Weitramsdorf

Weitramsdorf is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Coburg, with around 5,000 inhabitants.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 4.1 monuments

Geography

Weitramsdorf is about five kilometers west of Coburg. The village is surrounded by forests and is situated in a side valley of the Unterrodach.

Boroughs

The community Weitramsdorf consists of the nine parts of the municipality Altenhof, Gersbach, Hergramsdorf, nine village, Weidach Bird stove, Schlettach, Tambach, Weidach and Weitramsdorf. Weitramsdorf is the seat of the administration.

History

Weitramsdorf was first mentioned in documents in 1177. As part of the Coburg region, the settlement belonged in the 13th century and the local rulers of Henneberger, which passed in the 14th century to the House of Wettin. Until 1920 was Weitramsdorf part of Saxe- Coburg, then it came to the Free State of Bavaria.

The district Tambach was already 874 mentioned as Tanbah.

Incorporations

Weitramsdorf Schlettach and Gersbach formed in 1869 a church. On 1 January 1972 Altenhof was incorporated. The former municipality of nine village (previously in the district of Season Stone ) was added on July 1, 1972. Finally Weidach was incorporated on May 1, 1978.

Policy

Parish council

The council has 20 members:

  • CSU 5 seats
  • CDU / Civic Association Weitramsdorf 5 seats
  • SPD 3 seats
  • Nine village community village 2 seat
  • Nonpartisan voters Group 5 seat

(As at municipal election 2008)

Culture and sights

  • Bavarian falconry
  • Hunting and Fishing Museum Schloss Tambach
  • Wild Park Castle Tambach

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Weitramsdorf

Economy

The Furniture Factory, founded in 1876 by Michael Albrecht Albrecht and after insolvency in 1997 was closed temporarily with over 400 employees is the largest employer in the town. For a carpenter, a company had emerged that produced on an area of ​​over 75,000 square meters of furniture and interiors. During the Second World War gliders were produced.

Besides Albrecht there was also the furniture factories Hilmar Franz and Heinz Kräußlich. Overall, the three companies in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s had more than 700 employees.

Traffic

From Weitramsdorf the roads to Sesslach, Coburg, Meeder, bathroom Unterrodach and the Thuringian Ummerstadt.

Images of the districts

Parish Church of the Nativity of Mary in the village of Nine

Dialect

In Weitramsdorf the Itzgründische is spoken as a sub-form of Mainfränkisches.

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