Wölfershausen (Grabfeld)

Wölfershausen Municipality grave field Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 28 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 4 ″ E
Height :	334 m above sea level NN
Area :	4.35 km²
Residents :	357 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density :	82 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 2019
Postal code :	98617
Area code :	036947
	Church and parish hall

Wölfershausen is a district of the municipality Grabfeld in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia with 175 female and 182 male residents (as of December 31, 2017).

geography

Wölfershausen is located in a hilly forest landscape 10 km south of the district town of Meiningen at an altitude of 334 m above sea level (center) on the Bibra stream .

The local mountain "Ahlberg" to the east has a height of 496 m above sea level. Striking landscapes with the Thuringian Forest in the north, the Small Thuringian Forest in the northeast, the Grabfeld in the south and the Rhön in the west give the landscape around the place its character.

Wölfershausen is a district on the northern edge of the municipality of Grabfeld. The town is bordered by the communities of Ritschenhausen in the north and Neubrunn in the east.

mayor

The honorary local mayor Katrin Hössel was elected mayor on October 4, 2007 after the death of Mayor Wilfried Weiß and became mayor on January 1, 2019. On September 22, 2013, she was re-elected with 163 votes.

history

The place was first mentioned in 825 as "Uulfricheshus". Wölfershausen was counted in a tax register of the county Henneberg -Schleusingen from 1481 to the Amt Maßfeld .

Wölfershausen was affected by the persecution of witches from 1600 to 1666: Ten people got into witch trials , at least nine women were executed. The first victim in 1600 was Anna Breuning, known as Hoffmann.

In the Thirty Years War Wölfershausen was badly destroyed, the buildings burned down, people and animals were killed or driven away. Part of the church dates from around 1530, the reconstruction took place around 1750. It is a listed building and has a baroque organ.

The village restaurant "Zur Henne" received its license to drink as early as 1674 from Ernst the Pious , Duke of Saxe-Gotha .

Church, parish hall, guest house, bakery, the " signpost ", the bridges and the typical Henneberg-Franconian half-timbered houses determine the image of the village.

It is still predominantly spoken in the Henneberg - Franconian dialect .

On January 1, 2019, Wölfershausen voluntarily joined the Grabfeld community as a district.

Population development

1992 - ???
1993 - ???
1994-409
1995 - 415
1996 - 417
1997 - 425
1998-420
1999 - 418

2000-415
2001 - 421
2002 - 410
2003 - 430
2004 - 411
2005 - 390
2006 - 382
2007 - 377

2008 - 379
2009 - 375
2010 - 383
2011 - 366
2012 - 362
2013 - 343
2014 - 350
2015 - 352

2016 - 352
2017 - 357

traffic

Wölfershausen has a stop on the Schweinfurt – Meiningen railway line . The country road 2627, coming from Ritschenhausen , leads through the village to Rentwertshausen . The A 71 runs a few hundred meters east of the village . The closest junctions are the AS 22 “Meiningen-Süd” (approx. 7 km northeast) and the AS 23 “Rentwertshausen” (approx. 5 km southeast).

Aerial view of the place, looking southeast
At the signpost, behind the bakery
Church & typical views
At the foot of the Ahlberg

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Thuringian State Office for Statistics (TLS)
↑ Proof of the re-election of the mayor on the website of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics .
↑ Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 440 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Wölfershausen area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 240–244, (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000).

Web links

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

[TLS-1] Thuringian State Office for Statistics (TLS)

[2] Proof of the re-election of the mayor on the website of the Thuringian State Office for Statistics .

[3] Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 440 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Wölfershausen area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Ronald Füssel: The persecution of witches in the Thuringian area (= publications of the working group for historical witchcraft and crime research in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 240–244, (at the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 2000).