Weißenbrunn

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Weißenbrunn (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '  N , 11 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Kronach
Height :	330 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.41 km 2
Residents:	2855 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	108 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	96369, 96317
Primaries :	09261, 09264, 09223
License plate :	KC, SAN
Community key :	09 4 76 185
Community structure:	29 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Bergstrasse 21 96369 Weißenbrunn
Website :	www.weissenbrunn.de
Mayor :	Egon Herrmann ( SPD )
Location of the community Weißenbrunn in the district of Kronach

Jungferkättlbrunnen

Old Town Hall

Evangelical Trinity Church

Weißenbrunn is a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria . It is located southeast of Kronach on federal road 85 in the direction of Kulmbach .

geography

Geographical location

Weißenbrunn is located on the southwestern edge of the Franconian Forest in the valley of the Leßbach on the Bier- und Burgenstraße ( B 85 ) between Kronach and Kulmbach . It is framed by densely forested mountains up to 500 meters high.

The Leßbach rises shortly after Gössersdorf and meanders through Weißenbrunn, Reuth and Hummendorf. Wildenberg lies high above Weißenbrunn and the Rodachtal; Thonberg spreads mainly on a hillside above Reuth.

Community structure

Weißenbrunn has 29 officially named municipal parts.

Bohlbach book Eichenbühl Flöhberg Friedrichsburg Goessersdorf green Hohenwart Woodhouse Hummendorf

Cold book Neuenreuth Neutennig Obertennig Plösenthal Wrestling Reuth Back alleys Jerkmill Pipe in kind

shovel Schleyreuth Schlottermühle Care Thonberg Submissive Weißenbrunn Wildenberg Wustung

Independent communities were:

• Eichenbühl
• Goessersdorf
• Hummendorf
• Reuth
• Thonberg
• Wildenberg

history

Bronze helmet from the urnfield period from Thonberg in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg

Until the founding of today's church

The political community Weißenbrunn was created during the Bavarian municipal regional reform from 1971 to 1978. During this time, the formerly independent communities Eichenbühl, Gössersdorf, Hummendorf, Reuth, Thonberg and Wildenberg joined the larger municipality of Weißenbrunn. With the exception of Gössersdorf, the other parts of the community were shaped for centuries by the predominant manorial rule of the knight dynasty of the von Redwitz and the related Marschalk von Ebneth zu Wildenberg. In Gössersdorf, too, the von Redwitz and the aristocratic manor Weißenbrunn owned.

With the exception of Gössersdorf, which belongs to the Protestant parish of Kirchleus , and Hummendorf, which at that time belonged to the parish of Küps, the other places have been ecclesiastically assigned to the Weißenbrunn parish (reformed in 1557) since the pre-Reformation period. After the Second World War , the new Catholic citizens set up a prayer room in the hall of the Paradies inn in 1946. A Catholic church was built in Thonberg in 1948, which is now visited by the Catholics of the municipality. The church is a branch of the Catholic parish Küps .

On a terrace above the Rodach near Hummendorf, abundant Stone Age finds dating from between 50,000 and 20,000 BC Dated to be secured.

Around 1900 weapons and jewelry were found near Wildenberg, which are exhibited in the Prehistoric and Protohistoric State Collection in Munich . It is believed that they came from a burial mound from the earliest Bronze Age around 1500 BC. Come from BC. The later discovery of a lance tip was made in the early Hallstatt period, around 1200 BC. Dated. Also noteworthy is the so-called Thonberger helmet, a bronze cap helmet that is exhibited in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . A replica is shown in a showcase in the Weißenbrunn town hall. The helmet was found in a sand pit in the Thonberg district of Sachspfeife in 1906 and is dated around 1200 BC. Dated. These are only likely to have been traces of an early inspection by hunters and gatherers or relics of passing warriors, but certainly not evidence of such an early settlement, since further finds and evidence are missing.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Reuth was incorporated. Eichenbühl joined the company on July 1, 1971. Thonberg followed on January 1, 1972, Hummendorf on July 1, 1972. Gössersdorf has belonged to Weißenbrunn since July 1, 1976. Finally, on January 1, 1978, Wildenberg was added.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population fell from 3,087 to 2,850 by 237 inhabitants or 7.7%.

date Residents June 6, 1961 3361 May 27, 1970 3201 December 31, 1989 3096 December 31, 1990 3144 December 31, 1991 3172 December 31, 1992 3224 December 31, 1993 3230 December 31, 1994 3242 December 31, 1995 3228 December 31, 1996 3212

date Residents December 31, 1997 3222 December 31, 1998 3216 December 31, 1999 3222 December 31, 2000 3210 December 31, 2001 3193 December 31, 2002 3195 December 31, 2003 3152 June 30, 2004 3131 June 30, 2005 3106 December 31, 2006 3091

date Residents December 31, 2007 3091 December 31, 2008 3062 December 31, 2009 3031 December 31, 2010 3011 December 31, 2011 3000 December 31, 2012 2969 December 31 2013 2936 December 31, 2014 2913 December 31, 2015 2919 December 31, 2016 2921

politics

Municipal council

The local elections in 2002, 2008 and 2014 led to the following allocation of seats in the local council:

	2002	2008	2014
CSU	05	05	05
SPD	06th	06th	06th
Free voters	05	05	05
total	16	16	16

mayor

On March 3, 2002, Egon Herrmann (SPD) was elected First Mayor of the community of Weißenbrunn with 53.70 percent of the valid votes . He was re-elected on March 2, 2008 with 89.49 percent unopposed candidate. His successor Jörg Neubauer (SPD) was elected in the runoff election on March 29, 2020 and took office on May 14, 2020.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: “Split by silver and red; in front of each other an upright green hop branch and a green ear of wheat; behind a naked silver mermaid with blue scaled tail, which she holds with her left. "

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Weißenbrunn

traffic

Weißenbrunn is located in Upper Franconia , the northernmost region of Bavaria on the state border with Thuringia. There are trunk roads from the direction of Nuremberg ( A 9 or B 173 ), Berlin (A 9), Chemnitz ( A 72 ), Erfurt (first A 4 , then B 85 or A 9) and Dresden (A 4, then A 72 ) . Coming from Kronach (6 km) or Kulmbach (15 km) you can then take the B 85 to Weißenbrunn. Weißenbrunn is located on the Neuses – Weißenbrunn railway line, which was closed in 1995 and mainly used by freight trains. From 1947 to 1954 there was also passenger train service, a trip to Kronach took 30 minutes.

literature

• Klaus Barnickel, Peter Jurczek: Weißenbrunn, District of Kronach | Structure analysis a. Site design , Munich 1987.
• Jürgen Hacker, Helmut Schuberth, Wolfgang Bouillon: The Evang.-Luth. Parish Weißenbrunn. Perspectives of an Upper Franconian village community , Weißenbrunn 1998.
• Dieter Runzer: Weißenbrunn and its parts of the community Eichenbühl, Gössersdorf, Hummendorf, Reuth, Thonberg, Wildenberg , Horb am Neckar 2010. ISBN 9783865953629
• Dieter Runzer: 725 years Weißenbrunn , Weißenbrunn 2010.
• Monika Segerer, Jörg Maier: Possibilities and chances of the economic development of the community Weißenbrunn in connection with new concepts and strategies of the village renewal with special consideration of a neighborhood shop or a village information and further education center , Bayreuth 1993.

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. ^ Weißenbrunn in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 501 .
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. 690 .
5. ↑ https://www.weissenbrunn.de/media/10300/bekanntmachung_result_buergermeister_29-03-2020.pdf%7Cabruf=2020-05-25
6. ^ From the town hall: Jörg Neubauer takes office | Weißenbrunn community. Retrieved May 24, 2020 . 

Web links

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

• Community website
• Entry on the coat of arms of Weißenbrunn  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Weißenbrunn: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.66 MB)