Willmars

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '  N , 10 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Rhön-Grabfeld
Management Community :	Ostheim in front of the Rhön
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.17 km 2
Residents:	581 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97647
Area code :	09779
License plate :	NES, CAN, MET
Community key :	09 6 73 182
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Marktstrasse 24 97645 Ostheim vdRhön
Website :	www.willmars.rhoen-saale.net
Mayor :	Reimund Voss ( SPD / FWG)
Location of the community of Willmars in the Rhön-Grabfeld district

Palace Square in Völkershausen

Willmars from the north

Willmars is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld and a member of the Ostheim vor der Rhön administrative community .

geography

The municipality is located in the Main-Rhön region in the border triangle of Hesse-Bavaria-Thuringia.

Community structure

Willmars has four officially named districts:

• Oberfilke
• Unterfilke
• Völkershausen
• Willmars

There are the districts Filke, Völkershausen and Willmars.

history

Until the church is planted

Willmars belonged to the Counts of Botenlauben , a branch line of the Counts of Henneberg . Count Otto II von Henneberg-Botenlauben ceded the place to the Fulda monastery in 1230 . It was pledged to the Counts of Henneberg-Römhild and was acquired by the Henneberg-Schleusingen line in 1453 and incorporated into the Maßfeld office. After their extinction in 1583, the place was part of the Duchy of Saxony. From 1680 it belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . One half of the place was stately Saxon, the other half belonged to Ganerbe who belonged to the imperial knighthood. Oberfilke and Unterfilke as well as Völkershausen belonged to the imperial knighthood ( Lords of Stein ) until 1803 .

Willmars came in 1808 with Filke, Völkershausen, Neustädtles and Sands to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg of the Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany . By means of a state treaty in 1808, he acquired the rights (village and community rulership) of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. In 1814 the place and its current districts fell to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , the municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1971, the previously independent community of Filke was incorporated. Völkershausen was added on April 1, 1972.

Population development

• 1961: 820 inhabitants
• 1970: 799 inhabitants
• 1987: 673 inhabitants
• 1991: 755 inhabitants
• 1995: 733 inhabitants
• 2000: 717 inhabitants
• 2005: 687 inhabitants
• 2010: 650 inhabitants
• 2015: 620 inhabitants

politics

Mayor and City Council

Mayor is Reimund Voss (Free Voting Association, FWG). He was elected to succeed Wolf Pittorf (Bürgergemeinschaft) in 2002 and was confirmed in office in 2008 with 84.17% of the votes and in 2014 with 90.99% of the votes.

The municipal council consists of eight members. All belong to the FWG.

coat of arms

Description of coat of arms : Divided; at the top divided by silver and red, at the top a black sloping bar , at the bottom a silver crown ; below, in gold on a green three-mountain, a red- armored black hen .

Symbolism: The crown in the coat of arms is reminiscent of the royal estate in the early Middle Ages. The black hen on the Dreiberg refers to the landlords and territorial lords of the Counts of Henneberg (Henneberg coat of arms). The lords (later barons) von Stein were associated with the municipality in the late Middle Ages. Your coat of arms, the black crossbar in silver, is intended to indicate this rare historical continuity.

The coat of arms was approved on August 17, 1982; the design comes from Karl Nikolaus Haas ( heraldist from Kronach).

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were twelve employees in the manufacturing sector and no employees in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. In other economic sectors, 44 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were 220 employees subject to social security contributions at the place of residence. There were three in the manufacturing sector and no operations in the main construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were seven farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​610 ha, of which 508 ha were arable land and 102 ha were permanent green space.

education

In 2017 there were the following institutions:

• 25 kindergarten places with 26 children
• Children's home Nicolhaus with 48 places
• Herbert Meder School Unsleben
• Four school classes from the Ostheim primary school are taught in containers next to the school building and cooperate with the Herbert Meder School

Attractions

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Willmars

Ruin wall skull

Jewish cemetery (new part)

Jewish cemetery (old part)

• Wall skull ruin between Willmars and Filke
• The Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of Willmars on the boundary of the neighboring community Neustädtles was established in 1727 by the Hessian Baron Carl Ludwig Schenck von Schweinsberg . Today around 370 tombstones can still be found there. The cemetery is in very good condition. It is divided into an older and a newer half.
• Evangelical church with tower basement from Romanesque and wall paintings in the choir from pre-Reformation times. The pulpit, which was renovated in 1590, and the font from 1592 have been preserved. The church tower with its French dome and lantern dates from 1719/20, the tower clock from 1793 and the organ from 1759.

Personalities

• Gustav Adelbert Seyler (1846–1935), politician, librarian and heraldist, was born in Willmars.

literature

• Ernst Luther: Adeline Elisabeth Rohn from Willmars. In: Unterfränkisches Heimatblatt, Schweinfurt, 3 (1951), 8, p. 1.
• Gerhard Schätzlein: Filke - a district of Willmars . Willmars 1978
• Barbara Rösch, Gerhard Schätzlein: Borderline experiences 1945–1990 - photos, texts, statements . Wilmars 1993
• Peter Breitling: Villages on the border - economic, social and urban planning principles of the rehabilitation of rural communities in border areas near the border until mid-1989, illustrated using the example of the community of Willmars . Munich 1990
• Erika Rust: ... the Statue of Liberty with tears in her eyes ... - Memoirs of Max Strauss from Willmars . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Rhön-Grabfeld district, Mellrichstadt, 25 (2003), pp. 316–344
• Deanery Bad Neustadt an der Saale: Origin and life of Protestant communities in Rhön a. Grave field . Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1984, pp. 172-180

Web links

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

• Entry on the coat of arms of Willmars  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Willmars: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Willmars in the Rhön Lexicon

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]/192129&attr=OBJ&val= 1619
3. ↑ exchange of territory in 1808 Rhon lexicon
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 520 .
5. ↑ Summary presentation by the former mayor Gerhard Schätzlein "The Jewish cemetery in Neustädles, formerly the Jewish community of Willmars" , Willmars 2008 (6 pages, loose-leaf collection).