Hohenberg on the Eger

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Coat of arms of the city of Hohenberg an der Eger
Hohenberg on the Eger
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '  N , 12 ° 13'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Franconia
County : Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains
Management Community : Schirnding
Height : 525 m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.67 km 2
Residents: 1456 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 93 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 95691
Area code : 09233
License plate : WUN, MAK, REH , SEL
Community key : 09 4 79 127
City structure: 10 districts
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 5
95706 Schirnding
Website : www.stadt-hohenberg.de
Mayor : Jürgen Hoffmann ( SPD )
Location of the town of Hohenberg an der Eger in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains
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Hohenberg an der Eger (officially: Hohenberg adEger ) is a city in the east of the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge and a member of the administrative community Schirnding . Hohenberg an der Eger is on the Bavarian Porcelain Route .

geography

View of the Egerland from Hohenberg Castle
Pedestrian crossing to the Czech Republic at the hammer mill

Geographical location

Hohenberg an der Eger is located on the eastern edge of the Fichtelgebirge Nature Park . The Eger flows through the city . The 653 m high Steinberg is the highest point in the city. Hohenberg is right on the Czech border. There is a border crossing to the neighboring Czech municipality Libá (Liebenstein) in Hammermühle / Dubina (Eichelberg) .

City structure

The city of Hohenberg an der Eger is divided into ten districts:

history

The castle , which was built in connection with the securing of the Eger castle in the time of the Hohenstaufen , stands on a rock that slopes steeply towards the Eger . For the first time in 1222 a "Bertholdus de Honberg" was mentioned in a Waldsassen deed of donation. The castle of Wunsiedel and the castle fief of Eger also belonged to the wealthy knight family . From the last of the family, Kneussel von Hohenberg, Burgrave Friedrich III. from Nuremberg 1285 Wunsiedel, a little later Hohenberg also fell to him; Hohenberg and Wunsiedel were the first acquisitions by the Hohenzollerns in the area of ​​the imperial city of Eger. In 1322 Hohenberg was pledged together with Eger to the Bohemian King Johann von Luxemburg , but the extradition of Hohenberg did not take place. 1413 Hohenberg was finally withdrawn from the Cheb District Court, there was the Office Hohenberg, one of the six offices in Sechsämterland of Markgraftums Brandenburg-Bayreuth , which from 1500 to Franconian Circle belonged. A village settlement with hostels, a tavern and a mill was built around the castle. The place and castle were granted the privilege of an imperial sanctuary until 1799 . Four stone pillars (now to be seen in the castle courtyard) stood at the entrance paths to the village and delimited a protected area. If lawbreakers managed to reach the protected area, they were in the emperor's asylum and initially free from persecution.

German Porcelain Museum

In 1814, Carolus Magnus Hutschenreuther founded the first porcelain factory in the northeastern Bavarian region, the later C. M. Hutschenreuther AG Hohenberg. The German Porcelain Museum , a department of the Porzellanikon (with locations in Hohenberg an der Eger and Selb), is housed in the former manufacturer's villa .

The former market town in the district of Rehau was elevated to a town on April 29, 1960 and on July 1, 1972, after the district of Rehau was dissolved, it was added to the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains.

On January 1, 1978, the municipality of Neuhaus an der Eger was incorporated. On April 1, 1980, part of the community-free area of ​​Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge was added. On April 1, 2013, part of the Hohenberger Forest also came to the city area.

On March 19, 2020, District Administrator Döhler issued a curfew for the core city of Hohenberg an der Eger on the occasion of the corona pandemic.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the population fell from 1518 to 1439 by 79 or 5.2%.

politics

City council

The local elections resulted in the following allocation of seats in the city council:

Political party 2002 2008 2014 By-election 2014 2020
CSU 6 seats 6 seats 6 seats 7 seats 6 seats
SPD 6 seats 6 seats 6 seats 5 seats 6 seats
total 12 seats 12 seats 12 seats 12 seats 12 seats

The first mayor is Jürgen Hoffmann.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Hohenberg an der Eger
 Blazon : “Split; in the front square of silver and black, in the back a silver castle tower covered in blue on a green mountain cone in red. "

Town twinning

Memorial stones for the partnership with Hohenberg an der Eger in Hohenberg, Lower Austria

Partner municipalities of the city are:

Culture and sights

Museums

In the Porzellanikon , porcelains from three centuries are shown on 2000 m², giving a comprehensive insight into the cultural history and changes in porcelain products. Special exhibitions with regional, national and international partners and topics change three times a year. The museum, together with the porcelain museums in Selb 16 kilometers away, is part of the Porzellanikon museum complex.

Hohenberg Castle

Hohenberg Castle

The castle Hohenberg is the best preserved castle in the Fichtel Mountains . It forms a hexagon with three round and two angular towers and the outer bailey. The battlements have also been partially preserved. In the castle courtyard is the ducal house from 1666 (a former hunting lodge from the Markgraves), there are also pillars and stone grain cutters from the Hohenstaufen era.

St. Elisabeth Church

St. Elisabeth Church

A castle chapel was first mentioned in 1421. After numerous renovations and extensions, the sacred building was largely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War in 1945. After the reconstruction, the church could be consecrated again in November 1949. In 1959 the bell tower was given its current shape. In the early 1990s and 2010 the church was renovated again.

Carolinenquelle

The Carolinenquelle is located directly on the Eger, east of Hohenberg, near the road to Fischern . The system, which is part of the network of springs in the Eger region on both sides of the German-Czech border, was renovated as part of the cross-border campaign Bubbling Egerland .

Former forester's house

The original function of the house is not clear. In 1792 the building was furnished as a baroque forester's house. The spiral staircase made of oak in the entrance area and the paintings with stucco ceiling in the hunting room are worth seeing . The house is known as the dairy farm . During the Second World War there was the registry for milk rations.

Architectural monuments

Soil monuments

  • Tower and fortifications of Hohenberg Castle on the Eger

  • New building of the German Porcelain Museum

  • Memorial stone in honor of C. M. Hutschenreuther

  • Carolinenquelle

economy

Established businesses

  • Hohenberger Tapetenmanufaktur GmbH
  • Garment tailoring Your-Dark-Dream GbR
  • Feiler GmbH Terry and chenille weaving mill

Retirement home

The senior citizen's house opened in the middle of the small town of Hohenberg ad Eger at the beginning of October 2017 includes day care, an outpatient care community for people in need of intensive care, an outpatient care community for people in need of care and a meeting place for all interested parties and all citizens in and around Hohenberg an der Eger. It was named after the Japanese businesswoman Kazuko Yamakawa, who donated around 3.5 million euros to the community's project. The entrepreneur made the donation out of gratitude for more than 40 years of business partnership with the textile company Feiler, which sponsored the property. Feiler is known worldwide as the leading manufacturer of real, colorfully woven chenille and produces exclusively at the Hohenberg location. 90 percent of Japanese women know the company and its products.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with the city

literature

Web links

Commons : Hohenberg an der Eger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Bavarian State Library Online
  3. ↑ Urban designation
  4. ^ 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. 701 .
  5. ↑ City Council. Hohenberg an der Eger community, accessed on August 20, 2020 .
  6. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Hohenberg an der Eger  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  7. ↑ Homepage of the Protestant parish of St. Elisabeth
  8. ↑ Bayern-Online: Carolinenquelle in Hohenberg in the Fichtelgebirge ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / fichtelgebirge.bayern-online.de
  9. ↑ A lot of work on the Frankenpost source . February 23, 2011
  10. ↑ Julia Greipl: Plenty of history instead of rationed milk . Saved and revitalized: the dairy farm in Hohenberg an der Eger. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 3 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN  0941-7125 , p. 32, 33 .
  11. ^ BR report on the retirement home ( memento from September 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).