Wernfels

Wernfels City gap Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 56 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	424  (399-450)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	390  (Aug 1, 2015)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91174
Area code :	09873
Place view

Old fire station (now youth club)

Wernfels Castle as seen from Theilenberg .

Wernfels is a district of the town of Spalt in the Roth district in Central Franconia .

geography

The village is about four kilometers northwest of Spalt near the Franconian Rezat . About one kilometer to the west is the 513 m high Geyersberg, an elevation of the Spalter hill country . The “Eulengrund” corridor area is around 500 meters to the north.

The district road RH 10 / AN 59 leads to the state road 2223 at the Stiegelmühle (0.6 km east) or the B 466 crossing to Winkelhaid (3.4 km north-west). A community road leads to Wassermungenau to St 2223 (1.5 km north).

history

The place arose as a settlement to a Werdenfels castle, which was built between 1230 and 1260. The landlords and builders were very likely the Burgraves of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern , Konrad I and his son Friedrich II. They were the heirs of the Counts of Abenberg, who died out around 1200 . In 1283 the place was first named as "Werdenvels". In 1284 "Albertus dictus Rindesmul senior de Werdenvels imperialis aule ministerialis" sold Wernfels Castle to the Eichstätt Prince-Bishop Reinboto von Meilenhart . From 1284 to 1802 the castle was an official seat of the Wernfels-Spalt administration office in Eichstatt .

According to the Salbuch of the Hochstift Eichstätt , which was set up around 1300, there were 16 properties in Wernfels, five of which (a Meierhof , a Hube , a fief and two farms) had existed for a long time and eleven properties (all farms) were just being built . In the books of 1407 and 1447 there were still 16 properties in the village. Only a shepherd's house was added until 1510. In 1615 the number of properties rose to 28. In 1671, Wernfels and Theilenberg formed a community that is said to have 30 properties.

In the Salbuch of the Spalter Canon Monastery of St. Nikolaus from 1517 a property is listed for Wernfels, in the Salbuch from 1619 this property is no longer listed.

Towards the end of the 18th century, Wernfels and Theilenberg formed a community. There were 32 properties in Wernfels. The high court was exercised by the Wernfels-Spalt administration office in Eichstatt . The village and township government had the box office gap held. The landlords were the Kastenamt Spalt (1 Ganzhof, 1 Ganzhof with inn, 6 Köblergüter , 1 estate with Tafernwirtschaft , 15 Gütlein, 1 Gütlein with grinding mill, 5 empty houses , 1 forge) and the parish of Theilenberg (1 Gütlein). In addition to the property, there were stately (castle, servants' house) and communal buildings (sheep house, shepherd's house). In 1801 there were 37 properties in the village.

In 1802 the Wernfels-Spalt nursing office and thus also Wernfels came to the Duchy of Bavaria , in 1803 briefly to the Kingdom of Prussia through the main state comparison , and finally to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 . As part of the municipal edict, the Wernfels tax district was formed in 1808 , to which Hohenrad , Höfstetten , Nagelhof , Stiegelmühle , Theilenberg and Untererlbach belonged. In 1811 the rural community of Wernfels was formed, which was congruent with the tax district. With the second community edict (1818) Nagelhof came to the tax district and the rural community of Fünfbronn . The administration and jurisdiction of the municipality of Wernfels was subordinate to the Pleinfeld regional court ( renamed the Roth regional court in 1858 ) and the financial administration to the Spalt Rent Office (1920–1932: Spalt tax office , from 1932: Schwabach tax office ). Four properties in Untererlbach were subject to voluntary jurisdiction until 1848 by the Untererlbach Patrimonial Court . From 1862 Wernfels was administered by the Schwabach District Office (renamed the Schwabach District in 1938 ). The jurisdiction remained until 1879 the District Court Roth, 1880 at the District Court Roth . The municipality had an area of ​​8,900 km².

As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipality of Wernfels was incorporated into Spalt on May 1, 1978.

A village renewal in Wernfels was planned for 2015 .

Architectural monuments

• Wernfels Castle , Höhenburg, used by the YMCA as a youth hostel since 1925
• Farmhouses and barns
• guest houses
• 2 chapels
• Wayside shrine

See also : List of architectural monuments in Spalt # Wernfels

Population development

Wernfels municipality

year	1818	1840	1852	1855	1861	1867	1871	1875	1880	1885	1890	1895	1900	1905	1910	1919	1925	1933	1939	1946	1950	1952	1961	1970
Residents	425	498	525	553	574	568	567	583	618	615	603	637	580	552	520	525	534	511	463	693	639	600	603	572
Houses	95	86					105			109			117				108				109		119
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Place Wernfels

year	001818	001840	001861	001871	001885	001900	001925	001950	001961	001970	001987	002015
Residents	212	262	289	273	307	310	278	380	365	365	334	390
Houses	53	45			55	59	56	60	70		87
source

religion

Even after the Reformation, the place remained predominantly Roman Catholic. The residents of the Roman Catholic denomination are parish to St. Wenzelaus (Theilenberg) , the residents of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination to St. Andreas (Wasserm inaccurate) .

Sons of the place

• Joachim Dietrich († 1753), Munich court sculptor
• Matthias Seybold (1696–1765), Eichstätt court sculptor

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Wernfels . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 171 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Eigler : Schwabach (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . I, 28). Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1990, ISBN 3-7696-9941-6 , p. 433, 488 .
• Voluntary fire brigade (publisher): 90 years of the Wernfels volunteer fire brigade: 1880–1970 . Wernfels 1970, DNB  740722042 .
• Voluntary Fire Brigade (Ed.): 100 Years of the Wernfels Voluntary Fire Brigade: 1880–1980 . Wernfels 1980, DNB  931762405 .
• Karl Gröber, Felix Mader : City and district of Schwabach (=  The art monuments of Bavaria . Middle Franconia 7). R. Oldenburg, Munich 1939, DNB  366496239 , p. 411-418 .
• Ernst von Kietzell: Werdenfels, Tilenburg: Burg- u. Local history of Wernfels-Theilenberg . In: From the home of Spalter . Episode 12. Heimatverein Spalter Land e. V., Spalt 1973, DNB  740689150 .
• Willi Ulsamer (Ed.): 100 Years of the Schwabach District (1862–1962). A home book . Schwabach 1964, DNB  984880232 , p. 634-643 .

Web links

Commons : Wernfels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wernfels in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
• Wernfels in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 22, 2019.
• Wernfels in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population figures on the grossweingarten.de website
2. ↑ Wernfels in the Bavaria Atlas
3. ↑ ^{a b} F. Eigler, p. 74.
4. ↑ F. Eigler, p. 101. This contradicts the fact that there were seven properties in Theilenberg in 1665 (F. Eigler, p. 77) and with Wernfels there must have been at least 35 properties.
5. ↑ F. Eigler, p. 113 f.
6. ↑ F. Eigler, p. 433.
7. ↑ JK Bundschuh, Vol. 6, Col. 171.
8. ↑ F. Eigler, p. 488.
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 826 ( digitized version ).
10. ^ 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 .
11. ↑ ^{a b} Only inhabited houses are given. In 1818 these were referred to as hearths , in 1840 as houses , and from 1871 to 1987 as residential buildings.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Alphabetical index of all the localities contained in the Rezatkreise according to its constitution by the newest organization: with indication of a. the tax districts, b. Judicial Districts, c. Rent offices in which they are located, then several other statistical notes . Ansbach 1818, p. 102 ( digitized version ). For the municipality of Wernfels plus the residents and buildings of Hohenrad (p. 42), Höfstetten (p. 43), Stiegelmühle (p. 89), Theilenberg (p. 91) and Untererlbach (p. 94).
13. ^ ^{A b} Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 220 ( digitized version ). According to the historical municipality register , the municipality had 510 inhabitants.
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register: The population of the municipalities of Bavaria from 1840 to 1952 (=  contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 192). Munich 1954, DNB  451478568 , p. 184 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00066439-3 ( digitized ).
15. ↑ ^{a b} Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1090 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized ).
16. ↑ ^{a b} Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1258 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized version ).
17. ↑ ^{a b} K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section III, Sp. 1192 ( digitized version ).
18. ↑ ^{a b} K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1266 ( digitized version ).
19. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 1303-1304 ( digitized version ).
20. ↑ ^{a b} Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 1128 ( digitized version ).
21. ↑ ^{a b} Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Official local directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 181 ( digitized version ).
22. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 349 ( digitized version ).