Langenfeld, Bavaria
Langenfeld is a town in the district Neustadt adAisch -Bad Windsheim, Middle Franconia. She is a member of the administrative community Scheinfeld.
- 3.1 municipal
- 4.1 monuments
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical location
The municipality is located in the southern foothills of the Steigerwald.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities are (from north clockwise beginning ): Baudenbach, Dietersheim, Sugenheim and Scheinfeld.
Community structure
Langenfeld has three districts:
- Hohenholz
- Lamprecht mill
- Langenfeld
History
In Hohelohischen Urkundenbuch Langenfeld was first mentioned on May 23, 1305 at the presentation of the Citadel Wernberg by Heinrich von Hohelohe to his cousin Konrad: Hiltmar of Langenvelt occurs in this case as a witness. From 1317 to 1782 Langenfeld was in possession of the Empire Knights of Seckendorf that there have a castle and escorted right to the road from Nuremberg to Frankfurt (later National Highway 8, now Federal Street 8 ) as was led through their territory, exercised. After the Thirty Years War, settled here around 40 to Protestant religious refugees from Austria, which significantly contributed in their new home for the reconstruction .. As a result, Langenfeld developed economically through the establishment of a post office, which existed until 1865. New Castle and village Lord 1782 the baron Franz Xaver von Franck and stone, but the moved his residence to Ullstadt. The castle was demolished in 1782, expanded the castle chapel to the church and built a church steeple.
Due to good transport links to craft settled, including the violin and harp maker Matthew Scheinlein (1710-1771), whose instruments were soon playing all over Europe. The successful post holder was Georg Moritz horse mackerel, the 1820 to 1852 the post office Langenfeld led, in 1825 elected to the Bavarian Landtag and 1848/49 member of the Frankfurt National Assembly was. From 1865 to 1991, Langenfeld railway station on the railway line between Nuremberg and Würzburg.
At 8 (now Federal Street 8) adjust the Reichsstrasse the growing traffic, it was in 1938 routed so that they are no longer led by the center of Langenfeld through. The threat Langenfelds by flood was 1958/59 transfixed, as the river marriage was regulated land consolidation. This enabled the development of a new settlement area, which was built until 2005.
By 1975, Langenfeld had its own village school that is proven from 1535 onwards in the church books. The fourth school building ( with two classrooms and two teachers apartments) was built in 1911 by the municipality and rededicated in 1975 to the Town Hall. In 1997, the council was planning the expansion of the narrow street school and tried to grants from the Urban Development Mentoring Program, which were granted in 2007 and enabled the creation of the village square with the Paul Reutter Fountain. In 2008, Langenfeld received a new village center by establishing a multi-generational home. This was in competition Germany - Land of Ideas Award.
Policy
Parish council
The council has 12 members:
- CSU / Free citizens 4 seats
- SPD / Long fields Citizens 2 seats
- Village community 6 seats
(As at municipal election on March 2, 2008)
Culture and sights
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Langenfeld ( Middle Franconia )
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Stoecker (1845-1908), state assembly and member of the Reichstag
- Lissy Groener ( born May 31, 1954), German politician (SPD ), MEP ( 1989-2009), former member of the federal board of the ASF - Association of Social Democratic Women, ASF district chairman of Middle Franconia, former wife Spokeswoman of the PES Group