Amberg-Sulzbach

The district of Amberg -Sulzbach is located in the west of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate. Neighboring districts are the districts of Bayreuth and Neustadt an der Waldnaab, in the east of the county Schwandorf, south of the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and the west of Nuremberg County in the north. The independent city of Amberg is completely surrounded by the district of Amberg -Sulzbach. The managing authority is the district of Amberg- Sulzbach district office.

• 4.1 traffic

• 6.1 Nature Reserves
• 6.2 geotopes

Geography

The western district area to about Auerbach - Sulzbach -Rosenberg - Amberg - Schmidmühlen is determined by the Upper Palatinate Jura. North-east of lie Hahnenbach, Hirschau, Schnaittenbach, Vilseck and Freihung in the Upper Palatine hills. Here the Grafenwoehr Training Area forms the northern border of the county. To the municipality of Freudenberg in the east, the western foothills of the Naabgebirges charge as part of the Bohemian Massif.

Since the European watershed crosses the county from southwest to north, drain Högen and Hirschbachwinkel the western Albrand in the Pegnitz. The rest of the district is part of the catchment area of ​​the Naab. The Vils rises near Freihung first turns slightly to the north, then west and then flows to the south. She shares while the district area roughly two equal parts. From the eastern escarpment she takes on Altmannshof at the Rosenbach and Schmidmühlen the Lauterach. In Emhof the river finally leaves the county. After the training area Hohenfels still leads the trout stream in the Vils before they even reached the Naab at Kallmunz. Directly in the Naab flow of marriage Bach and the Bach window.

History

The area around Amberg since the 14th century belonged to Bavaria and to the Wittelsbach lines Palatinate -Neuburg and the Palatinate -Sulzbach. 1803 were built on the territory of today's district of Amberg- Sulzbach, the district courts Amberg and Sulzbach. They belonged in 1808 to the rain circle ( capital Straubing, Regensburg from 1810 ). 1809 Amberg was a circular immediate city. 1838, the district court Vilseck was formed in addition. All three district courts belonged then to the Upper Palatinate. 1862 of the Regional Courts Amberg and Vilseck the district office Amberg and Sulzbach formed from the district court of the same county. After 1934, the city of Sulzbach was merged with the neighboring community of Rosenberg and now led a double name, and the county was renamed was called the District Office Sulzbach- Rosenberg. Both district offices ( Amberg and Sulzbach -Rosenberg ) were referred from 1939 as counties. In the 1972 local government reorganization, both counties were combined with the involvement of some communities in the counties of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz and Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz the new district of Amberg, whose seat the independent city of Amberg was. In 1973, the county its present designation " district of Amberg -Sulzbach ." The District Office is housed in the former electoral palace in Amberg.

Policy

District administrators

County Sulzbach Rosenberg:

Amberg / Amberg Sulzbach

Council

(As at municipal elections on 3 March 2002 and March 2, 2008)

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Split of black and red with a golden tip is swept, in a black hammer and chisel, a front inverted red -winning, red and reinforced bezungter golden lion, behind three silver heraldic lilies (2:1). "

Coat Explanation: The golden lion is the Palatine Lion of the Amberger coat of arms, the three silver lilies in red are taken from the coat of arms of Sulzbach -Rosenberg, the miner symbol indicates the iron ore mining and also attributable to the absence coat of arms of the former municipality Rosenberg.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The AG Bayerische Ostbahnen built in 1859 their first connection from Nuremberg to Regensburg Schwandorf through the Upper Palatinate industrial area to Amberg and Sulzbach- Rosenberg. Only in 1875 was added the branch line Neukirchen- Vilseck - pastures.

The soon - 1877 - opened by the Bavarian State Railways main line Nuremberg -Bayreuth only grazed the outermost border of the circle to the west with Michel box. From their chain since 1903 in Ranna a spur track to the mountain town of Auerbach from.

The county town of Amberg was the starting point of three local lines in the environment that have unfortunately not continued up to an adjacent main track: 1898 to Schnaittenbach about Hirschau, 1903 by Lauterhofen about Kastl, 1910 by Schmidmühlen about Ensdorf.

The busy network of passenger trains now encompassed 154 km distances and decreased in the years from the closure of all local railways to 80 km. However, the route Amberg- Schnaittenbach still plays a major role in freight transport of Kaolin. The disused compounds in detail:

Stops in rail transport are the railway stations in Neukirchen bei Sulzbach -Rosenberg, Sulzbach -Rosenberg, Sulzbach -Rosenberg Hut, Amberg on the Nuremberg- Schwandorf and Neukirchen bei Sulzbach -Rosenberg, Vilseck, Freihung and Thansüß on the Nuremberg- pastures. The entire region is also linked to the Regensburger Transport Association Member of the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association, the stop Amberg.

The region Amberg -Sulzbach pervades the Federal Highway A6 as a section of the highway from Paris to Prague. Their last, open section between the junction Amberg- East and the motorway junction Upper Palatinate Forest, was completed in September 2008 and continues to manage the economic and traffic growth continues, the Emperor Charles IV had already begun in the 13th century with the "Golden Road". Of national importance the federal highways B14, B85 and B299, the Amberg -Sulzbach in the region cross each other are beyond.

Cities and Towns

( Population figures from December 31, 2012)

Cities

Markets

Management Communities

Communities

Free community areas ( 22,35 ) (Area in km ², uninhabited areas )

Attractions

• Castle Sulzbach
• Castle Heimhof
• Castle ruins Ebermannsdorf
• Castle Ebermannsdorf
• Castle Neidenstein

Castle Heimhof

Castle ruins Ebermannsdorf

Castle Ebermannsdorf

Castle Neidenstein

Nature Reserves

In the district of Amberg -Sulzbach, there are 5 natural reserves.

• Minions Buck with lock Neidenstein
• Lower Pfistertal north of Vilshofen
• Wüstung Großenfalz
• Pit fields Leonie
• Pegnitzau between Ranna and Michl field

Geotopes

In the district of Amberg -Sulzbach is 98 (as of September 2013) are from the Bavarian State Office for Environmental designated geological sites. See the list of geological sites in the district of Amberg -Sulzbach.