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	Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '  N , 11 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Bayreuth
Management Community :	Cussen
Height :	451 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.28 km 2
Residents:	968 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91289
Area code :	09270
License plate :	BT, EBS , ESB , KEM , MÜB , PEG
Community key :	09 4 72 184
Market structure:	8 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Hauptstrasse 8 91289 Schnabelwaid
Website :	www.markt-schnabelwaid.de
Mayor :	Hans-Walter Hofmann ( CSU )
Location of the Schnabelwaid market in the Bayreuth district

Main street in Schnabelwaid

Schnabelwaid is a market in the Bayreuth district ( Upper Franconia administrative region ) and a member of the Creußen administrative community .

geography

Community structure

The political municipality Schnabelwaid has 8 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of place is given in brackets ):

Arnoldsreuth ( hamlet ) Craimoos (hamlet) Gößmannsreuth (hamlet) Neumühle (hamlet)

Preunersfeld ( village ) Schmellenhof (hamlet) Schnabelwaid (main town) Schönfeld (village)

There are the districts Preunersfeld, Schnabelwaid and Schnabelwaider Kitschenrain.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Creußen , Prebitz and Pegnitz .

history

Until the church is planted

The lords of Künsberg had owned the castle and the place since 1410. The Margraves of Brandenburg-Bayreuth acquired the place in 1668. The office of the Prussian principality of Bayreuth , which had been Prussian since 1792 , fell to France in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 and became part of Bavaria in 1810. Schnabelwaid had important magistrate rights.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978 parts of the area of ​​the dissolved municipality of Spiš were incorporated.

Population development

• 1961: 0993 inhabitants
• 1970: 0993 inhabitants
• 1987: 0893 inhabitants
• 1991: 0927 inhabitants
• 1995: 1015 inhabitants
• 2000: 1004 inhabitants
• 2005: 1045 inhabitants
• 2010: 0984 inhabitants
• 2015: 0981 inhabitants
• 2016: 0975 inhabitants

religion

Maria Magdalena Church

65% of the population are Protestant, 23% Catholic. The Protestant Maria Magdalena Church belongs to the Pegnitz deanery of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . The Catholic branch church of St. Otto belongs to the parish of St. Marien with its seat in Creußen , Archbishopric Bamberg .

politics

mayor

The first mayor has been Hans-Walter Hofmann (CSU) since January 21, 2007. In the local elections on March 2, 2008, Hofmann again prevailed against Rüdiger Goller (SPD) with 53.09%. On March 16, 2014 Hofmann was confirmed in office with 57.12%. After the third election defeat against Hofmann, Goller declared his final withdrawal from local politics.

Municipal council

As of May 2014, the municipal council will be composed as follows:

• CSU 5 seats (2008: 5 seats)
• FWG 4 seats (2008: 3 seats)
• SPD 3 seats (2008: 4 seats)

Mayoral election on January 21, 2007

The mayor of Schnabelwaid had been the second mayor Hans-Walter Hofmann (CSU) since September 26, 2006, as mayor Wilhelm Friedrich (SPD) had died at the age of 74. New elections took place on January 21, 2007. On the evening of the election, the SPD candidate, Rüdiger Goller, was proclaimed a narrow winner. But the next day it turned out that the votes had been counted incorrectly and the CSU candidate Hans-Walter Hofmann had won the election by just seven votes. For almost seven weeks, Schnabelwaid was the focus of interest from the press, radio and television: The election was contested by the SPD applicant and criminal charges were filed. It was disputed for a good five weeks whether the election was legal, as the counting on election evening resulted in a large number of violations of the election rules and the recount on Monday was not authorized by the election officer. The Bayreuth public prosecutor's office was able to rule out manipulation and closed its investigation on February 12, 2007. The Bayreuth District Office determined on March 2, 2007 that the election was valid. On March 15, 2007, the defeated SPD candidate declared that he would waive a judicial review due to the expected length of the proceedings.

Culture and sights

Schnabelwaid Castle

Schnabelwaid Castle is on the edge of the town center.

East of the local part Craimoos is named after him Craimoosweiher . This is under nature protection and is an important habitat for endangered birds, insects and plant species. In 2014 a bird watch tower was built on the bank.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Schnabelwaid

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were no employees at the place of work in the manufacturing industry 73 or in the trade and transport sector. There were a total of 345 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were none in the manufacturing sector and two in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 24 farms with an agricultural area of ​​648 hectares, of which 369 hectares were arable land.

traffic

railway station

Schnabelwaid is located on the B 2 and B 85 federal highways, which run on the same route between Pegnitz and Bayreuth, not far from the A 9 motorway , to whose junction 43 Trockau there is a direct road connection.

The first construction phase of the Nuremberg – Cheb line led to Schnabelwaid and was opened in July 1877, as did the single-track line to Bayreuth . The continuation to Marktredwitz and on to Schirnding was completed in the following year or the year after next. Today the station is regularly served by trains on the VGN line R3 of the Nuremberg R-Bahn . There are connections to Bayreuth and Nuremberg every two hours; to get to Marktredwitz you have to change trains in Pegnitz.

The Franconian Marienweg runs through Schnabelwaid .

Personalities

• Heinrich von Bibra (1711–1788), Prince-Bishop and Abbot of Fulda

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Schnabelwaid . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 5 : S-U . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1802, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753112 , Sp. 156–157 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Paul Hönn : Schnabelweid . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 291 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Schnabelwaid . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 620 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

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

• Schnabelwaid: 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. ^ Parish Schnabelwaid in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 5, 2020.
3. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 677 .
4. ↑ 2011 census
5. ↑ Nürnberger Nachrichten of January 31, 2007
6. ↑ Nordbayerischer-Kurier, online version from March 16, 2007