Wattendorf

Wattendorf
Wattendorf
	Church in Bojendorf
	; Coat of arms
	Location of Wattendorf within Bamberg district
	Wattendorf Wattendorf
	Coordinates: 50°02′N11°08′E / 50.033°N 11.133°E Coordinates: 50°02′N11°08′E / 50.033°N 11.133°E
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberfranken
District	Bamberg
Municipal assoc.	Steinfeld
Subdivisions	6 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Thomas Betz (CSU)
Area [1]
• Total	22.24 km2 (8.59 sq mi)
Elevation	530 m (1,740 ft)
Population (2017-12-31) [2]
• Total	656
• Density	29/km2 (76/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	96196
Dialling codes	09504
Vehicle registration	BA
Website	www.wattendorf-oberfranken.de

Last updated May 19, 2019

Wattendorf is the smallest community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Steinfeld.

Upper Franconia is a Regierungsbezirk of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. It forms part of the historically significant region of Franconia, all now part of the German Federal State of Bayern (Bavaria).

Bamberg is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It surrounds but does not include the town of Bamberg. The district is bounded by the districts of Lichtenfels, Bayreuth, Forchheim, Erlangen-Höchstadt, Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim, Kitzingen, Schweinfurt and Haßberge.

Geography

The community lies on the edge of the “Franconian Switzerland” on the rise to the Franconian Jura in the east of the Bamberg district.

Franconian Switzerland is an upland in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, and a popular tourist retreat. Located between the River Pegnitz in the east and the south, the River Regnitz in the west and the River Main in the north, its relief, which reaches 600 metres in height, forms the northern part of the Franconian Jura (Frankenjura). As several other mountainous landscapes in the German speaking lands, e.g. Holstein Switzerland, Märkische Schweiz, or Pommersche Schweiz, Franconian Switzerland was given its name by Romantic artists and poets in the 19th century who compared the landscape to Switzerland. The Franconian Switzerland is famous for its high density of traditional breweries.

The Franconian Jura is an upland in Bavaria, Germany. Located between two rivers, the Danube in the south and the Main in the north, its peaks reach elevations of up to 600 metres (2,000 ft) and it has an area of some 7053.8 km².

Constituent communities

The community has 5 traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, each given here with its own population figure:

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.

Bojendorf (157)
Gräfenhäusling (211)
Mährenhüll (74)
Schneeberg (60)
Wattendorf (216)

History

Wattendorf is very old as a settled place, having been settled in the time around 3000 to 1800 BC by the Linear Pottery culture.

Linear Pottery culture archaeological culture

The Linear Pottery culture is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic, flourishing c. 5500–4500 BC. It is abbreviated as LBK, and is also known as the Linear Band Ware, Linear Ware, Linear Ceramics or Incised Ware culture, and falls within the Danubian I culture of V. Gordon Childe.

It had its first documentary mention in 1180, when the community was owned by the Counts of the Duchy of Merania. From 1260 to 1274, Wattendorf was owned by the Count of Truhendingen. In 1274 he donated the estate to the Cistercian Monastery at Langheim, to which it belonged until Secularization in 1803. The Monastery's ties with the High Monastery at Bamberg grew weaker over time, so that by the time the Old Empire came to an end, the Langheim Monastery could almost be thought to be the High Monastery's Mediat. Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the community has belonged to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, today's community came into being under the Gemeindeedikt (“Community Edict”) of 1818.

Duchy of Merania short-lived Estate of the Holy Roman Empire existing from 1153 until 1248.

The Duchy of Merania was a fiefdom of the Holy Roman Empire from 1152 until 1248. The dukes of Merania were recognised as princes of the Empire enjoying imperial immediacy at a time when these concepts were just coming into use to distinguish the highest ranks of imperial nobility.

Monastery complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplace(s) of monks or nuns

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory.

Secularization is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions. The secularization thesis refers to the belief that as societies progress, particularly through modernization and rationalization, religion loses its authority in all aspects of social life and governance. The term secularization is also used in the context of the lifting of the monastic restrictions from a member of the clergy.

Population development

Within municipal limits, 753 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 723 in 1987 and 722 in 2000. By 2007 the figure had further fallen to 708, but on 30 June 2007 it had risen slightly to 715.

Politics

The first mayor is Thomas Betz from the CSU.

The community council is made up of x members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each has held since the 2002 election and the percentage of the votes that each won:

CSU 3 seats (30.2%)
Bojendorfer Wählergemeinschaft 2 seats (22.9%)
Wählergemeinschaft Gräfenhäusling 2 seats (25.6%)
Freie Wähler Mährenhüll 1 seat (9.5%)
Freie Wähler Schneeberg 0 seats (9.1%)

In 1999, municipal tax revenue, converted to euros, amounted to €274,000 of which business taxes (net) amounted to €50,000.

Coat of arms

Wattendorf's arms might heraldically be described thus: Azure a spread eagle argent reguardant, sinister a chalice Or, emerging therefrom an abbot's staff Or.

The eagle and the tincture azure (blue) recall the Counts of Andechs Merania, who until 1248 were Wattendorf's overlords. The chalice and the abbot's staff recall the community's donation to the Cistercian Monastery at Langheim by the Counts of Truhendingen in 1274.

Economy and infrastructure

Breweries

In Wattendorf there are still today two small family breweries, the Brauerei Hübner and the Brauerei Dremel. Both brew and serve Franconian speciality beers.

Economy

According to official statistics, there were no workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses or in trade and transport. However, 305 such workers worked from home. In processing businesses there were nine businesses, but in construction none. Furthermore, in 1999, there were 79 agricultural operations with a working area of 1 220 ha, of which 1 078 ha was cropland and 140 ha was meadowland.

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References

↑ "Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2018 (4. Quartal)". DESTATIS. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
↑ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). September 2018.

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[wikidata-e01b2898f64db40c9073666f5838f842bc376350-v3-1] "Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2018 (4. Quartal)". DESTATIS. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2019.

[2] "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). September 2018.