Kasendorf

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Kasendorf is a market in the district of Kulmbach ( government district of Upper Franconia ) and the seat of the administrative community Kasendorf.

  • 2.1 Famous historical crime
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 2.3 Population development
  • 3.1 Mayor
  • 3.2 Market council
  • 5.1 monuments
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the market

Geography

Districts

The municipality has 16 Kasendorf officially named districts:

  • Azendorf
  • Kasendorf
  • Döllnitz
  • Dörnhof
  • Heubsch
  • Light fir
  • Lindenberg
  • Lopp
  • Neudorf
  • Paper mill
  • Peesten
  • Powder Mill
  • Reuth
  • Welsch Kahl
  • Zultenberg

History

The first documentary mention of the place Kasendorf dates from the year 1286. 1307 earned him the castle of the Counts of Nuremberg, later Margrave of Brandenburg- Bayreuth. In 1328 he was awarded by imperial privilege market and city rights. Kasendorf was probably in 1528 Protestant, as throughout the Margraviate of the Reformation was introduced. Kasendorf was called in the early 13th century still Kazendorf or Kazenstatt, so a cat is in the arms of Kasendorf shown. Only in the course of the centuries came the name Kasendorf.

The former Office of the Prussian principality of Bayreuth since 1792 fell in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 to France and came to Bavaria in 1810. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community.

Famous historical crime

In Kasendorf in 1808 the wife of judicial magistrate Wolfgang Conrad Glaser, the director of its judicial duties, by the widow Anna Margaretha Zwanziger, the housekeeper, poisoned with arsenic. The Kasendorfer poisoning was first published by the Bavarian jurist Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach (1765-1835) in his work files Moderate representation strange crimes, 2 vols (1828 /29). The Kasendorfer case has since been in countless collections of historical crime fiction in the world (for example, in the New Pitaval ) reprinted and retold. The family and social life Glaser is portrayed in cultural and social history, charming details. Therefore, Feuerbach's work is for the Kasendorfer history of particular importance. Gerold Schmidt has been the main historical information Feuerbach's about people, data, etc., reviewed and reinforced.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the formerly independent communities Azendorf, Döllnitz and Heubsch as well as parts of the dissolved municipalities Lopp and Schirradorf were incorporated. Peesten was added on 1 July 1976. Parts of the territory of the dissolved municipality Neudorf followed on 1 January 1978.

Population Development

Policy

Mayor

Mayor is Bernd stone houses ( CSU / CDU). He was the successor of Hans Eschenbach ( CSU / CDU) in 2002.

Market council

The local elections of 2002 and 2008 led to the following seat distribution in the market council:

  • * CSU / Open list, begun in 2002 as a CSU / CDU

Economy and infrastructure

Among the largest resident in the village of companies include the lime works Johann Bergmann lime and Franken Maxit, a manufacturer of building materials. In addition, the Company judges Control GmbH, WET GmbH, D SPA & Wellness GmbH and Alpha - Innotec GmbH, as well as the furniture factory MAJA furniture represented.

Attractions

  • St. John's Church with ceiling paintings from the early 18th century
  • Hercules fountain on the market from 1737
  • Turmberg with prehistoric and early historic fortifications and the Magnus Tower, see: Castle Kasendorf
  • Tanzlinde in the district Peesten
  • Görauer Anger, winter ski area for snowboarders and skiers with a platter lift and mountain hut
  • The frieze source is a karst spring and, with an average bed of 400 liters per second of the strongest sources in Upper Franconia.

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Kasendorf

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the market

  • Siegfried Leffler (1900-1983), Protestant theologian and a major representative of the radical wing of the Thuringian German Christians in the time of National Socialism, honorary citizen of Hengersberg
  • Eduard Rupprecht (1837-1907), a Lutheran pastor and apologetic writer, was born in Azendorf
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