Weismain

This article covers the city of Weismain. For the river of the same name, see Weismain (river) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '  N , 11 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Lichtenfels
Height :	316 m above sea level NHN
Area :	90.15 km 2
Residents:	4751 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	96260
Primaries :	09575, 09576, 09220, 09504
License plate :	LIF, STE
Community key :	09 4 78 176
City structure:	35 districts
City administration address :	Am Markt 19 96260 Weismain
Website :	www.stadt-weismain.de
Mayor :	Michael Zapf (GUB)
Location of the city of Weismain in the Lichtenfels district

City view of Weismain

Weismain is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in the north of the Free State of Bavaria .

geography

Geographical location

The state-approved resort (since 1976) Weismain is located on the northern edge of the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park . It is traversed by the river of the same name, the Weismain . The lowest point in the city is 295  m above sea level. NN , the highest at 547  m above sea level. NN .

City structure

The 37 districts of Weismain with population figures (as of January 1, 2012) are:

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

District District Residents Geo coordinates Weismain (city) Weismain 2542 50 ° 5 ′ 5 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 22 ″  E Altendorf Kaspauer 69 50 ° 5 ′ 4 "  N , 11 ° 10 ′ 5"  E Arnstein Arnstein 139 50 ° 2 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 14 ″  E Mountain house Weismain 6th 50 ° 5 ′ 38 "  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 22"  E Bernreuth Pfaffendorf 22nd 50 ° 6 ′ 1 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 2 ″  E Buckendorf Buckendorf 110 50 ° 0 ′ 24 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 23"  E Ehrhardsmühle Big goat field 50 ° 1 ′ 32 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 49"  E Erlach Weismain 20th 50 ° 4 '24 "  N , 11 ° 13' 34"  E Fesselsdorf Fesselsdorf 86 50 ° 1 ′ 4 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 40"  E Frankenberg Wallersberg 46 50 ° 3 ′ 42 "  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 38"  E Geutenreuth Geutenreuth 144 50 ° 5 ′ 19 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 9 ″  E Giechkröttendorf Pfaffendorf 59 50 ° 5 '30 "  N , 11 ° 13' 33"  E Görau Neudorf 134 50 ° 4 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 18 ″  E Big goat field Big goat field 127 50 ° 1 ′ 35 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 5"  E Autumn mill Neudorf 3 50 ° 3 ′ 25 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 26 ″  E Kaspauer Kaspauer 100 50 ° 4 ′ 35 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 52"  E Small goat field Small goat field 194 50 ° 1 ′ 12 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 8 ″  E Kordigast Pfaffendorf 2 50 ° 5 ′ 55 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 19 ″  E Krassach Neudorf 50 50 ° 4 ′ 7 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 3 ″  E Lochhaus Weismain 3 50 ° 5 ′ 28 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 18 ″  E Modschiedel Modschiedel 169 50 ° 1 ′ 56 ″  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 1 ″  E Mosenberg Wallersberg 49 50 ° 3 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 1 ″  E Neudorf Neudorf 113 50 ° 3 ′ 39 "  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 54"  E Sneezes Neudorf 40 50 ° 4 ′ 15 "  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 43"  E Upper hole Pfaffendorf 4th 50 ° 5 ′ 52 "  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 42"  E Schammendorf Wallersberg 98 50 ° 3 ′ 38 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 5 ″  E Schrepfersmühle Arnstein 1 50 ° 2 ′ 19 "  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 32"  E Schwarzmühle Small goat field 50 ° 1 ′ 36 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 56"  E Seubersdorf Neudorf 110 50 ° 2 ′ 5 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 31 ″  E Siedamsdorf Kaspauer 41 50 ° 5 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 16 ″  E Stoffelsmühle Small goat field 50 ° 1 '15 "  N , 11 ° 11' 55"  E Wallersberg Wallersberg 49 50 ° 2 ′ 38 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E Wassmannsmühle Wallersberg 12 50 ° 3 '3 "  N , 11 ° 13' 48"  E Pastures Pastures 169 50 ° 1 '46 "  N , 11 ° 13' 57"  E Weihersmühle Wallersberg 3 50 ° 2 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 2 ″  E Wohnsig Modschiedel 64 50 ° 3 ′ 42 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 32"  E Wunkendorf Modschiedel 121 50 ° 2 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 22 ″  E total   4912 50 ° 5 ′ 5 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 22 ″  E

history

Sword from the cemetery of Weismain, 8th century

Until the 19th century

An early medieval cemetery from the 8th and 9th centuries was discovered in 1972 north-west of the town center on the corner of Gruenköttendorfer Straße-Bürgermeister-Kraus-Straße. It contained 209 graves, some of which were valuable, which indicates the relative wealth of the inhabitants at the time. A wooden house of the dead and a grave with a circular moat indicate a hill. There were such grave mounds sporadically in southern Germany around 700. They are sometimes seen as pagan countercurrents to the spreading Christian faith. Weapons were found in some graves, including two Spatha swords . Arms additions are typical for the period up to the 7th century and it cannot be ruled out that the use of the cemetery began during this time.

Weismain was first mentioned in 800 in a document from the Fulda monastery . In the Thirty Years' War , according to a legend, the Swedish besiegers were driven out by a small unit consisting mainly of peasants moving from Niesten Castle towards Weismain and using tools and other equipment to make such noise that the Swedes feared the imperial troops were approaching. A Swedish procession is held annually to commemorate the Assumption of Mary .

In 1840 the population of Weismain was 1264.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1976, the previously independent communities Modschiedel with the places Modschiedel , Wunkendorf and Wohnsig and Wallersberg with the places Wallersberg, Mosenberg, Frankenberg and Schammendorf were incorporated. On July 1, 1976, Kaspauer with Altendorf, Kaspauer and Siedamsdorf were added. Arnstein , Großziegenfeld and Weiden followed on January 1, 1977. The series of incorporations ended with the incorporation of Buckendorf, Fesselsdorf and Kleinziegenfeld as well as large parts of Neudorf with Neudorf, Seubersdorf, Krassach, Niesten and Görau on January 1, 1978; on the same day Zultenberg came to Kasendorf .

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the city grew from 4598 to 4783 by 185 inhabitants or 4%. On December 31, 1996, Weismain had 5085 inhabitants.

politics

City council

After the local elections on March 15, 2020 , the city council will be composed as follows:

Weismain Town Hall

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats 2020	Seats 2014
CSU	39.1%	6th	8th
SPD	11.0%	2	2
Green	05.8%	1	1
GUB / FW *	30.7%	5	3
Weismain Citizens' Block (BB)	11.0%	2	2
AfD	02.4%	0	-
total	100%	16	16
voter turnout	74.3%

^* Community of Independent Citizens / Free Voters

In addition, the mayor is a member of the municipal council.

mayor

• 1899–1920: Heinrich Rothlauf (1851–1930)
• 1920 / 22-1933: Adam Hatzold (1874–31 December 1945)
• 1933–1937: Julius Erhard (1881 / 82–1950)
• 1938–1944: Luitpold Agatz
• April 1945–31. December 1945: Adam Hatzold (1874–31 December 1945)
• 1946–1947: Adam Schreiber (1900–1949)
• offic. 1959: Heinrich Raab (1886–1962)
• 1960–1972: Bernhard Stölzle, first CSU, left 1971 (1921 / 22–18 July 2014)
• 1972–1996: Max Goller (1929–11 December 1996), first BB, then CSU; full-time since 1976 (mayor's office is no longer an honorary position)
• 1996–2008: Peter Riedel, SPD
• 2008–2020: Udo Dauer, CSU
• since 2020: Michael Zapf, GUB

Town twinning

•  France : Since 2006 there is a twinning between Weismain and the French community Quéven in Brittany.
•  Germany : Weismain and Borgfeld , a district of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, have been twinned since 2011 .

Culture and sights

Weismain is located on the German Toy Road , the Franconian Beer Road and the Castle Road . In the district of Giechkröttendorf there is a castle from the 16th century.

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  Weismain city center

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  Defense tower with city wall and parish church in the background

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  The only remaining southern city gate, the Upper Gate

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  Late Gothic parish church of St. Martin , 15th century

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  Weihersmühle in the Kleinziegenfelder valley

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  Autumn idyll near the water playground on the Weismain

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Weismain

Museums

• North Jura Museum in Kastenhof

On May 14, 2004, the NordJURA Museum was opened in the historical rooms in Kastenhof, a building constructed between 1701 and 1703 according to plans by Leonhard Dientzenhofer . The 600 m² exhibition focuses on the emergence of the Jura landscape, the ability to defend itself, the Thirty Years War, denominational fragmentation and the economic sectors (breweries, sheep, use of water for mills, fishing and textile crafts) in this region. There are special exhibitions several times a year.

Established businesses

• Püls-Bräu brewery (since 1798)
• Baur Versand GmbH & Co KG (with administration building and parts of the logistics)
• I'm walking shoe shipping
• dhib Dechant civil engineering (founded in 1881)
• Dietz Baugesellschaft (founded October 16, 1878)
• Gerber Kunststofftechnik (founded September 1945)

Former companies

• Obendorfer Brewery (1852–1997)
• Fuchs Brewery (1874–1969)
• Dietz Brewery (1896–1983)
• Sausage factory J. & A. Kraus (1889–1974), processed 3 million kg of meat in 1957 and exported to France and Great Britain, employed 400 people in the 1960s
• Clothing factory Josef Rebhan (1945–1988), employed 120 people in 1961

Sports

The soccer club SC Weismain belonged to the regional soccer league from 1996 to 1999 , at that time the third highest division. Weismain played in the Waldstadion Weismain , which after several extensions until the mid-1990s initially offered 10,000 seats. A capacity of 10,000 was not enough, however, because the game of the games in the Regionalliga-Süd was approaching from Weismain's point of view: 1. FC Nürnberg came. For example, a further 18 rows of sandstone blanks were connected to the nine concrete standing steps on the east side and a floodlight system was installed. On April 12, 1997, the "Club" started in the 5000-inhabitant community, in which a sensational 17,000 spectators were counted at the "Franconian Football Festival". The game was lost 2-0 to the later promoted team from Nuremberg , but “Weismain became a synonym for Regionalliga for the clubbers . Telling people you've been there still gives you a certain prestige in fan circles today ”. In the 2008/09 season , 1. FC Eintracht Bamberg played its home games in the 17,000-seat Waldstadion because the stadium in Bamberg did not meet the DFB criteria.

City personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Ignaz von Rudhart 1840

• Friedrich Förner (1568–1630), auxiliary bishop, vicar general in Bamberg , under Johann Georg II. Fuchs von Dornheim , called the witch burner
• Abbot Mauritius Knauer (1613 / 1614–1664), the author of the centenary calendar
• Joachim Kügler (* 1958), Roman Catholic theologian
• Paul Joseph Metschnabl (1910–1996), cathedral music director at Bamberg Cathedral
• Georg Thomas Rudhart (1792–1860), historian and archivist
• Ignaz von Rudhart (1790–1838), Prime Minister of Greece

Honorary citizen

• Michael Dechant (1909–1985), awarded 1983
• Fritz Dietz (* 1937), former mayor
• Alois Dechant (* 1940), awarded December 16, 2010
• Erhard Meissner (born April 9, 1932 in Oberadersbach; † March 29, 2014 in Modschiedel), pastor of the Modschiedel parish (1976–2007), parish administrator of the Arnstein parish (1979–2003). He was awarded honorary citizenship in 2007 for his services to the preservation of religious life and the maintenance and renovation of churches and chapels in his parishes.

literature

• Marlene Besold-Backmund: Foundations and Foundation Reality . Studies on the social history of the two Upper Franconian small towns Forchheim and Weismain in: Writings of the Central Institute for Franconian Regional Studies and General * Weismain and the surrounding area. A summer stay by A. Walter (2nd edition). Publisher: Schönerungsverein Weismain, 1906. Regional research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , Volume 27. Neustadt ad Aisch 1986. ISBN 3-7686-9090-3
• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Weißmayn . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 147 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Weismain . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 649-650 ( digitized version ).
• Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 2 . Weismain 1996. ISBN 3-9804106-0-9
• Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1 . Weismain 2011. ISBN 978-3-9814302-0-2

Web links

Commons : Weismain  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Weismain  - travel guide

Wikisource: Weismain in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Entry on the coat of arms of Weismain  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Weismain: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.04 MB)
• The Weismain Cemetery - A Carolingian-Ottonian row cemetery

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. ↑ Weismain community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 3, 2017.
3. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2012 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Ehrhardsmühle in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 3, 2017.
5. ^ Schwarzmühle in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
6. ↑ Stoffelsmühle in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library
7. ↑ Björn-Uwe Abels , Walter Sage , Christian Züchner: Upper Franconia in prehistoric times . Bayreuth 1986, ISBN 3-87052-991-1
8. ↑ Thomas Gunzelmann: The cultural landscape around 1840 . In: Günther Dippold: In the upper Main Valley on the Jura an Rodach and Itz , self-published by Kreissparkasse Lichtenfels, Lichtenfels 1990, p. 75
9. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 694 and 695 .
10. ↑ Results of the city council election for the city of Weismain. Retrieved March 16, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Official Journal April 2014
12. ↑ Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, p. 179
13. ↑ Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, p. 181
14. ↑ Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, p. 190
15. ↑ Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, p. 184
16. ↑ Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, p. 188
17. ↑ ^{a b} Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, p. 189
18. ↑ Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, p. 190
19. ↑ Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, pp. 190f.
20. ↑ ^{a b c} Weismain. A Franconian town in the northern Jura. Volume 1, p. 191
21. ^ Runoff election for the first mayor. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
22. ↑ North Jurassic Museum , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on May 15, 2013
23. ^ Werner Skrentny: The big book of the German soccer stadiums. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-306-9 , p. 342.
24. ↑ Matthias Hunger: Under the spell of legend. Verlag Schmidt, Neustadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-87707-799-3 , p. 48.