Wattendorf

This article deals with the community in Upper Franconia. For further meanings see Wattendorf (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′  N , 11 ° 8 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Bamberg
Management Community :	Steinfeld
Height :	530 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.24 km 2
Residents:	639 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	96196
Area code :	09504
License plate :	BA
Community key :	09 4 71 209
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 9 96196 Wattendorf
Website :	www.wattendorf-oberfranken.de
Mayor :	Thomas Betz (CSU / Bojendorfer constituency)
Location of the municipality Wattendorf in the Bamberg district

Wattendorf is the smallest municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and a member of the Steinfeld administrative community . Since the excavation campaigns started in the Wattendorf quarry in 2004, the Wattendorf limestone has been considered an important fossil deposit .

geography

The place is on the edge of Franconian Switzerland on the Jura ascent in the eastern part of the Bamberg district.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north in a clockwise direction): Weismain ( Lichtenfels district ), Stadelhofen , Scheßlitz , Bad Staffelstein and Lichtenfels (both Lichtenfels district).

Community structure

Wattendorf is divided into five districts:

• Wattendorf (216 inhabitants)
• Bojendorf (157 inhabitants)
• Graefenhäusling (211 inhabitants)
• Moraviahüll (74 inhabitants)
• Schneeberg (60 inhabitants)

history

Until the church is planted

Wattendorf is an old settlement area, which has existed since the time of the linear ceramic band , in the late 6th or early 5th millennium BC. BC, was settled.

The first written mention goes back to the year 1180; at that time the place was owned by the Counts of Andechs . From 1260 to 1274 Wattendorf was owned by the Count of Truhendingen . In 1274 he donated Gut Wattendorf to the Cistercian monastery Langheim , to which it belonged until the secularization in 1803. The position of the monastery in relation to the bishopric of Bamberg became weaker and weaker over time, so that at the end of the Old Kingdom one can almost speak of a mediat of the bishopric. Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place like large parts of Franconia belong to Bavaria (see also history of Franconia ). In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent communities Bojendorf (with Moraviahüll) and Graefenhäusling were incorporated.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population fell from 716 to 646 by 70 or 9.8%, which is the most significant decrease in the number of inhabitants in the district in the period mentioned. A peak was reached on December 31, 1994 with 727 inhabitants.

• 1961: 814 inhabitants
• 1970: 753 inhabitants
• 1987: 723 inhabitants
• 1991: 719 inhabitants
• 1995: 721 inhabitants
• 2000: 722 inhabitants
• 2005: 707 inhabitants
• 2010: 680 inhabitants
• 2015: 662 inhabitants

religion

According to the census on May 9, 2011, 97.0% (674) of the population are Roman Catholic and 2.2% (15) Protestant Lutheran. 0.8% (6) have another religion or are non-denominational.

politics

mayor

The first mayor has been Thomas Betz (CSU / Bojendorfer voter community) since 2014 , who received 71.57% of the votes in an opposing candidate and was confirmed in office in 2020 without opposing candidates with 86.86% of the votes. His predecessor was Rudolf Krapp of the CSU since 1978 , who was re-elected for the fifth time in 2008 with 86.96% of the vote.

Municipal council

Election of the municipal councils in Wattendorf 2014 :

• CSU 2 seats (29.4%)
• Gräfenhäusling community of voters 2 seats (27.4%)
• Bojendorfer constituency 2 seats (22.3%)
• Free voters Moraviahüll 1 seat (11.6%)
• Free voters Schneeberg 1 seat (9.3%)

Election of the municipal councils in Wattendorf 2008 :

• CSU 3 seats (30.2%)
• Gräfenhäusling community of voters 2 seats (28.3%)
• Bojendorfer constituency 2 seats (22.9%)
• Free voters Moraviahüll 1 seat (9.5%)
• Free voters Schneeberg 0 seats (9.1%)

Election of the municipal councils in Wattendorf 2002:

• CSU 3 seats (30.9%)
• Bojendorfer constituency 2 seats (27.6%)
• Gräfenhäusling community of voters 2 seats (25.6%)
• Free voters Moraviahüll 1 seat (10.7%)
• Free voters Schneeberg 0 seats (5.2%)

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in blue a silver eagle looking to the left; behind a golden cup from which a golden abbot's staff grows.

The eagle and the color blue are reminiscent of the Dukes of Andechs-Meranien , who exercised power over Wattendorf until 1248. The chalice and the abbot's staff remind of the donation of the place to the Cistercian monastery Langheim by the counts of Truhendingen in the year 1260.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Wattendorf

Economy and Infrastructure

Breweries

In Wattendorf there are still two small family breweries, the Huebner Brewery and the Dremel Brewery. Franconian beer specialties are served in both.

Voluntary fire brigades

There are volunteer fire departments in Bojendorf, Graefenhäusling and Wattendorf . The Graefenhäusling fire brigade has a TSF (with group crew based on a former fire fighting vehicle ); the Wattendorf fire brigade can use an HLF 10 and an MZF .

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics in the manufacturing industry and in the trade and transport sector, there were no employees at work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 305 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were nine companies in the manufacturing sector and no companies in the main construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 79 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1220 hectares, of which 1078 hectares were arable land and 140 hectares were permanent green space.

Wattendorfer Plattenkalk

The pterosaur found in Wattendorf limestone in 2012 in the exhibition of the Natural History Museum in Bamberg

In a quarry near Wattendorf, high-purity limestone (Wattendorfer Kalk) and dolomite (dolomitized reef limestone ) from the late Jurassic period ( Kimmeridgian , approx. 155 million years old) are mined. In 2002, Thomas Bechmann, the taxidermist at the Natural History Museum in Bamberg , came across fossils of fish and crabs in one of the intervals made of thin-plate, laminated limestone (" Plattenkalk "), which are included in the sequence between the Wattendorfer Kalk and the reef dolomite . The Bamberg Natural History Museum has been conducting excavation campaigns since 2004. For the excavation, part of the fossil-bearing layer package is freed from the overlying, fossil-poor layers by an excavator and then completely dismantled over the course of several weeks. For safety reasons, it is strictly forbidden to enter the quarry by unauthorized persons.

The discovery of the fossil deposit in the Wattendorfer Platte Limestone, at the northern end of the superficial distribution area of ​​the White Jurassic Limestone , led in the following years to spectacular discoveries of some previously unknown species . In 2012, for example, a pterosaur with long legs and trap teeth was uncovered.

The Wattendorfer Plattenkalke are interpreted as lagoon deposits. They were created in a similar way to the Solnhofen limestone , only a few million years earlier. According to previous knowledge, the deposit in Wattendorf has an even greater fossil density than the world-famous fossil deposit in Solnhofen. Prepared finds are presented in the Bamberg Natural History Museum.

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. ^ Bavarian State Library Online (BLO). In: bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de. Retrieved December 30, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Johannes Neumann: The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803: Requirements and consequences (PDF file; 179 kB)
4. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 673 .
5. ^ The Plattenkalke of Wattendorf. Wattendorf excavation 2014. CFRP Fossils Coburg (private fossil collector website), accessed on July 4, 2018
6. ↑ Wattendorf excavation 2017. CFK-Fossilien Coburg (private fossil collector website), accessed on July 4, 2018
7. ↑ Bavaria: Researchers celebrate sensational pterosaur discovery. In: Spiegel Online . August 24, 2012, accessed December 30, 2016 . 
8. ^ Franconia on the edge of the Jura - petrified treasures from the Wattendorfer lagoon. Website of the Natural History Museum Bamberg, accessed on July 4, 2018

Web links

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

• Entry on the coat of arms of Wattendorf  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Wattendorf: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.24 MB)