Bergen (Middle Franconia)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '  N , 11 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen
Management Community :	Nennslingen
Height :	540 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.91 km 2
Residents:	1139 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91790
Primaries :	09147, 09148
License plate :	WUG, GUN
Community key :	09 5 77 115
Community structure:	6 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Schmiedgasse 1 91790 Nennslingen
Website :	www.bergen-mittelfranken.de
First Mayor :	Walter Gloßner
Location of the municipality of Bergen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district

Bergen is a parish and a parish village in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen and a member of the administrative community Nennslingen .

geography

location

The community is located in the northeast of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in the West Central Franconia region , around 41 kilometers as the crow flies south of Nuremberg and 12 kilometers east of Weißenburg . Bergen is located on a plateau of the Weißenburger Alb , a partial range of the low mountain range Franconian Alb . The district of Roth borders in the north . While the southern half is taken up by a forestless open landscape with meadows and fields, there are several contiguous forest areas on the northern edge of the municipality. Several district roads lead through the municipality . The European main watershed , which separates the catchment areas of the Rhine and Danube , runs through the municipality . The origin of the Anlauter , a tributary of the Schwarzach, lies in the Zeiselweiher near Geyern . Other waters are the stream system of the Erlenbach as well as the Gallersbach and the Ringelbach . There are several springs north of Bergen. There are several wind turbines in the east of the community near Thalmannsfeld .

The neighboring communities are:

Ettenstatt	Heideck ( district of Roth )	Thalmässing (district of Roth)
Burgsalach		Nennslingen

Community structure

There are six officially named parts of the municipality (the type of place is given in brackets ):

• Bergen (parish village)
• Dannhausen ( village )
• Geyern ( Kirchdorf )
• Kaltenbuch (Kirchdorf)
• Syburg ( hamlet )
• Thalmannsfeld (Kirchdorf)

history

Until the church is planted

The principality of Ansbach and the von Geyern taverns shared the rulership rights . In 1796 Prussia sequestered Geyer's rights. In the Treaty of Paris (February 1806) with the Prussian Principality of Ansbach, Bergen fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria through exchange like other parts of Franconia . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipality of Bergen was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Community merger

The ties that had grown over the centuries led to the merger of the municipalities of Bergen, Geyern, Kaltenbuch and Thalmannsfeld to form the new municipality of Bergen , as part of the municipal reform that came into force on May 1, 1978.

Districts

Former inn "Lamm" in Bergen, Jura house with Franconian half-timbering , built in the 17th century (approx. 2006)

Castle of the taverns of Geyern (2005)

Mountains

The town of Bergen was first mentioned in a document in 1067 when Bishop Gundekar II consecrated a St. George's Church. A Viereckschanze from the time around 500 BC. Chr. Testifies to an earlier settlement. There are remains of Neuhaus Castle, which was probably destroyed in 1390. In 1543 the Lords of Syburg introduced the Reformation , in 1628 the village became Catholic again for 22 years. The Swedes invaded the Swedish War , and the plague raged in the area from 1634 to 1637 . In 1663, evangelical exiles expelled from Austria arrived in the village. A constant reconstruction began. In 1773 the church was built in its present form, the lower part of the tower dates back to the medieval era.

Dannhausen

Dannhausen is the northernmost part of the municipality of Bergen and has about 50 inhabitants.

Geyern

On the north-western slope of the Franconian Jura , in the 130-inhabitant town of Geyern, is the ancestral seat of the von Geyern taverns, mentioned in 985 . The taverns originally come from Hofstetten , which is now in the Eichstätt district. They called themselves Lords of Hofstetten and were ministerials to the Bishop of Eichstätt . The Counts of Hirschberg assigned the gift of gift to one of the family . In 1276 Heinrich von Hofstetten was enfeoffed with Geyern Castle by the Bavarian Duke Ludwig the Strict . In 2008, the descendant of the von Geyern taverns, Wolfgang Carl, died. He and his wife Edith had renovated the castle in the decades before and made it accessible to the public during guided tours and concerts.

Cold book

Kaltenbuch (2012)

Located at around 600  m at the edge of the Jura, Kaltenbuch offers a view of the Brombachsee and as far as Nuremberg . The Hesselberg in the west is also easy to see. In the summer of 2008, the outer facade of the St. Nicholas Church was renewed. The Märzenbecher blooming in spring is widespread.

Syburg

Schloss Syburg is a 1470 First mentioned moated castle . Until the 1960s it was the seat of a branch of the tavern family (Schenken von Geyern zu Syburg). Today it is privately owned.

Thalmannsfeld

The first mention of Thalmannsfeld was in 1194 as "Thalmannsfelde". In 2007 the newly designed former schoolhouse was inaugurated, which was prepared with the contribution of the whole village as the domicile of the traditional costume association and the parish. In 2007 and 2009 Thalmannsfeld won two silver medals at state level in the village competition Our village has a future .

Population development

• 1961: 1039 inhabitants, 399 of them in Bergen, 134 in Geyern, 128 in Kaltenbuch and 378 in Thalmannsfeld (including Dannhausen)
• 1970: 1056 inhabitants, including 418 in Bergen, 139 in Geyern, 117 in Kaltenbuch and 382 in Thalmannsfeld (including Dannhausen)
• 1987: 0981 inhabitants
• 1991: 1013 inhabitants
• 1995: 1034 inhabitants
• 2000: 1115 inhabitants
• 2005: 1120 inhabitants
• 2010: 1129 inhabitants
• 2015: 1101 inhabitants

In 2008 there were around 950 evangelical denominations of the population.

In 2008 the population was distributed roughly as follows: Bergen 450, Thalmannsfeld 350, Geyern 120, Kaltenbuch 120, Dannhausen 50.

politics

mayor

Walter Gloßner has been mayor since 2018. His predecessor was Werner Röttenbacher † (voter community) from 2002 to 2018. In 2002 he succeeded Willy Lehmeyer senior. Röttenbacher was confirmed as First Mayor in 2008 with over 94 percent of the vote, and in 2014 with 60.91%.

Municipal council

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Elections March 2014

• Free electoral group Thalmannsfeld-Dannhausen-Syburg: 5 seats
• Bergen electoral community: 5 seats:
• Geyern voter community: 1 seat
• Free voter community Kaltenbuch: 1 seat

coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms : "In blue floating over a silver five-mountain, a little shield divided by silver and black, inside the body of a red-tongued vulture in confused colors."

Economy and Infrastructure

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From 1693 to 1864 ore was mined in the opencast mine, which the farmers brought to Eichstätt for smelting .

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were no employees at the place of work in the manufacturing industry 76 and in the trade and transport sector. In other economic sectors 32 people were employed subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 398 employees at the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. There were no companies in the manufacturing sector and 4 in the construction sector. In 1999 there were 59 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1105 hectares, of which 874 hectares were arable land and 229 hectares were permanent green areas.

education

• Two-group kindergarten with up to 55 kindergarten places. The carrier is the Protestant church community.
• The primary school was closed at the end of the 2010/2011 school year. It belonged to the primary school in Nennslingen with two outsourced classes .

Culture

Workshop in Thalmannsfeld

Smithy in Thalmannsfeld

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Bergen

Bergen belongs to the distribution area of ​​the Jura house . A relatively large number of specimens of this type of house have survived in the municipality (see illustration), but some of them have been left to decay by owners willing to tear it down.

In the part of the municipality Thalmannsfeld, which has won multiple awards in the district competition, a change has begun in the course of the village renovation to preserve the historical village substance. In addition to the rock cellars, several private individual properties are now being renovated and preserved. In 2007 Thalmannsfeld received a silver medal at the state competition.

A historically based blacksmith's shop was set up in a residential stable, which was built around 1820/30 and was first mentioned around 1740 . In this museum, among other things, transmission-driven drilling, turning and milling machines as well as a spring drop hammer from the years 1895 to 1920 can be seen. Courses are offered in old craft techniques.

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Bergen (Middle Franconia)

religion

There are four Protestant churches in the municipality, all of which date back to the Middle Ages and were redesigned by the regional lords, the Geyern taverns, in the 17th and 18th centuries:

• Church of St. George in Bergen,
• St. Bartholomew in Geyern Castle,
• St. Nicholas in Kaltenbuch,
• St. Ulrich in Thalmannsfeld.

Sons of the community

• Karl Helfenberger (1878–1945), trade unionist and politician (SPD)
• Friedrich Opitz (1898–1948), master tailor and plant manager at Texled GmbH in the Ravensbrück concentration camp

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Mountains . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 1 : A-egg . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1799, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753073 , Sp. 351 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Paul Hönn : mountains . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 317 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Bergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage
• Bergen (Middle Franconia): Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ↑ Greetings from the mayor. Bergen Municipality, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
3. ^ Municipality of Bergen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.
4. ↑ data of the municipality. Bergen Municipality, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
5. ^ 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. 731 .
6. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Bergen (Middle Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History