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This article deals with the municipality of Vorra, for the district of the same name in the municipality of Frensdorf see Vorra (Frensdorf) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 11 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Nuremberg country
Management Community :	Velden
Height :	365 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.08 km 2
Residents:	1771 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91247
Area code :	09152
License plate :	LAU, ESB , HEB, N , PEG
Community key :	09 5 74 161
Community structure:	4 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Stöppacher Str. 1 91247 Vorra
Website :	www.vorra-mfr.de
First Mayor :	Volker Herzog ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Vorra in the district of Nürnberger Land

Vorra is a municipality in the district of Nürnberger Land ( Middle Franconia ) and a member of the Velden administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Vorra lies in the Pegnitz Valley in Hersbrucker Switzerland ; 32 km northeast of Nuremberg and 7 km northeast of Hersbruck.

Neighboring communities / places

• Hirschbach
• Hartenstein
• Pommelsbrunn
• Hersbruck
• Kirchensittenbach

Community structure

Vorra in Hersbrucker Switzerland

The community has 4 districts :

• Artelshofen
• Alfalter
• Düsselbach
• Supply

history

First mention

The place Vorra was first mentioned in 1011 under the name Forehun.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipalities Alfalter and Artelshofen were incorporated.

Fire attack in 2014

Vorra hit the headlines nationwide when on December 11, 2014 at 10:45 p.m., three asylum seekers' accommodations burned down: an inn, a barn and an empty residential building. The accommodations were not yet occupied. 150 firefighters were on duty, one was injured during the extinguishing work. The case was initially assessed as an attack on a home for asylum seekers on the basis of evidence , but was then classified as white-collar crime .

Despite the swastika and the xenophobic slogan on one of the buildings, the investigators deny that there was a xenophobic background for the crime. Rather, "economic considerations" played a role, announced the Nuremberg police on June 23, 2016. "The renovation of the inn" played a role in the arson attack. According to current media reports, one of the suspects is said to be the owner of the construction company that was working there at the time of the attack. The suspect is said to have tried to cover up construction defects with the arson.

politics

Municipal council

The local council of Vorra consists of twelve councilors and the first mayor.

	CSU	SPD	FWG	Independent list	total
2014	4th	5	1	2	12 seats

(As of: local elections on March 16, 2014)

mayor

Mayor is Volker Herzog (SPD).

Buildings

Marienkirche

Marienkirche in Vorra

Its building type as a choir tower church indicates the old age of the Marienkirche. The square choir on the first floor of the tower contains a remarkable group of Romanesque columns, which probably dates from around 1200. Two full and two half columns form three arches, the middle of which has a profiled three-pass . Originally freely visible, this ensemble is now covered by the baroque altar so that you have to step in front of it to be able to look at it. The Romanesque frescoes fell victim to a renovation.

The altarpiece contains a beautiful pietà from the 15th century and figures of John the Baptist and Saint Lawrence . The ceiling painting by Johann Christoph Reich in the barrel vault of the nave from 1738/39 , surrounded by fine stucco decoration, depicts the Holy Trinity , framed by 14 angels .

Also worth mentioning are the riding chairs on the two galleries and the sun hole, a sundial for the interior, behind the Herrschaftschörlein. The church is usually open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

War memorial

The Nuremberg sculptor Emanuel Kittler created the war memorial for those who fell in the First World War.

Old castle

Old castle in Vorra

The Vorraer Schloss with its magnificent park in the center of the village on the Pegnitz is barely a hundred years old and does not correspond to the ideas of medieval castles and patrician palaces. In that short time it has had numerous owners. However, its origins go back to 1601. As noted in the Vorra chronicle, at the beginning of the 17th century the Nuremberg patrician and Vorra landlord Carl von Tetzel bought a farmhouse and a number of larger properties in the village. He had the house expanded into a stately high-gabled building. It burned down in 1780 in a conflagration that almost destroyed the entire village, including the outbuildings.

The gentlemen von Scheurl at the time erected a new building on the northeast corner of the property, which is still standing and is used as an outbuilding by the school-based DIY workshop. It was not until 1890 that the new owner, Baron von Soden, began building what is now the castle, initially demolishing various buildings. Because of the soft, hardly stable soil near the Pegnitz, there were major problems during construction, the masonry cracked and parts of the unfinished tower collapsed. Nevertheless, the construction was completed in 1891 and the palace gardens were rebuilt. Parts of the tree population date from this time.

In 1920 the property was sold to Freiherr von Ellrichshausen from Württemberg, who in 1922 had the tower helmet removed and, as a conclusion, some strange animal figures attached to the four corners. After his death in 1941 the castle became the property of the German Labor Front , which set up a Gau school.

In 1945 the Americans occupied the property. After their departure in the autumn of the same year, Baroness von Löffelholz leased the castle to build a high school with boarding school. From 1953 it was empty and in autumn 1955 the Schullandheimwerk Mittelfranken e. V. the buildings and redesigned them for his purposes.

Architectural and ground monuments

See also : List of architectural monuments in Vorra  and List of ground monuments in Vorra

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vorra is on State Road 2162 ( Federal Road 14 and Federal Motorway 9 are approx. 10-15 km away).
Vorra station is on the Nuremberg – Cheb railway line . It is served hourly by regional trains on the Nuremberg - Neuhaus an der Pegnitz line.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Friedrich Stoy (1700–1760), Protestant theologian
• Hans Vogel (1881–1945), politician, chairman of the SPD

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Vorra . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 52-56 ( digitized version ).
• Manfred Meyer: Vorra: A home book . Before 1978.
• Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993. ISBN 3-9800386-5-3
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Vorra . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 735 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Vorra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Vorra  - travel guide

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

• Vorra: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ^ Municipality of Vorra in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 481 .
4. ^ Arson attack on refugee home: The horror of Vorra Spiegel online from December 12, 2014, accessed on December 27, 2014
5. ↑ Arson in advance: New investigations necessary. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH / Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, January 16, 2017, accessed on December 21, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Police: Arson attack in Vorra was not xenophobic , Tagesspiegel, June 23, 2016
7. ↑ Police press release
8. ↑ Construction nails are to be covered up ( memento from June 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Bayerischer Rundfunk, June 24, 2016