Woffendorf

Woffendorf community Altenkunstadt Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 48 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	294  (292-346)  m
Residents :	385  (Jun 30, 2013)
Incorporation :	1818
Location of Woffendorf in Bavaria

Woffendorf seen from the Großer Kordigast

Woffendorf is a village with 385 inhabitants and district of the municipality of Altenkunstadt in district Lichtenfels .

Geographical location

Woffendorf lies in the Weismaintal before the beginning of the valley of the gray monks , at 292–346 m above sea level. NN . The village is built mainly on the eastern slope of the Galgenberg . In the north, the main town of Altenkunstadt borders directly on Woffendorf.

history

Woffendorf was first mentioned in writing on November 18, 1258, in a document about a regional court hearing with Bishop Berthold von Leiningen as judge.

In 1801 belonged sovereignty and the centering of Woffendorf the Bishopric of Bamberg . Ecclesiastically, the place was under the parish of Altenkunstadt, to which the tithe was also paid. Furthermore, the Weismain office, the Langheim monastery , the Bamberg cathedral monastery and the town of Staffelstein owned fiefs in Woffendorf.

In 1818 it was incorporated into Altenkunstadt. Decisive for the municipality seat was not the number of residents, but the property. Since Altenkunstadt, with 128 properties, was significantly larger than the other parts of the municipality Baiersdorf (41 properties), Kienmühle (7 properties) and Röhrig with Woffendorf (26 properties), Altenkunstadt became the seat of the newly formed Altenkunstadt community , to which Woffendorf has belonged since then.

At the end of the 1890s, the village community built a chapel, the centenary of which was celebrated in 1999.

Between November 2008 and April 2010 the bed of the Weismain near Woffendorf was changed to create a flood basin in combination with dyke structures. The construction project serves to protect the town against floods and cost around 675,000 euros.

Population development

The table shows the population development in Woffendorf.

year	Residents	estate	Source:
1818	155	26 (including Röhrig)
1950	281
1977	278
2005	387
2010	390
2011	392
2012	387
2013	385

religion

In July 2013, of the 385 inhabitants, approx. 62% (240) were Roman Catholic, approx. 25% (94) Protestant and approx. 13% (51) were of other faith or non-denominational.

literature

• Josef Motschmann: Altenkunstadt - home between Kordigast and Main . Altenkunstadt community, Altenkunstadt 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Motschmann 2006, p. 183
2. ↑ ^{a b} History of Woffendorf , altenkunstadt.de, accessed on December 29, 2011
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Motschmann 2006, p. 180
4. ↑ ^{a b} Motschmann 2006, p. 56
5. ↑ PDF with information and pictures about the flood protection construction in Woffendorf (December 29, 2011). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 31, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
6. ^ Official Journal of the Altenkunstadt Community, No. 7/2010, p. 6
7. ↑ ^{a b} Official Gazette of the Altenkunstadt Community, No. 7/2011, p. 4 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
8. ↑ Official Journal of the Altenkunstadt Community, No. 7/2012, page 3 (PDF; 3.6 MB)
9. ↑ Official Gazette of the Altenkunstadt Community, No. 7/2013, page 3 (PDF; 2.8 MB)