Zimmerau (Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke)

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Zimmerau
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 13 ″  E
Residents : 171  (1987)
Incorporation : January 1, 1978
Postal code : 97528
Area code : 09763
Zimmerau (Bavaria)
Zimmerau

Location of Zimmerau in Bavaria

Zimmerau is a district of the community Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld ( Bavaria ).

geography

The place is in the Lower Franconian part of the Grabfeld directly on the border with the Free State of Thuringia ( Heldburger Land ).

history

Zimmerau was first mentioned in 1230 in a document issued by Helmberch von Zimberowe. The place name means Au by the timber . In 1327, after the von Zimmerau knightly family died out, the lords of Schollen, a branch of the von Milz family , settled in Zimmerau. In those years the place belonged to the Heldburg Office of the Henneberg . In 1354, the sovereignty of Zimmerau came to the Würzburg monastery after two divisions of the Henneberg-Schleusingen line . Around 1500 the Truchsesse von Wetzhausen , Heßberg , Schaumberg and Zufraß owned the Schollen in Zimmerau .

In 1616 a "noble manor" was named in Zimmerau, which the barons von Guttenberg had renewed in 1829 . Wolf Dietrich II Truchseß von Wetzhausen, one of two village lords, converted to Catholicism in 1675 after his marriage to the niece of the Würzburg prince-bishop, Rosina von Schönborn. Contrary to the regulations of the normal year of the Peace of Westphalia , attempts were made to recatholize the villages in his possession. Zimmerau then became partially Catholic and the Protestant parish church became a Catholic branch church in the neighboring village of Sternberg , which had also been in the possession of the Barons von Guttenberg since 1695.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the mediatization of imperial direct classes began on a larger scale. The territory of the Barons von Guttenberg was abolished with the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806 and incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Würzburg . With the dissolution of the Rhine Confederation in 1814, the existence of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg also ended. By resolution of the Congress of Vienna , most of it fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipality of Zimmerau was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

From 1817 Zimmerau belonged to the Lower Main District , which was renamed Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg (later just Lower Franconia) in 1838 . In 1845 the long-standing dispute between Bavaria and Saxony-Meiningen- Hildburghausen over the Sellbach forest near Zimmerau was settled. In the course of the disputes in 1810 there was almost armed conflict. In 1900 the evangelical believers in Zimmerau and Sternberg built an evangelical branch church and school in the village. Zimmerau has been part of the Free State of Bavaria since 1918 .

In 1966 the Bayern Tower was built on the Büchelberg . It was located directly on the former border with the GDR and offered a view of the course of the former "death strip". On January 1, 1978 Zimmerau was incorporated into the community of Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke. On October 3, 1990, on the occasion of German reunification, a memorial was handed over on the border between Zimmerau and the Thuringian town of Rieth .

Culture and sights

religion

In 1589 the church in Zimmerau was rebuilt. The two church bells from 1521 were taken from the old chapel. They are still in the building today. This former Protestant parish church became a Catholic branch church of Sternberg in the course of the Counter Reformation in 1675. In 1900 the Protestant believers in Zimmerau and Sternberg built a Protestant branch church, which today belongs to the parish Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke in the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Bad Neustadt an der Saale .

Attractions

Architectural monuments

→ List of architectural monuments in Sulzdorf an der Lederhecke

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 740 and 741 .