Kirchenlamitz

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′  N , 11 ° 57 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains
Height :	591 m above sea level NHN
Area :	48.48 km 2
Residents:	3189 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	66 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	95158, 95100
Area code :	09285
License plate :	WUN, MAK, REH , SEL
Community key :	09 4 79 129
City structure:	27 districts
City administration address :	Marktplatz 3 95158 Kirchenlamitz
Website :	www.kirchenlamitz.de
Mayor :	Thomas Schwarz ( SPD )
Location of the town of Kirchenlamitz in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge

View of the city from the Epprechtstein

Granite quarry Forstwiesenbruch

Kirchenlamitz is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains . The city is located about 35 kilometers northeast of Bayreuth on the Lamitz River on the Bavarian Porcelain Route . The next regional center is Selb (together with the Czech city of Aš ).

City structure

Kirchenlamitz is divided into 27 districts:

Baumgarten Dörflas near Kirchenlamitz Duckling Epprechtstein Fahrbühl Spruce hammer Fuchsmühle Grandchildren Rabbit mill Rear book house Hohenbuch Kirchenlamitz Kirchenlamitz train station Small plopping

Mittelschieda Neuenhammer Niederlamitz Niederlamitzerhammer Obersche Space green Rich gold Snipe mill Difference a Front book house Vorsuchhütte (zip code 95100) Wustung near Niederlamitz Wustung near Schnepfenmühle

history

Until the church is planted

The history of Kirchenlamitz is also that of Epprechtstein Castle, which is about two kilometers to the southwest . In 1352 the burgraves of Nuremberg were enfeoffed with her and a short time later came into possession of the entire rule and thus also of the place. Burggraf Frederick V of Nuremberg gave the city in 1374, the city charter , which was lost later. The principality of Bayreuth , to which the place then belonged, became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1791 . After four years of French occupation, the place and the castle became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810 . In 1818 the political municipality was established.

19th and 20th centuries

Kirchenlamitz became the seat of an older Bavarian regional court that existed until 1879 , which was then converted into a district court . In 1901 Kirchenlamitz was raised to the status of town again. The district court was dissolved in 1959.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality Dörflas near Kirchenlamitz and most of the dissolved municipalities Raumetengrün and Reicholdsgrün were incorporated.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the population decreased from 4,350 to 3,286 by 1,064 or 24.5%.

politics

mayor

The election of the mayor had to be decided on March 16, 2008 in a runoff election between the incumbent mayor Reinhard Weiß (WÜL) and the SPD candidate Thomas Schwarz. With a turnout of 68.42%, black received 1331 votes and white received 665 votes. First Mayor is Thomas Schwarz, Second Mayor Friederike Kränzle (CSU) and Third Mayor Gerd Müller (WÜL).

City council

The local election of March 2, 2008 resulted in the following distribution of seats in the city council:

Party / List:	CSU	SPD	WÜL *	total
Be right:	10.134	12,458	8,489	31,081
Seats:	5	7th	4th	16 seats

^* Voting group bipartisan list

The local elections of March 16, 2014 led to the following distribution of seats in the city council (from May 1, 2014):

Party / List:	CSU	SPD	WÜL *	total
Be right:	12,230	10,557	5,198	27,985
Seats:	7th	6th	3	16 seats

^* Voting group bipartisan list

Town twinning

Kobyla Góra in Poland is the partner municipality of the city of Kirchenlamitz.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Epprechtstein Castle in the Buchhaus district

On the Epprechtstein there are many former quarries of Epprechtstein-granite . Some of them are connected to each other via a quarry circular hiking trail . Most of them are abandoned and the rainwater has formed lakes in them.

Front windows that have become rare today can be seen in some older houses .

See also : List of architectural monuments in Kirchenlamitz

Sports

• Moderate cross-country skiing Nordic tracks on the Epprechtstein of six, four and nine kilometers long and about 100 meters altitude difference

Regular events

• July: Folk and meadow festival Kirchenlamitz
• August: Kichweihen Raumetengrün and Reicholdgrün
• October: Parish consecrations in Kirchenlamitz and Niederlamitz

Soil monuments

See: List of soil monuments in Kirchenlamitz

Economy and Infrastructure

The stone industry company Reul existed from 1909 to 1996 in Kirchenlamitz.

From the end of the 1970s on, pitchblende was mined in the Christa mine near Großschloppen ; In 1989 operations were stopped because of the low world market price for uranium . According to media statements are the repository Commission to be understood that the former mine because of granite rock in the preliminary investigations as nuclear waste - repository could be included.

Others

The local nickname of Kirchenlamitz or the nickname of the Kirchenlamitz citizens is Krebsbacker .

traffic

The state roads St 2176 and St 2177 meet near Kirchenlamitz. The Kirchenlamitz Ost stop on the Weiden – Oberkotzau railway line is near Niederlamitz . In addition, there used to be a rail connection to Weißenstadt via the Kirchenlamitz – Weißenstadt railway line .

Personalities who have worked in the city

• Wilhelm Löhe (1808–1872), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, was vicar in Kirchenlamitz
• Hermann Winterling (1906–2008), entrepreneur
• Eduard Wagner (1894–1944), General

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Kirchlamitz . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 108-109 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Paul Hönn : Kirch-Lamitz . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 265 ( digitized version ).
• Josef Maria Ritz, Bernhard Hermann Röttger : District of Wunsiedel and urban district of Marktredwitz (=  The art monuments of Bavaria . Upper Franconia 1). R. Oldenburg, Munich 1954, DNB  457322578 , p. 134-154 .
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Kirchenlamitz . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 599-600 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the city of Kirchenlamitz
• City of Kirchenlamitz in the municipal association of the Northern Fichtel Mountains
• Entry on the coat of arms of Kirchenlamitz  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Kirchenlamitz: 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. ^ City of Kirchenlamitz in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 15, 2018.
3. ^ 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. 700 .
4. ↑ Erwin Purucker: uranium search in Großschloppen near Kirchenlamitz on fichtelgebirge-oberfranken.de, accessed on May 20, 2016
5. ↑ Peter Engelbrecht: New search for nuclear waste storage , Nordbayerischer Kurier from May 20, 2016, p. 19