Wolfersgrün (Wallenfels)

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Wolfersgrün
City of Wallenfels
Wolfersgrün coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 32 "  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 58"  E
Height : 574 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.15 km²
Residents : 215  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 96346
Area code : 09262
Former forest office
Former forest office

Wolfersgrün is part of the municipality of the Upper Franconian town of Wallenfels in the Kronach district in Bavaria .

geography

About 17 kilometers northeast of the district town of Kronach lies the parish village of Wolfersgrün in the Franconian Forest Nature Park on a cleared ridge at around 580 meters above sea level .

The traffic development takes place through the county road KC 32 , which connects Wolfersgrün with Neuengrün as well as in the opposite, northern direction with Geroldsgrün . In addition, there is a community road to federal highway 173 .

history

Wolfersgrün is a clearing settlement from the 11th to 13th centuries. The hilltop settlement was mentioned in the Bamberg Urbar in 1323/1327 as belonging to the Waldenfels castle estate . The castle was located above the current city of Wallenfels on the Schlossberg. According to an addendum from 1348 to the land register, the temporarily uninhabited place was restored. "Wolframsgrün" initially had two farms, later nine men.

Wolfersgrün, which belonged to the bishopric of Bamberg , became the property of the electorate of Bavaria as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803, together with the remaining areas of the bishopric . In 1862 the rural community Wolfersgrün was incorporated into the newly created Bavarian district office of Kronach . It consisted of two places, the village Wolfersgrün with Engelhardtsgrün and the hamlet of Wellesberg with Oberwellesmühle and Unterwellesmühle and belonged to the Kronach district court. In 1871 the community had 342 and the village 255 inhabitants. In 1900, the 551 hectare rural community had 307 residents, all but three of whom were Catholic, and 55 residential buildings. The main town Wolfersgrün had 231 inhabitants. In 1925, 276 people lived in 50 residential buildings in the village of Wolfersgrün, the vast majority of whom were Catholics and belonged to the Steinwiesen parish 6.5 kilometers away. The Catholic denominational school was in the village.

In 1950 the church village Wolfersgrün had 343 residents and 60 residential buildings. The Catholics were parish into the Neuengrün curate, the responsible Protestant parish was in Geroldsgrün . The Wellesberg district with Oberwellesmühle and Unterwellesmühle was spun off to Neuengrün in 1951. In 1961, 296 people lived in 61 residential buildings in Wolfersgrün. The parish still had an area of ​​415 hectares.

In 1970 the church village had 286 inhabitants. On July 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality was incorporated into Wallenfels as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . In 1987 Wolfersgrün had 256 inhabitants and 68 residential buildings with 92 apartments.

Attractions

Catholic branch church St. Georg

St. George

The first church was built in 1872 from brick masonry in the Gothic architectural style with a pointed steeple . The church was replaced in 1947/1948 by a new building in the same place according to plans by the Bamberg architect Toni Schenk. The builder Heinrich Geiger from Friesen was responsible for the construction . The foundation stone was laid on July 30, 1947, the consecration followed on November 7, 1948 by the Archbishop of Bamberg, Joseph Otto Kolb . In 1951, three bells cast by the Bamberg bell foundry Lotter were hung. The church is in the center of the village, defining the townscape. It is a hall building with a side, slender choir tower with an onion dome.

Architectural monuments

Three architectural monuments are listed in the Bavarian list of monuments .

Web links

Commons : Wolfersgrün  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wallenfels.de: numbers-facts
  2. ↑ a b wanderzentrum-wallenfels.de: Wolfsgrüner Runde
  3. ↑ neuegruen.de: local history
  4. ↑ 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. 1066 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digital copy ).
  5. ↑ 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. 1061 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ 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. 1096 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ 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. 946 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 696 ( digitized version ).
  9. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 160 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ 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. 312 ( digitized version ).
  11. ^ Wolfersgrün, St. Georg: Church history