Holzkirchen, Lower Franconia

Wooden churches, colloquially wooden churches in Würzburg, is a municipality in the district of Würzburg, Lower Franconia, and a member of the administrative community Helmet City.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 monuments
  • 4.1 Education

Geography

Geographical Location

Wooden churches in the region of Würzburg.

Community structure

Wooden Churches consists of two districts:

  • Wooden Churches
  • Wüstenzell

There are the wooden churches and districts Wüstenzell.

History

The monastery was founded before 775 wooden churches and the place was part of the territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg and fell in Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the counts Löwenstein- Wertheim. For a pension they sold these, however, already in 1803 at Bavaria, she with the Wurzburg area Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany, leaving in 1805 to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg. With the Treaties of Paris in 1814, the Grand Duchy came to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community.

Incorporations

On 1 May 1978, until then independent municipality Wüstenzell was incorporated.

Population Development

Culture and sights

Monuments

Economy and infrastructure

Education

There are the following facilities (as of 1999):

  • 50 kindergarten places
  • Benediktushof, an interdenominational education center, which is run by Willigis hunters.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Sir Hermann David Weber ( * 1823 in wooden churches, † 1918 in London), physician at the German Hospital in London, personal physician to Queen Victoria.
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