Collenberg

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Collenberg (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 9 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Miltenberg
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.67 km 2
Residents:	2415 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	94 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	97903, 97896
Primaries :	09376, 09375
License plate :	MIL, OBB
Community key :	09 6 76 117
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 2 97903 Collenberg
Website :	www.collenberg-main.de
First Mayor :	Andreas Freiburg ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Collenberg in the Miltenberg district

Aerial photo 2008

Collenberg is a municipality in the Miltenberg district in Lower Franconia .

geography

Geographical location

Collenberg is located on the Main and is 13 km from Miltenberg and 18 km from Wertheim . In the Main between Collenberg and Freudenberg lies the state border between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg . The topographically highest point of the municipality is 497  m above sea level. NN (location) on the Geiersberg northwest of Reistenhausen, the lowest is in the Main at 124.5  m above sea level. NN (location) . The Franconian Marienweg leads through Collenberg .

Community structure

Three officially named districts belong to the municipality (the type of location in brackets):

• Fechenbach ( parish village )
• Kirschfurt (village)
• Reistenhausen ( Kirchdorf )

So there is no district of Collenberg.

Neighboring communities

Mönchberg market	Eschau market
community Röllbach		community Dorfprozelten
Großheubach market	Burgstadt market	City of Freudenberg

Surname

The municipality of Collenberg takes its name from the Collenburg above the town .

history

Around 1250, the Rüdt von Collenberg family settled about a kilometer east of Fechenbach. The Collenburg , which has been preserved as a ruin, was built by the males .

Collenberg ("Kolenberg") and Fechenbach in the map of the Spessart by Paul Pfinzing from 1594 (north is on the right)

The community was created on April 1, 1971 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria by merging the two communities Fechenbach and Reistenhausen (with Kirschfurt).

politics

Mayor and City Council

Andreas Freiburg (CSU) has been mayor since May 1, 2020; he was elected on March 15, 2020 with 76.09% of the valid votes. His predecessor was Karl Josef Ullrich (CSU) from May 2008 to April 2020.

The municipal council consists of 14 members; in the term of office from May 2020 to April 2026 are represented:

• CSU : 8 seats (54.78%)
• SPD : 3 seats (20.93%)
• Free citizens of Collenberg : 3 seats (24.30%)

The turnout was 63.63%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Red and blue divided by a silver wavy bar; at the top side by side a six-spoke silver wheel and a silver male head with a black spiked collar; below three, two to one, growing silver pistons. "

traffic

The Collenberg and Freudenberg-Kirschfurt stops are on the Miltenberg West – Wertheim railway line . Here trains of the Westfrankenbahn run between Aschaffenburg , Wertheim , Lauda and Crailsheim .

On the other side of the Main is the Baden-Württemberg state road L 2310 , which in Kirschfurt is connected to the main road from Collenberg via the Bavarian state road St 2315 . The main street leads along the Collenberger Main side along the Main to Hasloch .

Public facilities

Educational institutions

• Kindergarten St. Martin with around 85 children
• Elementary school

Sports

In Collenberg there is a course for 3D archery with 33 targets.

Culture and sights

Ruins of the Collenburg

Fechenbacher Schloss after the restoration in 2007

Buildings

• Ruins of the Collenburg , built by the Rüdt von Collenberg family in 1250 (see Buchen (Odenwald) )
• Fechenbach Castle, built in 1750 by the Count von Reigersberg
• Fechenbach's former synagogue of the Jewish community at Kleine Gasse 12, which was devastated during the November pogrom in 1938
• Jewish cemetery in the Reistenhausen district

See also : List of architectural monuments in Collenberg

Culinary specialties

• Heaven and earth (heaven is apple puree , earth is mashed potatoes ) There are also baked blood and liver sausages . Topped with roasted onions .
• Öpfelwoi (self-pressed apple wine ). Because color and taste are often quince with ge keltert . A song was specially composed about cider:
  Reistenhäuser cider song “The cider is looking for his own kind”.

Public bookcase

A public bookcase has been set up in the stairwell of the town hall , which can be used as a free exchange or to take away books.

Others

The Freudenberg transmitter of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) is located in the area of ​​the municipality of Collenberg and thus on Bavarian territory to supply Freudenberg with FM radio programs from the SWR.

There is a campsite right on the banks of the Main .

Web links

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

• Collenberg community
• History portal Bavarian Lower Main
• Reistenhausen Jewish cemetery
• Collenberg: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Collenberg in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

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. ^ Homepage of the community
3. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/232118&attr=OBJ&val= 1682
4. ^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 50 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 523 .
6. ↑ Mayor 2020 election results , accessed on June 13, 2020
7. ^ Election results for the municipal council 2020 , accessed on June 13, 2020
8. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Collenberg  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
9. ^ Website of the archery course in Collenberg
10. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 121