Küps

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '  N , 11 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Kronach
Height :	299 m above sea level NHN
Area :	35.64 km 2
Residents:	7759 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	218 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	96328
Primaries :	09264, 09261
License plate :	KC, SAN
Community key :	09 4 76 146
Market structure:	9 districts
Market administration address :	At the town hall 1 96328 Küps
Website :	www.kueps.de
Mayor :	Bernd Rebhan ( CSU )
Location of the Küps market in the Kronach district

Küps from the southwest

Hinteres or Neues Schloss Küps

City parish church of St. Jakob

Luther Hall

Küps is a market in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria , which is located on the Bavarian Porcelain Route.

geography

location

Küps is located in the Franconian Forest Nature Park on the Rodach . The Krebsbach , which flows into the Rodach, flows through the municipality of Küps, coming from the hamlet of Rödern .

Districts

Küps has 29 officially named municipal parts.

Küps (2618 inhabitants) Au with Krienesschneidmühle and Reinertshaus (363 inhabitants) Burkersdorf with Emmersheim, Hinterloh and Löhlein (263 inhabitants) Grove with Tiefenklein and pasture (211 inhabitants) Johannisthal (762 inhabitants) Oberlangenstadt with Hummenberg and Nagel (1250 inhabitants) Schmölz with Oberberg, Schafhaus, Unterberg and Wachholder (982 inhabitants) Theisenort with Gypsmühle, Kachelmannsberg, Köhlersloh, Lerchenhof, Rödern and Schafhof (892 inhabitants) Tüschnitz with Hall (812 inhabitants)

history

First mention

Küps was first mentioned in a deed of gift from the Lord of Chubece to the Bishop of Bamberg on July 8, 1151.

20th century

Most of the Second World War Küps survived largely unscathed, as the place was not one of the main targets of the Allies due to the lack of important industrial facilities . A few weeks before the end of the war in Europe, Küps was captured and occupied on April 12, 1945 by the 11th US Armored Division of the 3rd US Army under General Patton , advancing eastwards . Since the American troops were attacked by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS stationed in Küps , the anti-tank barriers had not been cleared and no white flags had been hoisted, the place was bombarded with artillery for several hours before the US soldiers marched in . Over 100 buildings, including 36 residential buildings, were seriously damaged or destroyed.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Tüschnitz was incorporated. Hain was added on January 1, 1972. Au followed on January 1, 1976, Burkersdorf on January 1, 1977. The series of incorporations was completed on May 1, 1978 with the incorporation of the communities Johannisthal, Oberlangenstadt, Schmölz and Theisenort.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the market grew from 7,064 to 7,823 by 759 inhabitants or by 10.7%, which is the highest percentage growth in the district in the period mentioned.

politics

Market council

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

Party / list	2002	2008	2014	2020
CSU	6th	6th	8th	9
SPD	4th	5	7th	6th
AfD	-	-	-	1
Free voters	4th	5	5	4th
Social Democrats surrounding area	4th	2	-	-
Christian-social citizens	2	2	-	-
total	20th	20th	20th	20th

The turnout in the local elections on March 15, 2020 was 54.2 percent.

mayor

Mayor of Küps was Raimund Schramm (CSU) from 1972 to 1990 and Oswald Marr (SPD) from 1990 to 1998 , who was then district administrator of the Kronach district until 2016. From 1999 to 2017 Herbert Schneider (independent) was at the head of the community. In the mayoral election on February 27, 2011, none of the three candidates achieved an absolute majority in the first ballot. Herbert Schneider received 41.45%, Bernd Rebhan (CSU) 36.90% and Kerstin Schmidt-Müller (SPD) 21.65%. Therefore, on March 13th, there was a runoff between Herbert Schneider and Bernd Rebhan (CSU), which Schneider won with 52.99% of the vote. On February 5, 2017, the previous second mayor Bernd Rebhan was elected to succeed Schneider; Change of office was on March 21, 2017.

Town twinning

Küps has had town twinning with Lauscha in Thuringia since 1991 and with Plouay in Brittany ( France ) since 1993 .

religion

Around two thirds of the population are Protestant and around one third are Catholic. The former synagogue and the Jewish cemetery commemorate the Jewish community of Küps .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Küps is on the Frankenwaldbahn and the federal highway 173 . The Franconian Marienweg runs through the village .

Production site for porcelain

Porcelain production in Küps can be traced back to 1829. Porcelain manufacturers such as Albert Rosenlöcher, Wenck & Zitzmann, the Upper Franconian porcelain factory Ohnemüller & Ulrich, the porcelain factory Edelstein or the Wilhelm Rittirsch company were at home in Küps. The porcelain tradition is continued by Lindner Porzellan, which has been in existence since 1928 .

Regular events

• Gala concert of the Küpser Orchester in February or March
• Summer festival of the Grieser Bund on the first weekend in June
• Mountain festival of the United Neighbors in the Küps Hinterviertel in July
• Marktkirchweih on the last weekend in July
• Handicraft market in autumn (since 2001)
• Porcelain Exchange in November (since 2010)
• Christmas market on the second Sunday of December

Attractions

1000 year old oak in Küps-Nagel

Upper Castle (Schemenau House)

• City parish church St. Jakob , Marktplatz 7
• New Castle , Am Plan 14
• Upper Castle , Kulmbacher Strasse 1
• Old Castle , Mühlweg 2
• Luther Hall (synagogue until 1870), Am Hirtengraben 1
• Parish Church of the Holy Trinity in the Hain district
• Hain Castle in the Hain district
• Alte Kemenate Castle in the Nagel district
• Millennial oak in the Nagel district with a BHU of 9.25 m (2017).
• Oberlangenstadt Castle in the Oberlangenstadt district
• Parish church of St. Laurentius in the Schmölz district
• Schmölz Castle in the Schmölz district
• Theisenort Castle in the Theisenort district
• Simultaneous Church of the Holy Trinity in the district of Theisenort
• Moated Castle Tüschnitz in the Tüschnitz district

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Küps

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Weigand von Redwitz (* 1476 in Tüschnitz; † May 20, 1556 in Kronach), Prince-Bishop of the Bamberg Monastery
• Ludwig von Redwitz (born August 10, 1779 at Schmölz Castle; † April 18, 1848 in Speyer), nobleman and civil servant
• Marie von Redwitz (born December 9, 1856 in Schmölz; † April 11, 1933 in Munich), aristocrat and writer
• Werner W. Boehm (born June 19, 1913 in Oberlangenstadt; † October 18, 2011 in New Brunswick, New Jersey), American social work scientist of German origin
• Peter Betz (born October 12, 1913 in Theisenort; † unknown), SS-Hauptscharführer in the Dachau and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps
• Walter Wolfrum (born May 23, 1923 in Schmölz; † August 26, 2010 in Schwabach), fighter pilot, officer in the German Air Force and aerobatic pilot
• Adolph Kurt Böhm (born July 27, 1926 in Oberlangenstadt; † February 3, 2020 in Murnau am Staffelsee), composer, pianist, accompanist, painter and writer
• Oswald Marr (born March 29, 1947 in Schmölz), former district administrator of the Kronach district

Others

• Johann Georg Herzog (born August 5, 1822 in Hummendorf , grew up in Schmölz ; † February 3, 1909 in Munich ), organist , composer and first director of the Institute for Church Music at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg ; u. a. also teacher of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
• Oskar von Redwitz (born June 28, 1823 in Lichtenau (Middle Franconia); † July 6, 1891 in the mental hospital St. Gilgenberg in Eckersdorf near Bayreuth): German poet who lived at Schmölz Castle from 1854
• Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld (* July 14, 1904 in Berlin ; † August 21, 1999 at Küps Castle near Küps), a. a. Bearer of the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon and the Grand Cross Victoria Order. Since 1989 he was an academic honorary citizen of the University of Augsburg .
• Raimund Schramm (born June 29, 1931 - August 4, 2020), graduate in administrative management (FH), former mayor and honorary citizen, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon, the Bavarian Communal Merit Medal in silver and the Medal of Honor in gold from the Küps market
• Ingeborg Pacher-Gossel (born August 1, 1937 in Cologne ; † August 9, 2010 in Küps), Austrian poet and winner of the Carinthia Literature Prize
• Hans-Peter Konle (born June 16, 1971 in Ellwangen ), German show jumper who lives in Küps and runs a training stable

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Küps . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 243-244 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Küps . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 603 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Küps  - travel guide

• Entry on the coat of arms of Küps  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Küps: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.7 MB)
• Video report under our skies from BR

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. ^ Küps in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
3. ^ The Küps tragedy on April 12, 1945. inFranken.de, April 10, 2015, accessed on April 15, 2015 . 
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 500 .
5. ^ 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. 689 f .
6. ↑ Result of the runoff election ( Memento of the original from March 16, 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. 
7. ↑ inFranken.de on the mayoral election , accessed on April 2, 2017
8. ↑ Craftsman's Market. In: Aktion- und Werbegemeinschaft Küps eV Accessed on November 17, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Golden badges of honor awarded. In: Official bulletin of the Küps community. September 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 . 
10. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved March 25, 2020
11. ↑ Sunday newspaper: Article on the 100th anniversary of Johann Georg Herzog's death ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.