Höchstädt im Fichtelgebirge

Blenheim in the Fichtelgebirge ( officially Hoechstaedt i.Fichtelgebirge ) is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel and a member of the administrative community Thiersheim.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Community structure

The municipality is divided into six districts Hoechstaedt:

• Brown Green
• Hofmühle
• Blenheim in the Fichtelgebirge

• Rügersgrün
• Tännig
• Witzleben mill

History

Documented the settlement was first mentioned in 1298. Blenheim was one of the first acquisitions of the viscount of Nuremberg in the later Sechsämterland that were summarized in the Official Hohenberg / Wunsiedel. The previous owners were probably the men of Hohenberg. In the village there were two manors, both of Brandenburg were received from the viscount of Nuremberg, or the later Margrave fief: Upper and lower Blenheim Blenheim. The Manor Upper Blenheim was from 1398 to 1559 in the hands of the imperial ministerial egerländischen Rorer. This was followed by the coming of Thuringia men of wit life. In the Thirty Years' War the manor Upper Blenheim was largely destroyed and its owner never came their obligations under feudal. Therefore, it was drafted by Margrave of Brandenburg - Kulmbach Christian forfeited and 1644 sold for 6200 florins to the Wunsiedler Hospital Foundation. This earned at least the manor building in 1982 by the family Rohrer back, they are now back in the hands of descendants of the late medieval owners. These operate there next to an art gallery and the Castle Museum Blenheim. The manor sub Blenheim had around 1370 the family of Uttenhofen, then came to the low noble family Santner and was acquired in 1413 from the originally derived from the castle Rabeneck at Waischenfeld in Franconian Switzerland Lords of Rabenstein. These were to 1534 in the possession of the manor, then they were followed by the Lords of Haidenaab. In the Thirty Years' War under Hoechstaedt was pulled into severe affected; 1668 the manor came to the lords of the forest rock that inhabited the castle until 1847. Soon afterwards, the damaged by fire Castle Under Blenheim became the property of the municipality. After many years of use as a school, it now serves as the municipal offices and for residential purposes.

In 1791 Blenheim was reached with the Margraviate of Bayreuth to Prussia. In 1806, French troops occupied, in 1810 came the place to Bavaria. 1818 emerged the communities of Lower and Upper Blenheim, in 1821 there was a merger of the municipality Blenheim. In 1923 Tännig was incorporated. In 1995, the local name of Blenheim in Thiersheim in Blenheim has been changed in the Fichtelgebirge.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1978, a part of the dissolved municipality Neudes was incorporated with 100 residents at that time.

Policy

Parish council

Coat of arms

The coat of arms is composed of the arms of the Rohrer family (lower part) and the family of Hohenzollern ( black and white crossing ).

The Rohrer family is represented because of their long tradition on the key top Blenheim coat of arms. The family of Hohenzollern ruled 500 years on the Sechsämterland, situated in the Blenheim. To commemorate this connection, the black and white transept was added to the coat of arms.

Attractions

• Evangelical Peter and Paul Church
• Town hall
• Castle Museum
• Töpferhof, a pottery experience
• Stoakirch'n, a rock formation on Castle Hill
• Hofmühle
• Adel mill
• Gasthof zur hell ( unchanged since 1902)
• Berggaststätte Castle Hill (since 1910)
• Gasthof Einhorn

See also: List of monuments in Blenheim in the Fichtelgebirge