Copper mountain

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Kulmbach
Management Community :	Untereinach
Height :	467 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.28 km 2
Residents:	1057 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	128 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	95362
Area code :	09227
License plate :	KU, EBS , SAN
Community key :	09 4 77 129
LOCODE :	DE KFB
City structure:	5 districts
; City administration address :	Marktplatz 4 ; 95362 Kupferberg
Website :	www.stadt-kupferberg.de
Mayor :	Alfred Kolenda (Independent Kupferberger Voters)
Location of the city of Kupferberg in the district of Kulmbach

Kupferberg is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach and a member of the Untersteinach administrative community . Kupferberg lies between the Franconian Forest and the Fichtel Mountains and is one of the smallest cities in Germany with around 1060 inhabitants.

City structure

Kupferberg is divided into five districts:

history

Copper mountain

The Bamberg bishop Heinrich II von Sternberg granted city rights in 1326. At that time, over 3000 people lived there. In mining around 1,700 miners were employed. In Kupferberg, copper contents of 15% per ton of ore were mined at times , which is still considered one of the most outstanding copper mineralizations in Europe. The former office of the bishopric of Bamberg was swapped between Bavaria and Prussia after secularization in the main state comparison. With the Principality of Bayreuth , it fell to France in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807. In 1810 the Kingdom of Bavaria came into being . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

The Sebastian Chapel in Kupferberg was rebuilt in 1824. The city belonged to the dissolved Stadtsteinach district and was incorporated into the Kulmbach district on July 1, 1972 .

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population fell from 1150 to 1049 by 101 or 8.8%. On December 31, 1996, Kupferberg had 1214 inhabitants.

City council

The city council has 13 members including the mayor:

CSU 6 seats
SPD 3 seats
Independent Kupferberger voters 4 seats

(As of: local elections on March 16, 2014)

Mayor Hans Joachim Hösch died on September 15, 2015 after a long illness. Since then, the second mayor, Alfred Kolenda, has been acting on a temporary basis. Kolenda was elected First Mayor on January 17, 2016, and took office on January 19, 2016. Harald Michel (UKW) has been mayor since the mayoral election in 2020.

Culture and sights

Museums

Mining Museum Kupferberg , information and pictures from the copperberg mining history.

Architectural monuments

Soil monuments

Natural monuments

The 589 meter high Peterleinstein magnetic mountain between Kupferberg and Marktleugast protrudes prominently from the forest. A special feature are the rare plants that can be found there. The mountain consists of greenish serpentinite , a very basic rock on which only sparse vegetation thrives; it is also magnetic.

sons and daughters of the town

Gottfried Joseph Gabriel Findel (1828–1905), Masonic writer.
Peter Zeidler called Hofmann (1525–1593), a jeweler with extensive business connections.

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Kupferberg . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 247-250 ( digitized version ).

Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Kupferberg . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 641 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Wikisource: Kupferberg in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Website of the Mining Museum Kupferberg
Entry on the coat of arms of Kupferberg in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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 ).

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