Kleinsendelbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Forchheim
Management Community :	Dormitz
Height :	312 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.5 km 2
Residents:	1459 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	195 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91077
Area code :	09126
License plate :	FO, EBS , PEG
Community key :	09 4 74 144
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Schulstrasse 2 91077 Kleinsendelbach
Website :	www.kleinsendelbach.de
Mayoress :	Gertrud Werner ( Independent Voting Group )
Location of the community of Kleinsendelbach in the Forchheim district

Kleinsendelbach is a municipality in the Forchheim district ( Upper Franconia administrative region ) and a member of the Dormitz administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located about 15 kilometers east of Erlangen and about 15 kilometers north of Nuremberg in the Schwabach valley . Kleinsendelbach is the southernmost village in Upper Franconia.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Neunkirchen am Brand , Igensdorf , Eckental , Kalchreuth , Dormitz

Community structure

The community of Kleinsendelbach has 5 districts :

• Kleinsendelbach
• New building
• Schellenberg
• Schleinhof
• Steinbach

history

Until the church is planted

The districts were first mentioned in a document in 1062. Kleinsendelbach in today's administrative district of Upper Franconia belonged to the Bamberg Monastery , which was in the Franconian Empire from 1500 onwards . With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place came to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

20th century

In 1982 Kleinsendelbach was named the most beautiful village in the Forchheim district.

Traffic history

Kleinsendelbach used to have a train station on the Erlangen-Eschenau Railway , but it has now been closed.

politics

mayor

The first female mayor has been Gertrud Werner (Independent Voting Group) since 2008. Josef Elsinger (Independent Voting Group) was elected as deputy. Predecessors were Albert Güßregen from 2002 to 2008, Alfred Schramm from 1975 to 2002 and Willi Kupfer from 1960 to 1975. All three belonged to the Kleinsendelbach village community.

Municipal council

The municipal elections in 2014 and 2020 led to the following allocation of seats in the municipal council:

• Village community: 6 seats
• Independent electoral group: 6 seats

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "Above a shortened tip, divided diagonally by red and silver, split by blue and gold, in front a left-facing silver wolf head, behind a red-tongued black lion head, which is covered with a silver sloping bar."

Sights and infrastructure

Buildings

The chapel in Steinbach

• St. Heinrich Church (built 1952)
• Steinbach Chapel (built in 1921)
• Holy Cross Chapel Schellenberg
• Kleinsendelbach chapel

See also : List of architectural monuments in Kleinsendelbach

Community institutions

• Community children's home
• Kleinsendelbach volunteer fire department
• Steinbach volunteer fire department
• Schellenberg Volunteer Fire Brigade

Leisure and sports facilities

• Two sports fields
• A skater rink
• A basketball court
• The lakes to the west of the community in the direction of Dormitz, the shore area of ​​which is largely a nature reserve (breeding birds, rare plants). There is an information board coming from Kleinsendelbach at the fork in the road. There is partly a path on the bank. The western lake is used as a bathing lake, especially in midsummer, and is usually very busy on weekends.
• Two playgrounds in the main town, one in Schellenberg and one in Steinbach

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Kleinsendelbach . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 161 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

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

• Kleinsendelbach: 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 of Kleinsendelbach in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 4, 2020.