Rückersdorf (Middle Franconia)

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Nuremberg country
Height :	319 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.57 km 2
Residents:	4732 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	1325 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	90607
Primaries :	0911, 09123
License plate :	LAU, ESB , HEB, N , PEG
Community key :	09 5 74 154
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Main street 20 ; 90607 Rückersdorf
Website :	www.rueckersdorf.de
First Mayor :	Johannes Ballas ( CSU )
Location of the community of Rückersdorf in the district of Nürnberger Land

Rückersdorf is a municipality in the central Franconian district of Nürnberger Land .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located between Nuremberg and Lauf on the B 14 on the right of the Pegnitz . In the late Middle Ages , the Golden Road , the trade route from Nuremberg to Prague , ran through Rückersdorf. In terms of area, Rückersdorf is the smallest municipality in the district.

Community structure

The community has 3 districts :

Rückersdorf
Ludwigshöhe
Strengenberg

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting in the north clockwise) Lauf an der Pegnitz, Röthenbach an der Pegnitz and Schwaig near Nuremberg .

politics

Municipal council

The council of Rückersdorf consists of 16 councilors and the first mayor.

	CSU	SPD	The green	Rückersdorfer Independent Voters	Citizens' initiative Rückersdorf	total
2002	8th	5	0	3		16 seats
2008	8th	4th	0	4th		16 seats
2014	6th	4th	2	4th		16 seats
2020	7th	2	4th	2	1	16 seats

(Status: local election on March 15, 2020 )

mayor

Johannes Ballas (CSU) has been the first mayor since May 1, 2020.

coat of arms

The basic element of the coat of arms - black and silver with a jumping sighthound - is the family coat of arms of the founder of the Rückersdorfer Church, Eberhard Peringerstorfer († 1447). His tombstone is in the Evangelical Church of St. Georg in Rückersdorf. The small red shield with the silver sloping bar is the seal of an "Albertus de Rukerstorf". This comes from a family of Reich ministries of the 13th century, which named itself after its seat - Rückersdorf. The imperial colors red and silver refer to the former imperial freedom of the place.

Culture and sights

Ev. St. George Church

Former manor

Kirchhofportal, in front of it a two-way cycle path

Museums

Rückersdorf local history museum

The local history museum is housed in the old Tucherschloss in a large barn with an outbuilding. The exhibits were collected from the local rural, craft and household sectors. Particularly worth seeing are a butterfly collection, the cobbler's shop and an originally furnished forge.

Buildings

Rückersdorf can boast a stone-faced church that was fundamentally renewed in the Baroque period, but its core is medieval, in a likewise baroque walling.

From 1542–1750 the manor belonged to the property of the Nürnberger Tucher and 1750–1820 of the Haller von Hallerstein .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In the municipality are the Rückersdorf train station and the Ludwigshöhe stop, both of which are on the Nuremberg – Cheb railway line . They are served at least hourly by regional trains in the direction of Nuremberg and Neuhaus an der Pegnitz and Simmelsdorf .

The federal highway 14 runs through the municipality.

You can reach Röthenbach an der Pegnitz, which is located to the south and to the left of the Pegnitz, via a side road bridge of the St 2405 .

The Franconian Marienweg runs through Rückersdorf .

media

Pegnitz-Zeitung (North Bavarian newspaper for running city and country), in association with the Nürnberger Nachrichten
Nürnberger Zeitung (NZ - also North Bavarian Newspaper)
Bulletin Rückersdorf
The region at a glance

Agriculture

On the outskirts of Rückersdorf there is a self-picking plantation, where, depending on the season, blueberries , raspberries , strawberries and currants can be harvested.

Personalities

Born in Rückersdorf

Heinrich Ranke (* 1830 in Rückersdorf; † 1909 in Munich), university lecturer, anthropologist, pediatrician
Ernst Deuerlein (* 1918 in Rückersdorf; † 1971 in Munich), professor of history and art history at the Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen , for economic and social history at the WiSo faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and for modern and Latest history at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU)

Settled in Rückersdorf

Philipp Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (1798–1876), Protestant theologian, pastor in Rückersdorf from 1826 to 1834
Edgar Traugott (1912–1998), editor-in-chief of the Nürnberger Zeitung from 1963 to 1977
Oswald Hahn (1928–1999), professor, from 1967 to 1996 holder of the chair for general, banking and insurance business administration at the WiSo Faculty in Nuremberg, awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1997
Werner Pleyer (1931–2018), Former Mayor, awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 2006 with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Michael A. Roth (* 1935), entrepreneur, former president of 1. FC Nürnberg
Günter Hessenauer (* 1940), grammar school teacher, author and church council
Martin Driller (* 1970), ex-professional at 1. FC Nürnberg

literature

Storch in Rückersdorf near the Pegnitz

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Rückersdorf . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 4 : Ni-R . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB 790364301 , OCLC 833753101 , Sp. 680 ( digitized version ).
Gerd Hirschmann, Evi Kleinöder and Werner Pleyer: Rückersdorf today . Ed .: Community of Rückersdorf. Horb am Neckar: Geiger-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-89570-116-5 .
Evi Kleinöder and Wilhelm Rosenbauer: Rückersdorf. A place in transition . Ed .: Community of Rückersdorf. Horb am Neckar: Geiger-Verlag, 1984, ISBN 3-89570-128-9 .