Wildenheid

Wildenheid Large district town Neustadt near Coburg Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 41 ″ N , 11 ° 7 ′ 43 ″ E
Height :	349 m above sea level NN
Area :	2.57 km²
Residents :	2094 (2013)
Population density :	815 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	96465
Area code :	09568

Wildenheid is a district of the Upper Franconian town of Neustadt bei Coburg in the Coburg district .

geography

Wildenheid is about three kilometers north of Neustadt bei Coburg. The district borders the Thuringian city of Sonneberg in the north, east and west and is traversed by the Röden .

history

Lower lock

Wildenheid was first mentioned in 1317 in the Urbarium , a list of possessions of the Hennebergers when they acquired the New Rulership , as the field name Wildenheyde. In the original forest, heather and marshland, the Wildenheide settlement was built between 1340 and 1347 and belonged to the von Schaumberg family. At the beginning of the 15th century, the von Kemmaten Dorf and Heide were given fiefs . They built the core of the Lower Castle at the beginning of the 16th century and had a large number of ponds created for fish farming. The Waldfriedensee was created as a sheep pond, for washing and watering the animals. In 1551 the manor was divided up through sale. The acquirer Wilhelm von Schott built a second manor house, the Upper Castle. Georg Truchseß von Henneberg acquired the lower castle in 1569. In 1668 the cavalry master Wolf Sebastian von Bronsard combined both parts of the property after the purchase. Over the next two centuries there were repeated changes of ownership until the manor became a ducal domain in 1852, after the local population had been freed from the burden of the property in 1848. From 1878 the land was sold to the local farmers and the castle to the community, who set up a school with a teacher's apartment there. A newly built barn took over the municipal administration in 1951.

After the Thirty Years War there were still 60 residents who lived in 14 houses. 13 farms had been abandoned and were in desolation.

The Wildenheid children went to school in Neustadt until the middle of the 17th century. After that they had their own schoolmaster. On September 15, 1879, the old castle was inaugurated as a new schoolhouse. It was previously located on today's Untere Burgstrasse. In 1959, 171 students were taught by five teachers. Since there were only four classrooms, shift teaching was introduced. An extension for DM 700,000 was opened in 1965.

At the end of the 19th century, the toy industry in Sonneberg and Neustadt gave rise to many small and supplier companies for the manufacture of dolls in Wildenheid. Industrial settlements in Neustadt in the 1930s later became the main employers of the population.

21 Wildenheid soldiers lost their lives in World War I and 106 in World War II. There is a memorial in the cemetery.

From 1945 to 1989, the situation on the inner-German border was decisive for Wildenheid . From the late 1940s to the late 1970s, around 250 single and multi-family houses were built. New building areas were Keller- and Krausenholz, Am Schottenholz, Ernstwinkel, Schafacker, Untere Weinbergstrasse, Wildenheid-West and Kemmater Wiese. In 1963 the Wildenheid- Meilschnitz parish became independent. Previously, the Neustadt parish of St. Georg was responsible for the place. There was a cinema from 1954 to the early 1970s.

On May 1, 1978 Wildenheid became part of Neustadt bei Coburg.

The drinking water supply used to be through house wells as well as pump and running wells. A supply from the city of Sonneberg was available from November 17, 1928, which was replaced in 1954 by a community-owned system. After December 1978 the Neustadt municipal utilities were responsible for the drinking water supply. From December 1, 1925, the electricity suppliers were the Gumpertschen mill in Mupperg and, from March 1935, the Bamberg overland plant in Upper Franconia. In 1997 Stadtwerke Neustadt took over the power supply.

Population development

year	population
1783	123
1875	364
1895	507
1910	717
1933	914
1939	991
1950	1383
1961	1653
1970	1853
1987	1708
2013	2094

Friedenskirche

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace was built in 1954/55 under the supervision of the Coburg architect Reinhard Claaßen . A large part of the construction costs amounting to 120,000 DM came from the “Wooden Church Crusade” (crusade for churches made of wood). American Christians brought this into being after the Second World War in order to build 48 wooden churches along the inner-German border as a symbol of peace. The Wildenheider Friedenskirche was inaugurated on October 16, 1955. The rectangular hall building has a gable in which three bells hang, which were cast at the Rincker bell foundry . The only decoration of the simply designed interior is the colored altar window by the painter Markus von Gosen from Prien am Chiemsee .

literature

Dr. Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown. Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg 1974, pp. 161–163

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, Neustadt bei Coburg 1989, p. 28
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Isolde Kalter: Wildenheid
↑ Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century, Second volume, 1993, p 451
↑ Helmut Scheuerich: History of the City of Neustadt near Coburg in the Twentieth Century, Second Volume, 1993, p. 124
^ 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. 680 .
↑ Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, Neustadt bei Coburg 1989, pp. 378, 386
↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Coburg. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ Helmut Scheuerich: History of the City of Neustadt near Coburg in the Twentieth Century , Second Volume, 1993, p. 516

[1] Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, Neustadt bei Coburg 1989, p. 28

[Kalter-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Isolde Kalter: Wildenheid

[3] Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century, Second volume, 1993, p 451

[4] Helmut Scheuerich: History of the City of Neustadt near Coburg in the Twentieth Century, Second Volume, 1993, p. 124

[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. 680 .

[6] Helmut shy Erich: history of the city Neustadt bei Coburg in the twentieth century. First volume, Neustadt bei Coburg 1989, pp. 378, 386

[7] www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de

[vg-8] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Coburg. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[9] Helmut Scheuerich: History of the City of Neustadt near Coburg in the Twentieth Century , Second Volume, 1993, p. 516