Weiden (Weismain)

Pastures City of Weismain Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 45 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 57 ″  E
Height :	474 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	160  (Jan. 1, 2015)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1977
Postal code :	96260
Area code :	09504
Catholic branch church of St Andreas

Weiden is a district of the city of Weismain in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in the north of the Free State of Bavaria with 170 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The church village Weiden is located at 474  m above sea level. NHN on a plateau, about 2.2 kilometers east of the Kleinziegenfelder valley . The plateau belongs to the northern foothills of the Franconian Jura in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park . The city center of Weismain is about 6.2 kilometers north. The next towns are Wunkendorf, Modschiedel , Fesselsdorf, Kleinziegenfeld , Großziegenfeld , Arnstein and Wallersberg.

history

Map of Weiden from 1851

It is not known when Weiden was founded. The oldest parts of the fortified church of St. Andrew date from the 12th century, so that it can be assumed that the village was founded around the turn of the millennium.

The first mention was in 1122 with Heinrich de "Widene". In 1382, the Bamberg bishop Lamprecht von Brunn arranged for the Weiden chapel to be re-pared from Altenkunstadt to Modschiedel.

In the Middle Ages, the village and the whole surrounding area were attacked and partially destroyed several times, for example in the Hussite Wars , the Reformation Wars and the Peasants' War in 1525, furthermore in the Margrave War in the 1550s and in the Thirty Years War , in which the late medieval church was completely destroyed and it was only rebuilt in 1954 on the preserved Romanesque foundations and wall remains.

On January 1, 1977, the municipality, which had been independent since 1853, was incorporated into the city of Weismain.

The church was restored between 1981 and 1984. The adjacent morgue was renovated in 2008 by the village community on its own. In 2011 a comprehensive renovation of the church took place.

Population development

The table shows the population development of Weiden since 1875.

year	Residents	source
1875	235
1900	234
1925	250
1950	281
1970	235
1987	196
2011	171
2015	160

societies

• Volunteer fire brigade Weiden
• Horticultural Association Weiden

Regular festivals and events

• Parish fair (last weekend in August)

Web links

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

• Weiden in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library

literature

• Alois Dechant, Gerhard W. Peetz: hiking guide Weismain . Marie Link Verlag, Kronach 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2015 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Weiden in Bayernviewer ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 29, 2011  
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} LUT: Recently a new tower ornament installed In: Obermaintagblatt. No. 197, Volume 155, Obermaintagblatt Verlag, Lichtenfels, August 26, 2011, p. 27.
4. ^ Dieter George: Lichtenfels; The old circle . Historical book of place names of Bavaria. Upper Franconia. Volume 6: Lichtenfels. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-6862-9 , p. 164.
5. ↑ Dechant (2010), p. 45
6. ^ 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. 695 .
7. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1083 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digital copy ).
8. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1080 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1114 ( digitized version ).
10. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 962 ( digitized version ).
11. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 164 ( digitized version ).
12. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 319 ( digitized version ).
13. ↑ Distribution of residents in the city of Weismain on January 1st, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 29, 2011 (offline)