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Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ' N , 11 ° 28' E |
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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 |
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Mayor : | Gerhard Wunder ( CSU ) | |
Location of the Steinwiesen market in the Kronach district | ||
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.
history
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.
(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
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
- 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