Ammerthal

Ammerthalstrasse is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg -Sulzbach.

• 2.1 Amalgamations
• 2.2 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 Town twinning

• 5.1 economy, including agriculture and forestry
• 5.2 Education

Geography

Geographical Location

Ammerthalstrasse is located in the Upper Palatinate region north on the eastern slope of the Franconian Jura, seven kilometers west of Amberg at the origin of the Ammer stream at the beginning of Girgl, Pürschläger and Götzendorfer valley.

Community structure

The municipality Ammerthalstrasse has five officially named districts:

• Ammerthalstrasse
• Fichtenhof
• Finkenmühle
• Brain mill
• Cattle mountain

There are the following districts: Ammerthalstrasse, Götzdorf

History

For the space around Ammerthalstrasse can already be detected archaeologically for the Bronze Age and Hallstatt - time traces of settlement. In the Carolingian period, a large fortification was in today Oberammerthal, probably on Frankish royal initiative, erected, which appeared in 1003 in the wake of the Schweinfurt feud as civitas Armardela in the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg. Ammerthalstrasse belonged in the 10th century to the immediate sphere of the counts on the Nordgau, the Count of Schweinfurt. In the debates of the year 1003, the civitas Amardela was besieged by troops of King Henry II and apparently partially destroyed after the handover. Ammerthalstrasse was an administrative seat of the Counts of Sulzbach in the core area of the sulzbachischen ownership to Sulzbach and Kastl after 1035. In the late Middle Ages the village belonged to Rentamt Amberg and the district court Oberpfaffenhofen of the Electorate of Bavaria. The Order of Malta had there one coming. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1978 parts of the disbanded community Götzdorf were incorporated.

Population Development

Policy

Parish council

After the last local election on 2 March 2008 the council has 14 members. The turnout was 75.6 %. The choice was as follows:

Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor.

Coat of arms

Blazon: Shared; above in red on silver ground an attacking silver swan, three split of red and silver below.

The coat of arms is conducted since 1998. The Swan, however, was already on a frieze from the 14th century, the monastery church of Kastl.

Twinning

The community maintains a vibrant partnership with the city of Modi'in in Israel, under which occurs a regular youth exchange.

Culture and sights

Ammerthalstrasse has two Catholic churches, St. Nicholas Church and the Church of Our Lady.

See also: List of monuments in Ammerthalstrasse

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, including agriculture and forestry

There were 1998 in the field of agriculture and forestry not, in manufacturing and 115 in trade and transport, no social insurance contributions at the workplace. Social insurance deals in the residential community, a total of 654 people. In the manufacturing sector, such as existed in the construction of six companies. In addition, in 1999, there were 28 farms with an agricultural area of 357 hectares ( 284 acres of arable land and 72 acres of permanent pasture ).

Education

There are the following facilities (as of 2011):

• Kindergarten: 75 kindergarten places, with around 66 children in three different groups. Since September 2011, the kindergarten Ammerthalstrasse has an additional nursery group, which are supervised by a teacher and a nanny. This absorbed. " Beetle Group " offers space for 12 children aged from six months to three years.

• Primary School / Elementary School: Class 1 to 4 each cage, one, six teachers and about 95 students / inside.