Wenings

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Wenings
City of Gedern
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Wenings
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 7 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 339 m above sea level NHN
Area : 19.44 km²
Residents : 1328  (2004)
Population density : 68 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 63688
Area code : 06045

Wenings is a district of Gedern in the Hessian Wetteraukreis . The place with 1300 inhabitants is located on the southern slope of the Vogelsberg in the valley of the Bleiche at about 340 m above sea level. NN .

history

Isenburg in the Holy Roman Empire

Burgmannenhaus Moritzstein

Wenings was first mentioned as Weninges in a property register of the Johanniter zu Nidda on the occasion of a donation from Count Bertholds in 1187 .

Wenings initially belonged to the Lords of Büdingen . After these had died out in the male line, the place fell to the Counts of Isenburg . Due to the high deposits of iron, Wenings grew into a considerable village in the Middle Ages. To protect the settlement, a planted wall and a hundred paces wide and dense grove were created early on , in which wolves are said to have been up until the 16th century.

It was thanks to the good relations between Luther von Isenburg and Büdingen (1286-1340) and Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian that Wenings was granted city rights on May 29, 1336 . This also gave Wenings the right to build a fortification. However, it took another 100 years to complete the walling with its five defense towers. Afterwards, the fortified city not only offered protection to its own population, which had now grown to 400 citizens, but also served as a retreat for the people of the surrounding villages in times of war.

When in 1596 Count Wolfgang Ernst I of Isenburg and Büdingen wanted to revoke the town charter, the residents of Wenings resisted. The so-called "rebellion of the city of Wenings against its sovereignty" came about. The violent disputes between the residents and the sovereigns in Büdingen ("the Weningsers, they do not pay homage!") Ended in 1603 with a settlement before the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer . Wenings thereby got his privileges back.
see also Moritzstein Castle

Of Moritzstein Castle, built in the 18th century - named after its builder, Count Moritz von Isenburg Birstein - only the Burgmannenhaus remains today. The ruling counts of the Isenburg-Birstein county had become imperial princes in 1744 , but the imperial immediacy ceased with the end of the old German empire (the resignation of the imperial crown by the emperor and the release of the oath of allegiance to him in 1806).

Isenburg in the Rhine Confederation

On July 12, 1806, Prince Carl von Isenburg-Birstein , who had been ruling since 1803 , joined the Confederation of the Rhine (officially: Confédération du Rhin ), a confederation whose protector ( Protecteur de la Confédération ) Napoleon Bonaparte was (by referendum Empereur par la volonté nationale - emperor by the will of the nation). This made Carl sovereign prince over all the Isenburg lands ; Napoleon had to determine foreign policy and military.

The former imperial principality with the mediatized Ysenburg counties in Büdingen, Meerholz and Wächtersbach became a unified state in the modern sense (Prince Carl, for example, introduced the written form of administrative decisions, founded a servant widow's and orphan's fund, a fire insurance for the buildings , regulated the free vaccination against smallpox by the medical officers and the disability care after military service). After the defeat of Napoleon ( Battle of the Nations near Leipzig ), Carl was one of the defeated (the Isenburg communities had to bear heavy loads of war), the territory of his principality became occupied enemy territory, after the Congress of Vienna it came to Austria in 1815 , but only for one year after that In 1816, the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Elector of Hesse-Kassel shared the land, and the city fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

City in the Hessian district of Büdingen

Between 1852 and 1972 Wenings belonged to the Büdingen district . On the occasion of the regional reform in Hesse , the community of Wenings voluntarily joined the town of Gedern on December 31, 1971 with other neighboring communities. As for all districts of Gedern, a local district with a local advisory council and mayor was set up for Wenings .

675 years of city rights

In 2011, Wenings celebrated the 675th anniversary of being awarded city rights. The event program, which lasted throughout the year, included a. History lectures, music events and city tours as well as a pageant with a medieval market and vintage tractor exhibition.

politics

coat of arms

On June 14, 1967, the city of Wenings in what was then the district of Büdingen was given a coat of arms with the following blazon : Above a silver shield frieze covered with two black bars in red, a striding, right-turning silver lamb, which with its right foot surrounds a golden staff of the cross the upper ends taper off like a clover.

Town twinning

Shortly before losing its independence, Wenings became siblings with the French city ​​of Nucourt in July 1970 .

societies

  • Choral Society 1843 Wenings e. V.
  • Voluntary Fire Brigade V.
  • Wenings Rural Women's Association
  • VfR Wenings 1956 e. V.
  • The Wenings / Nucourt e. V.

Personalities

  • Henry Kaufman (* 1927 in Wenings), American economist, founder of the investment and consulting company Henry Kaufman & Co.

literature

  • Chronicle "650 Years of the City of Wenings" , 1986
  • Hans-Velten Heuson: The Moritzstein zu Wenings and the fief of the Reyprechte zu Büdingen. in: Büdinger Geschichtsblätter IX / X, 1980–981, pp. 235–238
  • Hans-Erich Kehm: Wenings an old city
  • Literature about Wenings in the Hessian Bibliography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wenings, Wetteraukreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of December 15, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ local homepage
  3. ^ Karl Christian Eigenbrodt , certificates. in: AHG 2, Darmstadt 1841, pp. 117-139, no. 32.
  4. ↑ Wording of the certificate ( memento of October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 352 .
  6. ^ Approval of a coat of arms of the community Wenings, district Büdingen, administrative district Darmstadt from June 14, 1967 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 26 , p. 739 , item 626 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).