Meadows (Lower Franconia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '  N , 9 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Aschaffenburg
Management Community :	Schöllkrippen
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.64 km 2
Residents:	1016 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	180 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	63831
Area code :	06096
License plate :	AB , ALZ
Community key :	09 6 71 162
Community structure:	1 district
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 63825 Schöllkrippen
Website :	www.gemeinde-wiesen.de
Mayor :	Willi Fleckenstein ( village community )
Location of the municipality of Wiesen in the Aschaffenburg district

Municipal area of ​​Wiesen
(a small exclave further north is not shown)

Wiesen is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg and a member of the Schöllkrippen administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Wiesen is in the Bavarian Lower Main region in the Aubach Valley on state roads 2305 ( German holiday route Alps – Baltic Sea ) and 2905 ( Spessart-Höhenstraße ). The topographically highest point of the municipality district is the peak of the High Sang with 482  m above sea level. NN (location) , the lowest is on the Aubach south of Wiesen at 329  m above sea level. NN (location) . The Franconian Marienweg leads through meadows .

Community structure

There is only one district in the Wiesen district .

Neighboring communities

	Wiesener Forst (community-free area)
Wiesener Forst (community-free area)		Wiesener Forst (community-free area)
	Market Frammersbach

Surname

Origin of name

The basic word in the name Wiesen is a plural form of the Old High German word wisa , which means meadow , and indicates the geographic location in the upper, unwooded valley section of the Wiesenbach (now Aubach ).

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

• 1057 Wisun (only field name)
• 1331 Wiesin
• 1339 meadows

history

View of the meadows

Until the church is planted

Wiesen was first mentioned in a document in 1339. It belonged to the domain of the Counts of Rieneck ; in the 16th century it went to Kurmainz , where it remained until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss .

In 1803 it was secularized in favor of the newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg of the Prince Primate von Dalberg and fell to Bavaria in 1814 (now a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ) . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Administrative affiliation

In 1862 the district office Lohr am Main was formed, on whose administrative area Wiesen lay. In 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Wiesen was now one of the 26 communities in the Lohr am Main district . With the dissolution of the district of Lohr in the course of the Bavarian regional reform in 1972, a large part of the communities was added to the current district of Main-Spessart . Wiesen also came to this new district, which was initially called the Mittelmain district, but switched to the Aschaffenburg district on July 1, 1976 .

today

Thanks to the nearby Wiesbüttmoors and Wiesbüttsee , Wiesen is now part of moderate hiking tourism in the Spessart, but has retained its traditional character with a few country inns, shops, infrastructural facilities and craft businesses. Wiesen produces his own beer in a small private brewery from 1888.

Population development

• 1961: 1021 inhabitants
• 1970: 1076 inhabitants
• 1987: 1050 inhabitants
• 1991: 1160 inhabitants
• 1995: 1135 inhabitants
• 2000: 1152 inhabitants
• 2005: 1117 inhabitants
• 2010: 1056 inhabitants
• 2015: 1031 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of the municipality of Wiesen consists of twelve council members. This is the fixed number for a municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000. The municipal council is elected for a six-year term.

The first mayor is also entitled to vote in the council of the municipality.

The last local election on March 16, 2014 resulted in the following:

Political party	Number of seats	change
Village community	12	± 0

mayor

The first mayor of the community of Wiesen is Willi Fleckenstein from the community of voters in the village community . He was elected in the mayoral election on March 16, 2014 with 83.20% of the vote. The turnout was 69.7%. On March 15, 2020, he was confirmed in office with 98.1% of the vote and a voter turnout of 70.3%.

coat of arms

Blazon : In red superimposed a bottom half silver wheel, a golden deer antlers and a silver shell.

Coat of arms history: Historically, the municipality of Wiesen belonged to the Counts of Rieneck until they died out in 1559. It then went to the ore monastery of Mainz, which built a hunting lodge there in the Spessart. In the coat of arms, the deer antlers and half of the Mainz wheel are reminiscent of the Electorate of Mainz, to which the place belonged. The shell is the symbol of St. Jacob. It indicates the parish church dedicated to the saint. The colors red and gold in the coat of arms are reminiscent of the Counts of Rieneck. They were closely connected with the place.

The municipality has had the coat of arms since July 22, 1985.

Economy and Infrastructure

Old threshing floor meadows

The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of 588 T € in 1999, of which 172 T € (net) was trade tax income.

Economy including agriculture and forestry:

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were no employees at the place of work in the manufacturing sector or in the trade and transport sector. In other economic areas, 16 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 428 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were four companies in the manufacturing sector and three in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were five farms with an agricultural area of ​​187 ha, 186 ha of which were permanent green space.

Culture and sights

• The Wiesen Castle of the Electors of Mainz (1597) is a three-storey box with a round tower in the center; Whether the renaissance building was really a hunting lodge is not known. The building is now privately owned and is being carefully and lovingly restored by the private builder, who is supported by the Spessart project with accompanying archaeological research and provided interesting insights into the building history of the castle. A late medieval predecessor could be proven: a stone house from which the original vaulted cellar has been preserved. The traces of settlement on the property go back to the 13th century.
• Next to the “hunting lodge” is the baroque parish church of St. Jakobus, a single-nave hall from 1724 with three altars and a pulpit from the time it was built.
• The old threshing hall from 1936 (new building from 1992 after a fire in 1991) is used for local events and festivities.
• At the Kreuzkapelle from 1883 (restored 2011) above the village, on the Hoher Sang hill , there is a way of the cross. The plague cross placed in front of the chapel , dated 1610, originally stood in the center of the village.
• The Eselsweg passes the Kreuzkapelle and crosses Birkenhainer Straße two kilometers further . At this important intersection of two historical long-distance trade routes, the Spessartbund erected a monument to the local historian Karl Kihn in 1932 (so-called Dr. Karl Kihn-Platz ).
• The Volkerstein is located above the old threshing hall. Stele made of red sandstone in memory of Volker Helleiner from Aschaffenburg . He last lived in meadows and was the owner of the strip of land running across the slope behind the stele, at that time a field, now permanent ecological use (field hedge) by the municipality of Wiesen. Inscription on the front ( Rainer Maria Rilke , 1875–1926): “The world changes quickly / like cloud shapes / everything that is perfect falls / home to the ancient”. Inscription on the back: “In memory of / Volker Helleiner / * April 21, 1959 † February 27, 1996 / erected in 2000 by / his parents and brothers. / You lived with and from / this piece of earth / and gave back to nature / what you got from it ”. Design and production: Helmut Hirte, sculptor and stonemason, Aschaffenburg.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in meadows

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in meadows

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  Wiesen Castle with a stair tower

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  Kreuzkapelle meadows

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  St. James in Meadows

education

In 1999 the following institutions existed:

• Kindergarten: 50 kindergarten places with 45 children
• School with four classrooms, gym and sledging slope

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/224550&attr=OBJ&val= 1559
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 241 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Municipal Code for the Free State of Bavaria (Municipal Code - GO) in the version published on August 22, 1998; Art. 31 - Composition of the municipal council , accessed on July 11, 2014
5. ↑ ^{a b} Wiesen mayoral election: 83.20 percent for Fleckenstein , accessed on July 12, 2014
6. ↑ Vfl. The Archaeological Spessart Project e. V .: Spessart Project Castle Research ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

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

Wiktionary: Meadows  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Entry on the coat of arms of Wiesen (Lower Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Wiesen (Lower Franconia): Official statistics of the LfStat