Kulmain

Kulmain is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate Tirschenreuth and lies between the Stone Forest and the Fichtelgebirge.

  • 2.1 Place name
  • 2.2 Modern Times
  • 2.3 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 3.2 Town twinning
  • 4.1 monuments
  • 4.2 Natural Monuments
  • 5.1 freeman
  • 5.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Neighboring communities

Kulmain borders Kemnath, Immenreuth, fire, Ebnath, Neusorg and Pullenreuth.

Community structure

The municipality has 19 Kulmain officially named districts:

  • Aign
  • Old stone Reuth
  • Armesberg
  • Babilon
  • Weis earth
  • Frankenreuth
  • Hofstetten
  • Kulmain
  • Lenau
  • Neugrünberg
  • Oberbruck
  • Oberwappenöst
  • Oil Brunn
  • Rothenhof
  • Unterwappenöst
  • Witzlasreuth
  • Desire mountain
  • Ziegelhuette
  • Zinst

History

Place name

The place name comes from the Slavic Kulmain " Cholmina " or " Chomane " from, and means hill dwellers.

Modern Times

Kulmain belonged to Rentamt Amberg and the district court Waldeck of the Electorate of Bavaria. In Kulmain there were two country aces goods with a jurisdiction such as in open Hofmarken: Kulmain at the church of the Barons of Gobel and Kulmain at the pond of the Barons of Ponzelin. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818 the current municipality.

Incorporations

In 1945 or 1946, until then independent municipality Oberbruck was incorporated. On January 1, 1972, added Zinst. On 1 January 1978 was followed by parts of the territory of the dissolved municipalities Lenau and Oberwappenöst.

Policy

The council consists of 14 members:

  • CSU 5 seats
  • CDU Kulmain 3 seats
  • SPD 3 seats
  • Civil List 3 seats

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: " Under blue shield head, in three covered with a black bar silver tips in red a three-piece silver round church building ( Armesberg ). "

The community leads the coat of arms since 1976.

Twinning

Since 1988, a partnership with the city of Donnerskirchen.

Culture and sights

Monuments

  • The former school building in the main street 12 in Kulmain is designated by the year 1841. The building with shallow hipped roof and Steingewänden is registered under the number D -3-77-133-2 as a listed building in the list of the Bavarian State Office of Historic Monuments.
  • List of monuments in Kulmain

Natural Monuments

The name provides a reference to the Kulmen that rise near the village (see Rough Kulm ). Not far from the village there is the Armesberg.

Personalities

Freeman

  • Wiesend Martin ( born April 28, 1910 in Kulmain, † March 7, 2003 in Bamberg), Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bamberg ( 1967-1985 )
  • Gerd Schoenfelder (born 1970 ), multiple Paralympic champion

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Martin Vogt (1781-1854), concert organist, cellist and composer
  • Wolfgang Lippert (* 1955 in Frankenreuth ), local politicians and district administrator Tirschenreuth
  • Georg Engelhard von Löhneysen (1552-1622), mining administrator, author and publisher
  • Hanna- Barbara Gerl - Falkovitz (* 1945 in Oberwappenöst ) Religionsphilosophin, professor at the TU Dresden
  • Gerd Schoenfelder (born 1970 ), multiple Paralympic champion
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