Weidnitz

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Weidnitz
City of Burgkunstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 42 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 278  (277-314)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 730  (December 31, 2010)
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Area code : 09572
Weidnitz (Bavaria)
Weidnitz

Location of Weidnitz in Bavaria

Weidnitz is a village with 730 inhabitants and also a district of the town of Burgkunstadt in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in the north of the Free State of Bavaria .

Geographical location

Weidnitz is located at the southern end of the only a few hundred meters long Silberbachtal in the Upper Main region of Bruchschollenland , at 277-314 m above sea level. NN . The B 289 runs through the village . The Main flows just under a kilometer past the southern outskirts. At the eastern end, Weidnitz is combined with the town center of Burgkunstadt.

history

Historical map of Weidnitz from 1851
The center of Weidnitz. Detail from a postcard from Weidnitz from 1914
The local passage from Weidnitz in the direction of Burgkunstadt (today's B 289 ). Detail of the same postcard.

In the 9th or 10th century the Slav Vido founded a Fronhof in the area of ​​today's Weidnitz . The name of the settlement at that time was probably "Vidonici".

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1180 in a document about a "Rudolfus de Widence". Another document from 1332 mentions a "Curia" (court of a bishop) in Weidnitz. At the turn of the 13th to the 14th century, the von Weidnitz family probably died out. This was linked to the split in the medieval Fronhofverband . By dividing the extensive property, a hamlet was created with several half , quarter and eighth yards as well as smaller Selden and "Troßhäuser". Weidnitz grew steadily over the centuries and the name developed from its early form "Widence" via "Widenca", "Weydenz" (1341), "Weidenitz" (1355) and "Weydtnitz" to today's Weidnitz.

A castle owned by Schaumberg was first mentioned in Weidnitz in 1686. In 1747 Weidnitz was mentioned as a village owned by the von Schaumberg family . Towards the end of the 18th century, a clerk of the von Schaumberg family was employed in Weidnitz with his own office building. Before the Schaumberg rule, the place belonged to the von Redwitz , von Aufseß , the territory of the Bamberg prince-bishops and the Sonnefeld monastery .

With the beginning of industrialization and machine shoe production in Burgkunstadt , the population of Weidnitz increased rapidly, the development into a workers' village began and the structural gap between Weidnitz and Burgkunstadt became smaller and smaller.

Weidnitz was the first community to join the city of Burgkunstadt on July 1, 1971. On June 30, 1971, numerous citizens, several local politicians and the then mayors Pfadenhauer (Burgkunstadt) and Mader (Weidnitz) gathered at the then local border, where the two mayors cut a ribbon stretched across the street that symbolized the unification.

Population development

The table shows the population development of Weidnitz based on individual data.

year Residents source
1987 371
2001 723
2002 728
2003 724
2004 718
2005 714
2006 719
2007 709
2008 702
2009 733
2010 730

societies

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Annual report of the city of Burgkunstadt from 2010 , publish.kommonline-gmbh.de, accessed on December 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d history of Weidnitz , burgkunstadt.eu, accessed on December 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Franz Wenzl: The districts of the city of Burgkunstadt with pictures from days gone by. Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-247-8 , p. 102 ff.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 512 .
  5. ↑ Rudi Fetzer: Borkuschter Mosaik - A slightly different city history. Burgkunstadt 2009, DNB 997549874 , p. 226 f.
  6. ↑ Weidnitz Genealogical Site Directory , gov.genealogy.net, accessed on April 8, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b c Annual report of the city of Burgkunstadt from 2006 , publish.kommonline-gmbh.de, accessed on December 28, 2011.
  8. ↑ a b c Annual report of the city of Burgkunstadt from 2007 , publish.kommonline-gmbh.de, accessed on December 28, 2011.

Web links

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