Sulzheim (Lower Franconia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '  N , 10 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Schweinfurt
Management Community :	Gerolzhofen
Height :	227 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.79 km 2
Residents:	2011 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	75 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97529
Area code :	09382
License plate :	SW , GEO
Community key :	09 6 78 183
Community structure:	6 districts
Association administration address:	Brunnengasse 5 97447 Gerolzhofen
Website :	www.sulzheim.de
Mayor :	Jürgen Schwab (Vögnitz Voting Association)
Location of the community Sulzheim in the district of Schweinfurt

Church and castle in Sulzheim

Sulzheim is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt and a member of the Gerolzhofen administrative community .

geography

location

Sulzheim is located in the Steigerwald foreland , 13 km south-southeast of Schweinfurt .

Community structure

Sulzheim is divided into six districts: the localities Alitzheim , Mönchstockheim , Sulzheim and Vögnitz as well as the wastelands Unkenmühle and Vögnitzmühle. There are the districts Alitzheim, Mönchstockheim, Sulzheim and Vögnitz.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Grettstadt , Donnersdorf , Dingolshausen , Gerolzhofen , Frankenwinheim and Kolitzheim .

history

Until the church is planted

An early medieval burial ground was found in a gypsum quarry north of Sulzheim . An excavation in 1964 uncovered several very poor graves that date from around 600.

As part of the Hochstift Würzburg (with some rights also of the Ebrach Monastery ) Sulzheim was secularized in 1803 in favor of Bavaria in the Peace of Pressburg 1805 left to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , with which it fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814 . The Sulzheim office with 21 surrounding villages and Sulzheim Castle went to Thurn und Taxis in 1815 as compensation for the post office shelf in the former Grand Duchy of Würzburg and in the Principality of Aschaffenburg . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

21st century

On June 30, 2007, a plaster information center was opened in the still-preserved eastern part of the former three-part tithe barn of the Ebrach monastery. The focus is on the development and history of the dismantling of the basic plaster layers of the Middle Keuper in Sulzheim. In addition to information about the crystal formation of this salt of sulfuric acid, about the karstification phenomena of the near-surface gypsum deposits and the various possible uses of this most important natural resource of the Steigerwald foothills, one learns a lot of interesting facts about the flora and fauna of the nationally important nature reserve of the Sulzheimer peaks. At the Gips-Informationszentrum (GIZ) a seven-kilometer-long gypsum course begins with five information boards all about gypsum on the topics of archeology, gypsum works, nature conservation, mining, gypsum mills, gypsum hills and buildings made of gypsum stone.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the community Alitzheim was incorporated. On May 1, 1978 Mönchstockheim and Vögnitz were added.

Population development

The four towns had the following population figures in 2015: Alitzheim: 719 Mönchstockheim: 452 Sulzheim: 816 Vögnitz: 118

politics

City council and mayor

The municipal council election on March 15, 2020 resulted in the following distribution of votes and seats:

Voting community Sulzheim	39.52%	6 seats
Alitzheim voter community	29.41%	4 seats
Mönchstockheim civic block	22.63%	3 seats
Vögnitz community of voters	8.45%	1 seat

Compared to the previous term of office from 2014 to 2020, the Mönchstockheim civic block had to give up a seat to the Sulzheim voter community. The turnout was 75.12%.

In addition, Mayor Jürgen Schwab (Vögnitz Community of Voters) is a member of the municipal council, who succeeded Michael Geck on May 1, 2014. Schwab was elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 62.2% of the vote.

coat of arms

The description of the municipal coat of arms introduced in 1966 reads: “Divided by gold and red; above a leaping black boar holding a silver abbot's staff at an angle in its mouth; below a floating silver pinnacle tower with two diagonally crossed golden cattails underneath ”.

Culture and sights

Sulzheim Castle

Catholic Church of St. Aegidius

Attractions

• Sulzheim Castle
• Catholic Church of St. Giles in Sulzheim, choir and facade built 1717–22, tower and nave from 1932
• Sulzheimer gypsum hill nature reserve
• Plaster information center

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Sulzheim

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

According to official statistics, there were no employees at the place of work in the manufacturing sector, 15 in trade and transport and 39 in public and private services. There were a total of 945 employees at the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. There was one company in the manufacturing sector and no company in the construction sector. In 2010 there were also 38 farms with an agricultural area totaling 1293 hectares, of which 1210 hectares were arable land and 64 hectares were permanent green space.

traffic

Road traffic

Sulzheim is located on the B 286 , which is developed as an intersection-free expressway to the A 3 in the south and to Schweinfurt in the north. It has three and four lanes towards Schweinfurt, Sulzheim has its own junction. The travel time from Sulzheim to the city center of Schweinfurt is only about 15 minutes.

Kitzingen-Schweinfurt railway line

→ Main article : Kitzingen-Schweinfurt railway line

At the beginning of the 20th century, Sulzheim was connected to the Bavarian rail network. In 1893 the Kitzingen- Gerolzhofen section of the so-called Steigerwaldbahn (also Lower Steigerwaldbahn) was completed. The branch line connected from 1903 Kitzingen with the Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof and was one of the longer branch lines in Germany. In addition to Sulzheim, the district of Alitzheim was also equipped with a breakpoint.

Traffic on the route began to be reduced in the 1980s. From 1987 only passenger buses drove between Gerolzhofen and Schweinfurt, freight traffic was given up in mid-2006. For a long time there have been initiatives to reactivate passenger traffic on the disused route. At the beginning of 2019 a fierce dispute broke out over the design of the restart, which has continued to this day, which became a political issue .

education

There are the following institutions (as of 2015):

• One kindergarten each in Alitzheim and Sulzheim with a total of 119 kindergarten places and 92 children
• a primary school as a branch of the primary school at Zabelstein in Donnersdorf with several classes
• Library in the parish center

Former US training site

Observation post on the practice area

A training area of Schweinfurt garrison of the US Army , which Sulzheim Training Area , was closed in 2014 (see: US Army Garrison Schweinfurt ).

Sons and daughters of the church

• Wilhelm Joseph Behr (* 1775; † 1851), German constitutional law teacher and politician
• Josef Alois Reinhart (* 1899; † unknown), NSDAP politician

Web links

Commons : Sulzheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Entry on the coat of arms of Sulzheim (Lower Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Sulzheim (Lower Franconia): Official statistics of the LfStat
• Plaster information center Sulzheim

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]/163322&attr=OBJ&val= 1774
3. ^ Frank Siegmund: Alemanni and Franks. Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Volume 23 (edited by Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich, Heiko Steuer). Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 367
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 471 .
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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 754 .
6. ^ Website Sulzheim - worth knowing
7. ↑ 2020 municipal council election , accessed on July 6, 2020
8. ↑ mainpost.de: By train through the inner city of Schweinfurt, August 2, 2019. Accessed on January 19, 2020 . 
9. ↑ mainpost.de: IHK: Steigerwaldbahn would strengthen the region, July 20, 2018. Accessed on January 20, 2020 .