Wiesenthau

This article deals with the community of Wiesenthau. For the noble family of the same name, see Wiesenthau (noble family) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '  N , 11 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Franconia
County :	Forchheim
Management Community :	Gosberg
Height :	305 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.41 km 2
Residents:	1607 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	251 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91369
Area code :	09191
License plate :	FO, EBS , PEG
Community key :	09 4 74 175
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Reuther Str. 1 91361 Pinzberg
Website :	www.wiesenthau.de
Mayor :	Bernd Drummer (Bürgergemeinschaft Wiesenthau (BGW))
Location of the community of Wiesenthau in the Forchheim district

Wiesenthau Castle

Wiesenthau is a municipality near the Wiesent in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim and a member of the Gosberg administrative community based in Pinzberg .

geography

Geographical location

Wiesenthau lies at the foot of the Walberla . Wiesenthau Castle is located in the village and has long been owned by the von Wiesenthau family .

Community structure

The Wiesenthau community has 2 districts :

• Schlaifhausen
• Wiesenthau

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting from the north clockwise): Kirchehrenbach , Leutenbach , Pinzberg , Forchheim .

history

Until the church is planted

The community was first mentioned in a document in 1062. The lords of Wiesenthau held local rule from 1128 until they died out in 1814. The sovereign rulership was held by the Counts Schönborn , who were mediatized by Bavaria in 1806 . They ceded it in the course of border adjustments to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg of Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany , with whom it finally fell back to Bavaria with the Treaties of Paris in 1814 . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

With the territorial reform on May 1, 1978, the previously independent community of Schlaifhausen was incorporated into the community of Wiesenthau.

politics

mayor

Bernd Drummer (Bürgergemeinschaft Wiesenthau) has been mayor since 2014. Previously, this position had been held by Hans Weisel (Bürgergemeinschaft Wiesenthau) since 2002, who was 2nd mayor from 1996 to 2002.

Municipal council

The 2020 local elections resulted in the following distribution of seats in the local council:

• Citizens' Community Wiesenthau: 4 seats (± 0)
• For people, home and nature: 4 seats (+4 seats)
• Schlaifhausen village community: 2 seats (-1 seat)
• Free voters Wiesenthau / Schlaifhausen: 1 seat (−1 seat)
• Active citizens of Wiesenthau and Schlaifhausen: 1 seat (+1 seat)

The 2014 local elections resulted in the following distribution of seats in the local council:

• Bürgergemeinschaft Wiesenthau: 4 seats
• Schlaifhausen village community: 3 seats
• Young citizens Wiesenthau / Schlaifhausen: 2 seats
• Free voters Wiesenthau / Schlaifhausen : 2 seats
• New list for Wiesenthau and Schlaifhausen: 1 seat

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: “Above a pewter shield base split by red and silver, covered with a heraldic lily in confused colors, split by silver and red; in front four red diamonds lying one above the other, behind a silver flight. "

railroad

The community has a stop on the Forchheim – Ebermannstadt railway line and is integrated into the tariff of the greater Nuremberg area .

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Wiesenthau . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 226 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Entry on Wiesenthau's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Foracheim: Parish Church of St. Matthew in Wiesenthau
• Wiesenthau: 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. ^ Community Wiesenthau in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 5, 2020.
3. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 684 .
4. ^ This is how the new Wiesenthau municipal council looks at nordbayern.de, March 19, 2014, accessed on November 6, 2017