Niederwerrn

Niederwerrn is a municipality in the district of Schweinfurt, Lower Franconia, and borders the district Hainig the city of Schweinfurt.

  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Earlier spellings
  • 3.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.2 Population development
  • 4.1 Coat of Arms
  • 4.2 partnerships
  • 4.3 Inter-communal alliance
  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 monuments
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Public bodies
  • 6.3 Education
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

Niederwerrn is located in the Main- Rhön in northern Bavaria, northwest of the industrial city of Schweinfurt.

Geology and natural geographical classification

The municipality is located in the northwest of the natural environment Schweinfurt pool, a topographically relatively low-lying unit with low relief within the Mainfränkisches plates. There, the upper reaches of the Wern has dug into the rocks of Middle and Lower Keuper since the Pliocene. In the glacial loess was blowing, developed with the fertile soil in the Holocene. These are extensively used for centuries and shape the regional landscape. After the cultural landscape structure of the populated areas of the municipality BfN still belong to unnatural compression chamber 309 Schweinfurt, the arable crops to the cultural landscape 13600 Schweinfurt pool.

Community structure

Niederwerrn consists of the two districts of Lower and Oberwerrn since 1 May 1978. The incorporation Oberwerrns took place in Bavaria in the process of municipal government reform.

Neighboring communities

Borders the following municipalities:

Climate

The mean annual temperature is 8 ° C, average rainfall is 650 mm, the main wind direction is west - southwest.

Name

Etymology

The name derives from the River Niederwerrn Wern, which flows through the town and ends at Gemünden into the Main. The addition of low should distinguish the place from the same name, northwest lying village.

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

History

Niederwerrn is known since the Middle Ages through the Wiesenburg, which is still only ruin. With it, it came on June 17, 1137 to the first documentary mention of Niederwerrn.

While Oberwerrn remained in the territory of the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, Niederwerrn came in the 15th century under the rule of the family of Münster (to the inclusion in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the early 19th century ). Baron Eyrich of Munster headed in 1565 or 1566 the Reformation in the village one.

At least since the mid-18th century Jewish families in the village were resident who formed a Jewish community, a school einrichteten and built a synagogue in the Schweinfurt road 23. This church and the school were devastated during the 1938 November pogrom of SA men. After the war, the buildings were acquired by the municipality, and since then the former Jewish school as City Hall and the former synagogue is used as a library. Plaques on the two buildings recall this happening.

Incorporations

On 1 May 1978, until then independent neighboring community Oberwerrn was incorporated.

Population Development

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: Azure, a silver oblique wave beams, covered with two facing, red and silver alternately split wings.

The wings are the coat of arms of the lords of Munster removed an old Frankish noble family, which from 1436 held the lordship until the end of the Old Kingdom in 1803. The wave bar represents the river Wern flowing through the municipality and whose name means " Werrn " also is part of the place name in the older spelling.

Partnerships

Since 1992, already has a partnership with the French community Ifs.

Inter-communal alliance

The community Niederwerrn is a member of the inter-municipal alliance Upper Werntal.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Wiesenmuhle
  • Paul mill
  • Ruins of the castle meadow ( remains of a corner tower of sandstone )
  • Several Erdställe
  • New Castle
  • Niederwerrn village church ( Lutheran )
  • Church of St. Bruno Niederwerrn ( Catholic)
  • Church of St. Bartholomew Oberwerrn ( Catholic)
  • Former railway station in Oberwerrn

Monuments

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The B 303 is directly south of Niederwerrn. The B 19 is just west of Oberwerrn. The next driveway to the A 71 is the AS ( 29) Schweinfurt West.

Public institutions

  • Community center Niederwerrn, cultural facility with a stage and adjoining rooms for adult education
  • Youth clubs in Niederwerrn and Oberwerrn

Education

  • Hugo - by - Trimberg Elementary School Niederwerrn
  • Primary school Oberwerrn

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Hugo von Trimberg ( 1230 - after 1313 ), writer of the late Middle Ages
  • Christian Heinrich Hohmann (1811-1861), composer and music educator
  • Julius Dreschfeld (1845-1907), doctor in Manchester
  • Eddy Hau (* 1952), Enduro and Motocross racer
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