Wilberhofen

Wilberhofen community Windeck Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 34 ″  E
Residents :	508  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	51570
Area code :	02292
The chapel in Wilberhofen

Wilberhofen is a part of the municipality Windeck an der Sieg . The district of Rossel has grown together with Wilberhofen, but is separated by Kreisstraße 55. Wilberhofen is listed on a map by Arnold Mercator as Wilbereickhouen in 1575 .

Chapel of St. Adelgundis and St. Rochus

As early as August 1, 1506, knight Bertram von Nesselrode reported in a certificate from the Antonius Foundation about a chapel in Wilberhofen. The Dattenfeld pastors lived in the village until the 17th century, as they had most of their possessions here. Accordingly, most of the masses were also held in the chapel, only the Sunday masses were held in Dattenfeld. The early chapel was probably in the Thirty Years' War destroyed since 1703 a new chapel benediziert was.

Adelgundis Chapel

This Adelgundis Chapel is a 11.60 meter long and 6.10 meter wide quarry stone building with a three-sided choir closure. The closed roof turret houses two bells and, like the roof, is slated. In the old part there is a statue of St. Adelgundis with the abbess's staff and a model of the chapel. The showpiece is the baroque altar from 1720 with a newer statue of the Virgin Mary, which was renovated in 1984. It probably comes from the old Rochus Chapel mentioned below. An organ is also housed in the old building. After several attempts that failed due to previous inflation , enough money was finally collected to build an extension.

Rochus Chapel

The topping-out ceremony was celebrated in 1951, and the extension was inaugurated on October 11, 1953. It is a plastered quarry stone building with a straight end of the choir and a tiled roof. The building is 16.30 meters long and 8.10 meters wide. It offers 150 seats. The bright choir is particularly effective thanks to its exposed quarry stone wall and the large wooden cross by the sculptor Hans Scheble from Ellwangen . The altar block is made of red Eifel sandstone . In addition to the Terracotta Stations of the Cross, also created by Hans Scheble in 1960, the baroque figure of Saint Roch is particularly striking . The plague saint is depicted as a wanderer with a staff pointing to his knee, which is covered with bumps. He is accompanied by a dog, it carries a piece of bread in its snout, so it is the only one to provide it with food. This statue comes from the old Rochus Chapel between the train station and the forester's house. It was closed in 1860 due to the construction of the railway and probably belonged to a Rochus House mentioned in 1590, which presumably housed people suffering from the plague from Dattenfeld.

traffic

The Dattenfeld S-Bahn station is in Wilberhofen

Wilberhofen can be reached via the state road 333 and with the S 12 via the victory route . The Dattenfeld stop is right there.

Village festivals

• May Festival (April 30th / May 1st)
• Rochus Festival (3rd weekend in August)
• Höffjesfest

Water supply

The village of Wilberhofen has its own drinking water supply.
The drinking water supply consists of:

• Well (drilled 1952)
• Pump house with processing (deacidification, filtering, UV disinfection)
• 1.8 kilometers of pump line
• Elevated tank with a capacity of 200 m³
• 5.3 km of drinking water pipeline network

The drinking water (raw water) is pumped from a depth of approx. 9 meters at the well and then treated. From there, the treated drinking water is pumped to the elevated tank 80 meters higher via a pump line. From the elevated tank, the local households are supplied with drinking water via the drinking water pipeline network.

The average daily capacity of drinking water is 65 to 70 cubic meters.

swell

• Father Gabriel Busch: Chapel wreath around the Michaelsberg, Verlag Abtei Michaelsberg, 1985
• Citizens' Association Rossel-Wilberhofen (2008): Our village has a future. Documentation for the inspection by the district commission.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Windeck - List of localities , accessed on April 3, 2014