Kupferberg

Copper Mountain is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach and a member of the administrative community Untersteinach.

  • 2.1 Resolution of the county town of Steinach
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 4.1 Museums
  • 4.2 monuments
  • 4.3 Natural Monuments
  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Copper Mountain is located between the Franconian Forest and the Fichtelgebirge, and with about 1060 inhabitants, one of the smallest cities in Germany.

Boroughs

Copper Mountain is divided into five districts:

  • Dörnhof
  • Kupferberg
  • Schallerhof
  • Schmölz
  • Under Birkenhof

History

The city rights were built in 1326 and were awarded by the bishop of Bamberg Henry II of Sternberg. About 3,000 people lived in the city. In mining, 1,700 miners were employed. In Kupferberg temporarily copper contents of 15 % copper per tonne of ore were promoted, which even today is considered one of the outstanding copper mineralization in Europe. The former Office of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg was reversed after the secularization in the main country comparison of Bavaria to Prussia. With the Principality of Bayreuth it was in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 to France. 1810 came to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community.

Resolution of the county town of Steinach

The city belonged to the defunct district city Steinach and was incorporated on 1 July 1972 in the district of Kulmbach.

Policy

City ​​council

The city council has 13 members, including the mayor:

  • CSU 7 seats
  • SPD 3 seats
  • Independent voters copper Berger 3 seats

(As at municipal election on March 2, 2008)

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Mining Museum Kupferberg, information and images from the Berger copper mining history.

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Copper Mountain

Natural Monuments

  • The 589 -meter-high magnetic mountain Peterleinstein between Kupferberg and Marktleugast protrudes markedly out of the forest. Especially the Peterleinstein make the rare plants that are found there. The mountain consists of greenish serpentinite, a very basic rock thrives on only sparse vegetation, as well as the rock is magnetic.:

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Gottfried Joseph Gabriel Findel (1828-1905), Masonic writers.
  • Peter Zeidler called Hofmann (1525-1593), a businessman for jewels with extensive business connections.
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