Waldmannshofen (Creglingen)

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Waldmannshofen
City of Creglingen
Waldmannshofen coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 1 ″  E
Residents : 197  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : February 1, 1972
Postal code : 97993
Area code : 09335
Waldmannshofen
Waldmannshofen

Waldmannshofen is a district of Creglingen in the Main-Tauber district in the Franconian north-east of Baden-Württemberg . 284 residents live in Waldmannshofen. 66 of them live in Sechselbach, which belongs to Waldmannshofen.

geography

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates of the residential areas in the district of Waldmannshofen: OSM

Waldmannshofen is located in a three-country corner, Hohenlohe-Franconia, Lower Franconia and Middle Franconia. The place is about ten kilometers away from Creglingen in the northeastern tip of Baden-Württemberg, centrally between Würzburg (35 km), Rothenburg ob der Tauber (30 km) and Bad Mergentheim (30 km). The village of Waldmannshofen ( ⊙ ) and the hamlet of Sechselbach ( ⊙ ) belong to the district of the former municipality of Waldmannshofen .

history

middle Ages

In 807, Waldmannshofen was first mentioned in a document, in an exchange contract for goods between Emperor Charlemagne and Bishop Eigilward of Würzburg. Over the centuries, the owners of the village included the Limpurg taverns and Hohenlohe-Brauneck . Since the 14th century Waldmannshofen was a manor of the Truchsess von Baldersheim, later the Lords von Rosenberg.

Modern times

Until about 1640 the place belonged to the Lords of Rosenberg, then the Counts of Hatzfeld. The autonomous knighthood belonged to the knightly canton of Odenwald, the imperial-free knighthood in Franconia. In 1805 the place became Bavarian , in 1810 Württemberg . On February 1, 1972, Waldmannshofen was incorporated into the town of Creglingen.

Population development

The population of Waldmannshofen and the surrounding residential areas developed as follows:

year total
1961 450
1970 412
2016 264

On December 31, 2016, 264 people lived in the district of Creglingen, Waldmannshofen. These were distributed over the following places: Waldmannshofen (197 inhabitants) with Sechselbach (67 inhabitants).

coat of arms

The church at times used a seal that showed three deciduous trees on a floor. In 1968 Waldmannshofen received an official coat of arms with the blazon In gold a lying red wall anchor . The coat of arms and the red and yellow flag colors were awarded on April 3, 1968 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior.

religion

The Protestant parish of Waldmannshofen includes the district of Waldmannshofen (without Sechselbach) in the city of Creglingen. Ecclesiastically, the place was initially a branch of Lipprichhausen before it became its own parish in 1327. The church belonged to the respective local rule. The current church was rebuilt in 1780. The early Gothic east tower was retained. The Protestant pastor's office in Waldmannshofen also looks after the Protestant parish of Sechselbach.

Today the Catholics belong to Creglingen.

Culture and sights

Waldmannshofen Castle

Cultural monuments

Waldmannshofen Castle and Palace

Worth seeing is the Renaissance - castle of 1544 with the fire brigade museum , originally a moated castle . A previous building, the origins of which are believed to be in the Staufer period , went up in flames in 1523 in the dispute with the Swabian Federation .

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Personalities

literature

  • Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Waldmannshofen . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 85 ( digitized version ).
  • Martin Hahn, Jürgen Obmann, Barbara Pfundt-Tittelbach: The Pheasant Garden of Waldmannshofen. A 17th century garden in a deep sleep. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 35th year 2006, issue 3, pp. 129-133. (PDF; 9.2 MB)
  • Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . (Reprint of the edition Nördlingen, Beck, 1879). tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 406-407 .
  • Gottfried Stieber: Waldmannshofen . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 893-894 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Waldmannshofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Waldmannshofen , in: Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery , Volume 2  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Waldmannshofen in the description of the Oberamt Mergentheim from 1880  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City of Creglingen: Numbers, data and facts in an overview . Online at www.creglingen.de. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ Numbers, Creglingen: Overview of data and facts (accessed on October 28, 2013)
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 453 .
  4. ↑ Population, occupation and workplace censuses in West Germany from June 6, 1961 (municipality register)
  5. ↑ Population, occupation and workplace censuses in West Germany from May 27, 1970 (municipal register)
  6. ↑ Updated data from the city of Creglingen based on the 2011 census in the European Union (census)
  7. ^ Loßnitzer, Gfrörer: Seal of the cities and communities of the Mergentheim district. P. 159.
  8. ↑ Common Official Gazette ... of the State of Baden-Württemberg. 1968, p. 399.