Wiesthal

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Wiesthal (definition of terms ) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′  N , 9 ° 26 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Main-Spessart
Management Community :	Partenstein
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.24 km 2
Residents:	1295 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	140 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97859
Area code :	06020
License plate :	MSP
Community key :	09 6 77 200
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Main street 24 97846 Partenstein
Website :	Wiesthal page
Mayor :	Karl-Heinz Hofmann (Free Voters)
Location of the municipality of Wiesthal in the Main-Spessart district

Wiesthal is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart and a member of the Partenstein administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Wiesthal is in the Main-Spessart region, in the Aubach valley in the Hoch Spessart . The topographically highest point of the municipality is at 419  m above sea level. NN (location) at the Baßhöhe, west of Wiesthal, the lowest is on the Aubach at 197  m above sea level. NN (location) .

Community structure

There are two districts:

• Krommenthal
• Wiesthal

The districts are Krommenthal, Partensteiner Forst and Wiesthal.

Neighboring communities

Heinrichsthaler Forst (municipality-free area)	Market Frammersbach	Frammersbacher Forst and Partensteiner Forst (unregulated areas)
		Market Frammersbach
community Neuhütten		Partensteiner Forst ( non- parish area)

Surname

etymology

The original name Wiesentau goes back to the Middle High German words Wisent for Wisent and ouwe for Aue . Accordingly, the name Bachwiese means living in the meadow duck . There was a change in name in the 14th century that renamed the place Wiesen (bach) valley . This name has its origin in the valley of the Wiesenbach (today Aubach ) where the place is located. At times, immersed in the name of the adjective wüeste for waste or rely on, which probably points to the remote location in the valley.

Earlier spellings

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

1325 Wysintau 1339 Wisenthau 1345 Wisentall 1358 Wisental 1477 desert valley 1525 Wisstal

1526 Wustenthall 1637 Wiesental 1675 Wistall 1694 Wüsthall 1810 Wiesthal 1832 parish village on Wiesenbache

history

Catholic parish church St. Andreas in Wiesthal

Until the church is planted

Wiesthal is an old glassmaker's place and was first mentioned in a document in 1057. The little river Aubach used to separate the place into two parts, which belonged to the diocese of Mainz and the county of Rieneck . After the counts of Rieneck died out, this part of the town also fell to the Archbishopric of Mainz . The office of Archbishopric Mainz was secularized in 1803 in favor of the Prince-Primate von Dalberg and fell with his Principality of Aschaffenburg in 1814 (as a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt ) to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Administrative history

In 1862 the district office of Aschaffenburg was formed, on whose administrative area Wiesthal was located. On January 1, 1880, however, Wiesthal came to the Lohr am Main district office to reform the layout of the Bavarian district offices . As everywhere in the German Reich , the term district was introduced in 1939. Wiesthal was now one of the 26 communities in the Lohr am Main district . With the dissolution of the district of Lohr am Main, Wiesthal came to the newly formed district of Mittelmain on July 1, 1972, which ten months later received its final name, district of Main-Spessart .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Krommenthal was incorporated.

Population development

• 1961: 1346 inhabitants
• 1970: 1375 inhabitants
• 1987: 1407 inhabitants
• 1991: 1428 inhabitants
• 1995: 1490 inhabitants
• 2000: 1492 inhabitants
• 2005: 1450 inhabitants
• 2010: 1393 inhabitants
• 2015: 1352 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Karl-Heinz Hofmann ( Free Voters ) has been Mayor since May 1, 2020 ; he was elected on March 15, 2020 with 87.8% of the vote. From July 1, 2001 to April 30, 2020, his predecessor was Andreas Zusatz (Free Voting Association); he was last confirmed in office in 2014.

Municipal council

The local elections in 2002, 2008, 2014 and 2020 led to the following allocation of seats in the local council:

	2002	2008	2014	2020
CSU	3	4th	4th	0
Free voters	5	5	6th	0
SPD	4th	3	2	0
Common list for Wiesthal / Krommenthal				12

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided nine times by red and gold; topped with a silver St. Andrew's cross on which two crossed red glass pipes are placed.

Community partnerships

• Városlőd , Veszprém County , Hungary

Economy including agriculture and forestry

According to official statistics, there were 208 employees at the place of work in 1998 in the manufacturing sector and 14 in the trade and transport sector. In other economic sectors 33 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 526 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There was none in the manufacturing sector, and one in the construction sector. In 1999 there were also two farms.

The largest employer is the Wenzel-Präzision company .

traffic

To the south of the village is the Wiesthal train station on the Main-Spessart-Bahn .

Culture and sights

• Catholic parish church of St. Andrew, built in 1599/1600
• Ruh- or Mühlhansenmühle, the last of six mills in the village
• Customs: Faselsrad (Foaseltsroad), on Shrove Tuesday
• Forest nature trail of the Spessart Association

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Wiesthal

education

• kindergarten
• primary school

Web links

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

• Wiesthal on the VG Partenstein website
• Entry on Wiesthal's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on | localtime | YYYY-MM-DD | .

• Wiesthal: Official statistics of the LfStat

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]/231347&attr=OBJ&val= 1749
3. ↑ Right click on BayernAtlas
4. ↑ ^{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. 243 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 514 .
6. ↑ http://www.wahlen.bayern.de/kommunalwahlen/
7. ↑ Election of the municipal council - municipal elections 2020 in the municipality of Wiesthal - overall result. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .