Wenigumstadt
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Wenigumstadt
Großostheim market
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| Height : | 155 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 2141 (Dec. 31, 2015) |
| Incorporation : | May 1, 1978 |
| Postal code : | 63762 |
| Area code : | +496026 |
Wenigumstadt is a district of the Großostheim market in the Bavarian district of Aschaffenburg .
geography
The place is at 155 m above sea level. NN on Kreisstraße 3 between Pflaumheim and Mosbach im Bachgau . The Pflaumbach flows through Wenigumstadt .
history
Wenigumstadt was first mentioned in a document in 1229 as villa Omestad minore . However, the village was settled much earlier, as archaeological finds prove the presence of people over the past 7,000 years. It can therefore be assumed that people from all cultural epochs will be present continuously in the district of Wenigumstadt.
In addition to finds from the Roman period , finds from the Neolithic up to the Merovingian period were found in numerous excavations . Wenigumstadt is also the place where the oldest buckskin was found , which can be seen in the Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg .
At the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, Wenigumstadt was on the territory of the city and district bailiwick of Obernburg and Großostheim of the Obererzstiftes of the Electorate of Mainz . At the time of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt it was part of the Obernburg district mairie of the Aschaffenburg department . In 1812 the Mairie Wenigumstadt had 120 fireplaces and 649 inhabitants. Maire was Stephan Thiry (also written Tirri). His adjuncts were called Johann Knecht and Wilhelm Boll. The pastor was Franz Ludwig Mainhard.
After its transfer to the Crown of Bavaria on June 26, 1814, Wenigumstadt was part of the Obernburg district court founded on October 1, 1814. On February 20, 1817, the district court of Obernburg came to the Untermainkreis, which was founded on that day, a forerunner of the later administrative district of Lower Franconia. In 1862 the district courts of Obernburg and Klingenberg were merged to form the Obernburg district office , on whose administrative territory Wenigumstadt was located. As everywhere in the German Reich , the term district was introduced in 1939. Wenigumstadt was now one of the 35 municipalities in the district of Obernburg am Main (license plate OBB ). With the dissolution of the district of Obernburg, Wenigumstadt became part of the Aschaffenburg district in 1972 (license plate AB ).
On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality Wenigumstadt was in the market Großostheim incorporated .
Merovingians in Wenigumstadt
The archaeologist Dr. In 1970 and 1971 Günter Rau discovered grave fields from the Merovingian period in the neighboring Lower Franconian towns of Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt.
Walloons in Wenigumstadt
The Thirty Years' War also raged in the Electorate of Mainz . In Wenigumstadt, war and epidemics took ninety percent of the population away, and in its subsidiary village of Radheim even with only six subjects. Elector Johann Philipp von Schönborn then ordered the repopulation of Kurmainz villages, markets and cities. For this purpose, farmers and craftsmen outside the electorate were recruited with the promise of several years of exemption from duty and compulsory labor. Since there were close ties between the St. Peter and Alexander Abbey in Aschaffenburg and the Diocese of Liège , most of the settlers were Walloons from the Sint-Truiden - Borgloon area northwest of Liège . But there were also immigrants from the areas around Fulda and Landshut , from Tyrol and Switzerland . The settlement took place in three phases (1650–1663, 1670/71, 1680). In 1668 the Walloons made up 75% of the population.
Mining of clay
From 1824 on, the stoneware factory founded by the pharmacist and professor Anselm Strauss in the Aschaffenburg Haselmühle was mining clay in a "porcelain pit" northwest of the Pflaumbach on Riederweg near the Pflaumheim boundary.
Web links
- The Archaeological Spessart Project eV (ASP): www.spessartprojekt.de - Bachgau II
- Homeland and history association Wenigumstadt: 7000 years Wenigumstadt?
literature
- Günter and Monica Rau: Merovingians in Pflaumheim and Wenigumstadt. Archaeological excavations 1970/71 , edited by Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Wenigumstadt and Geschichtsverein Pflaumheim, LOGO Verlag Eric Erfurth, 128 pages, ISBN 978-3-939462-19-4 . ( Book details )
- Eva Stauch: Wenigumstadt. A burial place of the migration period and the early Middle Ages in the northern Odenwald foreland , Volume 111 of university research on prehistoric archeology , Habelt Verlag, 2004, 254 pages, ISBN 978-3-7749-3208-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Residents' registration office in Markt Großostheim
- ↑ measured at school.
- ^ 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. 736 .
- ↑ State Archives Würzburg : Description of Goods in Mainz 73.
