Sickershausen

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Sickershausen
City of Kitzingen
Local coat of arms of Sickershausen
Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 14 "  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 56"  E
Height : 203 m
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 97318
Area code : 09321
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Location of Sickershausen (bold) in the Kitzinger municipality
Sickershausen district with the Protestant Johanneskirche
Sickershausen district with the Protestant Johanneskirche

Sickershausen is a district of the large district town of Kitzingen . This belongs to the administrative district of Lower Franconia and is located in the state of Bavaria .

geography

Geographical location

The district is located approx. 5 km south of Kitzingen city center, on the Sickersbach coming from Mainbernheim , its tributary Franzosengraben and at the foot of the Kitzinger Klettenberg.

Neighboring communities

Natural location

In terms of natural space, Sickershausen has a share in the Mainbernheim plain in the Steigerwald foreland . It is characterized by flat, undulating river valleys and sanded Lettenkeuperböden .

history

Place name

At the time of the Franconian conquest , at the end of the migration period, the place Sickershausen should have started. This can be derived from the components drainage and drainage . The first name Sicker came from Siegher or Sieghart. The ending -hausen means with the houses . With the addition of the owner, the location was clearly identifiable as that of the Siegher's houses .

Local history

Place names were often accidentally documented in writing if the place was recorded in a document in connection with a legal transaction. This happened for Sickershausen on June 27, 1225 in a contract between King Heinrich VII and Bishop Hermann von Würzburg. In 1275 Cunrado de Sickershausen acted as a witness to a sale by Bishop Bertold and also in 1316 Brother Cunnrat von Sickershausen with Albrecht von Hohenlohe. Presumably the gentlemen from Sickershausen were Hohenlohe ministerials. The Hohenlohe-Brauneck pledged the place to the Counts of Castell. Gottfried von Brauneck was able to buy it back on July 5, 1340. On October 13, 1448, Margrave Albrecht Achilles zu Brandenburg acquired Sickershausen as one of the Six Maindörfer , together with Gnodstadt , Martinsheim , Marktsteft , Oberickelsheim , Obernbreit and Enheim for 24,000 guilders. Furious peasants set fire to and wreaked havoc in the village in 1525. In one of the first localities, Georg von Brandenburg-Ansbach introduced the Reformation here in 1528 . Several severe visits hit the village in the period that followed. During the Thirty Years' War as well as famine and the plague, the place was depopulated except for 18 citizens. Again in 1673 the population suffered from looting and blind destruction by the French and Imperialists. The church was not spared either, so that all church records from this time are lost. After long Brandenburg rule, Sickershausen fell to Prussia in 1792. In the 1806 treaty between France and Prussia, the Principality of Ansbach was ceded to France. In 1806, the village finally came to Bavaria as a thank you for “benevolent behavior”.

The connection to the Würzburg-Nuremberg railway line , which touches the outskirts of Sickershausen (1843), was of particular importance for the development of the community . Sickershausen stayed on the line until 1982.

Sickershausen has been part of Kitzingen since the municipal reform , which came into force on January 1st, 1975.

Population development

year 1861 1864 1900 1925 1950 2000 2010 2015 2018
Residents 565 605 620 750 840 910 940 980 1020

politics

District

Sickershausen is a district of the political municipality of Kitzingen .

Local spokeswoman

After the 2014 election, Anni Schlötter will represent the interests of the Sickershausen district in the Kitzingen city council for a further six years.

coat of arms

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 Blazon : "By one left made continuous pilgrim's staff obliquely split of red and black; a silver shell above, a six-pointed star below. "
Justification for the coat of arms: A court seal from the 17th century shows a pilgrim with a pilgrim's staff and a shell. This representation is based on a Marian pilgrimage that has been documented since the 16th century. The pilgrim symbols as well as the Marian attribute, the star, found their way into the coat of arms. The colors white and black indicate the rule of the Margraves of Ansbach, and the colors white and red indicate the Würzburg monastery.

Culture and sights

Attractions

town hall

Foundation board at the town hall

Originally the town hall was part of the fortified church next to the village church . In 1592 the construction took place under the mayor Arnold. The half-timbering of the oldest building in town was exposed in 1948. In the council chamber there is a late Gothic wooden ceiling and a table with a slate from 1628. Today the town hall serves as an archive. The Frankenstudio has also been located there since 1977.

Frankenstudio

This houses a rich and educationally valuable collection on regional natural, regional and folklore. It was created by Dr. Andreas Pampuch and contains state examination and seminar papers on Lower Franconia and Kitzingen. A collection of books on the same topic with around 2000 volumes and the extensive picture archive also provided a valuable local history source for interested visitors.

St. John

Little has been preserved of the Christian predecessor buildings of today's St. Johannes or St. Johannis church. Particularly noteworthy are the late Gothic crucifix from around 1500 and the Renaissance baptismal font in the church chancel. The medieval predecessor church had become rather dilapidated due to the armed conflicts in 1673.

When the population increased considerably due to the influx of Salzburg emigrants and citizens from the re-Catholicized Kitzingen, the church became too small. Therefore, the court architect Steingruber carried out conversions in the margrave style in 1747/48. Until the major renovation in 1956, the pulpit altar in the front wall optically placed the unity of word and sacrament in the center of the church. In the course of the significant redesign, the old, relatively small choir was exposed after the organ loft with the pulpit altar, the front stalls for dignitaries and the second side galleries had been removed.

graveyard

In 1510 the cemetery was moved to the edge of the village and fortified with a stone wall. The arcades, which formerly protected the seats for the mourners, had to be demolished. Only the pastor has a small advantage in bad weather conditions thanks to the free-standing Renaissance stone pulpit. The year 1690 is on the body of the pulpit. According to the parish's death register, the pulpit was used for the “funeral sermon” for Leonhard Adler's wife on May 6th of the same year. There are similar stone pulpits in the nearby towns of Marktsteft and Mainbernheim .

Before 1961, the dead remained in the mourning house until the funeral. There they were picked up by porters from their circle of friends after the blessing and accompanied by the mourners to the cemetery. This custom changed with the construction of the morgue in 1964. It was equipped with a funeral room, equipment and cooling room. The entrance portal had to be moved around five meters to the street for the new building.

In 1981 nine tombstones were brought from the cemetery and the walling into the church garden. Attempts were made to protect it from further destruction through weathering under small roofs next to the tower.

Historic printer's workshop

The historical printer workshop Officina historica houses operational typesetting machines and printing machines from different eras, which can be demonstrated on request, as well as numerous historical exhibits.

In the printing workshop

legend

Similar to Possenheim, there is also a legend in Sickershausen about a so-called Jewish fountain.

A long time ago a farmer lived in Sickershausen. He was a mean and rough man and one day he borrowed a large amount of money from a Jew . Despite repeated admonitions, he did not pay back the money he had borrowed. The Jew came to Sickershausen and threatened the farmer to sue him in court . The farmer got angry at this and killed the Jew. The dying man said: "Even if no one sees your deed, the sun must betray you!"

Whenever the sun was shining , the farmer smiled. His wife noticed, but couldn't see why. The crime remained hidden and the peasant couple grew older and older. On his deathbed , the farmer wanted to ease his conscience and now told his wife everything in great detail. After his deed, he threw the Jew into a well, which from then on was called the Judenbrunnen by the population.

Regular events

  • Maypole posts (April 30th)
  • Sickershausen Wine Festival (July)
  • Hohlgraben Festival until 2017 (August)
  • Since 2018 the Sickerschoppen has taken place on the bridge to the vineyard and replaced the Hohlgrabenfest (August)
  • Kirchweih (October)

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Today Sickershausen is a wine-growing area in the Franconian wine-growing region . There is a vineyard around the village, the wine has been marketed under the name Sickershäuser Storchenbrünnle since the 1960s. Sickershausen is part of the region Main south until 2017, the wineries in area were Maindreieck summarized. The limestone soils around Sickershausen are also suitable for growing wine, as is the location in the Maingau climate zone, which is one of the warmest in Germany.

The people around Sickershausen have been growing wine since the early Middle Ages . The Franconian settlers probably brought the vine to the Main in the 7th century. In the Middle Ages, the region was part of the largest contiguous wine-growing region in the Holy Roman Empire. The people mostly operated part-time viticulture for self-sufficiency , at the same time export centers were already emerging, especially along the Main. In his yearbook published in 1761, the Brandenburg archivist referred to good viticulture and the lively wine trade in Sickershausen. The sales market was probably near Kitzingen.

Viticulture in the village experienced a major decline after secularization at the beginning of the 19th century. Above all, locations with less favorable climatic conditions were completely abandoned. In addition, the emergence of pests such as phylloxera made cultivation difficult . In 1856 there were 250 daily vine cultivation. In 1868 the area under cultivation had shrunk to 152 days. Before the adjustment in 1968, the existing vineyard area was 4.5 hectares, but only 0.65 hectares were still planted. The Franconian wine-growing region was not able to consolidate again until the second half of the 20th century. The use of fertilizers and improved cultivation methods had contributed to this, as had the organization in cooperatives and the land consolidation of the 1970s.

In 1966, the five-year vineyard land consolidation on Klettenberg began. As a result, the Sickershausen vineyard "Storchenbrünnle" was created in 1967 with a size of approx. 7 hectares. At the same time, the first wine princess was elected in Sickershausen to represent Sickershausen wine for one or two years. The renewed rise to the position of wine in Sickershausen was also associated with the organization of a wine festival that takes place once a year at the beginning of July.

Vineyard Size 1993 Compass direction Slope Main grape varieties Great location
Storchenbrünnle 7 ha southwest 20-40% Müller-Thurgau Rödelsee Castle Hill

Music clubs

  • Choral society: A pure male choir has existed since 1914
  • Gospel choir Sicantiamo and children's choir Sickerstörchli: On the initiative of Manfred Stang, the chairman of the choir 1914 e. V., both choirs formed in 2002
  • Trumpet choir: At the suggestion of Andreas Wagner, the former Mainbernheimer Georg Herbst borrowed instruments from there for all those willing to learn in his new home town. The Trumpet Choir was thus founded in 1925.

Personalities

  • Albert Daniel Mercklein (1694–1752), pastor, mathematician and physicist, pastor in Sickershausen 1748–1752
  • Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776–1858), physician and botanist, married Wilhelmine Luise Katharina von Ditfurth (1773–1803) in Sickershausen on August 19, 1802, made Sickershausen the central meeting place for numerous scientists of the time in the following years
  • Ernst Friedrich Berger (1814–1853), botanist, from 1847 headed a plant exchange and sales establishment in the former estate of Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in Sickershausen
  • Werner Brockmann (1908 – presumably 1943), pastor and member of the Confessing Church , pastor in Sickershausen 1937–1942

literature

  • Hans Ambrosi, Bernhard Breuer: German Vinothek: Franconia. Guide to the vineyards, winegrowers and their kitchens . Herford 2 1993.
  • Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Sickershausen . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 5 : S-U . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1802, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753112 , Sp. 330 ( digitized version ).
  • Gottfried Stieber: Sickershaußen . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 760-763 ( digitized version ).
  • Johann Ludwig Klarmann, Karl Spiegel: Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald. Reprint of the 1912 edition . Neustadt an der Aisch 1982.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Christine Röhner: Sickershausen . Wuerzburg May 13, 1969.
  2. ^ Adolf Röß: Contributions to the older history of the village of Sickershausen (=  Am Franconian stove . No. 18 ). 1926, p. 3 - 5 .
  3. ↑ Excerpt from the original Sickershausen chronicle by RK: Info's about the beautiful Franconian wine town: "SICKERSHAUSEN". Small chronicle of Sickershausen. Gerd Pfau, accessed November 17, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Rainer Krumpholz: Sickershausen - a village chronicle . Wuerzburg January 1977.
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 747 .
  6. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1175–1176 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Valentin Grübel: Official and address manual for the k. bayer. Administrative district of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg: edited from official sources . Ed .: Valentin Grübel. Self-rel. d. Author, Würzburg 1865, p. 36 ( online [accessed October 9, 2013]).
  8. ^ A b Gerd Pfau: Sickershausen wine village. Gerd Pfau, September 16, 2011, accessed December 17, 2012 .
  9. ^ RK: The beautiful wine town of Sickershausen. Gerd Pfau, September 16, 2011, accessed November 23, 2012 .
  10. ↑ a b c d Evang.-Luth. Parish Sickershausen (ed.): 250 years Johanneskirche Sickershausen . 500 pieces. Self-published by Kummor, Kitzingen 1997.
  11. ↑ a b Friedrich Kratsch: Chronicle of the Evang. Church Kitzingen-Sickershausen . Sickershausen February 1995.
  12. ↑ Klarmann, Johann Ludwig (among others): Legends and sketches from the Steigerwald . P. 125.
  13. ^ Ambrosi, Hans (among others): German Vinothek: Franconia . Pp. 50-52.
  14. ^ Government of Lower Franconia: Vineyards in Bavaria broken down by area , PDF file, accessed on May 16, 2019.
  15. ^ Ambrosi, Hans (among others): German Vinothek: Franconia . P. 237.