Weipoltshausen (Üchtelhausen)

Weipoltshausen community Üchtelhausen Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	313 m
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	97532
Area code :	09720
Location of Weipoltshausen in Bavaria

Evangelical Church of St. Bartholomew

Weipoltshausen is a district of the community of Üchtelhausen in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt . From 1437 to 1802 Weipoltshausen belonged to the imperial city of Schweinfurt .

Geographical location

Weipoltshausen is located in a valley of the Schweinfurt Rhön , two and a half kilometers north of Üchtelhausen and eight kilometers north-northeast of Schweinfurt . The Weipoltshausener Dorfgraben stream flows through the middle of the village .

The district road SW 30 running through the village leads northeast to Madenhausen and southwest to Zell . Weipoltshausen is connected to the state road St 2280 , which leads east of the town from Bad Königshofen to Schweinfurt.

history

Territory of the imperial city of Schweinfurt until 1802 (dark yellow), with Weipoltshausen at the northern end

A place called Jeusungen or Geusungen once existed near Weipoltshausen and was first mentioned in a document in 791 and became desolate between 1440 and 1445 .

The first known documentary mention of the place comes from the year 1313. In 1437 the council of the imperial city Schweinfurt bought Weipoltshausen together with the neighboring Zell and other villages and lands for a total of 18,000 guilders . The inhabitants of these places were subjects of the imperial city and as a rule had no citizenship . Since Schweinfurt joined the Reformation in 1542 , Weipoltshausen, which belongs to the imperial city, also became Protestant. In the first half of the 16th century, the local Protestant church was built, which was badly damaged in 1554; the organ of the church dates from 1701. The imperial city of Schweinfurt came to Bavaria in 1802 through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . Weipoltshausen was spun off from Schweinfurt as an independent municipality.

On January 1, 1972, Weipoltshausen became a district of Üchtelhausen , a new large municipality that includes almost the entire western Schweinfurt Rhön , with town hall in Hesselbach, as part of the Bavarian regional reform .

The Brönnhof , which was a training site for the US Army Garrison Schweinfurt until 2014 and has been a national natural heritage since 2016 , emerged from an area that was formerly unincorporated and was attached to the Weipoltshausen district as part of the regional reform . The middle part of this area once belonged to the Teutonic Order (red area on the adjacent map), where the Brönnhof desert is located.

Web links

• Weipoltshausen on www.uechtelhausen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information brochure of the city of Schweinfurt. Weka Info-Verlag, Mering 2002, p. 6