Poppenhausen (Lower Franconia)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '  N , 10 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Schweinfurt
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39.13 km 2
Residents:	4373 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	112 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97490
Area code :	09725
License plate :	SW , GEO
Community key :	09 6 78 168
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Martin-Werner-Platz 97490 Poppenhausen
Website :	www.poppenhausen.de
Mayor :	Ludwig Bernhard Nätscher ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Poppenhausen in the district of Schweinfurt

Poppenhausen is a municipality in the district of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia .

geography

Poppenhausen is in the Main-Rhön region. The river Wern has its source in the municipality .

Community structure

Poppenhausen is divided into six districts:

grove Kronungen Kützberg

Maibach Pfersdorf Poppenhausen

There are the districts of Hain, Kronungen, Kützberg, Maibach, Pfersdorf and Poppenhausen.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Rannungen , Dittelbrunn , Niederwerrn , Euerbach , Sulzthal , Ramsthal and Oerlenbach .

etymology

The defining word “Poppen” comes from the personal name “Boppo” or “Poppo”, a short form of “Bodebert”. Bodebert means "the one who shines as ruler", a name that was particularly popular with the noble family of the Hennebergers ( Grafschaft Henneberg ). The meaning of the place name Poppenhausen, in dialect Bobbahausa, is therefore "belonging to the houses of Bodebert".

history

Catholic Church of St. James

History of Poppenhausen up to the foundation of the church

The oldest evidence of settlement (grave at Wiesberg) date from 750 to 450 BC. On December 8, 1223 Poppenhausen was first mentioned in a document. In 1517 the tower of the parish church was built. In 1525 Poppenhauser farmers took part in the peasant war in the destruction of the official residence in Ebenhausen . In 1595, James the Elder was appointed church patron. In 1659 troops of the Swedish general Wrangel were billeted . In 1730 the Meiningen - Münnerstadt - Schweinfurt Army Road was built through Poppenhausen. In 1743 the master mason Johann Müller from Eßleben built the parish church. The state road Würzburg – Meiningen has run through Poppenhausen since 1779 . Since 1785 the travel routes of the Wernecker post station to Bad Kissingen , Bad Bocklet and Münnerstadt led through Poppenhausen. The Werner Brewery was founded in 1791. On November 9, 1802, the post office and post office of the Imperial General Directorate of Regensburg was built. As part of the Würzburg bishopric, Poppenhausen had been in the Franconian Empire since 1500 . It was in 1803 in Bavaria's favor secularized , then in the Peace of Pressburg in 1805 Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Wurzburg left and fell in 1814 with this final to Bayern. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 . In 1971 the communities of Hain, Kronungen, Kützberg, Maibach and Pfersdorf merged to form the large community of Poppenhausen.

Other events

• August 18, 1680 laying of the foundation stone for the Pfersdorf rectory
• 1871 Construction of the station on the Schweinfurt - Bad Kissingen line (completion of the line on October 19, 1871)
• May 18, 1873 Foundation of the volunteer fire department
• December 15, 1874 double-track railway line Schweinfurt - Meiningen through Poppenhausen
• 1936 Foundation of the Rhön-Maintalgruppe Zweckverband
• 1938 Enlargement of the parish church
• March 6, 1942 Recovering of the church bells for armament purposes
• April 9, 1945 American invasion
• 1953 Extension of the parish church with two side wings, start of land consolidation
• September 1, 1954 Poppenhausen becomes an independent parish (previously the branch of Ebenhausen)
• 1958 Creation of a land use plan
• February 7, 1960 Move into the new elementary school
• 4th December 1960 Inauguration of the first parish and youth home
• 1961 Completion of the local sewer system
• June 1, 1966 Foundation of the Association School Poppenhausen, Maibach, Hain and Pfersdorf
• 2014 renovation of the elementary and middle school in Poppenhausen

Incorporations

On July 1, 1971, the previously independent communities of Hain, Kronungen, Kützberg, Maibach and Pfersdorf were incorporated.

History of the districts

• Pfersdorf: first documented mention in 763, one of the oldest villages in the Schweinfurt district
• Kronungen: first documented mention in 779
• Maibach: first documented mention in 791
• Kützberg: first documented mention in 1237
• Grove: first documented mention in 1302

Population development

Poppenhausen before the incorporation in 1971 1892: approx. 0500 inhabitants 1939: approx. 0700 inhabitants 1953: approx. 1000 inhabitants 1961: approx. 1099 inhabitants 1967: approx. 1500 inhabitants 1970: approx. 1450 inhabitants

Poppenhausen within today's limits 1961: 3328 inhabitants 1970: 3723 inhabitants 1987: 3682 inhabitants 1991: 4035 inhabitants 1995: 4103 inhabitants 2000: 4056 inhabitants 2005: 4198 inhabitants 2010: 4042 inhabitants 2015: 4,364 inhabitants 2018: 4355 inhabitants

politics

City council and mayor

The local elections of March 16, 2014 in Poppenhausen led to the following distribution of the 16 seats of the municipal council:

list	Seats
Voting community CSU / citizens' association	6th
Kützberg voter community	4th
Christian village community Pfersdorf	2
Christian village community Maibach	2
Free community of voters Kronungen	1
Free voter community Hain	1

Ludwig Bernhard Nätscher ( CSU ) has been mayor since May 1, 2014 ; he was re-elected on March 15, 2020 with a turnout of 62.2% with 71.8% of the votes and also belongs to the local council.

coat of arms

The coat of arms, which has been in use since 1972, shows the silver clad, barefoot Saint James in red on a silver floor with a pilgrim's hat and a pilgrim's bottle , holding a golden pilgrim's staff in his right hand and a silver plant on the ground on the left. The colors silver and red are the colors of Franconia . St. James is the patron saint of the Poppenhausen Catholic parish church of St. Jakob and was shown in a court seal from the 18th century.

Community finances

In 2010 the municipal tax revenue amounted to 2,268,000 euros, of which 378,000 euros were trade tax revenue (net).

Inter-municipal alliance

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

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Poppenhausen

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

According to official statistics , there were 333 employees at the place of work in the manufacturing sector and 75 in the trade and transport sector. In other economic sectors, 44 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 1526 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There was one company in the manufacturing sector and five companies in the main construction sector. In addition, there were 44 farms in 2010 with an agricultural area totaling 2,476 hectares, of which 1,876 hectares were arable land and 599 hectares were permanent green areas.

traffic

The B 19 ( Eisenach - Mellrichstadt - Würzburg - Ulm - Oberstdorf ) and the B 286 (Enzlar - Gerolzhofen - Schweinfurt - Bad Kissingen - Bad Brückenau ) lead directly past Poppenhausen. The A 71 can be reached via junction (29) Poppenhausen / Dittelbrunn . The place is connected to rail traffic via a stop on the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line.

education

The following institutions exist (as of 2010):

• One kindergarten each in the districts of Kronungen, Kützberg, Maibach, Pfersdorf; a total of 178 kindergarten places and 154 supervised children
• Two primary schools with 26 teachers who teach a total of 361 students in 18 classes

societies

The music band Poppenhausen e. V. has a long tradition , the exact date of foundation is not known. The Poppenhausen music band has been a registered association since 1995 . The musicians come mainly from Poppenhausen, Hain and the surrounding communities. Most of the young musicians are trained in the association. In addition to many small performances, a spring concert and a Bohemian evening take place every year.

Personalities

• Gerhard Kleinhenz (1940–2015), economist

literature

• Emil Bachmann: Poppenhausen as it is and lives . Verlag Weppert KG, Schweinfurt 1968
• Brochure: 250 years of St. Jakobus Poppenhausen 1744–1994.
• Karl Treutwein : Lower Franconia. Glock and Lutz publishing house, Nuremberg 1967
• Karl Treutwein: The place names of the district of Schweinfurt.

Web links

Commons : Poppenhausen (Unterfranken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.poppenhausen.de
• Entry on the coat of arms of Poppenhausen (Lower Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Poppenhausen (Lower Franconia): 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. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/221143&attr=OBJ&val= 1767
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 570 .
4. ↑ Population figures on December 31, 2018. Bavarian State Office for Statistics, accessed on May 24, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 17, 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. 
6. ^ House of Bavarian History. Bavaria's municipalities: coat of arms - history - geography. Poppenhausen community