Leutenbach (Upper Franconia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '  N , 11 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Forchheim
Management Community :	Kirchehrenbach
Height :	339 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.39 km 2
Residents:	1662 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	86 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91359
Area code :	09199
License plate :	FO, EBS , PEG
Community key :	09 4 74 147
Community structure:	7 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	St.-Moritz-Strasse 5 91359 Leutenbach
Website :	www.gemeinde-leutenbach.de
Mayor :	Florian Kraft ( FW Leutenbach-Dietzhof )
Location of the community of Leutenbach in the Forchheim district

View of Leutenbach, 2016

Menschenbach is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim and a member of the Kirchehrenbach administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Menschenbach is located in Franconian Switzerland between Erlangen and Bayreuth am Ehrenbach .

Community structure

The community of Leutenbach has 7 districts :

• Dietzhof
• People Bach
• Mittelehrenbach
• Oberehrenbach
• Ortspitz
• Seidmar
• St. Moritz

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Kirchehrenbach , Pretzfeld , Egloffstein , Graefenberg , Kunreuth , Pinzberg , Wiesenthau .

history

Until the 19th century

Peoplebach was most likely founded before the year 1000. The castle of the Lords of Ludunbach (also: Leutenbach, Ludenbach) is attested between 1079 and 1203, it was probably on the southeastern Burgstein, and is identical to the Burgstein castle stable . People brook in today's administrative district of Upper Franconia came to the Bamberg monastery after the family died out . Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place, like large parts of Franconia, has belonged to Bavaria (see also History of Franconia ).

Incorporations

The current community of Leutenbach was created on May 1, 1978 on the occasion of the municipal reform in Bavaria from the communities of Leutenbach, Mittelehrenbach and Oberehrenbach, which were established in 1818.

politics

mayor

Florian Kraft (FW Leutenbach-Dietzhof) has been mayor since 2014. The predecessor was Otto Siebenhaar (FW Leutenbach-Dietzhof).

Municipal council

The local council of Leutenbach has twelve members plus the First Mayor.

	FW Leutenbach-Dietzhof	Ehrenbach flat share	Flat share Oberehrenbach	CSU	Ortspitz-Seidmar shared flat	total
2002	4th	5	-	1	2	12 seats
2008	5	3	2	1	1	12 seats
2014	4th	2	2	3	1	12 seats
2020	6th	3	2	-	1	12 seats

(Status: local election on March 15, 2020)

badges and flags

The description of the coat of arms reads: “In gold, an oblique left blue wavy bar; at the top an upright black spear with a waving red flag, sprinkled with six six-pointed golden stars; below a black battlement wall. ”The red and yellow municipal flag approved at the same time is not used.

Events

• Parish fair on the second weekend in October

Breweries

There are breweries Drummer in Leutenbach and Alt in Dietzhof in the community.

societies

The Franconian Switzerland Association e. V. has one of 45 local groups in the region in Leutenbach. The local group was founded in 1968. After a few years, the association stopped its activities. The local group started over with a completely new team in 1981.

The Volksbach-Dietzhof volunteer fire brigade has 231 members, 5 honorary members and 44 children and young people (as of January 12, 2014).

The following volunteer fire brigades are sponsoring associations: Hundsboden, Ortspitz-Seidmar, Pinzberg and Kirchehrenbach.

The Kultur- und Förderverein e. V. Leutenbach (renamed: 2004) was originally founded in 1948, he is currently involved in holiday programs, designing children's playgrounds, organizing excursions for "young and old" as well as organizing various courses and since 1995 with the establishment and management of the theater group People Bach.

The fruit and horticultural association Leutenbach e. V. has 79 members and deals with garden culture, land beautification, homeland maintenance, nature and environmental protection. In its 6,000 square meter club garden (information garden) at the Mühlweiher numerous fruit trees and flower beds are shown.

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Leutenbach . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 335 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Leutenbach (Oberfranken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Leutenbach (Upper Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Fruit and horticultural association Leutenbach eV
• Menschenbach near Foracheim
• Menschenbach (Upper Franconia): 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. ^ Municipality of Leutenbach in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 4, 2020.
3. ↑ Johannes Neumann: The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803: Requirements and consequences (PDF file; 179 kB)
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 684 .
5. ↑ Entry on Leutenbach on the website kommunalflaggen.eu