Schwanstetten

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '  N , 11 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Roth
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	32.39 km 2
Residents:	7294 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	225 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	90596
Area code :	09170
License plate :	RH, HIP
Community key :	09 5 76 132
Market structure:	7 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Rathausplatz 1 90596 Schwanstetten
Website :	www.schwanstetten.de
Mayor :	Robert Pfann ( SPD )
Location of the Schwanstetten market in the Roth district

Schwanstetten is a market in the Central Franconian district of Roth .

geography

Schwanstetten is about 16 kilometers south of the city of Nuremberg .

Neighboring communities

To the north and east, Schwanstetten borders on Wendelstein , in the south on Roth and in the west on Rednitzhembach . The municipality-free area of Soos is located between Rednitzhembach and Schwanstetten .

Community structure

The municipality has seven officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

• Furth ( village )
• Hagershof ( wasteland )
• Harm (village)
• Holzgut (wasteland)
• Leerstetten ( parish village )
• Mittelhembach (village)
• Schwand near Nuremberg (former market)

history

The current district of Schwand was first mentioned in 1186, the district of Leerstetten in 1194.

On May 1, 1978, the Schwanstetten store was re-established by merging the previously independent Schwand store near Nuremberg with the municipality of Leerstetten. The name of the new municipality is made up of parts of the previous place names Schwan d and Leerstetten , a new creation that is almost unique in Bavaria. The name Markt and thus the market rights were taken over from Markt Schwand.

politics

Local election 2020

Turnout: 60.65%

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40

30th

20th

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28.51%
(-13.34  % p )

35.94%
(-0.16  % p )

16.13%
(+ 4.82  % p )

19.42%
(+ 8.68  % p )

SPD

CSU

FW

Green

2014



2020



Market council

The municipal council has 20 members.

	SPD	CSU	FWS	GREEN	total
2020	6th	7th	3	4th	20 seats

Status: 2020

mayor

In the 2014 municipal elections, Robert Pfann (SPD) was re-elected as mayor with 65.42% (2,573 votes). His predecessor was Dietmar Koltzenburg (CSU) until 2008.

badges and flags

The community of Schwanstetten has had a coat of arms since 1980.

Blazon : "Under a crenellated shield head in blue on a green mountain, divided by black and silver , a gold-armored silver swan ." White and green municipal flag

Justification of the coat of arms: The swan was taken from a Schwand court seal from 1468. The name actually indicates that Schwand is a settlement that was created on the site of a slash and burn area . The forest was made to sway , that is, to shrink. The shield head, divided by black and silver, reminds of the rule of the Zollerischen burgraves of Nuremberg and later margraves. The burgraves are traceable in the municipality from 1267. The crenellated cut stands for the part of the name -stetten .

Community partnerships

• La Haye du Puits , Normandy , France , since 1988
• Amicably connected with the market town of Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland and the city of Abbiategrasso in Lombardy

energy transition

130 solar-electric systems with a total output of over 1000 kW are installed on the roofs of Schwanstetten.

Religions

• The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter and Paul , which was built in the 13th century, is located in Leerstetten .
• In Schwand there is the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. John the Baptist from the 17th century.
• In 1953 a Roman Catholic parish was added. This was structurally equipped in 1977 with the construction of a new community center and the Church of the Most Holy Trinity .

Architectural and ground monuments

• List of architectural monuments in Schwanstetten
• List of ground monuments in Schwanstetten

traffic

The B 2 touches the municipality in the far west. The community is connected to the autobahn-like federal highway via two district roads.

Several bus lines connect Schwanstetten to the surrounding area and the S-Bahn stations in Schwabach and Roth. A line of Omnibusverkehr Franken to the Nuremberg subway station Frankenstrasse should be emphasized . The bus connection to Allersberg (Rothsee) train station was discontinued in December 2010.

The Main-Danube Canal runs from northwest to south through the western municipal area. The Leerstetten lock, named after the Schwanstetten district, is located in the community-free area of Soos.

literature

• 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. 203-204 .

Web links

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

• Website of the Schwanstetten store
• Museum Association Schwanstetten e. V.
• Schwanstetten: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.2 MB)
• Schwanstetten in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 23, 2019.

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. ^ Community Schwanstetten in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 23, 2019.
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. 733 .
4. ^ Election results for the Schwanstetten municipal council
5. ^ Entry on the Schwanstetten coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
6. ↑ Schwanstetten. In: Kommunalflaggen.eu. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .