Langenzenn

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Langenzenn
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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 10 ° 48'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
County : Fuerth
Height : 313 m above sea level NHN
Area : 46.33 km 2
Residents: 10,601 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 229 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 90579, 91469
Area code : 09101
License plate : FÜ
Community key : 09 5 73 120
City structure: 23 parts of the community

City administration address : 		Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 7
90579 Langenzenn
Website : www.langenzenn.de
Mayor : Jürgen Habel ( CSU )
Location of the town of Langenzenn in the Fürth district
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Langenzenn (colloquial: "Langadsen") is a town in the north-western district of Fürth in Middle Franconia . As the only sub-center in the Fürth district, Langenzenn is of central importance for the northern district, especially because of the secondary schools.

geography

Geographical location

The place is on the Zenn , one of several rivers that flow into the Regnitz in the east . These rivers and larger streams have shaped the gently undulating hill country known as Rangau . The town center is 312  m above sea level. NHN . In the south of the 427  m above sea level. NHN high Dillenberg is the municipality.

Geologically, Langenzenn is located in the Central Franconian basin of the Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land . Along the Zenngrund, the Lehrberg clay layers of the central gypsum keuper extend , to the south and north of the sandstone keuper bubble sandstone . Both the sandstone as a building material and the clays for brick production have been quarried since the Middle Ages.

Langenzenn is part of the metropolitan region of Nuremberg and thus belongs to the planning region of the industrial region of Middle Franconia . The larger cities of Fürth , Erlangen and Nuremberg are easily accessible .

The area of ​​the urban area is 4633 hectares. Of this, 51% is agricultural land (350 ha of permanent grassland and 1595 ha of arable land ) and 29% is forested. The settlement and traffic areas account for 16%.

Neighboring communities

City structure

The municipality has 23 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

There are also the former parts of the municipality Fallmeisterei , Neumühle and Heinersdorfer Mühle .

history

prehistory

The first evidence of settlements in what is now the urban area comes from the Mesolithic Age (around 10,000–6,000 BC). Finds from this period, mainly arrowheads and small tools, were discovered in Hardgraben, in Stinzendorf, Erlachskirchen and Wittinghof.

With the beginning of settling in the Neolithic , man began to reclaim the landscape. The dense forests have been turned into arable land. Various stone axes , arrowheads and tools from this period have been found that can be viewed in the local history museum.

In the urban area of ​​Langenzenn there are 13 burial mounds from the Hallstatt period (around 1200–750 BC). This suggests that there was a relatively dense population during this period. The most thoroughly examined barrow is in the Hardwald and was uncovered in 1896 by the Natural History Society of Nuremberg under the direction of Wilhelm Bernett. This burial mound had a diameter of 30 and a height of 2.5 meters and consisted mainly of neatly layered sandstone blocks that came from a quarry an hour away. An estimated 1100 loads were necessary for this. After the investigation, the burial mound was almost completely removed; the stones were used to repair roads.

The earliest evidence of a fortification and thus of permanent settlement is an oak post found in 1980 on the market square, which the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier dated to the year 497.

Early Middle Ages

Otto I in his victory over Berengar II. 961

Langenzenn most likely developed from a royal court with a neighboring market settlement. The latter was mentioned as early as 903, when King Ludwig IV transferred “Zenna” to Bishop Erchanbald von Eichstätt along with other goods . The place name is derived from the same name of the water, which is based on the Anglo-Saxon word "dānian" (to be wet).

On June 16, 954, the German King and later Emperor Otto I held a large Reichstag in “Cinnam” with the aim of the conspiracy of his son Liudolf , the Archbishop of Mainz Friedrich and Konrads the Red , Otto's son-in-law, and several other nobles to end. Otto's brother, Duke Heinrich I of Bavaria, claimed that the conspirators had made a pact with the Hungarians who were invading the country at that time , which Liudolf denied. He would only have bought the free deduction. In the course of the meeting, Friedrich and Konrad submitted to the king, while Liudolf hurried away in the night and was only later found and submitted by Otto in Regensburg . After the country was reunited, Otto was able to defeat the Hungarians on August 10, 955 in the battle of the Lechfeld . The mere possibility of being able to provide for the highest imperial nobility and their entourage suggests that Langenzenn had a not inconsiderable economic power at that time.

From the royal court to the city

In 1021 Langenzenn went to the Archdiocese of Bamberg through a donation from Emperor Heinrich II. With Herzogenaurach . Shortly before, he had received it back from a Count Chunrad. The previous ownership structure is in the dark.

The Nuremberg burgraves purposefully expanded their territory in the 13th century. Langenzenn was also acquired by the Zollern (later: Hohenzollern ) around 1248 . This created new administrative areas in the region, for which the royal courts often served as administrative and court seats. So Langenzenn also became an office.

In 1331 the place was first documented as "Langencenne" to better distinguish between Ober- and Unterzenn and Zennhausen (near Neuhof an der Zenn ). In the following years, Langenzenn also received the market rights.

The linden tower, part of the city fortifications

The city charter was Langenzenn to 1360. Also during this period was neck Court of Cadolzburg moved to Langenzenn. This gave the city not only the lower jurisdiction , which it should have had since the times of the royal court, but also the high jurisdiction . This allowed serious crimes to be judged in Langenzenn and the death penalty pronounced and carried out. The Galgenberg in the east of Langenzenn still reminds of this today. The tasks and procedures of the high court were in Brandenburg [n] Embarrassing [n] Halsgerichtsordnung regulated that the Margrave Casimir and George of Brandenburg-Kulmbach initially modeled on the Bambergischen embarrassment Halsgerichtsordnung issued and later by Emperor Charles V on the Augsburg Diet enacted Constitutio Carolina Criminalis added. Many trial files have survived from this time, including several death sentences for inbreeding, manslaughter, theft and murder. From 1569 to 1592 twelve were witch trials carried out and ten women and one man as a witch / warlock burned.

The city ​​received the right to mint on January 20, 1361 from Emperor Charles IV. Langenzenn thus had all the rights of a medieval city and was an important center of the region.

In 1382 a hospital was founded in Langenzenn. The oldest part of the hospital building is the main wing in the south from 1536. The donor may have been the Bamberg canon Johannes von Seckendorff at the time .

During the city ​​war , Langenzenn was cremated by armies passing through in 1388. The Marienkirche, built in 1280, was also completely burned down. Only a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary, black with soot, but intact, could be recovered from the church ruins. From then on, and also after the Reformation until 1580, the “Black Mary” was the destination of pilgrimages. It was sold in 1842, its whereabouts are unknown.

A document from 1414 proves that Langenzenn had a bailiff appointed by the margrave . In addition to Langenzenn, the municipal bailiff also included Burggrafenhof, Dürrnbuch, Dürrnfarrnbach, Heinersdorf, Horbach, Keidenzell, Kirchfarrnbach, Laubendorf, Lohe, Oberulsenbach, Raindorf , Retzelfembach , Seukendorf , Siedelbach and Veitsbronn .

In 1464 the offices of Cadolzburg, Langenzenn and Roßtal were merged to form the Cadolzburg Oberamt, in which Langenzenn was the only place with city rights.

Modern times

In the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly , Wallenstein and Octavio Piccolomini moved through the area with their armies . The city was plundered repeatedly (around autumn 1631); many citizens fled to Nuremberg. The Austrian exiles who settled there after the war also contributed to the repopulation .

The Vogtei Langenzenn (1710)

The town hall of 1612 fell victim to the city fire of 1720. A new town hall , which still exists today, was built between 1721 and 1727.

Towards the end of the 18th century there were around 150 properties in Langenzenn. The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach city bailiff Langenzenn . The council of Langenzenn had the village and community rulership . The landlords were the Cadolzburg caste office in Brandenburg-Ansbach (town hall, office building, 12 estates, approx. 130 houses) and the Langenzenn monastery office (monastery complex, 3 houses).

Margrave Karl Alexander sold his two principalities of Bayreuth and Ansbach , to which Langenzenn also belonged, to Prussia in 1791 . As a result of the administrative and judicial reform associated with it, Langenzenn lost his town bailiff office and the neck court in 1797. They were replaced by the Cadolzburg Justice Office and the Cadolzburg Chamber Office , which separated the executive and legislative branches for the first time. Langenzenn nevertheless retained a special position, as it was directly subordinate to the newly founded district administration Schwabach as a district immediate city. The city also received a city court, a judiciary and a police mayor.

Langenzenn around 1800

After Prussia was defeated by Napoléon in the fourth coalition war, the Principality of Ansbach, which was part of the Franconian Empire from 1500 onwards , fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 .

As part of the municipal edict , the tax district Langenzenn was formed in 1808 , to which the places Alizberg , Gauchsmühle , Neumühle , Lohmühle and Wasenmühle belonged. A little later, the municipal community with a Magistrate III. Langenzenn class was founded, which was congruent with the tax district. The community was under administration and jurisdiction of the district court Cadolzburg and in the financial administration of the bursary Cadolzburg (in 1920 the tax office Cadolzburg renamed). As a result, she lost her district immediacy and the city court. Several attempts by Langenzenn to regain a royal office were unsuccessful.

From 1862 Langenzenn was under the district office of Fürth (renamed the district of Fürth in 1938 ). Jurisdiction remained with the Cadolzburg Regional Court until 1879, and the Cadolzburg Local Court from 1880 to March 1, 1931, and since then it has been exercised by the Fürth Local Court . The financial management was taken over on January 1, 1929 by the Fürth tax office . The community originally had an area of ​​11.681 km².

In 1865 the Würzburg – Neustadt – Fürth – Nuremberg line was opened. This reduced the through traffic and the revenue from bridge and road tolls of the city. Before that, Langenzenn was an important traffic station; In 1850 around 5600 wagons passed through the city.

Industrialization began in Langenzenn in the second half of the 19th century. In 1878 Langenzenn was connected to the telegraph network and in 1901 to the telephone network. Street lamps with petroleum were introduced in 1848, and on February 9, 1911 they were connected to the power grid. The first aqueduct was laid in 1862 and had to be expanded from 1895–1905. The brick factories were a cornerstone of economic development during this period. Nevertheless, Langenzenn's economic strength lagged far behind that of Fürth and Nuremberg. Langenzenn went from being one of the "most important towns in the Principality of Ansbach" in the early 19th century to one of the "most insignificant places" in the Middle Franconia administrative district in 1920.

National Socialism

Adolf Meyer (1895–1966), who joined the NSDAP in 1920, co-founded the local NSDAP group in 1928. In 1934 a camp of the Reich Labor Service was set up in Langenzenn ( 49 ° 29 ′ 38 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 8 ″  E ). In 1935 it was named Adam Kraft . There, 200 young men between the ages of 18 and 25 had to do the legally required labor service for six months before doing military service.

On March 30, 1936, an air raid protection school was opened in the hospital to instruct the local population in appropriate measures in the event of air raids.

At the election event the day before the referendum on the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, Gauleiter and striker editor Julius Streicher spoke on the market square, which has since been renamed Adolf-Hitler-Platz. The town clerk Ulrich commented on the election on April 10, 1938: “You can tell that whoever votes gives the Fiihrer his 'yes'.” With 1692 votes cast, there was no vote against.

Construction of a home for the Hitler Youth (HJ) began on May 21, 1938 and it was completed in 1942. The home dedicated to Hermann Göring was used by the Hitler Youth for various events. On April 16, 1945 it was destroyed by the invading Allies. In 1948 the Catholic Church (rebuilt in 1972) was built on this site ( 49 ° 29 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 11 ″  E ).

During the Second World War , women and children first came to Langenzenn from northern Germany, which was threatened by air raids, and later also from Nuremberg and Fürth. At the end of the war there were around 2500 refugees in the city. There were also air raids several times in Langenzenn; some buildings burned down after a bomb was dropped.

From 1943 the Nuremberg Gestapo operated a penal labor camp for foreigners in Langenzenn . The prisoners from Poland, Russia and Western Europe were mainly used in brick production, but also in other Langenzenn factories. There they were subjected to strenuous physical activity with severe abuse. The hygienic conditions and the food supply of the prisoners was imaginable. The number of internees is not known; at least 100 people were killed. The police chief responsible for the labor camp in Nuremberg-Fürth, SS-Obergruppenführer Benno Martin, was charged with the abuse . On November 14, 1949, he was acquitted by the Nuremberg-Fürth district court.

On April 16, 1945, Langenzenn was captured by the Americans. As the few German troops relocated to the outlying areas, there was hardly any fighting in Langenzenn. In contrast, Neuhof, where the SS had holed up, and Hausen - in what is now the district of Langenzenns, soldiers of the German Wehrmacht - were almost destroyed. The Allies set up a POW camp in Zenngrund, in which up to 60,000 prisoners were interned. It was dissolved again on May 8, 1945.

present

Due to the high burden on the city budget since the health reform of 2003 , the city council decided to close the hospital ( 49 ° 29 ′ 44 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 45 ″  E ) , which was last renovated in 1994 . It had 20 beds and closed after 625 years on October 30, 2007. In 2009, the hospital foundation's nursing home was closed. After renewed renovation and reconstruction work, the former hospital became the new seat of the city administration.

The construction of a community wind farm - five wind turbines - is prepared. The responsible regional approval authority has been refusing to give its approval for months because Finance and Home Affairs Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has instructed the authorities not to approve any further wind farms in Bavaria for the time being.

History of individual parts of the community

Horbach

The first known mention of the place in the east of Langenzenn in the valid book of the Sankt-Klara-Kloster Nürnberg dates from 1316. While Horbach has always belonged to Langenzenn in terms of church and school, Horbach became its own municipality in 1808, which also included Göckershof, Hausen, Kagenhof, Raindorf and Seckendorf belonged, founded. Except for Raindorf, which came to Veitsbronn , and Seckendorf (to Cadolzburg ), the community was incorporated into Langenzenn in 1978.

Germ cell

Keidenzell is located south of Burggrafenhof and Langenzenn and north of Dillenberg. The first documentary mention was around 1365 as "Keyden cell". The Thirty Years War hit the place hard: Between 1632 and 1660 it was "desolate". The church was also destroyed. The municipality of Keidenzell was established in 1808, to which Burggrafenhof, Hammerschmiede, Klaushof, Ödenhof, Stinzendorf and Wittinghof also belonged. On May 1, 1978, it was incorporated into Langenzenn.

Kirchfembach

Kirchfembach was first mentioned in a document around 1150, when an "Ekkehard de Vuenbach" testified to a contract between the abbot of the Bamberg monastery Michelsberg and the bishop of Würzburg. Until the beginning of the 18th century the place belonged to Emskirchen. After devastation during the Thirty Years War, only seven farms were still inhabited in 1648 out of the previous 24 stoves. In 1808 the political community Kirchfembach was formed, to which the Hagenmühle and the Hammermühle belonged. On January 1, 1972, this community was incorporated into Langenzenn. Since then, the listed school building is no longer used as a school.

Foliage village

Laubendorf's late Gothic parish church of St. Georg

Laubendorf, first mentioned in documents in 1237 as “Lubendorff” and six years later as “Lovbendorf”, is located two kilometers up the Zenn in the west of Langenzenn.

A parish church in Laubendorf was first mentioned in 1407. An exchange with the Bamberg cathedral chapter in 1424, initiated by Friedrich I of Brandenburg , brought the parish of Laubendorf into the possession of the Augustinian canons of Langenzenn. That is why Laubendorf became Protestant after 1525. During the Thirty Years' War, the place saw several troop movements and was often plundered and pillaged.

Like Horbach and Keidenzell, Laubendorf became a political municipality in 1808. In addition to Laubendorf Erlachskirchen, Hardhof, Heinersdorf and Lohe belonged to it. In 1822 Laubendorf was spun off from the Cadolzburg deanery and came to the Markt Erlbach deanery. On July 1, 1972, Laubendorf came to Langenzenn as part of the regional reform .

Population development

Langenzenn community

year 1818 1840 1852 1861 1867 1871 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1919 1925 1933 1939 1946 1950 1961 1970 1987 2007 2011 2016
Residents 1489 1995 1864 1786 1759 1744 1712 1776 1732 1722 1795 1951 1973 2003 1925 2078 2307 2811 3816 4277 4794 5221 8193 10518 10303 10511
Houses 172 186 195 222 226 273 401 659 2030 2934
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District of Langenzenn

year 001818 001840 001861 001871 001885 001900 001925 001950 001961 001970 001987
Residents 1489 + 1966 1726 × 1687 1684 1893 2029 4220 * 4733 * 5128 † 5499 °
Houses 172 + 186 213 216 267 395 * 648 * 1332 °
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× including treacherous mill
* including Loh and Neumühle
† including Neumühle
° including Loh-, Neu- and Wasenmühle
Population development in the villages that are now part of Langenzenn (above) and the historical area of ​​Langenzenn (below).

The population of Langenzenn rose sharply after the Second World War due to the inclusion of displaced people. 1,000 new Catholic citizens alone were accepted into the previously predominantly Protestant community.

The second major growth phase came through the regional reforms of 1972 and 1978, in which Kirchfembach, Laubendorf, Keidenzell and Horbach were incorporated and Langenzenn received its current municipal area. In the 1990s, the population continued to grow due to increased influx and a higher birth rate.

Since the beginning of the millennium, the population of Langenzenn has decreased slightly with an average of 0.2% per year. Although more people move to Langenzenn than move away, this does not compensate for the higher death rate compared to the birth rate .

From 2008 there were only minor fluctuations in the number of inhabitants.

politics

Old Town Hall , built from 1721 to 1727

The mayor of Langenzenn is directly elected according to the Bavarian municipal code and has been appointed by the CSU , which is also the strongest party in the city council, since 1973 . Langenzenn belongs to the Bundestag constituency of Fürth (constituency 243).

City council

The town council of Langenzenn has 24 members.

CSU SPD Green FDP FW total
2002 11 8th 1 4th 24 seats
2008 9 7th 2 2 4th 24 seats
2014 10 7th 3 1 3 24 seats
2020 9 5 4th 2 4th 24 seats

In the 2020 local elections , the CSU received 34.61%, the SPD 21.57%, the Free Voters 17.97%, the Greens 16.62% and the FDP 9.24% of the votes.

mayor

In the local elections on March 2, 2008 , Jürgen Habel (CSU) prevailed with 50% of the votes against the candidates from the SPD (28.2%) and Free Voters (21.8%). A total of 5784 of the 8292 citizens eligible to vote voted. This corresponds to a turnout of 69.8%. In the 2014 local elections , Irene Franz (SPD) was an opposing candidate. Habel was re-elected with 63% of the vote, with voter turnout slightly lower than in the 2008 election, at 64%. In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , there were three opposing candidates: Melanie Plevka (SPD), Alfred Jäger (FW) and Markus Vogel (FDP). In the first ballot, Habel was elected with 42.16% and Plevka with 25.09%. In the subsequent runoff election on March 29, 2020, Habel prevailed with 57.83%. The turnout of 65.50% in the local elections and 68.83% in the runoff election increased slightly compared to the 2014 election.

The mayors of Langenzenn were in chronological order:

  • 1920–1929 Kaspar Geber (list of medium-sized companies )
  • 1929–1945 Leonhard Binder (list of medium-sized companies, from 1932 NSDAP )

Since Binder fled before the arrival of the Allies, the American military government first appointed pastor Hanns Ott, then Johann Walther, Paul Lotter and Johann Hertlein as mayors in 1945. The latter was confirmed in the 1946 election.

  • 1945–1952 Johann Hertlein,
  • 1952–1960 Leonhard Binder (CSU),
  • 1960–1972 Willi Roßkopf (SPD),
  • 1972–1978 Fritz Krippner (FDP),
  • 1978–2008 Manfred Fischer (CSU),
  • since May 1, 2008 Jürgen Habel (CSU).

badges and flags

The municipality of Langenzenn has had a coat of arms since 1954.

Langenzenn coat of arms
 Blazon : “In red, ashield leaning against a quarter of silver and black, crowned with a bucket helmet ; Crest ornament : a brackish head quartered in silver and black, which ispulleddown to a silver and black helmet cover . "

White and black municipal flag

Justification of the coat of arms: The imprint of a seal from 1390 with the full coat of arms of the Zollern burgraves, the quartered shield, helmet and brackish head as a crest ornament. It indicates their rule in Langenzenn.

Culture and sights

Center with local history museum, monastery and old town hall

theatre

The Klosterhofspiele Langenzenn e. V. offer open-air theater every summer, including the Klostermäuse children's theater , in the cloister courtyard. In the season from June to August, comedies by writers such as Molière , Goldoni and Shakespeare are shown. The association has existed since 1981. There is also the youth theater club (JTC) Klappe, which performed Die Welle in the Kulturhof Langenzenn in 2013 .

Also in the cloister courtyard, the Hans Sachs play group Langenzenn e. V. every year three taunts by the Nuremberg shoemaker and poet Hans Sachs . For the 1050th anniversary of Langenzenn in 2004, the Kaiserspiel was performed again, which has the Reichstag 954 as its theme and was staged for the first time to mark the city's thousandth anniversary. For the ten-year anniversary of the association, the Langenzenner Jedermann based on Hugo von Hofmannsthal was played on the newly designed market square in 2006 , directed by Gabriele Küffner.

Museums

Local museum

The local history museum was opened in 1957. Since 1976 it has been housed with a permanent exhibition in the Sörgel House ( 49 ° 29 ′ 39 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 40 ″  E ) next to the town church. Due to the increased number of exhibits, the neighboring Fronveste is now also used for exhibitions. Among other things, prehistoric finds from the Zenngrund such as dinosaur footprints, coins from Roman times and coins from Langenzenn and regional costumes are shown . There are also annually changing special exhibitions on the history of Langenzenn.

Buildings

The Augustinian canons in the old town of Langenzenn

Langenzenn is known for its monastery complex of the Augustinian Canons ( 49 ° 29 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 39 ″  E ) from 1409 with a particularly well-preserved cloister . The monastery was founded by the Nuremberg burgrave Johann III. and Friedrich VI. founded. In 1460 the monastery was destroyed by invading troops, but could be rebuilt within eight years. For a long time it was a place of pilgrimage to the "Black Mary". With the secularization and the death of the last provost Burger in 1537, the monastery in Langenzenn ended. Afterwards the margravial administrator lived in the monastery. From 1560 until 1801 it was used as the dean's seat and from 1797 to 1806 it served as a barracks for a Prussian company of invalids. After it was used as a school building, the parish office and pastor apartments were added to the monastery in 1950. Since toxic wood preservatives were used when the apartments were renovated, only the parish office remained in the monastery for many years. Today the parish apartments are used by the two theater groups playing in the monastery courtyard for preparation.

Town church Langenzenn, main nave

The town church was donated by Friedrich V and completed in 1369. There is some evidence that the concept for the three-aisled basilica with a single-tower facade was designed by Peter Parler . The round windows of the central nave, of which only the one on the south wall of the tower contains the original tracery, are unique in Franconia. From 1409 it was the monastery church and adjoined the cloister to the south. Due to the monastic enclosure , the north portal could no longer serve as a bridal gate. The portal in the south was then used for this. Today the building is a Protestant parish church.

The origins of St. George's Church ( 49 ° 29 ′ 44 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 11 ″  E ) in the Laubendorf district are dated to around the middle of the 14th century; the first known written mention dates back to 1407 It was renovated in 1488, as indicated by the year above the main entrance. It has Gothic pointed arched windows and a Gothic choir. Wall paintings discovered in 1936 date from the 15th century. A wooden figure of St. George is dated to around 1500. Also worth seeing are the pulpit from 1688 and the font from 1699.

The city fortifications date from the 14th century. In addition to the partially preserved wall ring, these included the sanctuary or corridor gate, the Schreiberstor, the lower and the upper gate, which were demolished with the linden tower between 1875 and 1891 at the instigation of the city beautification association. In 1966 the waiting or fox turret was also destroyed. Only the Lindenturm was rebuilt in 1954 on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary.

The plans for the Old Town Hall ( 49 ° 29 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 41 ″  E ) on Prinzregentenplatz, a sandstone block building from 1727, go back to Johann David Steingruber . From around the same time, after the fire of 1720, some guest houses and houses have been preserved.

The Protestant church in Kirchfembach is a Romanesque choir tower church from the 11th century, which was partially rebuilt in the Gothic style. The Marienglocke dates from the 13th, the other two from the 14th and 15th centuries. The church was consecrated to Saint Vitus , one of the fourteen helpers in need .

Regular events

  • The Langenzenner Kirchweih always takes place on the first weekend after Pentecost .
  • On the Saturday after the summer solstice , the Hans Sachs playgroup organizes a large solstice celebration at the Schwanenweiher.
  • In Laubendorf, the sport and singer friends Laubendorf organize a village festival on the last Saturday in August.
  • On the second Saturday in September, the old town festival is held around Prinzregentenplatz.
  • Every year on the third Advent the Langenzenner Christmas market is organized by the local associations in the old town.

Economy and Infrastructure

The sales tax statistics of the Bavarian State Office for Statistics show a total of 495 companies subject to sales tax for Langenzenn (as of 2015), which together produce goods and services worth over 560 million euros. This puts Langenzenn in third place of the 14 municipalities in the district, behind Zirndorf (1.189 billion euros) and Cadolzburg (608 million euros). Even with a debt of 469 euros per inhabitant (4.88 million euros; as of 2014), Langenzenn is one of the top places in the district. In 2010, 5125 residents were subject to income tax, with an average of 33,515 euros in income per person subject to income tax.

traffic

Langenzenn is located directly on Bundesstraße 8 ( Südwesttangente ) and is thus connected to the Nuremberg / Fürth conurbation. The district road FÜ 11 runs west past the Gauchsmühle to the junction of the B 8 or north-east to Kirchfembach . The FÜ 17 extends southwest via a connection point of the B 8 by Burggrafenhof or east on Göckershof over after Raindorf . Municipal roads lead to the B 8 near Erlachskirchen , to Horbach , to Alizberg and to Klaushof .

The Zenngrundbahn was built in 1872 as the first vicinal railway. It runs every hour between Fürth and Markt Erlbach . There are three breakpoints in the area of ​​the city: Langenzenn in the eastern part, Hardhof in the western part of Langenzenn and Laubendorf. At Kirchfembach, the Nuremberg – Würzburg railway line touches the urban area. The next stops are in Puschendorf in the east and Hagenbüchach in the west of Langenzenn. The DB Regio Franken operates the route under the name of Central Franconia Railway with railcars of series 648 .

The regional bus route 136 runs five times a day between Langenzenn, Cadolzburg and Ammerndorf. Line 152 connects Keidenzell and Stinzendorf with Kirchfarrnbach , Cadolzburg, Zirndorf and Oberasbach. On weekends, the “Night Liner N22” runs on the Fürth – Langenzenn – Wilhermsdorf route.

Urban public transport has been carried out since 2011 by the Langenzenn Citizen Bus (BüBLa), which runs several times a day on six different lines, some of which are limited to Langenzenn, and some also to the outlying areas. All lines start at Langenzenn train station. The drivers work on a voluntary basis for the city and are part of the Bürgerbus Langenzenn e. V. organized.

Established businesses

Bricks have been manufactured in Langenzenn since the 16th century. Highly exposed layers of teaching mountain clay provide the raw material required for this. Of the four large brick factories of the post-war period, two companies still produce clay products today. The former Stadlinger brick factory belongs to Koramic Dachprodukte GmbH & Co. KG , based in Hanover, and is part of the Wienerberger Group . The company premises, on which bricks have been manufactured since 1897, is located on the northeastern edge of the core town of Langenzenn in the direction of Kirchfembach. On the opposite side of the Zenngrund, Walther Dachziegel GmbH has been producing clay roof tiles since 1878. Since July 1, 2005, the brickworks has been a subsidiary of Jacobi Tonwerke GmbH , Bilshausen .

The steel and materials trading company Heine + Beisswenger , headquartered in Fellbach, has a location between Langenzenn and Burggrafenhof.

Langenzenn is the headquarters of the special laundry group Amm GmbH, which specializes in cleaning carpets and renting out dirt control mats. A subsidiary operates an internet platform for the online design of floor mats .

As a seal manufacturer, ElringKlinger AG is an international automotive supplier and produces shielding parts in the center of Langenzenn.

The ELIA Tuning and Design AG specializes in Renault - and Nissan tuning, but also has parts for VW and Dacia in the range.

Langenzenn is the headquarters of Gerner Nutzfahrzeuge and is known for sponsoring the Yamaha R6 Cup driver Johannes Kanzler.

Christian Schwaiger GmbH, a consumer electronics manufacturer , has had its headquarters in Langenzenn since it was founded in 1946 . She is a member of the Voxx International Group.

Ministeck has been manufactured by H. and W. Gottwald Betriebs-GmbH & Co. KG in Kirchfembach since 1965. The mosaic particles are manufactured using an injection molding process.

media

The Langenzenner Mitteilungsblatt appears together with the Lokalanzeiger every fortnight in the 34th year.

Public facilities

Alte Post youth center
  • The indoor pool with a 25-meter sports pool and non-swimmer area, a three-meter diving tower and a one-meter diving board as well as a children's paddling pool has been in existence since 1977. The outdoor pool in the Keidenzell district was converted into a swimming pond with biological water treatment in 2007 . The outdoor pool can be used free of charge.
  • In the building complex of the Langenzenner Hospital, renovated in 1994, there was a retirement home with three double and ten single rooms as well as a nursing home with 23 places (eight double and seven single rooms). Today the city administration is housed in the building.
  • The Alte Post youth center was founded in November 1977 and is the oldest youth center in the district. The facilities offered by the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Langenzenn are aimed at all young people. The house is self-administered by committed young people . They have been assisted by a deacon since 1980 and a social worker since 1999 .
  • Since a town clerk has been employed since the town was founded, Langenzenn has the most comprehensive town archive in the district.
  • The city library is run by volunteers. It was founded as a public library in 1903 and has been in a restored building since 1983, which was built around 1730. The library has a stock of around 25,000 books.

Educational institutions

The Langenzenn school system can be traced back to 1439. In Langenzenn there is a grammar school as well as a secondary, middle and elementary school.

Elementary and middle school

Since the primary school was divided in 1967 there has been a primary and a middle school . In the school year 2016/2017 335 pupils were taught in the primary school and 254 pupils in the middle school; in the 2010/2011 school year, only 476 pupils were enrolled in the two schools.

Wolfgang Borchert High School

In 1984 the Wolfgang-Borchert- Gymnasium was founded from the Langenzenn branch of the Hardenberg-Gymnasium Fürth. In terms of student numbers, it is the second largest grammar school in the Fürth district after the Dietrich Bonhoeffer grammar school in Oberasbach .

The new building from 1986 had to be expanded four times (1989, 1995, 2004 and 2007) and has space for 1179 students, who can choose between the modern language and the mathematical-scientific branch. For the 2008/2009 school year, a cafeteria was integrated into the school building to provide lunch for the students.

In the school year 2010/2011 1060 students attended the grammar school. After the disappearance of the G9, there were only 844 students in 2012/2013. In the 2014/15 school year, the statistics showed 820 students.

secondary school

Secondary school students had to commute to Fürth or Zirndorf until 2009 . Starting with the 2009/2010 school year, the district's second secondary school was set up in cooperation with the Langenzenn Middle School in Langenzenn. In the first school year this was initially a branch of the Zirndorfer Realschule. It is independent from the following school year. In the school year 2010/2011, 168 students were enrolled in the secondary school, in the school year 2014/15 the school was fully developed with six levels, 609 students in 23 classes attended the facility.

Day care centers

The first kindergarten was founded in 1857 as a “toddler facility”. The St. Marien Catholic kindergarten has existed since 1963, the two Protestant kindergartens "Pusteblume" (since 1964) and "Regenbogen" (since 1987) and, since 1989, the municipal kindergarten "Plapperkiste". The after-school care center, founded in autumn 1994, offers afternoon care for students in grades one to six . In 2015, a total of 535 places were available and 428 children were cared for.

Sports

TSV Langenzenn was founded in 1894 and currently has 15 departments, for example basketball, tennis, soccer and swimming. SV Burggrafenhof has twelve soccer teams as well as fitness and cabaret offers. The SF Laubendorf has 19 soccer teams, as well as fitness, gymnastics and winter sports. The local water watch group Langenzenn offers weekly swimming courses and swimming training.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

Other personalities associated with the city

literature

Web links

Commons : Langenzenn  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Langenzenn  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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