Witzmannsberg (maple)

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Witzmannsberg
Maple municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 386 m above sea level NN
Residents : 696  (1987)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 96482
Area code : 09561
Farmhouses
Farmhouses

Witzmannsberg is a district of the Upper Franconian municipality of Ahorn in the Coburg district .

geography

Witzmannsberg is located about seven kilometers southwest of Coburg on a ridge. The district road CO 16 connects the place with Eicha and Seßlach . The old town is in the center of the town, larger, new settlement areas are available in the north. In the north-east, the neighboring village of Eicha has now grown together structurally with Witzmannsberg.

history

Witzmannsberg was first mentioned after 800 as "Wicemannesberg" in the traditions of the Fulda Monastery , which are based on a copy in the Codex Eberhardi from the 12th century.

Witzmannsberg was mentioned in a document in 1177 when the property of the Langheim monastery was expanded into the Tambach monastery , when a tithe came to Wicemannesberg an Langheim from the Würzburg monastery. Before 1180, the monastery managed to acquire the full tithe of Witzmannsberg. Another documentary mention took place on June 27, 1226, when the Würzburg bishop Hermann von Lobdeburg settled a dispute between Ulrich von Calwenberg (Callenberg) and the abbot of the Langheim monastery . Ulrich von Calwenberg and his brothers had to go to the farm at “Burckersdorf”, later Tambach , and the goods in the associated villages of Altenhof (“Vetus curia”), Weitramsdorf (“Weitersdorf”), Gersbach (“Gersbech”), Neundorf ("Neuendorf") and Witzmannsberg do without.

Later the monastery took over the whole of Witzmannsberg. The place belonged to the free monk villages of the monastery office Tambach. In the course of the Thirty Years War , the place was largely destroyed. Franconia became part of Bavaria in 1803 and the Langheim monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization in Bavaria .

In 1925 the church village had 217 inhabitants and 38 houses. The community, consisting of Witzmannsberg, Krumbach and the Bavarian hamlet of Wohlbach, lived 340 people, 222 of whom belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. On October 1, 1937, Wohlbach, in which 35 residents lived in 6 houses in 1925, moved from Witzmannsberg to Wohlbach in Coburg .

On July 1, 1972, Witzmannsberg was incorporated into Ahorn, and the village of Krumbach was incorporated into Seßlach. In the course of the regional reform, a leisure center with an indoor swimming pool, a culture hall, a restaurant and an outdoor area with tennis courts, mini golf and hiking trails was built in 1978. The indoor swimming pool was closed in July 2013 due to technical defects that could no longer be corrected.

In 1987 the village had 696 inhabitants and 168 houses with 224 apartments. In 1993, a retirement home with over one hundred places was opened in Witzmannsberg. In 2004 there were 260 households.

Population development

year population
1875 212
1900 182
1925 217
1950 309
1970 353
1987 696

Attractions

Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist

The Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist , a branch church of the parish of Neundorf , stands on an elevation. It is surrounded by a churchyard wall and probably goes back to a medieval fortified church . The hall church with retracted choir was built between 1708 and 1711 according to plans by the Seßlach master mason Hans Michael Schmitt. The roof turret was added in 1790. The high altar, created between 1730 and 1740, shows a crucifixion group. On the left side wall there is an annunciation group that the Bamberg sculptor Michael Trautmann created in 1780 for the Tambach monastery church .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 298 . ( Digitized version ).
  2. Walter Schneier: Coburg in the mirror of history, from prehistoric times to the present: in the footsteps of princes, citizens and farmers, Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg 1985, p. 29
  3. ^ A b Friedrich Hausmann : Tambach and the Counts of Ortenburg . In Weitramsdorf past and present 1177–1977 . Weitramsdorf 1977, p. 278
  4. Heinz Pellender: TAMBACH from the Langheim monastery office to the Ortenburg'schen Grafschaft . Issue 3 of the series of publications by the historical society Coburg eV, Coburg 1985, p. 16
  5. a b Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1160 . ( Digitized version ).
  6. http://www.ahorn.de/gv_ahorn/Tourismus/Ahorn%20und%20die%20Ortsteile/Witzmannsberg/
  7. http://www.schorkendorf.com/html/uberblick_ortsteile.html
  8. 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. 1124. , Urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized version ).
  9. K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1123 . ( Digitized version ).
  10. Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 1002 . ( Digitized version ).
  11. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 152 . ( Digitized version ).
  12. ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg. Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 13