Wittighausen

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Wittighausen
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Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 50'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Stuttgart
County : Main-Tauber district
Height : 245 m above sea level NHN
Area : 32.36 km 2
Residents: 1632 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 50 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 97957
Area code : 09347
License plate : TBB, MGH
Community key : 08 1 28 137
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Königstraße 17
97957 Wittighausen
Website : www.wittighausen.de
Mayor : Marcus Wessels
Location of the community Wittighausen in the Main-Tauber district
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Wittighausen is a municipality in Tauberfranken in the Main-Tauber district in the Franconian north-east of Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Wittighausen is located with its four districts on Wittigbach in the northeastern part of the Main-Tauber district and borders in the east on the district of Würzburg. The municipality occupies the middle of the city quadrilateral Würzburg  - Ochsenfurt  - Bad Mergentheim  - Tauberbischofsheim . Their area extends from 223  m above sea level. NHN in the west, where the Wittigbach, fed by source brooks in the northeast, crosses at the lowest point of the terrain to the district of Grünsfeld - Zimmer , down to 223  m above sea level. NHN Höhe in the far north at the Lilach farm on the edge of the Beuchel forest.

The northern part of the 32.36 km² municipal area around the districts of Poppenhausen and Oberwittighausen belongs to the Ochsenfurt Gau , which is shaped by Löss and Lettenkeuper, and the Gollachgau . In the southern part, with the district of Vilchband and parts of the Unterwittighausen district to the left of the Wittigbach valley, it is part of the Messelhausen plateau in the limestone landscape of the Tauberland . To the right of the Wittigbachtal, the districts of Poppenhausen and Oberwittighausen extend on the Kleinrinderfelder plateau . In this area the Wittigbach cuts the Lower Muschelkalk and in parts forms a wide meadow. Only in remote locations and on some slopes of the Wittigbach valley have larger forest areas survived. The other slopes of the valley are heavily terraced.

Community structure

Landmark and location of the community Wittighausen

Wittighausen consists of the formerly independent communities Oberwittighausen , Poppenhausen , Unterwittighausen and Vilchband . The population figures are as of December 31, 2016.

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates of the places of the community Wittighausen: OSM

  • The village of Oberwittighausen ( ⊙ ) and the Gaubüttelbrunn ( ⊙ ), Grenzenmühle ( ⊙ ) and Ihmet ( ⊙ ) stops belong to the former municipality of Oberwittighausen (206 inhabitants ).
  • The village of Poppenhausen ( ⊙ ), the hamlet of Hof Lilach ( ⊙ ) and the residential area of ​​the settlement ( ⊙ ) belong to the former municipality of Poppenhausen (91 inhabitants ).
  • The village of Unterwittighausen ( ⊙ ) and the residential areas Langenmühle ( ⊙ ), Neumühle (Kasparmühle) ( ⊙ ) and Wittighausen train station ( ⊙ ) belong to the former municipality of Unterwittighausen (1122 inhabitants ).
  • The village of Vilchband ( ⊙ ) and the abandoned village of Erdburg belong to the former municipality of Vilchband (285 inhabitants) .

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

Protected areas

The European bird sanctuary Wiesenweihe Taubergrund has included parts of the Wittighaus district since 2007.

In addition, there are a total of seven objects protected as natural monuments in the area of ​​the Wittighausen community .

history

Prehistory of the old communities

Until 1803, almost all of the old communities and today's parts of the community belonged to the Grünsfeld office in Würzburg and only Poppenhausen to the Tauberbischofsheim office in Mainz. In 1806 all places fell to Baden. From 1813 Poppenhausen was assigned to the Grünsfeld office and the other places came to the Gerlachsheim office. In 1864 the four old parishes were united in the Tauberbischofsheim district office , which in 1939 became part of the Tauberbischofsheim district.

Administrative history of the municipality of Wittighausen

Wittighausen was formed on September 1, 1971 as part of the administrative reform through the merger of the two then independent municipalities Oberwittighausen and Unterwittighausen. On January 1, 1972 Poppenhausen and on December 31, 1972 Vilchband were incorporated. Like its two predecessor communities, Wittighausen initially belonged to the Tauberbischofsheim district. When it was dissolved in 1973, the place became part of the newly formed Tauber District, which was renamed Main-Tauber District a year later .

Population development

The total population of the districts of the municipality Wittighausen developed as follows:

year population
1961 1983
1970 1991
1991 1704
1995 1772
2005 1711
2010 1701
2015 1647

Sources: Directory of municipalities and information from the State Statistical Office

Religions

The Reformation was not introduced in Wittighausen . The inhabitants of Wittighausen are therefore still predominantly Roman Catholic today . The Roman Catholic pastoral care unit Grünsfeld-Wittighausen , which is assigned to the deanery Tauberbischofsheim of the Archdiocese of Freiburg , includes the parishes of St. Peter and Paul (Grünsfeld) with the branches of St. Achatius (Grünsfeldhausen) and St. Laurentius (Paimar) , St. Agidius (Krensheim), St. Margaretha (rooms), St. Martin (Poppenhausen) , Church of All Saints (Unterwittighausen) with the branch St. Agidius (Oberwittighausen), Hl. Dreifaltigkeit (Kützbrunn) and St. Regiswindis (Vilchband) . The few Protestant residents of the community receive spiritual care from Lauda-Königshofen .

politics

mayor

Marcus Wessels has been mayor of Wittighausen since February 1, 2014. Wessels was elected the new mayor on December 15, 2013 with 87.85% of the vote.

See also: List of Mayors of Wittighausen

Municipal council

The ward council usually has 12 honorary members who are elected for five years. The number of members can increase through compensatory seats. In addition, the mayor acts as the municipal council chairman with voting rights.

The Unechte Teilorteschahl guarantees the districts a fixed number of seats: from Unterwittighausen there are at least seven, from Oberwittighausen and Vilchband at least two councils each, and from Poppenhausen at least one municipal council.

The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):

Municipal Council 2019
Party / list Share of votes Seats
Free Voter Association (FWV) 83.3% (+14.4) 10 (+2)
We for Wittighausen (WfW) 16.7% (+16.7) 2 (+2)
Turnout: 71.6% (+6.5)

coat of arms

Three Würzburg flags show that Ober-, Unterwittighausen and Vilchband belonged to the Würzburg monastery . The Mainz wheel documents Poppenhausen's former affiliation with Kurmainz .

Administrative community

The municipality of Wittighausen and the city of Grünsfeld form the agreed administrative community of Grünsfeld for the purpose of carrying out their administrative business together .

Economy and Infrastructure

Water supply

The Taubertal waterworks, built in Dittigheim from 2015 to 2017, supplies around 40,000 people from three cities and three municipalities, as well as industry and commerce in the central Taubertal, with drinking water . The operator is the Central Tauber Water Supply Association , which includes the municipalities of Wittighausen, Großrinderfeld and Werbach as well as the towns of Tauberbischofsheim , Lauda-Königshofen and Grünsfeld .

traffic

Wittighausen has a stop on the Frankenbahn ( Stuttgart - Würzburg ) in Unterwittighausen . There is an approximate two-hour cycle between Lauda and Würzburg with regional trains operated by the Westfrankenbahn .

education

Wittighausen has a primary school and a Roman Catholic kindergarten .

Culture and sights

Buildings and monuments

Mast 74 of the system 7610, under whose legs an asphalt path leads through

Transmission tower 74

A relatively unique structure in Wittighausen is the overhead line mast 74 of the Grafenrheinfeld-Höpfingen high-voltage line (Appendix 7610), because an asphalt path leads through under its legs. In Germany there are only two other masts under which paths lead, one at Leopoldshafen-Eggenstein under which a gravel field path runs and one in the neighboring town of Grünsfeld, which stands over an unpaved field path and is also part of the Grafenrheinfeld-Höpfingen high-voltage line (system 7610) is.

All Saints Church

The baroque church of All Saints in the Unterwittighausen district , built according to plans by Balthasar Neumann , is worth seeing .

St. Regiswindis Church

The St. Regiswindis church in the Vilchband district was built according to plans by Anton Brenner .

St. Sigismund Chapel

Also worth seeing is the Romanesque St. Sigismund Chapel in the Oberwittighausen district.

Other architectural monuments

Location map with hiking trails around Wittighausen, which lead past all churches and chapels in the community

The following other architectural monuments are located in the area of ​​Wittighausen:

Hiking trails

There are various hiking trails around Wittighausen that lead past the churches, chapels and several wayside shrines of the community.

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Main-Tauber-Kreis: Main-Tauber-Kreis: Cities and municipalities. Online at www.main-tauber-kreis.de, accessed on October 25, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c d LEO-BW.de: Wittighausen . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
  4. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . Pp. 322-324
  5. ↑ Wittighausen community: Wittighausen community as a whole . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  6. ^ Wittighausen community: Oberwittighausen district on the Wittighausen community website . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  7. ↑ Oberwittighausen - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Gaubüttelbrunn stop - living space - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  9. ↑ limits mill - Living Place - Details - LEO BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ihmet - living space - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  11. ^ Municipality of Wittighausen: Poppenhausen district on the website of the municipality of Wittighausen . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ Poppenhausen - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Lilach - living space - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Settlement - residential space - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Wittighausen community: Unterwittighausen district on the Wittighausen community website . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  16. ↑ Unterwittighausen - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Langenmühle - living space - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Neumühle - living space - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Wittighausen train station - up - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Wittighausen community: Vilchband district on the Wittighausen community website . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  21. ↑ Vilchband - Altgemeinde ~ Teilort - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Erdburg - Wüstung - detail page - LEO-BW. In: leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  23. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Wittighausen.
  24. ↑ Ordinance of the Ministry of Food and Rural Areas establishing European Bird Protection Areas (VSG-VO) of February 5, 2010.
  25. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 480 f .
  26. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 .
  27. ↑ Catholic deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Pastoral care unit Grünsfeld-Wittighausen . Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  28. ^ Community Wittighausen: main statute, §8 ; accessed July 3, 2019.
  29. ^ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal elections 2019, Wittighausen ; FN-Web , May 26, 2019: Result of the 2019 municipal council election in Wittighausen ; accessed July 3, 2019.
  30. ↑ Zweckverband Wasserversorgung Mittlere Tauber: Homepage . Online at www.wvmt.de. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  31. ↑ Main-Post: From 2017 drinking water from Dittigheim . October 28, 2016. Online at www.mainpost.de. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  32. ↑ wittighausen.de: The Church of St. Regiswindis in Vilchband . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  33. ^ Taubertal.de .: Sigismund Chapel . Online at www.taubertal.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  34. ^ Community Wittighausen: The Church of St. Egidius in Oberwittighausen . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  35. ↑ wittighausen.de: The Church of St. Martin in Poppenhausen . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved April 18, 2018.