Weidenbach, Bavaria
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Willow Creek is a market town in the Middle Franconian district of Ansbach and the seat of the administrative community Triesdorf. The municipality is the winner of the District decision 2008/2010 "Our village has a future - our village is beautiful ." The community is structurally with their little haven Triesdorf, which was the summer residence of the Margrave of Brandenburg -Ansbach until 1806, grown together. Due to the proximity of the residence many bourgeois buildings of the late Baroque Ansbacher have been preserved in Weidenbach.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 2.2 Population development
- 3.1 Market council
- 3.2 Mayor
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 3.4 community partnerships
- 4.1 monuments
- 4.2 parks
- 4.3 Natural Monuments
- 4.4 Sport
- 4.5 Regular events
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Education
Geography
Willow Creek is located 15 km south-south - east of Ansbach in Altmühltal north of the Franconian Alb. Neighboring municipalities are (from north clockwise beginning ): Ansbach, Lichtenau Remember village, Ornbau, Bechhofen and Burgoberbach.
Districts
The market town of Willow Creek consists of nine districts:
- Esbach
- Astray Bach
- Kolmschneidbach
- Leiden village
- Nehdorf
- Rosenhof
- Triesdorf
- Weidenbach
- Weiherschneidbach
History
1229 Weidenbach was first mentioned in documents as a free peasant village. In 1600, the neighboring farming village Triesdorf was sold by the Lords of Seckendorf to the Ansbacher Margrave Georg Friedrich I.. The Marquis and his successors built Triesdorf from their summer residence, in the course of this restructuring, the 16 Triesdorfer peasants were resettled in Weidenbach. From 1682 onwards, began major reconstruction work in Triesdorf, the White Castle is built and Triesdorf is surrounded with a brick wall, the so-called Red Wall. 1624 Weidenbach is awarded market rights.
When does Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander von Brandenburg -Ansbach the regency over the margravate began a second building boom in Triesdorf. Alexander had a great passion for hunting. In Triesdorf he was offered his passion for a wide field. Officially, his seat of government although Ansbach, but by the love of the hunt he stayed most of the time in Triesdorf on. Due to the constant presence of a Comprehensive royal household was necessary. This is also an economy was established, which should ensure the diet of the court. Many members of the court buildings in Weidenbach bourgeois houses in the classical late Baroque style. 1791 abdicated the Alexander, the Principality and thus Weidenbach - Triesdorf first came to Prussia and Napoleon in 1806 to Bavaria. 1848, the estate became the home of the Royal Bavarian district agricultural school Triesdorf.
Incorporations
Prior to the municipal reform Weidenbach only had the district Triesdorf. On 1 July 1971, until then independent municipality suffering village was incorporated with its districts.
Population Development
Market Weidenbach with eingemeindeten districts:
Market Weidenbach without inserting my finished districts:
Policy
Market council
The Weidenbacher market council has 15 members, including the mayor. In the local elections of March 2, 2008, there were the following result:
- Free Wählergemeinschaft ( FWG ): 6 seats
- Weidenbacher list (WL ): 8 seats
Mayor
- Gerhard Siegler ( first Mayor )
- Erich Kraus (2nd Mayor )
- Roland King (3rd Mayor )
Coat of arms
Blazon:
- Two vertically divided shield. Right and left Silver in Black
- Bowed forward over blue wave bar, a bent green willow branch
- Behind a auffliegender widersehendersilberner falcon, holding a golden plow blade in the clutches.
Community partnerships
Willow Creek has a community partnership to Besenyszög, Hungary.
Culture and sights
- Margrave and parish church
- White Castle
- Red Castle
- Villa Sandrina
- Old riding home
- Old castle courtyard
- Hunter House
- Forest House
- Kavalliershäuschen ( Dutch Häuslein )
- Seckendorffburg
- Stables and Stallmeisterei
- Dairy
- Red Wall
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Weidenbach ( Middle Franconia )
Parks
- Baroque garden
Natural Monuments
- Germany's only beaver trail
- Avenues of plane trees towards Ansbach and Merkendorf
Sports
- Cycle Route: Master (r ) Ade ( l) bar - with the stork on the road in Altmühltal
- Goals Towers Castles Cycle Route (Triesdorf–Weidenbach–Ornbau–Arberg–Bechhofen–Merkendorf–Wolframs-Eschenbach–Windsbach–Mitteleschenbach–Haundorf–Muhr at the lake)
- Bike path Ansbach - Altmühltherme ( Ansbach along the B 13 to suffering village then Triesdorf Ornbau of Ornbau than Altmühltherme bike path along the lake Altmühltherme to Kelheim ).
Regular events
- Weidenbacher fair ( early May)
- Hard Ball, Association of Former Triesdorfer ' ( the Saturday before the Triesdorfer Johannitag )
- Triesdorfer Johannitag ( open day at the training center Triesdorf, Sunday after June 24, the feast of John the Baptist )
- Rosenhof fair in Nehdorf ( in July )
- Fair in Leiden village ( in July )
- Weidenbacher village festival ( in July )
- Bread in Leiden village ( end of August)
- Weidenbacher Autumn Market ( Sunday before Thanksgiving )
- Historical tour of the historic buildings and landscape parks
- Guided tour of the farm with sound professional statements for non- agricultural audiences
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The market Weidenbach is situated on the national highway 13, about 12 km south of Ansbach, 12 kilometers away from the Federal Highway 6 runs in about 3.5 km away is the Triesdorf station on the railway line Treuchtlingen -Würzburg.
Education
In the district Triesdorf is the Agricultural Education Center Triesdorf
- Estate of the district of Middle Franconia
- Teaching, Research and Technical Centre for milk analysis ( LVFZ ) of the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Vocational School for Milchwirtschafliche laboratory technicians in Bavaria, training to / for the Dairy Industry Lab Master
- Teaching of dairy Dairy Industry Association Franken eV
- Agricultural colleges Triesdorf (owned by the district of Middle Franconia ) Animal Husbandry School
- Agricultural machinery School