Wegfurt

Wegfurt City of Bischofsheim in the Rhön Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 47 " N , 10 ° 5 ′ 15" E
Height :	348 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	97653
Area code :	09775
	Church of St. Peter and Paul

Wegfurt is a district of the town of Bischofsheim in the Rhön in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld .

geography

The parish village is located about six kilometers southeast of Bischofsheim in the Rhön in the Brend valley at an altitude of 348 m above sea level. NHN . The state border with Hesse runs about nine kilometers northeast . The federal road 279 bypasses the town center on the northeast side.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in the Carolingian era in 824. The water power of the Brend drove two mills there and the place developed into an important trading place on the way from Bamberg to Fulda . The Gothic parish church of St. Peter and Paul was built between 1601 and 1607.

The Bavarian cadastre shows Wegfurt in the 1810s as a closed small town with 92 hearths, the church and its sacred field . In 1832, 81 houses and 423 residents and the two mills were still recorded. About a dozen architectural monuments from the 16th to the 19th centuries have been preserved in situ . See also: List of architectural monuments in Wegfurt

In 1885 the railway line Bad Neustadt – Bischofsheim reached the place and brought it additional economic boom. As a curiosity, the railway line ran directly on the local thoroughfare, which has led to numerous accidents over the years. The railway line was closed in 1989 and today serves as a paved cycle path outside of town.

On July 1, 1972, as part of the regional reform in Bavaria, the formerly independent community of Wegfurt zu Bischofsheim in the Rhön was incorporated.

Web links

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

Wegfurt in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library
City of Bischofsheim in the Rhön

Individual evidence

↑ Rhön-Grabfeld time table
↑ ^a ^b LfD list for Bischofsheim adRhön (.pdf)
↑ Wegfurt on BayernAtlas Klassik
↑ Topo-geographical-statistical lexicon from the Kingdom of Bavaria 1832
^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 428 .

[1] Rhön-Grabfeld time table

[LfD-2] LfD list for Bischofsheim adRhön (.pdf)

[3] Wegfurt on BayernAtlas Klassik

[4] Topo-geographical-statistical lexicon from the Kingdom of Bavaria 1832

[5] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 428 .