Waldberg (Sandberg)
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Waldberg
Community Sandberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 14 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 54 ″ E
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| Height : | 438 (422-452) m | |
| Residents : | 540 [1] | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1972 | |
| Postal code : | 97657 | |
| Area code : | 09701 | |
Location of Waldberg in Bavaria |
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Waldberg is a district of the municipality of Sandberg in the Bavarian Rhön and lies at the foot of the Kreuzberg at 450 m above sea level. NN. The district has 626 inhabitants and belongs to the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in the administrative district of Lower Franconia in the state of Bavaria .
history
Was first documented the village forest mountain in inheritance letter of 6 September 1683 a short summary report of the princely Rentmeister's, and Domkapitelprotokoll of 11 September 1683. It had Prince Bishop sovereign Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau determines the usage and charges. The first settlers were farmers from Premich . The names of the ten settlers who moved to the "Waltberg" and started clearing are recorded in a document.
The population grew steadily, as can be seen from the number of taxes recorded in writing. In 1696 fourteen smoking hens were delivered, there were 18 in 1702, 24 in 1709, 26 in 1717 and 33 in 1727, which means that the village had grown to 33 families with just as many houses. Now the first cleared area was no longer sufficient and more new land was needed. Considerable sums had to be paid to the neighboring office of Bischofsheim for the transfer of the new cleared areas.
The rapidly growing new settlements often got into disputes with the long-established residents of the neighboring villages Gefäll , Premich , Wollbach and Stangenroth because of the grazing rights , as they had lost 4,600 acres of pastureland due to the newly built villages .
During the great pilgrimage during Holy Week, in addition to the Bischofsheim bakers, the Waldbergers and Sandberger in Unterweissenbrunn also offered their pastries. In 1748, the bakers in Bischofsheim forcibly took away the wake and their future sale was prohibited . They gave as a reason to have leased the bread and wake sales in the whole office. The bakers from the new villages were, however, allowed by the Würzburg government to sell their goods.
The school was built in 1798 and the new rectory in 1935.
The fields and pastures with the light, nutrient-poor sandy soils could soon no longer feed everyone. As in most of the villages in the Rhön, the people led a life of abject poverty until the 1930s . As a result of this development, there was a wave of emigration to the USA from around 1830 to the 1940s . Many emigrants went to Cleveland , where they worked mostly as factory workers and maids in the East borough. The German-speaking parish of St. Peter was founded there. Only a few of the emigrants returned with enough fortune to buy land and build houses. Those who stayed at home could only get by with financial help from relatives from America or through seasonal work (servants on manors, reapers, threshers, charcoal burners, peddlers, home work, fruit press, goose breeding, making utensils and carvings, working in the state forest, picking blueberries, collecting beechnuts, etc. .) keep on their property.
From 1935 the economic situation of the Waldberger improved. The construction of the Wildflecken military training area and the "Rhön Maintal" long-distance water pipeline, as well as the settlement of larger companies such as Siemens and Preh in nearby Bad Neustadt an der Saale , opened up job opportunities for the Waldbergers.
On January 1, 1972, Waldberg was incorporated into Sandberg.
religion
The majority of the population is Catholic. The Waldberg Curate belongs to the Walddörfer parish community in the Bad Neustadt deanery of the Würzburg diocese . The Church of St. Joseph Bridegroom Mariä was started in 1768 and completed in 1770. In 1779 the Johann Adam Höffner organ was installed on the two-story gallery. The little roof turret had to be renewed as early as 1860 and was replaced by a tower made of sandstone in 1928. In 1891 the sacristy was added. The high altar is said to come from a monastery in Gaibach , which was closed in the course of secularization .
The Lutherans of the place are looked after by the Evangelical Lutheran parish Bischofsheim an der Rhön , which belongs to the dean's office Bad Neustadt in the parish of Ansbach-Würzburg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .
Buildings and plants
St. Joseph Church
The St. Joseph Church was built between 1768 and 1770. The church tower with a dome was added in 1929 to replace the original roof turret. The three bells in the church tower were consecrated in 1932. The furnishings date from the 18th century. The high altar (allegedly from a secularized monastery in Gaibach ) with a central painting of St. Joseph and the side altars with Jesus and Mary are designed in the Rococo style. The pulpit is probably classical . According to the parish , the organ on the southern double gallery was built in 1779 and is attributed to Johann Adam Höffner.
Architectural monuments
See: List of architectural monuments in Waldberg
societies
There are numerous associations in Waldberg, including:
- DJK Waldberg e. V.
- Fishing club Waldberg
- Mountain rescue service Waldberg
- Waldberger Horse Friends e. V.
- Waldberg volunteer fire department
- Rhön musicians Waldberg
- Permaculture Association Waldgeister e. V.
literature
- Rhön Biosphere Reserve Bavarian Administration Office (Hrsg.): Historical cultural landscape of the forest villages - Sandberg, Waldberg, Langenleiten, Schmalwasser and Kilianshof. (= Rhön historical cultural landscape. Volume 2). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-557-5 .
- Johann Pfeufer: Rhönerisch and Franconian. A comparative folklore. 2nd Edition. Publishing house Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1972.
Web links
- Waldberg . In: Website of the municipality of Sandberg
- Waldberg . In: Die-Rhoener-Walddoerfer.de
- ARGE Büttner Röhrer: At home in the forest villages - preserving and developing home (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The district of Waldberg. In: Municipality of Sandberg. Retrieved July 20, 2016 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 428 .
- ^ Johann Adam Höffner Organ
- ^ Roswitha Altrichter: Churches in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld. Rötter, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 2010, p. 212.
- ↑ Marion Eckert: Image of the St. Joseph Church with roof turrets. In: RhoenundSaalepost.de. June 5, 2020, accessed June 9, 2020 .
