Kirchehrenbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Forchheim
Management Community :	Kirchehrenbach
Height :	282 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.24 km 2
Residents:	2208 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	268 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91356
Area code :	09191
License plate :	FO, EBS , PEG
Community key :	09 4 74 143
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 53 91356 Kirchehrenbach
Website :	www.kirchehrenbach.de
Mayoress :	Anja Gebhardt ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Kirchehrenbach in the Forchheim district

Kirchehrenbach is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim and the seat of the Kirchehrenbach administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Kirchehrenbach, view from Walberla

Parish Church of St. Bartholomew in Kirchehrenbach

Kirchehrenbach von Osten, steel engraving (1822) by G. Adam

The place is in Franconian Switzerland at the foot of the Ehrenbürg , ( Walberla ) on the Ehrenbach, which gives it its name .

Community structure

The municipality of Kirchehrenbach has 2 districts :

• Kirchehrenbach
• St. Walpurgis

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Pretzfeld , Leutenbach , Wiesenthau , Forchheim , Weilersbach .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1089 as Arinbach. Until 1803, Kirchehrenbach belonged to the Bamberg Monastery , which was part of the Franconian Empire from 1500 , and became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the course of the upheavals during the Napoleonic Wars .

politics

mayor

Anja Gebhardt (SPD) has been mayor since 2008. Her predecessor was Waldemar Hofmann (CSU).

Municipal council

The Kirchehrenbach municipal council has 14 members (excluding the mayor).

	CSU	Free voter community	SPD	Young Citizens (JB)	total
2008	7th	2	5	-	14 seats
2014	5	2	5	2	14 seats
2020	6th	3	5	-	14 seats

(Status: local election on March 15, 2020)

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: Above a red shield base, inside a silver wave bar, in blue on a silver mountain a single-towered white church with red roofs.

Partnerships

• Hassel (Weser)

traffic

The community has a stop on the Forchheim – Behringersmühle railway line and is integrated into the tariff area of ​​the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association .

Culture and sights

The Walberla

• Nature reserve and geotopes honorary citizen
• Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

See also : List of architectural monuments in Kirchehrenbach

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Georg Kraus (1787–1868), politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian State Parliament
• Georg Lochner (1824–1910), German carpenter, member of the General Council of the International Workers' Association
• Nikolaus Pieger (1900–1983), Catholic prelate and founder of the chaplaincy service in the Federal Republic of Germany
• Johann Schütz (1913–2010), lawyer and legal scholar, President of the Bamberg Higher Regional Court

Personalities who have worked in this church

• From 1523 to 1525, the Franconian humanist and cartographer Johannes Schöner (1477–1547) lived as an early knife and parish administrator in Kirchehrenbach.

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Kirchehrenbach . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 104-105 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Kirchehrenbach . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 583 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Kirchehrenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

• Kirchehrenbach near Foracheim
• Kirchehrenbach: 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. ^ Community Kirchehrenbach in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 4, 2020.
3. ↑ Maruska, Monika: Johannes Schöner - 'Homo est nescio qualis'. Life and work of a Franconian scientist at the turn of the 15th to the 16th century. Vienna 2008, pp. 33–50 ( digitized version ; PDF; 34.7 MB)