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City of Alzenau
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| Height : | 173 m |
| Residents : | 2660 (May 1, 2009) |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 63755 |
| Area code : | 06023 |
Wasserlos is a district of the Lower Franconian city of Alzenau in Bavaria .
geography
The wine village of Wasserlos has 2660 inhabitants. It is located in the Kahlgrund on the state road 2444 between the core town of Alzenau and Hörstein, at the foot of the Hahnenkamm and its secondary peak, the Schanzenkopf . The topographically highest point of the village marking is below the summit of the Hahnenkamm at 408 m above sea level. NN (location) , the lowest is east of Kahl am Neufeldsee at 108 m above sea level. NN (location) . The Degen-Weg leads through the village .
Part of Wasserlos is outside the closed village. Some houses on the north-eastern outskirts of Kahl am Main are on the boundary of Wasserlos.
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etymology
It is wrongly believed that the name Wasserlos derives from the fact that the place once remained waterless . The name comes from the Middle High German word wasserlôse , which means something like a ditch for draining water .
Earlier spellings
Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:
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history
prehistory
Archaeologically, there is evidence of a Celtic cemetery from the third to the first century BC.
middle Ages
The oldest written mention of Wasserlos can be found in a document from 1268. Wasserlos belonged to the Alzenau court , which in turn was part of the Wilmundsheim vor dem Berge free court . The free court was directly imperial , but the empire pledged or lent the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg and the lords of Eppstein .
Since the 14th century the local noble family is Schelriß in waterless detectable whose castle at the behest 1405 King Ruprecht as robber barons seat was destroyed.
Modern times
In 1500 , the Roman-German King Maximilian I enfeoffed the Archbishop of Mainz and the Count of Hanau-Munzenberg together with the Freigericht, which they now administered as a condominium . Since ecclesiastical jurisdiction remained with the Archbishops of Mainz at the time of the condominium , the Reformation - in contrast to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg - could not prevail here. Roman Catholic remained without water .
When Count Johann Reinhard III. The last male representative of the House of Hanau died in 1736, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel was the heir to the County of Hanau-Munzenberg on the basis of an inheritance contract . Whether the legacy extended to Hanau's share in the condominium was hotly debated in the years that followed between Kurmainz and Hessen-Kassel. The dispute ended in a compromise, the "party recession" of 1740, which provided for a real division of the condominium. However, it took until 1748 for the treaty to be implemented. Waterless fell to Kurmainz.
The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 proposed the Alzenau office to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which it only retained for 13 years. In 1816 the Grand Duchy ceded the office to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Since then, Wasserlos has been Bavarian.
The municipality of Wasserlos belonged to the Alzenau district office , which was formed on July 1, 1862. On January 1, 1939, this became part of the Alzenau district in Lower Franconia .
1 July 1972 Waterless was in the course of administrative reform in Bavaria in the city Alzenau incorporated .
politics
mayor
| Term of office | mayor | annotation |
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| July 1, 1869 - December 31, 1869 | Nikolaus Kerber | |
| January 1, 1870 - December 31, 1881 | Peter Braun | |
| January 1, 1882 - December 31, 1911 | Peter Kerber IV | |
| January 1, 1912 - December 31, 1925 | Georg Hofmann | |
| January 1, 1926 - April 1945 | Franz Orth | |
| May 1945 - January 1946 | Gustav Schramm | used by the military government |
| January 1945 - September 1953 | Heinrich Heilmann | |
| September 1953 - April 30, 1966 | Nicholas Hubert | |
| May 1, 1966 - June 30, 1972 | Karl Green | Incorporation to Alzenau |
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the formerly independent municipality shows, divided by a lowered rafter (blue), the letter W on top of silver and the letter A on gold below.
The lowered rafter of the Lords of Schelriß, with a castle in Wasserlos until 1405, the letter W from the old seal of the village court, and the letter A for belonging to the Seligenstadt monastery until the secularization of 1803.
Sights and buildings
- Wasserlos castle and park
- 1914 to 1920 in the neo-baroque style built St. Catherine Church in the center of the village
- Former tea pavilion in the former rose garden, which was designed and rededicated by the sculptor Hermann Faeth in 1938 as a war memorial in the cherry orchard and which is now a vantage point over the Main Valley
- European cultural route Alzenau I
Economy and Infrastructure
wine growing
Viticulture is one of the main economic factors in Wasserlos. The vineyards between Wasserlos and the neighboring district of Hörstein have been planted since the Middle Ages and at the same time represent the northern end of the Franconian wine-growing region . The abbots of the Seligenstadt monastery introduced viticulture in this area in the 13th century at the latest, from which the name of a vineyard in the neighboring district - Hörsteiner Abtsberg - still remembered.
The two vineyards Wasserlos Schloßberg and Wasserloser Luhmännchen belong to Wasserlos . Several family wineries share the management. The oldest of these wineries, named after the previous owner Richard Becker († 1961), who was the first to revive the idle viticulture of Wasserlos after the Second World War, can be traced back to the Württemberger castle lords and is therefore also known as the castle winery . The current owners (since 2000) run a hotel and a vinotheque in the village in addition to viticulture. The other wineries also offer drinks in historical farms not far from the castle.
Mainly Riesling and Müller-Thurgau are planted , as well as Bacchus , Ortega , Domina and Pinot Noir . A cuvée is also made from the last two red grape varieties mentioned . The cultivation areas on rocky soils include steep slopes with inclines of up to 70 percent, where all winemaking work is still done by hand.
Facilities
- Aschaffenburg-Alzenau Clinic - Alzenau Branch (1948 - 2014: Wasserlos District Hospital)
- "Sonnenland" daycare center
- Municipal day care center Alzenau-Wasserlos
people
Sons and Daughters of Wasserlos
- Ludwig Neu (* 1897; † 1980 in Buenos Aires), Jewish painter
- Clemens Jöckle (* 1950; † 2014 in Bad Dürkheim ), art historian
- Hubert Seipel (* 1950), journalist
- Arno Brandlhuber (* 1964), architect and university professor
- Birgit Plescher (* 1966), national basketball player
- Johannes Scherer (* 1973), radio and television presenter and comedian
- Heiko Westermann (* 1983), professional soccer player
- Björn Ziegenbein (* 1986), professional soccer player
Personalities
In Wasserlos worked:
- Ludwig Eugen von Württemberg (born January 6, 1731 in Frankfurt am Main; † May 20, 1795 in Ludwigsburg), builder of Wasserlos Castle and from 1793 Duke of Württemberg.
- Ludovica Freifrau von des Bordes, b. Brentano von La Roche (1787–1854), sister of the poet Clemens Brentano , resident of the castle and benefactress of Wasserlos
- Moritz Casimir Graf zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda (born January 16, 1798 - January 27, 1877), benefactor of the Wasserlos community, promoter of fruit tree culture and beekeeping, poet, founder of a foundation for the blind
- Günter Strack (1929–1999), actor and hobby winemaker, owned his own vineyard in the village and chose Wasserlos, his mother's birthplace, as his second home.
literature
- City of Alzenau (ed.): Alzenauer Stadtbuch, contributions to the history of the city of Alzenau and its districts , Alzenau, print: I.Götz KG, 2001, ISBN 3-00-008608-0
- City of Alzenau (ed.): Alzenauer contributions to local history. Volume 1, Ludovica Freifrau von des Bordes, née Brentano von La Roche , Alzenau, print: Steiner, 2002, ISSN 1610-4897
- Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Alzenau (ed.): Memorial book for war victims by Wasserlos , Alzenau, print: Ropa Copy, Roland Hirsch, 2003
- Manfred Frühwacht / Joachim Schulmerich: Paths to wine-based Franconia . Cocon-Verlag, Hanau 2011. ISBN 978-3-86314-208-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ residents of Alzenau (as of May 1, 2009)
- ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
- ↑ Our Kahlgrund 1980 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN 0933-1328 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 417 .
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