Forchheim

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Coat of arms of the city of Forchheim
Forchheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '  N , 11 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Franconia
County : Forchheim
Height : 266 m above sea level NHN
Area : 44.43 km 2
Residents: 32,260 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 726 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 91301
Area code : 09191
License plate : FO, EBS , PEG
Community key : 09 4 74 126
LOCODE : DE FOH
City structure: 7 districts

City administration address : 		St.-Martin-Strasse 8
91301 Forchheim
Website : www.forchheim.de
Lord Mayor : Uwe Kirschstein ( SPD )
Location of the city of Forchheim in the Forchheim district
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Forchheim aerial view (2019)

Forchheim is a Franconian large district town in the south of the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Franconia and the seat of the Forchheim District Office with over 30,000 inhabitants. The independent German history began in Forchheim in 911 with the election of Konrad I as the first East Franconian king after the final division of the Franconian Empire . Forchheim is known as the “gateway to Franconian Switzerland ”. The city is located on the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway line , on the Main-Danube Canal and on the Frankenschnellweg between Bamberg (23 km north) and Nuremberg (approx. 30 km south). Forchheim has been part of the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg since April 2005 .

In Forchheim there was a Franconian royal court that is said to go back to Karl Martell (approx. 690–741). The city has a well- preserved historical core , with the " Kaiserpfalz ", the Upper Franconian Archaeological Museum and the Rathausplatz with its half-timbered ensemble.

Origin of the name Forchheim

At the beginning of the 13th century, it was assumed that the city name Vorchheim was derived from the Old High German word vorhe (for trout ). This led to the speaking coat of arms with the two trout. Although the trout abundance in the rivers around Forchheim was certainly very large at the time the name was given, it is now considered certain that the city name is derived from the Old High German vorha (for pine ), which means Föhrenheim. The name is likely to have originated in the middle of the 7th century. At that time, the first Franconian immigrants founded numerous planned settlements with the basic word -heim in this region , especially on rivers.

geography

location

Forchheim is located on the Regnitz , the Main-Danube Canal and the Wiesent . The Regnitz leaves Forchheim in a north-westerly direction and flows into the Main at Bischberg . Forchheim is framed in the west by the Steigerwald and in the east by Franconian Switzerland and is located in a valley landscape.

City structure

The city of Forchheim has 7 districts , which are listed below with their sub-municipality codes and the approximate number of inhabitants:

Neighboring communities

The following communities border the city of Forchheim:

climate

Climate table Forchheim
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Min. Temperature (° C) −4 −3 0 3 7th 11 12 12 9 5 1 −2 O 4.3
Precipitation ( mm ) 29.5 27.5 35.0 30.0 33.7 50.8 56.7 40.0 37.5 41.3 37.4 35.5 Σ 454.9
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history

From the Franconian royal court to the 19th century

Old map with Bamberg and Forchaim (right) from the 16th century. The map is strongly distorted to the east (top)

In the 8th and 9th centuries, a Franconian royal court and a palace were established in Forchheim . This was possibly on the site of today's town hall, as the excavation results presented to the public in 2019 suggest. In the year 805 the city was first mentioned in the Diedenhofen chapter of Charlemagne under the name "Foracheim". At that time Forchheim was part of the East Franconian network of control stations for trade with the Slavs.

In the following centuries, numerous diets and princely days took place in Forchheim . The first stay of an East Franconian king is documented for 849. The height of its importance was in the Palatinate in the year 900, when the six-year-old Ludwig the Child was elected and crowned king there on February 4th . After the death of the last Carolingian, Konrad I was elected King of East Franconia on November 10th, 911 in Forchheim .

On November 1, 1007, King Heinrich II gave the Forchheim royal estate to the diocese of Bamberg . In 1039, however, King Heinrich III. the city again under imperial administration, before it was connected again on July 13, 1063 to the secularization of 1802/03 with the diocese of Bamberg, which belonged to the Franconian Empire from 1500 . In the time of Henry IV , on March 15, 1077, Duke Rudolf von Rheinfelden in Forchheim was elected as the opposing king (cf. Gang to Canossa ), which probably gave the city an ominous reputation on a political level.

Forchheim was elevated to a town between 1200 and 1220 and received its current coat of arms .

Because of its fortress , Forchheim survived the Thirty Years' War without being captured once. The Bamberg prince-bishop fled from the Swedes several times together with the cathedral treasure to the safe Forchheim, which was besieged by the Swedes several times from 1632 to 1634.

On September 6, 1802, the city was occupied by Bavarian troops , attached to the Electorate of Bavaria and the seat of a regional court , which later became the Forchheim district . In 1889 Forchheim became an independent city .

Lock 93 in Forchheim (1845)

Forchheim became a port city in the early 1840s when the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal , built in 1835–1846, reached the city.

20th and 21st centuries

Postcard, city views around 1900
Forchheim Castle (Imperial Palace, 2012)

During the Nazi era , the synagogue of the Jewish community in Wiesentstrasse was desecrated and destroyed by SA men in the November pogrom in 1938 , as a memorial stone opposite the former location of the church commemorates.

In 1972 the city lost its district freedom with the Bavarian regional reform and was incorporated into the Forchheim district.

In 2005, Forchheim celebrated the 1200th anniversary of the first documentary mention. In addition, the Deutsche Post issued a special postage stamp for 45  cents . In 2004 the city was the venue for the Bavarian State Exhibition Edel und Frei. Franconia in the Middle Ages , which had around 200,000 visitors.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1926, Serlbach was transferred from the Reuth community to Forchheim. On January 1, 1972, Reuth voluntarily joined the city of Forchheim. On January 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Kersbach was incorporated. On May 1, 1978 Buckenhofen and Burk were added.

Population development

At the beginning of the 19th century, Forchheim was a pre-industrial small town with around 3,000 inhabitants. As a result of industrialization , many factories settled in the city and the number of inhabitants rose, mainly due to the influx of factory workers , to almost 10,000 by 1910.

The city experienced a second stronger increase in population after the Second World War as a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 . In 1946, 5701 refugees and displaced persons had to be accommodated in Forchheim; by December 31, 1950, the proportion of displaced persons and refugees in the city was 31.35 percent. The population also continued to grow significantly. Since the 1990s, the population has been around 30,000.

politics

City Councilor and Lord Mayor

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Allocation of seats in the city council
         
A total of 40 seats

The voters decide on the allocation of the 40 seats in the city council every six years.

Together with the local elections on March 16, 2014, the mayoral election (official results in brackets) was held. The incumbent Franz Stumpf (49.59%) met three challengers. Uwe Kirschstein (20.46%) ran for the SPD for the first time, while Manfred Hümmer (20.09%) ran for the Free Voters for the second time after 2008. The FDP was represented by Sebastian Körber (9.87%). For the first time since 1990, there was a runoff election, which on March 31, 2014, confirmed Franz Stumpf with 55.47% in his position before his challenger Uwe Kirschstein (44.53%). Since 1990 Franz Stumpf (CSU / Voters' Initiative Independent OB) has been Lord Mayor of Forchheim.

On December 17, 2015, the city council approved Mayor Franz Stumpf's motion to resign from office at the end of March 31, 2016 for health reasons. The Forchheim District Office set the date for the new election for March 6, 2016. In the first ballot, Ulrich Schürr (CSU / JB) received 34.27%, Uwe Kirschstein (SPD) 28.03%, Manfred Hümmer (Free Voters) on his third attempt 22.91% and the head of the Forchheim public order, Klaus Backer ( FOF), 14.79%. In the runoff election on March 20, 2016, Uwe Kirschstein won with 52.19% of the votes against Ulrich Schürr (47.81%). Kirschstein took office on April 1, 2016.

coat of arms

In the oldest surviving variant from 1280, the Forchheim city coat of arms already shows two trout on a triangular shield, surrounded by branches with linden leaves and an inscription. Later there were various deviations: Both fish looked in different directions, wavy lines or the letter V were added. The color of the shield - today red - was also divided into the city colors red-yellow or completely blue.

Town twinning

FranceFrance Le Perreux-sur-Marne , France (1974)

AustriaAustria Roppen , Austria (1987)

ItalyItaly Rovereto , Italy (1989)

GermanyGermany Pößneck , Germany (1990)

RomaniaRomania Gherla , Romania (2000)

Czech RepublicCzech Republic Broumov , Czech Republic (2002), Forchheim has been the sponsor town of the town and district of Broumov since 1955 (because of the expellees )

Economy and Infrastructure

overview

Main street (pedestrian zone)

The city has been part of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region since April 2005 and of the Bamberg-Forchheim economic region since October 2002 . The largest employer based in Forchheim is Siemens Healthcare GmbH with more than 3000 employees.

Companies

The 15 largest companies represented in the city by number of employees are (as of August 2018):

rank
 Surname
 Employee
in Forchheim
1. Siemens Healthcare GmbH 3500
2. Forchheim-Franconian Switzerland Clinic 955
3. Infiana 755
4th Simon Hegele 590
5. Piasts 440
6th Gebr. Waasner 400
7th Sparkasse Forchheim 385
8th. Lebenshilfe Forchheim 305
9. globe 300
10. Weber & Ott 300
11. Corrugated cardboard Forchheim 230
12. Volksbank Forchheim 160
13. Forwarding agency Pohl 150
14th Stadtwerke Forchheim 115
15th A. Swiss 100

Brewing

The Hebendanz brewery tavern

Like the neighboring town of Bamberg, Forchheim has a long tradition in brewing. There are four local breweries today:

During the Bamberg Beer War of 1907, the Bamberg restaurants got their beer from Forchheim. As a result, the Bamberg breweries were forced to take back the increase in the beer price.

retail trade

The city center is of regional importance and is where the majority of Forchheim's retailers are located.

The pedestrian zone mainly stretches across the main street with some intersecting rib streets. Other shopping streets in the city center are Hornschuchallee, Bamberger Straße and Wiesentstraße. To the south is the Globus shopping center with a hardware store, electronics store, supermarket and retailers. There are also commercial areas near the A 73 (commercial areas Lände and north of the Lände) and near Sigritzau (commercial and industrial area Sandäcker).

traffic

Traffic map from 1912 with Forchheim below

Private transport

The city is affected in the west by the federal motorway 73 ( Feucht  - Nuremberg  - Fürth  - Erlangen  - Forchheim - Bamberg  - Coburg  - Suhl ) and is connected to it with the two junctions Forchheim-Nord and -süd. The federal highway 470 ( Bad Windsheim  - Forchheim - Weiden in der Oberpfalz ) and the former federal highway 4 lead through the city from west to east in a north-south direction; this was downgraded to State Road 2244 in 2011 because of a parallel motorway .

railroad

Kersbach (station building was demolished in June 2016)

In Forchheim, Deutsche Bahn AG maintains the following train stations and stops:

The S1 connects Forchheim u. a. with the larger neighboring cities of Bamberg, Erlangen, Fürth and Nuremberg.

Forchheim station is on the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway line and is the starting point for the Forchheim – Ebermannstadt railway line . It was also the starting point for the Forchheim – Höchstadt railway until its final shutdown on April 1, 2005. It is served by regional express trains operated by Deutsche Bahn (DB), which are part of the tariff association of the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association (VGN) and there under the designation R2 (Nuremberg - Forchheim - Bamberg - Lichtenfels) and R22 (Forchheim - Ebermannstadt). The station will be completely redesigned together with the four-track expansion of the railway line, which costs around 300 million euros. The two previous tunnels will be replaced by a new underground connection. The entire station is designed to be handicapped accessible and the elevator that has long been in demand has been built.

The Forchheim and Kersbach stations have been integrated into the Nuremberg S-Bahn network since December 2010 .

After public discussions and a signature campaign by a citizens' initiative in the winter of 2013, which was also supported by students from neighboring schools, another stop is to be created with Forchheim-Nord . Due to the low number of passengers assumed by Deutsche Bahn and expected conflicts with the bottleneck on Jean-Paul-Strasse, where the stop was planned, this project was temporarily threatened with the end. After massive criticism from Forchheim's politicians about the complete cancellation of the plans, it was examined whether the S-Bahn stop Forchheim-Nord could also be realized at a less conflict-prone location on the route. Now it is to be set up in the area of ​​the Dietrich Bonhoeffer underpass. Construction work is scheduled to begin in 2021, with completion scheduled for 2023. Citizens' initiatives, as well as rectors and representatives of the schools, however, are calling for an additional underpass for better connections.

Transportation

The city bus network (Stadtbus Forchheim) is operated every half hour by DB Regiobus GmbH, a subsidiary of Omnibusverkehr Franken GmbH (OVF), on behalf of the district. It is integrated into the VGN tariff network and consists of four inner-city lines that connect the entire city with around 70 stops. The meeting point for all lines is the Central Bus Station (ZOB) on the station forecourt, where you can change to seven regional bus lines and to the DB rail transport, primarily the S-Bahn connections. The district of Kersbach can be reached hourly via the regional bus line 224 (Forchheim - Neunkirchen am Brand), in conjunction with the S-Bahn line S1 (Nuremberg - Forchheim - Bamberg) twice an hour to the city bus Forchheim during its operating times (approx. 5 a.m. - 8 p.m.) clocked. The district of Burk can be reached via the regional line 206 (Forchheim - Hausen - Heroldsbach - Zeckern; the route largely corresponds to the former Aischgrundbahn ) in rush hours every 30 minutes, during off-peak times (until midnight) and on weekends every hour City traffic or the central bus station. Via the station there is a complete rail connection with line 206 to and from Erlangen and Nuremberg in almost all times of the S-Bahn and on every day of the week. In addition, Forchheim is connected to Ebermannstadt and the local recreation area of Franconian Switzerland every hour (also on weekends) via the R22 branch line . In the summer season from May to the end of October there are connections to the VGN leisure lines in all directions within Franconian Switzerland from the Ebermannstadt train station.

Hiking trails

The Franconian Marienweg runs through Forchheim .

media

The daily newspapers in Forchheim are Nordbayerische Nachrichten and Fränkischer Tag, printed and online, as well as the online daily Wiesentbote.de. The MarktSpiegel Verlag publishes the advertising paper Marktspiegel every week , as does the weekly newspaper Hallo Franken .

The local broadcaster Radio Bamberg has a studio in Forchheim.

education and Science

schools

The Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim and the Ehrenbürg-Gymnasium are located in the city center. The Ritter-von-Traitteur-Mittelschule and the Montessori elementary school Forchheim are also located in the city center . The Forchheim Vocational School Center, the Georg Hartmann Realschule Forchheim, the Pestalozzi School and the Adalbert Stifter Middle School are located in the north of Forchheim. The Forchheim vocational school center includes a vocational school, the state vocational school for housekeeping and child care and the technical college. In 2011, there were 5567 pupils registered at ten elementary and primary schools and three secondary schools and 1964 pupils at seven vocational schools in Forchheim.

Other educational institutions

The adult education center forchheim is located in the city center. The city library as a public library has a wide range of specialist books and literature. In 2013 she moved from Schulstrasse to new premises on the site of the former hospital in Spitalstrasse. The town's singing and music school has existed since 1951.

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • Half-timbered ensemble on Rathausplatz

  • Great council chamber

  • Easter fountain on the town hall square

  • St. Martin Church

  • Nuremberg Gate

  • Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim

  • St. Ottilien Church Kersbach

  • Saltorturm

theatre

The Junge Theater Forchheim has been located in Kasernstrasse since 1995. Originally it was an amateur drama group, which first staged theater days in Forchheim in 1985. The association now has its own theater with a varied cultural program for young and old.

Museums

In the Burg Forchheim is the Palatinate Museum, the Archeology Museum Oberfranken includes the City Museum and the Costume Museum three museums also provide rooms for temporary exhibitions are available. Right next to it is the Red Wall Adventure Museum.

Other museums in the city of Forchheim are the Fire Brigade Museum and the Braunauer Heimatmuseum.

music

Event rooms for music are the Junge Theater Forchheim, the Kuckucksklause in Reuth and the music pub Backstage One (formerly Saitensprung '). In July, the event Everywhere Music takes place on Forchheim's streets, where several artists from all genres fill the city center with sound.

movie theater

The Forchheim cinema center in the city center consists of three cinema halls with a total of 817 seats and a cinema café. In summer, the Forchheim Open Air Cinema Summer takes place in the courtyard of Forchheim Castle, where selected films are shown. In 1952 the Luitpold-Lichtspiele (Lu-Li) cinema was opened on Wallstrasse. It offered 570 seats and was used until 1960, meanwhile a retail shop is located in the rooms.

Triton, Culture Prize of the City of Forchheim

Since 2009 the Triton, Culture Prize of the City of Forchheim has been awarded by the Society for the Promotion of Culture in conjunction with the City and the Sparkasse Forchheim . The culture award is endowed with 3000 euros. The previous winners came from the fields of music, literature, painting and cabaret.

chocolate

The Piasten chocolate factory has been producing coated tablets, sweets and pralines as well as chocolate bars and seasonal products such as Christmas pralines in Forchheim since 1948.

Tourism, leisure and recreation

tourism

Forchheim was visited by 19,610 overnight guests in 2011 (an increase of 12.0 percent compared to 2010). Of these, 1,604 came from abroad (a decrease of 19 percent compared to 2010). The visitors stayed an average of 1.7 days, which resulted in 32,959 overnight stays.

Leisure and recreation in the urban area

Forchheim city park with St. Valentini plant
Beer cellar in Forchheim's Kellerwald

Water bodies, green spaces and extensive forests are part of the urban area. Main-Danube Canal , Regnitz and Wiesent are accessible by hiking trails on the land side. On the Main-Danube Canal, excursion boats operate between the Forchheimer Sportinsel and Bamberg between March and October , and a lock tour to Pautzfeld is also offered. In the south of Forchheim there is the year-round swimming pool Königsbad; the facility was built for 18 million euros and replaced the old indoor and outdoor pools in May 2010. The Forchheimer Kellerwald, an extensive wooded area with rock cellars that serve as beer storage, is located in the eastern part of the city, where the Annafest takes place in July / August . The city park Forchheim in the city center was created in the former moat of the fortress with remains of the former fortress wall, on which episcopal coats of arms are attached. In the west of the city is the 21 hectare sports island with extensive leisure facilities, playgrounds and football fields, an athletics facility, a mini golf course, tennis courts and a skate park with a mini ramp.

Regular events

Annual overview

  • March / April: tattered bars, music in various pubs and restaurants
  • April / May: Theater days, nostalgic cellar prelude
  • May: Youth Day
  • End of May / beginning of June: craft market in the Kaiserpfalz
  • Last weekend in June: Old Town Festival
  • June / July: Pharmacy Street Festival
  • July: Africa Culture Days Forchheim "Everywhere Music", Quattroball tournament with 64 teams
  • July / August: Annafest
  • Beginning of September: Bridge Festival, Car-Free Sunday and Franconian Switzerland Marathon
  • December: Redesigned town hall as the "most beautiful Advent calendar in the world".

Annafest Forchheim

The Forchheim Annafest takes place every year around the name day of Saint Anne on July 26th in the Kellerwald. During the eleven days of the festival there were around 500,000 visitors.

Forchheim old town festival

The old town festival takes place every year on the last weekend in June in downtown Forchheim and lasts from Friday to Sunday. Around 25,000 visitors are counted every year. Various bands play on several stages in the city center and beer from the four Forchheim breweries is served. The festival area extends from the Kaiserpfalz over the Rathausplatz and the pedestrian zone to the Paradeplatz. Recently, the attractiveness of the old town festival has also been discussed in public. The main point of criticism is that the old town festival hardly differs from other beer festivals and church fairs in the region in the same period. The subject of culture or not culture also plays a major role. The musician initiative Megafon e. V. therefore initiated an alternative stage for one day in the inner courtyard of the Kaiserpfalz with young artists and bands from the region in 2012 as part of its 20th anniversary. The concept turned out to be a great success and will be continued. Under the title Altstadtfetzt , the cultural cooperation from Megafon e. V. and the Junge Theater Forchheim e. V. the alternative stage in the Kaiserpfalz now on all three days.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the city of Forchheim

please refer

Personalities associated with Forchheim

  • Karl Poiger (1895–1955), District Court Director of Forchheim, saved the city from destruction and a bloodbath at the end of the war. Against the order "to defend the city to the last cartridge", Karl Poiger convinced the advancing American troops in negotiations on April 14, 1945 "that in truth there is no significant defense of Forchheim". So Forchheim could be taken without further acts of war.

Sports

SpVgg Jahn Forchheim , founded in 1904, is the most famous sports club in town. His first men's soccer team played in the Bayernliga Nord from 2014 to 2019 , but currently in the state league. His home stadium is the Jahn Stadium. The club VfB Forchheim was very successful in the sport of handball . Its first men's team played in the 2001/02 season and from 2003 to 2007 in the regional handball league . VfB took part in the DHB Cup in the 2003/04 and 2005/06 seasons and reached the second main round. In 2002 and 2011, the Forchheim chess club was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga .

Legends, sagas and other things

  • For many centuries the legend was cultivated that the city was the birthplace of Pontius Pilatus , as evidenced by the Latin saying that is said to have stood on a stone of the city wall: "Forchhemii natus est Pontius individuelle Pilatus, / Teutonicae gentis, crucifixor omnipotentis" ( Pontius Pilatus was born in Forchheim, who - of German origin - crucified the Almighty) and for centuries even an alleged pair of Pilate's trousers was shown as evidence. There is still a Pilatushof today. In the 19th century, the small town of Hausen at the gates of Forchheim was named as the place of birth, where two houses in the town center are considered birth houses and a parcel bears the name Pilodes. Pilodes could also be derived from the old Slavic poti byl otec (street of the fathers), since Forchheim was a border town of the Franconian Empire on a trade route. According to this German birth legend, Pilatus was the illegitimate son of King Tire of Mainz, whom he fathered during a hunting trip to the Bamberg area with Pila , the daughter of a miller named Atus , which is why his mother then called him Pilatus. This story was first written down in a medieval manuscript from the 12th century, which is kept in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.
  • The legend of the Pöpel in the town hall :
    long years ago, a mayor lived here who embezzled money from the city treasury, forged documents and was guilty of numerous extortions. After his suicide, he haunted the town hall for years. At midnight there should often be a light in the mayor's former study and a man was leafing violently through books and lists. But as soon as the town hall clock strikes the first hour of the new day, the ghost that the residents call "Town Hall Pöpel" disappears. Sometimes, however, he is supposed to look out of the upper window of the town house with fiery eyes.
  • Since the Middle Ages, both the poor and the sick have been admitted and cared for in the Katharinenspital, as have wealthier citizens. The latter seems to have come to the fore from the 15th century. The hospital has been rebuilt and expanded again and again over the centuries. From 2016, renovation work was carried out on the hospital buildings, in the course of which an excavation was carried out during construction. 18 burials were recorded. There were no newborns or toddlers among the skeletons. The proportion of non-adults was very low. There were only one older child and one teenager. The majority of those buried were over 40 years old. There were nine men and four women. The sex of five skeletons could not be determined. A number of pathological changes could be detected in the bones. A 25–40 year old man had chronic osteomyelitis of the right mandible. A man between 20 and 25 years of age had an approximately 5 cm long blow injury with perforation of the bone on the left posterior side of the skull, followed by a bursting fracture 3.5 cm in length. Apparently the wound was survived for some time, as the first signs of healing were evident on the bone edges. This proved that the injured person was being cared for in the hospital. The Katharinenspital mainly had the function of a benefactor's house , which explains that mostly older burials were found.
  • The unflattering nickname of the Forchheimers, "wall shit", comes from the time of the Thirty Years' War and demonstrated in this way that there was still enough to eat in the city and that the siege was therefore pointless.
  • Forchheim was strategically important for the supply of the (Catholic) Bamberg area due to its abundance of water during sieges. Due to the stationing of many soldiers who lived together with the Forchheim residents in a confined space, epidemics could easily spread. Forchheim gained a reputation that visitors would return, if at all, scarred by disease. In Franconia there was a saying that sick or pale people looked like “like the Forchheim death” or “like the death from / from Forchheim”.
  • The Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal, built from 1835 to 1846, ran past the historic town center to the east and the Forchheim trading port was built to the north of the old town . Only the street name In der Büg , which is derived from the distinctive change in direction of the canal there, is still reminiscent of the former port on the Ludwig Canal. Thanks to its rail connection to the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn, it offered trimodal cargo handling ship / rail / road as early as 1845 . Mainly regional forest and agricultural products, cattle, gravel and cement were shipped. Coal and steel were imported from the Ruhr area , as well as machines and building materials from southern Franconia and gravel from the Danube region. In 1950 the Ludwig Canal was abandoned and in the 1960s it was almost completely overbuilt with the federal motorway 73 and in the Forchheim area with the Adenauer- / Theodor-Heuss- / Willy-Brandt-Allee. A shopping center is located on the site of the former commercial port. Preserved is only the immediately east preferred Gatekeepers house the lock 93 , the below listed stands.
  • In 1961, the Hollywood film City Without Pity with Christine Kaufmann and Kirk Douglas was shot mostly in Forchheim.

literature

Web links

Commons : Forchheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Forchheim  - travel guide
Wikisource: Forchheim in the Topographia Franconiae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: About Vorcheim  - Sources and full texts

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. ↑ Mayor of the city of Forchheim. Forchheim city administration, accessed on July 4, 2020 .
  3. ^ Community Forchheim in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ City and culture, leisure, tourism. (PDF; 1.46 MB) In: forchheim.de. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ https://www.infranken.de/regional/forchheim/forchheim-forscher-graben-sensationelle-schaetze-am-rathaus-aus;art216,4084298
  6. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . tape 1 . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 138 .
  7. ^ Hermann Ammon (ed.): Forchheim in history and present. Universitätsverlag, Bamberg 2005, ISBN 3-933463-18-1 , p. 396 .
  8. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 684 .
  9. ^ Hermann Ammon (ed.): Forchheim in history and present. Universitätsverlag, Bamberg 2005, ISBN 3-933463-18-1 , p. 359-360, 395, 435, 453 .
  10. ^ Elections - City of Forchheim. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Result of the mayoral election 2014 on March 16, 2014, large district town Forchheim. In: www.forchheim.de. March 16, 2014, accessed June 13, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Beke Maisch, Ulrich Graser: Forchheim: Surprise in Forchheim: OB Stumpf has to go to the runoff. In: nordbayern.de. March 17, 2014, accessed June 13, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Result of the runoff election for the mayor election 2014 on March 30, 2014, large district town Forchheim. In: www.forchheim.de. March 30, 2014, accessed June 13, 2017 .
  14. ↑ District Office Forchheim: election date for the Forchheim mayor set. In: lra-fo.de. December 18, 2015, accessed June 13, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Private company in the Forchheim district with more than 100 employees. In: www.lra-fo.de. August 2018, accessed February 28, 2020 .
  16. ↑ That still takes a while: a barrier-free Forchheim train station. nordbayern.de, January 2, 2018, accessed on February 27, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Article from nordbayern.de of July 17, 2012: "ICE will change the cityscape"
  18. ↑ Article from nordbayern.de of October 22, 2012: "Has the train left in the north of Forchheim?"
  19. ↑ Article from nordbayern.de from January 15, 2013: "Citizens step on the gas at the S-Bahn stop"
  20. ↑ Article from nordbayern.de from January 19, 2013: "Schoolchildren are committed to the S-Bahn stop"
  21. ↑ Article from nordbayern.de of March 8, 2013: "Bahnhalt Forchheim-Nord is deleted"
  22. ↑ Article from nordbayern.de of March 9, 2013: "We fight to the last for the bus stop"
  23. ↑ Article from nordbayern.de of March 10, 2013: Outrage over the railway in Forchheim
  24. ^ Forchheim-Nord: Looking forward to the new S-Bahn stop
  25. ^ S-Bahn-Halt Nord: Shorter ways for schoolchildren
  26. ↑ 2 roofs 4 museums. The Palatinate Museum. kaiserpfalz.forchheim.de, 2017, accessed on April 12, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Advent Calendar Forchheim ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2011 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.adventskalender.forchheim.info
  28. ↑ Information from the city of Forchheim on the Old Town Festival - official website of the city of Forchheim
  29. ↑ Forchheim blog ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 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. of the North Bavarian News @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.nn-online.de
  30. ↑ www.altstadtfetzt.de
  31. ↑ "The order was: Defend to the last cartridge", Nordbayerische Nachrichten, April 14, 2015
  32. ↑ Bastei-Rätsel-Zeitung, p. 20, City Quiz No. 274, Bergisch Gladbach, around 1998.
  33. ↑ Here the town hall Pöpel is also mentioned as a legend; accessed on November 28, 2018.
  34. ^ Project Forchheim, Katharinenspital. In: anthropologie-jungklaus.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  35. ↑ Forchheim commercial port on a historical map. In: geoportal.bayern.de. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
  36. ↑ Forchheim architectural monuments. (PDF; 10 kB) In: geodaten.bayern.de. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, March 4, 2017, p. 6 , accessed on June 13, 2017 .
  37. ↑ http://www.eja-online.info/Videoarchiv/Archiv_5/Stadt_ohne_Mitleid.html