Flossenbürg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 12 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Height :	644 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.27 km 2
Residents:	1485 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	64 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	92696
Primaries :	09603, 09636
License plate :	NEW, ESB , VOH
Community key :	09 3 74 122
Community structure:	7 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Hohenstaufenstrasse 24 92696 Flossenbürg
Website :	www.flossenbuerg.de
Mayor :	Thomas Meiler ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Flossenbürg in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab

View of Flossenbürg (2014)

Flossenbürg (Bavarian: Flossabirch) is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab . The state-approved resort is located in the Upper Palatinate Forest on the border with the Czech Republic , where the neighboring municipality of Lesná (Schönwald) is located. The Flossenbürg concentration camp of the National Socialists was located in Flossenbürg from 1938 to 1945 .

Community structure

There are seven parts of the community:

• Altenhammer
• Flossenbürg
• Gaismühle
• Hildweinsreuth
• Rückersmühle
• Rumpelbach
• Sankt Ötzen

history

Until the church is planted

The place was first mentioned in a document in 948. The Burg Flossenburg was a fortress of Hohenstaufen . Flossenbürg in today's Upper Palatinate district later belonged to the Duchy of Neuburg-Sulzbach and in 1777 came to the Floß district court of the Electorate of Bavaria . In 1818 today's political community was established.

Flossenbürg concentration camp

The Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945

→ Main article : Flossenbürg concentration camp

From 1938 to 1945 the Flossenbürg concentration camp existed in the community with more than 100,000 prisoners. Well-known figures of the resistance against National Socialism such as Wilhelm Canaris and Hans Oster were executed there, and the Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged 14 days before the camp was liberated. On April 23, 1945, the 90th Infantry Division of the 3rd US Army reached the community and the concentration camp and took them without a fight. In the previous weeks, prisoners had been murdered and most of the prisoners had been taken out of the camp on death marches . In a large area from Würzburg to Prague, the Flossenbürg camp system included 80 subcamps, including the notorious Doggerstollen . Today a memorial is located on part of the concentration camp site. The Evangelical Youth of Upper Franconia organizes an international youth meeting every year, at which young people from Europe come together to commemorate the dead together with prisoners of the former Flossenbürg concentration camp and to remember the terrible events, but also to seek dialogue with contemporary witnesses.

In Flossenbürg there is a cemetery of honor on Hohenstaufenstrasse where 146 concentration camp prisoners are buried. In southern Germany, where death marches to or from the Flossenbürg concentration camp took place, there are graves with at least 1,300 prisoners' graves.

Population development

• 1970: 2071 inhabitants
• 1987: 1980 inhabitants
• 1991: 2001 inhabitants
• 1995: 1925 inhabitants
• 2000: 1847 inhabitants
• 2005: 1747 inhabitants
• 2010: 1657 inhabitants
• 2015: 1582 inhabitants
• 2017: 1525 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018, the number of inhabitants fell from 1996 to 1482 by 514 or 25.8%, which was the clearest percentage decrease in the number of inhabitants in the district in the period mentioned.

politics

Municipal council

Since the Bavarian municipal elections on March 15, 2020, the Flossenbürg municipal council has 13 members:

• CSU: 6 seats
• SPD: 5 seats
• FWG: 2 seats

mayor

Thomas Meiler (CSU) has been the mayor since November 11, 2015 after his social democratic predecessor Johann Kick (2002-2015) resigned from office for health reasons. Meiler was elected on November 8, 2015 with 51.1% of the vote. In the local elections in 2020, he was confirmed in office with 59.1%.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In red on a black rock growing out of the base of the shield, a bricked silver castle ruin in perspective view, in the shield head flanked by two shields, in the right one in black a red crowned, red armored and tongued golden lion , in the left silver-blue alarm clock (Bavarian Diamonds). “The coat of arms has been in use since 1979.

Declaration of the coat of arms: The black granite rock symbolizes the granite deposits of Flossenbürg, the silver castle ruins represent the residential tower, the core building of the castle ruins Flossenbürg. The two little plates with the golden Palatinate lion in a black field and the white-blue Bavarian diamonds represent the historical affiliation Flossenbürgs to Upper Palatinate and Bavaria.

Culture and sights

Flossenbürg Castle ruins

Flossenbürger granite with reflection of the castle in the water

Fallen memorial stone made of granite in front of Flossenbürg Castle

Buildings

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Pankratius looks back on an eventful architectural history ; the Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius was built in 1956, the atonement chapel Flossenbürg in 1948.

The grave and memorial site of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp , to which a research and documentation center is affiliated, is known nationwide. The ruins of Flossenbürg Castle rise above the community . The latter is not only the landmark of Flossenbürg, but also the landmark of the Upper Palatinate Forest.

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Flossenbürg

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Flossenbürg

Others

Flossenbürg is known for its granite deposits. Large quantities of the Flossenbürger granite , which can only be extracted and processed manually in the quarry with great effort, were mined by concentration camp inmates for the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg.

At the foot of the castle in the Gaistal, which is around 1 km from Flossenbürg, there is the approx. 1.1 km² bathing lake "Großer Gaisweiher". Connected to it

Leisure and bathing landscape with playground and sunbathing lawn in the Gaisweiher leisure and camping facility in Flossenbürg

is the leisure and camping facility Gaisweiher , which is operated by the municipality. The use of the leisure and bathing area with the associated sunbathing area is available to visitors and families free of charge.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

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In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 558 people in the manufacturing sector and no employees in the trade and transport sector who were subject to social insurance contributions at the place of work. In other economic areas, 89 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 695 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were four companies in the manufacturing sector and four in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were twelve agricultural holdings with an agricultural area of ​​138 hectares, of which 44 hectares were arable land and 94 hectares were permanent green areas.

traffic

Flossenbürg was the terminus of the Floß – Flossenbürg line branching off the Neustadt (Waldnaab) –Eslarn railway in Floß and is now served by a bus route from Weiden via Neustadt an der Waldnaab to the Silberhütte cross-country skiing center.

Web links

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

• Flossenbürg community
• Flossenbürg: 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. ↑ The mayor. Flossenbürg community, accessed on July 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/194914&attr=OBJ&val= 969
4. ↑ Website of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial on the death marches and the liberation of the camp ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ On the website of the memorial of the concentration camp there is a map with the locations of these camps: https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/geschichte/aussenlager/
6. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 137
7. ↑ https://flossenbuerg.de/index.php/rathaus-2/gemeinderaete-und-gremien
8. ↑ http://www.wahlen.bayern.de/kommunalwahlen/
9. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Flossenbürg  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
10. ↑ The castle. Retrieved June 11, 2020 . 
11. ↑ About us. Accessed June 11, 2020 (German). 
12. ↑ Bathing area. Accessed June 11, 2020 (German).