Stockheim (Upper Franconia)

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Coat of arms of the Stockheim community
Stockheim (Upper Franconia)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Stockheim highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '  N , 11 ° 17'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Franconia
County : Kronach
Height : 354 m above sea level NHN
Area : 25.37 km 2
Residents: 4850 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 191 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 96342
Primaries : 09265, 09261
License plate : KC, SAN
Community key : 09 4 76 178
Community structure: 11 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 1
96342 Stockheim
Website : www.stockheim-online.de
Mayor : Rainer Detsch ( FWG )
Location of the community of Stockheim in the district of Kronach
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Catholic Church of St. Wolfgang
Evangelical Resurrection Church

Stockheim is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria . The namesake is the main town. Stockheim is located in Haßlachtal on the national highway 85 , also called the Beer and Castle Route and the Porcelain Route is known.

geography

location

The municipality of Stockheim is located directly on the border with Thuringia on the western edge of the Franconian Forest Nature Park . Neighboring communities are the Markt Pressig, the community Wilhelmsthal, the district town of Kronach, the Markt Mitwitz and the community Föritztal in Thuringia.

Stockheim is located in one of the few Rotliegend basins in Bavaria (Stockheim Basin). There are u. a. acidic volcanic rocks, volcanogenic and lacustrine sediments from the Permian and some thin coal seams that were mined underground until 1968. In 2005, a coal seam was exposed on the site of the former Katharinenzeche, which is now used as a municipal building yard. The Bavarian State Office for the Environment designated it as geotope 476G003 and awarded the official seal of approval for Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes .

Community structure

Stockheim consists of 11 parts of the community. The places of the formerly independent municipalities (with their former municipality parts) had the following population figures as of 2016:

history

For the first time the name of the settlement is attested in 1109 as "Stoccheim". Since 1582 in Reitsch and since 1758 in Stockheim, hard coal has been mined in several mines . In 1639 the Bamberg prince-bishop Franz von Hatzfeld donated the manors Stockheim and Haßlach to the city of Kronach for their loyalty and bravery in the fight against the Swedes during the Thirty Years War . The bishopric of Bamberg remained sovereign until the annexation by Electoral Palatinate Bavaria (1802) and the subsequent secularization .

The development of Stockheim into an industrial village, supported by the railway connection that took place in 1863, in addition to the coal mining in the period from 1877 to 1930, was primarily due to the Sigwart & Möhrle champagne bottle factory, which provided up to 400 jobs over three generations, but fell victim to the global economic crisis in 1930 .

The coal mining in Stockheim ended in 1968 when the St. Katharina colliery , which had been run as a GmbH since 1935 and was always dependent on state subsidies, had to be closed.

Before the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipality of Stockheim consisted of the main town and the municipality of Traindorf. On January 1, 1972, the Wolfersdorf community was incorporated into the former community. On January 1, 1975, the political communities of Burggrub, Haig, Haßlach bei Kronach, Neukenroth, Reitsch and Stockheim, which had existed since 1818, merged to form a new community called Stockheim.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population decreased from 5246 to 4948 by 298 or 5.7%. On December 31, 2004 Stockheim had 5345 inhabitants. On January 1, 1975, the then newly formed community of Stockheim had 5566 inhabitants.

politics

mayor

The full-time First Mayor has been Rainer Detsch (FWG) since March 26, 2011. His predecessors were Michael Lang (CSU) from 1975 to 1987 and Albert Rubel (CSU) from 1987 to 2011.

Municipal council

The council consists of 20 council members and the first mayor.

  • CSU : 8 seats
  • FWG Stockheim : 7 seats and mayor
  • SPD: 2 seats
  • BFS (Citizens FOR Stockheim): 3 seats

(Status: local election on March 15, 2020)

As of 2026, the municipal council will only have 16 members plus the first mayor due to the decline in population.

Community partnerships

coat of arms

Stockheim coat of arms
 Blazon : “Through a lowered, curled red tip, in which a silver mallet and a silver hammer, crossed at an angle, split; in front in gold a bearded man's torso in a black dress with a white collar and a black pointed hat on top of white, the drooping tip of which is covered with a six-pointed red star, in the back divided five times by black and gold, covered by an oblique, curved green diamond wreath . "
Justification of the coat of arms: mallets and hammers refer to the coal mining formerly operated in Stockheim, the colors silver and red are intended to indicate the earlier close relationship between Haßlach and Bamberg . The bearded male trunk comes from the coat of arms of the noble family von Würtzburg , which ruled in Burggrub and Haig. The Wettin coat of arms with the diamond- shaped wreath comes from the former coat of arms of Reitsch, which, like Neukenroth and Wolfersdorf, used to belong to the so-called Saxon protective villages.


Architectural monuments

traffic

Stockheim is located on Bundesstrasse 85 , which opens up tourist destinations as a beer and castle route , as well as on Bundesstrasse 89 and Staatsstrasse 2708, and also on the Frankenwaldbahn (part of the former main route Munich – Berlin).

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • 1932: Carl Sigwart (1872–1962), glass manufacturer
  • 1957: Johannes Heckel (1903–1991), pastor of Stockheim (1934 to 1957)
  • 1957: Philipp Wilhelm (1877–1958), Mayor of Stockheim (1919–1933)
  • 1958: Theresie Ott (1893–1974), teacher in Stockheim (1916 to 1958)
  • 1973: Baptist Heinlein (1898–1978), Mayor of Burggrub (1948–1966)
  • 1974: Sister M. Beda SDR, Margareta Bogensperger (1900–1977), director of the Stockheim kindergarten as a religious sister (1929–1974)
  • 1976: Andreas Bittel (1908–1978), pastor of Stockheim (1957 to 1976)
  • 1978: Karl Vollmer (1913–1998), pastor of Neukenroth (1957 to 1982)
  • 1991: Rudi Daum (1925–2019), member of the state parliament (1970 to 1990), local politician
  • 1996: Michael Lang (1921-2004), Mayor of Wolfersdorf (1951 to 1971) and Stockheim (1975 to 1987)

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

Web links

Commons : Stockheim (Oberfranken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Stockheim (Upper Franconia)  - travel guide

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. ↑ Bavarian State Library Online
  3. ↑ Municipality of Stockheim: official population figures of the municipality of Stockheim ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 8, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stockheim-online.de
  4. ^ 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. 689 .
  5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 501 .
  6. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Stockheim (Upper Franconia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History