Welbhausen

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Welbhausen
City of Uffenheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '36 "  N , 10 ° 12' 39"  E
Height : 354 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.33 km²
Residents : 388  (2005)
Population density : 34 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 97215
Area code : 09842

Welbhausen is a district of the city of Uffenheim in the Middle Franconian district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim with almost 400 inhabitants.

location

The place is about 2.5 km southwest of Uffenheim at the confluence of the left Gießgraben and right Birkach (?) To the Hainbach, which in the city itself flows into the Gollach from the left . State road 2419 runs through the church village from Uffenheim to Rothenburg ob der Tauber .

history

St. Martin Church

The first documentary mention goes back to an exchange certificate from Heinrich II. From February 5, 1015.
At that time, Emperor Heinrich II exchanged the two villages of Rodheim and Welbhausen with their large fron yards from the north Hessian monastery (Bad) Hersfeld and used them a short time later to furnish the newly founded Michelsberg monastery in Bamberg. Like Rodheim, Welbhausen was a Michelsberg monastery village, in which the monastery owned all of the rural properties, the - later divided into two - Fronhof, the tithe and the church patronage. The secular rule over the village was exercised first by aristocratic bailiffs appointed by the monastery, from the 15th century the margraves of Ansbach were enfeoffed by the monastery with village and community rule. The high jurisdiction (Cent, Fraisch) belonged to the margravial office of Uffenheim anyway. Under the margraves, the place became Protestant as early as 1530.

Welbhausen was independent until it was incorporated on January 1, 1972.

Jews in Welbhausen

There were Jews in Welbhausen as early as 1530. In 1808, 36 Jewish families with 181 people lived in Welbhausen, which is likely to have been a third of the village population. Welbhausen had been the seat of a district rabbinate since 1838 . This district included 13 Jewish communities in the near and far, which included the large rural Jewish communities in Hüttenheim, Sugenheim and Ermetzhofen. In the second half of the 19th century, many Jews moved to Uffenheim or emigrated to the big cities or abroad. On August 22, 1875, what was probably the last Jew, the teacher Königshofer, left Welbhausen after the school had been relocated to Uffenheim. The last rabbi, Haas, died in Uffenheim on June 2, 1878, and the Welbhausen rabbinate was dissolved a short time later. Salomon Forchheimer bought the synagogue and gave it to Welbhausen, which turned it into a poor house.

Attractions

traffic

The district road NEA 49 and the state road 2419 leading to Uffenheim and the A 7 motorway lead through Welbhausen . The A 7 runs 1200 m to the west, the next junction is Uffenheim / Langensteinach (AS 106).

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of February 5, 1015 = RI II, 4 n. 1859 in: Regesta Imperii Online. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  2. ^ Siegfried Hirsch: Yearbooks of the German Empire under Heinrich II . Duncker & Humblot, 1864, p. 96.
  3. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Commission for Bavarian State History: Monumenta Boica 1829, p. 466.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 583 .
  5. ^ Welbhausen - Jewish history / synagogue . Website of the Alemannia Judaica - working group for research into the history of the Jews in southern Germany and neighboring areas. Retrieved December 29, 2014.