Lichtenfels district

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '  N , 11 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
Administrative headquarters :	Lichtenfels
Area :	519.95 km 2
Residents:	66,776 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	128 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	LIF, STE
Circle key :	09 4 78
Circle structure:	11 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	Kronacher Strasse 28-30 96215 Lichtenfels
Website :	www.lkr-lif.de
District Administrator :	Christian Meißner ( CSU )
Location of the district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria

The "Gottesgarten am Obermain"

The district of Lichtenfels is located in the west of the administrative district of Upper Franconia in Bavaria . The district is a member of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region .

geography

location

The district is mainly characterized by the Main and the Main Valley, which runs through the district from east to west. The most important cities in the district are located here, such as Burgkunstadt , Bad Staffelstein and the district town of Lichtenfels . Of the tributaries of the Main in the district, the Rodach , which flows from the north between Hochstadt am Main and Lichtenfels, is the largest. The foothills of the Franconian Alb with its upstream mountains extend south of the Main , including the Staffelberg near Bad Staffelstein. North of the Main are the foothills of the Itz-Baunach hill country.

Neighboring areas

The district borders clockwise, beginning in the northwest, on the districts of Coburg , Kronach , Kulmbach , Bayreuth and Bamberg .

history

Regional courts

Before 1800, today's district area belonged mainly to the Bamberg Monastery . In 1802 the area became part of Bavaria. In 1804 the regional courts of Lichtenfels and Weismain were established, which belonged to the Mainkreis, from 1817 Obermainkreis , from 1838 Upper Franconia . In 1862, the two regional courts were merged to form the Lichtenfels district office by hiving off 26 communities in the Staffelstein area . A separate district court or district office Staffelstein was established for the separated communities, in which the district court Seßlach established in 1812 as well as some communities of the district court Scheßlitz were absorbed.

District Office

The district office of Lichtenfels was formed in 1862 through the merger of the regional courts of the older order Lichtenfels and Seßlach.

On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the Lichtenfels district office received the municipalities of Buckendorf from the Ebermannstadt district office and Fesselsdorf from the Kulmbach district office on January 1, 1880 .

On January 1, 1927, the Lichtenfels district office handed over the communities of Hain and Wildenberg to the Kronach district office .

district

On January 1, 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. This is how the district office became the Lichtenfels district.

During the regional reform in Bavaria on July 1, 1972, the previous Lichtenfels district (with the exception of Burkersdorf , which was incorporated into the Küps community , Kronach district), most of the Staffelstein district and the Unterlangenstadt community of the Kronach district became today's district Lichtenfels formed. The other communities in the Staffelstein district were divided between the Bamberg and Coburg districts.

On January 1, 1975, the Coburg district ceded the Freiberg community to the Lichtenfels district. There it was incorporated into Eggenbach . On January 1, 1978, the district of Coburg was enlarged to include the community of Neuensorg in the Lichtenfels district, which was incorporated into Weidhausen near Coburg .

Population development

Population development in the Lichtenfels district from 1840 to 2017

From 1988 to 2008, the Lichtenfels district grew by around 2800 inhabitants or around 4%. However, the trend has been declining again since 2001 after a high of around 71,000 inhabitants.

In terms of the number of inhabitants, the district of Lichtenfels is the smallest district in Bavaria with around 67,000 inhabitants.

The following figures refer to the territorial status on May 25, 1987.

Population development
year	1840	1900	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2017
Residents	35,577	41,456	50,246	69,722	66,269	67,863	65,602	68.506	70,512	70,840	70,057	68,087	66,655	66,777

Population development 2004–2009

Population development in the Lichtenfels district from 1840 to 2011

As in previous years, the Lichtenfels district constantly lost its population between 2004 and 2009. According to the State Statistical Office, the population decreased by 2057 during this period. This corresponds to a minus of 2.91%. While in the west of the district, especially in Ebensfeld , the population decline was rather low, towards the east there was a gradient in terms of population decline. In terms of percentage, the population decreased in Marktzeuln with a minus of 9.09% (163 inhabitants), and in absolute terms most in Lichtenfels with 768 inhabitants (-3.57%). Redwitz was the only municipality in the district to record a population growth of 0.88%.

City / municipality	Sept. 30, 2004	Sept. 30, 2009	growth of population
Altenkunstadt	5619	5417	-3.59%
Bad Staffelstein	10,684	10,523	-1.50%
Burgkunstadt	6969	6690	-4.00%
Ebensfeld	5733	5705	-0.48%
Hochstadt am Main	1701	1688	-0.76%
Lichtenfels	21,457	20,689	-3.57%
Marktgraitz	1375	1290	-6.18%
Marketers	1793	1630	-9.09%
Michelau	6908	6599	-4.47%
Redwitz	3373	3403	+ 0.88%
Weismain	4849	4770	-1.62%
Total:	70,461	68,404	-2.91%

politics

District council

The district council is composed of 50 district councilors and the district administrator. In the past elections, the distribution of seats for the district councils resulted in the following:

	CSU	SPD	FW *	Green	JW / JWU / JB **	Social Citizens	AfD	total
2002	23	13	8th	2	4th	-	-	50 seats
2008	23	11	8th	3	4th	1	-	50 seats
2014	21st	11	7th	4th	5	2	-	50 seats
2020	19th	8th	7th	6th	5	2	3	50 seats

^* State Association of Free Voters Bavaria     ^** Young Voters / Young Voters Union, 2020: Young Citizens

District Administrator

The current District Administrator Christian Meißner (CSU) has been in office since December 15, 2011. In the district election on September 24, 2017, he was confirmed in office with 66.11% of the valid votes and a voter turnout of 73.25%.

His predecessors were: Max Jüngling (CSU) District Administrator from February 14, 1946 until his death on February 14, 1963. He was followed by Helmut G. Walther (SPD), who served from May 1, 1963 until his death on October 8, 1981 officiated. From December 15, 1981 to December 14, 1993 Ludwig Schaller (CSU), from 1970 to 1972 the last District Administrator of Staffelstein, held the office of District Administrator and finally from December 15, 1993 to December 14, 2011 Reinhard Leutner (CSU) .

Economy and Transport

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Lichtenfels was ranked 240 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany and is therefore one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.

traffic

Rail network

The Bamberg – Lichtenfels railway was opened in 1846 as part of the Ludwigs-Süd-Nord-Bahn and continued to Hof in 1848 . Lichtenfels is a regional railway junction and until 2017 was a two-hour ICE stop on the Hamburg – Berlin – Munich line.

By the Werra Railway Company built Werrabahn of Lichtenfels Coburg and Meiningen to Eisenach took in 1859 on its operation.

The Hochstadt-Stockheimer Eisenbahn established the connection in the direction of Kronach from the neighboring Hochstadt-Marktzeuln station in 1861, which today, like the other routes in the district, is part of important main routes.

The entire network is still in full operation for 51 kilometers. On January 1, 2015, the district joined the transport association for the greater Nuremberg area .

Streets

The federal motorway 73 runs through the district almost in a north-south direction ; the federal highway 70 touches the district area near Buckendorf. The district continues to open up the federal highways 173 and 289 (short section).

→ Main article : List of district roads in the Lichtenfels district

Attractions

• Lichtenfels City Palace, Lichtenfels
• Banz Monastery , Bad Staffelstein
• Basilica Vierzehnheiligen , Bad Staffelstein
• German Basket Museum, Michelau in Upper Franconia

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  Banz Monastery

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  Basilica of the fourteen saints

Communities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Cities Bad Staffelstein (10,434) Burgkunstadt (6446) Lichtenfels (20,142) Weismain (4751) Markets Ebensfeld (5596) Marktgraitz (1134) Marktzeuln (1544) Other communities Altenkunstadt (5397) Hochstadt a. Main (1622) Michelau i. OFr. (6329) Redwitz ad Rodach (3381)

Administrative communities Hochstadt-Marktzeuln based in Marktzeuln with the member communities Hochstadt a. Main and Marktzeuln (market) Redwitz ad Rodach with the member communities Marktgraitz (Markt) and Redwitz ad Rodach Unregulated areas (7.49 km²) Breitengüßbach Forest (2.40 km²) Mainecker Forest (dissolved January 1, 2000) Neuensorger Forest (5.09 km²)

Municipalities of the district before the territorial reform 1971/78

Until the territorial reform in 1971/78, the Lichtenfels district had 58 communities (see list below). Around 1900 the district had three more communities, Burgberg (incorporated into Lichtenfels on October 1, 1929), Hain (today part of the Küps community in the Kronach district ) and Wildenberg (today part of the Weißenbrunn community in the Kronach district).

In the north the district bordered on the district of Coburg , in the northeast on the district of Kronach , in the southeast on the district of Kulmbach, in the south on the district of Ebermannstadt , in the southwest on the district of Bamberg and in the northwest on the district of Staffelstein .

The municipalities of the Lichtenfels district before the municipality reform in 1971/78. (The churches that still exist today are in bold .)

former parish	today's parish	today's district
Altenkunstadt	Altenkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Arnstein	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Book at the forest	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Buckendorf	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Burgkunstadt (city)	Burgkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Burkersdorf	Küps	District of Kronach
Burkheim	Altenkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Ebneth	Burgkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Fesselsdorf	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Gardens red	Burgkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Geutenreuth	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Big goat field	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Hochstadt a. Main	Hochstadt a. Main	Lichtenfels district
Isling	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Kaspauer	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Little church	Burgkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Small goat field	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Klosterlangheim	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Kösten	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Köttel	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Lame near Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Lettenreuth	Michelau i. OFr.	Lichtenfels district
Lichtenfels (city)	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Maineck	Altenkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Mainroth	Burgkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Mannsgereuth	Redwitz ad Rodach	Lichtenfels district
Marktgraitz	Marktgraitz	Lichtenfels district
Marktzeuln (market)	Marketers	Lichtenfels district
Michelau i. OFr.	Michelau i. OFr.	Lichtenfels district
Mistletoe field	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Modschiedel	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Mönchkröttendorf	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Neudorf	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Neuensee	Michelau i. OFr.	Lichtenfels district
Neuses am Main	Burgkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Oberlangheim	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Obersdorf	Hochstadt a. Main	Lichtenfels district
Oberwallenstadt	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Pfaffendorf	Altenkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Redwitz ad Rodach	Redwitz ad Rodach	Lichtenfels district
Reundorf	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Roth	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Rothmannsthal	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Schney	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Oath	Michelau i. OFr.	Lichtenfels district
Seubelsdorf	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Stetten	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Strössendorf	Altenkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Theisau	Burgkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Trainau	Redwitz ad Rodach	Lichtenfels district
Drive	Lichtenfels	Lichtenfels district
Wallersberg	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Pastures	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Weidnitz	Burgkunstadt	Lichtenfels district
Weismain (city)	Weismain	Lichtenfels district
Wolf hole	Hochstadt a. Main	Lichtenfels district
Zettlitz	Marketers	Lichtenfels district
Zeublitz	Altenkunstadt	Lichtenfels district

Others

The Bamberg barrier runs through the district , a language border between the Itzgründischen and the Upper Franconian dialect. Places with a cultural / economic connection to the northwestern district of Coburg belong to the Itzgründischen, places with stronger connections to the districts of Kronach , Kulmbach or Bayreuth to the Upper Franconian language area. South of the district border, the Itzgründisch changes into the Bamberg dialect.

The Lichtenfels district is the German basket-making center and, together with the Coburg district, the center of the German upholstered furniture industry. The most important employer is the automotive supplier industry.

The so-called God's Garden with the Basilica Vierzehnheiligen and the Banz Monastery is located in the district .

Protected areas

There are seven nature reserves , six landscape protection areas , twelve FFH areas and 40 designated geotopes in the Lichtenfels district . (As of August 2016)

See also:

• List of nature reserves in the Lichtenfels district
• List of landscape protection areas in the Lichtenfels district
• List of FFH areas in the Lichtenfels district
• List of geotopes in the Lichtenfels district

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing sign LIF when the license plates that are still valid today were introduced . It is still issued today. The distinctive sign STE (Bad Staffelstein) has also been available since July 16, 2013 .

See also

• List of municipalities in the Lichtenfels district
• List of places in the Lichtenfels district

literature

• Tilmann Breuer : Lichtenfels district (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 16 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1962, DNB  450619370 .
• Dieter George: Lichtenfels: The Altlandkreis (=  historical book of place names of Bavaria, Upper Franconia . Volume 6 ). Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-6862-9 .
• Hildegard Weiss: Lichtenfels-Staffelstein (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . I, 7). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1959, DNB  455437866 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Lichtenfels  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature from and about the Lichtenfels district in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on the coat of arms of the Lichtenfels district  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• District of Lichtenfels: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Detailed history of the Lichtenfels district

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. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 534 .
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
4. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
5. ^ Newspaper article Only in Redwitz is it going up in the Obermain Tagblatt , page 3, from 29./30. May 2010
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing
7. ↑ District election 2020, Lichtenfels district, official final result , accessed on May 30, 2020
8. ↑ Result of the district election 2017 in the Lichtenfels district , accessed on May 30, 2020
9. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Lichtenfels district as of January 1st, 2015 at the VGN. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 26, 2014 ; Retrieved July 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ "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 ).
12. ↑ Page about the Lichtenfels district on gemeindeververzeichnis.de (accessed on June 28, 2010)
13. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Lichtenfels district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
14. ↑ BayernViewer of the Bavarian Surveying Administration (accessed on June 27, 2010)