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	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 11 ° 36 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Kulmbach
Height :	343 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.05 km 2
Residents:	3520 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	153 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	95502, 95460
Primaries :	09227, 09273
License plate :	KU, EBS , SAN
Community key :	09 4 77 121
Community structure:	14 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Klosterberg 9 95502 Himmelkron
Website :	www.himmelkron.de
Mayor :	Gerhard Schneider ( CSU )
Location of the community of Himmelkron in the district of Kulmbach

Himmelkron is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach . The place of the same name is both the capital and the seat of the municipal administration.

Community structure

There are 14 districts divided:

Sky crown Gleisenhof Gössenreuth Hermeshof Kieselhof Kremitz Kunigundenhof

Lanzendorf Lindenhof Inclined plane Schwarzhof dispute Dispute mill Brick hut

The following districts exist : Gössenreuth, Himmelkron, Himmelkroner Forst, Lanzendorf.

View of the former monastery

Baille-Maille-Allee to Himmelkron

Motorway church from the church forecourt

East view of St. Christophorus Church

history

Until the church is planted

The name Himmelkrons was originally Pretzendorf; a castle of the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde was also located here . In 1279, Pretzendorf Castle was converted into a Cistercian monastery , which was named Kloster Himmelkron . In 1545 it was abolished during the Reformation . The Margraves of Brandenburg-Bayreuth took over the monastery property and built a summer residence here. In the 16th century the name Himmelkron (initially: Himmelcron) was transferred to the place. The later office of the Prussian Principality of Bayreuth, which had been Prussian since 1792, fell to France in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 and came to Bavaria in 1810. In 1818 Himmelkron became an independent political municipality.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1971, the previously independent community of Gössenreuth was incorporated. Lanzendorf was added on January 1, 1976.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the municipality grew from 2,843 to 3,530 by 687 inhabitants or 24.2%.

• 1961: 2490 inhabitants
• 1970: 2513 inhabitants
• 1987: 2833 inhabitants
• 1991: 3053 inhabitants
• 1995: 3362 inhabitants
• 2000: 3433 inhabitants
• 2005: 3482 inhabitants
• 2010: 3496 inhabitants
• 2015: 3480 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Gerhard Schneider (CSU / FWG Himmelkron) has been mayor since 2002. He was re-elected in the local elections in 2008 with 94.40%, in 2014 with 93.99% and in 2020 with 71.23% of the vote.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the first mayor and 16 members.

• CSU / FWG: 7 seats and the mayor
• SPD : 2 seats
• Free voters: 3 seats
• Citizens List Future Himmelkron: 4 seats

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Quartered; 1: in gold a red crowned and red armored black lion; 2: in blue a red crowned and red armored silver eagle; 3: a silver battlement wall in red; 4: quartered by silver and black. "

Himmelkron's partner municipality is Kynšperk nad Ohří (Königsberg an der Eger), Czech Republic .

Culture and sights

• Himmelkron Monastery
• Baille-Maille-Lindenallee
• St. Christophorus motorway church:
  Catholic church, consecrated in 1998, built according to plans by the Bamberg diocesan master builder Eugen Vonmetz. It houses the church, a working day chapel, a meditation room, a meeting place with hall, group rooms and kitchen. The most eye-catching architectural feature is the unusually strongly accentuated bell tower with a height of 36 meters, which can be seen from afar from all directions. The main building is reminiscent of a ski jump. In the church forecourt, the pavement carries a replica of the labyrinth from Chartres Cathedral . The two-winged portal of the church is the colorful vestibule door with the name CHRISTOPHORUS designed by Gerhard Böhm and manufactured by Peter Luban. The interior of the church is worth seeing. There is plenty of parking space, also at the Opel and Frankenfarm rest houses next to the motorway church. Every year around 120,000 visitors are counted through a light barrier.

traffic

The community is on the federal highway 303 and the federal highway 9 (junction 39 - Bad Berneck / Himmelkron).

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Himmelkron

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Himmelkron

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Himmelskron, Himmelcron . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 662-664 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Paul Hönn : Heaven-Cron . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 258-259 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Himmelkron . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 569 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Wikisource: Himmelkron in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Wikivoyage: Himmelkron  - travel guide

• Homepage of Himmelkron
• Himmelkron: 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. ↑ Greetings. Himmelkron parish, accessed on August 17, 2020 . 
3. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/161327&attr=OBJ&val= 1268
4. ↑ Miracle made of coniferous wood in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from June 11, 2018, p. 14.
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 503 .
6. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 692 .
7. ^ Entry on the Himmelkron coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History