Nordhalben

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Kronach
Height :	586 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.91 km 2
Residents:	1622 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	74 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	96365, 96349
Area code :	09267
License plate :	KC, SAN
Community key :	09 4 76 159
Market structure:	13 districts
; Market administration address :	Kronacher Str. 4 ; 96365 Nordhalben
Website :	www.nordhalben.de
Mayor :	Michael Pöhnlein (FW)
Location of the market in Nordhalben in the Kronach district

Rahaus

Catholic Church of St. Bartolomew

Former office of the Bamberg prince-bishops

Evangelical Jubilate Church

railway station

Nordhalben is a market in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria .

geography

Geographical location

Nordhalben is located in the Franconian Forest Nature Park in the Upper Rodach Valley and on the Ködeltalsperre .

Community structure

Nordhalben has 16 officially named municipal parts.

history

In 1154, a “castle in the northern forest” was mentioned for the first time in a document from Bishop Eberhard II of Bamberg . This was created between 1151 and 1154 on today's Schlossberg. The place Nordhalben developed around them. The castle was destroyed in 1325 and rebuilt in 1354 by the two border neighbors, the Bishop of Bamberg and the Vogt of Gera . In 1518 Nordhalben seals and market rights were transferred. During the Peasants' War the castle was destroyed again in 1525.

After the bailiffs of Gera took over the Reformation in the middle of the 16th century , the almost 200-year-old condominium over Nordhalben ended and the place became the sole property of the Bamberg bishop in 1550. The Dreiherrenstein near Nordhalben has since sealed the affiliation of the place to the Bamberg monastery . In the following year, an office building of the Bamberg bishopric was built in the village.

Between 1610 and 1620 the Protestant residents moved to the neighboring Russian town of Titschendorf . In 1633, 40 people died in the destruction of northern Halifax in the Thirty Years' War . Thanks to the Peace of Nordhalben concluded in 1635 , a special agreement between the Bamberg city of Kronach and the Prince of Reuss-Lobenstein , urgently needed food could be delivered across the Russian border to Nordhalben, which was damaged by the war.

As part of the Bamberg Monastery, Nordhalben came to the Electorate and later Kingdom of Bavaria with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1802/03 . In 1804 the place became the seat of the royal Bavarian district court Teuschnitz . Napoléon Bonaparte stayed in Nordhalben in 1806.

The schoolhouse was inaugurated in 1852. After a large fire destroyed almost the entire place in 1856, the Catholic parish church of St. Bartolomew was consecrated two years later. With the Rodachtalbahn in 1900, Nordhalben was connected to the railway network. The place was the end point of this local line from Kronach until the complete shutdown of rail traffic in 1994. The upper part of the line between Nordhalben and Steinwiesen has been operated as a museum railway since 2007 .

In 1903 the local lace school was founded, expanded in 1983 and the guest house was built. In 1986 the international lace collection was opened in the lace school.

In 1973 the Ködeltalsperre Mauthaus went into operation . With the fall of the Wall , the border crossing into the neighboring Thuringian Rodacherbrunn was opened in 1989 , the Nordwaldhalle opened in 1995 and the local historical museum opened in 2004.

religion

The inauguration of the Catholic parish church St. Bartolomäus took place in 1858. The foundation stone of the Evangelical Jubilate Church was laid in 1925.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community of Heinersberg was incorporated.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population fell from 2315 to 1650 by 665 or 28.7%.

politics

Local election 2008

Turnout: 75.03%

%

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

49.00%

28.26%

22.73%

CSU

FWG

SPD

Market council

The market council of Nordhalben has 14 members, plus the separately elected honorary mayor.

	2014
CSU	4th
Free voter community Nordhalben	7th
SPD	3
total	14 seats

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: “Divided and split above; at the top, in gold, a left-facing, red-armored black lion covered with a silver sloping left bar; in the back, in gold, the growing, black-clad rump of a bearded man with a black pointed cap, at the top of which hangs a six-pointed red star; below, in silver on green ground, four green deciduous trees side by side. ”The trunk is a heather head .

Culture and sights

Nordhalben is nationally known for its tradition of lace-making of lace , which dates back to the founding of the only remaining municipal Klöppelschule Germany in 1,903th The scenic highlight is the Ködeltalsperre . Numerous well-marked routes and long-distance hiking trails as well as the nearby Rennsteig offer hiking opportunities.

Architectural monuments

Sports

Indoor sports in the Nordwaldhalle, numerous outdoor sports opportunities, winter sports with drag lift and groomed cross-country trails.

Regular events

In the Nordwaldhalle (up to 2500 seats) there are regular entertainment and sporting events. Further event possibilities exist in the guest house. The Nikolausmarkt takes place annually on the second Advent weekend in the Nordwaldhalle. Every two years (odd years) the lace school organizes the Nordhalben lace days with fair, exhibitions and lectures. On the Sunday after Michaelmas (September 29th) the parish consecration of the catholic parish church St. Bartholomäus is celebrated. The Protestant Jubilate Church celebrates its parish festival on the third Sunday after Easter.

Soil monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Nordhalben was the end of the now disused Rodachtalbahn . A museum railway has been operating on the section between Steinwiesen and Nordhalben since September 15, 2007 . The next active train stations are in Bad Steben , Kronach and Wurzbach . Public transport bus routes connect Nordhalben with Kronach and Hof . Junction to the federal highways 9 , 72 and 93 are about 25 kilometers away from Nordhalben and the junction to the federal highway 73 is about 50 kilometers away in Lichtenfels . The Franconian Marienweg runs through the village .