Altdorf near Nuremberg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '  N , 11 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Nuremberg country
Height :	444 m above sea level NHN
Area :	48.63 km 2
Residents:	15,276 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	314 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	90518
Area code :	09187
License plate :	LAU, ESB , HEB, N , PEG
Community key :	09 5 74 112
City structure:	25 parts of the community
City administration address :	Röderstrasse 10 90518 Altdorf b. Nuremberg
Website :	www.altdorf.de
First Mayor :	Martin Tabor ( SPD )
Location of the city of Altdorf near Nuremberg in the district of Nürnberger Land

Altdorf bei Nürnberg ( pronunciation ^{? / I} ; officially: Altdorf b.Nürnberg ) is a town and a medium- sized center in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land .

geography

Aerial photo from 2005. The view goes roughly to the west.

Geographical location

The former university town is located about 25 km southeast of Nuremberg in the midst of a charming low mountain range (400–700 m above sea level) with Rhätschluchten (Rhät = Upper Keuper ) and forest and meadow-rich uplands. In winter Altdorf is very snowy, in summer the hilly surroundings offer many recreational opportunities, such as bike tours or hikes. From Hegnenberg you can enjoy a panoramic view of the medieval town in sunny weather.

City structure

The city of Altdorf near Nuremberg has 25 districts :

Adelheim Altdorf near Nuremberg (main town) Au Eismannsberg Fall house Grünsberg Hagenhausen Hegnenberg Lochmannshof

Ludersheim Oberrieden Oberwellitzleithen Prackenfels Prethalmühle Pühlheim Quickly Raschbach

Röthenbach near Altdorf Grinding mill Stürzelhof Dissatisfied Unterwellitzleithen Wappeltshofen Weinhof Brick hut

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting in the north clockwise): Offenhausen , Lauterhofen , Berg near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate , Burgthann , Schwarzenbruck , Winkelhaid and Leinburg . Altdorf is part of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region .

history

Map of Altdorf from the Topographia Franconiae of 1648

Historical data

800	Franconian royal court
1129	First documentary mention
1281	The Hofmark Altdorf district is under royal administration.
1299	Altdorf is pledged to Count Emich von Nassau .
1360	First documented mention as "market" when it was sold to Burgrave Albrecht of Nuremberg
1368	Foundation of markets
1387	First documented mention as "city", construction of moats and walls
1393	Sale by the Pomeranian Duke Swantibor , the husband of the daughter Anna of the Burgrave Albrecht of Nuremberg, to the Count Palatine Ruprecht
1504	Acquisition by the Imperial City of Nuremberg , seat of a Nuremberg nursing office
1575/78	Seat of the Nuremberg high school , academy
1622	University privilege (university until 1809); one of the most famous students is Albrecht von Wallenstein .
1666	The philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is doing his doctorate in Altdorf.
1672	Johann Christoph Sturm founds the Collegium Curiosum sive Experimentale , of which Leibniz became a member.
1806	Altdorf joins the Kingdom of Bavaria with Nuremberg .
1824	The city receives the Royal School Teachers' College.
1894	The folk play Wallenstein in Altdorf is premiered.
1925	In the seminar building, facilities for the physically handicapped are being created by the regional association for internal missions .
1945	Headquarters of the District Office (until 1965)
1945	From May, the US soldiers' newspaper The Stars and Stripes (Southern Germany Edition, later renamed European Edition; until the move to Griesheim / Hessen) was located in the former building of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer . The first edition (Vol. 1 - No. 1) was printed and delivered on May 8, 1945 ( VE Day ) with the title ETO WAR ENDS .
1972/78	Municipal reform with the incorporation of surrounding municipalities
2012	The Bavarian Council of Ministers is introducing a draft for a new state development program into the legislative process, in which the classification as a medium-sized center is proposed. In view of the considerable resistance of numerous associations to the draft law, the outcome is completely open.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities of Eismannsberg , Grünsberg and Rasch and parts of the area of ​​the dissolved community of Penzenhofen were incorporated. Hagenhausen , Pühlheim, Rieden and Röthenbach near Altdorf were added on January 1, 1978.

politics

MPs

The interests of Altdorf in the Bavarian State Parliament represent MdL Norbert Dünkel (CSU), in the Bundestag the chairwoman of the Bundestag Tourism Committee MdB Marlene Mortler (CSU).

City council

The town council of Altdorf consists of 24 town councilors and the first mayor.

	CSU	SPD	Green	FWG / UNA	FDP / Team Altdorf	total
2008	9	8th	3	4th	0	24 seats
2014	8th	8th	3	5	0	24 seats
2020	7th	6th	5	5	1	24 seats

(Status: 2020 )

mayor

In the local elections in 2020 , Martin Tabor was elected by the SPD as the new mayor, and he took office on May 1, 2020.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In black a red-armored, tongued and crowned golden lion, holding a split label, inside a black eagle at the gap, at the back divided diagonally by red and silver five times."

Declaration of coat of arms: The lion is the Palatinate lion, the shield is the coat of arms of the city of Nuremberg . This coat of arms goes back to the time of the Nuremberg rule from 1503 to 1806. In the history of Altdorf there were three other coats of arms: The oldest from 1374 shows the Hohenzollern shield and the Henneberg hen, the second from 1478 the Palatinate lion in front of Baier diamonds and a third from 1836 the Baier lion and the Nuremberg coat of arms.

Town twinning

Altdorf near Nuremberg maintains city ​​partnerships with:

•  Altdorf , Switzerland
•  Colbitz , Germany
•  Dunaharaszti , Hungary
•  Sehma , Germany
•  Pfitsch , South Tyrol (Italy)

Culture and sights

Wallenstein Festival

The Wallenstein Festival is an event that has been held every three years in summer since 1894. It reminds us of the general Wallenstein , who once studied in Altdorf, and the time of the Thirty Years' War . The next games will take place in 2022.

St. Lawrence Church

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The St. Laurentius Church

The church was built in the late Gothic style until 1407 . The choir of the church as well as parts of the tower have been preserved to this day. In 1755 the main nave was rebuilt or extended in the baroque style. The organ in a baroque prospect inside the church and the prayer niches for professors and students from the time as a university town as well as the baptismal font made of Altdorf marble are worth mentioning . The church has been Protestant since 1527.

town hall

The former town hall, now the cultural town hall

The town hall right next to the church was built in the Renaissance style in the 16th century and has an architectural element that is characteristic of the German Renaissance with a dwarf house . The town hall is a typical example of the Franconian sandstone construction . As part of an extensive renovation in line with listed buildings, the historical building fabric was made visible again as far as possible. In the meantime, however, the city administration has moved to the premises in Röderstrasse, except for the cultural office, which is why the town hall is now officially called the Kultur-Rathaus .

University building (Wichernhaus)

The colleges and lecture halls of the former University of Altdorf were built in 1575 as a school for children from Nuremberg aristocratic families in the Renaissance style. A few years later the school became an academy and in 1623 it was converted into a university. The university became known for its faculties for medicine (especially for the development of surgery and the long-standing standard compendium by Lorenz Heister ), law and natural sciences (including basic research on the sensitivity of silver salts to light, school zegraphy , as the basis of photography). In addition to the (partly reconstructed) botanical gardens, there was also an astronomical observatory and a chemical laboratory. The university in Altdorf existed as a college until 1809; As a typical university complex, the buildings are a clear testimony to German university history, as they have remained largely unchanged in their 18th century state (like only the University of Helmstedt , which has also been closed ). The university is also known for students such as Albrecht von Wallenstein and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . The holdings of the university library are now in the University of Erlangen . The Wichernhaus temporarily served as a teaching staff and was finally converted into a hospital for the disabled in 1925. Today the building ensemble used by the Rummelsberger Anstalten as a Wichernhaus offers housing, a school and a boarding school for the physically handicapped. In addition, the Wallenstein Festival in Altdorf is performed every three years in the summer ; the next Wallenstein Festival will take place in summer 2021.

City fortifications

The lower gate, view from outside (field side)

From the former city fortifications, three towers and fragments of the city wall built around 1400 are still preserved. The city gates at both ends of the market square (lower and upper gate) are particularly impressive.

lock

→ Main article : Altdorf Nursing Castle

The castle was built in 1558 for the Nuremberg keepers. In 1808 it became a Bavarian regional court and in 1862 a district court. It served as a district office from 1945 to 1965 and has been a police station since 1972 . The Wallenstein Fountain is in front of the building .

Prethalmühle

In the Middle Ages, the Prethalmühle was a station on the Nuremberg - Regensburg trade route . It burned down in the Thirty Years War. In 1643 it was rebuilt. Today seven families live in the Prethalmühle. The origin of the name is not clear. One theory says that the Prethalmühle was a royal estate, from which the "Preitlingsfelder", a royal fiefdom, located in the south of the town of Altdorf, were cultivated. Located in the Schwarzachtal, which flows on the southern edge of the Prethalmühle, it formed a border point between the area of ​​the imperial city of Nuremberg and the Wittelsbacher Upper Palatinate.

Grünsberg Castle

Grünsberg Castle near Altdorf in the Nuremberg region

The green mountain palace dates back to a castle from the Middle Ages (13th century). The castle was expanded into a palace complex in the period from 1717 to 1723 with significant stucco ceilings . From 1754 Grünsberg Castle belonged to the Stromer von Reichenbach patrician family , who converted it into a charitable foundation in 1999. The important inventory can be viewed on the first Sunday of the month and by appointment during guided tours.

Eismannsberg

The St. Andrew / St. Bartholomew Church in the eastern part dates from the Romanesque period and is located on the site of an earlier chapel (possibly from the former lord of the Eismannsberg castle, Ratz). The nave was added in the 16th century with the help of Hedwig von Eyb and renovated by the von Oelhafen patrician family in the baroque period. The roof structure was renewed in the 19th century, later the interior of the church was changed to accommodate the organ. In July 2007 a general renovation of the church was completed.

Architectural and ground monuments

See also : List of architectural monuments in Altdorf near Nuremberg  and List of ground monuments in Altdorf near Nuremberg

Geotopes

Geotope lion's den

There are seven geotopes designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment in the municipality of Altdorf .

• the two former quarries of Ober- and Unterrieden
• the rock cellar Löwengrube near Lenzenberg
• the Rhätschlucht Teufelskirche near Grünsberg
• the Rhätschlucht Wolfsschlucht near Wallersberg
• the devil's cave near Prackenfels
• the Sophienquelle near Grünsberg

See also : Geotopes in the Nuremberg region

Schools and educational institutions

• Hans Dötsch Elementary School
• Altdorf Middle School
• Leibniz Gymnasium
• Music school of the city of Altdorf
• School for the physically disabled, elementary and secondary school (Wichernhaus)
• Special educational support center Wichernhaus
• Specialized Academy for Social Pedagogy
• Evangelical adult education Altdorf
• Catholic adult education
• Nuremberg School for Tree Care
• Technical Academy Wuppertal Training Center
• Volkshochschule Schwarzachtal

traffic

Streets

Run through Altdorf:

• the state roads
  • St 2239 from Feucht
  • St 2240 from Lauf and Neumarkt
  • St 2401 from Ochenbruck
• the district road LAU 23 from Ludersheim and Winkelhaid

Immediately south is the highway A 3 , about two kilometers north which runs A 6 . Both cross in the northwest at the Altdorf motorway junction .

The closest motorway junctions are:

• AS 90 Altdorf / Burgthann, 1 km from the center: A 3 towards Nuremberg, Regensburg
• AS 62 Altdorf / Leinburg, 2 km from the center: A 6 towards Nuremberg, Amberg

Local public transport

Altdorf is the end of the Feucht – Altdorf railway line . The S-Bahn line S2 of the Nuremberg S-Bahn ends at Altdorfer Bahnhof , which runs every 20 to 40 minutes and reaches Nuremberg Central Station in 30 minutes. Most trains on the S2 line continue from Nuremberg to Schwabach and Roth , so there are also connections there without having to change trains. Altdorf West , the second stop on line S2 in the Altdorf urban area, serves not only the residential areas there and several companies, but also primarily the students of the neighboring Altdorf high school.

The following buses operate in the urban area and the districts of Altdorf:

VGN line	operator	Walkway
331	Reba-Eno	Altdorf - Weißenbrunn - Leinburg - Diepersdorf - Röthenbach (Pegnitz)
333	Squint	Altdorf - Weißenbrunn - Gersdorf - Lauf (Pegnitz)
512	DB Frankenbus	Altdorf - Berg - Holzheim - Neumarkt (OPf)
550	Merz trips	Altdorf - Hagenhausen - Wappeltshofen - Traunfeld
551	Merz trips	Altdorf - Rasch - Schwarzenbach - Großvoggenhof
552	Merz trips	Altdorf Bf - Market Square - Prackenfels - Altdorf
553	Merz trips	Altdorf - Altenthann - Rummelsberg - Ochenbruck
554	Merz trips	Altdorf - Hegnenberg - Pühlheim - Raschbach
555	City of Altdorf	Badener Str. - Türkeistr. - Train station - Burgthanner Weg - Badener Str.
558	DB Frankenbus	Call bus Altdorf - Berg
	VAG	Feucht - Moosbach - Winkelhaid - Altdorf - Hagenhausen

On the nights from Friday to Saturday and from Saturday to Sunday as well as on the nights before public holidays, Altdorf is served hourly by the Nuremberg night bus line (Nightliner) N55 from and to Feucht. In Feucht there is a transfer connection to the N15 line from and to the central transfer point at Nuremberg Central Station. The journey to Nuremberg takes 51 minutes.

Industry and commerce

ETA headquarters

• ETA Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH : produces thermal, thermal-magnetic, magnetic and electronic circuit breakers , electronic flow monitors and flow meters , circuit breaker relays , digital measuring devices , sensors and power distribution systems .
• Reicolor produces paints and varnishes, chemical-technical preparations, cleaners, passivating agents, phosphating agents, wood glazes, oil pastes, water-based paints and coating systems for hot-dip galvanized steel parts.
• SUSPA : Manufacturer of gas springs , hydraulic dampers, vibration dampers, crash and safety systems and height adjustments. The largest employer in the city of Altdorf.

Tourism and leisure

Altdorf has numerous sports and leisure facilities. Well known is the outdoor pool, which was renovated in 2002 and 2008 and has a 50 meter pool.

In 1997, with funding from the Landscape Management Association, an educational fruit trail was laid out along the former Altdorf - Rasch connecting road.

hike

There are eight well-signposted circular hiking trails in the Altdorf area for hikers.

In addition, Altdorf is crossed by numerous hiking trails of the Franconian Alb Association (FAV).

The long-distance hiking trails are known nationwide:

• Frankenweg (Red Bar, FAV 28)
• Main-Donau-Weg (Jura Line, FAV 10)
• Franconian Way of St. James (scallop, FAV 11)
• Franconian Dunes Trail (Yellow Dune, FAV 222)

There are also other regional hiking trails:

• Altdorf - Pommelsbrunn (Blaupunkt, FAV 64), length: 25 km
• Birglandweg (Blaukreuz, FAV 75), Altdorf - Poppberg (Birgland municipality, Amberg-Sulzbach district), length: 22 km
• Eppeleinsweg (Rotkreuz, FAV 47), Erlangen-Buckenhof - Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, length: 92 km
• Hochlandsteig (yellow point, FAV 66), Hersbruck (district of Nürnberger Land) - Altdorf, length: 25 km
• Reichswaldweg (Blaukreuz, FAV 80), Nuremberg - Altdorf, length: 20 km
• Schwarzachtalweg (Blaukreuz, FAV 50), Altdorf - Neuses, length: 28 km
• Zeidlerweg (Blaustrich, FAV 119), Altdorf - Feucht, length: 14 km

Worth seeing in nature

A Rhätschlucht gorge near Prackenfels

Stone channel near Raschbach

There are many Rhät gorges in the Altdorf area. The best known is probably the Devil's Church in Grünsberg . The former rock cellar Löwengrube near Lenzenberg and the Teufelshöhle near Prackenfels are also worth seeing . The Steinerne Rinne near Raschbach is well worth seeing .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

A street in the city is named after the first three honorary citizens.

• Konrad Lengenfelder , first director of the Leibniz-Gymnasium Altdorf, city archivist and founder of the university museum
• Michael Geißler , detective inspector after the Second World War
• Franz Theophil Becker (1902–1996), professor of medicine, worked at the Wichernhaus Altdorf
• Kurt Purucker († March 16, 2011 at the age of 91), former district administrator, former first mayor

sons and daughters of the town

• Nikolaus Herman (around 1480 / 1500–1561), cantor, teacher and creator of hymns
• Stephan Farfler (1633–1689), inventor
• Benedikt Hopffer (1643–1684), theologian, professor and rector at the University of Tübingen
• Johann Fabricius (1644–1729), theologian
• Johann Moritz Hofmann (1653–1727), medic
• Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669–1719), scientist
• Georg Friedrich Deinlein (1696–1757), legal scholar and rector of the local university
• Ferdinand Jakob Baier (1707–1788), medic
• Johann Jakob Baier (1724–1812), physician
• Konrad Mannert (1756–1834), professor and historian
• Otto Stromer von Reichenbach (1831–1891), First Mayor of Nuremberg
• Dora Hitz (1856–1924), impressionist painter
• Walther Haffner (1925–2002), church musician
• Hans Recknagel (1938-2010), grammar school teacher, local researcher and city archivist (successor to Konrad Lengenfelder)
• Klaus Wolfermann (* 1946), athlete (javelin thrower)
• Klaus Kreuzeder (1950–2014), saxophonist
• Günther Lottes (1951–2015), European historian and professor
• Thomas Tuschl (* 1966), biochemist
• Thomas Nicklas (* 1967), historian and university professor
• Joshua Groß (* 1989), writer

Personalities who worked in the city

• Johann Friedrich Bauder (1713–1791), mayor and dealer of Altdorf marble
• Christian Heinrich Free Life (1696–1741), author, lawyer and professor at the University of Altdorf.
• Jörg Geuder (1861–1935), pedagogue, garden writer, poet and language educator, graduated from the Altdorf teacher training college in 1879.
• Wolfgang Haffner (* 1965) funk and jazz drummer
• Lorenz Heister (1683–1758), surgical professor at the University of Altdorf from 1710 to 1719
• Bernhard Friedrich Hummel (1725–1791), rector of the city school and writer
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), philosopher and scientist, received his doctorate in Altdorf
• Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706), composer, studied at the University of Altdorf
• Thomas Reinesius (1587–1667), physician and philologist, doctor in Altdorf
• Johann Richter or Johannes Praetorius (1537-1616), German mathematician and astronomer
• Georg Christoph Schwarz (1732–1792), Catholic clergyman and professor at the University of Altdorf
• Daniel Schwenter (1585–1636), orientalist, mathematician and professor at the University of Altdorf from 1606
• Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633–1705), polyhistor, legal scholar and orientalist; taught and died in Altdorf
• Wallenstein (1583–1634) General in the Thirty Years' War
• Anna Wecker (before 1572–1596), poet who died in Altdorf
• Johann Weinmann (1599–1672) was a clergyman in Altdorf from 1628

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Altdorf near Nuremberg . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 1 : A-egg . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1799, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753073 , Sp. 49-53 ( digitized version ).
• Society for family research in Franconia (ed.): Reichsstadt Nürnberg, Altdorf and Hersbruck - Genealogica, Heraldica, Juridica . Verlag Die Egge in Komm, Nuremberg 1954, p. 253, IDN: 453615252 (Free series of publications by the Society for Family Research in Franconia, Vol. 6).
• Konrad Lengenfelder: Altdorf near Nuremberg in old views. 5th edition, new edition the original edition from 1977. Europ. Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1995, ISBN 90-288-1515-5 (78 pages).
• Hans Recknagel : Stories and History. Historical sketches from Altdorf and Nuremberg . Hessel-Verlag, Feucht 2003, ISBN 3-9807345-2-8 .
• Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . 3. Edition. Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .
• Horst Claus Recktenwald: The Franconian University of Altdorf. Second edition. Lorenz Spindler Verlag, Nuremberg 1990, ISBN 3-88929-073-6 (104 pp., Paperback ).
• Horst Claus Recktenwald: Scholars from the University of Altdorf. Lorenz Spindler Verlag, Nuremberg 1966 (134 pages, hardcover with illustrations).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Altdorf . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 683-685 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Andreas Will; with addenda by Christian Conrad Nopitsch: History and description of the Nuremberg University of Altdorf. 1801, reprint: Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1975.
• Johann Wolfgang Woerlein : The Houbirg or history of Nuremberg Switzerland - Hersbruck, Altdorf and Lauf with their surroundings in the context of world history. Nuremberg 1838, especially pp. 171–175

Web links

Commons : Altdorf bei Nürnberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Altdorf near Nuremberg  - in the news

Wikisource: Altdorf bei Nürnberg  - Sources and full texts

• Homepage
• District Hagenhausen
• Altdorf near Nuremberg: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Entry on the coat of arms of Altdorf near Nuremberg  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ City of Altdorf b. Nuremberg: First Mayor. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
3. ^ City of Altdorf near Nuremberg in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on June 3, 2020.
4. ^ SJF Böhmer: Regesta Imperii VIII. The Regests of the Empire under Emperor Charles IV. 1346-1378 , Alfonds Huber (arr.). Johann Friedrich Böhmer (Ed.). Innsbruck (1877), number 3192
5. ↑ Latest history: End of World War I until 2012 (altdorf.de, accessed on December 5, 2015)
6. ↑ http://www.altdorf.de/sites/gensite.asp?SID=cms08112012024824425989&msr=1&Art=03274
7. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 542 .
8. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 719 .
9. ↑ Result of the 2014 city council election ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Result of the 2020 city council election , accessed on May 4, 2020
11. ↑ List of mayors since 1818 ( Memento from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Information on the coat of arms on the website of the city of Altdorf
13. ↑ Network map of the Nuremberg night buses (Nightliner) ( Memento from December 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Fruit educational trail
15. ↑ Local Altdorfer hiking trails ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 12, 2013)
16. ^ OSM: hiking trails of the Franconian Alb Association
17. ^ Congregation obituary for Kurt Purucker, accessed June 3, 2011