Kinding

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '  N , 11 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Eichstatt
Height :	378 m above sea level NHN
Area :	51.71 km 2
Residents:	2506 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	85125
Primaries :	08467, 08423, 08461
License plate :	EGG
Community key :	09 1 76 137
Market structure:	16 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Kipfenberger Str. 4 85125 Kinding
Website :	www.kinding.de
Mayoress :	Rita Boehm ( CSU )
Location of the Kinding market in the Eichstätt district

Kinding is a market in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt and a state-approved resort .

Kinding, town view from the south

geography

Kinding is located at the confluence of the Anlauter , Schwarzach and Altmühl rivers in the Altmühltal Nature Park .

Community structure

The municipality has 16 officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

Badanhausen ( village ) Berletzhausen (village) Eibwang ( wasteland ) Enkering ( parish village ) Erlingshofen ( Kirchdorf ) Haunstetten (parish village) Ilbling (Kirchdorf) Kinding (main town)

Kirchanhausen (parish village) Scraper (village) Niefang ( hamlet ) Pfraundorf (Kirchdorf) Schafhausen (village) Schafhausermühle (wasteland) Schlößlmühle (wasteland) Unteremmendorf (Kirchdorf)

Neighboring communities

	Greding	Haunstetter Forst (unincorporated area)
Titting		Beilngries
	Kipfenberg

history

On April 1, 1971, the new community of Kinding was formed through the merger of the previously independent communities Badanhausen, Enkering, Erlingshofen, Haunstetten, Kinding and Unteremmendorf.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 2,209 to 2,543 by 334 inhabitants or by 15.1%.

politics

Market council

Kinding's municipal council has 14 members, all of whom are from the CSU . (Status: local election on March 15, 2020 )

mayor

Rita Böhm (CSU) has been the mayor since May 1, 1990.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In green over a lowered silver wave bar, covered by a shield split by a twisted silver tip of red and blue, the silver fortified church of Kinding with red roofs; a silver hop umbel at the top right. "

Culture and sights

Museums

• Technology Museum Kratzmühle; extends over the areas of agriculture, household, craft and transport.
• Archaeological nature trail on Schellenberg near Enkering (1.5 km long)

Buildings

• The fortified church in Kinding
• The fortified church of St. Ottmar in Enkering.
• The ruins of Rumburg Castle above Enkering.
• The ruins of Rundeck Castle on the Schlossberg near Erlingshofen .
• The Wieseck castle stable near Erlingshofen .
• Ringwall Schellenburg .
• The Schafhausen Church.
• Eibwang's “fixed house”.
• The Maria-Hilf chapel in the hamlet of Schlößlmühle.
• The Altmühl weir of the Kratzmühle.
• The branch church St. Nikolaus in Unteremmendorf.
• The parish church of St. Erhard in Haunstetten
• The St. Briccius branch church in Ilbling.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Kinding

Kindinger Fosanegl

regional customs

The mask group "Kindinger Fosanegl" in Fasenickl costumes based on models from 1815 is the driving force of the Kindinger Carnival, which is in the tradition of the Altmühltal Carnival.

hermitage

Cave hermitage

The Klause karst cave is located south of Kinding . It is also called Binnleiten Cave and is registered in the cave cadastre Fränkische Alb (HFA) with the cadastral number I 66. It became known through finds as a dwelling cave in the Stone Age.

traffic

Former Kinding train station

• The A9 runs to the west of the Kinding district and rises sharply to the south on Kindinger Berg . Kinding can be reached quickly via the Altmühltal junction (No. 58).
• From the regional train station Kinding (Altmühltal) on the high-speed line Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich there is a two-hour cycle with the Munich-Nuremberg Express in the direction of Nuremberg and Ingolstadt / Munich . The Schellenberg tunnel and parts of the Irlahell tunnel are also in the area of ​​the community .
• Until 1955, the community had the Kinding station on the Altmühltalbahn . In July 2020, the Neumarkt-Beilngries-Kinding railway lines (connection to the high-speed railway line) were included in the VDV's position paper as railway lines to be reactivated. This means that the old train station could also be reactivated and the regional train station converted into a connecting station.

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Kinding . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 89-90 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Kinding . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 737 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Kinding  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

• Kinding: 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. ↑ ^{a b} Municipal council election & mayoral election in Kinding 2020. www.wahl.info, accessed on August 9, 2020 . 
3. ^ Community of Kinding in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 14, 2019.
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 456 .
5. ↑ fosanegl.de on the past and present of the Kindinger Fosanegl
6. ^ VDV: reactivation of railway lines. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .