Wendelstein (Middle Franconia)

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Coat of arms of the Wendelstein market
Wendelstein (Middle Franconia)
Map of Germany, position of the Wendelstein market highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
County : Roth
Height : 330 m above sea level NHN
Area : 50.92 km 2
Residents: 15,757 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 309 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 90530
Area code : 09129
License plate : RH, HIP
Community key : 09 5 76 151
Market structure: 13 parts of the community

Market administration address : 		Schwabacher Strasse 8
90530 Wendelstein
Website : www.wendelstein.de
Mayor : Werner Langhans ( CSU )
Location of the Wendelstein market in the Roth district
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Wendelstein, Panorama (aerial photo, 2020)

Wendelstein is a market in the Middle Franconian district of Roth in Bavaria .

geography

The place is located about 13 km south-southeast of the center of the city of Nuremberg in the Schwarzachtal and borders north on the Nuremberg area, east on Feucht , Schwarzenbruck and Pyrbaum , south on Allersberg , Schwanstetten and west on Rednitzhembach and Schwabach . The municipal area also includes an uninhabited exclave of one square kilometer in the Lorenzer Reichswald north of the former MUNA site.

The municipality has 13 officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

history

Until the 19th century

From isolated finds we know that people were in the area of ​​today's Wendelstein as early as the Stone Age . Grave finds from 1984 prove that the area along the Schwarzach was settled in the late Bronze Age around 1300 BC. The place was first mentioned in 1259. The name was probably derived from the Schwarzach, winding around a stone. According to a legend, however, the name is derived from the Wends , a Slavic tribe. The nucleus of the place was a Franconian table farm in the loop of the Schwarzach. The districts of Wendelstein on the Schwarzach were from 1505 to 1806 border towns between the rural areas of the imperial city of Nuremberg and the principality of Ansbach .

The first mention of a church, probably a chapel, comes from the year 1325. The fortified church of St. Georg was built from this in the 14th century; The renovated three-king winged altar from 1510 by Hans Süß von Kulmbach is well worth seeing . There were a total of six manors on site.

From the 15th century, cutlers and blade smiths were located in Wendelstein.

Towards the end of the 18th century there were 111 properties in Wendelstein, two official buildings, a school building, a court clerk, a shepherd's house, a midwife's apartment, a rectory, a sacristan's house and a parish church. The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach judge office Wendelstein . The village and township government had to 1 / 4 judgeship Wendelstein and 3 / 4 , the hospital official Holy Spirit held the city of Nuremberg. Were landlords

  • the Principality of Ansbach (Wendelstein judicial office: 5 houses; Wendelstein community: 12 houses, 2 half houses; Wendelstein parish: 2 taverns , 12 houses; Wendelstein Church Foundation: 1 tavern, 2 houses),
  • the imperial city of Nuremberg (Spitalamt Hl. Geist: 1 whole courtyard, 1 half-courtyard, 1 estate with cones, 7 taverns, 43 houses, 2 farriers, 1 paper mill, 1 blade forge with grinding mill, 1 shepherd's farm ; 1 former bathhouse ; Pfinzing Foundation: 1 half-courtyard , 1 half courtyard with tavern, 10 houses, 1 manor house, 1 iron hammer, 1 grinding mill),
  • the Nuremberg owner of Behaim (3 houses).

With industrialization in the 19th century, wood turners and metal pusher settled in, and sandstone mining in Wernloch was intensified. In 1843 the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal was built in the north of Wendelstein, in 1886 the Wendelstein harbor was also opened up with the Feucht – Wendelstein railway line.

Modern times

In 1886 the Feucht – Wendelstein railway started operating, and in 1955 passenger traffic was discontinued. With the end of freight traffic in 1960, the tracks were dismantled.

On July 1, 1971, the municipality of Raubersried was incorporated as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . On May 1, 1978, Röthenbach, Groß- and Kleinschwarzenlohe and their districts were added.

politics

Local election 2020
Turnout: 61.34%
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20th
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46.67%
24.89%
17.87%
7.60%
2.98%
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Wendelstein new town hall
Old Town Hall

Market council

The municipal council consists of 24 members. In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , the result led to the following distribution of seats:

Political party CSU SPD Green FW FDP
Seats 11 6th 4th 2 1

mayor

Werner Langhans has been mayor since May 2008. He was confirmed in office in the local election on March 15, 2020 with 59.81% of the valid votes.

Town twinning

Since 2001 there have been town partnerships with Saint-Junien , France and Żukowo , Poland .

badges and flags

Wendelstein coat of arms
 Blazon : "In red a stone mason clad in silver with a cap and a golden apron, who stands on a silver floor and turns a hewn silver stone on the tip."

White and red municipal flag

Justification of the coat of arms: The Wendelstein court received a seal in 1529, in it a man turning a stone. He is talking to the place name. In the later seals after 1638 the man is depicted as a stone cutter as a reference to the local stone-cutting trade. The first colored illustration is documented from 1718. The coat of arms on the market fountain from 1878 is handed down as a stone relief.

Economy and Transport

economy

There are three designated industrial areas in the districts of Wendelstein and Röthenbach near Sankt Wolfgang. Part of the Nürnberg-Feucht business park (the other parts belong to the city of Nuremberg and the Markt Feucht ) and a smaller part of the Nürnberg / Feucht motorway service station (the larger part belongs to the community of Schwarzenbruck ) also belongs to the municipality . Not to the municipality belongs to the forest Kleinschwarzenlohe , the unincorporated community is.

traffic

There is a connection to the federal autobahn 73 via the junction Wendelstein, to the autobahns 6 , 9 and 3 there are junctions a few kilometers away.

In Wendelstein itself there is no longer a train station, but the high-speed line Nuremberg – Ingolstadt runs through the eastern municipality . There are two S-Bahn stops in the neighboring village of Feucht .

The Nuremberg Airport is about 15 kilometers as the crow flies from the church by car it can be reached in about 30 minutes.

Education, culture and sights

  • Community library
  • Metal handle and turner museum

Schools and kindergartens

  • Nine kindergartens and numerous after-school care centers in the districts
  • Four primary schools in the districts of Röthenbach, Wendelstein, Groß- and Kleinschwarzenlohe
  • Middle school and M-branch of the secondary school
  • Gymnasium, (in the 2017/18 school year, first Abitur class)
  • Waldorf School

Others

  • Community College
  • Several private singing and music schools
  • A riding school and two studs

Buildings, monuments and sights

East view with the Church of St. Georg

Events

The nationally known New Orleans Music Festival has been held every year since 1993 at the end of April , and has been under the name Jazz & Blues Open Wendelstein since 2013 .

On the last weekend in June, the Wendelsteiner Kirchweih is celebrated, which extends through the entire old town and part of Röthenbacher Straße. At the beginning of September there is the Oven Festival, which the Heimatverein has organized since 1987. During Advent there is a small Christmas market in the old town. Other events take place regularly in the Casa de la Trova and in the Jegel barn.

Personalities

  • Johannes Cochläus (born January 10, 1479 in Raubersried, † January 11, 1552 in Breslau ), humanist and theologian
  • Christoph Hieronymus Voit von Wendelstein († August 18, 1718 in St. Jobst ), lawyer in Nuremberg
  • Wilhelm Jegel (born May 3, 1826 in Nuremberg, † October 24, 1890 in Wendelstein), mayor from 1870 to 1890, member of the Reichstag and Landtag, quarry owner
  • Adam Scharrer (born July 13, 1889 in Kleinschwarzenlohe, † March 2, 1948 in Schwerin ), writer
  • Alfons Hutter (* 1953), Catholic clergyman

literature

Web links

Commons : Wendelstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Wendelstein in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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. ^ Community Wendelstein in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 23, 2019.
  3. ^ Wendelstein's history on the community website
  4. ↑ Herrensitze.com (Giersch / Schlunk / von Haller)
  5. ↑ F. Eigler, p. 432f.
  6. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 568 .
  7. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 733 .
  8. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics - List of Mayors / Lord Mayors in municipalities belonging to the district , /
  9. ^ City partnerships Wendelstein , accessed on January 12, 2015
  10. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of Wendelstein (Middle Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  11. ↑ Wendelstein. In: Kommunalflaggen.eu. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  12. ^ Information from the LRA Roth; in the 2017/18 school year first graduation class in Wendelstein
  13. ↑ Gem shines in the new old splendor. In: Schwabacher Tagblatt Nr. 96 , April 26, 2001, accessed on October 26, 2009 .
  14. ↑ Jazz Festival ( Memento from August 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Casa de la Trova
  16. ↑ Jegel barn
  17. ↑ Voit v. Wendelstein , portrait
  18. ^ Chr. H. Voit von Wendelstein , p. 126