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Wind field
Community Dittenheim
Windsfeld Coat of Arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 415 m
Area : 4.59 km²
Residents : 208  (May 25 1987)
Population density : 45 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1978
Postal code : 91723
Area code : 09834
Windsfeld (Bavaria)
Wind field

Location of Windsfeld in Bavaria
Aerial photo 2019
Aerial photo 2019

Windsfeld is a former municipality, today a district and a district of Dittenheim in the Central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The place had 208 inhabitants at the 1987 census and is at an altitude of 415 meters above  sea ​​level .

Geographical location

Windsfeld is located in the Altmühltal , around two kilometers north of Dittenheim. Nearby, the Schlangenbach and Wachsteiner Bach flow into the Altmühl , which flows past the place to the east. In the west the place borders on the state road 2230 . The neighboring towns are Unterasbach , Dornhausen (Theilenhofen) , Wachstein , Gundelsheim an der Altmühl , Dittenheim and Sausenhofen . The Altmühltal cycle path leads through the village .

history

Windsfeld was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century. A Cistercian monastery was founded here in 1233 by Friedrich von Truhendingen and his wife Agnes , which moved its seat to the Stahelsberg, today's Schloßberg near Hechlingen , as early as 1245 and migrated from there to Zimmer in the Nördlinger Ries in 1252 .

In 1963 and 1998 the place won gold in the competition Our village has a future . Until the municipal reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, Windsfeld was an independent municipality. On May 1, 1978, it was incorporated into the community of Dittenheim.

Worth seeing

St. Gangolf Church

The entire center of Windsfeld is under ensemble protection.

St. Gangolf Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Gangolf , which basically dates from the 15th century, is a choir tower church and a monument . The octogenic church tower was raised in 1718; the nave is from 1823. The pointed helmet has colored glazed bricks. In 1980 there were extensive renovations. In the choir there is a late Gothic ribbed vault , a tabernacle niche with a wooden shrine and some epitaphs from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Architectural monuments

See also: List of architectural monuments in Windsfeld

The two-story rectory with its gable roof and plastered half-timbering was built in 1715. The former schoolhouse is a two-story hipped roof building from 1808 that was rebuilt in 1884. A hook yard is located at Windsfeld 64 with a single- story stable house from the 18th or 19th century and a massive barn from the 19th century. The former Tithe Barn Windsfeld 79 is a massive building with a half-hipped roof from the 18th century. The two-storey residential stable house Windsfeld 54 with a central corridor from the 18th or 19th century, the elongated, single-storey saddle roof building Windsfeld 56 made of quarry stone with half-timbering from 1676, 1760 or 1772 and the gabled barn Windsfeld 61 from the 18th century are examples of architectural monuments in Windsfeld .

Soil monuments

railroad

South of Windsfeld, at an altitude of 415 m above sea level, is the Windsfeld-Dittenheim station, which opened on October 2, 1869, on the Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railway line (line 5321 at km 15.18 / RL100 code: NWD). It has two continuous main tracks and a passing track. In 1978, local passenger traffic ended: as part of a pilot project, passenger traffic was discontinued in 1978 at a total of 15 stops on the route and traffic was shifted to buses. For the Hahnenkamm barracks near Heidenheim (Mfr) of the German armed forces, which is about 10 km away, a large double-track loading ramp for military transports (here specially for tanks) was built, which was in operation until the barracks were closed (on March 31, 2004). It consists of a head and a head / side loading ramp. The agricultural warehouse was also served until 2004, until the cessation of goods traffic in the same year. The station's facilities are still relatively extensive, but as an operating station they are only used for overtaking.

Others

There is a weather station at Windsfeld .

Personalities

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Winter: The Stahelsberg Monastery . In: Alt-Gunzenhausen, 48/1993, p. 46f.
  2. ^ 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. 731 .
  3. ↑ Description of the church on pointoo.de
  4. ↑ The Windsfeld weather station