Windsbach
Wind Bach ( sl Winschba ) is a city in Middle Franconia district of Ansbach.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 2.2 Population development
- 3.1 Mayor
- 3.2 City Council
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 traffic
- 5.1 educational institutions
- 6.1 Boys Choir
- 6.2 Structures
- 7.1 freeman
- 7.2 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical location
Wind Bach is located in Rangau to the Franconian Rezat. The city is located 20 km east of the county town of Ansbach and 40 km southwest of Nuremberg. Through the municipality runs the Herzogenaurach, a tributary of the Rednitz.
Boroughs
Wind Bach has 29 districts:
- Bertholdsdorf
- Brunn
- Buck mill
- Elpersdorf
- Herger Bach
- Hölzl one mill
- Hop mill
- Ismannsdorf
- Ketter Bach
- Kitschdorf
- Ball mill
- Lanzendorf
- Leipersloh
- Moosbach
- Neuses
- Retz village
- Sauernheim
- Swallow mill
- Speckheim
- Suddersdorf
- Thonhof
- Untereschenbach
- Veitsaurach
- Waldhaus
- Wern mill
- Windenbach
- Winkelhaid
- Winterhof
- Wolfsau
The main town of the wind stream is divided into the Upper and Lower suburb and industrial area foal.
Neighboring communities
History
Wind Bach was first documented in 1138 and 1278 was granted town rights. The viscount of Nuremberg in 1292 earned first article in wind stream and could increase their ownership in place in 1400. Until the transition to Bavaria in 1806 Windenbach remained in the possession of the later Margrave of Brandenburg- Ansbach. From 1500 the Margraviate was part of the Frankish kingdom circle. During and after the Thirty Years War, the city and its surroundings into an important settlement area evangelical faith displaced from Austria, who found a new home here and their descendants are still residing here was. In the year 2003 725 years of urban wind stream could be celebrated.
Incorporations
Population Development
City Windenbach with eingemeindeten districts:
City Windenbach without inserting my finished districts:
Policy
Mayor
- First Mayor: Wolfgang Seidel (SPD )
- Deputy Mayor Norbert Kleinöder ( surrounding )
- Third Mayor: Karl Schuler (SPD )
City council
The city council has 21 members including the First Mayor:
(As at municipal election on March 2, 2008)
Coat of arms
Blazon: Split; quartered in front of silver and black, the back in red a silver oblique wave beams. The quartered shield Zoller is the Viscount of Nuremberg, which started since 1292 to acquire goods in wind stream. The inclined shaft bar represents the Franconian Rezat.
Wind Bach leads since the 14th century, a coat of arms. In a seal of 1610, it first appears as a double coat of arms, the Margrave Joachim Ernst of Brandenburg- Ansbach in 1614 confirmed with a letter of Arms: the right transept and left in a red diagonally left green wave beams. Since the mayor medal of 1819 both coat of arms are in a sign and wave beams in silver.
Economy
Traffic
Wind stream is the terminus of regional railway line of R71 Wicklesgreuth about Petersaurach and Neuendettelsau the wind stream. In Wicklesgreuth is following the path of the Nuremberg- Crailsheim (R7 ). The train station in wind stream was built in 1894.
The 6 km north vorbrilaufende A6 motorway (E 50) can be reached via the interchanges Lichtenau (AS 53) and Neuendettelsau ( AS 54). B 14 twelve leads at a distance of the past ten B 13 and B 466 of 6 kilometers.
Public institutions
Educational institutions
- Elementary school Windenbach
- Johann- Sebastian -Bach -Gymnasium Windenbach
- Music School Rezat Mönchswald
Culture and sights
Boys Choir
In 1946, Hans Thamm in Windenbach the now internationally known Windsbacher boys' choir in the tradition of Dresden Kreuz Choir. From 1978 to January 2012, the choir of Karl -Friedrich Beringer was conducted. Since February 2012 Martin Lehmann is choir director.
Structures
Of the original five towers and the ramparts are only the upper ( Schwabacher gate) and the Lower Gate ( Bridge Gate ) and parts of the fortification. To the city tower from the 12th century one recognizes the second defense, the Official castle. At the church square stands the former third defense system, the tabor. The Church of St. Margaret, built in 1730, replaced the earlier church dating back to around 800
The Town Hall, built in 1748-1752, is the center of the historic old town. Next to them was the old castle, which was demolished in 1736. In the years 1737 and 1738, the revenue office was built at this location. The plans were designed by the court architect Leopoldo Retti and the young farming inspector Johann David Stein Gruber. The building served as the tax office and headquarters of the bailiffs. 2003 and 2004, the bursary was completely restored. Currently the building is used, among others, the music school Rezat Monk forest.
A particular gem is the Gottesruhkapelle, built around 1400 by the bailiff Knights of Hellberg, with frescoes by 1430.
From 1790 to 1792 an arch bridge made of sandstone on the Franconian Rezat was built, called the Margrave bridge. In 1992 this monument was thoroughly renovated.
→ List of monuments in Windenbach
Personalities
Freeman
- Johann Jung Maier, former mayor
- Hans Thamm (1921-2007), founder of the Windsbacher Knabenchor
Sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Dunz ( * 1917 ), author and former mayor of the city Windenbach
- Christa Götz ( born 1948 ), former member of parliament of the CSU in the Bavarian Parliament and farmer
- Leonhard Murr (1896-1967), Member of the FDP, farmer and potato growers
- Karl Steinbauer (1906-1988), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and member of the Confessing Church