District of Nürnberger Land

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '  N , 11 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
Administrative headquarters :	Run adPegnitz
Area :	799.57 km 2
Residents:	170,792 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	214 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	LAU, ESB , HEB, N , PEG
Circle key :	09 5 74
Circle structure:	27 municipalities
Address of the district administration:	Waldluststrasse 1 91207 Lauf an der Pegnitz
Website :	www.nuernberger-land.de
District Administrator :	Armin Kroder ( FW )
Location of the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria

The district of Nürnberger Land is the easternmost district in the Bavarian administrative district of Middle Franconia . The district is a member of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region .

geography

location

The district area belongs to the Swabian-Franconian layer level country, especially with the foreland to the Franconian Alb . Large parts of the circle are covered with forest. The largest river is the Pegnitz , which, coming from the northeast, reaches the district north of Neuhaus an der Pegnitz and then flows in a southerly direction. To the west of Pommelsbrunn it turns to the west, then flows through the towns of Hersbruck and Lauf an der Pegnitz and leaves the district in the west on the city limits to Nuremberg.

Neighboring areas

The district borders clockwise in the northwest, beginning with the districts of Erlangen-Höchstadt , Forchheim , Bayreuth , Amberg-Sulzbach , Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz and Roth as well as the independent city of Nuremberg .

The district also includes the Nuremberg exclaves ( Brunn / Netzstall / Birnthon ) and the semi-exclave Fischbach , whose access road (Fischbacher Hauptstrasse / Kreisstrasse N 5) belongs to Nuremberg.

history

Regional courts

Before 1800, the district was mainly part of the imperial city of Nuremberg and came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1803 and 1806, respectively . In 1803 the regional court of Schnaittach was established, which in 1809 was named after its seat in the regional court of Lauf an der Pegnitz. In 1808 the regional courts of Nuremberg , Altdorf and Hersbruck were established. They all belonged to the Pegnitz district , from 1810 to the Rezat district , which was renamed Middle Franconia in 1838 . As early as 1809, the city of Nuremberg had become a district with its own city court.

District Offices

In 1862, the Nuremberg and Altdorf regional courts were combined to form the Nuremberg district office and the Lauf and Hersbruck regional courts were combined to form the Hersbruck regional office. The Nuremberg District Office subsequently transferred several municipalities to the city of Nuremberg in various sections. In 1898 there were also three communities from the Hersbruck District Office, but received two communities from the Neumarkt District Office. In 1908 a separate district office was set up for the Lauf an der Pegnitz area (previously the Hersbruck district office).

Counties

On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . The district offices became the districts of Hersbruck, Lauf an der Pegnitz and Nuremberg.

District of Nürnberger Land

Administrative headquarters, Lauf an der Pegnitz

As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , a new district of Lauf an der Pegnitz was formed on July 1, 1972 from the following components :

• all the churches of the old district Lauf , except the municipalities Beerbach , Benz village Eckenhaid and Herpersdorf that the Erlangen-Höchstadt came
• all municipalities of the dissolved district of Hersbruck
• all municipalities of the dissolved district Nuremberg except the municipalities Brunn and Fischbach near Nuremberg , which were incorporated into the independent city of Nuremberg and the town of Stein near Nuremberg , which the district Fürth came
• from the dissolved district of Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate, the communities Neuhaus an der Pegnitz , Krottensee and Rothenbruck
• from the district of Forchheim the communities Großengsee and Wildenfels as well as the community-free area Wildenfelser Wald
• the municipality Höfen from the dissolved Pegnitz district

On May 1, 1973, the new district was renamed the Nürnberger Land district .

On July 1, 1976, the Beerbach community moved from the Erlangen-Höchstadt district to the Nürnberger Land district.

Population development

From 1988 to 2008 the district of Nürnberger Land grew by over 16,000 inhabitants or around 11%. Since 2004, the trend has been declining after a high of around 169,000 inhabitants.

The following figures refer to the territorial status on May 25, 1987.

Population development
year	1840	1900	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	46,324	57,639	77,590	113.094	119,398	136.275	149.127	160,616	166.156	168.024	168,389	166.260	167,643

Communities

The district of Nürnberger Land comprises 27 municipalities, including five cities and three markets. The status of the population is as of December 31, 2019, the individual places are recorded in the list of places in the district of Nürnberger Land .

Cities Altdorf near Nuremberg (15,276) Hersbruck (12,436) Lauf adPegnitz (26,483) Röthenbach adPegnitz (12.306) Velden (1822) Markets Wet (14,050) Neuhaus adPegnitz (2837) Schnaittach (8507) Administrative communities Happurg with the member communities Alfeld and Happurg Henfenfeld with the member communities Engelthal, Henfenfeld and Offenhausen Velden (Pegnitz) with the member communities Hartenstein, Velden (city) and Vorra

Other communities Alfeld (1086) Burgthann (11,433) Engelthal (1085) Happurg (3766) Hartenstein (1459) Henfenfeld (1822) Kirchensittenbach (2123) Leinburg (6630) Neunkirchen a.Sand (4671) Offenhausen (1596) Ottensoos (2094) Pommelsbrunn (5325) Reichenschwand (2390) Rückersdorf (4732) Schwaig near Nuremberg (9017) Schwarzenbruck (8451) Simmelsdorf (3328) Vorra (1771) Winkelhaid (4296)

Unregulated areas (130.24 km²) Behringersdorfer Forest (11.19 km²) Brunn (10.23 km²) Engelthaler Forest (2.42 km²) Moist Forest (20.84 km²) Fischbach (18.34 km²) Forsthof (7.44 km²) Günthersbühler Forst (5.91 km²) Haimendorfer Forest (7.48 km²) Laufamholzer Forest (6.56 km²) Leinburg (4.21 km²) Rückersdorfer Forst (5.16 km²) Schönberg (3.44 km²) Winkelhaid (18.36 km²) Zerzabelshofer Forest (6.55 km²)

politics

District Administrator

The District Administrator of the Nuremberg State has been Armin Kroder (FW) since May 1st, 2008. The deputy district administrator is Cornelia Trinkl (CSU), other deputies of the district administrator are Robert Ilg (FW) and Gabriele Drechsler (Greens).

District council

District election 2020

Turnout: 63.9% (+ 3.3%)

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30.97%

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19.52%

13.58%

5.16%

2.52%

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1.86%

0.30%

CSU

FW

Green

SPD

AfD

FDP

left

BLBD

ÖDP

REP

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

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+1.98  % p

-1.34  % p.p.

+1.86  % p

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CSU

FW

Green

SPD

AfD

FDP

left

BLBD

ÖDP

REP

The district council consists of 70 district councilors and the district administrator.

In the current district council, the district councils are divided between the following parties:

	CSU	FW	Green	SPD	AfD	FDP	left	BLBD *)	ÖDP	total
2020	22nd	15th	14th	10	4th	2	1	1	1	70 seats

Explanation: *) Colorful list of citizen democracy

coat of arms

Blazon : “Above a blue shield base, in it a silver mill wheel below, split; in front in gold a red-armored half black eagle at the gap, in the back divided diagonally five times by red and silver. "

Justification for the coat of arms: The coat of arms of the district contains the small Nuremberg city coat of arms in its upper part . It serves as a reference to the former land area of ​​the former free imperial city of Nuremberg, which largely coincides with the area of ​​today's district of Nürnberger Land. Blue and silver in the base of the shield symbolize the Pegnitz with its tributaries, the mill wheel symbolizes the early settlement of mills on the rivers and thus the pre-industrial commercial use of water power in medieval times.

See also : List of coats of arms in the district of Nürnberger Land

District partnerships

The circle maintains partnerships with:

• Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony
• Bács-Kiskun in Hungary

Economy and Infrastructure

The district of Nürnberger Land is located in the metropolitan region of Nuremberg . While the western part of the district is strongly characterized by the Nuremberg-Fürth-Erlangen agglomeration, the manufacturing trade and industry, the rural character emerges to the east. The district with its 27 cities, markets and communities has a good 170,000 inhabitants.

The economy in the Nürnberger Land shows a relatively balanced branch structure, the district is the seat of numerous - partly worldwide acting - companies. So-called hidden champions export their products worldwide in numerous devices and machines. These are u. a. from the branches of technical ceramics, automotive supply industry, machine and tool construction, plastics industry and household goods. In addition, crafts, the service sector, trade and agriculture and forestry also play an important role in the district.

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Nürnberger Land was ranked 185 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany and is therefore one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.

Road traffic

The district is connected to the motorway network via the A 3 , A 6 , A 9 and the A 73 and is crossed by the B 8 and B 14 in a west-east direction. Three of the five motorway junctions in the metropolitan region are in the district. In addition, the airport in the north of Nuremberg can be reached in a few minutes by car, as can the port of Nuremberg .

→ Main article : List of district roads in the district of Nürnberger Land

Rail transport

S-Bahn in Altdorf near Nuremberg

Of particular importance are the three S-Bahn lines with which large parts of the district are closely meshed with Nuremberg and the district of Neumarkt idOPf. are connected. Furthermore, there are hourly connections through various R-Bahn lines both within the district area and to the neighboring districts of Amberg-Sulzbach and Bayreuth . The connection to the national long - distance traffic is guaranteed via the main station in Nuremberg .

The Nuremberg – Schwandorf railway line has existed in the lower Pegnitz Valley via Amberg to Regensburg and via Furth im Wald to the Czech Republic since 1859 . On the right side of the valley, the connection through the upper Pegnitz valley from Nuremberg via Schnabelwaid towards Bayreuth and via Marktredwitz to Cheb was added. Since then, the two cities of Lauf and Hersbruck each have two train stations “left” and “right of the Pegnitz”. Both main routes are connected between Hersbruck (Pegnitz on the right) and Pommelsbrunn .

The left Pegnitz line has been electrified since 2010 to Hartmannshof for the S1 Bamberg – Nürnberg Hbf – Hartmannshof. In Hartmannshof there is a connection via Neukirchen b.Sulzbach-Rosenberg to the R41 to Vilseck and Freihung towards Weiden idOPf . The S2 Roth – Schwabach – Nürnberg Hbf – Feucht – Altdorf serves the Feucht, Moosbach (b Feucht), Winkelhaid, Ludersheim, Altdorf West and Altdorf stations in the district. Since the commissioning of the S3 Nürnberg Hbf – Feucht – Neumarkt in December 2010, the trains of the R5 Nürnberg Hbf – Neumarkt – Parsberg no longer stop at any train station in the district. Instead, the Feucht , Feucht Ost , Ochenbruck, Mimberg , Burgthann and Oberferrieden stations are served by the S3.

On the right-hand route, the route to Simmelsdorf-Hüttenbach branches off in Neunkirchen am Sand . It leads in the valley of the Schnaittach over the market of the same name into the Frankenalb . This route is served by the R-Bahn 31 from Nuremberg via Lauf (Pegnitz on the right) to Simmelsdorf-Hüttenbach .

In the Hersbruck train station (Pegnitz on the right) you can change to the R4 line via Amberg in the direction of Schwandorf. The branch line to Auerbach idOPf , built in 1903, branched north of Neuhaus in Ranna . from. After the line was dismantled, Ranna station was no longer served.

From the Nuremberg – Regensburg line opened in 1871 via Neumarkt idOPf, the Bavarian State Railways branched off two branch lines in Feucht : the line has led to Altdorf since 1878 , while the line to Wendelstein built in 1886 was operated until 1960 and then dismantled. The local railway Burgthann – Allersberg was operated from 1902 to 1973.

Currently served routes (outside of the Nürnberger Land in brackets):

Surname	Route no.	route	built	electrified	Freight transport
Schnaittachtalbahn	5925	Neunkirchen a Sand - Schnaittach - Simmelsdorf-Hüttenbach	1895	No	No
Railway line Nuremberg – Cheb	5903	(Nuremberg) - Behringersdorf - Lauf (right) - Hersbruck (right) - Neuhaus a Pegnitz - (Cheb)	1877	No	Yes
Hersbruck – Pommelsbrunn railway line	5926	Hersbruck (right) - Pommelsbrunn	1877	No	Yes
Nuremberg – Schwandorf railway line	5904	(Nuremberg) - Schwaig - Lauf (left) - Hersbruck (left) - Hartmannshof - (Schwandorf)	1859	Yes	No
Railway line Nuremberg – Regensburg	5850	(Nuremberg) - Feucht - Oberferrieden - (Neumarkt - Regensburg)	1871	Yes	Yes
Nuremberg – Feucht railway line	5970	(Nuremberg) - Feucht	1992	Yes	No
Feucht – Altdorf railway line	5933	Feucht - Altdorf	1878	Yes	No

Lines with a length of 28.2 km were closed:

route	built	length	Passenger transport up to	Freight traffic stopped	Dismantling
Ranna-Auerbach	1903	08.1 km	1970	1982	1984
Feucht – Wendelstein	1886	05.3 km	1955	1960	1960
Burgthann-Allersberg	1902	14.8 km	1973	1960	1975

A total of 122 km of railway lines are still in operation.

Cultural monuments

Hohenstein Castle

Stone cross in damp

There are numerous stone crosses in the district , most of which are also listed as architectural monuments .

See also : List of stone crosses in the district of Nürnberger Land

Protected areas

Rinntal nature reserve

In the district of Nürnberger Land there are eight nature reserves , six landscape protection areas , 30 protected landscape components , 177 natural monuments , 13 FFH areas and 50 designated geotopes . (As of November 2016)

See also:

• List of nature reserves in the district of Nürnberger Land
• List of landscape protection areas in the district of Nürnberger Land
• List of protected landscape components in the district of Nürnberger Land
• List of FFH areas in the district of Nürnberger Land
• List of natural monuments in the district of Nürnberger Land
• List of geotopes in the district of Nürnberger Land .

Nature reserves:

• Lichen and pine forests south of Leinburg
• Schwarzach breakthrough
• Schwarzenbrucker Moor
• Upper Molsberg Valley
• Rinntal near Alfeld
• Schottental near Heldmannsberg
• Wetland and sandy grasslands near Speikern
• Pegnitzau between Ranna and Michelfeld

License Plate

On August 5, 1974, the district was assigned the LAU , which has been valid since July 1, 1956 for the district of Lauf adPegnitz . It is still issued today. Since July 10, 2013, the distinctive signs ESB (Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz), HEB (Hersbruck), N (Nuremberg for the former district of Nuremberg ) and PEG (Pegnitz) have been available.

literature

• Wolfgang Wüllner: The land area of ​​the imperial city of Nuremberg . Feucht 1970, 64 pages and 1 map (Hochgerichtkarte) (special issue of the Altnürnberger Landschaft eV).

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Nürnberger Land  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• District Office Nürnberger Land
• Literature from and about the district of Nürnberger Land in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on the coat of arms of the district of Nürnberger Land  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• District of Nürnberger Land: 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. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
3. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
4. ↑ "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 ).
5. ^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing
6. ↑ Announcement of the official final result of the district assembly election 2020
7. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of the district of Nürnberger Land  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 5, 2017 .
8. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.