Zirndorf

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 57'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
County : Fuerth
Height : 306 m above sea level NHN
Area : 28.78 km 2
Residents: 25,588 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 889 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 90513
Primaries : 0911, 09127
License plate : FÜ
Community key : 09 5 73 134
LOCODE : DE ZIR
City structure: 12 parts of the community

City administration address : 		Fürther Strasse 8
90513 Zirndorf
Website : www.zirndorf.de
Mayor : Thomas Zwingel ( SPD )
Location of the town of Zirndorf in the Fürth district
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Zirndorf (colloquially: "Dsiʳndoʳf") is the district town of the Middle Franconian district of Fürth . The city is part of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region .

geography

Geographical location

The city is located south of Fürth and west of Nuremberg on the Bibert River , which is naturally canalised in the urban area.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities are (starting in the north clockwise) Fürth, Oberasbach , Stein , Roßtal , Ammerndorf and Cadolzburg .

City structure

The municipality has twelve officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

history

etymology

The name of the city can be found in documents from 1297 as "Zirendorf" and 1306 as "Zirndorf" and probably comes from the Slavic personal name "Čiŕna", which in 864 is known as "Zirna". Another possibility of origin is the Slavic word "čirny" for "black".

Prehistory and the Middle Ages

Bibert, channeled close to nature

Archaeological finds (stone tools, stone drills, clay jugs, etc.) such as in the Hirtenacker district and the barrows in the Weinzierlein district show that the area dates back to around 4000–1000 BC. BC, so already in the Neolithic , was settled. The inhabitants practiced agriculture and animal husbandry. The name for the Zirndorf's home river, the Bibert , goes back to this Germanic or Celtic prehistory . In 260 AD the Alemanni broke through the Limes (border wall) near Weißenburg in south-central Franconia and also spread to other areas of what is now the Franconian region . In 496 the Frankish king Clovis I defeated the Alemanni and set the basic requirements for the formation of the Frankish Empire . At the latest, his son Theuderich I (511-533) and his son Theudebert I (533-547 / 48) were likely to ensure the connection of what is now the Franconian region to the Franconian Empire and the first scheduled settlements in the course of the conquest of the Thuringian Empire (531) funded by francs . However, it is likely that in the 5th and 6th centuries there were only scattered settlements (e.g. Leichendorf) in the Zirndorfer area due to the dense forests.

This first wave of Franconian settlements also gave rise to the first place names that were made up of a person's name and home or village . However, it is still unclear and technically disputed from which name Zirndorf can be derived. Probably the place name but Slavic origin ( zirrow = "black"). In the early Middle Ages, Slavs had advanced westward to the Regnitz.

Under the Frankish king Dagobert I (623–639), a second Frankish settlement wave in the 7th century caused the river valleys of Regnitz and Rednitz to be more heavily populated from the Main . The Fürth royal court and the Langenzenn and Roßtal bases were also likely to have come into being at this time .

With the conversion of the Frankish king Clovis I to Christianity (probably 497) the Christianization of the Frankish Empire had already begun, but it was not until the Anglo-Saxon Winfried-Bonifatius , who was commissioned by Pope Gregory II. 719 with the Germanic mission, created the dioceses of Würzburg and Eichstätt for this room. In 741 the Zirndorfer area was owned by the diocese of Eichstätt.

The Biberttal was still hostile to settlement because of the heavy forest and swamp, which is why it only played a minor role for the diocese of Eichstätt. Therefore a sustainable settlement can only be assumed for the late Carolingian period (end of the 9th century). It is unclear whether Zirndorf emerged as a district of Roßtal or whether it developed on its own. In 1040 three farmers from Zirndorf were granted the right to collect wood and litter in the Reichswald on the right of the Rednitz.

In the middle of the 10th century, the Eichstätt diocese built a church in Zirndorf which was consecrated to Saint Clemens . Eichstätts Bishop Gundekar II. (1057-1075) consecrated 126 churches during his term of office; one of them was the St. Matthew Church in Vach , which is considered the daughter church of Zirndorf. However, this was not confirmed in a document until the 15th century. The Zirndorfer church district expanded due to the numerous settlement activities to the places Altenberg, Anwanden, Kreutles, Lind, Oberasbach , Rehdorf and Unterasbach.

In the first half of the 13th century, Reichsministerialen built a forerunner of the Alte Veste , Berch Castle, on a ridge north of Zirndorf. The place was first mentioned in a document in the late 13th century. On September 12, 1288, the Zirndorfer Reichsministeriale Heinrich von Berg assigned three estates in Dambach and a farm in Oberasbach to the Nuremberg Poor Clare Monastery ; Another document from 1297 also mentions Kloster and Heinrich von Berg.

On April 29, 1306, the castle, which had previously been pledged to a Nuremberg merchant, and the town, after being sold, passed into the possession of the Burgraves of Nuremberg because the von Berg family had got into economic difficulties. The place then consisted of a church, nine courtyards, a forge, a mill and the bathhouse. A donation from the burgraves from 1321 proves that the Zirndorf Church was under the dual patronage of Saints Clemens and Blasius at that time .

The new owners developed into an important power in Franconia. From this point on, Zirndorf belonged to the Cadolzburg Oberamt. In 1316 the place appears in the books of the Poor Clare Monastery as a cyern village .

Towards the end of the 14th century there were three Nuremberg landowners in Zirndorf (Rindsmaul, Landherr and Strohmayer). The prosperous trading city of Nuremberg developed into an imperial city ; this repeatedly led to tensions with the neighboring territorial lords. The old fortress was razed in 1388 by the mighty Nuremberg citizens in the city ​​war . It is not documented whether damage occurred in Zirndorf.

Margrave period

From 1412 the massive defensive tower and bell tower and a defensive wall of the early Gothic church were built, which were expanded around 1450 with a side aisle. In the First Margrave War from 1449–1450, Zirndorf was burned down by the Nuremberg people in an attack, but was quickly rebuilt afterwards. In 1457 the first municipal code was introduced; the so-called "Gemein-Brieff" (among other things with a pasture regulation, different usage rights and field police regulations) should help to create a peaceful coexistence between margraves and Nuremberg lords and subjects. In addition, village masters were elected and appointed. In a feudal letter from the Roman-German King Maximilian I from 1495, there is talk of a "Zyrndorff". Before the beginning of the Reformation , Zirndorf was described in a Nuremberg record in 1504 as follows: "Zirndorf, a village, a church, is Nurmbergisch and Margrevisch, Fraisch Zenn".

In 1510 the Zirndorfer church of Clemens and Blasius changed to the patronage of the plague saint Rochus . In 1532 half the town and the church, and with it the parish records, fell victim to a fire.

With the municipal ordinance of 1580, confirmed by the Margraves of Brandenburg and the imperial city of Nuremberg, the extensive self-government of Zirndorf began. In 1604, the place came to the Brandenburg-Ansbach line when an inheritance was divided in the margravial house .

During the Thirty Years' War , Zirndorf was the center of the army camp of the imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein from July 18 to September 22, 1632 , which was stormed on September 3, 1632 by the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf in the battle of the Alte Veste . About two thirds of the Zirndorf population fell victim to the war; only about 75 years later did the population return to pre-war levels. After 1648, the reconstruction resulted in today's townscape with half-timbered houses and sandstone buildings.

In 1674, Margrave Johann Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach had the princely brewery built. As a result, other traders such as wire goods manufacturers, weavers, turners and shoemakers settled here.

At the end of the 18th century there were 121 properties in Zirndorf. The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach Oberamt Cadolzburg . The Cadolzburg caste office and the state charity office of the imperial city of Nuremberg jointly exercised village and community rule. The landlords were the Cadolzburg caste office (a mill, two half-courtyards, 28 estates, 31 houses, rectory, schoolhouse, game master's house, chaplain’s house, synagogue); the church and saints foundation Zirndorf (an inn, two estates, six houses); the imperial city of Nuremberg: Landesalmosenamt (one half yard, one estate, one house), Schlüsselfelder Foundation (one half yard, two quarter yards, one estate), St. Klara monastery office (one quarter yard, one Gütlein), forest office Laurenzi and von Löffelholz ( three half courtyards); Nuremberg owners: von Ebner (one house), von Holzschuher (one half-yard), Hörl (one yard, two estates, two houses), von Kreß (one estate, two houses), von Löffelholz (two back seats), von Murr (one yard , a half yard, six estates, three houses), von Tucher (an inn, three quarter yards, four estates, two houses), von Volckamer (one half yard); the Rieterische Stiftung Kornburg (one farm, five estates).

In 1791/92 the last Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Karl Alexander, ceded his territory to Prussia ; this also made Zirndorf Prussian. At that time, the place had 121 properties. In 1801 the Dean's office was moved from Langenzenn to Zirndorf; this gave the place a prominent ecclesiastical position in the area in the following decades. In 1885 the Zirndorf Dean's Office was relocated to Fürth.

Connection to Bavaria

With the accession to the throne of King Maximilian I , Zirndorf fell to Bavaria in 1806 . The place now counted 135 buildings with 1494 inhabitants.

As part of the municipal edict, the tax district Zirndorf was formed in 1808 , to which the Alte Veste belonged. In the same year the rural community Zirndorf was founded, which was congruent with the I. section of the tax district. In administration and jurisdiction, it was subordinate to the Regional Court of Nuremberg and in the financial administration to the Fürth Rent Office ( renamed the Fürth Tax Office in 1920 ). In voluntary jurisdiction, 7 properties were subordinate to the Patrimonial Court (PG) Lohe and Behringersdorf until 1812 and from 1822 to 1834 , three properties until 1812 and from 1822 to 1835 to the PG Lohe, 2 properties from 1825 to 1835 to the PG Gibitzenhof , one property from 1818 until 1846 the PG Neunhof , one property from 1822 to 1836 the PG Haimendorf , two properties until 1812 the PG von Volckamer and 13 properties until 1812 the Rieter administration Kornburg . From 1862 Zirndorf was administered by the Fürth district office (renamed the Fürth district in 1938 ). In 1862 jurisdiction was transferred to the Fürth District Court , and since 1880 it has been with the Fürth District Court .

In the middle of the 19th century, Zirndorf also developed into a small industrial town: It was the seat of a forest warden and a surgeon; There was a general practitioner, nine bakers, two blacksmiths, five butters, nine turners, two belt makers, two comb makers, two bricklayers, six milkers , two rope makers, two locksmiths, eleven tailors, four carpenters, 22 cobblers, two wagons, two carpenters and 14 weavers. Furthermore, a postal expedition was set up (1860), which made it possible to travel by stagecoach twice a day from Fürth. A telegraph station was opened in 1877 and the first public telephone ( telephone ) was made available in 1895 . The Zirndorf Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded in 1862. It is one of the oldest village fire departments in Bavaria.

The first real factories came into being in 1877 . The toy factories world-famous for Zirndorf set up shop (spinning tops, trumpets, music boxes, children's kits, tin toys, etc.). In this epoch there were already 17 mirror and toy factories. The master belt maker Konrad Frauenschläger was the actual founder of the toy manufacturer in Zirndorf; Together with some journeymen and homeworkers, he produced the first children's toys such as B. round folding mirrors. In 1890 the first printed newspaper, the Allgemeine Rundschau, was published by Leonard Zech. The newspaper was taken over in 1891 by the Johannes Bollmann printing company (which still exists today, as of 2011).

In 1877, King Ludwig II of Bavaria granted Zirndorf market rights . The Rangau Railway from Fürth ended in Zirndorf on November 30, 1890 , until the opening of the extension to Cadolzburg on October 14, 1892, Zirndorf remained the terminus. In order to guarantee the security of the industrial market , the Lower Franconian gendarme Fritz Rockenmaier was committed to this sovereign task on January 15, 1899 . In 1899 a small power station was built (37 kW / 50 PS). All Zirndorf residents were of the Protestant faith until the beginning of industrialization. With the arrival of many Catholic families, it became necessary to inaugurate their own St. Joseph chapel on November 2, 1904 .

At the beginning of the 20th century, several petitions (1889, 1904 and 1905) were submitted to the Bavarian Royal Ministry of the Interior to raise the market to a town. However, these were rejected on the grounds that there was still a lack of water pipe construction, sewerage, road construction (paving), a slaughterhouse and other important public and social institutions. The efforts made by the market within a short period of time to achieve this goal are astonishing: expansion of supply and disposal, paving of roads, street lighting , building of a new savings bank , building a new gas works and building a central school and a vocational school. On October 15, 1911, Zirndorf was finally granted city rights by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria . Excerpt from the document: “In the name of His Majesty the King, Luitpold by the grace of God, Royal Prince of Bavaria, Regent. We think we have been considering, in response to the request of the municipality of Zirndorf, Fürth district office, that this municipality should be included in the class of cities with an urban constitution from January 1, 1912. Berchdesgaden, October 15, 1911. signed Luitpold, Prince of Bavaria, signed Dr. von Brettreich. ” The following year, a city police force was finally founded.

World wars

In 1925, there were 60 metal mirror and metal goods factories, 24 grocery stores, 28 restaurants, 20 bakeries, 16 shoemakers, 16 cattle shops, 14 tailors, etc. in Zirndorf. That is why the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929–1933 hit the young city's export-oriented economy particularly hard. The non-profit housing association Zirndorf was founded in 1935 and the Kneipp baths in 1936.

The driveway to the Pinder Barracks in the 1950s

The construction of a new Air Force barracks of the Armed Forces took place in 1938 outside of Zirndorf, which after the occupation by the US Army in April 1945 in honor of junior John J. Pinder in Pinder Barracks has been renamed. Also in the 1930s, a gendarmerie barracks was built on Hirtenacker , which was renamed Adams Barracks after the war .

In April 1945, the city's landmark, the Alte Veste, was blown up by the Wehrmacht and completely destroyed as the military equipment was not supposed to fall into the hands of the advancing US Army. On April 17th, the Bibert Bridge was blown up; On April 18, 1945 at nine o'clock, the incumbent mayor Konrad Krönmeyer hoisted the white flag at the town hall, thus saving Zirndorf from being destroyed by American troops.

Furthermore, 120 properties had to be cleared for the occupation troops (including the Jahnturnhalle and various halls).

post war period

The city administration made great efforts to give the many war displaced persons (East Sudeten , Silesians and Egerlanders ) a new home in Zirndorf. The population increased from 7852 (1939) to 9881 (1946). In 1955 the central reception facility for asylum seekers and later the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees were opened in the former gendarmerie barracks . In 1957 the foundation stone was laid for the relocation of the electrical appliance manufacturer from Fürth to Zirndorf, which was completed by the end of the century , with the construction of a first production hall at the Metz factory on Ohmstrasse.

The old Catholic chapel was demolished in 1963, and the new building of the Catholic parish church of St. Josef was consecrated three years later. The Zirndorf City Police was incorporated into the State Police in 1969 . In the same year a large school building project was carried out. The opening of the outdoor and indoor pools took place in 1965; the school sports field was completed in 1971. In the years 1976–1978 the Zirndorfer urban area increased from 8 to 28 km² and the population from 13,661 to 20,364 due to the regional reform . The city's landmark, the Alte Veste, was inaugurated on September 17, 1980 after its reconstruction.

The Banderbach , which was previously partly open and partly piped through Zirndorf, often caused flooding problems for the old town of Zirndorf every year in the past . For this reason, the Banderbach overpass was built in 1979 for 5.4 million DM to divert the water of the Banderbach underground into the Bibert before Zirndorf . The Zirndorf city center has been practically flood-free since then.

present

The Paul-Metz-Halle town hall was inaugurated on October 5, 1984 in the name of the honorary citizen (radio manufacturer). In 1988 a twinning was made with the French city of Bourganeuf in the Limousin . In 1999 the state secondary school was built. The following year, in 2000, the Playmobil FunPark was inaugurated .

The former Pinder barracks was demolished in 2004 (the striking tower with archway and the guard building of the former barracks entrance are preserved as a memorial). The new district office building was built on their premises, which is why the authorities moved from Fürth to Zirndorf. A branch will remain in Fürth (including the health department). In this context, Zirndorf was raised to a district town.

In 2005 Zirndorf became the seat of an Evangelical Lutheran deanery .

In addition, there were commercial settlements, the construction of a nursing home, a shopping center and a residential area with around 500 new residents. As a result, the new district “ Pinderpark ” developed. Between 2005 and 2009 the inner city was redesigned and redesigned. On September 27, 2009, the citizens of Zirndorf rejected an extension of the Nuremberg subway to Zirndorf by a large majority .

In 2012 the city of Zirndorf celebrated the centenary of the city's elevation by the Prince Regent Luitpold. The highlight of the anniversary year was the parish fair ("Kärwa") from August 17 to 21, 2012 with a large anniversary program. Throughout 2012, numerous events such as concerts, church services and several shooting competitions took place in Zirndorf.

Religions

A Jewish community was first mentioned in 1551 . This built a synagogue between 1683 and 1685 . A memorial inscription on the outer wall of the building at Kleinstrasse 2 commemorates the Jewish residents who were killed by the Nazi regime and the Jewish soldiers who perished in the First World War . Jakob Wassermann wrote the novel Die Juden von Zirndorf in 1897 , a chronicle from the 17th century about the life of Schabbtai Zvi with a subsequent description of the Jewish community in the small Franconian town in the 19th century.

Incorporations

Parts of the municipality of Leichendorf were incorporated on January 1, 1976 as part of the municipal reform with the places Anwanden, Lind, Leichendorf, Leichendorfermühle and Wintersdorf. On May 1, 1978, the municipality of Bronnamberg followed with the towns of Banderbach, Bronnamberg and Weiherhof and Weinzierlein from the municipality of Weinzierlein.

Population development

Zirndorf community

year 1818 1840 1852 1861 1867 1871 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1919 1925 1933 1939 1946 1950 1961 1970 1987 1995 2007 2016
Residents 1472 1813 1809 1877 1984 2100 2309 2462 2692 3308 3779 4536 4946 5618 5724 6273 7069 7797 10018 10446 11984 13186 21022 25687 25509 25515
Houses 169 173 203 245 354 519 1049 1593 4821 6649
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Zirndorf municipality

year 001818 001840 001861 001871 001885 001900 001925 001950 001961 001970 001987
Residents 1460 1802 1840 2090 2681 4526 6259 10396 11974 13176 13919
Houses 167 172 243 351 516 1046 1591 3011
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politics

City council

The city council in Zirndorf consists of 30 seats according to the size of the population, which are redetermined every six years.

The following results were achieved in the last local election on March 15, 2020:

CSU: 32.05%, SPD: 27.84%, Greens: 18.05%, Free voters: 10.83%, AfD: 6.27%, Die Linken: 2.63%, FDP: 2.34% .

CSU SPD Green "The Free" * Free voters left AfD FDP total
2002 14th 14th 2 0 0 0 0 0 30 seats
2008 12 12 3 3 0 0 0 0 30 seats
2014 11 11 4th 0 4th 0 0 0 30 seats
2020 10 8th 5 0 3 1 2 1 30 seats
*In 2008 the parties of the Free Voters, PWG, FDP and ÖDP ran together for the city council.

mayor

The term of office of the mayor has not been the same as that of the city council since 1994, since the incumbent mayor Virgilio Röschlein (SPD) resigned from office due to reaching the age limit.

This postponement of the electoral periods required separate elections for the first mayor and the city council by 2020. In order to remedy this situation, on March 11, 2012 the First Mayor was elected for eight years instead of the usual six years. Since the Zirndorfer City Council was elected for six years in 2014, both terms would then coincide again in 2020.

Since 2006, the SPD has provided the First Mayor, Thomas Zwingel . Zwingel has held this office for one term; in the local elections on March 11, 2012, he was confirmed in office with 57.07%. In the 2020 local elections, Zwingel was able to prevail over his competitor Klaski from the CSU with 51.12% in a runoff election.

Community leader:

  • 1854–1857: Karl Vogler
  • 1857–1869: Georg Leonhard Däumler

Mayor:

badges and flags

On the occasion of an anniversary, the ruling head of the state, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria, was to be presented with a gift embossed with all the coats of arms of the Bavarian cities of that time. Since Zirndorf was to be elevated to the status of town in the following year 1912, but until then had no coat of arms or other seal symbols, the coat of arms was awarded to the Alte Veste by Prince Regent Luitpold with the signature of January 30, 1911.

Zirndorf coat of arms
 Blazon : “A silver shield in which a red tower with an open gate and windows appears on the green ground, flanked by a red battlement wall. The pointed roof of the tower is covered with a golden weather vane. "

White-red-green municipal flag

Foundation of the coat of arms: The gate tower represents the Schönburg, the old fortress , which the burgraves of Nuremberg acquired together with the town in 1306.

Town twinning

Sponsorship

Culture and sights

Zirndorf is a member of the German Toy Route .

regional customs

Every third weekend in August there is a celebration in Zirndorf Kärwa . A typical Franconian middle-town kärwa with tree stands, large pageants, fairground booths (shooting ranges, sweets and grilled meat sales, etc.), rides (children's carousel, bumper cars, pony rides, etc.). The festival area extends from the market square via the Ölstraße and Platz der Deutschen Einheit to the school sports field, on which the large festival tent is located. The Kärwa traditionally lasts from Kärwa Friday to Kärwa Tuesday with the big fireworks at the end of the night.

Zirndorf Municipal Museum

The thematic focus on the ground floor of the museum is the history and development of the Zirndorf toy industry . The upper floor of the museum is dedicated to the history of Zirndorf during the Thirty Years War . Special exhibitions on cultural and historical topics are regularly held in the museum's roof hall. A wide range of guided tours for adults and children provides an interesting insight into the two areas of the collection and special exhibitions.

music

In Zirndorf, two music associations, the “Stadtkapelle Zirndorf” and the “Stadtjugendkapelle Zirndorf”, make a valuable contribution to cultural life and the training of young musicians. The Stadtkapelle Zirndorf and the Stadtjugendkapelle Zirndorf were founded by Mr. Leopold Jubl in 1955 and 1968.

Buildings

The core of the place is rich in historical buildings: In addition to the church courtyard with church, parsonage and cantor's house, the brewery and the half-timbered houses from the 17th and the gabled stone houses from the 18th century should be mentioned.

The medieval parish church of St. Rochus (originally St. Clemens) was transformed into a Protestant church in the early 18th century. The four-sided west tower, which is late Gothic in its substance and shape , rises significantly upwards. The window reveals of the baroque nave are architecturally structured with the help of painted decorations ( facade painting ). The pleasant interior of the church is defined by a surrounding gallery with many pictures on the parapets.

The old castle (Red Road 3) is a traufseitiges half-timbered house with solid basement and dormer ; it was built in 1674.

The Alte Veste, located north in the forest, played an important role in the Thirty Years' War; some remains of the wall from that time have been preserved. From the observation tower built in 1980 you have a good view of Zirndorf, Nuremberg, Fürth and other places in Middle Franconia.

  • Church of SO

  • Longhouse from SO; Window reveals with painted architectural decorations

  • Old castle from SO

  • House of Lords

Architectural monuments

Natural monument

In the district of Banderbach there is the so-called " Banderbach Fault ", a ditch fault which is known in geological circles around the world.

traffic

Public transport in Zirndorf

Road traffic

In the northwest the city is affected by the federal highway 8 . There are connections to the motor vehicle and motorway network via the Nürnberg-Kleinreuth and Fürth-Zirndorf junctions on the Südwesttangente . The state road 2245 runs east to Altenberg and west of corpse village over after winter village . The national road 2242 runs north-east to Dambach or south to Altenberg to St 2245. The circuit road FÜ 19 runs northwest to Banderbach or south to body village to St 2245. A community connecting road leads northwest to Weiherhof .

railroad

The northern urban area is crossed by the so-called Rangau Railway in a northeast-west direction. The three stops Zirndorf , Kneippallee and Weiherhof are located within Zirndorf . The track is from the VGN - regional train line R11 ( Fürth's main railway operated -Zirndorf-Cadolzburg) at 30-minute intervals. There were plans to electrify the Rangau Railway and to expand it similarly to the S-Bahn ; these are currently not being pursued any further.

The stop of the same name is located in the Zirndorf district of Anwanden on the Nuremberg – Crailsheim railway line . The route is served by the S4 S-Bahn line every 20/40 minutes.

Until September 25, 1986, the Bibertbahn operated in the south of Zirndorf, largely parallel to Rothenburger Strasse . The Zirndorf-Altenberg train station was on the city limits in the Oberasbach district of Altenberg on Zirndorfer Strasse.

Local transport

Zirndorf is integrated into the tariff area of ​​the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association and is well connected with numerous bus routes. The city bus lines 70 and 72 of the VAG provide a direct connection to the subway station Gustav-Adolf-Straße in Nuremberg ago. Fürth can be reached next to the Rangaubahn with the OVF omnibus lines 111 and 112 , whereby the 111 only runs outside the operating hours of the Rangaubahn. In addition, the DRB (DB Regio Bus Bayern GmbH) operates a city bus network on behalf of the Fürth district in Zirndorf, Oberasbach and Stein with the four lines 150 , 151 , 154 and 155 , which connect most parts of the city with regional and S-Bahn trains. The private regional bus route 152 is of secondary importance with a few trips a day.

It is planned for the distant future to extend the future Nuremberg underground line U3 with a branch to Zirndorfer Bahnhof. However, since the line to Nuremberg-Gebersdorf still has to be built and the financing is largely unclear, it will hardly be realized in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, on September 27, 2009, the citizens of Zirndorf rejected an extension of the Nuremberg subway to Zirndorf by a large majority.

Economy and public institutions

Employment structure

In 2003, 5697 employees subject to social security contributions worked in the city . Of these, 20 employees are employed in agriculture , 2,644 people are employed in the manufacturing sector , a further 986 people are employed in trade , hospitality and transport and 2046 in other services. Another 3071 Zirndorfer commute to their workplaces. This means that a total of 8,768 Zirndorf residents have jobs that are subject to social insurance contributions.

Established businesses

The city is known for its toy industry . Children's toys were made as early as 1840. The Lorenz Bolz company in Zirndorf, which has existed since 1880, created the humming top in 1913 .

Today the city is z. B. Headquarters of the company geobra Brandstätter , internationally known for the products of the Playmobil brand . The company has been operating the Playmobil FunPark since 2000 .

The internationally known local companies also include Metz-Werke GmbH & Co. KG , which manufacture televisions in LCD, LED and 100 Hertz technology. The company also produces and exports a wide variety of flash units for cameras .

Public facilities

District Office Fürth

Since 2003, Zirndorf has also been the headquarters of the administration of the Fürth district, which has moved into a newly built district office on the edge of the newly emerging Pinderpark settlement (formerly Pinder Barracks). Until now, the district administration was housed in the neighboring independent city ​​of Fürth on Stresemannplatz. There is still an office there today with parts of the administration.

Federal Office for Migration and Refugees

Branch office of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in Rothenburger Strasse 29 on St 2245

Zirndorf was known nationally, if not worldwide, as the seat of the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees . The authority was founded in 1955; The former Zirndorfer Gendarmerie Barracks was chosen as the seat of the authorities. In 1993, the headquarters moved to neighboring Nuremberg, followed by the entire office in 1996. In January 2005 the authority changed its name to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. A branch office remained at the site.

Composition of the Stasi files

Organizationally belonging to the Federal Office, but with a different field of activity, a project group based in Zirndorf has been reassembling the approximately 15,500 scrap sacks of the so-called Stasi files by hand since 1995 . By August 2009, the eight employees were able to work their way through more than 400 bags and reassemble almost 900,000 sheets . For several years now, the project group has been supported in its recovery work by an automated, virtual reconstruction of torn documents in Berlin.

The Zirndorfer employees now specialize in comparatively large snippets, while the computer work takes on the small and difficult cases. However, this will not be a competition, since at the current pace the puzzle work will probably continue for over a hundred years.

Central reception facility for asylum seekers

Building Rothenburger Straße 31 with the gate of the central reception facility for asylum seekers (ZAE)

In Zirndorf there has been a former barracks, the Adams Barracks , since 1955 , the Central Reception Center for Asylum Seekers (ZAE), one of two initial reception centers in Bavaria. The temporary residence for refugees currently (2013) has a regular accommodation capacity of 650 places. This is where foreigners come to Bavaria as asylum seekers , before they are then distributed to various asylum seeker facilities ( shared accommodation ) throughout Bavaria after a few months . The facility, designed for 650 asylum seekers, had 1,100 asylum seekers in 2014 and 1,600 in 2015.

schools

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Horst Brandstätter (1933–2015), German entrepreneur with the Playmobil brand
  • Paul Metz (1911–1993), German entrepreneur ( Metz-Werke ), manufacture of photo and entertainment electronics

sons and daughters of the town

  • Karl Grillenberger (1848–1897), first Social Democratic member of the German Reichstag from Bavaria
  • Helmut Jahn (* 1940), internationally renowned architect
  • Peter Sadlo (1962–2016), drummer, soloist with the Munich Philharmonic
  • Ernst Unbehauen (1899–1980), painter and elementary school teacher, worked primarily in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Gabriele Pauli (* 1957), former district administrator of the Fürth district
  • Rainer Willingstorfer (1940–1989), artist and graphic designer, inventor of the Playmobil logo

Personalities who live or lived on site

  • Walter Mayer (1926–2015), physicist, television pioneer
  • Sylke Otto (* 1969), German luge athlete, Olympic champion, member of the Zirndorf City Council since 2008

Sports

Sports offered in Zirndorf include:

Others

The Weinzierlein part of the community is the location of one of the fictional "Schafkopf Academies", see also Schafkopf language .

The Green Lust, a three-day market for green products and ideas, has been held annually at the Wolfgangshof near Anwanden since 2002.

Zirndorf is also well known for its beer in Franconia and probably a bit beyond that, even if the Zirndorfer brewery was bought by Tucher .

literature

Web links

Commons : Zirndorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Zirndorf  - travel guide

Individual evidence

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