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Fortified Church of Wildentierbach with Keep and Castle Wall

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Fortified Church of Wildentierbach with Keep and Castle Wall

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Fortified Church of Wildentierbach with Keep and Castle Wall

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Location: Niederstetten, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Stuttgart District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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WolfgangK

September 14, 2020

The wall around the church was probably built after 1526.
It was built with the stones of the castle ruins.

The castle was not destroyed in the city war of 1381 because it was no longer inhabited and was the property of the Bishop of Würzburg.

The previous owners were the Lords of Hohenlohe-Brauneck.
Their family died out in 1390.
The rights came to Ansbach via the female offspring.
Rothenburg bought all rights to the village from Ansbach by contract in 1525.

The last Lord of Thierbach (Ulrich de Thierbach) is mentioned from 1410 in Jagstberg. The Bishop of Würzburg appointed him as administrator there.

The Lords of Thierbach bought various goods from Billingsbach because they had no future in Wildentierbach.
This is also where the place name Herrentierbach came from.

The tower (castle keep) and the southern wall in Wildentierbach are from the castle.
The castle was destroyed in 1509 by Hans Melchior von Rosenberg zu Haltebergstetten (Prince of Niederstetten) after a dispute with the Wildentierbachern (Rothenburgers).
Not only the castle, but also the village was burned down.

The castle was not rebuilt because it had lost its meaning.
The Rothenburg customs station was already set up at the Heimberger Landturm at that time.

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WolfgangK

September 14, 2022

Originally a Romanesque church, 1682 (still Gothic) and remodeled in 1717 as late Baroque.
The church was last renovated and rebuilt in 1961-1963.
When the church was being renovated, the foundation wall of a small church was found to the east of the church tower.
The little church was probably built in the 9th or 10th century.
The wall around the church came only in the 16th century.

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WolfgangK

September 14, 2022

In 999, a Rothenburg count dedicated the Wildentierbach parish to the Haug (hill) monastery in Würzburg.
Heinrich Graf von Rothenburg was elected and confirmed in 995 as the 17th bishop and prince of Würzburg. Built the church of St. Stephen and also the famous Haug Abbey (church) in Würzburg from his fortune. He died in 1018.

The Würzburg foundations served to finance churches.
The parish later went to the Neumünster monastery in Würzburg.
I.e. Wildentierbach already had its own parish in the 11th century.

A canon of the respective monastery was also the head pastor and the pastorate could only be filled with his consent.
After the Reformation, when the Protestant pastors from Rothenburg (from 1542) were occupied, this was still the case. It was not until 1806 that pastors were appointed from Stuttgart. The first Württemberg pastor was Pastor Hirsching (1816) who came from Wiesenbach.

The first pastor who is noted was Pastor Eberhart in 1392.
Before that, vicars and preachers presumably held the service.
The first evangelical pastor was Johann Reuss (1542) who was employed by Rothenburg.

The village school was set up in Wildentierbach in 1562.
The first Christian school regulations were created by Pastor Zacharias Groß in 1595.

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3. Heiligenbronner Lake – Rothenburg ob der Tauber loop from Spielbach

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