Hohenburg, Bavaria

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High Castle is a market in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg -Sulzbach. South of the village extends the training area Hohenfels.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 religions
  • 2.3 Population development
  • 3.1 City Council and Mayor
  • 3.2 Local Finance
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.4 Town twinning
  • 5.1 Economic Data
  • 5.2 Industrial and Commercial Park
  • 5.3 Solar Park High Castle
  • 5.4 traffic
  • 5.5 Education
  • 5.6 Fire Brigades

Geography

Geographical Location

High Castle is located in the Upper Palatinate region north to the south of the district of Amberg - Sulzbach an der Lauterach.

Community structure

The municipality has 23 Hohenbourg officially named districts:

  • Adertshausen
  • Aicha
  • Allersburg
  • Allertshofen
  • Bergshausen
  • Egelsheim
  • Friebertsheim
  • Hammer mill
  • High Castle
  • Köstl
  • Köstlöd
  • Lammer valley
  • Tan
  • Malsbach
  • Mendorferbuch
  • Ödenwöhr
  • Ransbach
  • Black mill
  • Spieshof
  • Starfall
  • Stettkirchen
  • Voggenhof
  • Weihermühle

There are the following districts: Adertshausen, Allersburg, Egelsheim, High Castle, Mendorferbuch, Ransbach, Thonhausen, pigeons Forst.

History

The castle was built around the year 1000 in the former Northern March by the Counts of Hohenstein castle as a border county. Occurred first documentary is Ernst von Hohen castle in the year 1080th The widowed Mechthild of High Castle 1212 married the Marquis Dipold V of Vohburg from the family of the Earl of Dipold Went. From this connection, four sons were born, of which Berthold, the guardian of the last Hohenstaufen High Conradin was. All four brothers died 1256/57 in Sicilian dungeons. After the extinction of the Marquises of Hohenbourg the dominion came to the diocese of Regensburg. The former imperial reign of the Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg was secularized in 1803, together with the free imperial city of Regensburg in favor of Dalberg and fell to the Principality of Regensburg Prince Primate von Dalberg. With the Treaty of Paris of 1810 the city became part of Bavaria. The castle, the remains of which still bear witness to the size of the system, finally lost in the 17th century in importance, and was slow to decay.

Originally the county, from 1939 to the district Parsberg belonging municipality was reclassified on 1 January 1963 in the district of Amberg.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the municipalities vein Thausen, Egelsheim and Mendorferbuch were incorporated on July 1st of the same year followed from the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz Allersburg as well as parts of Ransbach and Thonhausen.

Religions

In the community Hohenbourg the three Catholic parishes High Castle, Allersburg and Adertshausen - Mendorferbuch exist

Population Development

Policy

City Council and Mayor

After the last municipal election on March 2, 2008, the council has twelve members. The turnout was 71.0 %. The choice was as follows:

Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor. Mayor Gerhard Schärl ( CSU / CDU, 2009)

Municipal finances

Coat of arms

  • Coat of Arms Description
  • Coat of Arms history
  • Coat of data
  • Flag

Twinning

Since 2010 there is a twinning to Sokolac in Bosnia - Herzegovina.

Culture and sights

The attractions of the High Castle include the town hall and the parish church on the market square.

Located high above the town on the Castle Hill area of the training area Hohenfels the ruins High Castle. However, it belongs to the neighboring village of Hohenfels in directly neighboring district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz.

Another attraction is the pilgrimage church Stettkirchen, which is about a kilometer southeast of the High Castle.

See also: List of historic buildings in the High Castle

In the High Castle

Sanctuary Stettkirchen

In the attic of an old house in the High Castle is a nursery the extremely rare in Germany greater horseshoe bat.

Economy and infrastructure

Economic data

It was in 1998 according to official statistics in the field of Agriculture and Forestry six, 270 in manufacturing and in trade and transport five social insurance contributions at the workplace. In other areas, were employed to social security at the workplace 162 people. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 809 in the manufacturing sector there was one, in the construction of four plants. In addition, in 1999, there were 56 farms with an agricultural area of 1,777 ha, of which 1,636 hectares of arable land.

Industrial and business park

High Castle in the High Castle itself has a small commercial area, have in the example, a plumber, a carpenter, a violin maker and etc. settled. In addition, the High Castle has within the community area by an industrial park, which was formerly a munitions depot and depot of the Bundeswehr. In this industrial park is now well-known companies have settled.

Solar Park High Castle

In August 2005, the market town council decided to establish a company ( society solar park Hohe Burg GmbH ) for the construction of a photovoltaic plant in the Industrial Park. This solar system is currently unique to a municipality.

Traffic

  • Access to the A 6, about Ursensollen, 14 km
  • ( Also accessible via the A 6) access to the A 93 on Schmidmühlen to Schwandorf, 30 km
  • Access to the A 3, about Kastl to Neumarkt, 30 km (or the A 6 towards Nuremberg)
  • Distances: Nuremberg 70 km, 50 km Regensburg, Neumarkt 30 km, 20 km Amberg

Education

There are the following facilities (as of 1999):

  • Kindergartens: 51 kindergarten places with 53 children
  • Elementary schools: 1 with 4 teachers and 87 students

Fire departments

  • Volunteer Fire High Castle ( fire brigade of the community High Castle )
  • Volunteer Fire Mendorferbuch - Egelsheim
  • Volunteer Fire Ransbach
  • Volunteer Fire Allersburg - Bergshausen
  • Volunteer Fire Adertshausen
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