Burgthann

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Burgthann
Burgthann
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Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '  N , 11 ° 19'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
County : Nuremberg country
Height : 400 m above sea level NHN
Area : 39.21 km 2
Residents: 11,433 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density : 292 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 90559
Primaries : 09183, 09188 , 09187Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : LAU, ESB , HEB, N , PEG
Community key : 09 5 74 117
Community structure: 17 districts
Address of the
municipal administration:
Rathausplatz 1
90559 Burgthann
Website : www.burgthann.de
First Mayor : Heinz Meyer ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Burgthann in the district of Nürnberger Land
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View from the castle hill to the Burgthanner valley

Burgthann is a municipality and a parish village in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land .

geography

location

Burgthann

The community is located about 20 kilometers southeast of Nuremberg between the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal and the Schwarzach river . The municipality is the furthest south in the district of Nürnberger Land and borders in the south and east on the administrative district of Upper Palatinate .

Community structure

Burgthann town hall

The municipality of Burgthann has 17 districts :

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are the small town of Altdorf near Nuremberg in the north, the municipality of Berg near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in the east, the market town of Postbauer-Heng in the south-east, the market town of Pyrbaum in the south-west and the town of Schwarzenbruck in the west.

Natural allocation

According to the natural spatial structure of Germany (according to Meynen / Schmithüsen et al.), Burgthann is part of the natural spatial main unit group Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land , which is part of the south-west German layer level country (according to Ssymank). The municipality of Burgthann is located in the main natural area for the foothills of the central Franconian Alb .

geology

Iron sandstone (Dogger): Brentenberg near Ezelsdorf (Burgthann)

The geology of the strongly profiled Burgthanner landscape is determined by the layers of the Keuper and the Lias ( Black Jura ). In the southeast of the municipality, which borders the Upper Palatinate, layers of the Brown Jurassic (Dogger) are also dominant. Quaternary valley fillings have deposited in the Schwarzachtal . The Feuerletten from the Middle Keuper ( Trossingen formation ) occur along the Schwarzach . This deep red claystone and clay marlstone has locally conglomerate limestone banks and lumps as well as sandy deposits. The Feuerletten and the overlying Rhaetolian layers from the Black Jura group form the first layer level that mediates the steep ascent of the Frankenalb (layer level landscape).

The Dogger represents the highest layer in the municipality. A ridge runs from Westhaid towards Gespannberg . To the east of Ezelsdorf, Osterhof, an arched Dogger foothill leads to the Gespannberg. The high point of this hilly landscape is the Dillberg , located east of the municipality , the summit of which is made up of layers of the White Jura group (Malm) and is 595 m above sea level. NN has .

The Brentenberg, east of Ezelsdorf, is the highest point in the Burgthanner municipality with a height of 576 m above sea level. NN represent. The Brentenberg consists of Dogger layers of the iron sandstone formation . The Dogger Beta iron sandstone was deposited in a shallow sea around 174 to 170 million years ago and can be between 20 and 80 meters thick. Iron was used by people at an early stage.

climate

The community is located in the cool, temperate climate zone and has a humid climate . The Burgthanner landscape areas are located in the transition area between the humid Atlantic and the dry continental climate . After the climate classification of Köppen / Geiger Burgthann belongs to the temperate warm rainy climate (Cfb climate). The mean air temperature of the warmest month remains below 22 ° C and that of the coldest month above -3 ° C. The Lias Dogger landscape warms up faster in spring and autumn than the meadow areas along the Schwarzachtal.

history

The establishment of the place goes back to the 12th century, when several settlements were founded in the vicinity of the Thann Castle, which was built there. In 1335 today's urban area fell to the burgraviate of Nuremberg . During the First Margrave War and the Thirty Years' War , there were numerous fighting in the place, which severely affected the buildings there. In 1791 the urban area again fell to Prussia ; In 1796 Prussian hussars occupied all of Burgthann and the surrounding area. In 1806 the city came under Bavarian administration again.

In the final phase of the Second World War , there were numerous low-flying attacks by the Allies . On February 20 and 28, 1945, passenger trains were also hit on the nearby Burgthann – Mimberg railway ; those killed were buried in the local cemetery. In April, the Volkssturm prepared for fighting with the approaching US Army and dug trenches. On April 16, American troops approached Altenthann and demanded in advance that a white flag or cloth should be hoisted as a sign of surrender. On April 17th, however, soldiers of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Götz von Berlichingen" moved into Burgthann and asked Mayor Andreas Fischer, who had been in office since 1935, to remove the flags again. When the latter refused, he was shot by a soldier from the Waffen SS . A later trial against the soldier was discontinued in 1958 because he had acted according to the law applicable at the time (specifically the so-called “flag order”). On April 19 there was heavy fighting for the place. Dozens of buildings and stables were destroyed or set on fire as a result of street fighting and shelling of the place. The next day, the fighting shifted to what is now Pattenhofen, before the SS troops were finally driven out.

In 1968 street names replaced the "old" house numbering introduced in 1796.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Dörlbach, Ezelsdorf, Grub, Oberferrieden, Schwarzenbach and Unterferrieden were incorporated. Then there was the Pattenhofen district , which previously belonged to the Altenthann community .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 24 councilors and the first mayor.

CSU SPD Green FWG Flat share Grub total
2008 12 6th 2 3 1 24 seats
2014 11 6th 3 3 1 24 seats

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

Allocation of seats in the municipal council (2014 result)
11
6th
3
3
1
11 6th 
A total of 24 seats
  • CSU : 11
  • SPD : 6
  • Greens : 3
  • FW : 3
  • Flat share Grub : 1

Local election 2014

See the graphics on the right

Local election 2014
Turnout: 57.79%
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
46.01%
24.69%
14.15%
10.61%
4.53%
Flat share Grub

coat of arms

Burgthann coat of arms
Blazon : “Square of silver and black; put on a golden shield, in it a green fir tree with roots. "

Partner communities

traffic

The stations in Burgthann are all on the Nuremberg – Regensburg railway line and have been connected to the Nuremberg S-Bahn since the end of 2010 . In Burgthann there is an S-Bahn station on the S3 line Nürnberg Hbf - Neumarkt (Upper Palatinate) . From 1902 to 1973 the Burgthann – Allersberg ("Allersberger Bockl") railway, which is now closed, branched off from Burgthann to Allersberg .

The federal road 8 crosses the southern part of the municipality. Around Burgthann there are close connection points (AS) to the federal motorway network : AS Altdorf / Burgthann to the A 3 about 5 km away in the northeast, the AS Altdorf / Leinburg to the A 6 about 9 km away in the same direction, the AS Feucht on the A 9 about 9 km to the west, which allows the change to the A 73 via the nearby Nuremberg / Feucht motorway triangle . (All distances on the road from the village of Burgthann calculated.) On weekends and before public holidays, the municipality is served almost everywhere by the VAG Nightliner N15 to and from Nuremberg.

Lock 35 on the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal

In the area of ​​the municipality traversed by the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal , it has three locks .

economy

In the municipal area there are four commercial areas with a total area of ​​37 hectares named Ezelsdorf (4.4 hectares), Am Breitenstock (5.5 hectares), Am Espen (7.5 hectares) and Espenpark (19.6 hectares).

The assessment rate for the trade tax is 320% (as of 2016).

A training center of the LBB was opened in today's town center on November 23, 1970 , which existed until 1999. A grocery discounter and the new residential area "Hirschberger Gardens" are located on the former site of the building school .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Thann Castle

The center is the Thann Castle , which dates back to the 12th century (probably built around 1160) and was restored by the Burg Burgthann Association , which also houses the local history museum. The robber knight Eppelein von Gailingen , known in Franconia, was held prisoner there for one night in 1381 before he was handed over to the Neumarkt executioner. Since June 2010 civil weddings can be held in the courtyard.

The Schwarzenbach bell tower is well worth seeing and is located in the Schwarzenbach district of Burgthann. The Distellochdamm and Mühlbachdamm of the Ludwig Canal south of Burgthann, a masterpiece of historical engineering.

Museums

For the 150th anniversary of the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal in 1995, the Bavarian Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal Museum was opened at Thann Castle , which is supported by the Burg Burgthann Association. Unique items and originals from the Nuremberg, Ansbach and Regensburg water management offices are exhibited here. In addition, there is the possibility of navigating the canal near Schwarzenbach in the summer months with the Elfriede towboat. Among other things, the museum houses a copy of the sheet gold cone from Ezelsdorf-Buch and a replica of a dinosaur skull that was found during the construction of the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal near Dörlbach . The museum is also part of the North Bavarian Industriestrasse .

Architectural and ground monuments

Protected areas

Large parts of the municipal area are part of the Schwarzachtal landscape protection area with side valleys (LSG no. LSG-00587.01; WDPA no. 396136). The Schwarzachtal is also part of the Natura2000 Fauna-Flora-Habitat- Area NSG 'Schwarzach-Durchbruch' and Rhätschluchten bei Burgthann (FFH-Nr. 6633-371; WDPA-Nr. WDPA ID). In the municipality there are also two designated protected landscape components (GLB) and six natural monuments (ND).

  • GLB Burgberg , a semi-arid lawn with hedges and a traditional form of grazing
  • GLB sand pit near Heinleinshof , a former sand mining area with silting water, lean, dry sand areas and contact zones in between.
  • ND The 2 churchyard maples at the Oberferrieden cemetery
  • ND The Burgthanner old oak near the Burgthanner town hall
  • ND The 3 castle oaks on the hillside of Thann Castle
  • ND The oak feed game between Dörlbach and Rasch
  • ND Dockelesgraben in a side valley of the Schwarzach
  • ND The 4 Friedenslinden from Dörlbach

In addition, there are two designated geotopes in the municipality . In addition to the Dörlbach cut , the street cut below the town hall in Burgthann lies north of and near the Burgthann town hall . The embankment is exposed over a length of 75 meters. The sandstone rock wall has a height of up to 4 meters. The lower half of the wall is the Rhätolias - associated with transition layers and the hanging wall consists of Arietensandstein .

Burgthann road cut, panoramic view

See also:

nature

To the north of Heinleinshof are the Manta Ponds .

Sports

There are several local sports clubs in the community; in winter, over 30 kilometers of cross-country trails are laid out.

Educational institutions

Kindergartens and crèches

  • Evangelical Kindergarten Burgthann The children's ark
  • Evangelical house of the Mimberg children The chaffinches
  • Evangelical Integrative Kindergarten Oberferrieden Pfiffikus
  • Evangelical house for children Unterferrieden Kleine Trolche
  • Evangelical day care center Ezelsdorf The Ezelmäuse
  • Evangelical Kindergarten Schwarzenbach
  • Forest kindergarten grasshopper near Ezelsdorf

schools

  • Burgthann primary school
  • Ezelsdorf primary school
  • Elementary school Oberferrieden
  • Burgthann Middle School

Other educational institutions

  • Volkshochschule Schwarzachtal
  • House of Music Unterferrieden
  • Burgthann community library
  • Public Evangelical Library Oberferrieden, Nürnberger Straße 45

Fire brigades

There are independent volunteer fire brigades in many districts : Burgthann, Ezelsdorf, Mimberg, Oberferrieden, Unterferrieden, Grub, Schwarzenbach and Pattenhofen.

Since 2003 the fire brigades of Ober- and Unterferrieden have had a common fire station between the two villages. The two fire departments are still organized independently.

The Burgthann volunteer fire brigade moved into its new fire station on Schaffeldweg in 2006 after having been housed in a converted former sports hall with an attached vehicle hall for decades.

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Burgthann  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. In April 1945, Himmler issued the so-called flag order , according to which every male person from a house on which a white flag was hung must be shot immediately. This allowed members of the armed forces and the SS to simply execute civilians without a court martial and in arbitrary vigilante justice. See Elisabeth Kohlhaas: "From a house from which a white flag appears, all male persons are to be shot." Perseverance of terror and violence against civilians . In: Cord Arendes , Edgar Wolfrum , Jörg Zedler (eds.): Terror inward: Crimes at the end of the Second World War (= Dachau Symposia on Contemporary History. Volume 6). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3835300466 , p. 65 ( online in the Google book preview ).

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Municipality of Burgthann in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.
  4. Map of the main natural space units and natural space units in Bavaria. Bavarian State Office for the Environment, accessed on December 25, 2018 .
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  7. ^ Geological map of Bavaria 1: 500,000. Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU), accessed on December 23, 2018 .
  8. Burgthann map. OpenStreetMap - Germany, accessed December 25, 2018 .
  9. Bernhard Häck: THE BRENTENBERG & DILLBERG and its monuments. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLFD), accessed on December 25, 2018 .
  10. Climate. Climate-Data.org, accessed December 25, 2018 .
  11. Stephen G. Fritz: Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich . University of Kentucky Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8131-2325-9 , pp. 130–131 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  12. Procedure No. 466, in: Justice and Nazi Crimes Volume XV, CF Rüter, DW de Mildt ( Memento from August 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ Federal Court of Justice ruling v. October 22, 1957, Az .: 1 StR 116/57 on wolterskluwer-online.de, accessed on June 4, 2019, LG Nürnberg-Fürth on October 1, 1958 .
  14. Entry on Burgthann.de on the local history ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgthann.de
  15. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 542 .
  16. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Burgthann  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  17. Bavarian building trade associations: Bavarian building trade associations 1945–1995. A review. Druck + Verlag Ernst Vögel, Stamsried 1995, p. 83.
  18. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Burgthann (accessed on November 14, 2016)
  19. Geotope: road cut (accessed January 15, 2016)