Hochfranken

Hochfranken - also known as West Upper Franconia - includes Hofer country with the independent city court and the district court and the district Wunsiedel. Hochfranken emerged from the planning region Upper Franconia - West in the Bavarian administrative region Upper Franconia. Approximately 225,000 people live in this region.

District court

County Wunsiedel

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General

The term Hochfranken indicates no manager or geohistoric region, but is a neologism of recent times to support an initiative for location marketing and regional management. The previously common name East Upper Franconia is to be gradually replaced by high francs. An example is the savings bank Hochfranken based in Selb, whose business area is the city court and the districts Hof and Wunsiedel.

This initiative, to use with the target, the central location of the region in Europe as a bridge to the eastern Central Europe is the major structural problems ( migration, aging ) caused by the peripherality in postwar Europe ( the Iron Curtain ) decreases.

East Upper Franconia is a geographically and economically definable unit, characterized by its high location with Fichtelgebirge and the Franconian Forest and continental -influenced climate, high industrial density ( ceramics, plastics, textiles, machinery based on medieval mining) as well as strong links to the Saxon industrial area and Cheb ( Euregio Egrensis ).

Traffic

Hochfranken is cheap to get to by car, train and plane.

Road

Berlin and Munich can be reached by access to the A 9 each in three hours. Furthermore, there is the connection to the A72 to the junction to Chemnitz / Dresden and the commencement of the A 93 in the direction of Regensburg with connection to Prague. The motorway Hochfranken at the junction of A93 in the A 72 in the field of community Trogen northeast of Hof is named after the region.

Rail

Hochfranken located at a central railroad in the DB. From the courtyard Hauptbahnhof train station with regular trains to Dresden, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Munich and Würzburg. With the connection to Leipzig to continue the journey to Berlin and with the connection to Würzburg is possible to continue the journey to Frankfurt / Main.

Air

From Hof-Plauen Airport reversed by early 2012 a machine twice daily to Frankfurt and back. Currently, due to the insolvency of the former operator Cirrus Airlines no longer scheduled operations will take place.

Economy

Hochfranken has a relatively high industrial density. In the last 20 years, took a strong structural change. In addition to the ever-increasing loss of the dominant traditional porcelain and textile industry is service and innovative manufacturing companies form from the perspective of business associations logistics, the backbone of high Frankish economy.

Selected places

Hochfranken covers a total area of ​​approximately 1,550 square kilometers with about 225,000 inhabitants in 45 municipalities. The most populous cities are courtyard followed by Marktredwitz, Selb, Munchberg and Wunsiedel. The following eleven municipalities have more than 5,000 inhabitants:

  • District-free city
  • HO
  • Surrounded by the district court
  • Large district
  • WUN (old: MAK)
  • County W. i Fichtelgebirge
  • Large district
  • WUN (old: SEL)
  • County W. i Fichtelgebirge
  • City
  • HO (old: MÜB )
  • District court
  • City
  • WUN
  • County W. i Fichtelgebirge
  • City
  • HO (old: REH )
  • District court
  • City
  • HO (old: MÜB )
  • District court
  • City
  • HO (old: NAI)
  • District court
  • City
  • HO
  • District court
  • City
  • WUN
  • County W. i Fichtelgebirge
  • Market town
  • HO
  • District court
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