Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '  N , 11 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Amberg-Sulzbach
Management Community :	Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	45.75 km 2
Residents:	2512 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	92259
Area code :	09663
License plate :	AS, BUL , ESB , NAB , SUL
Community key :	09 3 71 141
Community structure:	37 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Rathaus 1 92259 Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Website :	www.neukirchen-bei-sulzbach-rosenberg.de
Mayor :	Peter Achatzi ( CSU )
Location of the community of Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach

Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg (officially: Neukirchen b.Sulzbach-Rosenberg ) is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach and the seat of the administrative association of the same name . It is located about ten kilometers west of Sulzbach-Rosenberg and 45 km east of Nuremberg .

geography

Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg has 37 districts:

Tin yard Büchelberg Corner straightening Single courtyard Erkelsdorf Ermhof Fichtelbrunn Föderricht Fromberg Gaisheim

Grasberg Habres Haghof Haid Högberg Holnstein Dog home Hundsboden Knappenberg Curls

Mirtelhof Mittelreinbach Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg Oberlangenfeld Obermainshof Oberreinbach Peilstein Arrow stone Pilgrimage court Rittmannshof

Dressing Schönlind Stegerhof Steinbach Trondorf Truisdorf Forest lust

There are the following districts : Bachetsfeld, Holnstein, Mittelreinbach, Neukirchen b.Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Röckenricht, Trondorf.

history

View from the Hartenfels

Until the church is planted

After finding barrows , the settlement of Neukirchen is dated to 500 BC. Dated. The village itself was probably founded between 900 and 1100 during clearing in the Middle Ages. During the Thirty Years' War Neukirchen was plundered by the Swedes in 1633 , and eight years later by Bavarian troops. Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg belonged to the Duchy of Neuburg-Sulzbach and its court Sulzbach. In 1777 the place fell to Bavaria .

In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

20th century

Until around 1920, the town's train station was an important transshipment point for the dye ocher , which was mined in the surrounding area, including in Ermhof , from paint graves at depths of three to ten meters.

Community flag of Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Mittelreinbach and parts of the area of ​​the dissolved municipality of Trondorf were incorporated. On July 1, 1974, parts of the neighboring community Neidstein with about 100 inhabitants were added. Parts of the dissolved municipality Bachetsfeld followed on July 1, 1976. The series of incorporations was completed on January 1, 1978 with the incorporation of the municipality Holnstein and parts of the dissolved municipality Röckenricht.

Residents

Between 1988 and 2018, the population fell from 2,655 to 2,483 by 172 inhabitants or 6.5%. On December 31, 2000 Neukirchen b. S.-R. 2,895 inhabitants.

St. Paul Church

religion

There are two churches in the village, the Catholic and the Protestant St. Peter and Paul Church. Neukirchen is one of the nine parishes in the north-east of the Upper Palatinate, where the majority of the population is Protestant.

politics

Municipal council

After the last local election on March 15, 2020 , the local council has 14 members. The turnout was 72.2%. The choice brought the following result:

	CSU	6 seats
	SPD	3 seats
	Free electorate	3 seats
	Independent citizen list	2 seats

Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor.

mayor

In the local elections on March 15, 2020, Peter Achatzi (CSU) was elected with 51.22% of the vote. His predecessor was Winfried Franz (SPD) from May 1, 2002 to April 30, 2020.

badges and flags

coat of arms

• Description of coat of arms: Divided by silver and red; above a growing red eagle; below a growing silver rod with a left barb, each side with a silver heraldic lily .

• Coat of arms history: The coat of arms division and the tinging in silver and red is derived from the coat of arms of the Freudenbergers , who as lords of Rupprechtstein Castle played an important role in the history of the municipality since the Middle Ages and held the right of collage to the parish until the 19th century . The growing eagle comes from the coat of arms of the Truchsessen von Holnstein, who owned the Hofmark Holnstein . The bar with the bar is reminiscent of the Rupprechtsteiners, who named themselves after their ancestral home. The lilies stand for the Baumgartner and Barons von Stromer, two families who ruled Holnstein in the 18th century.
• Coat of arms: since 1992
• Draft and design: 1992, Dieter Krieger, heraldist in Alsbach an der Bergstrasse.
• Legal basis: resolution of the municipal council and approval of the government of the Upper Palatinate . Approved by the government of the Upper Palatinate on December 10, 1992
• Coat of arms structure: Elements from the family coat of arms :
  • from Freudenberg ,
  • Truchsess from Holnstein ,
  • from Rupprechtstein ,
  • Baumgartner ,
  • from Stromer

flag

Red and white, covered with the municipal coat of arms

Medal of Merit of the Municipality

merito de civitate praemium, Neukirchen b. SR; For services to the community as a reward

Attractions

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg

In 2017 one of the oldest farmhouses in the northern Upper Palatinate in Obermainshof (Obermainshof 1, file number: D-3-71-141-22) was demolished despite its status as a monument.

nature

In addition to numerous cycling and hiking trails, there are many caves around Neukirchen. Worth seeing are u. a .:

• Easter cave
• Schergenbuck nature reserve with Neidstein Castle

Transport and infrastructure

The station Neukirchen (in Sulzbach-Rosenberg) was approved by the Bavarian Eastern Railway on the route of Regensburg about Schwandorf to Nuremberg built 1859th The single-track line to Weiden idOPf has been branching here since 1875 . from. Up until the end of operation with steam locomotives in 1974, there was a railway depot with a roundhouse . When the transport association for the greater Nuremberg area was founded in 1987, the station was the VGN's tariff end point. Since the entire district of Amberg-Sulzbach joined in 1997, the VGN tariff applies to Amberg on the route towards Schwandorf and to Thansüß near Freihung towards Weiden. The regional express of the lines R4 to Amberg (further direction Schwandorf to Regensburg or Furth im Wald) / R41 to Thansüß (further direction Weiden and Neustadt an der Waldnaab ) are partly winged here . In the direction of Nuremberg, the trains are usually united here.

Others

• For children there is a kindergarten , a day care center and a primary school .
• In the middle of the village there is a community library.
• There is both a Red Cross and a Youth Red Cross .
• There is a volunteer fire brigade in the village .
• Since 1968 there has been a nursing home for the disabled by Dr. Loew social services .
• The sports club has a children's guard and an adult guard, the spotlight dance guard.
• In 2013 and 2014 Neukirchen was the home of the oldest living citizen of Bavaria, Mrs. Margarete Ottmann (* 23 February 1903, † 17 August 2014). Mrs. Margarete Ottmann reached the age of 111 years.

Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg

Personalities

• Ulrich Himbsel (1787–1860), royal building officer and builder of the Munich – Starnberg railway line , was born in Neukirchen
• Aegidius Agricola (1578–1646), German lawyer, professor and specialist author

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. ^ Community Neukirchen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 31, 2020.
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 578 .
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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 639 .
5. ^ Assumption of Mary: No public holiday in nine Upper Palatinate parishes , BR24, accessed on August 15, 2020.
6. ↑ http://www.neukirchen-bei-sulzbach-rosenberg.de/de/gemeinde-und-politik/gemeinderat/index.php Neukirchen municipal council
7. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Oldest farmhouse in the northern Upper Palatinate demolished - a piece of history disposed of. onetz.de, accessed on September 11, 2017 . 
9. ^ Community Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg I facilities of the community. Retrieved August 28, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Eldest man

Web links

Commons : Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• http://www.oberpfalz-luftbild.de/neukirchen.htm
• Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg: Official statistics of the LfStat