Waldbrunn (Lower Franconia)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ' N , 9 ° 48' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Bavaria | |
Administrative region : | Lower Franconia | |
County : | Wurzburg | |
Height : | 315 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 6.62 km 2 | |
Residents: | 2852 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 431 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 97295 | |
Area code : | 09306 | |
License plate : | WÜ , OCH | |
Community key : | 09 6 79 204 | |
Community structure: | 1 district | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Hauptstrasse 2 97295 Waldbrunn |
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Mayor : | Markus Haberstumpf ( CSU ) | |
Location of the community Waldbrunn in the district of Würzburg | ||
Waldbrunn is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg .
geography
Waldbrunn is about twelve kilometers west of Würzburg . There is only the district Waldbrunn. It borders on Eisingen , Waldbüttelbrunn and the community-free area " Irtenberger Wald ".
Surname
etymology
The name Waldbrunn consists of the Old High German words wallen and brunno . They mean “gush” and “spring”. The place was therefore built on a bubbling spring. But ahd. Walt (forest) can also be used as a determinant . In this case you would have to the failure of the Dentals t accept because of Mehrkonsonanz.
Earlier spellings
Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:
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history
The name of the settlement is first attested in 1164 as "whale fountain" in a document. As part of the Hochstift Würzburg ( Oberzell Monastery ), which belonged to the Franconian Empire , Waldbrunn was secularized in 1803 in favor of Bavaria, then in the Peace of Pressburg (1805) left to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , with which it finally fell to Bavaria in 1814 . In 1818, as part of the Bavarian administrative reforms, the political municipality was created.
Population development
- 1910: 591 inhabitants
- 1950: 873 inhabitants
- 1961: 903 inhabitants
- 1970: 1129 inhabitants
- 1987: 2061 inhabitants
- 1991: 2264 inhabitants
- 1995: 2484 inhabitants
- 2000: 2566 inhabitants
- 2005: 2557 inhabitants
- 2010: 2615 inhabitants
- 2015: 2707 inhabitants
- 2020: 2887 inhabitants
politics
mayor
Ludwig Götzelmann (UBG) was mayor from 2002 to 2008, and in 2002 he succeeded Arnulf Wilhelm (Independent Citizens' Community). Hans Fiederling (Independent Citizens' Community) held this office from 2008 to 2020. Markus Haberstumpf (CSU) has been Mayor of Waldbrunn since May 1, 2020; with a turnout of 62.1%, he was elected without an opponent on March 15, 2020 with 90.6% of the vote.
Municipal council
The community council of Waldbrunn has 14 members. The election on March 15, 2020 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
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CSU | 7th |
Independent community of citizens | 4th |
SPD | 3 |
total | 14th |
coat of arms
The description of the municipal coat of arms, introduced in 1958, reads: "In blue a golden draw well with a tiled roof, each with a rooted silver deciduous tree."
Alliance Waldsassengau
Since November 20, 2014, Waldbrunn has been organized together with twelve other municipalities in the Alliance Waldsassengau . The association serves the intercommunal cooperation.
Architectural monuments
Economy and Infrastructure
Economy including agriculture and forestry
In 2017 there were 328 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 1120 people were in employment that was subject to compulsory insurance. The number of out-commuters was 792 more than that of in-commuters. 25 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were four farms.
traffic
There is a transport connection to the federal motorway 3 from Frankfurt to Würzburg via the Helmstadt junction and a direct bus connection to Würzburg. Waldbrunn is connected to several regional cycle paths: Romantic Road , Aalbachtal cycle path , Franconian Marienweg and Würzburg - Wertheim .
education
There are the following institutions (as of 2020):
- 2 day care centers + forest kindergarten: approx. 200 kindergarten places
- primary school
Web links
- Website of the community of Waldbrunn
- Entry on the coat of arms of Waldbrunn (Lower Franconia) in the database of the House of Bavarian History
- Waldbrunn (Lower Franconia): Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.05 MB)
- Waldbrunn community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ "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 ).
- ↑ 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. 233 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Horst-Günter Wagner : The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 396–426 and 1298–1302, here: p. 425 (source: Bavarian State Office for Statistics, municipal data).
- ↑ 2020 municipal council election , accessed on July 14, 2020
- ↑ 2020 municipal council election , accessed on July 14, 2020
- ^ Alliance Waldsassengau in the west of Würzburg. Society. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 29, 2016 ; accessed on January 20, 2016 . 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.