Weimersheim (Weißenburg in Bavaria)

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Weimersheim
Large district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 449 m
Residents : 360  (Jul 1, 2009)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 91781
Area code : 09141
Weimersheim (Bavaria)
Weimersheim

Location of Weimersheim in Bavaria
Weimersheim Church
Weimersheim Church

Weimersheim is a district of Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is about 4 km west of the city and has about 360 inhabitants.

location

The village is located at an altitude of 457 m above sea level in the Altmühltal west of the foothills of the Flüglinger Berg (541 m), in the middle of fields and orchards. The Weimersheimer Bach flows through the place. North of Weimersheim are the two villages Stopfenheim and Massenbach (four and three kilometers as the crow flies ), Schmalwiesen and Hattenhof to the east (both about two kilometers), Holzingen south, Kattenhochstatt southwest (both two kilometers), Alesheim to the west (four kilometers), Störzelbach lies to the northwest above the Flüglinger Berg . The district road WUG 1 runs through the village .

history

Traces of prehistoric fortifications suggest an early settlement of this area. In the deed of donation from Wolftrigel and Diemo von Fronhofen from around 1140, a Chǒnradus de Wimersheim appears alongside other noble families from the area . A castle of Franconian origin was the seat of the noble family of the Kropfen von Flüglingen . Marshal Konrad Kropf von Flüglingen (see Battle of Tagliacozzo ) from this line was executed in Naples in 1268 with Konradin , the last Hohenstaufer , and 100 other companions, contrary to a court judgment .

In 1731 and 1732, many Protestant religious refugees from Salzburg and the Austrian Waldviertel came to the area around Weißenburg, including Weimersheim. In 1933 the place had 533 inhabitants, in 1939 there were 513. After the Second World War, refugees were also settled here. The former municipality, together with its former districts Hattenhof and Schmalwiesen , was incorporated into Weißenburg on July 1, 1972 as part of the municipal reform.

Worth seeing

Architectural monuments

  • St. Vitus Church: In 1958, large areas of frescoes from the second half of the 14th century were uncovered in the basement of the tower in the Protestant St. Vitus Church . A baptismal bowl from the 16th century found there is a Nuremberg cymbal hitter made of brass. The steeple with pointed spire of this medieval choir tower church was raised in 1706; the nave was extended in 1738.

The former office building at Kindergartenstrasse 2 is a two-storey half-hipped roof building from the second half of the 18th century. The two-storey rectory at Weimersheimer Ring 25 with its hipped roof and its extension with a half-hipped roof was built in Art Nouveau style around 1905. The former parish barn is a saddle roof building from 1907. Its outbuilding is a massive building with a saddle and half-hipped roof and was built around 1900. The former Jewish house is a two-storey hipped roof building from the 18th or early 19th century. A group of farmhouses is located on Wiesengrund 3 and consists of a single-storey saddle roof structure and a two-storey saddle roof structure connected to the rear with half-timbering and a front balcony from the 18th or 19th century. A former three-sided courtyard was the single-storey stable house on Störzelbacher Strasse 11 with a gable roof from 1845 and the one-storey delivery building from the 19th century. A long house is the single-storey stable house at Störzelbacher Straße 8 with a gable roof from the mid-19th century. The other architectural monuments in Weimersheim are mostly single-storey farmhouses or stables with a pitched roof from the 18th or 19th century.

Soil monuments

The Kropfen von Flüglingen had a tower-like castle complex built on the Flüglinger Berg, the remains of which can still be seen today, the ramparts and entrenchments of this former hill fort . There was also an open-air station from the Mesolithic , a settlement from the Neolithic , the Hallstatt and probably the Latène ages .

A Roman road ran south of Weimersheim; To the south and west of the village were two Villa Rusticas . The underground components of the St. Vitus Church and its predecessor buildings are also marked as a ground monument .

Natural monuments

  • Linden tree with a chest height of 7.31 m (2015)

Culture and events

The annual parish fair takes place on the first Sunday in September. On November 11th, the Pelzmärtl , a figure resembling St. Martin , visits the children and brings nuts and sweets.

Others

The local kindergarten was converted into a Montessori kindergarten in 2008 , as of 2019 with 40 children and 6 supervisors.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Württembergisches Urkundenbuch, Volume IV., No. N52, pages 350–351
  2. ↑ weissenburg.de ( Memento from June 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Weißenburg in Bavaria. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  4. ↑ Description of the place on weissenburg.de
  5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 592 .
  6. ↑ Description on BayernViewer-denkmal
  7. ^ Weimersheim in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved February 5, 2017
  8. ↑ montessori-kiga.org