Donnersdorf

Thunder village is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt and a member of the administrative community Gerolzhofen.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 Mayor
  • 3.2 municipal
  • 3.3 Taxes
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 monuments
  • 4.3 Natural Monuments
  • 5.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
  • 5.2 Education
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters
  • 6.2 Other famous people

Geography

Geographical Location

Thunder village is situated in the region Main- Rhön.

The municipality is the Zabelstein, with 489 meters the highest peak of the northern Steigerwald.

Community structure

Thunder village is divided into nine districts (in brackets number of inhabitants ):

  • Thunder Village ( 962)
  • Falkenstein ( 69)
  • Case mill
  • Small Rheinfeld (101 )
  • Mittelmühle
  • Pusselsheim (232)
  • Riedmühle
  • Maid of town (524 )
  • Tugendorf (6)

There are the districts thunder village, Falkenstein, Small Rheinfeld, Pusselsheim, maid of town and Tugendorf.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are (from north clockwise beginning ): Theres Wonfurt, Knetzgau, Michelau im Steigerwald, Dingolshausen, Sulzheim and Grettstadt.

History

As part of the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg thunder village belonged to the Frankish Empire circle. It was secularized in 1803 in Bavaria's favor and fell in the Peace of Pressburg in 1805 to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg, with which it finally fell back to Bavaria in 1814. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community.

The most famous son of the village was the sculptor Johann von Halbig, professor in Munich, among other things, the creator of the Lion of Lindau harbor. Even his older brother Andrew, who worked among others in Würzburg, Munich and Vienna, was a noted sculptor.

Thunder village at the foot of Zabel stone, the northwest corner pillar of the Steigerwald, and located halfway between Gerolzhofen and Haßfurt, controlled, reinforced with walls and gates, as of early medieval royal court and later high court sitting in the Old Kingdom, the entire traffic of the route Würzburg- Bamberg ( about Volkach, Gerolzhofen and Haßfurt ). 1861 extended to the place Tugendorf, 1972 to the places Falkenstein and Pusselsheim and 1978 at the locations maid City, Small Rheinfeld, thunder village gave the newly formed community name and seat and ever since has been to manage Community Gerolzhofen. In a document of the monastery of Fulda from 779 the place Damphesdorf ( Damphahesdorf ) appeared for the first time.

Thunder village was since 1000 the seat of a parish and own a high court ( 13 Würzburgische Country cents ) of the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg in the upper office Zabelstein. A city wall with three gates, two of which were inhabited, surrounded the place.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the formerly independent communities of Falkenstein and Pusselsheim were incorporated. Maid of town was added on 1 May 1978.

Population Development

Policy

Mayor

Mayor since 2010 Klaus Schenk ( Christian voters Community thunder village). Its predecessor was from 1990 to 2009 Gerhard Eck ( CSU), who moved on to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior as Secretary of State.

Parish council

The local elections of 2002 and 2008 led to the following seat distribution:

  • * The SPD entered 2002 as SPD / Free citizens

Taxation

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Parish Church of St. John Baptistae enclosed with partially intact mounting ring and moat
  • Baroque Town Hall of 1740
  • Rococo Stations of the Cross at the cemetery
  • Marian column from 1871

Monuments

Natural Monuments

  • The Gründl one hole, a source in the Crevice

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, agriculture and forestry

It was in 1998 according to official statistics in manufacturing and 163 in trade and transport, no social insurance contributions at the workplace. In other areas, were employed to social security at the workplace 34 people. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 650 in the manufacturing sector, there were none, the construction sector 3 farms. In addition, in 1999, there were 75 farms with an agricultural area of 1786 hectares, of which 1519 acres of arable land and 235 acres of meadowland.

Education

There are the following facilities (as of 1999):

Personalities

Sons and daughters

  • Andreas Halbig (1807-1869), German sculptor
  • Johann von Halbig (1814-1882), German sculptor

Other famous people

  • Gerhard Eck ( * 1960 ), MP, Secretary of State at the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and mayor from 1990 to 2009
  • Bernhard Grzimek (1909-1987), pioneer of the global nature protection, was in the middle mill in Thunder village his retirement home
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