Rehweiler (Geiselwind)

Rehweiler Geiselwind market Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	378 m
Residents :	249
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	96160
Area code :	09556
Location of Rehweiler (bold) in the Geiselwinder municipality

Rehweiler is a district of the Geiselwind market in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

The place is located in the far west of the Geiselwinder municipality. To the north, separated by the A3 motorway , is Gräfenneuses . Langenberg and Geiselwind are in the northeast . Dürrnbuch extends to the south-east , the district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim begins in the south. The community of Abtswind is located west of Rehweiler . In the district of Rehweiler is the 463 m high Schönberg on the edge of the Steigerwald.

The closest larger cities are Kitzingen, about 19 kilometers away, and Scheinfeld, 11 kilometers away .

history

The church in Rehweiler

In the Middle Ages there were two villages on the area of ​​today's Rehweiler. Weiler was mentioned in 1258 as "Wielere" and " Fuchsstatt " was first mentioned in 1384. Both villages were abandoned as early as the 15th century and came into the hands of several nobles as a castellisches fiefdom. In 1533 Georg von Gnottstadt bequeathed the desolate Steigerwaldweiler to the church in Rüdenhausen.

It was not until the beginning of the 18th century that Count Johann Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen ordered the repopulation of the village. He had bought it abandoned in 1697 and had it converted into a chamber property. The new name Rehweiler is said to go back to a saying by a Count von Hohenlohe . He referred to the good hunted yield and said: "Why is the village called Weiler, it should be called Rehweiler."

Count Ludwig Friedrich zu Castell-Remlingen rebuilt the settlement in the spirit of Herrnhut Pietism . In 1734 he acquired the Rehweiler estate and had preachers from the Pietist stronghold in Lusatia travel to Franconia . The community received an orphanage and the production of porcelain began in the Finger'schen Mühle. At that time there was also an Israelite religious community in Rehweiler . In 1972 Rehweiler became part of the newly formed large community Geiselwind.

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

The parish church of the Protestant community is the only Moravian hall church in Bavaria. The building was completed in 1774 and ends at the top with an octagonal bell tower. Inside there is an altar and a pulpit from the time it was built, both of which can be attributed to the Rococo . A Jewish cemetery was closed in 1938, only a 19th century tombstone still reminds of the community.

The village is characterized by the so-called little castle colony of the Moravians. Several hipped roof buildings, including the former school and orphanage , are on the town's thoroughfare. One of the houses is marked with the year "1737".

The Faience Manufactory (1788–1792)

The faience factory in Rehweiler was founded in 1788 from Marktbreit . The board of directors of a similar, broad-based company bought the finger mill in Rehweiler and, together with Christian Gottbrecht, converted the plant into a faience manufacture. However, Fischer did not invest enough in the company, so that the manufacture was converted into a stock corporation as early as 1789 . The shareholders leased it to the Cunradi council in 1790, who promised high interest rates.

The leaseholder ran the factory for some time and in August 1791 handed the plant over to the Count's House of Castell , who also acquired the majority of the shares. As technical director of the counts from the set Ilmenau in Thuringia originating Christian Zacharias Gräbner one. However, he too failed to continue production. In July 1792 the plant was handed over to a miller again and the supplies were sold to the company in Vestenbergsgreuth .

legend

A poor woodcutter once lived in the village . He had married a young woman who had come to the village as a stranger and no one knew where she came from. Every spring around Walpurgi Day she became restless that her husband thought she was sick. During this time, the woodcutter accidentally spilled a soup that his wife had made for him for dinner. Unlike the previous nights, he couldn't fall asleep. At midnight his wife suddenly got up from the bed and went through the window.

The woodcutter followed his wife into the dark, frightened, but could not see her. It dawned on him that his wife was one of the unearthly ones who had given her soul to the devil . These drudes , however, could only return to the house through the same openings they had left it through. He put a consecrated candle in the window and after a while heard loud sobs in front of the house.

Now he quietly turned off the light and his wife could return. In the following period, during the spring, he stopped touching his wife's soup into which his wife had poured a sleeping potion and kept putting the light in the window. At first the woman was very unhappy about it, but the spook soon came to an end. When she died and was buried in the cemetery , people called the place the Wendish grave.

Personalities

• Johann Wilhelm Baumer (1719–1788), German physicist, physician and mineralogist
• Johann Philipp Baumer (1725–1771), professor of medicine at the University of Erfurt , writer
• Christian Gottbrecht (1789–), porcelain painter, factory owner in Reichmannsdorf, later chief painter in Volkstedt
• Max Herold (1840–1921), church councilor, dean, parish priest, editor of “Siona”, honorary citizen of Schwabach

literature

• Hans Bauer: District of Kitzingen. An art and culture guide , Marktbreit 1993.
• Alexander Graf zu Castell: Rehweiler . In: Jesko Graf zu Dohna (ed.): Kulturpfad. In the footsteps of the Counts of Castell . Münsterschwarzach 2004. pp. 154–155.
• Johann Ludwig Klarmann: The Steigerwald in the past. A contribution to Franconian cultural studies . Gerolzhofen ² 1909.
• Theophil Steinbrenner, Gerhard Wahler, Auguste Steinberger, Felix von Fokczynski (eds.): Intermediate lights. Traditional stories from the old county of Castell . Albertshofen² 1979.
• Karl Treutwein : From Abtswind to Zeilitzheim. History, things to see, traditions , Volkach 1987.

Web links

Commons : Rehweiler (Geiselwind)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Castell, Alexander Graf zu: Rehweiler . P. 154.
2. ^ Treutwein, Karl: From Abtswind to Zeilitzheim . P. 195 f
3. ↑ Klarmann, Johann Ludwig: The Steigerwald in the past . P. 156.
4. ↑ Steinbrenner, Theophil (ed., Among others): Zwischerlichten . P. 86.
5. ↑ Klarmann, Johann Ludwig: The Steigerwald in the past . P. 206.