Memmelsdorf

This article deals with the municipality of Memmelsdorf in Upper Franconia. For the district of the community Untermerzbach see Memmelsdorf in Unterfranken .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '  N , 10 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Bamberg
Height :	262 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.24 km 2
Residents:	8850 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	337 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	96117
Primaries :	0951, 09505, 09542
License plate :	BA
Community key :	09 4 71 159
Community structure:	10 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 96117 Memmelsdorf
Website :	www.memmelsdorf.de
Mayor :	Gerd Schneider (independent)
Location of the municipality of Memmelsdorf in the Bamberg district

Memmelsdorf is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and borders directly on the city of Bamberg to the east .

geography

Community structure

Memmelsdorf is divided into ten districts (population figures in brackets, as of December 31, 2018)

Drosendorf (1409) Kremmeldorf (263) Foliage (170) Light oak (2064) Meedensdorf (268)

Memmelsdorf (3156) Merkendorf (885) Schmerldorf (148) Seehof Weichendorf (588)

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise) Breitengüßbach , Scheßlitz , Litzendorf , Bamberg and Gundelsheim .

history

Until the church is planted

Memmelsdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1143, but there are good historical reasons to assume that it was created in the 6th century at the time of the Franconian conquest of the Upper Main at about the same time as the Hallstadt royal court. At that time, Slavs also settled in the Obermaing area, as the etymology of numerous place names shows, e.g. B. Kemmern, Laubend, Merkendorf, Drosendorf, Scheßlitz. Emperor Heinrich II , the saint, gave Hallstadt to the diocese of Bamberg, which he founded in 1007.

In 1391, Bishop Lamprecht von Brunn separated Memmelsdorf from Hallstadt and raised it to an independent parish under the patronage of the Assumption of Mary. The parish included the places Memmelsdorf, Weichendorf, Gundelsheim, Merkendorf, Laubend, Starkenschwind, Drosendorf and Meedensdorf, as well as Schmerldorf and Kremmeldorf.

Memmelsdorf became the official seat of the Bamberg monastery . It was the center of a bailiwick and a cent . The centgrave exercised high jurisdiction . The place of execution was above the village (today's street on Am Hohen Kreuz). The Vogt collected the taxes and contributions in kind due to the sovereign. He was also the judge of the center. The building of the former bailiwick is now the Drei Kronen brewery inn ; the former prince-bishop's box (granary) the Vollkommer property.

Zent and Vogtei gave Memmelsdorf a certain importance. Even so, the village could not develop properly. The economic center of Bamberg did not allow the handicrafts to emerge in the area, on the other hand, the space requirement of the prince-bishop's summer residence Seehof displaced agriculture. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

20th century

Until 1953, the municipality of Memmelsdorf consisted only of the town of Memmelsdorf and the nearby Seehof Castle .

After the war, during the period of reconstruction and the economic miracle, a new district emerged from 1953, the Lichteneiche settlement. Lichteneiche, the parcel southwest of Memmelsdorf, was a wide area, sandy alluvial area of ​​the Regnitz, where heather, gorse and oaks stood. The settlement was planned generously but in a simple, functional style. The resources available were used sparingly. Architectural or urban planning experiments were not in demand. The result was a wide, light settlement with simple residential houses and apartment blocks in a spacious and varied arrangement, which enabled a large number of people to live comfortably in peace and in green surroundings. The settlement offered the expellees from the Sudetenland , East Prussia , Pomerania and Silesia a new home. As the increasing population shows, the settlement enjoyed a constant influx.

Major changes were brought about by the municipal reform that came into force on January 1, 1972. It led to the voluntary amalgamation of Memmelsdorf with the five formerly independent communities of Drosendorf, Merkendorf, Weichendorf, Kremmeldorf and Meedensdorf.

Redesign of the town center

In 2009 a bypass road was built. This led to traffic calming in the village and enables the redesign of the town center. The municipal council has decided on the present plans and the redesign began in 2010. The main street is being renewed with adjacent sidewalks. There is a well (next to the Drei Kronen pub ) and trees have been planted all along the street. In addition, special stones for the blind were used in the sidewalks. Last corrections were made in 2014 and the renewal was completed.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the municipality grew from 7,872 to 8,828 by 956 inhabitants or by 12.1%. On December 31, 2007 Memmelsdorf reached a peak of 8,997 inhabitants.

Community center

Population development since 1840

year	Residents	Inhabitants / km²
1840	1869	071
1871	2109	081
1900	2096	081
1925	2179	084
1939	2496	096
1950	3623	139
1961	5693	219
1970	6582	253
1987	7893	304
1991	8168	311
1995	8452	322
2005	8941	354
2010	8851	337
2011	8788	338
2015	8831	331

religion

Memmelsdorf is the seat of the Catholic parish of the Assumption of Mary, which includes the town of Memmelsdorf and the districts of Drosendorf, Kremmeldorf, Meedensdorf, Seehof Castle , Schmerldorf and Weichendorf. Pastor has been Peter Barthelme since 2011, pastoral assistant is Sabine Kotzer.

In the area of ​​the political community there is still the Catholic parish Kreuzerhöhung Merkendorf, to which the district Laubend also belongs.

The Lichteneiche district is the youngest part of the parish of the Assumption of Mary. The Church of the Holy Spirit was built there in the shape of a ship's bow and consecrated in 1965. The portal front shows the Last Judgment cast in concrete. Among the damned, the attentive observer can see the face of Adolf Hitler , a remarkable document of contemporary history.

Whitsun 2006 the Catholic pastoral care unit Parish Community Memmelsdorf with Lichteneiche, Gundelsheim and Merkendorf was founded.

Confessional composition

According to the census on May 9, 2011, 69.6% of the population are Roman Catholic and 17.2% Evangelical Lutheran. 13.2% have another religion or are non-denominational.

Catholic churches

Ecumenical stone of the Protestant parish and the Catholic parish of Memmelsdorf

The years refer to the time the churches were built

• Drosendorf: Most Holy Trinity, 1980/82
• Kremmeldorf: Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1893
• Laubend: Chapel of the Conception of the Virgin Mary, 1862/63
• Light oak: Holy Spirit, 1964/65
• Meedensdorf: Chapel of Sorrowful Mother of God, 1904/06
• Memmelsdorf: Parish Church of the Assumption
• Merkendorf: Exaltation of the Cross, 1862/64
• Seehof Castle: Castle Chapel
• Weichendorf: Chapel of Saint Anna, 2002/03

So churches were built in the parish of Memmelsdorf over a century and a half. Each parish wanted to have its own church in the village. The residents planned their church, made considerable personal contributions to the construction and financed the construction costs themselves. So relatively small communities created handsome churches.

Protestant church

Lichteneiche is the seat of the Protestant parish of the Ascension of Christ. In 1960 the church, architecturally based on a tent of God among the people (Rev. 21,3), was consecrated.

The Protestant and Catholic communities in Memmelsdorf have long had an active ecumenical community. In 2008 both congregations signed an ecumenical partnership declaration, which was also approved by the church leaders. In 2009 members of both parishes erected an ecumenical memorial stone on the lawn in front of the Ascension Church.

politics

mayor

The mayor has been Gerd Schneider (independent, nominated by the SPD) since 2014, who received 53.34% of the vote in the runoff election and was confirmed in office in 2020 with 55.57% of the votes against an opposing candidate. His predecessor was Johann Bäuerlein (WLW / CSU) since 1997. He was last re-elected in 2009 with two opposing candidates with 54.46% of the vote. Bäuerlein’s predecessor was Alfons Scherbaum.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the first mayor and 20 council members from 2020 to 2026.

Composition of the municipal council after the election of March 2020:

Party / group of voters	Share of votes	Seats	Share of votes in 2014
Christian-Social Union in Bavaria / Free Voting Community (CSU / FWG)	27.10%	5	26.60%
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)	19.04%	4th	20.30%
United voter community Memmelsdorf (VWG)	14.40%	3	15.82%
Active Citizens Drosendorf (ABD)	11.20%	2	12.50%
Citizens' Block Lichteneiche (BBL)	8.50%	2	9.03%
Alternative list Memmelsdorf (ALM 9)	3.60%	1	8.35%
Voters list Weichendorf (WLW)	5.50%	1	7.41%
Green Memmelsdorf	10.40%	2

coat of arms

There is no proof of its own seal for the Hochstiftische Memmelsdorf . It was not until the royal Bavarian era that the municipal administration carried the official seals that were customary at the time . On December 5, 1963, the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior approved the adoption of a coat of arms with the following description: “Split; in front, in gold, the figure of the judge with black cloak and black hat, holding a silver staff in his right hand and a gold book in his left; In the back, a green oak tree with golden acorns growing out of a green mountain of three . ”At the same time as the award of the coat of arms, the ministry approved the use of a flag for the municipality of Memmelsdorf. It shows three stripes in the color sequence black-yellow-green and can also be used with the municipal coat of arms. The Government of Upper Franconia agreed on 1 July 1973 to the Municipal Council of 30 January 1973, after which the previous municipal coat of arms is said to have validity for the greater community Memmelsdorf.

Culture and sights

Parish Church of the Assumption

Parish Church of the Assumption

→ Main article : Assumption of Mary (Memmelsdorf)

The Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary is a choir tower church from the early 14th century, which has since been rebuilt and expanded several times. It received its current form with the representative west facade and the baroque furnishings during a renovation carried out between 1706 and 1709, the latter major renovation took place in 2006. While the exterior is kept simple except for the west facade, the interior shows rich baroque furnishings, including a stucco ceiling by Johann Jakob Vogel with the Assumption of Mary, a pulpit with gilded carvings, two side altars from 1760, a wooden organ gallery , figures of saints carved by Sebastian Degler , etc. Today's high altar was only erected in 1964, it originally comes from the Poor Clare monastery in Bamberg . The churchyard is closed off from the street by a wall on which figures of angels and saints by Ferdinand Dietz stand.

Seehof Castle

Seehof Castle

→ Main article : Seehof Castle

Seehof Castle was the summer residence and hunting lodge of the Bamberg prince-bishops. Prince-Bishop Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg (1683–1693) had the "Marquardsburg" built and the palace gardens laid out. Antonio Petrini created a building in a square which, with its four corner towers, combines the character of a castle and a fortress. Prince-Bishop Friedrich von Seinsheim (1757–1779) had the palace and palace gardens furnished with furniture and figures of exquisite taste in the Rococo style: there are said to have been over 400 figures that the court sculptor Ferdinand Dietz created. With the secularization of 1803 the castle came into the possession of the Wittelsbacher , in 1840/41 it was sold on. In 1975 the Free State of Bavaria bought the castle and set up the State Office for Monument Preservation there. The building was restored and the park rebuilt in its old dimensions. The figures of Ferdinand Tietz were bought back as far as possible.

Architectural monuments

Gasthof Drei Kronen, architectural monument in Memmelsdorf

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Memmelsdorf

In addition to the church and castle, there are other monuments in Memmelsdorf and the other districts of the community, including the rectory from the 17th century, the Drei Kronen inn and churches and chapels in the districts.

Sports

• The SV Memmelsdorf / Ofr. offers football, bowling, chess and a ski department. The association has around 500 members

• SC 1997 Memmelsdorf offers volleyball, athletics and gymnastics for approx. 800 members and also non-members

• In 2010 the baseball club Memmelsdorf Barons e. V. The club emerged from the baseball department of SV Memmelsdorf, which has been participating in games for 20 years. The club has two men's teams, one women's team and three youth teams. The first men's team played at times in the second division.

• An annual sporting highlight is the quattroball tournament, which is organized by SC Memmelsdorf for more than 1000 athletes in almost 100 teams from all over Germany and neighboring countries in the four disciplines of volleyball , basketball , handball and soccer .

• In 1908 the chaplain of the Memmelsdorf parish, Michael Schütz, founded the Windthorst cycling club. In 1911 3 women and 19 men from Drosendorf separated from the Memmelsdorf club and founded the Windthorst RSV Drosendorf cycling club. Until 1933, the association was the center of social life in Drosendorf. He had a theater group and a singing group. In 1947 the cycling club RSV Windthorst Drosendorf was re-established. For the 50th anniversary of the foundation in 1961, cycling was still very popular, then the club developed into a general sports club. Although the Windthorst clubs (named after the central politician Ludwig Windthorst ) were once widespread, today there is probably no other sports club in Germany that calls itself Windthorst.

societies

• St. Joseph's Association
• Carnevalsverein Memmelsdorfer Carnevals Club (MCC)
• Choral society Liederkranz Memmelsdorf
• Musikverein Memmelsdorf
• Merkendorf Choral Society
• FCN fan club Merkendorf e. V.
• Merkendorf model flying club

There are around 60 different clubs in the community, including volunteer fire brigades , sports clubs and political organizations. The origin was the St.-Josefs-Verein, which was founded in 1866 by Baron Franz Seraph von Buseck , from 1859 to 1882 chaplain in Memmelsdorf. The St. Josephs Association was not only a church association, but also a center of social and cultural life. In the course of time, individual groups separated themselves from it, devoting themselves more intensively to certain cultural tasks or accommodating the independence efforts of the individual political communities in the parish. This is how the Liederkranz Memmelsdorf choral society was founded in 1924 and the Windthorst RSV Drosendorf cycling club in 1908. The umbrella organization of the Memmelsdorf associations is the local culture ring Memmelsdorf.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Memmelsdorf lost its village character in the 1950s and 1960s. More and more agriculturally used plots on the slopes east of the village were sold to people willing to build from Bamberg. Memmelsdorf became a modern housing estate. The municipality deliberately refrained from setting up business or industry. The new citizens were mainly employees or civil servants in Bamberg authorities and schools. The employees of Memmelsdorf are employed by the large companies (Bosch, Wieland Electric) in Bamberg or by Brose and Michelin in Hallstadt. Memmelsdorf is a housing estate. Economic life is therefore limited to many small businesses that maintain local supplies.

However, there is a significant company in the construction industry. Bauunternehmung GmbH Josef Fösel was founded in 1948 by the Memmelsdorf master mason Josef Fösel (1908–1965) and today employs around 150 people. The company operates throughout the Franconian region .

The local Werner-Nostheide-Verlag , a family business that publishes the information service for the toy industry, Branch International (BB) and the games industry’s largest consumer magazine, the Spielbox , is of national importance.

Breweries:

Beer from the Höhn brewery

The brewing industry used to be an important branch of the economy in Memmelsdorf and the surrounding towns. Five breweries still exist today:

• Brewery and Gasthof Göller, Drosendorf
• Brewery and Gasthof Wagner , Merkendorf
• Brewery and Gasthof Hummel , Merkendorf
• Brewery-Gasthof Drei Kronen , Memmelsdorf
• Brewery-Gasthof Höhn, Memmelsdorf

The former brewery and inn Zum Roten Ochsen (Nüßlein) was bought by the Sparkasse Bamberg , renovated and set up as a Sparkasse branch. The former Leicht brewery, the so-called Ottn Wirt - the name comes from the fact that an ancestor of the current owner donated the figure of Saint Otto on the church wall - is closed and has been converted and now contains condominiums. In Drosendorf there was the brewery zur Krone (Nüßlein) until the 1970s. The former Zeiß brewery (formerly Einwich) in Kremmeldorf and the former Dillig brewery in Laubend (owner Julius Hummel) are operated as restaurants, although the pub in Laubend is rarely open.

Voluntary fire brigades

There are volunteer fire departments in Drosendorf, Kremmeldorf, Laubend, Meedensdorf, Memmelsdorf, Merkendorf, Schmerldorf and Weichendorf.

traffic

Former train station in Memmelsdorf

The municipality of Memmelsdorf is located six kilometers east of the city of Bamberg on the state road 2190. The municipality can be reached via the A 70 (Maintalautobahn Schweinfurt-Bayreuth) and the A 73 (Frankenschnellweg Nuremberg-Bamberg). To the east of the A 70 / A 73 motorway junction (Bamberger Kreuz) is the exit of the A 73 Bamberg-Memmelsdorf. Immediately on the descent is the municipality of Lichteneiche. From there it is two kilometers to Memmelsdorf. Passenger traffic on the now dismantled Bamberg – Scheßlitz railway , where Memmelsdorf had a train station, was stopped in 1985 and a cycle path was built on the section from Memmelsdorf to Scheßlitz.

All places in the municipality are connected to the Bamberg city ​​bus network.

Public facilities

• Seniors Center Seehof-Blick of the Diakonisches Werk Bamberg-Forchheim.
• Gewo Seniorenwohnpark Lichteneiche
• Horst-Bieger-Altenstiftung Memmelsdorf
• In the 1980s the Seehofhalle was built, a multi-purpose hall for sports, social and cultural events.
• The Memmelsdorf community library is jointly supported by the community and the Catholic Parish Church Foundation and is run by the Sankt Michaelsbund, Landesverband Bayern e. V., supervised.

education

The Ferdinand Dietz elementary school is the community's primary and secondary school. The municipality of Memmelsdorf insists on the spelling Ferdinand Dietz . The reason is that the artist chiseled his name "Ferdinand Dietz" into the base of the figures he donated and made propria manu (by hand) on the Memmelsdorf churchyard wall. The school has branches in Memmelsdorf, Drosendorf, Merkendorf and Lichteneiche.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

(The preceding year indicates the year in which the honorary citizenship was conferred.)

• Georg Schwemmer (1870–1953), archbishop clerical councilor, pastor of Memmelsdorf 1908–1935
• 1993: Friedrich Otterbein (1927–1994), pastor of Merkendorf 1959–1994
• 1993: Philipp Vollkommer (1928–2017), member of the state parliament 1970–1998
• 2004: Irmgard Bieger (1926–2013), founder of the Horst-Bieger-Altenstiftung
• 2005: Lothar Güthlein (1935–2013), Archbishop Spiritual Council, pastor of the parish of the Assumption of Mary Memmelsdorf 1974–2011

Personalities who are connected with Memmelsdorf

• Ferdinand Dietz (1708–1777), sculptor , created sculptures in the garden of Seehof Castle and died there
• Horst Lohse (* 1943), composer , lives in Memmelsdorf
• Meinhard Zanger (* 1955), actor , director and artistic director , was born in Memmelsdorf

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Memelsdorf . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 530 ( digitized version ).
• Hans Müller: Memmelsdorf in old views . Zaltbommel (Netherlands) 1982. A collection of old postcards and photos.
• Hans Müller: Memmelsdorf . Erfurt 2000. A collection of old photos and postcards from Memmelsdorf, its districts and Seehof Castle.
• Alwin Reindl: New times. New churches. New piety . Expansion and refinement of the Memmelsdorf parish church of the Assumption of Mary 1706–1772. With photos by home nurse Hans Müller. Self-published, Bamberg 2009.
• Konrad Schrott: Memmelsdorf. Local history of a former Hochstift-Bamberg official seat . Self-published, Drosendorf 1975.
• Konrad Schrott: Memmelsdorf. Its districts and their people in the mirror of history . Self-published by the municipality of Memmelsdorf, 1982.
• Konrad Schrott: The Zent Memmelsdorf. A contribution to the local history of the Bamberg region. Self-published, Drosendorf 1970.
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Memmelsdorf . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 559-560 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Memmelsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Memmelsdorf  - travel guide

• Official website of the municipality of Memmelsdorf
• Entry on the coat of arms of Memmelsdorf  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Memmelsdorf: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.24 MB)

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. ↑ districts on memmelsdorf.de
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 430 .