Stone meadows

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Kronach
Height :	374 m above sea level NHN
Area :	55.04 km 2
Residents:	3435 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	96349
Primaries :	09262, 09260, 09267
License plate :	KC, SAN
Community key :	09 4 76 177
LOCODE :	DE SWS
Market structure:	5 districts
; Market administration address :	Kirchstrasse 4 ; 96349 Steinwiesen
Website :	www.steinwiesen.de
Mayor :	Gerhard Wunder ( CSU )
Location of the Steinwiesen market in the Kronach district

Catholic Church of St. Mary, main entrance

Steinwiesen is a market in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria . It is the largest municipality in the Upper Rodachtal region .

geography

Geographical location

Steinwiesen belongs to the Franconian Forest Nature Park and is located in the Rodach valley . The Wilde Rodach flows into the Rodach south of Steinwiesen .

Community structure

The market town of Steinwiesen has 21 officially named parts of the municipality.

Stone meadows with Eisenhammer, Erlabrück, Klingersmühle, Kochsmühle, Leitschenstein, Löfflersmühle, Remitzhof, Rieblich, Schlegelshaid, Schnabrichsmühle, Schwarzmühle, Teichmühle and Tempenberg
Pear tree with Hubertushöhe
Neufang with Berglesdorf, Kübelberg and Leitsch
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history

Steinwiesen train station

Steinwiesen was first mentioned in a document in 1323. The community was granted market rights on August 11, 1939.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent communities of Birnbaum and Nurn as well as Neufang were incorporated without the town of Schäferei.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population fell from 4009 to 3443 by 566 or 14.1%. On December 31, 1995 Steinwiesen had 4,154 inhabitants.

politics

Municipal council

The market council consists of the 16 council members and the first mayor.

CSU 12 seats plus First Mayor
SPD 4 seats

(As of: local elections on March 16, 2014)

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: “Split and divided in front by green and silver; above a silver stone block, below a red oblique wave beam; behind in gold, a black lion covered with a silver sloping, red armored lion. "

Culture and sights

Buildings

From a technical point of view and as a local recreation area, the Ködeltalsperre in the area of the market town is interesting .

Architectural monuments

Catholic Church of St. Mary, choir
Catholic Church of St. Mary, rectory
Pond mill

traffic

Steinwiesen is on the St 2207 one kilometer north of the B 173 , which connects to the A 73 near Bad Staffelstein and the A 9 near Naila . On July 26, 1900 Steinwiesen received a connection to the German railway network via the Rodachtalbahn to Kronach . In 1976 the passenger traffic was stopped, the section from Kronach to Steinwiesen was dismantled. A museum railway has been in operation on the remaining stretch from Steinwiesen to Nordhalben since 2007 . The Franconian Marienweg runs through the village .

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Stöcker (1835–1913), innkeeper, beer brewer and member of the German Reichstag.
Josef Müller (1898–1979), member of the Bavarian People's Party and later first chairman of the CSU
Max Spindler (1894–1986), historian
Michael Stöcker (1937–2013), local politician (CSU) and Lord Mayor of Rosenheim
Wolfgang Hoderlein (* 1953), SPD politician, from 2000 to 2003 state chairman of the SPD in Bavaria .

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Steinwiesen . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 5 : S-U . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1802, DNB 790364328 , OCLC 833753112 , Sp. 438 ( digitized version ).
Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Steinwiesen . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 603 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Wikisource: Geographical Lexicon of Franconia (1802): Steinwiesen - Sources and full texts

Wikivoyage: Steinwiesen - travel guide

Entry on the Steinwiesen coat of arms in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Steinwiesen: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.66 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).
↑ Markt Steinwiesen in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 690 .
↑ members of the Market council , steinwiesen.de, accessed on July 11, 2017

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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] Markt Steinwiesen in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

[3] 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 690 .

[4] rs of the Market council , steinwiesen.de, accessed on July 11, 2017