Vilseck

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Vilseck
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Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 11 ° 48'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Palatinate
County : Amberg-Sulzbach
Height : 402 m above sea level NHN
Area : 64.68 km 2
Residents: 6306 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 97 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 92249
Area code : 09662
License plate : AS, BUL , ESB , NAB , SUL
Community key : 09 3 71 156
City structure: 36 districts

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 13
92249 Vilseck
Website : www.vilseck.de
Mayor : Hans-Martin Schertl (employee owner-occupied home)
Location of the city of Vilseck in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach
Auerbach in der Oberpfalz Königstein (Oberpfalz) Hirschbach (Oberpfalz) Etzelwang Weigendorf Birgland Kastl (Lauterachtal) Edelsfeld Edelsfeld Vilseck Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg Sulzbach-Rosenberg Eichen (gemeindefreies Gebiet) Freihung Hirschau Gebenbach Schnaittenbach Hahnbach Illschwang Freudenberg (Oberpfalz) Ursensollen Ebermannsdorf Ensdorf (Oberpfalz) Kümmersbruck Rieden (Oberpfalz) Hohenburg Schmidmühlen Poppenricht Ammerthal Amberg Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab Weiden in der Oberpfalz Landkreis Schwandorf Landkreis Bayreuth Landkreis Nürnberger Land Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalzmap
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Vilseck is a town in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach . The city is characterized by the presence of the US Army at the Grafenwoehr training area .

geography

Geographical location

Vilseck lies on the Vils , a tributary of the Naab . In the Grafenwöhr military training area , which has a size of 234 square kilometers, there are two large camps: the east camp in Grafenwöhr ( Tower Barracks ) and the south camp in Vilseck, which is also known as the Rose Barracks . A complete brigade of the US Army is stationed in Vilseck , the 2nd US Cavalry Regiment . The training area is primarily used for target practice with all weapon systems of the US armed forces.

Neighboring communities

Immediate neighboring communities are the communities Edelsfeld , Königstein , Freihung and Hahnbach . In the north, the Grafenwoehr training area cuts off Vilseck from its hinterland.

City structure

Vilseck is divided into 36 districts:

  • Hohenzant
  • Kagerhof
  • Ködritz
  • Langenbruck
  • Flake
  • Lohhof
  • Neuhammer
  • Oberweißbach
  • Ödgodlricht
  • Rauschenhof
  • Reisach
  • Simple
  • Schöfelhof
  • Schönlind
  • Bowl yard
  • Seiboldsricht
  • Sigl
  • Sollnes
  • Sorghof
  • Drive path
  • Unterweißbach
  • Vilseck
  • Weiherhäusl
  • Wickenricht

history

Center with bird tower

In the tenth century Vilseck belonged to the Nordgau, which the mighty Babenbergs carried as a fief from the emperors. When the Babenberg Margrave Albert I was executed under Ludwig the Child in 905 , the latter moved into the county. Otto II awarded it to Duke Heinrich II of Bavaria as a ducal chamber property. His successor Heinrich IV ceded the chamber property to his wife Kunigunde of Luxembourg as a personal property after he had become emperor . When the Diocese of Bamberg was founded , Vilseck fell to the Diocese of Bamberg as a foundation. The emperors from the Staufer family tried to regain possession of the area. Friedrich I (HRR) and his son Friedrich II and Konrad IV did not hesitate to take part of the Bamberg property from the Bamberg bishop. Actually, these emperors only held the right to protect and protect these goods, while the bishopric had always reserved certain rights. The area was run under the name of Bamberg Truchsessenamt and comprised the villages of Hersbruck , Pegnitz , Velden , Auerbach and Vilseck and the areas surrounding the villages. Konradin , son of Konrad IV, who had inherited the Bamberg estates from his father, committed these estates along with other Hohenstein estates in 1266 to his two uncles on his mother's side, the Bavarian Duke Heinrich and Ludwig the Strict, as pledge in a document issued at Hohenstein Castle for 2200 silver marks. When Konradin was beheaded in Naples on October 29, 1268 , the two uncles shared Konradin's possessions. Ludwig the Strict received the Bamberg goods. So Vilseck came back to the Wittelsbach family .

The city of Vilseck later came back to the Bamberg Monastery and was the seat of a Bamberg upper bailiff until 1803. Vilseck belonged with the bishopric from 1500 to the newly formed Franconian Empire . The bailiwick owned the bishopric exclusively over the city, but not over the rural district. The city of Vilseck had important municipal rights. Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 the place belongs to Bavaria.

In 1838 a separate regional court of the older order was founded in Vilseck. In the course of this, the tax communities Adlholz , Ehenfeld, Gibbach , Gressenwöhr , Großschönbrunn , Hahnbach , Iber , Irlbach , Langenbruck, Massenricht , Schlicht, Seugast , Sigl, Süß and Vilseck were removed from the Amberg regional court and Weißenberg, Sigras and Kürmreuth from the Sulzbach regional court and assigned to the new Vilseck district court.

At the end of the Second World War, on April 16, 1945 there was an order for city defense. Two anti-tank barriers were set up for defense in the south camp in Vilseck. The SS wanted to blow up the Vilsbrücke, but the explosives were secretly defused by the Volkssturm because of the hopelessness. Vilseck was shot at by artillery at night on April 21st, and men of the Volkssturm then removed the anti-tank barriers. The Volkssturm was shot at by SS men. In the early morning of April 21, Vilseck was handed over to the Americans without a fight, before the Wehrmacht blew up the railway bridge and the Vils bridge in Schlicht.

The Vilseck District Court, which emerged from the Regional Court in 1879 , was dissolved on July 1, 1959. On April 1, 1971 the communities Gressenwöhr, Langenbruck, Schlicht and Sigl and parts of Irlbach were incorporated.

Population development
year 1840 1900 1925 1939 1950 1961 1970 1987 1991 1995 2002 2005 2010 2015
Residents 4317 3585 3824 3955 5738 5590 5856 5541 6376 6374 6510 6484 6501 5893

Between 1988 and 2018, the city grew from 5,712 to 6,093 by 381 inhabitants or 6.7%.

politics

City council election 2020
(in %)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
32.83
30.91
24.88
11.37
AN-EH
EHB-FW
JU
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-8.57
-1.79
-1.02
+11.37
AN-EH
EHB-FW
JU
Current distribution of seats in the Vilseck City Council (March 15, 2020)
    
A total of 20 seats
  • AN-EH : 7
  • CSU : 6
  • EHB-FW : 5
  • JU : 2

City council

The city council has 20 members. Another member and chairman of the city council is the mayor. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, of the 4,498 residents of Vilseck with voting rights, 2,980 exercised their right to vote, bringing the turnout to 66.25%.

mayor

Mayor has been Hans-Martin Schertl (* 1959) (employee-owned home) since April 2004. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, he was re-elected with 57.86% of the vote.

Community finances

In 2017, the municipal tax revenue amounted to 4,504,000 euros, of which 1,050,000 euros were trade tax receipts (net) and 2,698,000 euros were the municipal share of income tax.

coat of arms

The city coat of arms has been documented in the seal guide since the 14th century. The description reads: "In gold, growing out of blue waves, covered with a silver sloping bar, red crowned, red armored black lion."

Economy and Infrastructure

US Army

Vilseck's economy is largely determined by the presence of the US Army's 2nd Cavalry Regiment . Many companies have focused on American customers. The city itself as a regional authority also benefits from key allocations , among other things .

Jobs

In 2017 there were 1648 jobs subject to social security contributions in the city. Of the resident population, 2,100 people were in employment that was subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 452 more than that of in-commuters. 116 inhabitants were unemployed.

traffic

Vilseck is on the Neukirchen – Weiden railway line . To Nuremberg and Neustadt an der Waldnaab there is largely a one-hour cycle.

education

In the city there is

  • three day-care centers with 183 approved places and 170 children (as of March 1, 2018),
  • Vilseck primary school with ten teachers and 193 students (school year 2018/19) and
  • Vilseck Middle School with nine teachers and 99 students (school year 2018/19).

Culture and sights

Buildings

Dagestein Castle
  • The cityscape as well as the first German tower museum in the so-called bird tower (built in 1466) and the bird or upper gate (built in 1568) are worth seeing .
  • The castle Dagestein is a fortification dating back to the 10th century.
  • Vilseck Castle , Burggut and, until 1803, a nursing home
  • The parish church of St. Egidius is an originally Gothic, Baroque-style wall pillar church with rich baroque furnishings.
  • The Hafnertor in the suburbs with an arrow slit and coat of arms of the bishopric of Bamberg and the Electoral Palatinate was built in the 16th century.

See also: List of architectural monuments in Vilseck

music

Two music associations are active in the city of Vilseck: the Musikverein Vilseck e. V. and the Werkvolkkapelle Schlicht. The heavy metal band Atlantean Kodex comes from Vilseck.

Sports

With 1. FC Schlicht (district league), FV Vilseck (district league) and SV Sorghof (district league), three football clubs are active in the community. In 2008 the three main clubs founded the JFG Obere Vils in order to offer youth football in the community a future. The A-Youth (U19) to the D-Youth (U13) run under the umbrella of the JFG. Many other clubs are active in the community of Vilseck and offer the residents a variety of sports activities. Examples include the TUS Vilseck, the three shooting clubs Tell Vilseck, Eichenlaub Sorghof and Bergschützen Gressenwöhr, the Unterweissenbach ski club and the SKK Vilseck bowling club (located in the main club FV Vilseck).

Regular events

Every year in July there is a classic castle concert in Dagestein Castle. Every year on the fourth weekend in October, the Vilsecker Burgkirwa takes place here. Furthermore, the concert of the Werkvolkkapelle Schlicht , shortly before Christmas, in favor of charitable institutions, as well as the Christmas concert of the music association shortly after Christmas in the parish church of St. Giles.

A German-American folk festival takes place annually at the Grafenwöhr military training area .

Radio and television

A 65 meter high tubular steel mast has been located north of Vilseck since autumn 2008 at 49 ° 38'40.76 "N 11 ° 47'0.99" E, which is used to broadcast the AFN medium wave program on 1107 kHz with 10 kW transmission power. Its construction is very similar to the former AFN transmitter mast in Grafenwöhr , which was used for this until the end of 2008, and like it is isolated from the earth. The location of the transmitter was relocated for reasons of electromagnetic compatibility.

Others

In Vilseck (and beyond) Josef Eierer is known as the night watchman "Tschung". At the beginning of January 2014 he celebrated his 80th birthday and at the same time his 20th service anniversary. He continues to do daily patrols through the city, leads city tours and is active in his role as night watchman at many cultural events.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Vilseck  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Vilseck in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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. ^ City of Vilseck in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library
  3. ^ FH Giehrl: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg - Notes on the history of the city of Vilseck . tape 8 . Regensburg 1844, p. 243 ( full version in Google Book Search [accessed September 1, 2011]).
  4. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the city of Vilseck @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vilseck.de
  5. ↑ http://geschichte.digitale-sammlungen.de/hab/seite/bsb00007658_00157
  6. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria, Munich, 1838, p. 537 (available online on Google Books )
  7. ↑ German Vogelsang: THEY ARE COMING! The last days of the war in the Upper Palatinate in 1945 , Amberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-95587-008-9 , pp. 98–99.
  8. ^ Ordinance on the district court branches of June 9, 1959 (GVBl. P. 178)
  9. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 419 .
  10. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Vilseck primary school in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on August 2, 2020.
  14. ^ Middle school Vilseck in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Weitzdörfer: From Vilseck into the world. Passauer Neue Presse , accessed on November 1, 2013 .
  16. ↑ night with Chung by Vilseck: History can be so amusing. www.onetz.de, January 2, 2016