Werberg

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Werberg is a desert in the Wildflecken military training area . It was the oldest village in the area of ​​the military training area. The beginnings go back to a Fulda castle from the 13th century.

The still existing Antonius Chapel from Werberg

location

Werberg was 533 meters above sea level in the valley of the Salmon Grounds and the adjacent hills to the north around the castle rock of the Werberg ruin in a valley widening at the confluence of two source streams. The village was 6 km north of Bad Brückenau .

traffic

During the establishment

During the Carolingian development and during the High Middle Ages, old roads led across the Dammersfeld that lay away from the marshy river valleys at that time. The Carolingian King's Route connected the area around Mainz with the Palatinate Salt and led here, coming from Brückenau , past Werberg west to the Dammersfeldkuppe . At the Dammersfeldkuppe, a path coming from Fulda ended in the Carolingian King's Path, in Brückenau a path coming from Hammelburg and Würzburg.

Local connection

The village was connected to Volkers by a path in the Lachsbachtal . This takes the road from Brückenau south of the village to lead north to Kothen and the valley of the Kleine Sinn . A road led east to Rothenrain .

railroad

In 1891 the Jossa – Brückenau railway was opened . As a result, Brückenau was the closest train station to Werberg. In 1908 the route was extended to Wildflecken.

history

Werberg can be traced back to Werberg Castle , which was first indirectly tangible in history in 1260 with the mention of Fridericus de Werberg .

In 1799 a school was built. The church dedicated to St. Kilian was built in 1850 . There was a cemetery near the castle rock. The inhabitants lived from agriculture and fruit growing.

Like the villages of Rothenrain , Neu- and Altglashütten as well as Reussendorf , Werberg, which had 264 inhabitants at the time, had to be evacuated on April 15, 1938 due to the construction of the military training area on which the village was located. Following a treatise by the medical student and SS member Heinrich Josef Glotzbach, residents were resettled according to “National Socialist principles”. Those "capable of farmers" were "settled as hereditary farmers in the near and far surroundings". The residents were transferred to Bad Brückenau in the Offenbach area or settled in Lower Bavaria . After the Second World War, the village was repopulated with 356 people, only to be relocated in 1966.

The former rural community Werberg consisted of the Kirchdorf Werberg and the hamlet Auersberg and covered 566.35 hectares . It was dissolved in 1942 and assigned to the Wildflecken Heeresguts district . The community had already resettled at the time of the 1939 census.

Infrastructure

The former cemetery with the cemetery cross

Before the last liquidation, the village of Werberg owned a church consecrated to Saint Kilian with a cemetery, a school, a nurses' home, a kindergarten, a swimming pool, the Werberg volunteer fire brigade , two restaurants, a grocery store and a hairdresser. The streets were either paved or tarred. In addition, the village was the first in the Altlandkreis Brückenau to have electrical street lighting.

memory

Several museums deal with the history of the village.

In 1987 the Werberger Stube was set up in Kothen on the initiative of Werberger Ernst Zimmermann. In one of the three rooms there is a typical “good room” of a farmhouse. In the other rooms are u. a. the foundation stone of the church, the baptismal font, a bell, the tower cross and several vestments. In addition, several photographs and farm implements tools of homework show the life of the village. The Military History Museum in Wildflecken is dedicated to the history of the military training area.

Every last weekend in June of the year, the Werbergers and their descendants meet in Kothen to visit the museum and the cemetery. In 2013, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the community of interests formerly Werberger planted a red beech on the village square.

Depending on the starting point and route, the village and the cemetery can also be hiked at irregular intervals during the people's hiking days at the Wildflecken military training area.

literature

  • Matthias Elm: Werberg - what remains is the memory. History, houses and families of a former Rhöndorf. Self-published, Motten- Speicherz 2017.
  • Bavarian administrative office for the Rhön Biosphere Reserve: Historical cultural landscape of the Rhön . tape 3 : Historic cultural landscape of the upper Sinntal - Riedenberg municipality and Wildflecken municipality. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-888-0 .
  • Wildflecken community (ed.): Unforgotten home around Dammersfeld's. The isolated villages of the Wildflecken military training area . 7th revised edition. Geiger, Wildflecken 2011, ISBN 3-89264-184-6 , p. 201-244 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

If the sources come from one of the aforementioned books, only the author or publisher and the page were named in the individual references.

  1. ↑ Wildflecken community, p. 201
  2. ↑ Bavarian Administration Office for the Rhön Biosphere Reserve, p. 35
  3. ↑ Wildflecken community, p. 205
  4. ↑ Bavarian Administration Office for the Rhön Biosphere Reserve, p. 115f
  5. ↑ Bavarian Administration Office for the Rhön Biosphere Reserve, p. 35f
  6. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 79.
  7. ^ Heinrich Josef Glotzbach: Population movement and hereditary structure of the Rhöndorfes Werberg. (= Series of publications from the Race Political Office of the NSDAP at the Gauleitung Mainfranken on the Dr. Hellmuth Plan. Volume 17). Medical dissertation in Würzburg 1938.
  8. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. 1995, p. 79.
  9. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp.  1336 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register: The population of the municipalities of Bavaria in the period from 1840 to 1952 (=  contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 192). Munich 1954, DNB 451478568 , p.   196 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00066439-3 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Stephanie Elm: What was left of the village of Werberg. inFranken.de, August 26, 2015, accessed on March 18, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Werberger Stube. Municipality of Motten, accessed on March 18, 2018 .
  13. ^ "IT": Last remains of an old village. inFranken.de, April 28, 2011, accessed on March 18, 2018 .
  14. ↑ MILITARY MUSEUM / OUTDOOR LOCATIONS. Wildflecken community, accessed on March 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Stütz: Flyer 2017. (PDF) Wildflecken community, accessed on March 18, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 59.9 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 33.2"  E