District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '  N , 12 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
Administrative headquarters :	Wunsiedel
Area :	606.43 km 2
Residents:	72,655 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	120 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	WUN, MAK, REH , SEL
Circle key :	09 4 79
Circle structure:	17 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	Jean-Paul-Strasse 9 95632 Wunsiedel
Website :	www.landkreis-wunsiedel.de
District Administrator :	Peter Berek ( CSU )
Location of the district of Wunsiedel i.Fichtelgebirge in Bavaria

District office Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge

The district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge , officially the district of Wunsiedel i.Fichtelgebirge , is a district in the east of the administrative district of Upper Franconia in Bavaria . The district is a member of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region .

geography

location

The district has a major share in the Fichtelgebirge , which is shaped like a horseshoe and occupies the north, west and south of the district. In between lies the Selb-Wunsiedler plateau , a flat undulating landscape at an altitude of about 600 meters. In the east of the circle the landscape drops to about 440 meters. The highest elevation of the Fichtelgebirge, the Schneeberg , lies in the west of the district. The largest and longest river in the district is the Eger , which rises in the Fichtel Mountains, then flows through the district in a west-east direction and leaves Germany at Hohenberg in the direction of the Czech Republic .

Neighboring areas

The district borders counterclockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Hof , Bayreuth and Tirschenreuth . In the east and northeast it borders on the Czech administrative district Karlsbad ( Karlovarský kraj ).

history

Regional courts

Since the 13th century, the area of ​​today's district has belonged mainly to the Principality of Bayreuth or, after 1791, its legal successor, the Kingdom of Prussia . It was divided into the six offices of Hohenberg, Kirchenlamitz, Selb, Thierstein, Weißenstadt and Wunsiedel, which is why it is also known as the Sechsämterland . In 1810 the area was bought by France from Bavaria. In 1812 the regional courts of Wunsiedel and Kirchenlamitz as well as Rehau and Selb were established. The city of Marktredwitz - originally owned by the free imperial city of Eger - also became part of Bavaria in 1816 and was assigned to the Wunsiedel district court. Wunsiedel and the district courts Kirchenlamitz, Rehau and Selb all belonged to the Mainkreis, from 1817 to the Obermainkreis . The Obermainkreis was renamed Upper Franconia in 1838 . In 1859, the new Thiersheim district court was created from twelve communities of the Wunsiedel district court and four communities of the Selb district court .

District Offices

The district office of Wunsiedel was newly formed in 1862 through the merger of the older district courts Kirchenlamitz, Thiersheim and Wunsiedel. Likewise, the district courts of Rehau and Selb were combined to form the Rehau district office. In 1879 the Rehau District Office gave some communities to the Hof District Office. In 1919 the towns of Selb left the district office of Rehau (on July 1) and Marktredwitz from the district office of Wunsiedel (on December 1) and became urban districts .

Counties

On January 1, 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. So the district offices became Rehau and Wunsiedel.

On April 1, 1939, the municipality of Dörflas near Marktredwitz was given to the city of Marktredwitz.

On April 1, 1940, the cities of Selb and Marktredwitz were incorporated into the districts of Rehau and Wunsiedel, but this was reversed on April 1, 1946 (Selb) and April 1, 1948 (Marktredwitz).

District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains

As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the district of Wunsiedel, the southern part of the district of Rehau and the previously independent cities of Marktredwitz and Selb were combined into a new district, which was initially called the district of Wunsiedel. The new district should actually get the name Fichtelgebirge district. The proposal met with opposition in the Bayreuth district , which also has a significant share in the Fichtelgebirge. On May 1, 1973, the district was given its current name District Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge. The two cities of Marktredwitz and Selb were given the status of a large district town after they lost their district freedom .

Population development

Population development in the Wunsiedel district since 1840

From 1988 to 2018 the population decreased from 86,683 to 73,178 by 13,505 inhabitants or by 15.6%. No other district in Bavaria experienced such a sharp decline in population.

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	44.111	58.166	78,864	109,049	106.266	103.056	87,941	89,560	89,267	86,044	81,631	76,848	73.185

politics

District administrators

• 1945–1946: Benno Timper (acting)
• 1946–1951: Heinrich Zeitler
• 1952–1953: Erhard Gräbner
• 1954–1972: Heinrich Drechsel, SPD
• 1972–1990: Christoph Schiller , SPD
• 1990–2008: Peter Seißer, SPD
• 2008–2020: Karl Döhler , CSU
• since 2020: Peter Berek , CSU

Karl Döhler won the district election on March 2, 2008 . This is the first time that the CSU has appointed the district administrator in Wunsiedel since it was founded after the Second World War. The Bundestag member Petra Ernstberger from the SPD was unsuccessful in the election . In the municipal elections in Bavaria in 2014 , Döhler was re-elected as district administrator with 59 percent. The SPD candidate Jörg Nürnberger came to 41 percent.

In the Bavarian local elections on March 15, 2020 , Peter Berek , previous mayor of Bad Alexandersbad , was elected as the new district administrator. He received 53.6 percent, his competitor from the SPD, Holger Griesshammer, 38.3 percent of the vote. The candidate of the Greens, Brigitte Artmann, made up 8.1 percent. The turnout was 61.7 percent.

District council

District election Wunsiedel i. F. 2020

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40

30th

20th

10

0

38.4%

24.8%

19.9%

8.9%

7.3%

0.7%

CSU

SPD

FW ^c

Green

AfD

FDP

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

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-2.7  % p

-8.4  % p

+ 0.8  % p

+ 2.3  % p

+ 7.3  % p

+ 0.7  % p

CSU

SPD

FW ^c

Green

AfD

FDP

Remarks:

^c FDP and AfD not started in 2014

The district council consists of 50 district councilors and the district administrator. The local elections in 2002, 2008 and 2014 and 2020 resulted in the following allocation of seats:

	CSU	SPD	Free voters	GREEN	AfD	total
2002	28	23	7th	2	-	60
2008	25th	23	10	2	-	60
2014	25th	20th	11	4th	-	60
2020	19th	13	10	4th	4th	50

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Under the shield head quartered by silver and black, split by gold and red; in front a red-tongued black eagle at the crack; behind a silver deer antler. "
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The three parts of the coat of arms represent the old district of Wunsiedel with the Zollernvierung (above) as well as elements of the coat of arms of the two former independent cities of Marktredwitz (left) and Selb (right).

Economy and Infrastructure

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge was ranked 354th out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with “future risks”. According to the study, it offers the second worst future prospects of all districts in Bavaria.

traffic

rail

The district of Wunsiedel, located in the Sechsämterland on the eastern edge of the Fichtelgebirge, also includes the Marktredwitz train station . This is where the Bavarian State Railways line, which came from Hof ​​from the north in 1877/78 and continued to Wiesau – Weiden in 1882, crossed with the east-west line from Nuremberg to Schirnding, which opened in 1878/79 and reached Eger in 1883.

Before that, north-south traffic between Hof and Wiesau ran via Eger – Waldsassen for more than ten years, after the Hof-Egerer railway began operating in 1865 . In 1894 the city of Selb was opened up via a local railway. The line ran from the Selb-Plößberg station on the Hof – Eger line to the Selb Stadt station. In 1914 the local line was extended via Thiersheim to Holenbrunn on the Hof – Marktredwitz line.

In 1877 the Bavarian State Railways connected the city of Wunsiedel to the main line at Holenbrunn via a local line, and in 1913 the line was extended to Leupoldsdorf. In 1899 the Kirchenlamitz – Weißenstadt local railway line was added. The railway network was exactly 100 kilometers long. Today only 59 kilometers of this are served by passenger trains, 47 kilometers of which are mainly served by the Länderbahn .

After the end of the cross-border passenger traffic Selb-Plößberg - Asch in 1945 further closures took place:

• 1972 Kirchenlamitz Ost – Weißenstadt, twelve kilometers
• 1975 Holenbrunn – Wunsiedel – Leupoldsdorf, eleven kilometers
• 1986 Selb Stadt – Höchstädt – Thierstein – Thiersheim – Holenbrunn, twelve kilometers

After the Wunsiedler city station was closed for passenger traffic, the Holenbrunn station was renamed Wunsiedel-Holenbrunn.

The district's railway junction is the Marktredwitz station , where the Nuremberg – Eger and Hof – Regensburg lines intersect.

The independent cities of Hof and Coburg as well as the districts of Wunsiedel , Kulmbach , Kronach , Coburg and Hof have been planning to join the VGN since 2018 .

Street

The federal motorway 93 runs through the district in a south-north direction from Regensburg to the Hochfranken triangle . In a west-east direction, the federal highway 303 runs through the district to the Czech border near Schirnding.

→ Main article : List of district roads in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge

Public facilities

police

In the Wunsiedel district there is a police station in Wunsiedel and one in Marktredwitz with the police station in Selb, as well as a border police station in Selb.

Communities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Cities Arzberg (5127) Hohenberg adEger (1456) Kirchenlamitz (3189) Marktleuthen (3013) Marktredwitz , large district town (17,228) Schoenwald (3221) Selb , large district town (14,895) Weissenstadt (3099) Wunsiedel (9295) Markets Schirnding (1120) Thiersheim (1775) Thierstein (1162) Other communities Bad Alexandersbad (966) Höchstädt i.Fichtelgebirge (1063) Nail (1692) Roslau (2126) Tröstau (2228) Unregulated areas (108.91 km²) Kaiserhammer Forst-Ost (8.01 km²) Martinlamitzer Forst-Süd (8.47 km²) Meierhöfer side (2.97 km²) Neubauer Forst-Süd (3.13 km²) Tröstauer Forst-Ost (9.71 km²) Tröstauer Forst-West (14.46 km²) Vordorfer Forest (9.71 km²) Weißenstadter Forst-Nord (5.45 km²) Weißenstadter Forst-Süd (15.11 km²) The former municipality-free areas Hohenberger Forst (13.91 km²) and Selber Forst (17.97 km²) were incorporated into the respective municipalities with effect from April 1, 2013.

Administrative communities Schirnding with the member communities Hohenberg adEger (city) and Schirnding (market) Thiersheim with the member communities Höchstädt i.Fichtelgebirge, Thiersheim (market) and Thierstein (market) Tröstau with the member communities Bad Alexandersbad, Nagel and Tröstau

Former parishes

The following municipalities lost their independence while they belonged to the district:

Bergnersreuth , on January 1, 1978 in Arzberg Bernstein , on January 1, 1978 in Wunsiedel Birkenbühl , on January 1, 1978 in Thierstein Fire near Marktredwitz , on January 1, 1978 in Marktredwitz Dörflas near Kirchenlamitz , on January 1st, 1978 in Kirchenlamitz Dörflas near Marktredwitz , on April 1, 1939 in Marktredwitz Dürnberg , 1956 to Oberröslau Erkersreuth , on January 1, 1978 at Selb 1 Fischern , to Schirnding on January 1, 1978 Franconia , on January 1, 1978 in Weißenstadt Grafenreuth , on January 1, 1978 in Thiersheim Großwendern , on January 1, 1978 at Marktleuthen Haid , on January 1, 1977 in Arzberg Hebanz , joined Schwarzenhammer on July 1, 1953 Heidelheim , January 1, 1978 at Selb 1 Hildenbach , on January 1, 1978 in Wunsiedel Holenbrunn , on January 1st, 1978 in Wunsiedel Korbersdorf , on January 1, 1975 in Marktredwitz Kothigenbibersbach , on April 1, 1977 in Thiersheim Längenau , on January 1, 1978 at Selb 1 Lauterbach , on January 1, 1978 at Selb 1 Leutendorf , on July 1, 1972 in Marktredwitz Lorenzreuth , on January 1, 1978 in Marktredwitz Ludwigsfeld , in 1925 in Oberröslau Mühlbach , on January 1, 1978 at Selb 1

Neudes , on January 1, 1978 to Marktleuthen Neuhaus an der Eger , on January 1, 1978 in Hohenberg 1 Niederlamitz , on January 1st, 1978 in Kirchenlamitz Oberredwitz , on April 1, 1939 in Marktredwitz Oberröslau , on January 1st, 1966 in Röslau Oberweißbach , on January 1, 1978 at Selb 1 Raumetengrün , on January 1st, 1978 in Kirchenlamitz Reicholdsgrün , on January 1, 1978 in Kirchenlamitz Röthenbach , on January 1, 1977 in Arzberg Schlottenhof , on January 1st, 1978 in Arzberg Schönbrunn , on January 1st, 1975 in Wunsiedel Schwarzenhammer , on January 1, 1978 in Thierstein Selb-Plößberg , on January 1, 1978 to Selb 1 Seußen , on January 1st, 1978 in Arzberg Silberbach , on January 1, 1978 at Selb 1 Spielberg , on January 1, 1978 to Selb 1 Stemmas , on January 1st, 1977 in Thiersheim Thölau , on July 1, 1974 in Marktredwitz Unterröslau , on January 1st, 1966 in Röslau Unter Weißenbach , on January 1, 1978 at Selb 1 Vielitz , on January 1, 1978 to Selb 1 Voitsumra , on January 1st, 1978 in Weißenstadt Vordorf , on January 1st, 1978 in Tröstau Wölsau , on January 1, 1976 in Marktredwitz Wölsauerhammer , on January 1st, 1977 in Marktredwitz

¹ to 1972 in the district of Rehau

The municipality of Sichersreuth was renamed Alexanderbad in 1937 and the municipality of Grün was renamed Unterröslau in 1963 .

Protected areas

In the administrative district of Wunsiedel there are 13 nature reserves , two landscape protection areas , 13 FFH areas and 54 designated geotopes . (As of August 2016)

See also:

• List of nature reserves in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge
• List of landscape protection areas in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge
• List of FFH areas in the Wunsiedel district
• List of geotopes in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign WUN when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today. Until the 1990s, vehicles from the town of Marktredwitz received license plates with the letter pairs JA to RZ and the numbers from 1 to 99. The vehicles from the town of Selb got license plates with the letter pairs SC to ZZ and the numbers from 1 to 99 July 10, 2013, in connection with the license plate liberalization , the distinguishing marks MAK (Marktredwitz), REH (Rehau) and SEL (Selb) are also available.

literature

• Upper Franconian Publishing House Hof (ed.): The district of Wunsiedel . 2nd Edition. Publishing house for authorities and economy R. Alfred Hoeppner GmbH, Hof (Saale) 1975, DNB  760334978 .
• 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 .

Web links

Commons : District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge
• Literature from and about the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on the coat of arms of the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} sheet "Data 2", Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 597 .
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
4. ^ District of Wunsiedel: District election of Wunsiedel i. Fichtelgebirge , March 15, 2020, accessed on March 17, 2020.
5. ↑ Peggy Biczysko: Declaration of love to the district , in: Frankenpost , March 15, 2020, accessed on March 17, 2020.
6. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 5, 2017 .
7. ↑ 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.  
8. ↑ Bavarian Police - Border Police Inspection Selb. Retrieved June 24, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Bavarian Police - Marktredwitz Police Station with Selb Police Station. Retrieved June 24, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Bavarian Police - Wunsiedel Police Station. Retrieved June 24, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Upper Franconian Official Gazette of March 26, 2013 ( Memento of the original of March 4, 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.