Poppenricht

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '  N , 11 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Amberg-Sulzbach
Height :	406 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.58 km 2
Residents:	3383 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	292 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	92284
Area code :	09621
License plate :	AS, BUL , ESB , NAB , SUL
Community key :	09 3 71 144
Community structure:	8 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 92284 Poppenricht
Website :	www.poppenricht.de
Mayor :	Roger Hoffmann ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Poppenricht in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach

St. Michael in Poppenricht

Poppenricht is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach . The name of the political municipality is derived from the village Poppenricht or Michaelpoppenricht, which is the main town of the municipality.

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Poppenricht is located on the middle course of the Vils in the center of the district of Amberg-Sulzbach . The Rosenbach flows into the Vils in Altmannshof. Neighboring communities are (starting clockwise in the north): Hahnbach , Amberg , Ammerthal and Sulzbach-Rosenberg .

Poppenricht is characterized by its location between the cities of Amberg and Sulzbach-Rosenberg . The place is in the metropolitan region of Nuremberg and is a member of the AOVE (Working Group Obere Vils-Ehenbach).

Community structure

Poppenricht has eight districts (the type of settlement in brackets):

• Altmannshof (village)
• Häringlohe (village)
• Leaf mill ( wasteland )
• Poppenricht ( parish village )
• Speckshof (village)
• Traßlberg (village)
• Wirnsricht ( hamlet )
• Witzlhof (village)

The district Poppenricht led to the differentiation from Ursulapoppenricht earlier also the name Michaelspoppenricht.

history

Until the church is planted

Archaeological finds from the later Bronze Age prove that there was human settlement in the Poppenrichter municipality as early as 3000 years ago. The first documentary mention of the place Poppenricht took place in 1150.

Three and a half centuries later, the place was affected by the armed conflicts of the Landshut War of Succession . When the war was finally ended in 1505 by an arbitration award by the German King Maximilian I of Habsburg , the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg , the so-called Young Palatinate, was formed . In addition to Poppenricht itself, the two current parts of the municipality of Häringlohe and Wirnsricht were also added to this new duchy. This created a territorial border that ran through the current municipality of Poppenricht for almost three centuries. The so-called Bayerischer Brückl , an arch bridge that was built in the 18th century and was located on this border at the time, is a reminder of this time . There is also a Steinmarterl built around 1700 near the bridge, which also gives an idea of ​​the borderline at that time.

In the following century, the Thirty Years' War , which broke out in 1618, once again caused war-related destruction in the Poppenrichter area. The place itself was plundered on September 30, 1621 by 50 musketeers from a League Army under the command of Tilly , further devastation followed in the course of this longest war ever to be fought on German soil. In 1628 the Electorate of Bavaria received the territories of the Upper Palatinate, which had been occupied since 1621, from the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II as war compensation. In the course of this compulsory integration, most parts of the municipality of today's Poppenricht came under Bavarian rule.

The remaining parts of the municipality of Poppenricht, including the main town itself, had belonged to the then newly formed Duchy of Pfalz-Sulzbach since 1614 . Against the resistance of the Count Palatine August , who remained loyal to the Lutheran faith, the Counter Reformation was implemented there in 1627/1628 . The Count Palatine could only protest against this compulsory measure in vain, because the Duchy of Palatinate-Sulzbach had initially remained under the sovereignty of Palatinate-Neuburg after its creation, so that the principle Cuius regio, eius religio could be applied here. It was not until August's son, Count Palatine Christian August , that Protestantism was reintroduced into his dominion after the Thirty Years' War. In 1652, in the so-called Cologne settlement , the latter reached a compromise with the Catholic Pfalz-Neuburg, which, among other things, provided for the introduction of the Simultaneum in Pfalz-Sulzbach, which was implemented the following year. Due to the regulations established in the Cologne settlement, Count Palatine Christian August converted to Catholicism in 1656, but the Simultaneum continued to exist afterwards. In Poppenricht it was only finished in 1962 after more than three centuries.

Gasthof zu den Drei Mohren

An important milestone in Poppenricht's community history was the year 1792, when the Gasthof zu den Drei Mohren was built (demolished in 2017). This inn functioned not only as an important meeting place, but also represented an important stage on the trunk road coming from the west and continuing in the direction of Amberg. French troops marched along this road during the First Coalition War in the summer of 1796 in order to attempt to conquer Amberg. However, the Austrian defenders of the city were able to hold it until they received reinforcements from the south. Then the Austrians went over to the counterattack, from which the so-called Battle of Amberg developed from August 22 to 24 . The decisive battles of this battle took place on August 24th around the Sünderbühl , a small hill just south of today's Poppenrichter district of Witzlhof. In this place alone, around 700 soldiers of the defeated French army lost their lives.

20th century

The chapter of acts of war in and around Poppenricht ended on April 22, 1945 with the invasion of American troops at the end of the Second World War .

Incorporations

In the course of the municipal territorial reform , the previously independent municipality of Traßlberg, which had been reduced in size on July 1, 1972 in favor of the city of Amberg , was incorporated into the municipality of Poppenricht on May 1, 1978 .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the community grew from 3,077 to 3,363 by 286 inhabitants or 9.3%.

politics

City council election 2020

(in %)

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

55.16

32.60

12.24

CSU

SPD

FWP

City council and mayor

The municipal council has 17 members (including the 1st mayor), of which the CSU has 10, the SPD 5 and the Free Voters 2 members. The following committees exist: Main and Finance Committee, Building and Environment Committee, Audit Committee. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 1,760 of the 2,760 residents in the municipality of Poppenricht exercised their voting rights, bringing the turnout to 63.77%.

In the mayoral election on April 7, 2019, Roger Hoffmann from the SPD won ; he took office on April 9, 2019 and is elected until April 30, 2026. His two deputies Hermann Böhm and Konrad Scharl belong to the CSU (as of local elections 2020). Hoffmann's predecessor Franz Birkl (CSU) had resigned for health reasons.

coat of arms

On September 17, 1981, the local council decided to adopt a coat of arms, the government of the Upper Palatinate gave its approval on October 13, 1983.

The description reads: Above a shield base split by blue and silver, covered with an obliquely crossed black hammer and a black mallet, split by silver and blue, in front of St. Michael with red armor and a red flaming sword in his right hand, behind a continuous golden ear of wheat.

Partner municipality

• Krems in the Austrian state of Carinthia

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Poppenricht

Economy and Infrastructure

Jobs

In 2017 there were 216 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 1,417 people were in an employment relationship subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 1201 more than that of in-commuters. 43 residents were unemployed.

traffic

Poppenricht is close to the Nuremberg – Schwandorf railway line . The community is located between the cities of Amberg and Sulzbach-Rosenberg on State Road 2040, parallel to which the Five Rivers Cycle Path runs through Poppenricht. The districts of Poppenricht are also located on Bundesstraße 85 .

education

In the church there is

• two day-care centers with 149 approved places and 150 children (as of March 1, 2018) and
• the Poppenricht primary school with seven teachers and 173 students (as of the 2018/19 school year)

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. ^ Poppenricht community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 31, 2020.
3. ↑ http://www.datenmatrix.de/projekte/hdbg/gemeinden/bayerns-gemeinden_detail.php?gkz=9371144 , accessed January 9, 2012
4. ↑ https://www.onetz.de/poppenricht/vermischtes/in-poppenricht-verschenken-die-drei-mohren-der-abbruch-hat-begonnen-d1804899.html
5. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 638 and 640 .
6. ↑ Poppenricht municipality - description of the municipality ( memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Roger Hoffmann wins runoff election in Poppenricht. Retrieved April 8, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Poppenricht primary school in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on July 31, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Poppenricht  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

• Poppenricht on the Golden Street
• Poppenricht: Official statistics of the LfStat