Hall on the Saale

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Rhön-Grabfeld
Management Community :	Hall on the Saale
Height :	254 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.57 km 2
Residents:	1476 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97633
Area code :	09762
License plate :	NES, CAN, MET
Community key :	09 6 73 160
Market structure:	6 districts
; Market administration address :	Wiesenflecklein 4 ; 97633 Saal adSaale
Website :	www.saal-saale.de
Mayor :	Cornelia Dahinten (CSU / BG Saal / Waltershausen)
Location of the Saal adSaale market in the Rhön-Grabfeld district

Hall on the Saale from the west

Saal an der Saale (officially: Saal adSaale ) is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld and the seat of the administrative community Saal adSaale , which also includes the communities of Großeibstadt and Wülfershausen adSaale .

geography

The market is located in the Grabfeld at the confluence of the Spleen and the Franconian Saale .

Community structure

The community is divided into the two districts Saal adSaale and Waltershausen, which essentially correspond to the former communities.

There are a total of six districts, which are distributed among the districts as follows:

Marking of Saal an der Saale	Waltershausen district
Hall on the Saale Stone mill Upper mill ¹	Waltershausen Book mill Paper mill Weidachsmühle

¹ unofficial name of the district

history

Until the church is planted

The Würzburg bishopric exercised state rule in Saal from 1368 to 1803. From 1500 it was part of the Franconian Empire . The place belonged to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg of the Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany before it became part of Bavaria with the Treaties of Paris in 1814 . In the course of the administrative reforms, the current community was created with the community edict of 1818 .

Waltershausen Castle

Gut and Schloss Waltershausen, formerly owned by the von Kalb family , became the property of the Göttingen scholar and economic historian Georg Friedrich Sartorius at the beginning of the 19th century , who was raised to the hereditary Bavarian nobility due to his acquisition as Freiherr von Walterhausen. The estate with the castle essentially remained in the ownership of the Sartorius von Waltershausen family until the 20th century. In 1944 the castle was taken over by the Deutsche Reichspost as a rest home for postal workers. It has been privately owned since 1986.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community of Waltershausen was incorporated.

Population development

1961: 1785 inhabitants
1970: 1789 inhabitants
1987: 1588 inhabitants
1991: 1587 inhabitants
1995: 1570 inhabitants
2000: 1571 inhabitants
2005: 1585 inhabitants
2010: 1514 inhabitants
2011: 1513 inhabitants
2012: 1518 inhabitants
2013: 1488 inhabitants
2014: 1501 inhabitants
2015: 1475 inhabitants

politics

mayor

1. Mayor is Cornelia Dahinten (CSU / BG Saal / Waltershausen). In 2020 she succeeded Norbert Bauer (Neue Liste Markt Saal) and was the first woman in this position.

Market council

The municipal council has 12 members in the election period from 2020 (excluding the mayor):

New list market hall: 6 seats
CSU BG Saal / Waltershausen: 2 seats
Independent constituency of Waltershausen: 4 seats

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by red and gold; above a silver lily stem with two flowers, covered by a fallen golden crutch cross that ends in wall anchors; a black table cross below. "

The lily stem in the upper part of the coat of arms symbolizes the pilgrimage church Mariae Heimsuchung on the Findelberg with its pilgrimage as well as the parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt. The crutch cross is the coat of arms symbol of the Counts of Wildberg, who died out around 1300 and were of great importance for the municipality in the High Middle Ages. The Marschalke von Ostheim lived in the Waltershausen district from 1456 to 1782. The table cross comes from her coat of arms. The colors black and gold (below) and the colors silver and red (above) are reminiscent of other territorial lords that were important for the Saal adSaale market, the Counts of Henneberg and the Bishopric of Würzburg .

Municipal alliance

The Markt Saal an der Saale is a member of the municipal alliance Fränkischer Grabfeldgau.

Culture and tourism

Buildings

Findelberg Church

A good 300 meters north of the village of Saal is the pilgrimage church of the Visitation of Mary on the eastern slope of the Findelberg, accessible via a footbridge over the Franconian Saale. It was built in 1781/86 according to plans by master bricklayer Hans Michael Schauer von Wermerichshausen; the tower was built in 1499. The ceiling painting of the Assumption of Mary was created in 1795 by the artist Johann Peter Herrlein , who died in Saal in 1799 and was buried in the Findelbergfriedhof. In 1965 the church was restored.

St. George Church

Waltershausen: View of the church and castle

The church of St. Georg is in Waltershausen. It was built from 1484 to 1485 in front of the castle in place of an earlier church. In 1523 Waltershausen became Protestant and it has had a Protestant parish since 1600. The church is the burial place of the Marschalk von Ostheim . Moritz Marschalk von Ostheim was buried there in 1523. An exception was Pastor Johann Adam Schönwetter, who also found his final resting place in the church in 1668. The last time the church was restored was from 1969 to 1974.

Waltershausen Castle

Waltershausen Castle around 1984

From 1619 to 1627 Georg Philipp Marschalk von Ostheim had the current palace complex initially built on one level on the foundations of an old fortified castle. About a hundred years later, the palace underwent further changes under the influence of Balthasar Neumann , who integrated a rococo hall into the entire central building on the second floor. Balthasar Neumann gave this hall an ingeniously constructed ceiling vaulted into the roof structure with rich stucco work that is depicted in many works of art history. The structure is one of the finest creations of the Franconian Rococo and gives the hall a festive character.

Architectural monuments

Museums

Coffee pot museum : Ursula Rink's private museum with over 3000 coffee pots from all over the world.

Cycling and hiking trails

The national cycling and hiking trails Fränkische Saale and Fränkischer Marienweg lead through the districts .

Others

For public and private events there is a multi-purpose hall in the hall and a guest house in Waltershausen. Village libraries are available in both parts of the community.

Personalities

Charlotte von Kalb

Charlotte von Kalb (1761–1843), German writer
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), German poet, lived 14 months (December 1793 – January 1795) in Waltershausen Castle as an educator
Johann Peter Herrlein (1722–1799), German painter
Eugen Dieterich (1840–1904), German chemist and pioneer of the German pharmaceutical industry as well as Royal Saxon Privy Councilor