Waldaschaff

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '  N , 9 ° 18'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Aschaffenburg
Height :	196 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.6 km 2
Residents:	4145 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	628 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63857
Area code :	06095
License plate :	AB , ALZ
Community key :	09 6 71 156
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Mühlbach 5 63857 Waldaschaff
Website :	www.waldaschaff.de
Mayor :	Marcus Grimm ( CSU )
Location of the community Waldaschaff in the district of Aschaffenburg

The Burgstall Wahlmich before the excavations in 2016/2018

The Triftsee Dam

Waldaschaff is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in western Franconia on the threshold of the Hochspessart , approx. 15 km from Aschaffenburg and halfway between Würzburg and Frankfurt am Main . Like many villages in this area, Waldaschaff is a long place that is concentrated along the Aschaff and today's main road. Around the place are the forests of the Bavarian Spessart Nature Park , which is well known as a local recreation area. The state-approved resort is located on the federal motorway 3 (A 3), which was moved up to 500 meters further from the village in 2011 due to the expansion to six lanes and the new construction of the Kauppenbrücke for noise protection reasons. The topographically highest point of the municipality district is located at 353  m above sea level. NN (location) below the Kauppengipfels (the summit itself is in the community-free area Waldaschaffer Forst ), the lowest is near Weiler an der Aschaff at 167  m above sea level. NN (location) .

Community structure

Waldaschaff has three districts in one area :

• Waldaschaff
  • Diezenhof
  • Hockenhof

Neighboring communities

	Waldaschaffer Forest ( non- parish area)
Community Bessenbach		Waldaschaffer Forest ( non- parish area)
	Waldaschaffer Forest ( non- parish area)

Surname

etymology

The place Aschaff got its original name from the river Aschaff on which it lies. Later, to distinguish it from the nearby town of Aschaff (today Mainaschaff ), the addition of forest was added because of its location in the forest area. In the vernacular of the place is Wallooscheff [ 'wal̆ɔʊʃəf ] called.

Earlier spellings

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

• 1184: Ashapha
• 1346: Waltaschaff
• 1542: Waldaschaff

history

Early settlement movements by the Franks ( Merovingians and Carolingians ) in the upper Aschafal are suspected as early as the 5th century to the year 982 AD. Despite ongoing conflicts over the basic rule in Spessart and especially in Aschafftal by the Lords of Rieneck and the Elector of Mainz above Aschafftal belonged to as part of the chapter Aschaffenburg from the year 982 to the year 1803 Electorate of Mainz on. The first detectable settlements can only be identified in the 11th century AD by the Counts of Rieneck. The first clearing on the northern flank of the western Birkenberg was carried out from the Bessenbachtal . As a result, the first farms such as the Hockenhof , which is still standing today, were founded. A so-called first Molstatt (mill) was also there. The most important lower nobility, the lords of Wyler (von Weiler), were enfeoffed by the Counts of Rieneck with the castle (Wylerburg) they built. This was above the courtyards on a mountain spur on the northern flank of the birch mountain . The first written mention of "Waltaschaff" known to date can be found in the Forester Witness of the Electorate of Mainz, which was created for the Mainz possessions in the years 1330-1350. There is the beginning of the 14th century in Autenbachtal built Forsthube called "Ziehlhube at Waltaschaff" mentioned. Through these settlement efforts of the Mainz electors in the east and the buildings of the Counts of Rieneck from the west, Waldaschaff grew together over the centuries at the confluence of the Autenbach and Kleinaschaff rivers to form a contiguous street village .

Waldaschaff - Catholic parish church of St. Michael

Example of a half-timbered house in town

The war memorial from 1870/71

The village life of the Waldaschaffer population, which grew steadily, was characterized by compulsory labor , famine / disease, forest work and agriculture . As a result of the Thirty Years' War , the poverty-stricken village population was almost wiped out, which could be avoided by state-sponsored immigration in the second half of the 17th century.

After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1806, Waldaschaff belonged to the short-lived Principality of Aschaffenburg and with it from 1810 to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , where, together with the lake houses and the sparrow mill, it formed a mairie on the administrative territory of the Rothenbuch district fairy in the Aschaffenburg department. Maire was Philipp Hussy. His adjuncts were Franz Bahmer and Anton Schmitt. The school teacher was Peter Breunig. In 1814 Waldaschaff came to the Kingdom of Bavaria where it was located in the administrative area of ​​the regional court of the older order Rothenbuch.

On July 1, 1862, the Aschaffenburg District Office was formed from the Aschaffenburg and Rothenbuch district courts. In 1939, as everywhere in the German Empire, the designation district was introduced. Waldaschaff was one of the 33 communities in the old district of Aschaffenburg . On July 1, 1972, this merged with the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia to form the new Aschaffenburg district.

Due to the onset of industrialization , an iron hammer was built in Waldaschaff , which, like the barite pits around Waldaschaff, provided jobs in the village. Nevertheless, many Waldaschaffer men from the structurally weak Spessart (especially after the iron hammer was closed in 1856) had to travel far into the 20th century in order to be able to do a regular job.

In 1893/1894 the church of St. Michael was built in Waldaschaff, before Waldaschaff belonged to the parish of Keilberg .

The infrastructure of the community developed significantly with the construction of the A 3 in 1958 and from the mid-1960s when the YMOS metal works were expanded and other companies such as the beverage industry were established or expanded. The industrial area at Heerbach as well as a school and sports center including a gymnasium were created. The only German medal museum to date was opened in 1997 on the premises of the Göde company. From May 1, 1978 made up to 31 December 1993 Waldaschaff with Rothenbuch the administrative community Waldaschaff ; the community of Weibersbrunn also belonged to the corporation from May 1, 1978 to December 31, 1979.

In 2005, the Ebets-Rodwiese development area was built in the north of the municipality. Since 2002 the Waldaschaffer local population has been fighting with a citizens' initiative in the course of the expansion to six lanes, for the relocation of the A3 (up to 500 meters) to the south and for adequate noise protection measures. With the support of state and federal politics, these demands were put into practice in 2011 and a significant improvement in Waldaschaff's quality of life was achieved.

After its demolition, a leisure center (with sports fields, a lake, water trail) has been built on the site of the “old Kauppenbrücke” next to the adjoining festival hall and the hiking home. The two eastern bridge piers of the former Kauppenbrücke have been preserved and are a popular climbing option for the Alpine Club .

politics

Municipal council

The local council consists of 16 local councilors. The local election on March 15, 2020 resulted in the following composition of the local council:

Political party	CSU	SPD	total
Seats	9	7th	16 seats
Votes  %	56.8	43.2	100%
Turnout: 56.9%

The distribution of seats has not changed since the 2014 election.

mayor

• 1966–1984: Herbert Brehm (SPD)
• 1984-2004: Peter Winter (CSU)
• since January 5, 2004: Marcus Grimm (CSU), last re-elected on March 15, 2020 (91.7%).

coat of arms

• Blazon: In red, a slanting silver bar covered with a slanting green oak leaf; above a six-spoke silver wheel, below a silver gear.
• Coat of arms history: The six-spoke silver wheel in red is the coat of arms of the Archbishopric and the Kurstaate Mainz, to which the municipality historically belonged until 1803. The inclined wave bar and the oak leaf represent the geographical location of the municipality on the Aschaff in the oak-rich forest of the Spessart. Both the river and the forest are also included in the place name. As an industrial symbol, the cog indicates the modern development of the community into an important industrial location. The coat of arms has been in use since August 21, 1968.
• The coat of arms was updated and adapted in 2014 by the municipality of Waldaschaff.

Town twinning

•  Ireland : Waldaschaff has a partnership relationship with Clonakilty .

Culture and sights

The most famous sights of Waldaschaff are the town hall, the church of St. Michael, the Kauppenkreuz on the Kauppenberg , the restored Trift dam and lake house in the Autenbachtal, as well as the medal and local history museum. Several restored wayside shrines characterize the townscape as well as some older half-timbered houses, the oldest (a former courtyard of the Lords of Hettersdorf ) from 1665 is located on today's main street. To the west of the village across the A3 is the Burgstall Wahlmich , which was archaeologically excavated in 2016 in cooperation with the ASP and the Waldaschaff Association for Homeland Care .

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Waldaschaff

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Waldaschaff

economy

Infrastructure

The municipality of Waldaschaff is connected to the transport network via the A 3 (junction Bessenbach / Waldaschaff) and the federal highways B 8 and B 26 (each accessible via the local road AB 4), which provides a fast and convenient connection to the Würzburg region and the Rhine / Main area is guaranteed. The closest cities are Aschaffenburg in the west and Lohr am Main in the east. The nearest train station is in the Hösbach train station, five kilometers away . The next port is the Bayernhafen Aschaffenburg . Three bus lines provide the public transport (public transport) Aschaffenburg via the railway station Hoesbach and direction Weibersbrunn / Roth book / Lohr safe. A powerful DSL connection has been in place since March 2012. In the west of the municipality is the “Am Heerbach” industrial park with numerous resident companies.

Established businesses

The best-known companies in Waldaschaff are Waldaschaff Automotive GmbH (formerly WAGON GmbH or YMOS AG), an automotive supplier, Spessartquellen GmbH (Heerbach Mineralwasser), a beverage manufacturer, Gagarin Arbeitsbühnen GmbH, a construction machinery rental company and the Bavarian Münzkontor - they make the place one the most important industrial locations in the Spessart. The independent Raiffeisenbank Waldaschaff-Heigenbrücken eG is based in Waldaschaff. Many smaller companies have also settled in the former climatic health resort due to the favorable location.

research

Waldaschaff is the seat of the Göde Foundation founded by Michael Göde in 1998 with an attached "Institute for Gravitational Research ", which has tried to reproduce various experiments that are supposed to show an anti-gravitational effect. The foundation has awarded a prize of one million euros for a defined experimental task to prove antigravity .

Public facilities

fire Department

The Waldaschaff fire brigade was founded in 1873 as a volunteer fire brigade . Until the 1950s, the main task of the Waldaschaff fire brigade was fire-fighting, until technical assistance, for example on the A3 motorway , arrived. The vehicle fleet has been adjusted accordingly.

The area of ​​operation includes on the A3 motorway the route to Marktheidenfeld in the direction of Würzburg and on the opposite lane in the direction of Frankfurt to the Hessian border. Furthermore, the Waldaschaff fire brigade is involved in various alarm plans of the other district brigades. This also explains the high number of missions of over 300 missions per year (average from 2008 to 2014). Two thirds of the total number of operations are technical assistance services, the rest is divided into fires, security guards and medical operations. At the turn of the millennium, the Waldaschaff fire brigade founded the “ First Responder ” (FR) group. The task of the FR group is to bridge the time between the arrival of the first vehicle of the rescue service with qualified first aid. The area of ​​application includes the local area of ​​Waldaschaff, in exceptional cases also neighboring locations.

Furthermore, there is a works fire brigade at the Waldaschaff Automotive company.

education

The Waldaschaff elementary school is divided into a primary, secondary and middle school, which currently offers space for almost 300 students. The Waldaschaff School Association also includes the communities of Rothenbuch and Weibersbrunn , from where pupils from the 5th grade attend the secondary or secondary school in Waldaschaff. The former two kindergartens located in Waldaschaff were merged in 2011 to form the “Kinderwelt Waldaschaff”.

societies

The clubs with the largest number of members are the sports club SV Viktoria Waldaschaff, the fire brigade Waldaschaff, the music club Waldaschaff and the wrestling club KSV Bavaria Waldaschaff , which also has a cycling department founded in 2010 . There is also the TTC Waldaschaff table tennis club, the 1977 model sports group, the motorsport club, SC Breite Wiese, the "Grünthal" shooting club in 1903, the 1975 fishing club, the Clonakilty circle of friends and a club ring.

sons and daughters of the town

• Peter Winter (* 1954), politician (CSU), member of the Bavarian state parliament
• Herbert Hoos (* 1965), German soccer player
• Eva Sauer (* 1995), German wrestler

Oddities

The Waldaschaffer are teased as "Lord God thieves" because local residents are said to have stolen the Bessenbach post holder's cross on September 11, 1811 .

The family name Hussy, which occurs frequently in Waldaschaff, goes back to the Waldaschaff hunter Philipp Adolph Hussy . Presumably captured during the Turkish wars in the Munkatsch fortress , baptized and raised as a Christian, he is said to have originally been called Husseyn , later written to Hussy and married in Waldaschaff in 1698.

Web links

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

• Entry on Waldaschaff's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Waldaschaff: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Website of the community of Waldaschaff

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]/222801&attr=OBJ&val= 1555
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. 232 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Local lower nobility in the Spessart area; not identical with the Swabian gentlemen from Weiler .
5. ^ Community Waldaschaff, result of the election of the local council 2020
6. ↑ https://waldaschaff.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Vorl.-Erresult-Gemeinderat-2020.pdf
7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2010 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. Göde Science Foundation 
8. ↑ Waldaschaff volunteer fire brigade with all current information; accessed on June 6, 2017
9. ↑ Adalbert von Herrlein: Aschaffenburg and its surroundings - A manual for foreigners , Aschaffenburg 1857, p. 116