Rothenstein (Weissenburg)

This article describes the district of Rothenstein in the municipality of Weißenburg in Bavaria; for other meanings see Rothenstein (disambiguation)

Rothenstein Large district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria
Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 55 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 30 ″  E
Height :	517 m
Residents :	200
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	91781
Area code :	09149
Location of Rothenstein in Bavaria

Rothenstein is a district of Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The place has almost 200 inhabitants and is located at an altitude of 517  m above sea level. NN .

location

Rothenstein is located around 8 km southeast of Weißenburg and northwest of Eichstätt . The district boundary to the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt runs southeast of the village; The borders to the communities Pappenheim and Raitenbuch are nearby . The federal highway 13 runs through Rothenstein . To the north there is a nature reserve and the Laubenbuch . The 562  m high Kohlbuck is located near Rothenstein .

Chronicle of Rothenstein

Rothenstein was only founded after the construction of the connecting road from Weißenburg to Eichstätt , i.e. after 1766. Still, the square is steeped in history. The hermit "Thomas" lived here , who built a house, a well and a chapel around 1200, as evidenced by the name of the surrounding forest. The Willibaldsbrunnen in Weißenburg also refers to the missionaries Willibald , Wunibald and Sola , who often came by here.

Later on, the hermit's dwelling and the chapel fell into disrepair. According to the decision from 1534 it should be rebuilt. However, there are no records of the execution of this project. Only in 1745 does the place appear again in the annals. It is then already called "St. Thomas Cabel" (to the chapel of St. St. Thomas). Remnants of the building are still witnesses from this time. The famous seven oak crosses stood near today's Rothenstein. According to a forest map from the 15th century, they formed the shape of a Latin cross . These crosses are also recorded on Appian's land table from 1568. They were removed in the 19th century.

Beginnings of the place

In the 18th century, the then Count Wilhelm zu Pappenheim - attracted by the abundance of game in this area - had a hunting lodge built at this road junction . Soon after, a beer hut was built for the road and forest workers. A short time later it becomes the Wüst'sche Wirtshaus (Gasthaus zum Elefanten). In the period that followed, the Count encouraged further settlements by making land available for free or at least very cheaply.

Just a few years later, a place was created that was named Rothenstein. The name comes from the Rothenstein dominion in Swabia, which until 1692 belonged to the Swabian line of the Counts of Pappenheim . In the church and school area, the settlement is connected to the neighboring Neudorf , from where the administration was also directed at the beginning.

expansion

At that time the place cannot be called a community. An overview of all places in the Rezatkreis (mainly today's administrative district Middle Franconia) shows that the "hamlet" Rothenstein belonged to the tax district Bieswang , the Pappenheim ruling court and the Weißenburg rent office (tax office).

The formation of the communities did not take place until after 1800. The first community edicts of 1808 were still inadequate, and the first attempts to divide the country into tax districts were unsuitable for the formation of political communities alongside the existing parish districts. Another difficulty was the existence of aristocratic ruling courts, which had to be taken into account.

The municipal edict of 1818 formed those rural settlements that comprised at least 20 families into so-called rural communities. (This development was completed with the national surveying in the following years). The administrative body of the rural communities was the community committee headed by a chairman, who was supported by the community assembly as an advisory body.

The Pappenheim Lordship Court remained the supervisory authority of the community until 1848. In that year the aristocratic jurisdiction in Bavaria was abolished (one of the main demands of the revolution of 1848 ). The authorities were transformed into judicial and police authorities (“police” in the sense of general administration). In 1852 they were given the status of a regional court. In 1862 the district office of Weißenburg is formed (predecessor of the district office), which was made up of the former district courts of Weißenburg , Ellingen and Pappenheim.

20th century

Rothenstein came to Weißenburg in Bavaria on July 1, 1972, together with Dettenheim , Holzingen , Kattenhochstatt and Weimersheim as part of the municipal reform .

Worth seeing

→ Main article : "Rothenstein" in the article List of architectural monuments in Weißenburg in Bavaria / districts

• At Rothenstein there are several burial mounds and a burial mound field from the Bronze and Hallstatt periods with at least 15 mounds and subsequent burials from the Latène period and the early Middle Ages.
• There was a Roman villa rustica south of Rothenstein .
• The Rothstein Castle is a simple two-story Mansardwalmdachbau with both hands and Zwerchhaus who in 1795 with his single-storey extensions as hunting and manor of the Counts of Pappenheim was built.
• In Rothstein there are two as monument marked Austragshäuser . The single-storey delivery building at Förstergasse 1 with knee-height and flat gable roof was built in the Jura style in the 19th century and subsequently expanded. The single-storey delivery building at Ingolstädter Straße 3 with an eaves flat gable roof, leg slate roof , half-timbered and knee-high was built in the Jura style in the early 19th century.
• The nature reserve oak-hornbeam forest Laubenbuch near Rothenstein with the "Laubenbuch" forest nature trail. It is 3 km long and shows the native tree and shrub species, panels on the forest ecosystem and an oak-hornbeam forest.
• The Grubschwart , an old mining area in the Raitenbuch forest .
• The nature trail was created on the idea and initiative of Arthur Rosenbauer .

Local associations

• Evangelical rural youth
• Rifle club Diana Rothenstein
• Volunteer Fire Brigade Rothenstein eV
• Opelfreunde Rothenstein eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Measurement using BayernViewer
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 593 .
3. ↑ Description on BayernViewer-denkmal
4. ↑ Description on burgeninventar.de
5. ↑ www.fraenkische-seen.de: "Laubenbuch" forest educational trail