Plech

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Plech (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '  N , 11 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Bayreuth
Management Community :	Betzenstein
Height :	461 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.3 km 2
Residents:	1352 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	88 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91287
Area code :	09244
License plate :	BT, EBS , ESB , KEM , MÜB , PEG
Community key :	09 4 72 177
Market structure:	6 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Hauptstrasse 15 91287 Plech
Website :	www.plech.de
Mayor :	Karlheinz Escher ( non-partisan voter group )
Location of the Plech market in the Bayreuth district

Plech is a market in the Bayreuth district ( Upper Franconia administrative region ) and a member of the Betzenstein administrative community .

geography

Plech from the Plecher wall seen from

Geographical location

Plech is located on the southern edge of the Franconian Switzerland Nature Park .

Community structure

The political municipality of Plech has 6 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of place is given in brackets ):

• Bernheck ( Kirchdorf )
• Fall mastery ( wasteland )
• Ottenhof ( village )
• Plech (main town)
• Schönthal (wasteland)
• Strüthof (wasteland)

There are the districts Ottenhof and Plech.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Velden and Betzenstein .

history

Until the church is planted

The first documentary mention was in 1119 when the Michelfeld Monastery was founded. Already in 1329 the place was called a market. From 1355 to 1402 Plech was under the rule of Bohemia. The office of the Prussian principality of Bayreuth , which had been Prussian since 1792, was in the Franconian Empire from 1500 . With this it fell to France in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 and came to Bavaria in 1810 . Plech owned the market rights with important proprietary rights. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Ottenhof was incorporated.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the market grew from 1181 to 1331 by 150 inhabitants or 12.7%.

year	Residents
1961	1076
1970	1141
1987	1191
1991	1203
1995	1272
2000	1285
2005	1317
2010	1314
2015	1303
2019	1331

politics

mayor

Mayor is Karlheinz Escher (non-partisan voter group). In 2002 he succeeded Alois Kreuzer (non-partisan voter group).

Municipal council

The local elections in 2002, 2008, 2014 and 2020 led to the following allocation of seats in the local council :

	2002	2008	2014	2020
Non-partisan voter group	07th	06th	05	04th
CSU	0n / A	0n / A	02	02
SPD	01	01	01	02
Ottenhof voters' association	02	03	02	02
Community of voters Bernheck	02	02	02	02
total	12	12	12	12

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a double-tailed silver lion in red , which is covered with a golden bar .

Plech was under Bohemian rule from 1353 to 1402, so the Bohemian lion is in the shield. Despite more recent findings, the municipality has decided to keep the older coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Parish Church of Saint Susannae

Former barn

Saalburg with grotto

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Plech

nature

There are numerous beautiful rocks and caves around Plech.

• Meat cave near Plech
• Saalburg with grotto

leisure

The Franconian Wonderland theme park (currently closed) and the German Camera Museum are located in Plech .

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were no employees at the place of work in the manufacturing industry or in trade and transport who were subject to social insurance contributions. In other economic areas, 68 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 457 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were three companies in the manufacturing sector and one in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 39 farms with an agricultural area of ​​725 hectares, of which 537 hectares were arable land and 188 hectares were permanent green space.

traffic

Plech is located directly on the A 9 motorway (junction 46 Plech).

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Plech . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 4 : Ni-R . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753101 , Sp. 358-359 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Paul Hönn : Plech . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 283 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Plech . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 621 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Plech  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Plech  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Plech: 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. ^ Community Plech in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 5, 2020.
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 549 .