Niederfüllbach

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '  N , 11 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Coburg
Management Community :	Grub am Forst
Height :	294 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.59 km 2
Residents:	1524 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	589 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	96489
Area code :	09565
License plate :	CO, NEC
Community key :	09 4 73 153
Address of the municipal administration:	Parkstrasse 36 96489 Niederfüllbach
Website :	www.grub-am-forst.de
Mayor :	Bastian Büttner ( CSU )
Location of the community Niederfüllbach in the district of Coburg

Niederfüllbach is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Coburg and a member of the administrative community Grub am Forst .

geography

Niederfüllbach town hall

Niederfüllbach is only a few kilometers south of the city of Coburg in the hilly Coburg region. The community borders on the Coburg district of Creidlitz . To the south of the village begins a large forest area stretching over eight kilometers to the southeast, which is called Lichtenfelser Forst or simply "Forst" and extends to Lichtenfels . To the west of the village is the valley of the Itz , which includes a motorway-like main road and a railway line. In the northern part of the village flows the eponymous Füllbach, which flows northwest of Niederfüllbach into the Itz. Half a kilometer west of Niederfüllbach lies the wasteland Geizenmühle ⊙ on the Itz .

history

Niederfüllbach Castle

Niederfüllbach was first mentioned in 1075 as "Vullebach" in a document from Bishop Adalbero of Würzburg , in which the abbot Adelbert von Saalfeld was granted a number of sovereign rights over this place and others. In the 12th century, the monastery property was transformed into a knight's seat, initially owned by the Franconian knight family von Kunstat . During this time a "burc fullebach" was mentioned for the first time, but its exact location is unknown.

Since the 14th century, the Schaumberg family , from the 17th century the Reitzenstein family, determined the fate of the place. Their knight's seat, also known as the castle, was expanded and rebuilt over the centuries, even after it was destroyed in the German Peasants' War in 1525 . In 1575 a "undern füllbach" was mentioned for the first time, which, as later documents show, indicates a division of the place and the dispute over responsibilities ( feudal obligation ) between the Hennebergers and the monasteries of Bamberg and Banz . During the Thirty Years War , the place was burned down in 1634 by Croatians allied with the imperial (Catholic) troops . After the end of the war the place was rebuilt and in 1695 it received a new castle church .

In 1763, at the battle of Niederfüllbach, there were violent disputes about the legal jurisdiction between Niederfüllbach farmers, supported by the Lichtenfels militia and the Coburg military, which were finally ended in an arbitration award against the Coburgs before the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar . After the von Reitzenstein knight dynasty died out, the lords of Portzig and von Lichtenberg owned the manor from 1773 to 1818. Until 1803 Niederfüllbach belonged to the Bamberg feudal association and then to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Castle Church

With the Coburgs first state treaty from 1811 negotiated between Bavaria's Prime Minister Maximilian von Montgelas and Prince Leopold von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld , the legal responsibilities for the suburbs Niederfüllbach (in the north) and Unterfüllbach (in the south) were clarified for the first time, both came to Saxony -Coburg-Saalfeld (from 1826 Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha ) and grew together into a village. In 1817 the Lord von Lichtenstein sold the manor and castle to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld , who later became King Leopold I of Belgium. In 1859 the place received a train station on the newly built Coburg – Lichtenfels railway line , which is no longer served.

In 1907, King Leopold II of Belgium , the son of Leopold I, brought large parts of his property into the Niederfüllbach Foundation (there also information on colonial prehistory). In 1911, following strong political pressure, the administration of the Niederfüllbacher Foundation left the entire assets of securities with an estimated value of 100 million Belgian francs to the Belgian state in return for a one-off settlement of 1.1 million marks. Today the foundation lives mainly from around 216 hectares of land in the Coburg region.

With the end of the monarchy in 1918, after a referendum in 1919, the Free State of Coburg, which had been established in the meantime, was united with the Free State of Bavaria in 1920 . Niederfüllbach finally became part of Bavaria.

In 1966 the architect Clodt Dankwart von Pezold acquired Niederfüllbach Castle , which was planned to be demolished due to a lack of funds, and had it extensively renovated.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the municipality grew from 1243 to 1534 by 291 inhabitants or 23.4%. A peak was reached on December 31, 1998 with 1760 inhabitants.

politics

Municipal council

The 2020 local elections resulted in the following distribution of seats in the local council (compared to 2014):

• CSU 6 seats (+2)
• SPD 3 seats (+ −0)
• Non-partisan voter group Niederfüllbach (ÜWN) 3 seats (−2)

mayor

Martin Rauscher (ÜWN) was the first mayor from 2008 until his departure in 2020. He was followed on May 1, 2020 by Bastian Büttner (CSU).

coat of arms

Description : Divided nine times by black and gold, topped with a raised oblique left blue wavy bar over a left oblique silver flight.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Niederfüllbach

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Niederfüllbach

traffic

Northwest of Niederfüllbach is the fork of the traffic flows leading from Coburg to the south and south-east. On the one hand, this concerns the federal highway 4 in Itzgrund, which has been developed like a motorway from north to south , from which the B 303, which leads to the east, branches off here. On the other hand, the railway lines from Coburg to Lichtenfels ( Werrabahn ) and that of the decommissioned and dismantled Itzgrundbahn to Rossach ( regional train ) also fork there . Niederfüllbach no longer has a stop, the nearest train station is in the Creidlitz district of Coburg, 1.5 km to the north-west .

The Nuremberg – Erfurt high-speed line runs east of Niederfüllbach, including the Füllbach tunnel , the Füllbach valley bridge and the Niederfüllbach connecting curve . The line went into operation in December 2017.

In the northern municipal area of ​​Niederfüllbach there is the special airfield at Coburg-Steinrück airfield of the Aviation Working Group Coburg eV

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hans-Martin Helbich (1906–1975), Protestant theologian, general superintendent in West Berlin

Web links

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

• Niederfüllbach pages on the homepage of the administrative association
• Entry on Niederfüllbach's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Niederfüllbach: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF, 1.66 MB)
• Niederfüllbacher Foundation (with information on the colonial history of the foundation)

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 ).