Riedenberg

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

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′  N , 9 ° 52 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Bad Kissingen
Management Community :	Bad Brueckenau
Height :	395 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.23 km 2
Residents:	994 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	75 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97792
Area code :	09749
License plate :	KG, BRK, HAB
Community key :	09 6 72 145
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Sinnaustraße 14 A 97769 Bad Brückenau
Website :	www.riedenberg.rhoen-saale.net
Mayor :	Roland Roemelt
Location of the municipality of Riedenberg in the Bad Kissingen district

Riedenberg is a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen and a member of the Bad Brückenau administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Riedenberg is located in the Upper Sinngrund , in the middle of the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park and the Rhön Biosphere Reserve . The Franconian Marienweg leads through Riedenberg .

Community structure

Riedenberg is divided into two districts:

• Neufriedrichsthal
• Riedenberg

Surname

etymology

The original field name Riedenberg consists of the old personal name Ritto and the Middle High German word bërc , which means mountain. The explanation is “Rittos Berg”. The name passed from the hallway to the place.

Earlier spellings

Earlier spellings of the place from various historical maps and documents:

1425 "Rittenbergk" (only field name) 1490 "Rittenberg" 1502 "Riedenberg" 1537 "Ridenberg"

1555 "Rittenberg ahn der Sin" 1605 "Riedenbergk" 1747 "Riedenberg"

history

Until the church planting

The former office of the Hochstift Würzburg , which belonged to the Franconian Empire , was left to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg after secularization in 1803 in favor of Bavaria in 1805 , and with this in 1814 it finally fell to Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipal edict of 1818 created the municipalities of Oberriedenberg and Unterriedenberg, which were combined to form the municipality of Riedenberg on April 1, 1971.

Religions

The majority of the population is Catholic. Riedenberg is the seat of the Roman Catholic Curate of St. Martin , which belongs to the Hammelburg deanery of the Würzburg diocese .

Population development

• 1961: 0838 inhabitants
• 1970: 1015 inhabitants
• 1987: 1072 inhabitants
• 1991: 1169 inhabitants
• 1995: 1189 inhabitants
• 2000: 1132 inhabitants
• 2005: 1110 inhabitants
• 2010: 1016 inhabitants
• 2015: 0991 inhabitants
• 2016: 1001 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

Since May 1, 2020, the Riedenberg municipal council has only eight members plus the mayor (previously twelve members, now below the 1,000-inhabitant mark). The election on March 15, 2020 had the following result:

• CSU / Free Citizens: 4 seats (54.81%)
• Free voter community Riedenberg: 4 seats (45.19%)

The turnout was 75.9%.

mayor

Roland Römmelt has been the first mayor since May 1, 2014; he was elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 86.4% of the vote. His deputies are Matthias Dorn (Second Mayor) and Peter Hergenröder (Third Mayor).

coat of arms

Blazon : "Above a green three-mountain split by silver and black, with a continuous wavy bar that is red at the front and silver at the back."

Coat of arms history: The community of Riedenberg was created in 1971 through the merger of Ober- and Unterriedenberg. The formerly independent community of Unterriedenberg has been documented since 1425 and belonged to the Fulda Abbey. Oberriedenberg was first mentioned in a document in 1494 and should be removed by a decree of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg to curb further clearing. The dispute over it did not end until 1571. The affiliation of both places to different territorial areas did not end until 1803 with the end of the old empire. The two districts are separated by a stream, which is symbolized in the coat of arms by the wavy bar. For Oberriedenberg, the colors silver and red from the coat of arms of the Hochstift Würzburg in the front half of the shield indicate that it belonged to the Würzburg office of Aschach. The colors silver and black in the rear half of the coat of arms indicate that Unterriedenberg once belonged to the Fulda Oberamt Brückenau. The three mountain in the shield foot stands for the place name part "-berg" of the two parts of the community.

The coat of arms was awarded by the government of Lower Franconia on December 8, 1980.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Riedenberg

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 149 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 421 people were in employment subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 272 greater than that of in-commuters. 12 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were 13 farms.

education

There are the following institutions (as of 2018):

• A day care center with 53 places that were fully occupied
• An elementary school with three classes and 55 students
• A support center with nine classes and 110 students

literature

• Rhön Biosphere Reserve Bavarian Administration Office (Hrsg.): Historical cultural landscape of the upper Sinntal - Riedenberg municipality and Wildflecken municipality. (= Rhön Historical Cultural Landscape, Volume 3). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-888-0 .

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Riedenberg
• Entry on the coat of arms of Riedenberg  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Riedenberg: 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. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/233432&attr=OBJ&val= 1579
3. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 188 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Mainpost to reduce the number of members , accessed on June 24, 2020
5. ↑ Results of the 2020 municipal council election , accessed on June 24, 2020