Frankenblick

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '  N , 11 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Sonneberg
Height :	395 m above sea level NHN
Area :	60.65 km 2
Residents:	5729 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	94 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	96528
Primaries :	03675, 036766
License plate :	SON, NH
Community key :	16 0 72 023
Community structure:	12 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Schloßgasse 20 96528 Frankenblick
Website :	www.frankenblick.eu
Mayoress :	Ute Müller-Gothe ( CDU )
Location of the community of Frankenblick in the district of Sonneberg

Frankenblick is the name of a unified community in the district of Sonneberg in the Free State of Thuringia , which was created on January 1, 2012 through the merger of the communities of Effelder-Rauenstein and Mengersgereuth-Hammern .

geography

Frankenblick is located in the southwestern part of the Franconian district of Sonneberg. The municipality borders in the east on the Franconian Forest and in the north on the Thuringian Slate Mountains . The main part of Frankenblick lies on the Schalkauer Platte, also called Schalkauer Plateau . The border of the municipality in the south is also the border of the district of Sonneberg and Thuringia with Bavaria. In the west the city of Schalkau borders on the municipality, in the north the city of Neuhaus am Rennweg and the city of Steinach , in the east the district town of Sonneberg and in the south Rödental and Neustadt bei Coburg (both districts of Coburg , Bavaria ).

Community structure

The following districts belong to the community of Frankenblick:

• Döhlau
• Effelder (with Blatterndorf )
• Grumble
• Meschenbach
• Raven-like (with Fichtach , Hohetann and Melchersberg )
• Rauenstein
• Backwind
• Seltendorf (with Welchendorf )
• Mengersgereuth hammers (with shift hammers , Forschengereuth , Mengersgereuth and hammers )

history

The merger of the municipalities of Effelder-Rauenstein and Mengersgereuth-Hammern was initially rejected by the Interior Committee of the Thuringian state parliament. After a new consultation, the Thuringian state parliament approved the formation of the unified community on December 16, 2011.

The municipal administration is based in Effelder and there is a branch in Mengersgereuth-Hammern.

politics

Municipal council

Previous municipal council elections took place on April 22, 2012 and May 25, 2014 . Since the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the local council has been composed as follows:

Parties and constituencies		2019				2014				2012			Local elections 2019 Turnout: 69.9% (2014: 54.0%)  % 30th 20th 10 0 24.9% 22.6% 13.9% 13.6% 13.3% 8.8% 3.0% BfF a CDU AfF c SPD / FWF d left AfD FDP Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p  14th  12  10    8th    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6   -8th -10 -12 -14 + 2.4  % p -13.4  % p + 13.9  % p -2.8  % p -7.4  % p + 8.8  % p -1.4  % p BfF a CDU AfF c SPD / FWF d left AfD FDP Remarks: a citizen for Frankenblick c Alliance for Frankenblick d SPD / Free Voters Frankenblick
		be right	percent	Seats		be right	percent	Seats		be right	percent	Seats
BfF	Citizens for Frankenblick	2,561	24.9	5		1,891	22.5	5		2,391	21.9	4th
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	2,322	22.6	4th		3,018	36.0	7th		4,591	42.0	9
AfF	Alliance for Frankenblick	1,435	13.9	3		-	-	-		-	-	-
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	1,396	13.6	3		1,372	16.4	3		1,095	10.0	2
FWF	Free voters Frankenblick									707	6.5	1
LEFT	The left	1,372	13.3	3		1,739	20.7	4th		1,616	14.8	3
AfD	Alternative for Germany - community of voters Frankenblick	902	8.8	2		-	-	-		-	-	-
FDP	Free Democratic Party	305	3.0	0		368	4.4	1		537	4.9	1
total		10,293	100	20th		8,388	100	20th		10,937	100	20th
voter turnout		69.9%				54.0%				69.8%

Town hall of the community of Frankenblick in Effelder Castle

mayor

In the election of the mayor on April 15, 2018 , Jürgen Köpper ( CDU ) was re-elected with 66% of the vote (-0.4% compared to 2012). His strongest opponent Elke Zinner ( LINKE ) achieved 34%. The turnout was 60.2%.

After Köpper became First Alderman for District Administrator Hans-Peter Schmitz , a new election was necessary, which was carried out in the local elections on May 26 and June 9, 2019 and Ute Müller-Gothe (CDU) in the runoff election, again against Elke Zinner 61.4% of the vote was won. The turnout in the runoff was 54.5%

Partner municipality

Since 1991 there has been a community partnership between Frankenblick and Waldstetten (Ostalbkreis) in Baden-Württemberg.

Culture, sights and tourism

See also : List of cultural monuments in Frankenblick

The community of Frankenblick is part of the Schaumberger Land tourism association. This also includes the city of Schalkau in the Sonneberg district. With the entry of Rödental, the catchment area of ​​the tourism association expands to include Upper Franconia.

The oldest recipe for the much-vaunted Thuringian dumplings comes from Pastor Friedrich Timotheus Heim from the Effelder district of the Frankenblick community in his handwritten topography of the parish game Effelder (1808–1814) .

traffic

Frankenblick is on the Eisfeld – Sonneberg railway line . The breakpoints in Rauenstein (Thür) , Seltendorf , Effelder (Thür) , Mengersgereuth-Hammern and Mengersgereuth-Hammern Ost are located in the municipality . Trains of the South Thuringia Railway run every two hours .

dialect

In the community of Frankenblick the Main Franconian dialect Itzgründisch is spoken, which shows the ethno-cultural affiliation to the Franconia region .

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms shows the coat of arms of the Upper Saxon margraves of Meissen on the top left . From 1353 to 1425, the municipality belonged to Coburg as part of their domain until 1918, when it went to the Upper Saxon Wettins . At the top right is the coat of arms of St. Kilian , to whom the Protestant church in Effelder is consecrated. At the bottom left is the coat of arms of the Franconian noble family of the Schaumbergs and at the bottom right is the coat of arms of the Lords of Sonneberg . Both noble families ruled the area until the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century. During this time the municipality came to the Mark Brandenburg as part of the new rule of the Franconian Henneberger in 1291 .

Personalities

• Arthur Ehrhardt (1896–1971), officer, military writer, translator and political publicist
• Werner Jacob (1938–2006), organist and composer
• Rolf Rosenbrock (* 1945), health scientist
• Monika Debertshäuser (* 1952), cross-country skier
• Bernd Eckstein (* 1953), ski jumper
• Raimund Litschko (* 1967), ski jumper

Web links

Commons : Frankenblick  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Community website
• Bill of the Thuringian state government for the voluntary reorganization of municipalities belonging to the district in 2011 (PDF file; 222 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ^ Heinz Späth: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 141 Coburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1987. → Online map (PDF; 5 MB)
3. ↑ Ad hoc News: Interior Committee speaks out against four parish mergers. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Local council election Frankenblick 2019. wahlen.thueringen.de, accessed on August 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Frankenblick municipal council election 2014. wahlen.thueringen.de, accessed on August 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ municipal elections Frankenblick 2012. (PDF) wahlen.thueringen.de, accessed on August 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Frankenblick mayor election 2018. wahlen.thueringen.de, accessed on August 8, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Frankenblick mayoral election 2019. wahlen.thueringen.de, accessed on August 8, 2019 . 
9. ^ Radio Eins (Coburg): News. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 13, 2012 ; Retrieved June 1, 2012 . 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. ↑ Homepage of Michael Kirchschlager