • Residential building Nauheimerstraße 13

  • Residential building Nauheimerstraße 17

  • Residential building Schillerstraße 15

Inside the Kapersburg - grain store
Reconstructed Roman tower on the Gaulskopf

But not only there the village has a lot to offer. The following sights deserve special attention:

limes

A good two and a half kilometers south-east of Pfaffenwiesbach is the Roman fort Kapersburg on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes , the grounds of which are now park-like. To the north of this on the Gaulskopf , a Roman watchtower was reconstructed, from which - accessible all year round - one has a good view of the Wetterau. A hiking trail runs across the Limes, so that other, previously mostly inaccessible Roman remains, such as the watchtower and intermediate fort foundations, can also be visited. As part of the elevation of the Limes to UNESCO World Heritage Site, this section of the Limes was made easily accessible and its most important sights were equipped with information boards.

Old School - Back View (2016)

Old school

In the old school built in 1841 on the "Vogelwiese" (first elementary school, then Catholic kindergarten) there is now not only a studio and the Protestant church, but also the local history and village museum, which has been open since 1984 resp. 1991 is looked after by the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Pfaffenwiesbach and u. a. Shows documents from the local archive, historical maps and books as well as a collection of old agricultural equipment.

Old bakery

The old bakery was converted into a restaurant in the 1960s. After the restaurant was closed in 2011, the JUZ (youth center) was built here in 2013, which was previously located in the building yard that was built in 1980.

Brunnen and Pfingstborn

Of several fountains that once existed in Pfaffenwiesbach (for example there used to be one below the Georgskirche), unfortunately only one still exists: the one in Höhenstraße. At the junction of Pfingstbornstrasse / Lerchenstrasse is the Pfingstborn - a spring enclosure that is now lovingly designed as a resting place.

  • Brunnen Höhenstrasse Pfaffenwiesbach 2019

  • Pfingstborn source enclosure Pfaffenwiesbach 2019

St. George Church

The Catholic St. George's Church (secondary patron saint is St. Barbara) was built between 1859 and 1861 by the architect Musset from Höchst in the neo-Romanesque style on the place where the previous buildings stood and was consecrated on May 15, 1862. It replaced a church building (newly) consecrated in 1711 and extended by a choir tower in the east with baroque furnishings (whether this predecessor building was the basilica mentioned in 1167 or not much more a late Gothic new building is unclear). Regarding the interior are noteworthy:

  • the late Gothic font (from the previous building);
  • a baroque sculpture of St. George (also from the previous building);
  • the high altar, which was rebuilt in 1985 in a revitalizing formal language (originally a work by the Niederlahnstein woodcarver Caspar Weis, of whom there are also other carvings in the church);
  • the pipe organ built in 1911 - the last late romantic organ in the Usinger Land and one of the last remaining larger instruments by the Limburg organ builder Carl Horn .

The church's devotional chapel is open for prayer and viewing during the day (access via the main portal and vestibule).

Catholic parish hall of St. Georg

The old parsonage, built between the years 1662 and 1671 below the Kirchberg in a remarkable half-timbered construction (carved grimaces on the western front, Hessian man ) became a Catholic in 1991. St. Georg parish hall rebuilt and expanded. The building also houses a one-world shop and the Kirchort archive.

St. Barbara residential complex

Wayside shrine on Usinger Weg

The between cath. The parish hall and parsonage set back from the street a little bit back from the street - originally the parsonage barn built between 1700 and 1750 - housed the parish hall with theater stage since 1932, was then abandoned to decay and finally in 1998 became a charitable residential complex with four residential units rebuilt. In front of the main entrance there is a Marterl which was built in 1998 and contains a statue of St. Barbara.

Wayside shrine

A private initiative also provided protection for a wayside shrine that was built unselfishly in 1948 on the basis of a vow in times of war, when the wayside shrine was built in 2007 by a private initiative. Rows of seats and various tree plantings form a tree chapel in front of the chapel . The facility, which always invites you to linger and contemplate, can be reached quickly and easily via the Kapellenweg , which begins directly at the Jungholz car park.

Infrastructure & Economy

The two district roads K 728 and K 726 meet in the center of Pfaffenwiesbach. Bus route 63, which connects the Wehrheim districts with each other, and the train stations in Wehrheim or Usingen (RMV route 15, Taunusbahn ) provide good transport links to the Rhine -Main area. There are larger parking spaces in the village behind the old school, behind the church and at the sports field. There are hiking parking spaces further outside on the Schlink (southwest of Pfaffenwiesbach), at Jungholz (west of Pfaffenwiesbach) and in the district of Am Wehrholz (nature park area). There is also a connection to the Hessian long-distance cycle route R 6 via Kransberg . On the Taunus ridge east of Pfaffenwiesbach there has also been a mountain bike trail since 2018.

Old oak on the Schlink

There is a bakery and a butcher's shop in Pfaffenwiesbach . There is also an occupational therapy practice , a hairdressing salon , a locksmith's shop with key service, a carpentry shop with piety, a sharpening and grinding service , a music school and a driving school .

Tourism / tourism

Some foreign apartments are offered for tourists. The area around the place is considered a recreational area .

The hiking and cycling network is well developed. Popular hiking destinations are mainly to the east of Pfaffenwiesbach (Limes World Heritage Site with its buildings, Schwarzloch / Vogeltal, burial mounds at the mink farm, Kaisergrube, Winterstein inn, Winterstein with observation tower, Steinkopf with television tower, vantage point on the Kuhkopf, Schifferkäutchen with the bat cave and much more.), south of Pfaffenwiesbach the Schlink u. a. with a nature park, the Alte Eiche natural monument, the Schlink hiking trail with a good view of Wehrheim, Neu-Anspach and the Feldberg heights, model airfield and the burial mound in neighboring Schmidtholz, but also to the west (Wormstein natural monument, wayside shrine and cross chapel, etc.). A forest adventure trail is laid out around the Wehrholz forest with its cross structure above the nature park area. There are refuges on the Kuh- and Dachskopf as well as on the Schlinkwanderweg (approx. 800 m from the Schlink nature park).

Associations and institutions

  • The oldest association in the village was the choir association Frohsinn eV , founded in 1873 , which until the end consisted of a women's and a men's choir and enriched village life on various occasions. Association dissolution: in the course of 2019, which means that the two festivals organized by the choir association such as the barbecue on May 1st and the wine festival on October 3rd could no longer take place this year.
  • The Gymnastics and Sports Association Pfaffenwiesbach (TSG) founded in 1887 with its departments children's gymnastics , table tennis , fitness gymnastics / men's functional gymnastics , Nordic walking and v. a. Football has its clubhouse - a popular meeting point - at the end of Kransberger Straße. There is also a sports field there , which was converted into an artificial turf field in 2017.
  • The Pfaffenwiesbach volunteer fire brigade was founded on June 1, 1930 as the tenth volunteer fire brigade in the Usingen district. A development association supports the fire brigade , which consists of the youth fire brigade , the emergency department, and the senior and honorary department. The fire station is behind the Wiesbachtalhalle in the street Am Wiesbach .
  • The Schützenverein Kapersburg eV was founded in 1973 and has its own domicile at the exit of Forsthausstraße.
  • In 1974 the Wiesbachtaler Musikanten came together as an association and since then have also enriched village life musically (midsummer celebration, October concert, Advent concert, etc.). Association dissolution: 2019; since then the association has only existed as a small wind group.
  • Above the rifle house is the riding arena of the riding and driving club Pfaffenwiesbach eV, founded in 1977, and also the riding arena (formerly Pfaffenwiesbacher sports field).
  • The day care center (KiTa) St. Georg under cath. Sponsorship. Initially located in the old school as a two-group kindergarten since 1970 , the new premises at the southern end of the village were moved into in 2001.
  • The forest kindergarten Wichtelland eV was the first in the Usinger Land; the associated association "Wichtelland eV - Association for Nature Education" was founded on the initiative of some parents in 1997 and is supported by the civil community.

Festivals, events and customs

Clubs, club ring and the cath. Parish organize various festivals and events throughout the year ; To be mentioned in this context are: the "confetti party" of the TSG (before Shrove Sunday), the "foolish Mummenschanz" / Kräppelkaffee of the parish (on the Sunday before Shrove Sunday), the barbecue of the Schützenverein (on Ascension Day), the parish festival (on Corpus Christi), the building yard "demolition party" of the volunteer fire brigade in July (since 2018), the curb (on the weekend after August 15), the dragon (conqueror) festival of the parish (on the last Sunday in October), the Martinsfest of the KiTa with church service, lantern parade and Martinsfeuer (around November 11th) as well as the Advent bazaar of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein and the “Christmas market” (on the 1st Sunday of Advent).

The Wiesbachtalhalle with a stage extension (added later) and a restaurant with beer garden and two bowling alleys are available for various activities, sporting activities and large events .

Something special in Pfaffenwiesbach is the local call system from 1968 , whose 40 loudspeakers are distributed over a large part of the village and are made known through the festivals and events. While elsewhere these systems have long since been dismantled, this system was not expanded to include the new residential areas in Pfaffenwiesbach, but it still enjoys a certain popularity as a “local radio” and communication medium.

The Uznames , which used to be common throughout the village and are probably better known than the real names , by which a “nickname” is meant for one person (or several together), are unfortunately disappearing more and more from the village consciousness. Unfortunately, the same thing happens with the field names

Ringing bells :

  • The ringing of the Angelus in Pfaffenwiesbach is very specific: at 7:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. in winter / 8:00 p.m. in summer, the Ave Maria bell strikes 3x3 times after the hour has struck, then it rings and is then replaced by the Barbara bell; this bell reminds of the resurrection, crucifixion and birth of Jesus Christ and wants to invite prayer; In earlier times, of course, it also served the farmers as a time guide in areas that were heavily influenced by agriculture.
  • In addition to the church service bell, there is also a special bell as full bell u. a. instead of: the day before Sundays and public holidays (3 p.m.), on Christmas Day (around 7.30 p.m., successively, together with all the bells of the surrounding churches and chapels) and on New Year's Eve (at midnight, with a request for a blessing for the upcoming year); Maundy Thursday closes with a full bell late in the evening (around 10 p.m.), Easter Sunday starts in the morning (around 8 a.m.) with a full peal (in the meantime, the bells - including the chiming of the clock - are silent out of respect for the suffering and death of Jesus and the bells fly - as it was said earlier - either to Rome or "to the Hessbock", which means the area "Hessberg" on the allotment gardens).
  • The ringing of death is rung with the large bell (George's bell), which sets off three times.

Great personalities

(Once) living in Pfaffenwiesbach

  • Nicolaus Beck, important Pfaffenwiesbacher mayor and innkeeper. Fought at the beginning of the 17th century. long against the recatholization efforts of the Mainz electors in Pfaffenwiesbach.
  • August Valentin Erker (1901–1975), former mayor of Pfaffenwiesbach from 1941–1945 and 1950–1964. A foundation going back to him enabled some social projects to be implemented in the village (including an extension to the Wiesbachtalhalle and the devotional chapel in the Georgskirche).
  • Hans-Rudolf Jahn (? –1994), directed the fortunes of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein for over 17 years.
  • Eva Erker (1907–?), Pfaffenwiesbach dialect poet (poems).
  • Josef Leidecker Sr. (1917–2005), Pfaffenwiesbacher dialect poet (poems and songs).
  • Paul Josef Sommer (? –2019), long-time PGR chairman and chairman of the community council; Chairman of the Choir Association for decades; great voluntary commitment.

Connected with Pfaffenwiesbach

Flettnerplatz in autumn 2018
  • Anton Flettner (1885–1961), designer, was a village teacher in Pfaffenwiesbach from 1906–1909. In his honor, a small square was built opposite the old school in 2003; There a local artist painted Anton Flettner on a garage wall with one of his inventions (the FI 282) in October 1944.
  • Carl Horn (1859–1932), Limburg organ builder, built the organ in Georgskirche in 1911.
  • Julius Nees , (1898–1942) German resistance fighter during the Nazi era (Leis-Breitinger group)
  • Karl Walter (1862–1929), organist, pedagogue, scientist and organ and bell expert for the Limburg diocese, was a village teacher in Pfaffenwiesbach from 1882 to 1887.

Web links

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

literature

  • Vereinsring Pfaffenwiesbach (publisher), 850 years of Pfaffenwiesbach (1167–2017), Pfaffenwiesbach 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Facts and Figures" on the website of the municipality of Wehrheim , accessed in July 2016.
  2. ↑ See https://wuerzburgwiki.de/wiki/Herold_von_H%C3%B6chheim
  3. ↑ K.-H. Gerstenmeier: Hessen. Municipalities and counties after the regional reform. A documentation. Melsungen 1977. p. 275.
  4. ^ Hans R. Jahn: The local museum Pfaffenwiesbach. In: Ingrid Berg (Ed.): Heimat Hochtaunus. Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pp. 384-385.
  5. ^ Josef Seng: Festschrift "125 Years - Parish Church St. Georg Pfaffenwiesbach 1862-1987". Wehrheim 1987
  6. ↑ See on the whole: https://www.franziskus-klara.de/kirchorte/pfaffenwiesbach/st-georg-pfaffenwiesbach/
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ↑ See http://www.tsg-pfaffenwiesbach.de/ (accessed on October 3, 2018).
  9. ↑ See http://www.feuerwehr-pfaffenwiesbach.de/ (accessed on October 3, 2018).
  10. ↑ See https://sv-kapersburg.simigos.com/content/textpages/18083 (accessed on December 6, 2018).
  11. ↑ http://www.ruf-pfaffenwiesbach.de/ (accessed on October 3, 2018).
  12. ↑ Cf. https://www.franziskus-klara.de/kirchorte/pfaffenwiesbach/kath-kindestagesstaette/
  13. ↑ http://www.waki-wehrheim.de/
  14. ↑ http://www.wehrheim.de/435.html accessed on March 24, 2019.
  15. ↑ See: https://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/idrec/sn/fln/id/434012030/tbl/belegort .
  16. ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Pfaffenwiesbach eV (ed.), Pfaffenwiesbacher Geschichte undgeschichte, issue No. 10, p. 13.