Eckental

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '  N , 11 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Erlangen-Höchstadt
Height :	355 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.75 km 2
Residents:	14,515 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	488 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	90542
Primaries :	09126, 09192
License plate :	ERH, HÖS
Community key :	09 5 72 121
Market structure:	17 districts
Market administration address :	Rathausplatz 1 90542 Eckental
Website :	www.eckental-mfr.de
First Mayor :	Ilse Dölle (UBE)
Location of the Eckental market in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district

The Eckental market is located in Middle Franconia in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district . It was founded in the course of the regional reform . After the incorporation of Oberschöllenbach into Markt Eschenau and Frohnhofs into the municipality of Forth, the municipality merged on July 1, 1972. The new large community emerged from the former communities Benzendorf, Eckenhaid, Eschenau with Oberschöllenbach, Forth with Frohnhof, Herpersdorf and Unterschöllenbach. In 1978 the community of Brand was added.

The Eckenbach, a tributary of the Schwabach, gave the market its name.

geography

Geographical location

The market is located about 20 kilometers northeast of Nuremberg and about 20 kilometers east of Erlangen on federal highway 2 in the Schwabach valley . It was created in 1972 as part of the municipal reform through the merger of previously independent municipalities. The eponymous Eckenbach runs between the districts of Eschenau, Brand in the south and west, Eckenhaid and Forth in the east and north. It flows into the Schwabach between Forth and Brand.

The community is located in a mountainous landscape. The heights at Oedhof in the northwest of the municipality reach over 500  m above sea level. NN , the lowest point is at Unterschöllenbach just under 300  m above sea level. NN .

There are larger forest areas in the municipality, for example the Dormitzer Forest in the west and the partial wood in the east.

Neighboring communities

Kleinsendelbach	Igensdorf
Dormitzer Forst (community-free area)		Schnaittach
Kalchreuth	Heroldsberg	Run on the Pegnitz

Community structure

The Eckental market has 17 districts (population figures as of January 1, 2020)

Benzendorf (42) Brand (2,487) Brandermühle Büg Ebach (190) Eckenhaid (3,410)

Corner mill Eschenau (3,919) Forth (3,383) Frohnhof (260) Herpersdorf (512) Illhof (71)

Marquardsburg Mausgesees (32) Oberschöllenbach (912) Oedhof (81) Unterschöllenbach (132)

and display information about the image

A panorama that shows the following districts of Eckental alongside other communities: Brand, Büg, Ebach, Eckenhaid, Eschenau and Forth. (Please click on the picture to get to his Wikimedia Commons page, where the districts are marked with picture annotations.)

Residents

Total population: 15,431

• of which female: 7,774
• of which male: 7,657

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , almost half of the population still belonged to the Protestant churches; In 2011, 46.6% of the population were predominantly Protestant , 29.0% Roman Catholic and 24.4% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Protestants and Catholics has fallen since then. As of March 31, 2020, 6,073 (39.9%) of the population are Protestant, 3,948 (25.5%) Roman Catholic and 5,445 (35.2%) are non-denominational or belong to another religious community.

Denomination

• Protestant: 6,085
• Catholic: 3,960
• other: 5,386

(As of January 1, 2020)

History of the localities

The Herrengasse in Eschenau with a view of the church

Benzendorf, Oedhof, Illhof

→ Main article : Benzendorf (Eckental)

→ Main article : Oedhof (Eckental)

→ Main article : Illhof

Benzendorf, Oedhof and Illhof were founded between 1050 and 1150, like most of the villages around them. Benzendorf first appeared in a document in 1195. The Weißenhohe monastery named the village Beislendorf . Oedhof emerged from the earlier name Otenhofen .

Around 1500 Benzendorf and Oedhof belonged to the imperial city of Nuremberg. Both places were Protestant. Illhof, on the other hand, was Catholic as part of the Upper Palatinate; it belonged to the ruling district of Rothenberg.

fire

→ Main article : Brand (Eckental)

In the course of the construction of the Imperial Castle of Nuremberg by Emperor Heinrich III , the imperial forest around Nuremberg was cleared and settled between 1050 and 1100. At this time, in addition to the villages of Ober- and Unterschöllenbach, Brand also developed.

Brand was first mentioned in a document as early as 1071 under the name Cembrande in the foundation letter of the St. Jakob monastery in Bamberg. The name of the village changed several times. In earlier times, the settlement was known as Zum Prante or Zum Prantt , until the fire broke through from 1800 . The name is probably due to the burning of the forest on the site of the village.

In 1441 Brand was divided into three manorials. One part was owned by the Reichsamt Heroldsberg, the second belonged as a fief to the Burgraves of Nuremberg and the third was subordinate to the Margraves of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

The first gentlemen on fire built a castle, which changed hands several times and fell into disrepair in the middle of the 16th century. A new castle existed for about 200 years until the third Brander manor was founded in 1752, which still exists today.

Between 1400 and 1800 Brand did not grow and consisted of around 30 rural properties. There were two reasons for this: on the one hand, the imperial city of Nuremberg banned any enlargement because of the yield of the imperial forest, on the other hand they wanted to prevent poor people from settling in the village.

This changed when the area passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century. New properties emerged and large courtyards were divided. Another factor that enabled the village to expand was the development of Nuremberg into an industrial city. Due to improved wages and the emigration of some families to the nearby town, further properties could enrich the village.

In 1886 the opening of the Erlangen-Graefenberg railway also promoted the development of the village of Brand. In 1908 the line to Nuremberg was extended. In the 1960s, rail traffic was discontinued and the tracks dismantled.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Brand was dominated by agriculture, next to which a number of businesses had now settled. In the 1950s, the so-called Hungarian settlement was built in the place. Families lived there whose ancestors had settled in Högyész in Hungary at the beginning of the 18th century and who were expelled from their homeland after the end of the Second World War.

Brand was the last community to join the Eckental market.

From 2009 to 2011 the market redeveloped the Brander elementary school; In 2011 the renovation of the Brand Castle began.

Ebach

→ Main article : Ebach (Eckental)

The place appeared in the 14th century with the names Eybach and Eibach . A word origin can be derived from the Old High German inva for yew. The place appeared in a document in 1356 in a message about a foundation for the St. Bartholomew Church in nearby Eschenau.

Eckenhaid

→ Main article : Eckenhaid

Similar to other localities in the area, the village of Eckenhaid , called in the local East Franconian dialect Egga-haa (emphasis on the last syllable), is said to have originated at the end of the 11th century. As an imperial estate, it belonged to the Heroldsberg Reichsamt until 1278. In this year the place appeared for the first time in a document when King Adolf pledged the Villa Eckenheide to a Rüdigerus Brander. For a good hundred years, the village changed hands as an imperial pledge. In 1387 King Wenzel Eckenhaid handed over to the Lords of Muffel as an imperial fief.

Until 1784 the village was owned by the Muffel family . The last owner of this name was Georg Marquard Muffel and there were no more direct descendants of the line. Therefore, there was an inheritance dispute, which fell out in favor of Karl Theodor Graf von Bettschart. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Bavarian state Eckenhaid moved in and took over the management of the castle.

The 1950s and 1960s meant a change for the place. It became home to emigrants from Transylvania and the Sudetenland. With the new settlements, the place grew increasingly. Before Eckenhaid became part of the newly founded Markt Eckental as part of the regional reform of 1972, it had belonged as a municipality to the district of Lauf an der Pegnitz .

Eckenhaid has a Catholic parish with the Church of the Immaculate Conception and an Evangelical Lutheran parish with the Friedenskirche. There is a village shop with a café in the village. Both are for the most part carried out by volunteers and are maintained by Eckentaler shareholders.

Eckenhaid Castle

During the Second Margrave War in 1553, the original castle, then owned by Muffel, burned down. It is said that although the castle was rebuilt in 1689, it was very dilapidated for many years until it was renovated at the beginning of the 19th century.

In 1837 the Maier family acquired the castle property from the Bavarian state. The family still runs an inn there today.

Marquardsburg

→ Main article : Marquardsburg (Eckental)

In 1716 the landlord Georg Tobias Muffel had the Eckenhaider Marquardsburg built. The name can be traced back to his son, Georg Marquard.

Eschenau

→ Main article : Eschenau (Eckental)

In September 1056, Emperor Heinrich III gave the nearby village of Pettensiedel, which he previously had as a fief, to Minister Otnand. He also managed the Forchheim market and founded a few localities in the area. Because of this and because much of Otnand's property later passed to Messrs. Weigel and Muffel, successors of the Knights of Eschenau, Otnand is regarded as the founder of the village and the formerly often mentioned Veste Eschenau, despite the lack of clear evidence.

The village got its current name through the knights of Eschenau. Before that there were many variations of the name such as Esknowe, Eschenowe or Eschenaw. 

The parish of Eschenau was founded around 1309. The construction of the Bartholomäus Church on the market square is traced back to about the same time, although no exact dates are available.

On April 2, 1334, Emperor Ludwig IV granted Eschenau market rights. This development and the location of the village on a busy road made Eschenau flourish quickly. In addition to the existing agriculture, businesses quickly settled in the place and Eschenau became the commercial center of the area.

In 1376, the previously free possession of Eschenau was assigned to the crown of Bohemia as a fief. This fiefdom existed until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806.

Eschenau went with all rights to the Margraves of Bayreuth in 1751, to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1791 , to France in 1806 as part of the Tilsit Peace and finally to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810.

Before the regional reform, the Eschenau market was an independent municipality in the Erlangen district.

The town center of Eschenau has been included in the Bavarian urban development program since 1999.

Eschenau has a developed infrastructure with supermarkets, bakeries, bank branches and doctors. Both the town hall with library and the Eckental grammar school and the Eckental middle school (formerly Eckental secondary school) are located in Eschenau.

The construction of the Eckental grammar school was completed in 1999. The Eckental Middle School was completely renovated in 2013, a good thirty years after it opened.

Since 2012, the place has had the youth club platform 3 at the train station.

In the old town center is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Bartholomew.

The Eschenau Regional Church Community is also located in Eschenau, an independent community within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, which is organizationally part of the HGV (Hensoltshöher Community Association, Gunzenhausen).

Forth

→ Main article : Forth (Eckental)

It is assumed that Forth and Büg were founded by the von Gottsmanns around 1100 . Around 1507 the brothers Kunz (Konrad) and Albrecht von Gottsmann took the Ansbach margrave Friedrich Forth and Büg Castle as a fief after their father Rupprecht von Gottsmann had died. At that time Büg only consisted of the castle and the associated buildings; it was only known as a village after 1750.

The place was named after the ford, a river crossing over the Schwabach. Büg is a (river) bend.

At that time, Forth was already on important roads and between the former Rothenberg domain and the Hiltpoltstein district of Nuremberg. There was a dispute between the Ganerbe on the Rothenberg and the city of Nuremberg as to how the border should run. Ultimately, Nuremberg had to cede part of the trade route between Nuremberg and Forth to the Ganerbe. This went so far that the border ran through Forth and part of the village was contractually awarded to the Ganerbe in 1540.

According to tradition, Rupprecht, Albrecht or Kunz Gottsmann was the founder of St. Anna's Church around 1500. In 1524, the last two brothers mentioned introduced the Reformation in the towns. Between 1540 and 1575 the Lords of Gottsmann brewed beer in the church, which in 1575 required renovation. In 1630 it was elevated to a parish church and the parish association with the nearby village of Kirchröttenbach was dissolved.

In the course of the Counter-Reformation and after the part of Forth Bavaria, which belonged to the Rothenbergs' heirs, was handed over, the Protestants were asked in the second part of the 17th century to become Catholics again by 1700 or to emigrate. In 1611 Forth and Büg passed to the Lords of Bünau as heirs. Due to its good location and several trading Jewish families, the industry in the towns was very strong.

Büg Castle burned down repeatedly and was rebuilt several times by 1700. As a result, its former appearance and original splendor were lost.

From 1750 Büg expanded and new houses were built in the area of ​​the castle as far as Forth. In 1925 the two districts merged.

The town center of Forth has been included in the Bavarian urban development program since 2007. In 2006 the renovated and expanded Forth elementary school was completed.

In 2016, Forth was the winner of the village competition in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district. The competition is about development on a social, cultural and urban level.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Anna and the Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Cross Stöckach-Forth are located in the village.

Jews in Forth

At the end of the 16th century, Jews settled in Forth as protectors of the Büg manor. Excluded from community life and without the right to farming or handicrafts, they were mostly peddlers. They provided the villagers with clothes or fabrics and with news from the city of Nuremberg.

However, it was only the Lords of Bünau who promoted the targeted settlement of Jews. They had to buy the tolerance of their religion from the Christians by paying special taxes and levies. These included the wood chopping money and the "kid money" for owning goats. With this financial burden it took them some time before they could afford a synagogue, Hebrew teachers, and the kosher diet. In 1938 there were only a few Jewish families left in Forth, and they were all eventually deported.

The Forther synagogue no longer exists, but the Torah, which is kept in the Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth. In 2009 a memorial was erected in Forth to commemorate the local Jews who were deported and expelled.

As part of the Bavarian LEADER program for the promotion of self-determined development in rural regions, an action group is supported that advocates the preservation of grave inscriptions in Jewish cemeteries. This project is carried out together with the towns of Schnaittach, Ottensoos and Simmelsdorf.

Frohnhof

→ Main article : Frohnhof (Eckental)

Frohnhof belonged to the Upper Franconian village and arable farming community "Seven Villages" before it became Middle Franconian in the course of the regional reform in 1972 and belonged to the municipality of Eckental.

A special feature of the village is the old Frohnhofer mill. Mentioned for the first time in 1586, it has been in family ownership since 1685. As a manorial business enterprise of the knights of Büg Castle, it shared the Schwabach as a driving water with 26 other mills from Hetzles to Erlangen in the 19th century. Agricultural property has always been part of the mill, which secured a livelihood in months with little water. In contrast to the upstream mills, technical innovations were built into the Frohnhofer mill very late. In 1954 the new building was equipped with turbines. The mill ran until 1979. After that, it was transformed into a family business into a natural food store and organic farm.

Herpersdorf

→ Main article : Herpersdorf (Eckental)

The exact founding time of the village is unknown. It was first mentioned in a document in 1021 with the name "Heribrahtesdorf" in a deed of donation from Emperor Heinrich II. This donation to the diocese of Bamberg included the royal court of Herzogenaurach and, along with a few other villages, Herpersdorf.

Emperor Heinrich III. Already 30 years later Herpersdorf allocated to the Reichsgut Nürnberg, which made it subordinate to the nearby Reichsamt Heroldsberg. Between 1295 and 1391 Herpersdorf and Heroldsberg changed hands several times, until around 1540 Herpersdorf remained in the possession of the Nuremberg family Geuder. Subsequently, Herpersdorf and the adjacent forest area passed to the Ganerbe von Rothenberg.

In 1662 the owners at that time sold Herpersdorf to Bavaria.

The Thirty Years War brought poverty and misery to the village. Mausgesees and Ebach, which would later belong to Herpersdorf, were not spared either. At that time the places were mostly deserted.

In 1809 Herpersdorf was combined with the surrounding towns of Bullach, Eckenhaid, Kirchröttenbach, Illhof, Ebach and Mausgesees to form a tax municipality. Nine years later the political rural communities were formed in Bavaria. The tax community was dissolved again. Bullach, Kirchröttenbach and Eckenhaid became independent communities. The previously independent communities Ebach and Mausgesees were attached to Herpersdorf because of their small size.

In 1939, the places of the former tax municipality together with Laipersdorf applied to the government to be merged into one municipality. The outbreak of the Second World War prevented this project.

In the course of the territorial reform of 1972, the previously independent Herpersdorf became part of the Eckental community.

Herpersdorf is still rural today, mainly organic hops and organic apples are grown.

For historical reasons, the Catholic faithful belong to the parish of Kirchröttenbach (Markt Schnaittach), while the Protestants belong to the St. Anna Church in Forth. Children from the districts of Oedhof, Illhof, Benzendorf and Herpersdorf attend the Kirchröttenbach primary school because of the old church districts.

Mausgesees

→ Main article : Mausgesees

Mausgesees was founded between 1050 and 1100. The name of the village is derived from the name "Muso" and the word "Seß", which means something like seat . The first written mention of the place was in 1172, when the transfer of ownership of the place was requested. When it was built, there was only one manor house in the village. By the middle of the 15th century the number of properties had grown to around 5. In 1534 Wenzelaus Gottsmann von Büg-Forth was named as the owner. In 1588, Mausgesees changed hands again.

The place fell victim to the Thirty Years' War, and reconstruction only began in 1650.

Today, like Herpersdorf and Ebach, Mausgesees is part of the parish of Kirchröttenbach.

Ober- and Unterschöllenbach

Like most other Eckentaler districts, Ober- and Unterschöllenbach were founded and settled towards the end of the 11th century. Located in the Nuremberg Reichswald, the places belonged to Nuremberg. They were obliged to pay interest and taxes in kind to the city and were subordinate to the Heroldsberg Imperial Office until 1279, when the localities came into the possession of the Imperial Barons of Schlüsselberg. The two places have been separate communities since they were founded. It stayed that way until 1810, when they were assigned to the Eschenau community for eight years. Then they became independent again until Oberschöllenbach voluntarily became part of the municipality of Eschenau in 1970, shortly before the regional reform.

Oberschöllenbach

→ Main article : Oberschöllenbach

In 1439 the village consisted of 12 properties. This number did not change for several centuries because the arable land for self-sufficiency was limited. For a long time Oberschöllenbach was purely agricultural, until 1800 there was no business in the village. For several centuries the village was divided into two parts. In 1538 the whole place came into the possession of the Lords of Oelhafen.

Unterschöllenbach

→ Main article : Unterschöllenbach

Just like the neighboring town, Unterschöllenbach was a divided village. The two landlords drew up a municipal code in 1559. This promised a liquor license to every property.

politics

Local election 2020

Turnout: 65.9%

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30th

20th

10

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25.1%

7.5%

18.9%

15.0%

26.2%

7.3%

CSU

SPD

Green

FW

UBE

JU

Rathausplatz with Eckentaler Rathaus in the Eschenau district

The town hall is located in Eschenau, the largest part of the municipality.

Market council

The market council of Eckental has 24 members.

	CSU	SPD	GREEN	Free voters	UBE *	JU	total
2014	6th	3	3	4th	8th	0	24 seats
2020	6th	2	4th	4th	6th	2	24 seats

^* Independent citizens of Eckental

The separately elected First Mayor is also a member of the municipal council.

mayor

Georg Hänfling (CSU) was mayor from 1972 to 1996, followed by Hans Holndonner (CSU), who was replaced by Wilfried Glässer ( FW ) in 2002 .

Ilse Dölle (UBE) has been First Mayor since 2014. In 2020 she was re-elected with 51.1 percent.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, a red post covered with a vertical silver fish, covered by a lowered blue wavy bar, in front a soaring, red crowned and armored black lion, behind a black ibex torso."

The lion and the fish come from the coat of arms of the Lords of Muffel, who had their seat in Eschenau and Eckenhaid for several centuries and who significantly influenced / shaped the districts. The ibex refers to the coat of arms of the Lords of Gotzmann, the former owners of Büg Castle. The red stake belongs to the lords of Bünau, who also owned the Burg Castle for a while. The wave bar refers to the Schwabach, but also to the Eckenbach, which for a long time represented the dominant border of the area.

The official approval of the coat of arms by the Middle Franconia government took place on April 25, 1975.

Town twinning

Since 1987 there has been a partnership with the French municipality of Ambazac in the Limousin.

In 1990 Markt Eckental entered into a second partnership with Hőgyész in Hungary. Some of Eckental's citizens come from the Hungarian community and fled during World War II.

Both partnerships are cultivated with regular mutual visits.

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Eschenau

The Landhotel Weißer Löwe in Eschenau

• St. Bartholomew Church Eschenau

Built around 1300 and donated by the Eschenau landlord Stephan Weigel; Cremated in the First Margrave War in 1448/49 and rebuilt in 1472.

• Eschenau Castle

The manor house Eschenau, also known as Veste Eschenau or Castle Eschenau, dates back to before 1350. It is the oldest manor house in the municipality and served as a domicile for Messrs. Weigel until 1350 and Muffels until 1750. The manor was destroyed in the First Margrave War in 1449 and only rebuilt sixty years later from 1512 to 1518. Only a few remains of the wall remain, as the building was destroyed again by fire during the Second Margrave War in 1553. From 1603 to 1611 it was rebuilt for the third time. It had three storeys and, according to tradition, was equipped with many decorations and stucco ornaments. In 1843 the building burned down again as a result of a lightning strike. When it was rebuilt, the top floor, the two towers and the ornaments were omitted.

• 15th Century Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church in Forth
• 18th Century Citizen Castle in Forth
• Eckenhaider Castle from the 17th century

See also : List of architectural monuments in Eckental

fire Department

Many of the 13 towns in the community have their own volunteer fire brigade. Associations exist with the voluntary fire brigade Mausgesees-Ebach as well as Brand-Unterschöllenbach and Benzendorf, Illhof and Oedhof.

leisure

Leisure activities include the cinema in the district of Eschenau and a fitness trail in the forest between Eckenhaid and Herpersdorf, which was developed in collaboration with students from the grammar school. The Eckental barbecue area is located between Eschenau and Forth. It consists of two barbecue areas and a playground and can be rented by prior arrangement.

The community library is located in the district of Eschenau near the town hall.

Youth facilities

The Eckentaler Jugendbüro is committed to creating an attractive living space for children, young people and families in the market and to offer them tailored offers.

The market offers two youth clubs, platform 3 in Eschenau and the Postclub in Forth. A family café is also being organized, as well as a band rehearsal room on platform 3 and, since 2017, a skate park with a hockey field.

Senior facilities

• Martha-Maria Senior Center in Forth, since 2015: Care in 74 single and 9 two-bed rooms
• Diakonieverein Eckental in Forth: afternoon care with pick-up and delivery service

Events

The market offers a variety of events in the fields of culture, education, religion, youth and many more throughout the year. For example, the Eckental Christmas market on the first weekend of Advent, which annually attracts many visitors to the town hall square in Eschenau, the church fairs in the individual districts and the summer festival in the park in Eschenau are recurring.

An event calendar with all the dates for the year is available on the municipality's website.

Clubs and sports

With over 100 active associations, volunteering in Eckental is an attractive cornerstone of community life.

The youth band Markt Eckental e. V. was founded in 1996 in order to promote musical education in addition to several trombone choirs in the region. Notes and instruments are financed by donations and can be borrowed by the students.

Active groups of the interdenominational pathfinder association Weltenbummler e. V. in the community, who, together with their support association, maintain a non-commercial scout tent in the district of Eschenau and offer regular camps and trips for children and young people.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In terms of transport, the market is very well integrated into the Nuremberg metropolitan region. Bus routes connect Eckental with Erlangen and Lauf an der Pegnitz. The regional train Gräfenbergbahn connects Eckental with Graefenberg in the north and Nuremberg in a south-westerly direction with hourly trains.

In December 2018, an hourly bus connection (bus route 334) to Lauf an der Pegnitz was introduced.

The Eckental market is located directly on the B 2 federal road and can be reached via the A 3 and A 9 motorways.

In 2008, the Eschenau bypass was completed.

A bypass of the B 2 for the Forth part of the municipality is being planned.

Public charging stations with type 2 connections for electric cars are located in Eschenau and Forth and are operated by N-ERGIE .

education

Eckental high school

• Eckental grammar school (scientific, technological and linguistic grammar school) in the Eschenau district, since 1995
• Eckental middle school in the Eschenau district, formerly Eckental secondary school, since 1979
• Primary schools in the districts of Brand, Eckenhaid, Eschenau and Forth
• Primary school Kirchröttenbach, actually belongs to the market town of Schnaittach, but is a school district for some parts of the municipality of Eckental
• Volkshochschule Eckental, Heroldsberg and Kalchreuth

Day care centers

• Eschenau: Protestant kindergarten Pusteblume, Protestant kindergarten Unterm Regenbogen, day nursery Villa Kunterbunt, day-care center and lunchtime care in the primary school
• Eckenhaid: Catholic kindergarten St. Marien, Protestant kindergarten, integrative Montessori kindergarten Eckental, Waldkindergarten Eckenhaid, after-school care and lunchtime care in the elementary school
• Forth: Catholic kindergarten Haus der Kinder, Protestant kindergarten Sonnenschein, day nursery Villa Kunterbunt, lunchtime care in the elementary school
• Brand: Catholic kindergarten St. Kunigund, Protestant kindergarten Noah's Ark, lunchtime care in the primary school

media

Weekly magazines

Eckental appears weekly weekly leaf . It is distributed free of charge to all households on Wednesdays and provides editorial reports on community life, clubs, associations, churches and municipal institutions. The edition is 16,400 copies. Distribution area is Eckental, Heroldsberg, Kalchreuth, Igensdorf. The publishing house (NOVUM Verlag) is located in the Eckental district of Brand.

Daily newspapers

Two daily newspapers report editorially on Eckental: the Pegnitz-Zeitung (place of publication: Lauf ad Peg.) And the Erlanger Nachrichten . Both daily newspapers appear under the cover of Verlag Nürnberger Presse Druckhaus Nürnberg

Internet

In 2017, large parts of the municipality were opened up with VDSL broadband connections as part of the funding from the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, for Regional Development and Home in cooperation with Deutsche Telekom .

Parts of Eckental are supplied with internet by Kabel Deutschland / Vodafone via the cable network, cable internet is sometimes available with up to 1000 Mbit / s.

This is done autonomously using the cables for cable television that were laid decades ago .

literature

• Dorothea Fastnacht: Erlangen: former city and district (=  historical book of place names of Bavaria, Middle Franconia . Volume 7 ). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7696-6869-8 , p. 66-67 .
• Franz Krug (ed.): The district of Erlangen-Höchstadt . Publishing house for authorities a. Wirtschaft, Hof (Saale) 1979, ISBN 3-921603-00-5 , p. 93-102 .
• 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. 60 .
• Artur Momberger: Eckenhaid - Chronicle of a village. Self-published.
• Martina Switalski: Shalom Forth - Jewish village life in Franconia , Waxmann Verlag

Web links

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

• Local government
• Eckental in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 27, 2019.
• Eckental: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ↑ Mayoress. Marktverwaltung Eckental, accessed on June 11, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Eckental Market. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Markt Eckental Religion , 2011 census
5. ↑ Markt Eckental , accessed on April 13, 2020
6. ^ Wilhelm Held: Ortschronik von Benzendorf, Oedhof and Illhof . 1967.
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10. ↑ http://wahl.eckental-mfr.de/wahl2020/gr/index.html
11. ↑ Results. Retrieved April 7, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Mayoral election. Retrieved April 7, 2020 . 
13. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Eckental  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
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15. ↑ Eckental Market. Retrieved January 7, 2018 .