Hof district

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Coat of arms of the district of Hof Map of Germany, position of the district of Hof highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 11 ° 48'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Franconia
Administrative headquarters : court
Area : 892.52 km 2
Residents: 94,801 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 106 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : HO , MÜB , NAI, REH , SAN
Circle key : 09 4 75
Circle structure: 27 municipalities
Address of the
district administration:
Schaumbergstrasse 14
95032 Hof
Website : www.landkreis-hof.de
District Administrator : Oliver Baer ( CSU )
Location of the district of Hof in Bavaria
Weiden in der Oberpfalz Straubing Würzburg Schwabach Schweinfurt Regensburg Rosenheim Nürnberg Nürnberg Passau Landshut Memmingen Kaufbeuren Kempten (Allgäu) Ingolstadt Fürth Hof Erlangen Coburg Bayreuth Bamberg Augsburg München Aschaffenburg Amberg Ansbach Landkreis Würzburg Landkreis Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen Landkreis Weilheim-Schongau Landkreis Unterallgäu Landkreis Traunstein Landkreis Tirschenreuth Landkreis Straubing-Bogen Landkreis Starnberg Landkreis Schweinfurt Landkreis Schwandorf Landkreis Rottal-Inn Landkreis Roth Landkreis Rosenheim Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld Landkreis Regensburg Landkreis Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm Landkreis Regen Landkreis Passau Landkreis Ostallgäu Landkreis Oberallgäu Landkreis Nürnberger Land Landkreis Neu-Ulm Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen Landkreis München Landkreis Mühldorf am Inn Landkreis Miltenberg Landkreis Miesbach Landkreis Main-Spessart Landkreis Lindau (Bodensee) Landkreis Lichtenfels Landkreis Landshut Landkreis Landsberg am Lech Landkreis Kulmbach Landkreis Kronach Landkreis Kitzingen Landkreis Kelheim Landkreis Hof Landkreis Haßberge Landkreis Günzburg Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen Landkreis Fürth Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck Landkreis Freyung-Grafenau Landkreis Freising Landkreis Forchheim Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt Landkreis Erding Landkreis Eichstätt Landkreis Ebersberg Landkreis Donau-Ries Landkreis Dingolfing-Landau Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau Landkreis Deggendorf Landkreis Dachau Landkreis Coburg Landkreis Cham Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land Landkreis Bayreuth Landkreis Bamberg Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen Landkreis Bad Kissingen Landkreis Augsburg Landkreis Aschaffenburg Landkreis Ansbach Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach Landkreis Altötting Landkreis Aichach-Friedberg Bodensee Schweiz Österreich Baden-Württemberg Hessen Tschechien Sachsen Thüringenmap
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Landscape near Gottmannsgrün

The district of Hof is located in the north-east of the administrative district of Upper Franconia in Bavaria . The seat of the district is the city of Hof , which itself does not belong to the district, but is not a district. The district is a member of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region .

geography

Geographical location

The area of ​​the district has an extension of about 35 km in north-south and west-east directions. The independent city of Hof is completely surrounded by the district of Hof, but does not itself belong to the district area. The border with the Czech Republic is about 25 km long. The only border between the Free State of Bavaria and the Free State of Saxony is in the district of Hof.

Geographically, the area of ​​the district is divided into four landscapes: In the north-west are the foothills of the Franconian Forest with its highest elevation, the Döbraberg ( 794.6  m above sea  level ), and the Selbitztal. The Selbitz rises in the southern district, flows north through the towns of Selbitz and Naila, among other places, and flows into the Saale at the district boundary , which also rises in the south of the district and east of the Selbitz flows through the district town of Hof. In the east of the district is the Bavarian Vogtland . The foothills of the Fichtelgebirge with the Großer Waldstein (878 m) stretch to the south . Between the Franconian Forest and the Fichtel Mountains lies the Münchberg gneiss slab , which is mainly used for agriculture.

Neighboring districts and cities

Adjacent circles are:

Saale-Orla district
( Thuringia )
Vogtlandkreis
( Saxony )
District of Kronach Neighboring communities Okres Cheb
(German: Eger district; Czech Republic )
District of Kulmbach Bayreuth district District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains

In addition, there is the completely enclosed city ​​of Hof in the east of the district.

Communities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Cities

  1. Helmbrechts (8369)
  2. Lichtenberg (1037)
  3. Munchberg (10,107)
  4. Naila (7647)
  5. Rehau (9398)
  6. Schauenstein (1899)
  7. Schwarzenbach am Wald (4323)
  8. Schwarzenbach adSaale (6926)
  9. Selbitz (4250)

Markets

  1. Bad Steben (3398)
  2. Oberkotzau (5362)
  3. Sparneck (1572)
  4. Stammbach (2381)
  5. Zell im Fichtelgebirge (1928)

Other communities

  1. Mountain (2116)
  2. Döhlau (3845)
  3. Feilitzsch (2807)
  4. Gattendorf (1023)
  5. Gerold green (2711)
  6. Issigau (1011)
  7. Koeditz (2453)
  8. Konradsreuth (3137)
  9. Leupold Green (1201)
  10. Regnitzlosau (2316)
  11. Töpen (1018)
  12. Trogen (1417)
  13. Weissdorf (1149)
Schwarzenbach an der Saale Zell im Fichtelgebirge Weißdorf Trogen (Oberfranken) Töpen Stammbach Sparneck Selbitz (Oberfranken) Schwarzenbach am Wald Schauenstein Rehau Regnitzlosau Oberkotzau Naila Münchberg Lichtenberg (Oberfranken) Konradsreuth Köditz Issigau Helmbrechts Geroldsgrün Gattendorf (Oberfranken) Feilitzsch Döhlau Berg (Oberfranken) Bad Steben Landkreis Kronach Hof (Saale) Landkreis Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge Landkreis Kulmbach Landkreis Bayreuth Martinlamitzer Forst-Nord Geroldsgrüner Forst Gerlaser Forst Forst Schwarzenbach a.Wald Sachsen Thüringen TschechienMunicipalities in HO.svg
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Administrative communities

  1. Feilitzsch
    (communities Feilitzsch, Gattendorf, Töpen and Trogen)
  2. Lichtenberg
    (City of Lichtenberg and Issigau municipality)
  3. Schauenstein
    (town of Schauenstein and municipality of Leupoldsgrün)
  4. Sparneck
    ( Sparneck market and community of Weißdorf)

Unregulated areas (37.60 km²)

  1. Schwarzenbach am Wald forest (8.28 km²)
  2. Gerlaser Forest (5.83 km²)
  3. Geroldsgrüner Forst (16.71 km²)
  4. Martinlamitzer Forst-Nord (6.78 km²)

history

Until the 16th century, the area of ​​the district of Hof belonged mainly to the margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth . After Margrave Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach had sold his two Franconian principalities of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth for an annual pension of 300,000 florins to Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia in 1792 , the latter placed the Hof area under the administration of Karl August von Hardenberg . This introduced the so-called Hardenberg organization.

From October 9, 1806, the Principality of Bayreuth was under French military administration. The Kingdom of Prussia was forced to renounce its Frankish principalities once and for all in the Peace of Tilsit . On February 28, 1810, the former Prussian province of Bayreuth was politically, economically and financially incorporated into Bavaria on July 1, 1810 by a state treaty between France and the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1812 the court district court was formed. The city of Hof became an immediate city . The administrative and judicial districts belonged to the Mainkreis , which was referred to as Obermainkreis from 1817 and as Upper Franconia from 1838. In 1852 the district parish Hof was formed.

District Offices

The district office in 1862, court followed the same area district court yard. On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the district office of Hof received municipalities from the district office of Rehau on January 1, 1880. On January 1, 1906, the municipalities Hofeck and Moschendorf of the district office were incorporated into the city of Hof.

Hof district

On January 1, 1939, the term district was introduced in the German Reich . The district office of Hof became the district of Hof. As part of the administrative reform in Bavaria , the district court was 1 July 1972 to the district Naila , the district Münchberg (without Gefrees and Streitau ), the northern part of the district Rehau and the community Dürrenwaid ( County Kronach ) that the municipality Geroldsgruen affiliated was enlarged. The southern part of the district of Rehau was incorporated into the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge with the independent town of Selb . The town of Gefrees (district of Münchberg) with Streitau fell to the enlarged district of Bayreuth . The municipality of Unterkotzau was incorporated into the city of Hof.

On January 1, 1977, the municipality of Leimitz was incorporated into the city of Hof. At the same time, the communities of Gösmes and Enchenreuth came from the district of Kulmbach (until 1972 district of Stadtsteinach ) to the district of Hof. They were incorporated into the city of Helmbrechts . On May 1, 1978, the district of Hof gave the communities of Haidt and Wölbattendorf, as in 1972 the districts of Eppenreuth , Lausenhof, Pirk and Stein of the dissolved community of Martinsreuth , to the independent city of Hof.

Municipalities until the territorial reform 1971/78

Before the regional reform, the then smaller district of Hof had 40 communities. The communities that are still independent today are highlighted in bold :

former parish today's parish today's rural / urban district
Auten green Oberkotzau Hof district
mountain mountain Hof district
Bruck mountain Hof district
Brunnenthal Köditz Hof district
Bug mountain Hof district
Döhlau Döhlau Hof district
Eisenbuehl mountain Hof district
Fattigau Oberkotzau Hof district
Feilitzsch Feilitzsch Hof district
Föhrenreuth Konradsreuth Hof district
Förbau Schwarzenbach adSaale Hof district
Gattendorf Gattendorf Hof district
Gottfriedsreuth Schwarzenbach adSaale Hof district
Godman's Green mountain Hof district
Hadermannsgrün mountain Hof district
Haidt court independent city of Hof
Isaar Pots Hof district
Joditz Köditz Hof district
Köditz Köditz Hof district
Konradsreuth Konradsreuth Hof district
Leimitz Hof and Gattendorf independent city of Hof
Leupoldsgrün Leupoldsgrün Hof district
Lipperts Leupoldsgrün Hof district
Martinsreuth Konradsreuth Hof district
Munchenreuth Feilitzsch Hof district
Oberkotzau Oberkotzau Hof district
Rudolphstein mountain Hof district
Schlegel Köditz Hof district
Snoring Reuth mountain Hof district
Schwarzenbach adSaale Schwarzenbach adSaale Hof district
Silberbach Konradsreuth Hof district
Stobersreuth Schwarzenbach adSaale Hof district
Tauperlitz Döhlau Hof district
Deep green mountain Hof district
Pots Pots Hof district
Trogen Trogen Hof district
Unterkotzau court independent city of Hof
Four show Regnitzlosau Hof district
Völbattendorf court independent city of Hof
Zedtwitz Feilitzsch Hof district

Population development

Population development in the district of Hof since 1840

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population fell from 104,487 to 95,311 by 9,176 or 8.8%. On December 31, 1995, the district had 110,625 inhabitants. From 1995 to 2012 the district lost over 12,000 or 11.5% of its inhabitants. Of the 27 municipalities, only six municipalities (all in the vicinity of Hof) had more inhabitants than 30 years earlier in 2018.

The following figures refer to the territorial status on May 25, 1987.

Population development
year 1840 1900 1939 1950 1961 1970 1987 1991 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Residents 71,618 83,833 94.272 128,803 120,656 120,158 105,628 108,812 110,625 109.026 105.715 100.234 96,429

politics

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the district of Hof
Blazon : “Split; in front, in black, a golden lion turned to the left, crowned in red and armored in red; in the back in gold with a border decorated with red and silver, a red armored black lion. "

List of district administrators

End of the Second World War up to the regional reform in 1972 :

Period District Administrator Deputy District Administrator
May 1945–30.06.1946 Anselm Otto Joel - independent
July 1, 1946– May 31, 1948 Paul Weppler - SPD Franz Gutschke
June 1, 1948– April 30, 1972 Heinz Schulze - SPD Franz Gutschke (until April 30, 1952)
Otto Popp, Schwarzenbach adSaale - SPD (from May 1, 1952)
Max Frank, Selbitz (until 1972)
Walter Baumann, Schwarzenbach adSaale (until 1972)

After the territorial reform in 1972:

Period District Administrator Deputy District Administrator Another deputy of the district administrator
May 1, 1972 to April 30, 1978 Heinz Schulze, Hof - SPD Ewald Zuber, Münchberg - SPD Edgar Pöpel, Rehau - CSU (until March 8, 1973), Walter Baumann, Schwarzenbach adSaale - CSU (from April 14, 1975)
May 1, 1978– April 30, 1984 Ewald Zuber, Münchberg - SPD Walter Baumann, Schwarzenbach adSaale - CSU Adolf Thumser, Selbitz - ÜWG / FDP
May 1, 1984 to April 30, 1990 Ewald Zuber, Münchberg - SPD Peter Schneider, Schwarzenbach adSaale - SPD Willi Kaiser, Naila - SPD
May 1, 1990 to April 30, 1996 Ewald Zuber, Münchberg - SPD Klaus Gruber, Feilitzsch - SPD Klaus Wolfrum, Helmbrechts - SPD
May 1, 1996 to April 30, 2002 Bernd Hering , Jägersruh - SPD Klaus Wolfrum, Helmbrechts - SPD (until March 13, 1999), Klaus Adelt, Selbitz - SPD (from March 13, 1999) Erhard Hick, Feilitzsch - ÜWG-FW
May 1, 2002 to April 30, 2008 Bernd Hering, Jägersruh - SPD Klaus Adelt, Selbitz - SPD Hansjürgen Lommer, Naila - FW
May 1, 2008– April 30, 2014 Bernd Hering, Jägersruh - SPD Hansjürgen Lommer, Naila - FW Alexander Eberl, Schwarzenbach adSaale - SPD
May 1, 2014– April 30, 2020 Oliver Bär , Berg - CSU Frank Stumpf, Naila - FW Hans-Peter Baumann, Schwarzenbach adSaale - CSU
since May 1st, 2020 Oliver Bär, Berg - CSU Frank Stumpf, Naila - FW Annika Popp, Leupoldsgrün - CSU

District council

District election 2020
Turnout : 65.7% (2014: 64.3%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
40.7%
7.8%
6.2%
20.5%
1.3%
13.8%
2.9%
6.0%
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-2.8  % p
+ 3.1  % p.p.
+ 6.2  % p.p.
-9.5  % p
-0.3  % p
-1.6  % p
-1.9  % p
+ 6.0  % p

The Hof district council consists of 60 district councilors and the district administrator. The local elections since the territorial reform in 1972 led to the following allocation of seats for the district councils

Parties and groups of voters 1972 1978 1984 1990 1996 2002 2008 2014 2020
CSU 21st 26th 25th 22nd 24 26th 27 26th 24
Green - - 1 2 3 2 2 3 5
AfD - - - - - - - - 4th
SPD 30th 27 28 27 26th 23 19th 18th 12
FDP 1 2 1 1 - 1 1 1 1
Free voters (FW) / ÜWG 4th 4th 4th 3 5 6th 8th 9 8th
Active district citizens (ALB) - - 1 1 2 2 3 3 2
JU - - - - - - - - 4th
Voter union - - - 1 - - - - -
republican - - - 3 - - - - -
Federation of Expellees / All-German Party 2 1 - - - - - - -
Free community of voters 2 - - - - - - - -
total 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60

The ALB entered into a list connection with the SPD for the local elections in 2002, 2008 and 2014. List connections were banned by the Bavarian State Parliament for the 2020 local elections.

Sponsorship

In 1954, the district took on the sponsorship of the expelled Sudeten Germans from the Asch district .

Economy and Infrastructure

In the future atlas 2016 , the district of Hof was ranked 199th out of 402 districts, municipal associations and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.

Companies

The district of Hof has an industrial density that is far above average (number of employees per 1000 inhabitants). The most important industries are the textile industry, the manufacture of plastic goods, healthcare and the construction industry. Many of the employees work in the automotive supply industry. The Pole-Position automotive supplier park in Hof , which was set up together with the municipality of Gattendorf , is intended to expand competencies in this area. 34% of the industrial employees work in the textile industry, 10% in mechanical engineering, 14% in the clothing industry and 12% in the food industry. The Hof area with the neighboring districts of Kulmbach and Bayreuth is one of the most important textile regions in Germany.

traffic

railroad

The Kingdom of Bavaria built the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn via Bamberg and Kulmbach to Hof as early as 1848 and carried it on to the Saxon border. The connection to the south was initially established in 1865 by the Hof-Egerer Railway , until the Bavarian State Railway opened the direct route via Marktredwitz in 1877. In 1887 two local railways started operating: the Hof – Naila – Marxgrün line , extended to Bad Steben from 1898, and the Münchberg – Helmbrechts line , which was continued in 1924 to Selbitz. After the turn of the century, the Münchberg – Zell route followed in 1902 and Naila – Schwarzenbach in 1910 . In 1901, the Prussian State Railways connected Marxgrün with the Thuringian Blankenstein via the Höllentalbahn .

In the district of Hof, 37 of a total of 129 kilometers of passenger traffic routes have now been closed:

Streets

District extending highways A 9 , A 72 , A 93 , as well as the federal roads B 2 , B 15 , B 173 and B 289 .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign HO when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today. Since August 4, 2014, the distinctive signs MÜB (Münchberg), NAI (Naila), REH (Rehau) and SAN (Stadtsteinach) have been available.

air traffic

The district and the city of Hof can be reached from the air via the Hof-Plauen airfield in Hof-Pirk, but there has been no scheduled flight connection since 2012.

Public facilities

police

In the district of Hof there is a police inspection in Münchberg and Naila as well as a guard in Rehau, which is attached to the inspection in Hof.

fire Department

The municipal fire brigades in the district (Kreisbrandinspektion) are divided into three inspection areas, which include 152 volunteer fire brigades and two plant fire brigades. The district of Hof is responsible for setting up and operating the UG-ÖEL . In addition, three fire engines (water pumping, water transport and fire) are operated at the district level, which were put together from individual vehicles from various fire departments. The District Fire Brigade Association Hof e. V. represents the interests of the fire brigades in the Hof district, in which almost all fire brigades are organized as members. The district fire brigade association is divided into 13 departments.

technical aid organization

There is a local branch of the THW in Naila , consisting of a technical train with platoon troops, rescue group, specialist group emergency supply and emergency repair and the specialist group water damage / pumps (A).

education

There is a branch of the Hof University of Applied Sciences in Münchberg. In the district there are two high schools, three secondary schools, 24 elementary and middle schools, 14 technical and vocational schools, a community college and other educational institutions.

health

Hospitals of the Hochfranken clinics with care level I exist in Münchberg and Naila. Specializations are orthopedics and spinal surgery, internal medicine, general, visceral and trauma surgery, anesthesia and intensive care medicine, acute geriatrics and early rehabilitation, gynecology and obstetrics, radiology, nursing, physiotherapy, and ear, nose and throat medicine. The tasks of the health department are incumbent on the Hof district office, department 303, health system.

Protected areas

There are seven nature reserves , 13 landscape protection areas , nine FFH areas and 60 designated geotopes in the district of Hof . (As of August 2016)

See also:

Others

From a linguistic point of view, the language border between the East Franconian and North Bavarian dialect and within East Franconian between Upper Franconian and Vogtland is relevant to the southeast of the district of Hof .

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Hof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. "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 ).
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 485 .
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  5. Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Hof a. d. Saale. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. Entry on the coat of arms of the district of Hof  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  7. Result of the 2020 district council election on March 15, 2020 in the Hof district. District of Hof, March 27, 2020, accessed on April 15, 2020 .
  8. List connections prohibited - Landtag brings new local electoral law on the way
  9. Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prognos.com
  10. Bavarian Police - Hof Police Station with Rehau Police Station. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  11. Bavarian Police - Police Inspection Naila. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  12. Bavarian Police - Münchberg Police Station. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  13. ^ Philipp Börner: Inspection areas. In: KFV-Hof. Accessed June 24, 2020 (German).
  14. ^ THW-LV-BY Local Association Naila. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  15. Schools. Accessed June 24, 2020 (German).
  16. Departments: High Franconia Clinics | Münchberg and Naila. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .