Obermichelbach

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Fuerth
Management Community :	Obermichelbach-Tuchenbach
Height :	328 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.28 km 2
Residents:	3314 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	357 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	90587
Area code :	0911
License plate :	FÜ
Community key :	09 5 73 123
LOCODE :	DE OBM
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Vacher Str. 25 ; 90587 Obermichelbach
Website :	www.obermichelbach.de
Mayor :	Bernd Zimmermann ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Obermichelbach in the Fürth district

Obermichelbach aerial view (2020)

Citizens' hall with town hall

Obermichelbach (colloquially: "Michlbach") is a municipality in the Middle Franconian district of Fürth and the seat of the Obermichelbach-Tuchenbach administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Obermichelbach is located on a plateau between the valleys of the Middle Aurach in the north, the Regnitz in the east and the Zenn in the south.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities are:

(List: starting in the north and clockwise)

Community structure

The municipality has three officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

Obermichelbach ( parish village )
Untermichelbach ( village )
Rothenberg (village)

history

Until the church is planted

In 1337 the parish of Herzogenaurach transferred 22 places to the Heilig-Geist-Spital Nürnberg, including very probably Obermichelbach, Untermichelbach and Rothenberg. In 1348 the place was first mentioned in a document as "Grozzenmichelbach". The place name is derived from the name of the water body "Michelbach", whose defining word is the Middle High German "michel" (= large, wide).

1360/1370 the place was listed in the land register of the burgraviate of Nuremberg . In the Salbuch of the Cadolzburg office of 1414, the names of the feudal subjects of the Burgrave of Nuremberg were named in "Obernmichelbach". In the Salbuch of the Cadolzburg office of 1464, "Obermichelbach", "Nydernmichelbach" and "Rotperg" were named. In a description of Nuremberg and its surrounding area in 1504, "Obernmichelbach", "Unter-Michelbach", "Zum Rotenperg" were also mentioned. In 1634 Obermichelbach and Rothenberg burned down during the Thirty Years' War . The first schoolmaster was mentioned in 1664, the skin carver Thomas Haindel . In the Oberamtsbeschreibung by Johann Georg Vetter in 1732 Obermichelbach, Untermichelbach and Rothenberg were described. A copper engraving by Obermichelbach from 1759 is the oldest surviving picture of the place.

At the end of the 18th century there were 20 properties in Obermichelbach. The high court and the village and community rulership was exercised by the Brandenburg-Ansbach municipal bailiff's office in Langenzenn . The Brandenburg-Bayreuth City Bailiff's Office in Markt Erlbach exercised the high court over the Bavarian subjects to a limited extent. The landlords were the Neuhof caste office in Brandenburg-Bayreuth (2 courtyards), the Langenzenn hospital and von Fürer together (5 courtyards, 1 estate, 1 house, 1 shepherd's house), the imperial city of Nuremberg : Spitalamt (1 courtyard, 1 house), Landesalmosenamt (1st floor) Half yard) and Nuremberg owners: von Muffel (2 half yards, 2 estates), von Praun (2 half yards, 1 estate).

1792 the Principality of Ansbach - and thus also Obermichelbach - to Prussia . In 1806 this was incorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria .

19th century

As part of the municipal edict, the Obermichelbach tax district was formed in 1808 . The first section included the places Rothenberg and Untermichelbach , the second section included the places Burgstall , Galgenhof , Hauptendorf , Schleifmühle and Steinbach . In the same year the rural community of Obermichelbach was founded, which was congruent with the I. section of the tax district. The municipality was under the administration and jurisdiction of the Cadolzburg Regional Court and the Cadolzburg Rent Office for the financial administration . From 1862 Obermichelbach was administered by the Fürth district office (renamed the Fürth district in 1938 ). In 1872 jurisdiction was transferred to the Fürth District Court , and since 1880 it has been with the Fürth District Court . The financial administration was taken over by the Rentamt Fürth (renamed Finanzamt Fürth in 1920 ) in 1870 .

In 1835 the community received cadastre with parcels and house numbers. There were 35 farms.

The planning of a railway line from Siegelsdorf station via Obermichelbach to Herzogenaurach was finally rejected in 1883. In 1869 the office of mayor was created on the basis of a new municipal code and in 1870 a municipal committee.

20th century

In 1909 Obermichelbach received a public telephone and in 1912 it was connected to the power grid. A parish hall was built in Obermichelbach in 1911. Self-government was introduced in 1919 by a new municipal code and the municipality committee was replaced by a municipality council.

In 1921 the school community took over the school building from the church foundation. A post office was set up in 1936. In 1942 two church bells were delivered and melted down. In 1943 there were air raids on Ober- and Untermichelbach. On April 17, 1945 the troops of the United States Army occupied the three places of the municipality. The land consolidation was completed in 1967. The Obermichelbach elementary school was dissolved in 1969 and incorporated into the Veitsbronn Association School. In 1974 the Protestant kindergarten was inaugurated. In the course of the regional reform in Bavaria, Obermichelbach, together with Tuchenbach and Puschendorf, left the Veitsbronn administrative association in 1980 to found the Obermichelbach-Puschendorf-Tuchenbach administrative association. This became in 1998 when the municipality of Puschendorf left the administrative community of Obermichelbach-Tuchenbach . In 1979 the multi-purpose building with town hall and fire station was inaugurated. In 1997 the citizens' hall was built, into which the town hall is also integrated.

21st century

The administrative headquarters of the Obermichelbach-Tuchenbach administrative association was relocated from Tuchenbach to the Obermichelbach administrative building in 2002.

Population development

Obermichelbach community

year	1818	1840	1852	1861	1867	1871	1875	1880	1885	1890	1895	1900	1905	1910	1919	1925	1933	1939	1946	1950	1961	1970	1987	2007	2011	2016
Residents	283	413	371	372	372	402	402	437	436	402	419	408	422	411	378	376	385	342	471	531	411	449	1795	2988	3141	3252
Houses	47	43				60			61			64				63				63	74		491			1029
source

Part of the municipality Obermichelbach

year	001818	001840	001861	001871	001885	001900	001925	001950	001961	001970	001987
Residents	152	219	196	216	242	222	213	318	258	270	1306
Houses	27	20th			34	35	37	37	43		358
source

Religions

Holy Spirit Church

The St. Jakob chapel was first mentioned in 1414. In 1483 two altars were consecrated in the church of St. Jakob in Obermichelbach. Obermichelbach was 1,528 evangelical church of the Holy Spirit Hospital and was eliminated from the parish of Herzogenaurach, the pastor received in 1566 their own parsonage. The Church of the Holy Spirit was rebuilt and consecrated in 1660. In 1698 the parishes of Obermichelbach and Veitsbronn merged, the seat was Obermichelbach. In 1829 the church in Obermichelbach was renovated and received a new organ in 1878. The church bells melted down in 1942 were replaced by the three bells donated by Mayor Hans Tauber and his sister Anna Abendschein; in 1983 these were consecrated.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Obermichelbach has 16 members since the 2014 local elections.

For the local elections on March 15, 2020, the CSU received the most votes with 44.59%. With 27.78%, the free voters move into the municipal council in Obermichelbach as the second largest group. The Greens achieved 13.34%, while 12.73% of the Obermichelbacher voted for the SPD. With 1.55%, the FDP did not get a seat in the local council.

	Electoral roll	CSU ^a	SPD	Green	FW ^b	total
1946	8th					8 seats
1948	6th					6 seats
1952	8th					8 seats
1956	6th					6 seats
1960	4th	2				6 seats
1966		5			1	6 seats
1972		5			3	8 seats
1978		7th	3		2	12 seats
1984		7th	3		2	12 seats
1990		6th	4th		2	12 seats
1996		7th	3	2	2	14 seats
2002		7th	2	2	3	14 seats
2008		7th	1	2	4th	14 seats
2014		7th	2	2	5	16 seats
2020		7th	2	2	5	16 seats

^a until 2002 as CSU / voter community

^b until 2002 as a party-free voter community (PWG)

mayor

In 1946 Johann Brummer was elected mayor from the electoral roll, he was replaced in 1948 by Hans Tauber from the CSU / voter community and confirmed in office in 1952, 1956, 1960, 1966, 1972, 1978 and most recently in 1984. Hans Lämmermann (CSU / Voting Association) replaced him in 1990 after serving as a substitute for 18 years and was re-elected in 1996. He was followed in 2002 by Reinhold Hum (CSU / voter community), who did not run again in 2008. In 2008 Herbert Jäger from the Free Voters won the election and in 2014 he was re-elected.

On May 1, 2020, Bernd Zimmermann (CSU) took office as mayor in Obermichelbach. On March 15, 2020 he was able to prevail against his opponent Ulla Schwarte (Free Voters / SPD) with 54.95%.

badges and flags

The municipality of Obermichelbach was granted the right to carry a coat of arms and a flag after a resolution by the municipal council in a letter from the government of Middle Franconia dated October 13, 1977.

Blazon : “In the tin cut diagonally divided by gold and black; above a red ploughshare , below a silver sloping beam . "

Red and white municipal flag

Establishment of the coat of arms: Since 1504 the Linck von Schwabach family has been verifiable as landlords in Obermichelbach. The diagonal division in pewter cut was adopted from their coat of arms. The red plowshare stands for agriculture, the shaft bar is speaking for Michelbach, which gives the place its name. The colors silver and black are the colors of the Principality of Ansbach , which held sovereignty.

Town twinning

GermanySince October 10, 1992, Obermichelbach has been twinned with Hormersdorf in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis .

Architectural monuments

traffic

The district road FÜ 17 / FÜs 3 runs southwest to Veitsbronn or northeast to state road 2263 approx. 1.5 km northwest of Vach . The FÜ 21 / ERH 25 leads to Niederndorf to the state road 2263. Municipal roads lead to Tuchenbach to the FÜ 8 , to Untermichelbach and to Rothenberg .

The planning of a railway line from Siegelsdorf station via Obermichelbach to Herzogenaurach is finally rejected in 1883.

In 1967 the Deutsche Bundesbahn introduced the rail bus route from Fürth via Obermichelbach and Tuchenbach to Herzogenaurach, on which a connection from Erlangen via Herzogenaurach to Fürth will run in winter 2007. As part of a reorganization of bus traffic in the northern district, line 126 of the OVF has been connecting Fürth with Tuchenbach via Obermichelbach and Veitsbronn since the timetable change in winter 2007. Line 123 has been set up as a ring line serving the route Herzogenaurach – Obermichelbach – Tuchenbach – Puschendorf – Tuchenbach – Herzogenaurach, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise every hour.

In the evenings and on weekends there is a collective taxi to the train station in Siegelsdorf.

The Franconian Marienweg runs through the village .

Sons and daughters of the church

Georg Andreas Will (1727–1798), professor and historian

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Michelbach, the upper and lower . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 595 ( digitized version ).

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Obermichelbach . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 4 : Ni-R . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753101 , Sp. 199 ( digitized version ).

August Gebeßler : City and District of Fürth (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 18 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1963, DNB 451450957 , p. 135-136 .

Hanns Hubert Hofmann : Nuremberg-Fürth (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part Franconia I, 4). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1954, DNB 452071224 , p. 155-156 ( digitized version ). Ibid. S. 232 ( digitized version ).

Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 168 .

Wolfgang Wiessner: City and District of Fürth (= Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria, Middle Franconia . Volume 1 ). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1963, DNB 455524629 , p. 67-68 .

Web links

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

Pictures from Obermichelbach
Obermichelbach: Official statistics of the LfStat
Obermichelbach in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 21, 2019.
Obermichelbach in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy

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 ).
↑ W. Wiessner, p. 67f.
↑ Municipality of Obermichelbach in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 21, 2019.
↑ W.-A. v. Reitzenstein, p. 168.
↑ HH Hofmann, p. 155f.
↑ HH Hofmann, p. 232; Address and statistical handbook for the Rezatkreis in the Kingdom of Baiern . Buchdruckerei Chancellery, Ansbach 1820, p. 28 ( digitized version ).
↑ ^a ^b Only inhabited houses are given. In 1818 these were designated as fireplaces , in 1840 as houses , and from 1871 to 2016 as residential buildings.
↑ ^a ^b Alphabetical index of all the localities contained in the Rezatkreise according to its constitution by the newest organization: with indication of a. the tax districts, b. Judicial Districts, c. Rent offices in which they are located, then several other statistical notes . Ansbach 1818, p. 67 ( digitized version ). For the municipality of Obermichelbach plus the residents and buildings of Rothenberg (p. 78) and Untermichelbach (p. 95).
^ ^A ^b Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 68 ( digitized version ). According to the historical municipality register , the municipality had 417 inhabitants.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality directory: The population of the municipalities of Bavaria from 1840 to 1952 (= contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 192). Munich 1954, DNB 451478568 , p. 172 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00066439-3 ( digitized version ).

↑ ^a ^b Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1028 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ).

↑ ^a ^b Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1193 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized version ).

↑ ^a ^b K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section III, Sp. 1123 ( digitized version ).

↑ ^a ^b K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1191 ( digitized version ).

↑ ^a ^b Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1229 ( digitized version ).