Obertrubach

Obertrubach is a municipality in the district of Forchheim ( district government of Upper Franconia ).

  • 2.1 Religion
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 2.3 spin-offs
  • 3.1 Mayor
  • 3.2 municipal
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.4 gathering of neo-Nazis
  • 4.1 castles
  • 4.2 churches
  • 4.3 Customs
  • 4.4 Nature

Geography

Geographical Location

The municipality is located in the Franconian Switzerland Nature Park Veldenstein Forest and is like many other places in the Franconian Switzerland of tourist interest (880 beds ). In Obertrubach the Trubach springs.

Neighboring community

Neighboring municipalities are (from north clockwise beginning ): Gössweinstein, Pott stone, stone Betz, Hiltpoltstein, Graefenberg, Egloff stone.

Community structure

Obertrubach is divided into 16 districts:

  • Bärnfels (about 400 inhabitants, located 490 m above sea level)
  • Doerfles
  • Geschwand
  • Hackermuhle
  • Haselstauden
  • Duke Wind
  • Dog village
  • Linden
  • Neudorf
  • Obertrubach (about 620 inhabitants, located 450 m above sea level)
  • Reichel mill
  • Schlöttermühle
  • Sorg
  • Untertrubach
  • Wolfsberg
  • Ziegelmühle

History

The history of Obertrubach is not easy to explore, with records, deeds or other documents and sources are very sparse. The first mention was in the year 1007 in connection with the establishment of the Diocese of Bamberg. The new diocese, Emperor Heinrich II on November 1, 1007 the old royal court Vorchheim ( Forchheim ), located in Radenzgau, with all accessories in a wide area and all -hearing Forchheim as Truobaha ( Trubach ) and Tuoisbrunno ( Thuisbrunn ). Previously, there are only scanty news from the time of Charlemagne ( 786-814 ). 794 appeared for the first time the names of places and Trobach Herzewin ( Duke Wind ) on.

Obertrubach thus has a thousand-year history.

Religion

Obertrubach is the vicarage of the Catholic parish of St. Lawrence Obertrubach. There are the same parish church and the Catholic Meeting St. Elizabeth. For parish Obertrubach following affiliated churches include:

  • Bärnfels, Mary of the Snows Church
  • Geschwand, Assumption
  • Untertrubach, St. Felicitas

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, joined the then municipality of Wolfsberg with Untertrubach, Doerfles, Sorg and dog village on the community Obertrubach. In the course of municipal reform were on 1 May 1978, the former municipalities Bärnfels ( with Gallows Hill ), which was created on January 1, 1953 spin-off from small Gesee, and Geschwand ( Linden ), who was called until 1875 Gschwand and the place of hazel groves of dissolved municipality Thuisbrunn incorporated.

Spin-offs

On May 1, 1978 parts of municipalities with more than 50 inhabitants ( Möchs ) were assigned to the market Hiltpoltstein.

Policy

Mayor

Mayor Willi Müller ( CSU). His successor was elected in the municipal elections in 2014 Markus Green (CSU ).

Parish council

The local elections from 2002 to 2014 led to the following distributions seat in the municipal council:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: In gold on a silver three- mountain twin-towered a black castle ruins, floating above a black wolf hull with red tongue.

Gathering of neo-Nazis

In the, belonging to Obertrubach district Geschwand neo-Nazi events such as celebrations and concerts are held regularly since 2007. The event lawn had been bought in 2006 by the wife of an activist in 2004 banned Frankish Action Front. At the events, among other politicians of the NPD and the band participated Hunters And. The community Obertrubach tried so far, other than the few kilometers distant community Graefenberg that struggled with numerous campaigns against neo-Nazi marches to ignore the events. End of July 2010 announced the mayor of Obertrubach in the context of a discussion forum to want to take action against the neo-Nazi events. In May 2011, a neo-Nazi concert in Geschwand took place again, the Frankentag 2011 was postponed by the organizers to Roden. One for the June 2, 2012 by a leading member of the Free Network South -pending " entertainment festival" prevented the community by the denial of a special permit for the meadow leading, shared only for agricultural vehicles dirt road. The access ban was confirmed after the action of the organizer by the administrative court of Bayreuth.

Sights and culture

Castles

  • Castle ruins Wolfsberg
  • Castle ruins Bärnfels

Churches

  • Parish Church of St. Lawrence, Obertrubach
  • Branch Church of St. Felicitas, Untertrubach the first church
  • Branch church Maria Schnee, Bärnfels
  • Branch Church of the Assumption, Geschwand

Customs

  • Alljährlicher decision of Perpetual Adoration on January 3, with burning off the mountain fires

Nature

  • Signalstein at Geschwand

Sport and Leisure

The municipality is located in the Northern Crags Frankenjura, numerous hiking and biking trails, the Via Francigena through the municipality.

Just outside the church, and not far from the overhanging wall of the famous Eldorado, the Climbing Information Center Franconian Switzerland has been created. It is to draw attention to the development of climbing on the importance of the region and the Franconian Switzerland give even more attention. The region in the triangle between Forchheim, Bamberg and Bayreuth, one of Germany's most important areas for climbing. The Frankenjura covers 2300 square kilometers with about 1,000 rocks and 12,000 individual routes. The goal of the approximately 2,000 -square-foot information center is to provide interested visitors, active athletes, newcomers, but also families with children of all you need to know about climbing. This applies both to the climbing area Frankenjura, climbing techniques and the flora around the climbing rock. To this end, under a gazebo six walls have been installed, which will be discussed with numerous photos, graphics and explanatory text on the more than century-old tradition of climbing, historical and current techniques, safety aspects and nature and environmental issues.

Traffic

Obertrubach is located on the main road 2 and is accessible via the Federal Highway 9.

Others

The climber Wolfgang Güllich lies in the cemetery of the parish church of St. Lawrence buried. Its beautiful natural stone grave is visited by rock climbers from around the world and decorated with pieces of rope and other climbing equipment.

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