Mistelbach (Upper Franconia)

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Bayreuth
Management Community :	Mistelbach
Height :	408 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.13 km 2
Residents:	1571 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	256 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	95511
Area code :	09201
License plate :	BT, EBS , ESB , KEM , MÜB , PEG
Community key :	09 4 72 166
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Chancellery Street 3 ; 95511 Mistelbach
Website :	www.mistelbach.de
Mayor :	Matthias Mann ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Mistelbach in the Bayreuth district

Mistelbach is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth and the seat of the Mistelbach administrative community . The community is about seven kilometers from Bayreuth .

geography

Community structure

The municipality of Mistelbach has 6 districts :

There are also three wastelands with proper names:

Village mill
Trautscheit
Warmuthsreut

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Bayreuth , Gesees , Hummeltal , Mistelgau and Eckersdorf .

Waters

mistletoe

history

Coat of arms of the von Mistelbach family according to Siebmacher's book of arms

Epitaph of the last Mistelbach knight Christoph (died 1563) in the St. Bartholomäus Church

Mistelbach Castle

Quarter stone

Until the church is planted

Mistelbach was first mentioned in writing on May 4, 1125. The Mistelbach family of imperial knights has been attested since 1321 and died out in the male line in 1563. As part of the Prussian principality of Bayreuth since 1792 , Mistelbach fell to France in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 and became part of Bavaria in 1810.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the community grew from 1533 to 1599 by 66 inhabitants or 4.3%. A peak was reached on December 31, 2004 with 1653 inhabitants.

1970: 1340 inhabitants
1987: 1502 inhabitants
1991: 1582 inhabitants
1995: 1572 inhabitants
2000: 1545 inhabitants
2005: 1654 inhabitants
2010: 1619 inhabitants
2015: 1594 inhabitants
2016: 1596 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Mayor is Matthias Mann (SPD).

Municipal council

The 2014 local elections resulted in the following distribution of seats in the local council:

SPD 5 seats
CSU 3 seats
Citizens' Initiative-Pro Mistelbach 3 seats
Free community of voters 1 seat

coat of arms

Blazon : "On the red background, over two crossed silver knives, there is a notched golden bar." The golden bar in front of the red background goes back to the male line of the von Mistelbach family , which died out in 1563 . The silver knives remind of the saint of the parish church St. Bartholomäus .

Intermunicipal cooperation

The municipality of Mistelbach has been a member of the association for regional development "All around the Neubürg-Franconian Switzerland" since 1999 .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Evangelical Church of St. Bartholomew
Mistelbach Castle (the castle of the noble free of Mistelbach, new building in 1763)
Hunting table of the Margrave of Bayreuth in the forest area of Arzloch

Natural monuments

Arzloch Gorge, geotope no. 472R022
Hirtenstein, geotope no. 472R153
Quarter stone, geotope no. 472R020
Sattlerstein, geotope no. 472R025

Sports

TSV Mistelbach with five youth teams, two senior teams, an old men team (all football ), women's gymnastics, a tennis team, two table tennis teams , a theater department and a ski department .

The Mistelbach / Bayreuth hiking enthusiasts conduct long-distance, day and half-day hikes as well as club trips.

Soil monuments

See: List of soil monuments in Mistelbach (Upper Franconia)

traffic

The Bayreuth – Hollfeld local railway ran through the town .

Sons and daughters of the church

Ernst Zindel (left) 1940

Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen (born March 31, 1767, † April 27, 1837), author, pastor, dean and district school inspector
Ernst Zindel (born January 23, 1897, † October 10, 1978), aircraft designer

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Mistelbach . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 618 ( digitized version ).
August Gebeßler : City and district of Bayreuth (= Bavarian art monuments . Volume 6 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 451450914 , p. 123-126 .
Georg Paul Hönn : Mistelbach . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 272-273 ( digitized version ).

Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Mistelbach . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 566-567 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Mistelbach (Oberfranken) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Mistelbach (Upper Franconia): Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).
^ Municipality of Mistelbach in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 5, 2020.
↑ About us - The Neubürg at a glance - Neubürg. Accessed June 8, 2020 (German).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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 Mistelbach in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 5, 2020.

[3] About us - The Neubürg at a glance - Neubürg. Accessed June 8, 2020 (German).