Wehlenberg

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Wehlenberg
Muhr am See municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 46 ″  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 44 ″  E
Height : 447-456 m
Residents : 39  (1987)
Incorporation : 1808
Incorporated into: Altenmuhr
Postal code : 91735
Area code : 09831
Wehlenberg (Bavaria)
Wehlenberg

Location of Wehlenberg in Bavaria
, Wehle mountain from Nesselbachtal seen from

Wehlenberg is a district of the municipality of Muhr am See in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia .

Old brewery cellar below Wehlenberg
Ecumenical St. Francis Chapel near Wehlenberg

Geographical location, traffic

The hamlet is located 1 kilometer northeast of Muhr am See and northwest of the Gunzenhausen district of Büchelberg on the western slope of the Büchelberg . It is about 5 kilometers from Gunzenhausen. Two streets lead from the Stadeln von Muhr am See district to Wehlenberg.

Place name

The place name allows two interpretations: "To the village of a Wello / Wallo" and "To the round village"; in the latter case, the Middle High German word "wël" for "round" would give it its name. In the 18th century, documents show a reinterpretation in "wild ...".

history

A document from the period from 1300 to 1364, copied in the 17th century, reports that a knight of Konstein has the entire property of the Bishop of Eichstätt in "Wellendorff" as a fief . Towards the end of the 14th century, this episcopal "Welendorf" fiefdom was passed to Heinrich von Lentersheim ; around 1460/70 "Wellendorff" belonged to the parish of Altenmuhr . Since in these earliest records the place name is only found as a wave “village”, but never as a wave / wild “berc”, the assumption made by older literary and music history studies that today's Wehlenberg is with the “Wildenberc” in Wolfram von Eschenbach's " Parzival " is identical, so Wolfram had his place of residence here, to be described as "completely unlikely". It was not until the 16th century that the place name appears for the first time as "Welnberg": according to evidence from around 1525, "Welnbergs" have to be paid to the Brandenburg-Ansbach forest administrator from several Reutwiesen . In 1549 the major and minor ten belonged to the Neuenmuhr rulership , while two farms, as is documented in 1551, continued to pay interest to Altenmuhr. For 1584 it is learned that Wolf Christoph von Lentersheim zu Neuenmuhr owned the big and small tenth and a farm at "Wellenberg" as an episcopal fief. In the 18th century (so in 1719 and 1732) the place name appears as “Wildenbergen”: in 1732 four subjects belonged to the Brandenburg caste office in Gunzenhausen, and only one subject is from Lentersheim; but those of Lentersheim still own the tithe. The municipal authority, the bailiwick and the high Fraisch are exercised by the Brandenburg Oberamt Gunzenhausen according to the same evidence. Nothing will change in this ownership structure until the end of the Holy Roman Empire . While in 1739 “Wehlenbergen” was mentioned again, the hamlet was called both “Wildenbergen” and “Wehlenbergen” in a directory from 1804, which the older Wolfram research suggests is the Wildenberc from Parzival.

With the Ansbach margraviate, Wehlenberg became Prussian in 1792 . In 1806 the Prussian rule ended, the village became Bavarian and from 1808 belonged to the tax district Altenmuhr in the district court / rent office Gunzenhausen, later the district of Gunzenhausen . In 1811, the tax district was converted into a rural community , which was retained by the community edict of 1818.

In 1952 the hamlet consisted of eight farms with just as many families. As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , Altenmuhr and thus also Wehlenberg were combined with Neuenmuhr to form the unitary community of Muhr am See.

To the right of the road that leads from Muhr through the Nesselbachtal to Wehlenberg, there are three beer cellars from the 18th / 19th century in the forest. Century of a former Altenmuhr brewery with entrances made of sandstone .

In the corridor west of Wehlenberg, the private ecumenical St. Francis Chapel, which was consecrated in October 2013 according to the plans of the architect Stefan Lautner, with a large window by the glass artist Johannes Schreiter , was built on the former Wehlenberger Kirchenweg and thus on the circular hiking trail " Der Seenländer " at the instigation of Mayor Roland Fitzner . ( Location )

Population numbers

  • 1818: 26 inhabitants
  • 1824: 32 inhabitants, 6 properties
  • 1861: 31 inhabitants
  • 1912: 29 inhabitants
  • 1929: 36 inhabitants
  • 1950: 45 inhabitants, 6 properties
  • 1961: 30 inhabitants, 6 residential buildings
  • 1987: 39 inhabitants

Nettle mill

The Nesselmühle is an old mill on the Nesselbach near Wehlenberg. It was built in 1574 and demolished in 1977.

literature

  • R. Maurer: Wehlenberg in the Gunzenhausen district . In: Gunzenhäuser Heimatbote, Volume 7 (1952), No. 30, p. 119.
  • Hanns Hubert Hofmann (editor): Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Francs . Row I, Issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . Munich 1960, pp. 175, 230.
  • Robert Schuh: Gunzenhausen. Former district of Gunzenhausen . Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 5: Gunzenhausen . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1979, especially No. 184, p. 195 f., No. 300, p. 329 f.
  • Hermann Kaussler: The former nettle mill near Muhr. In: Gunzenhäuser Heimatbote, Volume 10 (1998), No. 22, pp. [1] - [2].
  • Günter L. Niekel: The Chronicle of Muhr. Gunzenhausen: Schrenk-Verlag, 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schuh, p. 329
  2. ↑ For example in: Dominicus Mettenleiter : Musikgeschichte der Oberpfalz. Compiled from archive materials and other sources . Amberg 1867, pp. 142f.
  3. ↑ This section after Schuh, p. 329
  4. ↑ a b c d Hofmann, p. 230
  5. ↑ Maurer, p. 119
  6. ↑ Bayer. Office for Monument Preservation: Muhr a. Lake, architectural monuments, as of February 1, 2012 , p. 2
  7. ^ Report on nordbayern.de and: Die Zeit, Mr. 52/2013 from December 19, 2013
  8. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1034 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digital copy ).
  9. ^ Meyers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon des Deutschen Reichs. 1912, Vol. 1, p. 35
  10. ↑ GenWiki: Parishes of the Evang.-Luth. Church in Bavaria on the right of the Rhine (1929) / 38
  11. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 783 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ Genealogy network