Wiesenfeld (Karlstadt)

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Meadow field
City of Karlstadt
Wiesenfeld coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 37 ″  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 245 m above sea level NN
Residents : 1135  (Jan. 1, 2020)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 97753
Area code : 09359

Wiesenfeld is the largest district in terms of area in Karlstadt and in the Main-Spessart district exactly between Lohr am Main and Karlstadt am Main.

1135 inhabitants live in an area of ​​22.4 km², the majority of whom are Roman Catholic. The Ziegelbach rises in the place to which the hamlets Erlenbach and Rettersbach belong .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1139. In 1351, the Counts of Rieneck, who temporarily ruled over part of the place, issued village rules. The village court was also responsible for the neighboring town of Rettersbach and the two neighboring towns of Steinbach and Halsbach , which are now districts of Lohr. The court seal from 1679 also provided the template for the local coat of arms with a striding silver lamb on a red background.

From the middle of the 17th century, displaced Jews settled here elsewhere. Around 1800 the Jewish community had 90 members from twenty families. In total, the place had about 630 inhabitants at that time. In 1848 there were 125 Jewish residents. Most famous is probably Josef Schlossmann, who was born in Wiesenfeld on April 17, 1860, a textile wholesaler and a generous donor and benefactor. A plaque commemorates him on the house where he was born. The Wiesenfeld Jews also experienced devastation and arrests during the November pogroms in 1938 and, above all, deportations by the Nazis. 22 of 25 deported Jews from Wiesenfeld were murdered.

The Church of the Assumption of Mary was built around 1610, after the damage in the Thirty Years' War it was renovated and refurbished from 1673 onwards. In 1905 the church building was expanded and renovated again. The church and the synagogue, built from 1861 to 1863 in the Gothic style, are among the places of interest.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community was incorporated into the district town of Karlstadt.

Born in Wiesenfeld

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers, data, facts. City of Karlstadt, archived from the original on March 30, 2020 ; accessed on March 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ Karlstadt - district town Main-Spessart. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .
  3. ^ Hans Schlumberger / Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid: Wiesenfeld. In: Wolfgang Kraus / Hans-Christoph Dittscheid / Gury Schneider-Ludorff in connection with Meier Schwarz (eds.) More than stones ... Synagogue commemorative volume Bavaria Volume III / 1 Lower Franconia. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015. ISBN 978-3-898-70449-6 . Pp. 359-380.
  4. ↑ Hans Schlumberger / Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid: ibid, pp. 361–366.
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 763 .

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