Thüngen

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Main-Spessart
Management Community :	Zellingen
Height :	199 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.61 km 2
Residents:	1334 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97289
Area code :	09360
License plate :	MSP
Community key :	09 6 77 189
LOCODE :	DE THN
Market structure:	1 district
Association administration address:	Würzburger Str. 26 ; 97225 Zellingen
Website :	www.markt-thuengen.de
Mayor :	Lorenz Strifsky ( SPD )
Location of the Thüngen market in the Main-Spessart district

Thüngen is a market in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart and a member of the Zellingen administrative community .

View from the north (vineyard)

geography

Geographical location

Thüngen is located in the Würzburg region, 25 km north of Würzburg and 30 km west of Schweinfurt , in the northern Maindreieck on the Wern .

Community structure

Thüngen has only one district. There is only the district Thüngen.

Surname

etymology

From what the place name Thüngen is actually derived is not exactly known. Three explanations are given:

The name of the place Thüngen could be derived from Thing . As Ding , historicizing Thing (Germanic, Old Norse and New Icelandic : Þing , interscandinavian : Ting , or Thie or Tie ), people's and court assemblies were referred to according to the old Germanic law . This would indicate a place where such gatherings were held.

The name Thungidi or Tungede is of Celtic origin or based on an originally Roman place name.

The name is based on the Old High German word thung , which means "underground room". It was derived from the collective suffix -idi.

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

788 Tungede
790 tungide
1100 Du ^e ngethi
1135 Tungedin
1136 Tungeden

1259 Tungede
1303 Tungden
1325 Tu ^e ngede
1345 Tu ^e nts
1536 Thüngen

history

East view of the castle of the Barons of Thüngen

Until the 16th century

On April 19, 788, Thüngen was first mentioned in a document. In Codex Eberhardi it says:

"Manto comes et frater eius Megingoz tradiderunt sancto Bonifacio bona sua in his locis: Isinhusen, Wanchei, Heselere, Tungede, Binizfelt, Hoholtesheim, Steti, Bucheled."

Until around 1200, the place was under the rule of the Counts of Henneberg . After their extinction, the rule was taken over by a knight family who later named themselves after the place Herren von Thüngen . The history of Thüngen is closely linked to the history of this noble family. Later this family was a member of the Franconian knight circle .

In 1366 a Thüngen citizen was first mentioned in a document and in 1419 the first village regulation was issued. In 1465 Thüngen was elevated to town status, which allowed fortification with walls and towers as well as a town constitution. Guilds could be introduced and weekly markets could be held. From 1551 the Reformation was finally introduced with the approval of the rule , which led to considerable disputes between the denominations over the next few centuries - especially since part of the village came under the rule of the Prince-Bishop in Würzburg (administered by the Juliusspital ) during the Thirty Years' War . A rural Jewish community emerged in the 16th century.

19th and 20th centuries

On June 28, 1814, Thüngen was awarded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in connection with the Napoleonic Wars . In 1825 the guild system had to be stopped. The town charter was never officially revoked. The Thüngen Castle Brewery, which still exists today, was founded in 1846 by Wilhelm, Wolfgang and Hanskarl von Thüngen. After the completion of the Werntal Railway , the first train ran through Thüngen on April 16, 1879.

In the presence of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria , the Ludwigslinde was planted on May 18, 1892 on the plan square.

In 1923, at an event organized by the federal government of Bavaria and the Reich, there were disputes with village residents in which a worker was killed.

Of the 152 Jewish residents remaining in 1933, many emigrated by 1940, but at least 50 residents were deported and murdered.

The Markt Thüngen, the Markt Zellingen and the communities Himmelstadt and Retzstadt have been part of the Zellingen administrative community since 1978 .

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population increased from 1,315 to 1,340 by 25 inhabitants or 1.9%.

1961: 1367 inhabitants
1970: 1336 inhabitants
1987: 1341 inhabitants
1991: 1351 inhabitants
1995: 1432 inhabitants
2000: 1374 inhabitants
2005: 1319 inhabitants
2010: 1340 inhabitants
2015: 1332 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Mayor is Lorenz Strifsky ( SPD ). In 2014 he succeeded Klaus Enzmann ( Free Voters ). On March 15, 2020, Strifksy was re-elected with 56.5% of the vote.
Mayor: Wolfgang Heß (Free Voters ). First elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2020.
Mayoress: Ursula Schmidt-Finger (SPD; since 2020).

Municipal council

Members of the municipal council in the 2020/2026 electoral period are:

Free voters (five municipal councilors): Wolfgang Heß (2nd BGM), Kathrin Schilling, Werner Trabold, Ralf Reuter, Patrick Druschel
SPD (five councilors): Ursula Schmidt-Finger (3rd BGM), Bernd Müller, Boris Lauer, Laurent Vigliione, Anna Nowogrotza
CSU (two local councils): Sebastian Heidenfelder, Dieter Weller

tax income

The municipal tax revenue in 2017 was € 1,095,000, of which the property tax revenue was € 108,000, the trade tax revenue (net) € 230,000, the portion of income tax € 697,000 and sales tax € 57,000.

coat of arms

“The coat of arms is divided by silver and red, not by a tin division as in the first drafts, but by a so-called notch (between two battlements), which is supposed to symbolize the castle as a local landmark. Above (in silver) the coat of arms of the Freiherren von Thüngen Lutz'scher line, below in red a silver, six-spoke cogwheel as a symbol for the local industry (and thus also for the trade) between two golden ears as a reference to agriculture in the community . "

- Heraldist Karl Haas

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

Thüngen with a solar park

In 2012, according to official statistics, there were 327 employees in the manufacturing sector and eleven in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. In other economic sectors 31 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 550 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There was one company in the manufacturing sector and three companies in the construction sector.

In 2010 there were 7 farms with an agriculturally used area of 763 ha (of which the "Hofgut" of the Barons von Thüngen cultivates over 300 ha).

In 2010, a solar park was built on a 40 hectare field of the “Hofgut” - allegedly the largest in Germany at the time, which should be able to supply “up to 30,000 households” with electricity. It is located north of the village on the Riedberg and can be seen from afar.

Established businesses

SchmitterGroup : automotive supplier
Ammersbach GmbH : Construction technology
Hugo Kämpf GmbH & Co. KG : Sawmill, the wood for the Dresden Frauenkirche is from this plant
Herbert Birnbaum Brotformenfabrik & Bäckereitechnik e. K. , since 1847, bread molds made of rattan / wood and plastic (world market leader), as well as various bakery equipment and Special machines
Trachten-Benkert : Trachten tailoring and country house fashion
Kress-Bau GmbH : Construction company
Castle brewery "Duke of Franconia" (the former castle brewery)
Fluri-Plast GmbH : Plastic processing

as well as other small and sole proprietorships

traffic

Thüngen is crossed by the B 26 . At the level of the former Gasthof Schwarzer Adler , the state road St 2437 with connection to the B 27 towards Würzburg meets the B 26. The electrified Werntalbahn is almost exclusively used by freight trains. The summer bicycle trains - the only passenger trains on the Werntalbahn - run without stopping on this railway line. The station building is privately owned.

Local public transport: OVF buses in the direction of Karlstadt / Gemünden or Arnstein / Schweinfurt.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Thüngen Castle

Burgsinner Castle

Blue tower

East of the main street in a somewhat overgrown park is the “Burgschloss” ( 49 ° 56 ′ 32.3 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 31.3 ″ E ) from the 16th century, with the “Spitalschloss” ( 49 ° 56 ′ 32.3 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 33.1 ″ E ) (also from the 16th century, but rebuilt and expanded in the 19th century in the neo-Gothic style), both of which are inhabited by families of the von Thüngen barons . To the south of it is the "Old Stock", a remnant of the early medieval castle complex. The "Burgsinner Schloss" west of the main street (also from the 16th century) serves mainly economic purposes (estate management, castle brewery). 49.9423 9.858749.9423 9.8592

From the Blue Tower, named after its former (blue) slate roof ( 49 ° 55 ′ 32.6 ″ N , 9 ° 49 ′ 53.2 ″ E ), only remains of the wall are preserved. It was built at the beginning of modern times to monitor shipping on the Main and two old roads and is located in a wood on the road to Retzbach; It can be reached from the Main hiking trail via a short, narrow path marked with a blue tower symbol. 49.925711111111 9.8314333333333

The Protestant St. George's Church ( picture ) in the center of the village was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and was due to property claims of the Catholic. Juliusspital was not rebuilt until the 19th century. Inside there are worth seeing tombstones of the von Thüngen family. The town hall from the Wilhelminian era is also located on “Planplatz” .

The former synagogue on Obergasse was damaged in 1938. After the war it was sold to a GDR refugee who ran a hand weaving mill; and has now been converted into a residential building. A memorial plaque was put up in November 2007.

On the Wern there is a historical weir (used to irrigate the meadows until the 1950s) and the “Waaghäuschen” (former cattle scale).

Architectural monuments

Main article List of architectural monuments in Thüngen

societies

FC 1920 Thüngen is the largest local club in the market town of Thüngen. In the various departments from football, carnival and gymnastics to tennis and table tennis, it offers numerous sporty and socially attractive offers. Particular emphasis is placed on the sustainable promotion and integration of young people.

Parish fair

Every year on the last weekend in September, FC 1920 Thüngen e. V. organizes the “Thüngener Kirchweih”.

education

There are the following facilities:

Day care center with after-school care center: 50 kindergarten places with around 50 children www.markt-thuengen.de/kommunale/kita.htm
Primary school with less than 10 teachers and less than 100 students www.grundschule-thuengen.de

Others

In 2007, the CSU local association was taken as an example in a " Stern article", which dealt with Edmund Stoiber's resignation from his offices as prime minister and party chairman.

literature

Fritz Kugler: Thüngener Heimatbuch , Markt Thüngen 1988, no ISBN (only available from Markt Thüngen).
Hanskarl Frhr. von Thüngen: Das Haus Thüngen 788–1988. History of a Frankish noble family. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-429-01162-0 .