Baiersdorf

Baier is a town in the Middle Franconian district of Erlangen - Hochstadt.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 5.1 Museums
  • 5.2 monuments
  • 5.3 Regular events

Geography

Geographical Location

The city Baierdorf is on the flood-free for the most part of the terrace, 500 meters away Regnitz, eight kilometers north of Erlangen and five miles south of Forchheim, halfway between Nuremberg and Bamberg.

Boroughs

Baierdorf consists of five districts:

  • Baierdorf
  • Baiersdorfer mill
  • Haguenau
  • Igelsdorf
  • Wellerstadt

The new building area in the hat is completed.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are ( starting in the north clockwise):

Forchheim, Poxdorf, Langensendelbach, Bubenreuth, Möhrendorf, Roettenbach and Hausen

History

The city Baier village was first mentioned in 1062 and has for over 650 years, the city rights. The former Obervogt Office of the Principality of Bayreuth was now Prussian in 1792 from 1500 in the Frankish Empire circle. It was in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 to France and came in 1810 to the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Baierdorf has a big share of the European horseradish cultivation; there are two well -known companies that manufacture and distribute horseradish products. Margrave John the Alchemist (1401-1464) was the first time in Baierdorf horseradish plant as the beginning of cultivation in Central and Upper Franconia. This specialized company Schamel was founded in 1846 in Baierdorf and is the oldest operating horseradish in the world. The roots of the company KOCH in horseradish trade date back over a hundred years, until today it is established in Baierdorf.

The district of Haguenau belonged to the municipal reform 1978 on the neighboring community Poxdorf. The settlement was founded in 1939. Initially a Luftwaffe camp was set up, then built a shanty town in the French prisoners of war, and after 1945 displaced persons were quartered from the Sudetenland. By 1946, then the settlement Haguenau was built. From 1 to 3 September 2006, the 60 - year celebration was held.

On the evening of July 21, 2007 Baier village was flooded by unusually heavy rainfall, about a thousand houses were under water, the Federal Highway 73 had to be closed to traffic. The damage was estimated at about 100 million euros.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1971, until then independent municipality Weller city was incorporated. Likewise, the place Igelsdorf the neighboring community Langensendelbach were ( also Forchheim district ) was added ( the district of Forchheim ) with at that time more than 600 inhabitants and the place of Haguenau community Poxdorf with about 600 inhabitants.

Policy

City ​​council

The city council has 21 members, including the mayor.

  • CSU: 9 seats Mayor
  • SPD: 4 seats
  • FW: 04 seats
  • Ecological Wählergemeinschaft: 3 seats

(As at municipal election on March 2, 2008)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: Split; quartered in front of silver and black; back standing on green ground, a green -clad escort man with black belt, hat and black boots blowing a golden horn and in his left hand holds a gold spear.

Twinning

With the market town of Ulrich Mountain in Upper Austria is twinned since 1974. Since 2000 is also the city Pacé in France twinned, after which the park was named, near the Point. The partnership with the community Brenna in Poland was sealed in July 2007 for the millennium of Wellerstadt.

Trade

With its strategic location on the main highway 73 and the railway Baier village has good public transport links, which is an important location factor for industry and trade.

Two industrial areas, the 15,000 -square-foot industrial complex Heinlein in the south of the city and located in the northeast industrial park form the backbone of Baiersdorfer industry. There manufactures, founded in 1846 established company Schamel horseradish products. In addition, modern trading companies in different industries have settled. In 1991, the AG Brodos down in Gewerbehof Heinlein. With around 200 full-time employees of mobile phone wholesale and IT service is the largest employer in town. Germany Wide Brodos is one of the three largest distributors of telecommunications products and has a turnover of over 200 million euros.

Retail businesses and restaurants secure the local population of Baiersdorfer, though not in all districts.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Horseradish Museum

Monuments

  • A Jewish cemetery with a memorial stone commemorates the Jewish inhabitants of the village who were persecuted during the Nazi tyranny and killed during the persecution of the Jews.
  • Castle Scharfeneck Memorial
  • The old town hall with pillory, where now is the Greek restaurant Irodion

→ List of monuments in Baierdorf

Regular events

The Baiersdorfer fair on locust weekend in June and the townspeople fair Weller ( Kerwa ) on the second weekend in August, have a long tradition.

On Shrove Sunday, the so-called Fasalecken pull through Baierdorf. This is an old custom of driving out winter, which has nothing to do with Carnival / Shrovetide.

Since 2006, the Baiersdorfer Krenmarkt with up to 10,000 visitors will be held on the third Sunday in September in the city center instead. Every two years is introduced in Baierdorf the Bavarian horseradish queen in her office.

In early October a medieval market is held.

Personalities

  • Heinrich Arnold Stockfleth (1643-1708), Lutheran theologian and poet, priest in Baierdorf
  • Johann Lorenz Buchner (1775-1852), founder of the educational publisher C. C. Buchner (Bayreuth, since 1850 in Bamberg ) was born in Baierdorf
  • Hirsch Aub (1796-1875), rabbi in Munich, born in Baierdorf
  • Joseph Aub (1804-1880), rabbi in Bayreuth, Mainz and Berlin; Born in Baierdorf
  • Born Joseph Seligman (1819-1880), American banker, in Baierdorf
  • Carl Neudel (1842-1897), composer and Royal Bavarian conductor (Bavarian Infantry Regiment No. 3, Augsburg 1872-1897 )
  • Gottfried Merzbacher (1843-1926), geographer, mountaineer and explorer, born in Baierdorf that Merzbacher road reminds him
  • Siegfried Lichtenstaedter (1865-1942), jurist and writer on issues of Judaism
  • Paul Gossen (1872-1942), German entrepreneur, founder of Paul Gossen Co. K.-G. Moved to Erlangen in 1919 in Baierdorf later

Traffic

Baier village lies on the railway line between Nuremberg and Bamberg. Here trains to the Nuremberg S-Bahn ( S1 Bamberg Hartmannshof ).

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