Watzendorf (large marriage)

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Watzendorf
community Großheirath
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 353 m above sea level NN
Area : 3.02 km²
Residents : 148  (2016)
Population density : 49 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 96269
Area code : 09569
Former parish hall
Former parish hall

Watzendorf is a district of the Upper Franconian community Großheirath in the Coburg district .

geography

The street village with the narrowest striped corridor is located about ten kilometers southwest of Coburg in a hollow on a ridge between the western Seßlach in Rodach Valley and the eastern Großheirath in Itzgrund .

history

Watzendorf has existed since the 9th century at the latest, but it is likely to have originated much earlier. The first written mention was in a document from 1139, in which a Konrad von Watzendorf is mentioned as a witness for the Banz monastery .

Watzendorf and its neighboring towns of Gossenberg and Neuses an den Eichen are called Eigendörfer because they had their own free jurisdiction in the Middle Ages. Yet in 1783 they were the permanent detriment of centering jurisdiction liberated and the people had the right small game hunting. Between 1303 and 1311, the Langheim monastery acquired the manor and the right to a tithe of the field yields. The administration was carried out by the Amtshof Tambach . In 1337, Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian gave the monastery all of its rights to Watzendorf. The landlord was the monastery, and the Wettins became the owners of the high courts in the middle of the 14th century . Located on the edge of the rule, the residents recognized the Elector of Saxony as patron in 1488 .

A chapel in Watzendorf was first mentioned in 1405. At that time the community belonged to the original parish of Altenbanz and was raised to a parish in 1452.

After the Reformation , which took place in Watzendorf in 1529 with the first Protestant church visitation by the Electorate of Saxony , the border with the neighboring community of Seßlach , which belonged to the territory of the Würzburg prince-bishop , developed into a denominational border . The controversial border between the Principality of Würzburg and the Principality of Saxony-Coburg was regulated in accordance with the Trappstadt Recess of 1599.

The parish hall was built in 1756 and a new school building for children from Watzendorf and Gossenberg was built in 1834. The financing came from the god box . The school house was used until 1971. In 1837 the place had 203 inhabitants.

In a referendum on November 30, 1919, two citizens of Watzendorf voted for the Free State of Coburg to join the Thuringian state and 15 against. Thus, from July 1, 1920, Watzendorf also belonged to the Free State of Bavaria . In 1925 the 301.70 hectare village had 150 residents, 148 of whom belonged to the Protestant church, and 31 residential buildings.

In the community brewery founded in 1933, beer was brewed until 1979. In addition, there was a brewery run by the innkeeper Hermann Leidner from 1940 to 1948.

On May 1, 1978, Watzendorf, like the neighboring towns of Gossenberg, Neuses an den Eichen and Rossach , became part of the community of Großheirath. In 1987 the place had 146 inhabitants and 42 buildings with living space.

Population development

year population
1837 203
1910 141
1933 152
1939 134
1950 218
1970 162
2004 161

church

Evangelical Marienkirche

In 1733 today's Marienkirche was inaugurated. The choir tower church with its three-story tower, which has an octagonal curved helmet with a lantern and a small onion, was built based on the margrave style. The organ is remarkable , the core of which dates from 1734 and is the only surviving instrument from the Seßlach organ builder Johann Conrad Schöpf (1692–1752). The organ has 14 registers , is in a cornetto tone and was restored by Linder in 2012 . The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments ranks them among the most outstanding baroque organs in Upper Franconia.

literature

  • Helmut Schöttner: Großheirath community - from past and present . Great marriage 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-042206-5

Web links

Commons : Watzendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Sopp: From the earliest archaeologically verifiable human traces to the documented mentions of the individual districts in the Middle Ages . In: Helmut Schöttner: Community of Großheirath - from past and present . Großheirath 2013, pp. 62–63.
  2. ↑ Günter Dippold: The Specially villages . In: Helmut Schöttner: Community of Großheirath - from past and present . Großheirath 2013, pp. 85–88.
  3. ^ Rainer Axmann: Großheirath, Rossach and Watzendorf - Church history and history of the churches . In: Helmut Schöttner: Community of Großheirath - from past and present . Großheirath 2013, p. 212
  4. ↑ Chart B of the Stone Legend Trail: Boundary Stones ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Address manual of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha: 1837, p. 73
  6. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria, based on the census of June 16, 1925, Munich, 1928
  7. ^ Wolfgang Vatke: Coburg breweries city and country . Veste-Verlag Roßteutscher, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-925431-03-6 , p. 183
  8. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 680 .
  9. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987, Munich, 1991
  10. ↑ Address manual of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha: 1837, p. 73
  11. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  12. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Coburg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  13. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950, Munich, 1952
  14. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, Munich, 1973
  15. ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2007. Verlag de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-00-042206-5 .
  16. ↑ Gabi Arnold: Finishing touches on a restored organ , in: Neue Presse , July 17, 2012 ( Memento of May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )