Bayreuth (district)

The district of Bayreuth is located in the southeast of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Franconia. Neighboring districts are in the northwest of the district of Lichtenfels, in the north of the districts of Kulmbach and yard, in the east the counties Wunsiedel and Tirschenreuth, in the south the districts of Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Amberg -Sulzbach and Nürnberger Land, and in the west the counties Forchheim and Bamberg. The Bayreuth district encompasses the district-free city of Bayreuth.

• 4.1 District Administrators
• 4.2 Kreistag
• 4.3 Coat of Arms

• 7.1 Attractions
• 7.2 geotopes

Geography

The circular area covers the south and west, the Franconian Switzerland with numerous caves, including the Devil's Cave and Sophie cave and in the middle of the Obermainische hill country that takes its name from the Red Main, which rises south of Bayreuth and in a northwesterly direction flows to the west from Kulmbach to unite with the White Main. In the east, the county share of the Fichtelgebirge, at its highest elevation, the snow mountain, the district area extends up to about 960 meters above sea level.

History

Today the district was until 1803 part of the Markgraftums Bayreuth, then it belonged temporarily to France and came to Bavaria in 1810. In 1804, the district court Pott stone was set up in 1812 followed by the district court districts Bayreuth, Pegnitz and pastures mountain. The seat of the district court Pegnitz was until 1842 in Nennslingen. Bayreuth was already in 1812 become a circular immediate city. The district court districts and Bayreuth belonged initially to the Upper Main District, from 1838 to Upper Franconia.

1862 originated from the regional court districts Pegnitz and Pottenstein the district office Pegnitz and from the regional court districts Bayreuth and Weiden mountain the district office Bayreuth. Both districts have been designated since 1939 as counties.

The local government reform in Bavaria in 1972 was from the district of Bayreuth, the largest part of the district Pegnitz and parts of the counties Münchsberg ( territory of today's Gefrees in the northeast ), Ebermannstadt (municipality Aufseß in the West), Kulmbach (room Berneck in the north), Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz ( district Penzenreuth the town Pegnitz River in the south) and Kemnath ( Wirbenz, Haidenaab, Guttenthau and Plössen, districts of the municipality Speichersdorf, as well as the storage place village itself, in the east) formed the new district of Bayreuth. Bayreuth itself remained acyclic and seat of the enlarged district. By incorporating some of the municipalities of the district of Bayreuth, its territory was increased accordingly.

Population Development

Between 1988 and 2008 the district of Bayreuth grew by about 9,400 inhabitants and by almost 10 %. However, the tendency since 2004 after reaching a peak of over 109,000 inhabitants declined again.

The following numbers refer to the territorial status of 25 May 1987.

Traffic

The district capital of Upper Franconia in 1853 received the first rail connection through the New Market Bayreuth railway in 1848 opened Ludwig South - North Railway, which touches the circle area only at Station Falls.

Exactly ten years later - in 1863 - reached the AG Bayerische Ostbahnen of willow ago Bayreuth. Only in 1877 was the route of the Bavarian State Railways from Nuremberg via Nennslingen to Bayreuth to the Nennslingen in the main line branches off since 1878 to Marktredwitz, which in turn crosses the Eastern Railway in Kirchenlaibach.

Also built around the turn of the century local railways were operated by the Bavarian State Railways.

It originated in the Fichtelgebirge, the routes:

Furthermore resulted from Bayreuth in the Franconian Switzerland:

So 214 km distances were originally traveled in passenger transport. All local railway routes have been shut down, except for the after Warmensteinach, but which is operated for years due to "technical reasons " in the rail replacement bus service, since January 2007 run on the section Bayreuth Hbf - grazing mountain trains again. Thus, only 149 km for passenger transport are left. This ended:

Policy

District administrators

Council

The council consists of 60 members:

Coat of arms

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Cities

Markets

Free community areas ( 187.4 km ²)

Communities

Management Communities

Towns and villages of the district before the municipal reform 1971/78

Before the local government reform of the district of Bayreuth had 83 communities ( see list below). ( The towns that still exist today are in bold ):

1 to March 31, 1939 2 from April 1, 1939

Culture

Attractions

For the district of Bayreuth offer are the following attractions:

Geotopes

In the district of Bayreuth 191 (as of October 2013) are the Bavarian State Office for Environmental designated geological sites. See the list of geological sites in the district of Bayreuth.