Little church

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Little church City of Burgkunstadt Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	366  (355-382)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	192  (December 31, 2010)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1977
Area code :	09572
Location of little church in Bavaria

Southwestern view of the little church

Kirchlein is a church village with 188 inhabitants and a district of Burgkunstadt in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in the north of the Free State of Bavaria .

Geographical location

Church is at 355- 382  m above sea level. NHN at the northern end of the Häckergrund , through which the Häckergrundbach flows. The official height is 366  m above sea level. NHN indicated. To the south of the village lies the Fleckberg ( 400.6  m above sea level ), in the west the Spitzberg ( 517.6  m above sea level ). The place still belongs to the Obermainischen Bruchschollenland . The center of Burgkunstadt is about 4.5 kilometers southwest.

history

When the church was founded is unknown. Possibly the settlement in its early form could already have arisen as a single courtyard or fortified forecourt in the 9th century AD and was subordinate to the castle cunstat (see: History of the city of Burgkunstadt # 8th century to 1058: first settlement beginnings ). The village was first secured in around 1330 in two land records of the Langheim monastery regarding two land sales by "Albert [...] from Gleind". In documents from the early Middle Ages , the place was mentioned several times up to 1490 as "Gleind" or "Kirchgleind". The older form Gleind was used less often. The prefix church could on the one hand refer to the building of the church, on the other hand it could only have served to distinguish it from other villages of the same name. The syllable -lein , -glein or -gleind was often used in the past as a modification of terrain . In the meantime, however, it is certain that the syllable comes from the Slavic word glina for clay, which often occurs in the hallways around small churches.

The local parish belonged to Altenkunstadt for centuries. On November 24, 1477, the little church was raised to its own parish. The Thirty Years' War left a lot of damage in Kirchlein. The Swedish linden tree on the Kalte Staude hill commemorates the killing of two Swedish soldiers by citizens of Kirchlein.

• Historical views of the little church
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  The old parish church around 1900

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  Southwest view of the little church around 1920

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  Postcard of the village square of Kirchlein around 1920. In the center of the picture you can clearly see the successor to the old parish church

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  The Tief Gasse before the expansion (around 1910)

The old Romanesque church was demolished in 1905/1906 and a new one was built in the same place. Unlike the previous building, it is more reminiscent of the Gothic . The former schoolhouse next to the church was built in 1925 and was used until the 1960s. The thoroughfare of Tief Gasse was expanded and renovated between June and November 1939.

The FC Kirchlein was founded on May 10, 1971. When it was entered in the association register in 1978, the association was given its current name 1. FC Kirchlein e. V. In the following years numerous construction works took place on the sports field. The sports home was built by the club in 1988/1989.

On January 1, 1977, Kirchlein, which had previously formed an independent community with Hainzendorf and Reuth , was incorporated into Burgkunstadt.

Population development

The table shows the population development of Kirchlein.

year	Residents	source
1987	196
2001	218
2002	226
2003	213
2004	206
2005	201
2006	206
2007	213
2008	199
2009	195
2010	192
2011	188

Honorary citizen

• November 6, 1950: HH Eckert (pastor from 1931 to 1970, appointed on his 70th birthday)

societies

• Little church volunteer fire brigade
• 1. FC Kirchlein e. V.
• Hunting Association Kirchlein
• Warrior u. Soldier Fellowship Church
• Choir Singers Association
• Association for Horticulture and Land Care Church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Little church in the Bayernviewer ( memento of the original from January 31, 2016 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. , geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 28, 2011 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Franz Wenzl: The districts of the city of Burgkunstadt with pictures from days gone by. Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-247-8 , p. 26 ff.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} History of Kirchlein , burgkunstadt.eu, accessed on December 28, 2011
4. ^ History of 1. FC Kirchlein ( Memento from June 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), fc-kirchlein.de, accessed on December 28, 2011
5. ^ Genealogical place directory of Kirchlein , gov.genealogy.net, accessed on April 11, 2011
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Annual report of the city of Burgkunstadt from 2006. (No longer available online.) In: publish.kommonline-gmbh.de. Archived from the original on January 27, 2017 ; accessed on June 5, 2018 . 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. ↑ ^{a b c} Annual report of the city of Burgkunstadt from 2007 , publish.kommonline-gmbh.de, accessed on December 28, 2011
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Annual report of the city of Burgkunstadt from 2010 , publish.kommonline-gmbh.de, accessed on December 28, 2011
9. ↑ Annual report of the city of Burgkunstadt from 2011, p. 46 (PDF; 3.1 MB), publish.kommonline-gmbh.de, accessed on December 28, 2012

literature

• Freiwillige Feuerwehr Kirchlein (Ed.): 100 Years of the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Kirchlein , Burgkunstadt 1987, scope: 80 pages
• Gerhard Kleuderlein, Karl-Heinz Goldfuß: Ortschronik von Kirchlein , Verlag Bruckmann, Munich 1977, volume: 44 pages

Web links

• Official website of Kirchlein

Commons : Kirchlein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files