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Market people
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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 12 ° 0'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Franconia
County : Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains
Height : 529 m above sea level NHN
Area : 35.48 km 2
Residents: 3013 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 85 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 95168
Area code : 09285
License plate : WUN, MAK, REH , SEL
Community key : 09 4 79 135
City structure: 15 districts

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 3
95168 Marktleuthen
Website : www.marktleuthen.de
Mayor : Sabrina Kaestner ( CSU )
Location of the town of Marktleuthen in the Wunsiedel district in the Fichtel Mountains
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Marktleuthen with the Kornberg in the background
Marktleuthen - town center from the southeast

Marktleuthen is a town in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge ( administrative district of Upper Franconia ) and is located west of Selb .

geography

The city lies on the Eger in the Fichtelgebirge at the foot of the Great Kornberg .

City structure

The city of Marktleuthen is divided into 15 districts:

history

Until the 19th century

Marktleuthen was first mentioned in a document as "Leuken" in 1314. At that time, Heinrich the Elder, Vogt von Plauen , transferred goods in the village to the Waldsassen monastery . The settlement , which originally belonged to the domain of Castle Epprechtstein near Kirchenlamitz, owes its existence to its location on one of several old streets in Egerfurt. In 1354, the master forester Albrecht XI. Notthafft of Thierstein the village of Waldsassen monastery and it expanded by 24 yards and hostels and a mill. In 1368 there was first talk of a church in the village. Around 1398, people together with the Thierstein lordship came to the Margrave Wilhelm I of Meißen, who gifted the place with the Thiersheim market rights around 1400 . In 1415 the young market fell together with Thierstein to the burgrave Johann III. of Nuremberg and his brother, Margrave Friedrich I of Brandenburg. Soon afterwards, the Leuthen market was enlarged a second time by 21 properties through the incorporation of the nearby village of Rohrsbach. In 1429, Margrave Friedrich I of Brandenburg ordered the ten courtyards and the Sölde in Rohrsbach to be demolished and rebuilt within the market. As a reaction to the threatening Hussite incursions , the market was given a fortification consisting of earth walls with palisades and three gates. With the Markgraftum Brandenburg-Kulmbach , which from 1500 was also part of the Franconian Empire , the Leuthen market became Prussian for a short time in 1792 . After four years of French occupation, the place became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810 . Four major fires in 1577, 1641, 1691 and 1843 devastated the place. The reconstruction after the last fire shapes the shape of the historic town center to this day.

20th century

The settlement activity in the eastern municipal area, which began in the 1920s, intensified after the Second World War with the influx of refugees. In 1954 Marktleuthen was raised to the status of town by the Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Hoegner .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1978, the previously independent community of Großwendern and parts of the dissolved communities of Neudes, Raumetengrün , Reicholdsgrün and Schwarzenhammer were incorporated. The municipal area previously covered an area of ​​8.6 square kilometers, now it was 35.49 square kilometers. The population increased from 3,472 to 4,660.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the population fell from 3,905 to 3,069 by 836 inhabitants or 21.4%.

  • 1939: 2384 inhabitants
  • 1950: 3119 inhabitants
  • 1961: 4659 inhabitants
  • 1970: 4660 inhabitants
  • 1991: 4069 inhabitants
  • 1995: 4030 inhabitants
  • 2005: 3632 inhabitants
  • 2010: 3383 inhabitants
  • 2015: 3144 inhabitants
  • 2016: 3111 inhabitants
  • 2017: 3122 inhabitants

politics

City Councilor and Mayor

City council election Marktleuthen 2020
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Young Union

In addition to the First Mayor, the city council has 16 honorary members.

Political party 2014–2020 parliamentary term 2020-2026 parliamentary term
CSU 6 seats 6 seats
SPD 6 seats 4 seats
WG Marktleuthen 4 seats 5 seats
Young Union - 1 seat

In the mayoral election on March 15, 2020, neither Christoph Wunderlich ( Free Voters ), Florian Leupold ( SPD ) nor Sabrina Kaestner ( CSU ) achieved an absolute majority. In the runoff election on March 29, Kaestner won with 57%. Leupold achieved 43%.

Town twinning

Herend in Hungary is the twin town of Marktleuthen.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Due to the climatic conditions and the barren soil, the people of Marktleuthen have always been dependent on other branches of business in addition to agriculture. Work in the forest, mining and ore processing, weaving and various other trades provided wages and salaries. After the completion of the Hof – Weiden – Regensburg – Munich railway line in 1876, four large breweries were founded in Marktleuthen, which can look back on a centuries-old communal brewing tradition. This was followed by a porcelain factory, several stone processing companies and a glass factory. In the year of the town survey (1954) there was the porcelain factory Heinrich Winterling (founded in 1903) with 750 employees, the Bavarian hollow glass factory with 300 employees, four granite factories with a total of around 200 employees, the machine factory LW Muhr with 80 employees, an earth color factory with 20 employees in Marktleuthen Employees, a sawmill with 20 employees, three beer breweries and a factory for tents and tarpaulins. In addition, there were more than 200 smaller businesses (craft, wholesalers and retailers) based in the village.

After the Winterling porcelain factory was closed in 2010, there are still two stone-processing companies, two sawmills, a plastics processing company and around 25 other craft and commercial businesses in Marktleuthen.

traffic

Marktleuthen station is on the Weiden – Oberkotzau railway line .

Culture and sights

Evangelical Parish Church of St. Nicholas

history

The interior of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Nicholas

A church in Marktleuthen was first mentioned in 1368, but a cross stone built into the north wall of the nave refers stylistically to the period before 1200. In 1486, the first evidence of the patronage of St. Nicholas followed . The church also fell victim to the major fire of 1577. In 1641 billeted soldiers caused a second major fire; the church burned down again. The reconstruction of the church dragged on until 1645. In 1698 a "little vestibule" was added with stairs to the gallery on the west side of the nave. In 1791, the previous vaulted choir with a 5/8 end was broken off and the church was extended by about 2.50 meters to the east for the installation of a new organ . In 1895 the church underwent a thorough renovation; the interior has been completely redesigned. The two- story baroque galleries were removed from the church, the chancel was separated by a choir arch and a new altar was erected. During the church renovation carried out in 1935, the changes made in 1895 were partially reversed. The old Mannerist altar was restored to its original place, and the church was essentially given its current appearance. During the last complete renovation of the St. Nicholas Church in 1987/88, several historical pieces of equipment were removed from the church and stored in the rectory.

Furnishing

The art-historically valuable interior of the church is determined by the following items of equipment:

  • According to the inscription on the lower edge of the altarpiece, the altar, a simple columned aedicule in the Mannerist style, dates from 1643. The altarpiece shows the Last Supper of Jesus; in the excerpt above the Holy Trinity is shown. The rich acanthus carving on both sides of the altar was made in 1667.
  • The pulpit is the work of cabinet makers Peter and Adam Eck from Eger. The year 1617 is inlaid on the parapet of the pulpit cage , but the altar was only brought into the Marktleuthen church after the fire in 1641. The four relief representations of the Greek muses Polymnia , Melpomene , Erato and Terpsichore at the pulpit are quite unusual for a pulpit .
  • The baptismal angel used to be attached to the ceiling with a rope and only floated down during the sacrament of baptism . It was made in 1780 by the Bayreuth sculptor Franz Schuh .
  • The organ case dates from 1791 and is the work of the Bayreuth court organ maker Georg Ernst Wiegleb . The interior of the instrument was renewed during the last church renovation in 1987/88.
  • The flat ceiling of the nave is decorated with 24 scenes from the New Testament . The panels were painted in 1718 by the mayor and butcher Matthes Gebhard of Marktleuthen and the painter and mayor Johann Jacob Radius in Kirchenlamitz.

More Attractions

Easter fountain in Marktleuthen

About half a kilometer south-east of the market square rises a lightly wooded hill designed as a park. At its highest point there are two bizarre granite rocks, which are popularly known as the Teufelsstein . The legend reports that Gentiles were once baptized there. It is quite possible that this rock formation was once a pagan place of worship, especially since a chapel dedicated to Saint Wolfgang was built not far from it in the Middle Ages . This was abandoned during the Reformation , but until the 18th century, the sick visited the nearby eye well , a source that is considered to be medicinal. The chapel and fountain have disappeared, only the name Teufelsstein survived.

In the district of Leuthenforst lies the Rondellwald, a hunting garden that once belonged to the Kaiserhammer hunting lodge . Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Kulmbach had cobweb-like aisles cut into the forest. In the center of it he built a hunting pavilion with eight windows in 1761. Today there is a large linden tree there .

In the local cemetery, a collective grave with a memorial commemorates 17 concentration camp victims who lost their lives on a death march from the Buchenwald concentration camp to the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945.

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Marktleuthen

societies

The ASV Marktleuthen consists of the Turnverein Marktleuthen and the Handball Club Marktleuthen 1946. The men's handball team and the large selection of leisure activities are considered to be the club's showpiece.

The Turnerbund Marktleuthen (TB Marktleuthen 1863 eV) combines classical gymnastics, tennis, martial arts, guard dance and many other sports and games. The club's own sports hall, u. a. with an airtrack mat and weight room, as well as several tennis courts offer space for this.

Others

The local nickname of Marktleuthen or the nickname of the Marktleuthener citizens is Egerscheißer .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Thomas Köppel (* 1711; † 1762): The son of a tailor, Köppel was born in Marktleuthen. From 1738 he worked as court scribe and copperplate engraver at the court of Margrave Friedrich in Bayreuth. He is considered to be the "father of calligraphy ", the art of handwriting, to which he dedicated several textbooks. After his death in 1762, his older son Johann Gottfried Köppel, born in Bayreuth in 1739, followed in his father's footsteps. Until his death in 1798 he worked as court clerk and landscape chancellor in Ansbach, wrote several historical and geographical books on Franconian Switzerland and the two principalities of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Brandenburg-Ansbach and, like his father, created a series of copperplate engravings with views from Franconia.
  • Gottfried Christian Reich (1769–1848), physician and university professor, born in Kaiserhammer
  • Jakob Schmeissner (1874–1955), architect in Nuremberg, planner of the central school building and the cemetery of his place of birth
  • Willi Schmidt (1924–2011), sculptor
  • Rudi Tröger (* 1929), German painter and university professor
  • Hermann Benker (* 1939), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein
  • Uwe Reissmann (* 1956), police officer, head of various police departments and police chief in Saxony
  • Wilhelm Beindorf (born March 29, 1887 in Suhlendorf , † March 22, 1969 in Marktleuthen), German painter

Connected to the city

  • The Purucker family from Marktleuthen was well-known beyond the Fichtelgebirge and built organs for several generations. After the fire of 1641, brothers Hans and Matthäus, who worked as cabinet makers, helped the organ builder Matthias Tretzscher from Kulmbach . From this the two young market people learned the art of organ building. Among her descendants were Veit Purucker (* 1646; † 1711), Paul Purucker (* approx. 1653;), Georg Franz Purucker (* approx. 1648; † 1725), Johann Georg Purucker († 1759), Matthäus (married 1725 ) Wolfgang (* approx. 1685; † 1759) Michael Purucker (married 1723) and Egidius Salomon († 1797) worked as organ makers. They delivered their organs to Bamberg, Upper Palatinate and Saxony.
  • Hermann Winterling (1906–2008), entrepreneur

literature

Web links

Commons : Marktleuthen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Marktleuthen  - travel guide
Wikisource: Market people in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=+20111206/185537&attr=OBJ&val= 1303
  3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 700 .
  4. ^ History of the Winterling porcelain factory . Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  5. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 163
  6. ↑ see also Constanze Werner: KZ-Friedhöfe und Gedenkstätten in Bayern , Schnell and Steiner: Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3795424831 , pages 199-200.