Schney

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Schney
City of Lichtenfels
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 42 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 28"  E
Height : 276 m
Residents : 2413  (May 8, 2012)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 96215
Schney (Bavaria)
Schney

Location of Schney in Bavaria

Schney (pronounced Schnei) is a district of the city of Lichtenfels in Bavaria .

Schney Castle

etymology

The meaning of the place name is derived from the Middle High German word sniten or sneita , which means aisle . Another version comes from the old Slovenian word zvon (to rustle, to sound). In the church registers, Schney appears under various names, e.g. B. "Znvuia, Sniwa, Snie, Snayten, Sneye, Schnaytt, Schneit" etc. Since one still says today: "He is from Schney" or "We're going to Schney" is the version with Snige, Schnie (die Aisle) most likely.

Geographical location

Schney is located in the Upper Main Valley in the so-called Gottesgarten am Obermain between Bamberg and Coburg in Upper Franconia and borders on Lichtenfels, whose district it has been since 1978. Around 2400 people live in the village, most of whom are of Protestant denomination.

history

Brockdorff coat of arms

Schney was first mentioned around 800. In the late Middle Ages there was evidence of a nobility seat. In the 14th century a castle was built in the place , which was converted into a baroque aristocratic residence after repeated destruction. From 1503 on it was owned by the von Schaumberg family , whose Schney line died out in 1694. Cai Bertram Bendix Graf von Brockdorff (May 4, 1680 - June 14, 1710), the younger son of Cai Lorenz von Brockdorff from a noble family in Holstein, whose coat of arms can be seen at the entrance gate, acquired the manor through marriage in 1706 . His descendants owned it until 1873. The castle now houses the Franconian Academy.

A Lady Chapel was built with the castle. The congregation was one of the first Franconians to accept Luther's teachings, namely as early as 1520. Towards the end of the 18th century, the chapel was so dilapidated that the worshipers literally stood in the rain. But it wasn't until the 1830s, when nobody dared to enter the church, that the nave was torn down and rebuilt from scratch. The stable tower of the old church remained standing. Two of the five bronze bells are new, they were only cast in 2002. The oldest bears the inscription: "Christoph Glockengießer zu Nürnberg poured me - I belong to praise of God and service", next to it is the year 1776.

One of the first Franconian porcelain factories was established in Schney in 1782 and was in operation until 1928. The basket industry was formative for the place. In 1840 the population of Schney was 1098.

In the period up to the First World War and in the years thereafter up to 1933, Schney experienced a period of growth - Schney was one of the first communities in the district to have a water pipe and electric light.

On May 1, 1978, Schney was incorporated into the city of Lichtenfels as part of the regional reform. This integration was decided in 1973 under the then mayor and state parliament member Nikolaus Stamm . After his death, the previous second mayor Erich Strähnz was elected the last mayor of the municipality of Schney, who initially wanted to reverse this decision, but finally had it implemented.

Education and Research

Evang. Church in Schney
  • primary school
  • Franken-Akademie Schloss Schney (adult education center)

traffic

Schney has had a breakpoint on the Coburg – Lichtenfels railway since November 1, 1894 . The trains stop there every hour.

Buildings

Rectory in Schney from 1681
  • Gatehouses: Löschentor and Schlosstor (approx. 1680)
  • former town hall
  • Rectory that was built in 1681 and is still in use today
  • new parish hall (2007)
  • Schney Castle (approx. 1680–1690)
  • Protestant St. Mary's Church (built around 1582)
  • Crypt under this church; it used to be the burial place of the von Brockdorff family. There is also a list of those missing from the Second World War
  • Catholic St. Heinrich Chapel (December 17, 1905)
  • Cemetery chapel (ca.1660)
Cemetery chapel

In the list of architectural monuments in Lichtenfels (Upper Franconia) , 32 architectural monuments are identified for Schney .

Regular events

  • Shooting festival on the fourth weekend in May
  • Parish fair (St. Heinrich Chapel) on the last Sunday in June
  • Parish fair (St. Mary's Church) on the second weekend in September
  • Feuerwehrfest the volunteer fire Schney

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Schney  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Schney, a manor in the Canton of Baunach  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schney on the website of the city of Lichtenfels . Retrieved September 14, 2013
  2. ↑ Thomas Gunzelmann: The cultural landscape around 1840 . In: Günther Dippold: In the upper Main Valley on the Jura an Rodach and Itz , self-published by Kreissparkasse Lichtenfels, Lichtenfels 1990, p. 75
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 695 .
  4. ↑ Long struggle for independence was unsuccessful (PDF; 284 kB) Obermain-Tagblatt dated January 6, 2004