Schirnding

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains
Management Community :	Schirnding
Height :	459 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.52 km 2
Residents:	1120 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	95706
Area code :	09233
License plate :	WUN, MAK, REH , SEL
Community key :	09 4 79 147
LOCODE :	DE SII
Market structure:	8 districts
; Market administration address :	Main street 5 ; 95706 Schirnding
Website :	www.schirnding.info
Mayoress :	Karin Fleischer ( CSU )
Location of the Schirnding market in the Wunsiedel district in the Fichtel Mountains

Schirnding is a market in the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains and the seat of the Schirnding administrative community .

geography

The place is on the northern edge of the cabbage forest in the Fichtel Mountains , near the border with the Czech Republic . The Röslau , a tributary of the Eger, flows through Schirnding .

Community structure

The community is divided into eight districts:

Dietersgrün
Fishermen
Ottenlohe
Raithenbach
Schirnding
Seedorf
Weidighaus - called Biehaus , former beekeeping for honey extraction for Hohenberg Castle

Brick hut

history

Until the church is planted

The place Schirnding was first mentioned in a document on October 8, 1377 together with the von Schirnding family . The former office of the Hohenzollern Principality of Bayreuth , which became Prussian in 1791 , fell to France in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 and became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810 . In 1818 the political municipality was established.

An important focal point in local history was the so-called Schirndinger Pass as a natural west-east connection, a passage for numerous army and trade routes.

market

Schirnding market square

Evangelical Lutheran Church Ad Salvatorem

On July 29, 1977 the community received the title market .

Incorporations

On April 1, 1977 were part of the municipal reform the districts Dieter Green, fishermen, Ottenlohe Raith Bach, Weidighaus the dissolved municipality Kothigenbibersbach with at that time about 100 residents incorporated. On January 1, 1978, the main town of Fischern was added to the community of the same name, which had about 50 inhabitants at that time. On January 1, 1995, parts of the dissolved community-free area of Arzberger Forst followed .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the population fell from 1,805 to 1,187 by 618 inhabitants or 34.2% - the second highest percentage loss of inhabitants in Bavaria in the period mentioned.

Place Schirnding

year	1875	1904	1950	1961	1970	1987
Residents	471	670	2095	2493	2253	1671

Church in today's boundaries

year	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2005	2010	2015	2016	2017	2018
Residents	2678	2439	1802	1804	1736	1295	1192	1192	1207	1184	1187

politics

Market council

Schirnding's municipal council has twelve members. Seven of them belong to the CSU and five to the SPD (as of the 2020 local elections ).

mayor

Karin Fleischer (CSU) has been the First Mayor of Schirnding since 2014 . She was confirmed in office in the 2020 local elections.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior on February 19, 1953. Blazon : "In gold, three horizontal, mutilated black branches". The district of Fischern has had its own coat of arms since 1962.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Schirnding is a border station on the Nuremberg – Cheb railway line . Local trains of the Upper Palatinate Railway from Marktredwitz and regional express trains of the Deutsche Bahn from Nuremberg run here , each to Cheb . The border crossing between Schirnding- Pomezí nad Ohří and the Czech Republic is on federal highway 303 / European route 48 . The B 303 runs north of Schirnding.

Production site for porcelain

Christian Paul Aecker is named as the originator of the Schirnding porcelain industry in 1838 with his "Aeckerische porcelain and stoneware factory". In 1901 , Lorenz Reichel , who came from Arzberg , 4.5 kilometers away , opened a porcelain painting workshop and shortly afterwards a white goods factory, from which the Schirnding AG porcelain factory emerged in 1909 . In 1993, the Schirnding AG, the Johann Kronester porcelain factory and the Johann Seltmann Vohenstrauß porcelain factory formed the SKV-Porzellan-Union GmbH, as a result of which in 1997 the white business and parts of the colored business relocated to the Schirnding location. The Arzberg porcelain design was bought in 2000 and produced until the bankruptcy in 2013.

health

The District Office of Wunsiedel (Bavaria) issued exit restrictions on March 19, 2020 for the Neuhaus district in Hohenberg an der Eger and for the Fischern von Markt Schirnding district. This was the second exit restriction in Bavaria to contain the COVID-19 pandemic .