Urspringen

This article describes the community in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart in Bavaria; for the district of the Lower Franconian community Ostheim vor der Rhön in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld, see Ostheim vor der Rhön

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Main-Spessart
Management Community :	Marktheidenfeld
Height :	270 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.99 km 2
Residents:	1400 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	78 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97857
Area code :	09396
License plate :	MSP
Community key :	09 6 77 193
Community structure:	1 district
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchstrasse 7 97857 Urspringen
Website :	www.urspringen.de
Mayor :	Volker Hemrich ( Original Unit List )
Location of the community of Urspringen in the Main-Spessart district

Urspringen is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart and a member of the Marktheidenfeld administrative community .

geography

Originingen is in the Würzburg region.

There is only one district and the district of Urspringen.

Originingen district

Surname

etymology

The name Urspringen is based on a plural form of the Middle High German word ursprinc . This refers to the sources of the Grummibach , which rises in the place and flows into the Karbach .

Earlier spellings

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

• 1159 Urspringen
• 1317 Vrspringen
• 1376 Vrspringe
• 1456 origins
• 1457 Urspringen

history

Until the church is planted

The name of the settlement is first attested in a document in 1159 as "Urspringen". The former office of the Grafschaft Castell , which was part of the Franconian Empire from 1500 , finally fell to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg in 1810 after the mediatization (1806) through border adjustments , with which it finally came to Bavaria in 1814 . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population increased from 1159 to 1382 by 223 inhabitants or 19.2%.

• 1910: 0991 inhabitants (census of December 1, 1910)
• 1961: 1065 inhabitants
• 1970: 1168 inhabitants
• 1987: 1160 inhabitants
• 1991: 1198 inhabitants
• 1995: 1254 inhabitants
• 2000: 1293 inhabitants
• 2005: 1313 inhabitants
• 2010: 1356 inhabitants
• 2015: 1344 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Mayor has been Volker Hemrich since May 1, 2014 (nominated by the Urspringer standard list); he was elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 91.5% of the vote. The predecessor was Heinz Nätscher (Free Voters).

Municipal council

In the municipal council election on March 15, 2020 , only the nomination of the Urspring Unified List was submitted, which received 99.35% of the votes and whose applicants received the twelve mandates after a majority of votes. The local elections in 2002, 2008 and 2014 resulted in the following allocation of seats in the local council:

	2002	2008	2014
CSU / Citizens' Block	5	6th	6th
Free voters	7th	6th	5
Alternative for Urspringen	-	-	1
total	12	12	12

Wind Turbine Controversy

The way the community of Urspringen deals with wind power was the subject of an ARD television program from the series “Exklusiv im Ersten” which was broadcast on August 1, 2016. Claudia Butter and Achim Reinhardt showed recordings of the wind turbines in the region under the title “The battle for the wind turbines” and wanted to have shown in the broadcast that members of the local council had gained personal advantages from the construction of the wind farm.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Urspringen

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

According to official statistics, there were 50 employees at the place of work in the manufacturing sector and 15 in the trade and transport sector. In other economic sectors 37 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 511 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were five companies in the manufacturing sector and two in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 32 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1090 ha, of which 1060 ha were arable land and 28 ha were permanent green space.

education

The following institutions exist (as of: 1999):

• Kindergartens: a kindergarten with two standard groups and one toddler group
• Schools: a primary school 1st – 4th class
• Memorial and documentation center for the history of the Jews of the Main-Spessart district in the former synagogue of the town, a memorial plaque commemorates its former purpose

Honorary citizen

• Josef Hasenfuß (born June 28, 1901 in Karbach; † October 31, 1983 in Karbach) was a Catholic clergyman and professor of theology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Josef Vogt (* February 18, 1884, † March 7, 1967), SS-Standartenführer in the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office

Web links

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

• Official website of Urspringen
• Entry on the coat of arms of Urspringen  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Origin : Official statistics of the LfStat

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]/230925&attr=OBJ&val= 1748
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 228 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ http://www.mainpost.de/regional/main-spessart/CSU-in-Urspringen-gestaeckt;art776,8033497
5. ↑ 2020 municipal council election , accessed on July 3, 2020
6. ↑ Available in the ARD media library until August 3, 2017: Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
7. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 196