Weigenheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '  N , 10 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim
Management Community :	Uffenheim
Height :	332 m above sea level NHN
Area :	32.64 km 2
Residents:	956 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97215
Area code :	09842
License plate :	NEA, SEF, UFF
Community key :	09 5 75 179
Community structure:	7 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 2 97215 Weigenheim
Website :	www.weigenheim.de
Mayor :	Rainer Mayer
Location of the community Weigenheim in the district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim

Weigenheim is a municipality in the district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim in Middle Franconia . She is a member of the Uffenheim administrative community .

geography

The Franconian Marienweg runs through Weigenheim .

Community structure

The municipality has seven officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

• Geckenheim ( Kirchdorf )
• Hasenmühle ( wasteland )
• Lance mill (wasteland)
• Reusch ( parish village )
• Frankenberg Castle ( hamlet )
• Weigenheim (parish village)
• Zellesmühle (wasteland)

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (clockwise from the north): Sugenheim , Markt Nordheim , Uffenheim , Gollhofen , Ippesheim .

history

The place was first mentioned in 822 as "Wigenheim". The basic word of the place name is heim ( ahd. For apartment, dwelling), which is determined by the personal name Wigo or Wīgo . A person with this name is to be regarded as the founder of the settlement.

Weigenheim was referred to in older literature together with the neighboring villages of Herrnsheim , Iffigheim and Seinsheim as an imperial village that was only subordinate to the emperor. However, the head of the empire there probably only owned the bailiwick that he had received from the Würzburg bishop. After the decline of the Staufer in the second half of the 12th century, the Hohenlohe took over these "imperial goods under the mountains" ( bona sub montibus ). From then on, Weigenheim was administered from Seinsheim.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the previously independent communities of Geckenheim and Reusch and the community part of Frankenberg Castle, which had previously belonged to Geckenheim, were incorporated.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population stagnated or decreased slightly from 960 to 955 by 5 inhabitants or 0.5%.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of twelve members.

• Free voter community Weigenheim 6 seats
• Voting community Reusch 4 seats
• Voting group Geckenheim 2 seats

(Status: local election on March 15, 2020)

badges and flags

The coat of arms description reads: Quartered; covered with a heart shield split seven times by silver and blue; 1 and 4: two golden diagonal bars in red; 2: in black a fallen golden vine leaf; 3: a fallen golden oak leaf in black. The yellow, black and white municipal flag approved in 1990 is not used.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Weigenheim

Personalities

• Bernhard Friedrich Hummel (1725–1791), born in Reusch, Rector of the Altdorf City School near Nuremberg

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Weigenheim . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 123 ( digitized version ).
• Elisabeth Fuchshuber: Uffenheim (=  Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria, Middle Franconia . Volume 6 ). Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1982, ISBN 978-3-7696-9927-2 , p. 218-220 .
• Reinhold Hoeppner (ed.): District of Uffenheim . Verl. F. Authorities and Economy Hoeppner, Aßling-Pörsdorf / Obb. 1972, DNB  730115267 , p. 99-101 .
• Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 387–391 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
• Hans Karlmann Ramisch: Uffenheim district (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 22 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966, DNB  457879262 , p. 213-216 .
• Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 236 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Weigenheim. In: Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery , Volume 2  - Sources and full texts

• Weigenheim in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 25, 2019.
• Entry on the coat of arms of Weigenheim  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Weigenheim: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Weigenheim community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 25, 2019.
3. ↑ W.-A. v. Reitzenstein, p. 236.
4. ↑ Schmitt, Richard: 1200 years Bullenheim . P. 42 f.
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 583 .
6. ↑ Election of the Weigenheim community council [1]
7. ↑ Entry on Weigenheim on the Kommunalflaggen.eu page