Windsbach

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Windsbach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 10 ° 50'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
County : Ansbach
Height : 417 m above sea level NHN
Area : 68.11 km 2
Residents: 6050 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 89 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 91575
Primaries : 09871, 09876Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : AN , DKB, FEU, ROT
Community key : 09 5 71 226
LOCODE : DE WWH
City structure: 28 parts of the community

City administration address : 		Hauptstrasse 15
91575 Windsbach
Website : www.windsbach.de
Mayor : Matthias Seitz ( SPD )
Location of the town of Windsbach in the district of Ansbach
Landkreis Donau-Ries Ansbach Fürth Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim Landkreis Fürth Landkreis Roth Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen Unterer Wald Lehrberg Adelshofen (Mittelfranken) Bechhofen (Mittelfranken) Bruckberg (Mittelfranken) Buch am Wald Burk Colmberg Dentlein am Forst Diebach Dietenhofen Dinkelsbühl Dombühl Ehingen (Mittelfranken) Feuchtwangen Flachslanden Gebsattel Gerolfingen Geslau Heilsbronn Insingen Langfurth Leutershausen Lichtenau (Mittelfranken) Merkendorf (Mittelfranken) Mönchsroth Neuendettelsau Neusitz Oberdachstetten Ohrenbach Petersaurach Röckingen Rothenburg ob der Tauber Rügland Sachsen bei Ansbach Schillingsfürst Schnelldorf Schopfloch (Mittelfranken) Steinsfeld Unterschwaningen Wassertrüdingen Weidenbach (Mittelfranken) Weihenzell Weiltingen Wettringen (Mittelfranken) Wieseth Windelsbach Windsbach Wittelshofen Wörnitz (Gemeinde) Wolframs-Eschenbach Wilburgstetten Ornbau Mitteleschenbach Herrieden Dürrwangen Burgoberbach Aurach (Landkreis Ansbach) Arberg Baden-Württembergmap
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The Rezat near Windsbach

Windsbach (coll. Winschba ) is a town in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach .

geography

Geographical location

Windsbach is located in Rangau , 20 kilometers east of the district town of Ansbach and 40 kilometers southwest of Nuremberg . The Franconian Rezat , the Aurach , tributaries of the Rezat (right: Hopfengraben, Seeleingraben, Erlbach ; left: Wernsbach, Schwalbenbach, Goldbach), tributaries of the Aurach (right: Watzendorfer Bach, Almesbach, Kettersbach; left: Lanzenbach, Klingengraben) flow through the municipality ).

The highest peaks are the Rötelbuck ( 441  m above sea level ) east of Brunn, the Kellerberg ( 432  m above sea level ) southwest of Windsbach and the Goldberg ( 420  m above sea level ) north of Untereschenbach. The lowest point is at Untereschenbach at 374  m above sea level. NHN . The Prünst is the largest contiguous forest area. It is located in the Auf dem Sand corridor area and extends between Windsbach and Ismannsdorf. The Seeleinshölzlein and the Seehölzlein adjoin this in the south . The Brand forest area extends north of Moosbach and west of Suddersdorf .

Community structure

The political municipality of Windsbach has 28 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

The main town of Windsbach is divided into the Upper and Lower Suburbs, the industrial area Fohlenhof , Fallhaus and Bergmichl. Wernsmühle, Moosbach and Retzendorf have largely grown together with the main town. Former parts of the community, now devastated, are: The Grünthalhof (was no longer mentioned after 1818) and the ball mill (demolished in 2012).

Neighboring communities

Neuendettelsau Heilsbronn Kammerstein , pipe
Lichtenau Neighboring communities Abenberg
Wolframs-Eschenbach Mitteleschenbach gap

history

After Georg Rusam, this area was colonized at the end of the 8th century. Because of the sandy soil, settlement was slow. In 1130 the place was first mentioned in a document as Windesbach . The place name contains the personal name Winid, who can be seen as the founder of the place. In 1278, Windsbach was granted city rights. The burgraves of Nuremberg acquired their first goods in Windsbach in 1292 and were able to expand their property in the village in 1400.

Since the 14th century Windsbach was the seat of an upper office of the Principality of Ansbach .

In the 16-point report of the Windsbach Oberamt from 1608, 77 teams are recorded for Windsbach, of which 10 teams lived outside the city walls. 76 properties were subordinate to the Windsbach caste office , 1 property to the Merkendorf administration office . There was also an office building, two aristocratic free houses, town hall, school and sacristan's house, chaplain house, rectory and 2 shepherds' houses. The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach caste and city bailiff's office in Windsbach .

During and after the Thirty Years' War , the city and its surrounding area became an important settlement area for evangelical expellees from Austria , who found a new home here and whose descendants have lived here to this day.

The Oberamt Windsbach was enlarged in 1750 by the Oberamt Heilsbronn, which was established in 1741. From 1791/92 the principality of Ansbach was administered by the Prussian state as Ansbach-Bayreuth . With that the Oberamt Windsbach became part of the Ansbach district .

At the end of the 18th century there were 155 properties in Windsbach. The high court and the rulership of the city were exercised by the caste and city bailiff's office in Windsbach. All properties in Brandenburg-Ansbach (Kastenamt Windsbach: 153, Kapellamt Windsbach: 1, administration office Merkendorf: 1) as landlords. There were 101 households within the city walls and 54 in the suburbs. In addition, there were stately, communal and church buildings. From 1797 to 1808 the place was under the Justice and Chamber Office Windsbach .

In 1806 Windsbach came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . As part of the municipal edict, the tax district Windsbach was formed in 1808 , which included the places Fallhaus, Schwalbenmühle, Wernsmühle and Windsbach. The municipal community of Windsbach was founded in 1810 and was congruent with the tax district. It was subject to the Heilsbronn Regional Court in administration and jurisdiction and the Windsbach Rent Office in the financial administration . From 1862 to 1879 Windsbach was administered by the Heilsbronn District Office , since 1880 by the Ansbach District Office (renamed the Ansbach District in 1938 ) and the Heilsbronn Rent Office (1920–1929: Heilsbronn Tax Office , from 1929: Ansbach Tax Office ). The jurisdiction remained with the district court Heilsbronn until 1879, 1880–1956 district court Heilsbronn , since 1956 district court Ansbach . The community originally had an area of ​​5,890 km².

Between 1954 and 1958, the Wernsmühle was reorganized from Windsbach to Wernsbach .

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in the 1970s, the following incorporations took place:

Former
local community		 Residents
(1970)		 Incorporation
date		 Remarks
Bertholdsdorf 252 May 1, 1978 with kitsch village and winter farm
Well 260 January 1, 1972 with Leipersloh and Kettersbach
Elpersdorf near Windsbach 122 January 1, 1972 with ball mill
Hergersbach 096 July 1, 1972
Ismannsdorf 180 July 1, 1972 with Speckheim
Moosbach 117 January 1, 1972
Retzendorf 095 January 1, 1972 with Wolfsau and Hölzleinsmühle
Sauernheim 131 1st January 1974 with hop mill
Suddersdorf 144 July 1, 1973 with forest house
Untereschenbach 171 July 1, 1972
Veitsaurach 382 May 1, 1978 with Lanzendorf and Buckenmühle
Wernsbach near Windsbach 372 January 1, 1972 Incorporation of Neuses and the rest of Wernsmühle (238 of the 372 inhabitants), reclassification of the place Wernsbach to Neuendettelsau
Winkelhaid 110 July 1, 1972 with Thonhof

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population increased from 5,033 to 6,018 by 985 inhabitants or by 19.6%.

Windsbach community

year 1818 1840 1852 1861 1867 1871 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1919 1925 1933 1939 1946 1950 1961 1970 1987 1995 2005 2015
Residents 976 1363 1350 1343 1525 1483 1460 1521 1562 1556 1623 1583 1575 1645 1686 1614 1708 1710 2936 3035 2877 2869 4973 5825 6182 6094
Houses 178 183 222 229 247 257 292 339 466 1267 1665
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City of Windsbach

year 001818 001840 001852 001861 001871 001885 001900 001925 001950 001961 001970 001987
Residents 949 1330 1317 1315 1455 1535 1558 1588 3021 2873 2862 2847
Houses 174 178 218 242 253 288 336 465 730
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politics

town hall

mayor

  • First Mayor: Matthias Seitz (SPD / UW)
  • Second Mayor: Norbert Kleinöder (surrounding area)
  • Third Mayor: Karl Schuler (SPD)

Seitz was elected on March 16, 2014 with 54.61% of the vote, followed by Norman Blevins (CSU) and Nicolette Seeghitz (FW). He was re-elected on March 15, 2020.

City council

The city council has 21 members including the First Mayor:

Political party Seats 2020 Seats 2014 ( municipal elections in Bavaria 2014 )
SPD / Independent voters 5 5
CSU / committed citizens 5 5
Windsbach-Umland voter community 7th 5
Green 3 2
Free voters / Windsbacher Bürgerblock (WBB) - 3

badges and flags

Windsbach coat of arms
 Blazon : “ Split ; front quartered of silver and black , back in red a silver oblique wave beams . "

Red and white municipal flag

Justification of the coat of arms: The quartered Zollern shield stands for the burgraves of Nuremberg , who began to purchase goods in Windsbach between 1281 and 1292. The inclined wave bar stands for the Franconian Rezat . As a country town of the Hohenzollern, Windsbach had only the quartered Zollern shield with the brackish head as a crest in its seals since 1402 . In a seal from 1610 it appears for the first time as a double coat of arms, which Margrave Joachim Ernst von Brandenburg-Ansbach confirmed with a coat of arms letter in 1614: on the right the crossing and on the left an oblique left green wavy bar . Since the mayor's medal in 1819, both coats of arms have been in a shield and the wavy bar has been in silver.

Others

From 2004 to 2016 Windsbach was part of the municipal alliance (Komm, A) to which the political communities Bruckberg, Dietenhofen, Heilsbronn, Neuendettelsau and Petersaurach also belonged. Since 2016, the community has been part of the Allianz Kernfranken , which arose from the merger of Komm, A and LiSa (Lichtenau, Sachsen b. Ansbach).

Upper gate
Margrave Bridge

Culture and sights

Boys' choir

In 1946, Hans Thamm founded the now internationally known Windsbach boys' choir in Windsbach in the tradition of the Dresden Kreuzchor . From 1978 to January 2012 the choir was led by Karl-Friedrich Beringer . Martin Lehmann has been the choirmaster since February 2012 .

Buildings

Of the former five towers and the city wall, only the Upper (Schwabacher Tor) and the Lower Gate (Bridge Gate) as well as parts of the city fortifications remain. Around the city tower from the 13th century, which can be climbed as a lookout tower by appointment , you can see the second defense system, the official castle. The former third defense system, the fortified church, stands on the church square. The town church of St. Margareta , built in 1730, replaced the previous church from around 800.

The town hall , which was built from 1748 to 1752, forms the center of the historic old town. Next to it was the old castle, which was demolished in 1736. In the years 1737 and 1738 the rent office was built on this site. The plans came from the court building director Leopoldo Retti and the young agricultural inspector Johann David Steingruber . The building served as the tax office and seat of the bailiffs. In 2003 and 2004 the rent office was completely restored. The building is currently used by the Rezat-Mönchswald music school, among others.

A special gem is the Gottesruhkapelle , built around 1400 by the bailiff Ritter von Hellberg, with fresco paintings around 1430.

From 1790 to 1792 a sandstone vault bridge was built over the Franconian Rezat , the so-called Margrave Bridge. In 1992 this monument was completely renovated.

traffic

The national road 2223 performs eight kilometers further northwest the junction Lichtenau (AS 53) of the A 6 ( E 50 ) and the southeast to Elpersdorf and Untereschenbach over after Wassermungenau to federal highway 466 . The national road 2410 offers six kilometers north, the junction Neuendettelsau (AS 54) of A 6. The national road 2220 into an easterly direction crossing the B 466 by Abenberg or west to tungsten-Eschenbach . The district road AN 15 leads south past Gersbach to Mitteleschenbach and north-east to Moosbach . Communal roads lead to Retzendorf and Wernsmühle .

Windsbach is the end point of the R71 regional railway from Wicklesgreuth via Petersaurach and Neuendettelsau to Windsbach. In Wicklesgreuth there is a connection to the Nuremberg – Crailsheim (R7) railway . The train station in Windsbach was built in 1894.

Educational institutions

Personalities

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the city

  • Karl Dunz (* 1917), author and former mayor of Windsbach

literature

Monographs

  • Maria Tabea Armanski-Dauscher: The street of my childhood. 1995, 2nd edition 2000.
  • Hansjörg Dodenhöft: From the municipal Latin school to the Johann Sebastian Bach grammar school, 475 years of higher education in Windsbach. Ed .: Friends and Sponsors of the JSBG, 2012.
  • Hansjörg Dodenhöft: The Windsbacher Progymnasium from 1898 to 1946, a search for traces in troubled times. Ed .: Friends and Sponsors of the JSBG, 2018.
  • Karl Dunz : Fate of the Jews in Windsbach . Freimund print shop, Neuendettelsau 1947.
  • Karl Dunz : Windsbach - home and cultural history of the city with all districts . Neuendettelsau 1985.
  • Johann Friedrich Fresisen: ... and then the Americans came: Windsbach before and after zero hour - a review of a ten year old at the time. Nuremberg 1986.
  • Johann Friedrich frischisen (ed.): Winsbeke: the Windsbacher contribution to the minnesang of the high Middle Ages. Regensburg 1994.
  • Johann Jungmaier: The town of Windsbach and its history. Roth 1938.
  • Eberhard Krauss: Exiles in the Evangelical Luth. Deanery Windsbach in the 17th century. A family history investigation (=  sources and research on Franconian family history . Volume 19 ). Society for Family Research in Franconia, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-929865-12-7 .

items

Web links

Commons : Windsbach  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Windsbach  - Sources and full texts

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. ↑ E. Fechter, p. 204.
  3. ↑ Windsbach in the Bavaria Atlas
  4. ^ Windsbach in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 14, 2019. There: 29 parts of the community. The ball mill , which was demolished in 2012, is still run as a community part.
  5. ↑ Georg Rusam: Basics and beginnings of church organization at the middle Rezat . In: Journal for Bavarian Church History . tape 17 . Verlag die Egge, Nuremberg 1949, p. 98 ( digitized version ). The terrain is described as "swampy or at least wet ground in a flat valley basin".
  6. ↑ W.-A. v. Reitzenstein, p. 245. E. Fechter, p. 204 explicitly rules out the fact that the first part of the name refers to the Wends , since the defining word is in the genitive singular and not in the plural. - The Wends were settled around Ansbach in the 10th century, which is also reflected in the place names.
  7. ^ State Archives Nuremberg , 16-point reports 43/2. Quoted from M. Jehle, Vol. 2, p. 729.
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  11. ↑ State Archives Nuremberg , Government of Middle Franconia, Chamber of the Interior, Levy 1952, 3850: Formation of the municipal and rural communities in the district court Heilsbronn 1810. Quoted from M. Jehle, vol. 2, p. 963.
  12. ^ Address and statistical manual for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 45 ( digitized version ).
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  15. ↑ E. Fechter (p. 201) describes the place as belonging to the municipality of Windsbach, whereas G. Fehring (p. 153) describes it as the municipality of Wernsbach.
  16. ↑ a b c d Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 706 f .
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  18. ↑ a b Only inhabited houses are given. In 1818 these were designated as fireplaces , in 1840, in 1852 as houses , and from 1871 to 2015 as residential buildings.
  19. ↑ a b Alphabetical index of all the localities contained in the Rezatkreise according to its constitution by the newest organization: with indication of a. the tax districts, b. Judicial Districts, c. Rent offices in which they are located, then several other statistical notes . Ansbach 1818, p. 104 ( digitized version ). For the municipality of Windsbach plus the residents and buildings of Schwalbenmühle (p. 84) and Wernsmühle (p. 102).
  20. ^ A b Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 154 ( digitized version ).
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  24. ↑ a b Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1210 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized ).
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  34. ^ Windsbach: Official statistics of the LfStat
  35. ↑ City of Windsbach: Preliminary result of the election of the city council on March 15, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .
  36. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Windsbach  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  37. ^ Claus Broser: Coat of arms in the district of Ansbach . Ed .: District of Ansbach. Hercynia Verlag, Ansbach 1990, ISBN 3-925063-23-4 , p. 118-119 .
  38. ↑ Windsbach. In: Kommunalflaggen.eu. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  39. ↑ www.kernfranken.eu
  40. ↑ City tower on the Fränkisches Seenland website