Weibersbrunn
Weibersbrunn is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg, right in Hochspessart.
- 3.1 Population development
- 3.2 Rohrbrunn
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Mayor
- 4.3 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 monuments
- 6.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
- 6.2 Education
Geography
Geographical Location
Weibersbrunn lies in the Bavarian Lower Main region in the western Franks halfway between Würzburg and Frankfurt am Main. The nearest towns are Aschaffenburg and Lohr am Main. The highest elevation in the Spessart is the 586 m high Geiersberg with the transmitter Breitsol at Bischbrunn.
Community structure
The municipality Weibersbrunn has three officially named districts:
- Weibersbrunn Echterspfahl
- Rohrbrunn
There is only the district Weibersbrunn.
Neighboring communities
Name
The name Weibersbrunn goes back to the source of women creek where the town was founded. 1713, the village was registered as the Weibersbron in maps. The Middle High German root word means brunne source. The importance of determining word probably derives from the name Guibert.
History
The place Weibersbrunn was founded in 1706 as the site of a new operation of kurmainzischen mirror manufactory which already held glassworks in Lohr and right stream. 1717 was the " women Brunner Spiegelhütte ". In 1746, the workers of the lodge applied for the construction of its own parish church, or at least a chapel.
Through the production of baroque and baroque chalices goblets of glass Weibersbrunn became widely known, produced by the later here "moon glass ", semi-circular glass disk, the place became internationally famous.
The Electoral Mainz area in Hochspessart 1803 the Principality of Aschaffenburg slammed and in 1810 a part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, but came 1814/16 over Austria to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. From 1977-1993 Weibersbrunn formed an administrative community with Waldaschaff and Roth book.
In 2006, the congregation celebrated the 300 year anniversary with a big party.
Population Development
On the territory of the commune were 1970 1.817, 1987, 1934, 2000 2146 and 2006 counted 2,109 residents a year. For the year 1826 can be the number of inhabitants of the former town Weibersbrunn with 721 for 1852 and 960 for 1859 indicate 817 ( Klauprecht 1826, Virchow in 1968, Hecht / Reder 2002).
Rohrbrunn
The formerly independent municipality Rohrbrunn obtained by the so-called former Haunted Castle as the title of a novel by Wilhelm Hauff and a film of the same name better known. It also contains the hunting lodge Luitpold height, which was built in 1889 and hunting lodge of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria was. Here he resided for hunting stays 1886-1911 A little off the beaten path is one of the oldest houses in Germany.; their age is estimated to be more than 800 years.
Policy
Parish council
The local council of women Brunn has 15 members, including the full-time mayor.
(updated: Local election on March 2, 2008)
Mayor
Mayor Herbert Rueppel (SPD). He became successor Erich Noll (SPD ) in 2002.
Coat of arms
Blazon: Shared; split up of red and black, front a sechsspeichiges Silver Wheel, rear a silver mirror in a gold frame; down a brick silver fountain with open Brunnentor over wavy blue water.
Coat of Arms History: The coat of arms shows up in the first quarter of the sechssspeichige silver wheel ( Wheel of Mainz ) archdiocese of Mainz, to which the community until the end of the Old Kingdom in 1803 belonged. In the second quarter, a mirror can be seen. It symbolizes the 1698 resulting in the municipality mirror factories in the former glassworks in law and Bach in Lohr am Main. Archbishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn had enlisted for French glassmaker. Your manufactories represented plate glass mirror for her. The glass production was set 1801-1803 in law Bach and Lohr am Main, in Weibersbrunn until 1864. The fountain is speaking for the local part of the name " brunn ".
The community leads the coat of arms since June 14, 1971.
Culture and sights
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Weibersbrunn
Economy and infrastructure
Weibersbrunn is due to its good transport links to the Würzburg region and the Rhine / Main area become an attractive place to live in the inner Spessart ( " junction Weibersbrunn " at the Federal Highway 3 and connections to the State Road 26 ). Through the village leads the state road 2308th The nearest train stations are in Hoesbach, Heigenbrucken and Lohr am Main. The nearest port is the port Aschaffenburg Bavaria. Public transport is assured by a bus line to Aschaffenburg. The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of 975 k € in 1999, which amounted to the trade tax revenues ( net) converted 144 T €.
Economy, agriculture and forestry
After the importance of agriculture clearly starting back at the beginning of the 1970s, Weibersbrunn mainly a popular residential and Touristikort was. It was in 1998 according to official statistics in the manufacturing sector and 52 in the area of trade and transport 41 persons work at the workplace. In other areas, were employed to social security at the workplace 304 people. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 818 in the manufacturing sector, there were none, in the construction of two plants. In addition, in 1999, there were two farms.
Education
There are the following facilities (as of 1999):
- Kindergartens: 100 kindergarten places with 59 children
- Elementary school with 9 teachers and 166 pupils ( From the 5th class the women Brno students attend the main school Waldaschaff )
Sons and daughters of the town
- Ignaz Roth (1894-1972), German politician ( SPD)