Untersiemau

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '  N , 10 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Coburg
Height :	299 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.49 km 2
Residents:	4155 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	203 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	96253
Area code :	09565
License plate :	CO, NEC
Community key :	09 4 73 170
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 3 96253 Untersiemau
Website :	www.untersiemau.de
Mayor :	Rolf Rosenbauer ( CSU )
Location of the community of Untersiemau in the district of Coburg

Untersiemau is a municipality in the south of the Upper Franconian district of Coburg .

geography

Untersiemau

Untersiemau is located on the eastern edge of the Itzgrund about ten kilometers south of Coburg at an altitude of about 300 meters. The Lichtenfels Forest extends east of the village .

History and inhabitants

Untersiemau was first named as "Suome" around the year 800 in the traditions of the Fulda Monastery , which are based on a copy in the Codex Eberhardi from the 12th century. This makes Untersiemau one of the oldest villages in the region. The place name is of Slavic origin and changed over time via "Soumen", "Sirmau" and "Nieder Simau" to "Untersiemau". The founding time of the place is dated around the year 600.

The local nobility was the family of Schenk von Siemau , whose coat of arms is part of the local coat of arms and who founded today's Salvator Church with a foundation in 1392 .

Until 1521, Untersiemau was largely independent as an allodial small state of Siemau together with the neighboring towns of Weißenbrunn am Forst , Birkach am Forst and Obersiemau , after which the area belonged to Coburg . During the Peasants' War in 1525, the church, castle and the rest of the village were set on fire and looted. In 1527 the Evangelical Lutheran teaching was introduced in the entire parish.

During the Thirty Years' War , the place was plundered several times from 1632, burned down and destroyed in 1634. Untersiemau was then rebuilt and grew again after the Peace of Munster . The last of the Siemau taverns died in 1634. In 1637 Hans Adam von Könitz (1591–1648) acquired the moated castle. In 1784 Christian Ferdinand von Könitz received the village of Untersiemau as a knight's fief. In 1866, Friedrich Adolf Hermann von Könitz, the last man on Untersiemau, died. In 1812 Obersiemau, which in the meantime belonged to Buch am Forst , was reassigned to the Untersiemau parish at the request of the Obersiemau population.

The Raab brewery existed from 1813 to 1981. The Murmann brewery started brewing in 1862 as the Höllein brewery. From 1924 Richard Murmann, August Höllein's son-in-law, ran the brewery, which operated under the name of Prinzenbräu between 1953 and 1955. Eberhard Murmann has been a master brewer since 1987.

On December 4, 1900, the Siemau-Scherneck railway station was officially opened with the Itzgrundbahn in the presence of regent Ernst II zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg .

The municipality belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and then to the Free State of Coburg , which, after a referendum on November 30, 1919, joined the Free State of Bavaria on July 1, 1920 .

On April 12, 1945, at the end of the Second World War , the place was taken by the Americans without a fight. This was thanks to the efforts of the Untersiemauer main teacher Max Roth, who was able to convince the SS unit stationed there of the pointlessness of a defense. On the same day, the entire Itzgrund was occupied by the Americans.

At the end of the war, many refugees from Lower Silesia came to Untersiemau, especially from the Bunzlau and Oels districts .

About a year later, on September 9, 1946, displaced persons from the Freiwaldau district in the Sudetenland , most of them from Domsdorf , today Tomíkovice , arrived by train at the Siemau train station. Like the refugees from Lower Silesia, they integrated themselves into the village community over time. The Catholic Christ the King Church was consecrated in 1964.

The municipality was created in 1971/78 through the municipal reform . From 1978 to the end of 1989 she was a member of the Untersiemau administrative association .

Incorporations

District	Residents (1970)	Population (2010)	Population (2014)	Date of incorporation	annotation
Birkach am Forst	273	210	211	01/01/1978
Haarth	229	463	462	07/01/1972
Meschenbach	196	352	320	01/01/1975
Obersiemau	206	177	174	01/01/1978
Scherneck	615	636	607	05/01/1978
Stöppach	320	408	409	07/01/1972
Untersiemau	1615	1512	1527
Weißenbrunn am Forst	336	387	371	07/01/1971
Brick village	43	23	22nd	1963	Incorporation to Scherneck
total	3833	4168	4103

Note: The 1970 population was obtained from the May 27, 1970 census. The 2010 population was from February 11, 2010.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the municipality grew from 3813 to 4148 by 335 inhabitants or 8.8%. A peak was reached on December 31, 1999 with 4,360 inhabitants.

politics

mayor

The municipality's first mayor is Rolf Rosenbauer (CSU), who replaced incumbent Michael Boßecker (SPD) in 2014 with 52.8 percent of the valid votes. In the 2020 election, he was re-elected with 95.8 percent of the valid votes unopposed.

Municipal council

City council election 2020

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40

30th

20th

10

0

38.00%

26.19%

20.60%

15.21%

CSU

SPD

FW

UWG

Since the election of the municipal council on March 15, 2020 , the seats have been distributed among the individual parties and groups of voters as follows:

• CSU : 6 seats
• SPD : 4 seats
• FW : 3 seats
• UWG : 3 seats

coat of arms

Description : In red underneath a golden pewter shield head, a silver, oblique, wavy bar pointing to the left, which is covered with three blue fish.

Attractions

Moated castle in Untersiemau

• Planet Path, the first astronomical educational trail in Germany
• Untersiemau moated castle
• Upper Untersiemau Castle
• Herbal garden of the pharmacy
• Mausoleum in Ziegelsdorf
• Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church in Scherneck

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Untersiemau

traffic

Former train station in Untersiemau

Untersiemau has a junction on the four-lane B 4 from Untersiemau to Coburg , which runs through the western municipal area. The district road CO 28 , formerly part of the B 289 , connects Untersiemau via Obersiemau and Buch am Forst with Lichtenfels . On September 5, 2008, the A 73 with the Untersiemau junction was completed as part of the German Unity transport project . Untersiemau used to have a railway connection to the Coburg district of Creidlitz with the Siemau-Scherneck station on the Itzgrundbahn , the rails have now been removed and a cycle path towards Coburg has been set up on the route . The high-speed line Nuremberg – Erfurt runs past the town to the east , including the 931 m long Lichtenholz tunnel and the Weißenbrunn am Forst valley bridge .

Personalities

• Friedrich Hofmann (1904–1965), Dean General of the Bundeswehr
• Otto Regenspurger (1939–2003), politician
• Hermann Louis (von) Schroedel (1864–1943), councilor and publisher, acquired the Lower Palace in 1911 and had extensive renovations carried out.
• Karl Zeitler (1943–2013), politician

dialect

Itzgründisch , a Main Franconian dialect , is spoken in Untersiemau .

literature

• Arno Debus: 1200 Years of Untersiemau , 2002

Web links

Commons : Untersiemau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

• Untersiemau: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF, 1.66 MB)

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. ↑ Arno Debus: 1200 years of Untersiemau . S. 22-23 .
3. ^ Genealogical paperback of noble houses . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 410 .
4. ↑ State Archives Coburg : Lehenhof, No. 332: The fief of Christian Ferdinand von Könitz in Untersiemau with the concession to levy deduction money within the country as a knight's loan , accessed on May 13, 2019.
5. ^ Genealogical paperback of the barons houses . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1916, p. 426 .
6. ^ Wolfgang Vatke: Coburg breweries city and country . Veste-Verlag Roßteutscher, Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-925431-03-6 , p. 305 f.
7. ↑ Arno Debus: 1200 years of Untersiemau . S. 234-287 .
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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. 679 and 680 .
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 442 f .
10. ↑ Announcement of the final result of the election of the first mayor on March 15, 2020 on the website of the Untersiemau municipality. March 23, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020.
11. ↑ Announcement of the final result of the election of the municipal council on March 15, 2020 on the website of the Untersiemau municipality. March 23, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020.
12. ↑ Ulrich Göpfert: The moated castle in Untersiemau - From the manor to the dreamy castle villa