County Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim

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File:Lage Kreis Neustadt an der Aisch in Bayern.png
Location of County Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim within the Federal State (Bundesland) Bavaria


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Introduction

The county (Landkreis) Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim is located in the northwest of the administrative district (Regierungsbezirk) Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia) of Bavaria.

Coat of Arms


Image:Wappen_Kreis_Neustadt_an_der_Aisch_in_Bayern.png

The coat of arms of county Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim represents the former territories that made up the main part of this county. The silver and black, red-tongued Brackenkopf stands for the territory of the former Markgrafschaft Brandenburg-Bayreuth, the half eagle (Halber Reichsadler) represents the territory of former Imperial Free City of Windsheim and the silver and blue striped Schildfuß represents the former Fürstentum Schwarzenberg.

General Information

County Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim is area-wise today the second largest county of Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia).

Seat of county admin.:   Neustadt an der Aisch
Area (qkm): 1,268.4
Population (2003): 99,768
Inhabitants/qkm: 79



Political Structure

The county Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim in its current day size and structure was formed only in 1972 as a consequence of the Bavarian County- and Municipality-Reform.


Cities


Municipalities


Baudenbach Hagenbüchach Münchsteinach
Burghaslach Hemmersheim Neuhof an der Zenn
Dachsbach Illesheim Oberickelsheim
Diespeck Ippesheim Obernzenn
Dietersheim Ipsheim Oberscheinfeld
Emskirchen Langenfeld (Mfr.) Simmershofen
Ergersheim Markt Bibart Sugenheim
Gallmersgarten Markt Erlbach Trautskirchen
Gerhardshofen Markt Nordheim Uehlfeld
Gollhofen Markt Taschendorf Weigenheim
Gutenstetten Marktbergel Wilhelmsdorf


Municipality Associations

  • Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Burgbernheim
  • Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Diespeck
  • Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Emskirchen
  • Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Neuhof an der Zenn
  • Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Scheinfeld
  • Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Uehlfeld
  • Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Uffenheim


Structure before 1972/78

The nowadays county Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim was formed in 1972 within the framework of the Bavarian County- and Municipality-Reform. At that time the old county named Neustadt an der Aisch was enlarged with parts of the formerly separate counties: Scheinfeld and Uffenheim and got the new name Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim.
The formerly existing separate 185 municipalities were combined to now 38 municipalities; of them 31 additionally formed or became part of one of the nowadays 7 Municipality Associations (Verwaltungsgemeinschaften).


Church Structure

Due to historical reasons the population of county Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim is dominantly protestant. Since 1527/28 and the Reformation (1517-1555) the majority of people in this area are Evangelical.

Evangelical-Lutheran

The area of county Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim belongs to several Kirchenkreise (church districts) of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Bavaria.

Kirchenkreis Nürnberg
Dekanat Neustadt an der Aisch    Kirchengemeinden, Karte und Ortslisten    parishes, maps and list of places
Kirchenkreis Ansbach-Würzburg
Dekanat Bad Windsheim Landkarte,   Pfarreien map of deanery, list of parishes
Dekanat Uffenheim Homepage (see Gemeinden);   Karte homepage (see parishes), map of deanery




Roman-Catholic



Religion of Population (1987)

Religion of population (1987) Population    Roman
Catholic     		Evangelical
church (**) 		Jewish   other
Religions 		none   
total % % % % %
Bavaria 10,902,643 67 24 0.05 4 5
Middle Franconia 1,521,484 36 54 0.04 5 6
County Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim   85,686 21 75 0.01 1 2


(**) incl. Freikirchen

(Data: 1987, Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung, Genesis online)



History

The area of nowadays county Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim became part of Bavaria only between 1803-1810. Before that the territory consisted a long time of a varied mix of separate sovereign states, Imperial Free Cities and ecclesiastical and secular holdings (this situation is in German also called Kleinstaaterei).
In 1803 after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss quite a few of these smaller sovereign states, plus Imperial Free Cities (after the Mediatization) and ecclesiastical holdings (after the Säkularisation) in this region lost their sovereignty and were already incorporated into the Electorate of Bavaria.

Yet large parts of this area belonged in the past also to the two sovereign Franconian Markgrafschaften: Margravate Brandenburg-Ansbach and part wise to the Margravate Brandenburg-Bayreuth (the so-called beyond Gebuergs-part). These were from 1792-1806/10 provinces of Prussia and finally became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 and 1810.
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  • After the 30-jährigen Krieg (1618-1648, 30 year-war) the countryside, cities and villages were devastated or completely destroyed, churches were robbed. In some areas more then 50% of the population had died, the cultivation of the fields had stopped, farms and homesteads were empty and devoid of inhabitants.
  • In the following centuries the depopulated countryside filled only slowly once again with people. With people who came from other areas and with people who had to leave their home area due to religious reasons. Especially the protestant ruling Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth took in Exulanten (protestantische Glaubensflüchtlinge, protestant religious refugees) from Austria (see here: Franconia Literature, Exulanten). In the church books of protestant parishes of this timeframe, behind the names is very often the reference aus dem Ländlein ob der Enns or from Austria.
  • After 1685 and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Edict of Nantes) many French protestants Hugenotten came and populated the devastated areas.
  • The Franconian ruling noble lords were trying to re-populate their territories and to gain new subjects (Untertanen) and so beside Austrian Protestants and French Hugenotten they also made concession for Jews and allowed them settlements within their territories, (e.g. Burghaslach, Sugenheim, Scheinfeld).
  • After WW2 (after 1945) many catholic so-called Sudetendeutschen (Sudeten Germans) settled in this county. At the end of WW2 the Sudeten Germans (as millions of other people from Eastern Europe) were forcefully evicted from their homelands of many centuries (e.g. Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia). The Free State of Bavaria took in a large number of these evicted people, took them under its protection and regards them as the fourth ethnic tribes of Bavaria (see Bavaria, Ethnology, The Fourth Tribe). After 1945 in some areas of county Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim the newly settled Sudeten Germans made up nearly 50 % of the original population.



Historical Political Structure

Before 1803/06/10 the area of nowadays county Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim belonged to a variety of separate ruling secular and ecclesiastical entities, e.g. in 1792 to:

  • Markgrafschaft Brandenburg-Ansbach (margravate)
  • Markgrafschaft Brandenburg-Bayreuth (margravate)
  • Hochstift Bamberg (ecclesiastical holding of bishopric)
  • Hochstift Eichstätt (ecclesiastical holding of bishopric)
  • Hochstift Würzburg (ecclesiastical holding of bishopric)
  • der Deutsche Orden (ecclesiastical)
  • Kloster Ebrach (ecclesiastical)
  • Fürstentum Schwarzenberg (principality)
  • Grafschaft Castell (earldom)
  • Reichsfreie Ritterschaft (Imperial knights)
  • freie Reichsstadt Nürnberg (Imperial Free City)
  • freie Reichsstadt Windsheim (Imperial Free City)
  • freie Reichssstadt Rothenburg (Imperial Free City)



Genealogical and Historical Societies

Genealogical Societies


Historical Societies



Genealogical and Historical Documents

Genealogical Documents




Bibliography

Genealogical Literature


Historical Literature



Gazetteers and Maps

Gazetteers


Maps



Archives and Libraries

Archives



Internet Links

Official Websites



Miscellaneous Websites




Data from the Genealogical Place Database (GOV)

Name
  • Neustadt a. d. Aisch (- 1973-04-03)
  • Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim (1973-05-01 -)
Type
  • rural county
Population
external reference
  • NUTS1999:DE25A
  • NUTS2003:DE25A
website
GOV-Kennung
map
Affiliations
Superordinate objects

Mittelfranken, Middle Franconia (administrative district)

Subordinate objects

Name Type Period
Altenspeckfeld hamlet (1972 -)
Altselingsbach village (1949 -)
Altziegenrück village (1949 -)
Appenfelden Kirchdorf (1949 -)
Bad Windsheim municipality
Bad Windsheim, Windsheim Hauptort (1810 -)
Birkach village (- 1972)
Blümleinsmühle hamlet (1949 -)
Brandhof solitude (1949 -)
Breitenlohe Pfarrdorf (- 1972)
Bräuersdorf village (1949 -)
Buchheim Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Burgbernheim Hauptort (1949 -)
Burgbernheim Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Burgbernheim municipality
Burghaslach municipality (1972 -)
Burghöchstadt Kirchdorf (- 1972)
Dachsbach Hauptort (1949 -)
Demantsfürth village (1949 -)
Dettendorf village (1949 -)
Deutenheim Pfarrdorf (1972 -)
Diespeck Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Diespeck Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Diespeck municipality
Dietersheim Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Dietersheim municipality
Dutzenthal hamlet (1949 -)
Egelsbach settlement (1949 -)
Eichelberg village (1949 -)
Einsiedelei Wirtshaus b Zeisenbronn Ort (1949 -)
Emelsdorf hamlet (1949 -)
Emskirchen municipality
Ergersheim Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Erkenbrechtshofen village (1949 -)
Erlachsmühle hamlet (1949 -)
Ermetzhofen Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Eselsmühle Ort (1949 -)
Ezelheim Pfarrdorf (1972 -)
Frankfurt village (1972 -)
Gerhardshofen Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Gollhofen municipality
Gottesgab hamlet (1949 -)
Gut Mannhof Ort (1949 -)
Göttelbrunn solitude (1949 -)
Göttelhöf village (1949 -)
Haaghof solitude (1949 -)
Hagenbüchach Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Hagenbüchach municipality
Hemmersheim municipality
Herbolzheim Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Herper hamlet (1949 -)
Herpersdorf village (1972 -)
Herpersdorf b Oberscheinfeld Ort (1949 -)
Herrnberg solitude (1949 -)
Hoheneck castle (1949 -)
Hohenholz b Langenfeld Ort (1949 -)
Hohlweilermühle solitude (1949 -)
Holzhausen village (1949 -)
Holzmühle solitude (1949 -)
Hombeer village (- 1972)
Humprechtsau village (1949 -)
Häringsmühle village (1949 -)
Hürfeld village (1949 -)
Ickelheim Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Ingolstadt Kirchdorf (1972 -)
Ippesheim municipality
Ipsheim Hauptort (1949 -)
Ipsheim municipality
Jobstgreuth Kirchdorf (1949 -)
Kaubenheim Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Kellermühle solitude (1949 -)
Kemmathen hamlet (1949 -)
Klausaurach village (1949 -)
Kleehof solitude (1949 -)
Klösmühle solitude (1949 -)
Kotzenaurach village (1949 -)
Krassolzheim Pfarrdorf (1972 -)
Krautostheim Pfarrdorf (1972 -)
Krettenbach village (1972 -)
Kästel Kirchdorf (1949 -)
Külsheim Kirchdorf (1949 -)
Lachheim village (1949 -)
Langenfeld, Mittelfr Ort (1972 -)
Lenkersheim Ort (1949 -)
Lerchenhöchstadt hamlet (1949 -)
Lohmühle Ort (1949 -)
Losaurach village (1949 -)
Mailheim hamlet (1949 -)
Markt Bibart Markt (1972 -)
Markt Erlbach Markt
Markt Nordheim Markt (1972 -)
Markt Taschendorf Markt (1972 -)
Mettelaurach village (1949 -)
Mittelmühle solitude (1949 -)
Mäusberg solitude (1949 -)
Münchhof village (- 1972)
Neuherberg Kirchdorf (1949 -)
Neuhof a d Zenn municipality (1949 -)
Neuhof/Zenn Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Neundorf Kirchdorf (1972 -)
Neustadt an der Aisch municipality
Niederndorf village (- 1972)
Nonnenmühle solitude (1949 -)
Nundorfer Mühle solitude (1949 -)
Oberalbach village (1949 -)
Oberambach village (- 1972)
Oberfembach village (1949 -)
Oberhöchstädt Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Oberickelsheim municipality
Oberntief Kirchdorf (1949 -)
Obernzenn municipality
Obersachsen village (1949 -)
Oberscheinfeld Markt (1972 -)
Obersteinbach Pfarrdorf (1972 -)
Obertaschendorf village (- 1972)
Peppenhöchstädt village (1949 -)
Prühl Kirchdorf (1972 -)
Prühlermühle solitude (1949 -)
Rappoldshofen village (1949 -)
Rehhof solitude (1949 -)
Rohensaas village (1949 -)
Rosenbirkach village (- 1972)
Rummelsmühle Ort (1949 -)
Rüdisbronn Kirchdorf (1949 -)
Scharfeneck castle (1949 -)
Scheinfeld Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Scheinfeld Stadt
Schornweisach Ort (1949 -)
Schönaich hamlet (1949 -)
Schönaichermühle solitude (1949 -)
Seenheim Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Seitenbuch village (- 1972)
Siedelbach village (1949 -)
Simmershofen municipality
Sintmannsbuch solitude (1949 -)
Stierhöfstetten Pfarrdorf (1972 -)
Sugenheim village (1972 -)
Thierberg village (1972 -)
Tragelhöchstädt village (1949 -)
Traishöchstädt village (1949 -)
Trübenbronn hamlet (1949 -)
Uehlfeld Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Uehlfeld Hauptort (1949 -)
Uehlfeld municipality
Uffenheim Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
Uffenheim municipality
Ullstadt Pfarrdorf (1972 -)
Ulsenheim Pfarrdorf (1949 -)
Unterntief village (1949 -)
Untersachsen village (1949 -)
Voggendorf village (1949 -)
Waldhaus solitude (1949 -)
Wallmershof Ort (1949 -)
Weigenheim municipality
Weimersheim village (1949 -)
Wiebelsheim Kirchdorf (1949 -)
Wiesenmühle solitude (1949 -)
Wildberghof solitude (1949 -)
Wilhelminenberg hamlet (1949 -)
Wilhelmsdorf municipality (1949 -)
Wilhelmsgreuth village (1949 -)
Willmersbach village (1949 -)
Zeisenbronn village (1949 - 1972)
Ziegelhütte solitude (1949 -)
Ziegelmühle solitude (1949 -)



Counties and Independent Cities in Administrative District Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia)

Ansbach (City) | Erlangen (City) | Fürth (City) | Nürnberg (City) | Schwabach (City) |
Counties: Ansbach | Erlangen-Höchstadt | Fürth | Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim |
Nürnberger Land | Roth | Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen |


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