Weikersheim

Weikersheim is a city in Tauberfranken and is part of the Main- Tauber district in northeastern Baden- Württemberg. Weikersheim is a sub- center.

• 2.1 religions

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 partnerships

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Structures 4.2.1 Weikersheim
• 4.2.2 Karlberg
• 4.2.3 church of St George
• 4.2.4 The Gänsturm
• 4.2.5 Jewish Cemetery

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Education
• 5.3 Established businesses

• 6.1 freeman
• 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

Weikersheim located at the junction of the Vorbachs in the Tauber, about 10 km east of Bad Mergentheim.

Neighboring communities

The city is bordered to the east by the Bavarian places Rottingen and Tauberrettersheim, in the southeast on the town Creglingen, south to Lower Stetten, to the west of Bad Mergentheim and to the northwest and north by Igersheim.

Boroughs

To Weikersheim include the formerly independent communities Elpersheim, Haagen, Honsbronn, Laudenbach, Nassau, Neubronn, Queckbronn and Schäftersheim. For the former municipality Elpersheim include the village Elpersheim and dialed villages Bolzhausen, Mutzenbronn, Reicheltzheim and Tauber mountain. To the former belong the village community Haagen Haagen and Outbound village Wessenberg. For the former municipality Honsbronn include the village and the hamlet Honsbronn Bronn. For the former municipality Laudenbach include the village of Laudenbach and the mountain church. For the former municipality includes the village of Nassau Nassau, the hamlet of halos and the homestead Louis Guard and the disposed villages Niedernhausen, Popp Bronner yard, Scheinhof, Schüleinshof ( Schülleshof ) and Spechtshof. For the former municipality Neubronn include the village Neubronn and the hamlet of Oberndorf and Outbound village Degelbronn. For the former municipality Queckbronn part of the village Queckbronn. For the former municipality Schäftersheim the village and the farm bill Schäftersheim Hard mill and the village chief Outbound hole are ( allegedly). To town Weikersheim in fron front of the municipal reform of the 1970s included the city Weikersheim and the hamlet Aischland.

History

As masters of Wighartesheim Messrs. von Hohenlohe first appear in 1153 in a document on. The place itself is old imperial property and was mentioned in a document of the monastery of Fulda 837 for the first time. Possession of the Würzburg service 's Wipert of weighting Harte came home by way of gift in the 12th century to the monastery Comburg.

Weikersheim is one of the ancestral homes of the House of Hohenlohe. Of the split in the 13th century lines Hohenlohe, Weikersheim and Brauneck remained in the 15th century left only the line Weikersheim.

The settlement in the run-up to the castle received town rights in 1313 and Wall, was initially Allodialgut the Lords of Hohenlohe, but then from 1345 a fief of the monastery of Fulda, from 1392 fief of the Bishopric of Würzburg. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the city was the object of numerous pledges and was located until 1468 in continuous possession of the rule.

Weikersheim fell in the division of inheritance by lot in 1585 to Count Wolfgang II von Hohenlohe, who followed the medieval water castle was extended to a prestigious residence in the Renaissance style.

The area outside the castle has already been included at the end of the 17th century in the planning of a future remodel, 1710-12 then fundamentally changed by an aligned on the opposite town church representative market place the plant. 1729 the arcades were built as a city -side access to the castle.

With the death of the last Weikersheimer Count of Hohenlohe in 1756, the city lost its function as a residence in 1806 and came under the media coverage due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss conclusion of Württemberg. It was acquired by the State of Baden- Württemberg in 1967, was restored in the following years and is now open to the public.

In the course of municipal reform in Baden- Württemberg eight previously independent municipalities were amalgamated to Weikersheim 1972-1975. On January 1, 1972, the municipalities Queckbronn, Schäftersheim and on March 1, 1972 Elpersheim were incorporated. On May 1, 1972, the incorporation of Honsbronn followed, on 15 July 1972 by Neubronn, on September 1, 1972, the Nassau and on 1 January 1974 by Laudenbach. The recent incorporation was with the Haagen on 1 January 1975.

Religions

Weikersheim is predominantly Protestant since the Reformation in 1541 by Count I. Wolfgang of Hohenlohe. It is the seat of the church district Weikersheim the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg. In addition to the four evangelical parishes, there are also two Roman Catholic parishes and parish missions decisively Christian pastor with two locations in the city. From 1637 to the Shoah, Jews lived in Weikersheim. Your synagogue in the Wilhelmstrasse 16, which is now used as a carpenter, as well as the synagogue in the district Laudenbach ( Am Markt 3 ), which is preserved as a private residence, were desecrated and vandalized during the pogrom of November 1938 by SA men. At both buildings remind commemorative plaques to the action.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal elections of 7 June 2009 yielded the following result:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In red with a golden crown, the silver capital letter W. "

Partnerships

The city Weikersheim maintains partnership relations with Dunaföldvár in Hungary.

Culture and sights

Weikersheim is due to the Württemberg wine road, the Romantic Road and the Tauber Valley Cycle which pass respectively to many attractions.

The historic city center Weikersheims is a listed building as a historical total investment and registered in a historic preservation plan values ​​for " total system Weikersheim ".

Museums

In Gänsturm is since 2004 the city museum. In addition, the Tauberland Village Museum is based in the city.

Structures

Weikersheim

The Weikersheim Castle was the seat of the Lords of Hohenlohe is considered the most beautiful in the Hohenlohe region locks. In essence, a moated castle, it was expanded in the Renaissance style. The park modeled after Versailles is one of the earliest Baroque gardens in Franconia.

Karlberg

The mentioned already in the 17th century zoo was built from 1727 by Count Carl Ludwig to a summer residence. Originally, it consisted of a central lodge and four pavilions, of which two have survived. The 1736 inaugurated hunting lodge of the architect Johann Christian Liege, who also built the Orangerie in the castle, was demolished in 1865 due to disrepair again. Building the system is through a avenue star. At the end of South Avenue is still standing, built in 1746 Yellow House, which is now a restaurant. The park is open to visitors hunting fenced up today with a wall and is home to wild boar. In the South Pavilion, the former Kitchen cabinets, until 2009 a forestry museum was housed, which was closed after the park change from city - privately owned.

On the Karlberg a planetary in scale is 1:1 billion The road was 1980 eV of the Astronomical Society of Weikersheim created and revised in 2007. He runs past the observatory Weikersheim, which is also operated by the Astronomical Association.

Church of St George

The Protestant Church of St. George on the historic market offers the semicircular entrance to the castle and the adjacent houses still the idyllic image of a Count Court and a residential town in Hohenlohe.

The Gänsturm

Built around 1320 called Gänsturm was in the last days of the Second World War so badly damaged that it was to be demolished following a decision by the then Municipal Council impediment to traffic. But in the summer of 1945, formed a citizens' initiative that collected the significant for the conditions at that time amount of 3396 Reichsmarks for the preservation of the lower gate tower with bell. The view was of the municipal council: " Tourism plays in Weikersheim not matter and it will not do so in the future" Once, however, the Heritage Office 's intervention, could the Gänsturm when even without its characteristic roof obtained. In 2003, the Gänsturm was again treated almost in its original state. An exhibition highlights the main stations of the Weikersheimer story in words, images and objects.

Jewish Cemetery

In the Jewish cemetery 607 grave stones are present, the oldest dating back to 1730.

Regular events

• The Kärwe

To the first Sunday in September, the Kärwe, a fair instead. It goes back to the year 1419 and when moving the city's history is presented.

The cultural program includes open-air opera performances of the JMD in summer and free jazz and avant-garde concerts at Club W71, one of the oldest independent socio-cultural centers in Baden- Württemberg.

The Yellow House above the vineyards

Church of St George

The Gänsturm in Weikersheim

Kärweumzug

Children represent the dwarf gallery of Weikersheim the Kärweumzug is

Economy and infrastructure

Weikersheim and Schäftersheim are well-known wine-growing villages, whose locations are Großlage Tauber mountain range in the Kocher-Jagst Tauber of the wine region Württemberg.

Traffic

The train station is Weikersheim since 1866 at the Tauber Valley Railway ( Wertheim - Lauda- Bad Mergentheim, Crailsheim ). The route will be operated since January 1, 2006 by the Westfrankenbahn every hour. About the Stations of Würzburg and Crailsheim the Tauber Valley Railway is connected to the long distance network of Deutsche Bahn. Since 2004, however, the timetable restrictions on weekends. The public transport (PT ) operate several bus routes on behalf of the Transport Community Main-Tauber ( VGMT ) in the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN). Previously was with the Gaubahn also a rail link over Rottingen to Ochsenfurt and Creglingen.

Education

Weikersheim has a special school, a high school, a primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule in the core city, as well as a more pure primary school in Elpersheim, which is named after Astrid Lindgren. In addition, there are two Protestant, Roman Catholic and urban kindergartens.

In the village is the Music Academy Weikersheim of Musical Youths Germany. The observatory Weikersheim is operated by the Astronomical Society of Weikersheim. The study center Weikersheim 1979 Weikersheimer castle founded, national conservative has its seat not in Weikersheim, organized in the castle but still its multi-day annual congresses (as of 2009).

Established businesses

Since 1878, Aug. Laukhuff GmbH & Co. KG in Weikersheim is established. The company was founded in 1823 Pfedelbach is now the world's largest manufacturer for organ parts and assemblies. In addition to organ building is Laukhuff with the subsidiary Laukhuff Industries with small series and custom manufacturing partner of the regional and national industry.

In July 2000, the company CeraCon founded on the premises of the former company "Otto window GmbH" in the August Laukhuff road. CeraCon builds and sells customized special machines for the automotive and electrical industry ( FIPFG ).

Personalities

Freeman

• Constantin Hohenlohe- Langenburg (1892-1973), German painter, conservators and museum director

Sons and daughters of the town

• George Tobias Histonus (1666-1745), lawyer and historian
• Rafael Levi (1685-1779), mathematician and astronomer
• Christian Ernst Hanßelmann (1699-1776), archivist and archaeologist
• Roman Hofstetter (1742-1815), Benedictine monk and composer (born in Laudenbach )
• Joseph Maier, born as Joseph Rosenthal (1799-1873), rabbi in Stuttgart and first ennobled by the King of Württemberg Jew
• Leopold Pfeiffer (1821-1881), professor of law in Tübingen
• Wilhelm Rudolph (1891-1987), an Old Testament scholar and orientalist
• JoKarl Huber (1902-1996), artist (born as Joseph Karl Huber in Laudenbach )
• Laukhuff Wilhelm (1903-1981), businessman and local politician
• Franz Bertele (* 1931), German diplomat
• Karl Mündlein ( b. 1942 ), poet in Hohenlohe dialect
• Michael Marrak (born 1965 ), science fiction author