Weiltingen

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Ansbach
Management Community :	Wilburgstetten
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.02 km 2
Residents:	1383 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91744
Area code :	09853
License plate :	AN , DKB, FEU, ROT
Community key :	09 5 71 218
LOCODE :	DE WGI
Market structure:	9 parts of the community
; Market administration address :	Schlossweg 11 ; 91744 Weiltingen
Website :	www.weiltingen.de
Mayor :	Christoph Schmidt ( Free Association of Voters )
Location of the Weiltingen market in the Ansbach district

Weiltingen from the north

View from the Hesselberg to Weiltingen

Weiltingen is a market in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach ( Bavaria ). He is a member of the Wilburgstetten administrative association .

geography

Geographical location

View of Weiltingen from the Römerpark

Weiltingen is located on the Wörnitz near Dinkelsbühl not far from the Hesselberg , at 689 m the highest mountain in Middle Franconia. Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Wittelshofen , Gerolfingen , Wassertrüdingen , Fremdingen and Wilburgstetten .

Community structure

The political municipality of Weiltingen has nine officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

Unterklingen (hamlet)
Veitsweiler (parish village)
Weiltingen (main town)
Wörnitzhofen ( village )

history

Until the church is planted

The place was first mentioned as "Wilitingen" in a document, which must have been created between 1096 and 1133. The place name is based on a personal name, possibly the feminine personal name Wīhilt, which was derived from the affiliation suffix -ingen . The place name would mean With the people of the Wīhilt .

Near the town of Dinkelsbühl is the Weiltingen market, once the seat of a branch of the Württemberg house. In addition to Weiltingen itself, the hamlets Veitsweiler and Wolfsbühl as well as part of the villages Frankenhofen and Greiselbach belonged to the rule. In the 14th century, the son of the Reich chef de cuisine of Rothenburg , Lupoldus, called himself von Weiltingen. In the 17th century, the rule was given to the Lords of Knöringen as a fief. When this male family died out in 1616, the fiefdom fell back to Duke Johann Friedrich von Württemberg . In 1617, the ruling duke and his brothers concluded the “brotherly prince settlement”, in which the indivisibility of the Duchy of Württemberg was established. At the same time, the younger brother Julius Friedrich (1588–1635) received the rule of Weiltingen and the market town of Brenz as apanage. In Weiltingen he founded a line of the House of Württemberg, in which, however, numerous sons remained unmarried. Julius Friedrich's son, Duke Silvius Nimrod of Württemberg-Weiltingen (1622–1664), founded the Württemberg-Oels line.

The dukes of Württemberg ruled Weiltingen for three generations. Duke Ferdinand Friedrich (1654–1705) died without a surviving son, whereupon the Württemberg-Weiltingen line became extinct in the male line. Thereupon the rule of Weiltingen fell back to the main line and was administered by the Kammerschreiberei in Stuttgart as the administrative authority for the ducal's private assets. In 1729 the Chamber of Commerce left the rule to the landscape for a period of 50 years for 330,000 guilders; after this period the pledge was extended for a further 20 years.

The Fraisch over Weiltingen was controversial. It was claimed by both the Ansbach Oberamt Wassertrüdingen and the Oberamt Aufkirchen in Oettingen- Spielberg as well as the Württemberg Oberamt Weiltingen . The upper office of Weiltingen held the village and community rulership and the land rulership over all properties. There were 153 properties in total: 1 sawmill and Lohmühle, 5 taverns, 1 sheep farm, 4 half farm estates, 8 Köbler estates , 1 half Köbler estate , 2 Sölden with blacksmiths, 91 Sölden estates , 38 half Sölden estates, 1 two-thirdsöldengut, 1 thirdsöldengut . There were also stately buildings, a church, a rectory, a school and a community pastor's house.

After the reorganization of the clerk's office into a court and domain chamber, King Friedrich von Württemberg set up a “court and domain chamber administration” in Weiltingen in 1807 and appointed the civil servant Friedrich August Christlieb. In the Paris Treaty of May 18, 1810, however, the king ceded the rule to the Kingdom of Bavaria and received the former Teutonic rule Altshausen . With this, the court and domain chamber administration in Weiltingen ceased to exist. The castle was completely demolished by 1814.

The administration and jurisdiction of the rural community of Weiltingen was subordinate to the Regional Court of Nördlingen (from 1831 Regional Court of Dinkelsbühl ) and the financial administration of the Oettingen Rent Office (from 1832 Dinkelsbühl Rent Office, renamed Dinkelsbühl Tax Office in 1919 , branch of the Ansbach Tax Office since 1973 ). The jurisdiction remained with the District Court of Dinkelsbühl until 1879, from 1879 to 1973 the District Court of Dinkelsbühl was responsible, which has been a branch of the District Court of Ansbach since 1973 . The administration was taken over by the newly created Dinkelsbühl district office in 1862 (renamed the Dinkelsbühl district in 1938 ). When the Dinkelsbühl district was dissolved in 1972, Wittelshofen came to the Ansbach district. Until the regional reform, the municipality of Weiltingen had an area of 7.362 km².

Incorporations

On January 1, 1971, Wörnitzhofen was incorporated. On May 1, 1978 Frankenhofen and Veitsweiler as well as the place Bosacker of the community Schopflohe ( district Donau-Ries ) were added.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population increased from 1266 to 1392 by 126 inhabitants or 10%.

Municipality of Weiltingen

year	1979	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Residents	1283	1289	1285	1317	1406	1377	1385	1383	1359	1371	1358	1343	1381	1369	1418
Houses		356						417	418	420	423	426	428
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Part of the municipality of Weiltingen (= municipality of Weiltingen until the regional reform)

year	1818	1840	1852	1855	1861	1867	1871	1875	1880	1885	1890	1895	1900	1905	1910	1919	1925	1933	1939	1946	1950	1952	1961	1970	1987
Residents	726	797	809	770	784	768	767	780	805	805	755	772	768	766	741	720	715	709	704	1044	980	917	739	752	717
Houses	145	156					148			157			164				162				160		173		218
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politics

Market council

The municipal council of Weiltingen has 13 members including the mayor. In the local elections on March 2, 2014, the nomination only contained a list from the Free Voting Community of Markt Weiltingen. No separate lists were drawn up by the community bloc and the Frankenhofen Free Voting Community.

	Parish block	FWG Weiltingen market	FWG Frankenhofen	total
2002	6th	6th	1	13 seats
2008	5	8th	0	13 seats
2014	---	13	---	13 seats

(Status: local election on March 2, 2014 )

mayor

Christoph Schmidt was elected to office on May 29, 2016 with 91.65% of the vote.

badges and flags

The municipality of Wörnitz has had a coat of arms since the 17th century.

Blazon : “ Divided by green and red; above a floating golden stech helmet in front view, below on a blue rock mountain a five-towered silver castle with blue roofs. "

Red-white-green municipal flag

Justification of the coat of arms: The stech helmet represents the many families of knights who owned Weiltingen. He can be seen in a court seal from 1561. In 1566 the place came into the possession of the Lords of Knöringen. They expanded the castle into a palace, which was demolished in 1814 due to disrepair. The castle in the coat of arms reminds of this imposing building. King Ludwig I confirmed the coat of arms in 1847.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state road 2385 runs southwest to Wilburgstetten to national road 25 and north-east over Ruffenhofen to State Road 2218 approximately 0.5 kilometers west of Wittelshofen . The district road AN 47 runs southeast to Frankenhofen . Communal roads run northwest to Illenschwang to St 2218 and south to Veitsweiler .

Local public transport is ensured by the transport association for the greater Nuremberg area .

Long-distance cycle routes

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the municipality . It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

Long-distance hiking trails

Weiltingen lies on the Limesweg of the Franconian Alb Association , a section of the German Limes hiking trail .

Public facilities

Rectory in Weiltingen

State Forest Service

education

Day care center (kindergarten)
Primary school in Weiltingen (1st to 4th grade)
library

Culture and sights

Museums

Ruffenhofen Roman Park
Museum of traditional costumes and local history

Buildings

St. Nikolaus, Ruffenhofen

St. Peters Church with the princely crypt, Schäufelin altar and historical belfry
St. Nicholas Church in Ruffenhofen
St. Vitus Church in Veitsweiler
Remains of the Upper German-Raetian Limes in the Weiltinger Forest

Architectural monuments

Sons and daughters of the church

Silvius I. Nimrod (1622–1664), First Duke of Württemberg-Oels
Hedwig Friederike von Württemberg-Weiltingen (1691–1752), by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
Johann Eberhard Fischer (1697–1771), historian and linguist in Siberia, participant in the Great Nordic Expedition 1733–1743.
Johann Christian Bernhardt (1710–1758), surgeon and chemist

Other personalities associated with the place

Samuel Gottfried Christoph Cloeter , d. 1894 in Weiltingen, suspended pastor of the Bavarian regional church, who founded the Gnadenburg emigration settlement in the Russian Caucasus in 1881

literature

The sideline of Weiltingen . In: Sönke Lorenz / Dieter Mertens / Volker Press (ed.): The House of Württemberg. A biographical lexicon. Stuttgart 1997. pp. 188-200.
Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Weiltingen . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB 790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 128-129 ( digitized version ).

August Gebeßler : City and district of Dinkelsbühl (= Bavarian art monuments . Volume 15 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1962, DNB 451450930 , p. 221-227 .

Teresa Neumeyer: Dinkelsbühl: the former district (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . I, 40). Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 2018, ISBN 978-3-7696-6562-8 , p. 472 f. and 583 .

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. 237 .

Anton Steichele (Ed.): The diocese Augsburg historically and statistically described . tape 3 . Schmiedsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Augsburg 1872, p. 533-544 ( digitized version ).

Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Weiltingen . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 702 ( digitized version ).