Wörnitz (municipality)

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Wörnitz (municipality)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 10 ° 15'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
County : Ansbach
Management Community : Schillingsfürst
Height : 466 m above sea level NHN
Area : 24.46 km 2
Residents: 1834 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 75 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 91637
Primaries : 09868, 07950 , 09869Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : AN , DKB, FEU, ROT
Community key : 09 5 71 228
LOCODE : DE WOZ
Community structure: 17 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rothenburger Str. 10
91637 Wörnitz
Website : www.woernitz.de
Mayor : Karl Beck ( General Independent Citizens )
Location of the municipality of Wörnitz in the district of Ansbach
Landkreis Donau-Ries Ansbach Fürth Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim Landkreis Fürth Landkreis Roth Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen Unterer Wald Lehrberg Adelshofen (Mittelfranken) Bechhofen (Mittelfranken) Bruckberg (Mittelfranken) Buch am Wald Burk Colmberg Dentlein am Forst Diebach Dietenhofen Dinkelsbühl Dombühl Ehingen (Mittelfranken) Feuchtwangen Flachslanden Gebsattel Gerolfingen Geslau Heilsbronn Insingen Langfurth Leutershausen Lichtenau (Mittelfranken) Merkendorf (Mittelfranken) Mönchsroth Neuendettelsau Neusitz Oberdachstetten Ohrenbach Petersaurach Röckingen Rothenburg ob der Tauber Rügland Sachsen bei Ansbach Schillingsfürst Schnelldorf Schopfloch (Mittelfranken) Steinsfeld Unterschwaningen Wassertrüdingen Weidenbach (Mittelfranken) Weihenzell Weiltingen Wettringen (Mittelfranken) Wieseth Windelsbach Windsbach Wittelshofen Wörnitz (Gemeinde) Wolframs-Eschenbach Wilburgstetten Ornbau Mitteleschenbach Herrieden Dürrwangen Burgoberbach Aurach (Landkreis Ansbach) Arberg Baden-Württembergmap
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Wörnitz is a municipality in the district of Ansbach in Middle Franconia . The community is a member of the Schillingsfürst administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Wörnitz is located in the Frankenhöhe Nature Park ; The Wörnitz flows through the municipality .

Neighboring communities

The neighboring municipalities are (starting in the north in a clockwise direction):

Community structure

The municipality has 17 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Felsenkeller , Morrieden and Sandmühle are not officially named parts of the municipality.

climate

  • Diagram of mean precipitation values ​​in Wörnitz for the period from 1961 to 1990

  • Precipitation diagram for Wörnitz (blue curve) in front of the mean values ( quantiles ) for Germany (gray)

In Wörnitz, the average annual rainfall is 800 mm.

Place name

The place is first mentioned in a document in 1357 as "Nydern Werntzze". The place name is derived from the Wörnitz river of the same name, which flows through the municipality .

history

Until the church is planted

The main town of Wörnitz is located at the crossroads of formerly important military roads and was destroyed several times in the Middle Ages and early modern times. An old settlement on today's Brambach corridor is said to have been completely burned down in 1388. In 1449 parts of the Wörnitz district were again devastated. In the Thirty Years War , the place was destroyed several times from 1632. Dense fog, which made the village invisible to the imperial and Croatian troops ( called Turks because of their colorful uniforms ), has spared the place from further destruction. Since then, the so-called Turks' bell has been taking place in Wörnitz at eight o'clock in the morning .

With the community edict (early 19th century) the tax district Wettringen was formed, to which the places Bastenau , Bösennördlingen , Ebertsmühle , Groß- and Kleinulrichshausen , Mittelstetten , Morrieden , Oberwörnitz , Riedenberg , Rosenhof , Sandmühle and Unterwörnitz belonged. A little later the rural community Wettringen was formed, to which all places of the tax district plus Walkersdorf were assigned . It was subordinate to the regional court of Rothenburg in administration and jurisdiction . In 1961 the municipality had an area of ​​11.506 km².

20th century

The town center was extensively renovated in 1990. A large sculpture was placed on the village square in front of the village church of St. Martin, reminding of the repeated destruction of the place and the sparing of the "Turks".

Incorporations

On November 1, 1971, the independent communities of Bottenweiler and Erzberg were merged with Wörnitz.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population increased from 1149 to 1806 by 657 inhabitants or 57.2% - the highest percentage increase in the Ansbach district in the period mentioned.

Wörnitz municipality

year 1818 1840 1852 1861 1867 1871 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1919 1925 1933 1939 1946 1950 1961 1970 1987 1995 2005 2015
Residents 484 574 568 569 528 522 529 551 541 544 544 515 540 538 531 522 500 480 637 655 531 585 1138 1528 1640 1772
Houses 92 105 106 112 115 115 109 120 309 466
source

Part of the municipality (Lower) Wörnitz

year 001818 001840 001861 001871 001885 001900 001925 001950 001961 001970 001987
Residents 137 159 153 133 165 147 * 173 * 255 * 178 215 456
Houses 27 34 35 38 * 42 * 41 * 44 128
source
*including rock cellar and sand mill

politics

Municipal council

After the last local election on March 16, 2014 , the local council has twelve members, all of whom belong to the Free Voting Group . The turnout was 52.44%. Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor.

mayor

Karl Beck has been the mayor since May 2002.

badges and flags

The municipality of Wörnitz has had its own coat of arms since 1984.

Wörnitz coat of arms
 Blazon : "In silver, a green linden tree growing out of a green three-mountain, which is covered with a silver wave bar, flanked by two red tin towers, which are connected by a red wall."

Red-white-green municipal flag

Justification of the coat of arms: The two red towers come from the coat of arms of the imperial city of Rothenburg , which Wörnitz was in possession of from 1406 to 1803. The green linden tree represents the old judicial linden tree of Wörnitz. The green three mountain with the wavy bar symbolizes the agricultural structure and the geographic location of the municipality in the valley of the Wörnitz .

Culture and sights

Village square in Wörnitz with the village church of St. Martin and the judicial linden tree

Buildings

The village church of St. Martin is located in the center of Wörnitz . In the village square in front of it there is an old linden tree . A sculpture reminds of the sparing of the place in the Thirty Years War, the land consolidation in 1977 and the village renewal in 1990.

Architectural monuments

Regular events

Every two years in September in southern Germany's largest commercial vehicle - classic car meeting held in Wörnitz. At the 11th meeting in 2009, around 300 vehicles from all over Germany and other European countries were represented.

The consecration of the St. Martin Church in Wörnitz, including the festivities, consisting of a festive church service, entertainment program, and several cultural and culinary offers from the local associations, takes place annually on a weekend in October (usually between October 21 and October 24) in the center of the village Georg-Ehnes-Platz.

Economy and Infrastructure

Wörnitz is a member of the Romantic Franconian Tourist Association.

traffic

The national road 2419 , the part of the romantic road is leading to the junction 109 of the Bundesautobahn 7 or on Mittelstetten past the junction 49 of the Bundesautobahn 6 . The district road AN 5 leads to Bösennördlingen or via Oberwörnitz to St 2246 . The district road AN 16 leads to Bastenau . Communal roads lead to Bersbronn , Ulrichshausen and past the sand mill to Mittelstetten .

The place had a stop on the Steinach near Rothenburg – Dombühl railway line, which was closed in 1971 .

Personalities

  • Georg Ehnes (1920–1991), a former member of the CSU state parliament and Bundestag, comes from Mittelstetten.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wörnitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Wörnitz in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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. ^ Community Wörnitz in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ W.-A. v. Reitzenstein, p. 247.
  4. ^ Address and statistical manual for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 67 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ a b c Eduard Vetter (Hrsg.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 227-228 ( digitized version ). According to the historical municipality register , the municipality had 572 inhabitants.
  6. ↑ a b c Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 818 ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ Friedrich Ringler (President of the Land Consolidation Directorate Ansbach): A sign of rural reorganization through land consolidation and village renewal in Wörnitz
  8. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 562 .
  9. ↑ a b Only inhabited houses are given. In 1818 these were designated as fireplaces , in 1840 as houses , and from 1871 to 2015 as residential buildings.
  10. ↑ a b Alphabetical index of all the localities contained in the Rezatkreise according to its constitution by the newest organization: with indication of a. the tax districts, b. Judicial Districts, c. Rent offices in which they are located, then several other statistical notes . Ansbach 1818, p. 96 ( digitized version ). For the community of (Unter-) Wörnitz plus the residents and buildings of Bösennördlingen (p. 11), Ebertsmühle (p. 20), Großulrichshausen (p. 33), Kleinulrichshausen (p. 49), Mittelstetten (p. 60), Mörrieden (P. 60), Oberwörnitz (p. 69), Riedenberg (p. 76), Rosenhof (p. 77), Sandmühle (p. 80) and Walkersdorf (p. 99).
  11. ^ A b c d e f g h i Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality directory: The population of the municipalities of Bavaria from 1840 to 1952 (=  contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 192). Munich 1954, DNB  451478568 , p. 182 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00066439-3 ( digitized version ).
  12. ↑ a b Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1076 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ).
  13. ↑ Kgl. Statistisches Bureau (Ed.): Directory of the municipalities of the Kingdom of Bavaria according to the status of the population in December 1867 . XXI. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Ackermann, Munich 1869, p. 172 ( digitized version ).
  14. ↑ a b Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1244 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized version ).
  15. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Community directory for the Kingdom of Bavaria. Manufactured due to the new organization of government districts, district offices and judicial districts. Addendum to issue 36 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1879, p. 68 ( digitized version ).
  16. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Community directory for the Kingdom of Bavaria. Results of the census of December 1, 1880. Issue 35 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1882, p. 195 ( digitized version ).
  17. ↑ a b K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section III, Sp. 1179–1180 ( digitized version ).
  18. ↑ a b K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1250 ( digitized version ).
  19. ↑ a b Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1288 ( digitized version ).
  20. ↑ a b Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 1115-1116 ( digitized version ).
  21. ↑ a b Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Official local directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 172 ( digitized version ).
  22. ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 333 ( digitized version ).
  23. ^ Wörnitz (municipality): Official statistics of the LfStat
  24. ↑ http://www.wahlen.bayern.de/kommunalwahlen/
  25. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Wörnitz (municipality)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  26. ↑ Wörnitz. In: Kommunalflaggen.eu. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .