Weigendorf

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Weigendorf
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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 11 ° 34'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Palatinate
County : Amberg-Sulzbach
Management Community : Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Height : 385 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.58 km 2
Residents: 1230 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 98 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 91249
Primaries : 09154, 09663
License plate : AS, BUL , ESB , NAB , SUL
Community key : 09 3 71 157
LOCODE : DE WGO
Community structure: 11 districts
Association administration address: Am Rathaus 1
92259 Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Website : www.weigendorf.de
Mayor : Pure Pimple ( CSU )
Location of the community Weigendorf 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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Weigendorf is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach and a member of the Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg administrative community .

geography

Weigendorf, with its eleven districts, is the westernmost municipality in the Amberg-Sulzbach district and part of the historic Nordgau and lies supra-regionally in the low mountain range that emerged in the Tertiary. In the narrower sense, the community is located in the southern German layer level country and thus belongs to the Middle Franconian Alb . Their area is one of the dominant dolomite rocks ( Upper Jura , also called Malm) with the typical karstification of these limestone.

Geographical location

Weigendorf is located in the Upper Palatinate North region in the western part of the Amberg-Sulzbach district, 13 km west of Sulzbach-Rosenberg and 12 km east of Hersbruck on Bundesstraße 14 .

Community structure

There are eleven districts:

There is only the Weigendorf district .

history

Even the Neanderthals stayed here, as evidenced by a wisdom tooth that was found in the ruins of the Hunas cave not far from Deinsdorf . Excavation remains from about 2000 years before the turn of the ages are z. B. found at Ernhüll and Lichtenegg with finds from the people of that time. The Celts had also colonized the area. The Houbirg and the castle in Lichtenegg were Celtic fortresses and refuges.

Weigendorf belonged to the Wittelsbach duchy of Neuburg-Sulzbach, which came to Bavaria in 1777 .

The Sankt-Margarethen-Kirche in the village of Ernhüll , located on the Alb plateau, goes back to Romanesque origins; it was given its current shape in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The district Högen (about 300 inhabitants), located in the valley of the Högenbach , was named Hegina in 1043 in connection with the donation of the towns of Fürnried , Wurmrausch and Högen by King Heinrich III. Mentioned for the first time to his servant Bardo, it changed hands several times as a country estate with royal justice . The most famous feudal lord of the palace, which was renovated from 2002 onwards according to historical preservation aspects, was the poet and scholar and liege lord Christian Knorr von Rosenroth . In addition to the castle, whose historical substance has been preserved, there are two well-preserved mills with still existing water flow and the associated water wheels (Finkenmühle oberschlächtig, Intermühle underslächtig) as well as natural monuments in the place weathered as limestone rocks as Wirts- und Baderrodlfelsen.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,122 to 1,233 by 111 inhabitants or 9.9%.

  • 1961: 1329 inhabitants
  • 1970: 1248 inhabitants
  • 1987: 1125 inhabitants
  • 1991: 1208 inhabitants
  • 1995: 1229 inhabitants
  • 2000: 1276 inhabitants
  • 2005: 1281 inhabitants
  • 2010: 1225 inhabitants
  • 2015: 1218 inhabitants

religion

In the community there is the Evangelical Lutheran branch church St. Margaretha, a former simultaneous church , and the Catholic branch church St. Leonhard. Weigendorf is one of the nine communities in the north-east of the Upper Palatinate in which the majority of the population is Protestant .

politics

City council election 2020
(in %)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
52.56
47.44
WGW
Template: election chart / maintenance / notes
Remarks:
b CSU including FB
Current distribution of seats in the Weigendorf City Council (March 15, 2020)
  
A total of 12 seats
  • WGW : 6
  • CSU : 6

CSU including FB

Municipal council

The municipal council has twelve members. Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 749 of the 1,041 residents in the municipality of Weigendorf exercised their right to vote, resulting in a turnout of 71.95%.

mayor

Mayor is Reiner Pickel (CSU); he has been in office since May 1, 2014. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, he was re-elected with 58.26% of the vote.

coat of arms

The description of the municipal coat of arms, introduced in 1992, reads: "Divided by silver and blue, above a red St. Andrew's cross covered with a red heraldic rose with a silver lug and a red heraldic rose with a silver lug at the top, a growing silver mill wheel at the bottom."

Architectural monuments

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 115 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 515 people were in employment that was subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was exactly 400 more than that of in-commuters. 21 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were 14 farms.

Persons connected with Weigendorf

Web links

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

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. ↑ Weigendorf community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Assumption of Mary: No public holiday in nine Upper Palatinate parishes . BR24, accessed August 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Results of local elections 2020. OK.VOTE, March 15, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 .