Happurg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 11 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Nuremberg country
Management Community :	Happurg
Height :	353 m above sea level NHN
Area :	42.59 km 2
Residents:	3766 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	88 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91230
Area code :	09151
License plate :	LAU, ESB , HEB, N , PEG
Community key :	09 5 74 128
Community structure:	14 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Hersbrucker Strasse 6 91230 Happurg, Germany
Website :	www.happurg.de
First Mayor :	Bernd Bogner ( FWG )
Location of the municipality of Happurg in the district of Nürnberger Land

town hall

Happurg (Franconian: Habbuich ) is a municipality and a town in the central Franconian district of Nürnberger Land and the seat of the Happurg administrative community .

geography

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting in the north clockwise): Pommelsbrunn , Alfeld , Lauterhofen , Offenhausen , Engelthal , Hersbruck

Geographical location

The community is located in the east of Hersbrucker Schweiz, part of the Franconian Alb . The districts of Happurg and Förrenbach are state-recognized recreational areas . The Happurg pumped storage power plant was built from 1956 to 1958, with the Happurg Lake in the valley floor and the associated upper basin on the Deckersberg.

Community structure

There are 14 parts of the municipality (in brackets the number of inhabitants as of September 30, 2010 and the geographical height):

• Aicha (39 E., 497  m above sea level )
• Deckersberg (134 E., 523  m above sea level )
• Förrenbach (772 E., 374  m above sea level )
• Gotzenberg (67 E., approx. 510  m above sea level )
• Happurg (1737 E., 353  m above sea level )
• Hartenberg (8 E., 510  m above sea level )
• Kainsbach (324 E., 387  m above sea level )
• Molsberg (26 E., 515  m above sea level )
• Mosenhof (25 E., approx. 400  m above sea level )
• Reicheneck (34 E., approx. 500  m above sea level )
• Schupf (225 E., 534  m above sea level )
• Lake (183 E., approx. 530  m above sea level )
• Thalheim (259 E., 405  m above sea level )
• Vorderhaslach (21 E., 566  m above sea level )

history

Manorial rule

On a map from 1589 a pond house can be seen, which was surrounded by a wide moat and a wall. The property also included a gardener's house, an orchard and two trout ponds. In 1666 the "herrnhauß or schloßel, as it stands in weyer" was owned by the Pfinzing family . 1663 Martin Seifried Pfinzing sold the manor Happurger the emigrated for religious reasons to Nuremberg exiles Johann Seifried Leininger of worries village, former tutor of the Duke of Württemberg Manfred, who died before the 1670th Then his widow Eva Sophia, probably born Brand von Neidstein, married Johann Georg von Preysing zu Lichtenegg. In 1700 the estate was "completely collapsed and ruined" and was sold to the Reicheneck keeper Gottlieb Tucher . The old pond house is likely to have been demolished in the first years of the 18th century.

In 1701/02, Tucher had a two-story mansion with a gable roof built in the neighboring garden (the Tucherschloss , Hauptstrasse 9), which he and his wife Maria Jakobina, née von Hardesheim, used for occasional summer stays. The lord of the castle, who served for many years as an officer in the army of the Franconian district and fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, did not die in old age until 1742. The property fell to his son Carl Benedikt Tucher, married to Maria Katharina Ebner von Eschenbach . When Carl Benedikt died in 1750, he was inherited by his widow and daughter Maria Jakobina, who had married Johann Georg Haller von Hallerstein . After the death of Johann Sigmund Haller von Hallerstein, who had inherited his grandmother Maria Katharina Tucher, the property was sold in several parts to the highest bidders by Haller's community of heirs in 1811. The "Hallerische Schloß" was bought by Georg Fuchs, who gave it to his foster daughter Walburga Meier in 1831. In 1875 Johann Georg Fuchs took over the property, in 1919 his daughter and her husband Benedikt Müller. The Tucherschloss is still owned by the family's heirs and was given an award-winning renovation in 2004/2005. It was found that the plaster design of the façades from the construction period was largely preserved under a modern layer of cement plaster. The remarkable frame of tinted surfaces and light bands has been restored. The palace garden is surrounded by remains of the former enclosure wall.

20th century

From May 17, 1944 until the end of July 1944, before the end of the Second World War, there was a satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp , whose 1,148 prisoners had to do forced labor for the planned tunnel system of the SS . The subcamp had the code name Dogger , B 7.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Kainsbach was incorporated. On January 1, 1972, Thalheim, Heldmannsberg (partially) and Breitenbrunn (partially) followed.

politics

City council election 2020

(in %)

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

40.18

42.90

16.92

CSU

FWG

SPD

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

+5.18

-4.00

-1.28

CSU

FWG

SPD

Current distribution of seats in the Hagelstadt municipal council (March 15, 2020)

   

A total of 16 seats

• CSU : 6
• FWG : 7
• SPD : 3

First Mayor

The first mayor has been Bernd Bogner (FWG) since May 1, 2014. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, he was re-elected with 84.53% of the vote.

Municipal council

The municipal council has 16 members. Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the first mayor. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 1,936 of the 3,021 residents eligible to vote in the municipality of Happurg exercised their right to vote, bringing the turnout to 64.08%.

Committees

• Main, Finance and Personnel Committee (9 seats)
• Building and Environment Committee (9 seats)
• Audit Committee (5 seats)

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold a slanting golden sword, above a red lined black wooden shoe, underneath a red heraldic rose with golden lugs and green sepals."

Partner communities

The community maintains a partnership with the community of Neudorf in the Ore Mountains.

Sights and leisure

The Happurger See

Oral hole to the Doggerstollen in the Houbirg

Kainsbach's limestone tufa terrace

See also : List of architectural monuments in Happurg  and List of ground monuments in Happurg

• Happurg pumped storage power plant with upper basin and nature trail, on which 53 way stations with explanatory boards provide information about the local flora and fauna
• Lake Happurger See (fishing, sailing, restaurant)
• Baggersee (swimming, fishing)
• Hiking trails: In addition to several supraregional hiking trails (e.g. Frankenalb Panorama Trail ), there is a network of local circular hiking trails around Happurg, including the Happurger Geschichtsweg, which connects stations of historical importance around Happurg, as well as a geological educational trail since 2012 .
• Happurger Berg

Hill climb for historic cars and motorcycles ( oldtimer regularity test) on the first weekend in September, since 2001 organized by the Hersbruck Automobile Club in ADAC e. V .

• Nordic Walking Center Happurg (four signposted routes in the vicinity of Happurg)
• Celtic wall on the Houbirg ( 615  m above sea level ; see also Hohler Fels (Happurg) )
• Entrances to the Dogger tunnels in the Houbirg. The tunnels were driven into the mountain by prisoners from the Hersbruck satellite camp and were intended to serve as a production site for aircraft engines, but were never completed. The tunnels can only be entered with a special permit.
• The Upper Molsberger Tal nature reserve .
• The Kainsbach limestone tufa geotope .
• The stone channel near Thalheim .

SC Happurg

The Happurg Sports Club was founded in 1946 and consists of the football, tennis, gymnastics, table tennis, volleyball and Fit For Fun (popular sports) departments.

Good wood Happurg

The popular sport bowling club "Gut Holz Happurg" was founded in 1960 and takes part in the points round of the VNPK.

religion

St. George's Church in Happurg

Happurg has a Protestant church and a Catholic branch church of the Pommelsbrunn Curate .

The Protestant parish of Marien and St. Georg celebrated its 950th anniversary in 2009. The consecration of the altar by Bishop Gundekar II from Eichstätt was first mentioned in a document in 1058 in the Pontifical Gundekarianum .

An extensive and varied festival program reminded of the founding year. The highlight and conclusion of the celebrations was a festive church service and a historical pageant on April 26, 2009. Over 10,000 spectators lined the streets when the pageant passed through the town. Over 800 participants in the pageant prepared a great and unforgettable event for the community.

economy

Town center with Happurger Bach

The infrastructure consists mainly of small businesses. In addition, on April 7, 2007, for the first time and then every first Saturday of the month, there was a monthly market with selected products (spices, herbs, olities , homemade pasta, salami, smoked trout, farmer's bread, seasonal vegetables, honey and much more).

traffic

• Happurg can be reached by car via Bundesstraße 14 (exit Happurg / Lauterhofen).
• Buses of the OVF (Bus connection from Hersbruck) use Happurg and the areas surrounding the city.
• Since December 12, 2010, Happurg has had a stop on the Nuremberg – Schwandorf railway line and is served by the Nuremberg S-Bahn , S1 line, every hour. The trains run east to Hartmannshof, where there is a connection to regional express trains to Schwandorf and Weiden . You can travel westwards via Nuremberg and Fürth to Bamberg without changing trains. Happurg had a train station before, but it was abandoned in 1873 in favor of the Pommelsbrunn train station.

energy

Happurg is the location of the Happurg pumped storage power plant . The power plant operated by E.ON has a total output of 160 megawatts, the water was directed over a height difference of 209 meters. The unused, formerly 1.8 million cubic meter upper basin is located on the Deckersberg to the west and is to be renovated since 2011. In his active days, Happurg was the largest pumped storage power plant in Bavaria.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Conrad Ullherr (June 8, 1820– September 27, 1887 in Kaufbeuren), mathematician , physicist
• Georg Sperber (1897–1943), politician (NSDAP), SA leader and mayor of Hersbruck
• Jörg Weidinger (* 1975), hill climber, winner of the European Hill Climb Championship 2005 and 2006

Personalities who have worked on site

• Konrad Dorn (1870–1948) was the founder and director of the “First Franconian Farmers Band Happurg”, with which he made numerous gramophone recordings in the years before and after the First World War .
• Timo Rost (* 1978), professional soccer player ( Energie Cottbus ), started at SC Happurg

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Happurg . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 496-497 ( digitized version ).
• Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Happurg . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 734 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Happurg
• Internet pages of the Documentation Center Concentration Camp Hersbruck e. V. with information about the Doggerwerk in the Houbirg near Happurg
• Website of the municipality of Kainsbach
• Happurg: 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. ↑ happurg.de/Gemeinde . Retrieved May 4, 2014.
3. ^ Happurg community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.
4. ^ Website of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial Accessed July 6, 2016
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 481 .
6. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 18, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Mayor, local council and committees. Municipality of Happurg, accessed on August 13, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 18, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 18, 2020 . 
10. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Happurg  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
11. ↑ Happurg nature trail  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Health ; Retrieved February 20, 2013  
12. ↑ see also local hiking trails of Happurg in the open data project OpenStreetMap
13. ↑ Happurger Geschichtsweg (PDF; 2.8 MB) on the community website; Retrieved February 20, 2013
14. ↑ New "Geological Loop" in the community of Happurg (PDF; 322 kB) on the community website, accessed on February 20, 2013
15. ↑ www.kirche-happurg.de . Retrieved November 20, 2014.