Küps
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Küps is a market in the district Kronach ( government district of Upper Franconia ).
- 4.1 Mayor
- 4.2 Market council
- 8.1 Regular events
- 9.1 monuments
Geography
Küps is located in the Franconian Forest nature park at the Unterrodach. Through the community Küps flows the hamlet Rödern cancer creek that empties into the Unterrodach.
Districts
The nine districts ( with populations ) are Küps (left column) and the eight incorporations after 1971 (right column):
- Küps 2618
- Eckertsruh
- Hummenberg
- Lerchenhof
- Nail
- Upper mountain
- Rödern
- Deep small
- Unterberg
- Weides
- Au ( trot ) 363
- Burkersdorf 263
- Grove 211
- Johannistal 762
- Oberlangenstadt 1250
- Schmölz 982
- Theisenort 892
- Tüschnitz 812
History
Küps was first written mention on 8 July 1151st
Incorporations
On April 1, 1971, until then independent municipality Tüschnitz was incorporated. On January 1, 1972, added grove. Au followed on 1 January 1976, Burkersdorf on 1 January 1977. The series of incorporations was completed on 1 May 1978 of the incorporation of the communities Johannistal, Oberlangenstadt, Schmölz and Theisenort.
Policy
Mayor
Mayor since 1999, Herbert Schneider (independent). In the mayoral election on 27 February 2011, none of the three candidates obtained an absolute majority in the first ballot. Herbert Schneider received 41.45 %, Bernd Rebhan (CSU ) 36.90 % and Kerstin Schmidt- Müller ( SPD) 21.65 %. Therefore, it came on 13 March to a runoff between Herbert Schneider and Bernd Rebhan (CSU ), with 52.99 % of votes Schneider decided for themselves.
Market council
The local elections of 2002 and 2008 led to the following seat distribution in the market council:
Religion
About two-thirds of the population are Protestant, about one third Catholic.
Traffic
Küps is located on the Franconian Forest Railway and is located on the main road 173
Twinning
Küps is twinned with Lauscha in Thuringia and Plouay in France.
Culture
Regular events
- Mountain festival the United neighbors in the hindquarters Küps in July
- Summer Festival of the Federal Grieser on the first weekend in June
- Market fair on the last weekend in July
- Christmas market on the second Sunday in December
Attractions
Parish Church of St. Jakob Marktplatz 7 Neues Schloss Am Plan 14 Upper Castle Street Kulmbach 1 Old Castle Mill Lane 2 Luther Hall on Hirtengraben 1 Parish church to the Holy Trinity in the village grove Castle Park in the district grove Old castle bower in the district of nail Millennial oak in the district of nail Castle Oberlangenstadt in the district Oberlangenstadt Parish Church of St. Lawrence in the district Schmölz Castle Schmölz in the district Schmölz Castle Theisenort in the district Theisenort Simultaneous to the Holy Trinity Church in the district Theisenort Water Castle Tüschnitz in the district Tüschnitz
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Küps
Personalities
- Johann Georg Herzog ( * August 5, 1822 in Hummendorf, grew up in Schmölz, † February 3, 1909 in Munich): organist, composer and first director of the Institute of Sacred Music at the Friedrich- Alexander -University Erlangen -Nuremberg; inter alia, also teacher of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
- Hans -Heinrich Herwarth of field Please (* July 14, 1904 in Berlin, † August 21, 1999 to lock in Küps Küps ), including Knight of the Grand Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Grand Cross and Victoria Order. Since 1989 he was Academic honorary citizen of the University of Augsburg.
- Raimund Schramm, Diploma in Public Administration ( FH), former mayor, agencies of the Federal Cross of Merit, the Bavarian municipal Medal of Merit in silver and the Gold Medal of Honor of the market Küps
Sons and daughters of the town
- Peter Betz ( born October 12, 1913 † unknown), SS Master Sergeant in the concentration camps of Dachau and Dora -Mittelbau
- Oswald Marr ( born March 29, 1947 in Schmölz ), District Administrator of Kronach