Weyhers

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Weyhers
community Ebersburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 14 ″  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 376  (350-405)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 7 km²
Residents : 1133  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 162 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 36157
Area code : 06656
Weyhers seen from the south
Weyhers seen from the south

Weyhers is a part of the municipality of Ebersburg in the Hessian district of Fulda .

Geographical location

Weyhers lies in the Vorder- and Kuppenrhön , a western part of the Rhön . It is located on the western edge of the Hessian Rhön Nature Park in the west of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve . Almost 12 km (as the crow flies ) southeast of the city of Fulda , the village is located directly south-south-east of Motzküppel ( 452.9  m ) and a little south of Lebersberg ( 472.7  m ). It is traversed by a stream that rises on the flanks of both mountains and flows below the village into the east-northeast Fulda tributary Lütter . In a south-easterly direction, the landscape, beyond the Lütter, leads to the Ebersberg ( 689  m ) visible from Weyhers with the Ebersburg castle ruins , which gave the municipality of Ebersburg its name. The contiguous built-up area of ​​the village is between 350 and 405  m high.

history

The cath. Parish Church of St. Boniface

The first documented mentions of settlements in the area of ​​today's district are documented in 1011. These concern Sanzenrode and Hacholdesbach . It is assumed that these places were in the area of ​​today's Weyherser individual farms Seeshof and Halsbach.

Weyhers was first mentioned in 1270, according to other information it can be found in a sales deed from 1372. In it, the village had a castle, a courtyard and an outbuilding (see Weyhers Castle Stables ). The castle and aristocratic family are certainly older. A Petrus von Weyhers is mentioned in a Würzburg fief book from 1317 and a Berthold von Weyhers in a document from the Johannesberg provost of 1336. Entries made before 1170 cannot be substantiated. In the Middle Ages, the current desertification of Ebermann is mentioned.

Weyhers was the seat of the Weyhers office and, in 1802, the seat of an upper office in Fulda, which extended over the area of ​​the Poppenhausen parish and the old court in front of the Hardt . From 1802 the territorial affiliation changed several times. At that time Weyhers was still under Wilhelm I in the Principality of Fulda , annexed by Napoleon from 1806 and part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt as part of the Fulda Department from 1810 . During the coalition wars it was Austrian in 1813 , and it became Bavarian from 1814 . This was confirmed in the Congress of Vienna and Weyhers was one of the two Bavarian district courts from which the Gersfeld District Office was formed from 1862 and the now Prussian Gersfeld District from 1867 after Prussia's victory in the German War .

During the Bavarian period, Weyhers had become a focal point in the border area with Prussia due to the Weyhers Regional Court, which had existed since 1817 and the market rights granted in 1842 .

In 1848 the parish church was consecrated by the then responsible Bishop of Würzburg, Georg Anton von Stahl .

Reorganization

On December 31, 1971, Weyhers ceased to exist as an independent municipality and became part of Ebersburg as part of the regional reform .

Infrastructure

From 1911 there was a public power supply in the village and in 1913 a public water supply was built. Since 1989 the wastewater has been treated in a sewage treatment plant .

The Marian God
The dormouse chapel near Weyhers
The Jewish cemetery

religion

Weyhers has the cath. Parish Church of St. Boniface . It was inaugurated in 1848 by Würzburg Bishop Georg Anton von Stahl . In 1929 the church received four bronze bells from the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen. Three of the four bells were melted down during World War II. In their place Otto delivered three new bells with the strike tone series g - a - c after the war in 1950.

Today the church is assigned to the pastoral association of St. Wendelinus Hohe Rhön of the diocese of Fulda .

Community leader / mayor / mayor

  • Johann Phillip Breendung, around 1664, Ebersbergischer Zentgraf
  • Jakob Freisleben, before 1770, Fürstlich-Fuldischer bailiff
  • Georg Ignaz Weikard , 1770 to 1776, Prince-Fuldischer magistrate
  • Johann Ignaz Dotter, 1777 to 1802, Prince-Fuldischer magistrate
  • Johann Adam Mihm, 1777/78 to 1815, mayor / official
  • (First name unknown) Kett, around 1821, mayor of the community
  • (First name unknown) Large, around 1834, mayor of the community
  • (First name unknown) Füller, until 1887, community leader
  • Bonifaz Goldbach, from 1887, mayor of the community
  • Valentin Alsheimer. 1888 to 1913, mayor
  • Josef Paul, Mayor from 1924 to 1933
  • Alfons Feuerstein, 1933 to 1937, mayor
  • Alois Goldbach. 1937 to 1939, mayor
  • Josef Müller, 1939 to 1946, mayor
  • Moritz Ruppert, mayor from 1946 to 1968
  • Rudolf Horak, 1968 to 1971, mayor, CDU (afterwards von Ebersburg)
  • Hans Schlehuber, 1972 to 1985, mayor, CDU
  • Wilhelm Müller, 1985 to 1997, mayor, CDU
  • Anna Maria Alsheimer, 1997 to 2001, mayor, FWG
  • Wolfgang Müller, since 2001, mayor, CDU

Personalities

literature

  • Rainer Erdmann: Chronicle of Weyhers. 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. a b "Weyhers, District of Fulda". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of September 14, 2015). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. Population statistics of the Fulda district , accessed in September 2015.
  3. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  4. Erwin Sturm : The architectural and art monuments of the Fulda land. First volume: The old district of Fulda. 2nd Edition. 1989, ISBN 3-7900-0189-9 , pp. 932ff.
  5. ^ 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. 394 .
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Company and family history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular S 533, 548 .
  7. Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 493, 505 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

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